Me, my dad, and his dad
I inherited a passion for the cinema from my dad. When I first started making sense of the world around me, my dad and I shared the...
阿菲
《重慶森林》裡的王菲並不是由王靖雯蛻變成王菲，而是毫無修飾地、赤裸裸地做回自己。所以她在戲裡叫阿菲而不是王靖雯，沒有爭妍鬥艷便贏了漂亮的一仗。 23年後的我仍然記不起是誰扮演空姐一角，但是每次來到中環扶手電梯，無論是獨個兒或是身邊有伴，腦海內總會泛起阿菲幫警察663打掃時很...
Cuidado Madame - Leaving Some Doors Unopened
I first came across Arto Lindsay's melange of experimental music and bossa nova when I was, of all things, watching Wild Orchid, which...
Golden Lotus
If I decide to visit Sylvia Plath’s grave in West Yorkshire – after reading Patti Smith’s M Train I am leaning towards saying yes – I...
Roxanne
I have always thought that the prostitute Roxanne in The Police’s “Roxanne” (1978) is auto-biographical, that she isn’t just a figment of...
Amy - The Reluctant Lioness
If Amy Winehouse were still alive today, she wouldn't be caught dead using Instagram. Or Twitter. Or Facebook. After watching her...
善美影室
我和家人很少到影樓拍照。拍攝全家福，對我們來說，不是一年一度的傳統盛事。雖然拍照主題可以層出不窮，但是我們喜歡反璞歸真，以「正常」造型示人。如果我們在Awkward Family Photos博客出現，會顯得格格不入。 這些年來我們只拍過兩次全家福，兩次都是由位於佐敦唐樓的...
Dave Gahan's Angels and Ghosts
Dave Gahan once said, "The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One...
On Michel Petrucciani
Adamant in his refusal to let his glass bones disease define who he was and what he could do, Michel Petrucciani, the three feet tall...
On Our Public Libraries
Since I don’t have the habit of rereading (rereading is underrated I know), I am a frequenter of our public libraries. I love burrowing...