當然是因為照片的關係，於是我在某個晚上連結到法國的解放報（Liberation）網站，並且一口氣讀完一系列音樂專題的文章。那些熟悉的地名、團名、活動，拼湊著一幅樂團與聽眾間互相扶持成長的熱血樣貌……那始終是我聽聞多次並且為之欣羨不已的願望（是的在這裡我竟然必須用「願望」來形容它……）
《If you are unsatisfied, redesign the times!》是The Kills的女聲主唱Alison Mosshart所寫的文章，『音樂、藝術、文學，它們必須是自由的，混沌的，失控的，危險的，迷戀的，激情的，猛烈的！』在她的文字之中對於創作者與聆賞者的簡單描繪是如此生動準確，那種深刻摯愛的情緒，不是神聖而遙遠的，而是如此簡單，一如自己的心跳，每分每秒撞擊著自己的每一個細胞、每一寸思考。
有很多時候我會莫名陷入瘋狂而無端的愛戀裡，對某個團或是某首歌，有很多時候我很難好好解釋那到底是為什麼。
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Today is today. Tomorrow is tomorrow. Yesterday is gone. It is hard to tell the difference between obsession, passion and violence. As for every obsession, there is a passion within it, and for every passion, there is violence within it! Are they one? Can you separate them? I can't. Rip the photograph into 23 pieces; you should have memorized it by now. The way you might memorize a song.
When I was a kid I looked for a look. You know, the look of the obsessed!, in photographs and in sound. I'd play the same record 600 times. The artists I loved, I voided them of their sexual orientation, their names, birth date. they became simply, a heart beat. Mine. I spent every hour dreaming. Every hour searching. I'd talk to those photographs, dead people in photographs that made eye contact with me.
Art is life and death, and it doesn't matter which.
Music, art, literature, it has to be free, has to be chaos, out of control, dangerous, obsessed, passionate, violent! In essence, no matter how many times they are seen as crimes and thrown in jail, they remain outside. Explain that! How art precedes you? How passion, how music, how story telling is lung-less needs nothing, survives ultimately, outlives you? This is of great importance! Art can leave incredible scars. And this is what we all want, yes? We want to leave a mark, of beauty or not.
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http://www.libe.com/page.php?Article=292686（後來發現這篇文章重新更改了標題為Girl in the band，但我還是私心偏愛著第一次瀏覽時讀到的這個標題）
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關於patrick wolf，大家會出現在文字裡的敘述幾乎都極為相仿，例如神祕、孤獨、幻想、感傷、蒼白並且年少，歌詞裡的關鍵字也都反覆隱現︰燈塔、海岸、城堡、火車以及電塔。第一張專輯裡的歌曲在電子節拍與鋼琴手風琴以及弦樂器之間不安定的擺盪，輕易即可聽出那種關於年輕的各類未經過度修整的跳躍思考，黑白的封面卻藏不住金髮男孩原生的血氣方剛；隔了一年多之後的第二張專輯卻是跨大步伐的躍進與穩健，仍然不時戲劇化的假音已經可以控制得恰到好處，樂器之於歌曲的表演也不再那麼張狂卻更有氣氛，翻開歌詞頁底看到他包辦了所有樂器的編曲以及演奏以及程式節奏以及錄音，唯二兩位分別在兩首歌曲當中客席出演的則是他的爸爸與姊姊。（看完就覺得這樣的天才真高興我也認識一個叫做oliver）
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