浮世 ‧ 生之旅

先送給你，
既溫暖又涼風拂面的三分鐘。

如果你喜歡Damien Rice的歌聲與曲風，也許你會喜歡它，
聽我說，我將它視為前奏曲，先溫暖你。

暫且，先少說一點，讓你閉著雙眼多聽片刻。



初次聽，別管歌詞了，讓MV先對你吐露些什麼吧！

This is the first day of my life,
I swear I was born right in the door way,
I went out in the rain,
Suddenly everything changed,
Their spreading blankets on the beach.

Yours is the first face that I saw,
I think I was blind before I met you,
Now I don't know where I am,
I don't know where I've been,
But I know where I want to go.

And so I thought I'd let you know,
That these things take forever,
I especially am slow.
But I realized that I need you,
And I wondered if I could come home.

Remember the time you drove all night,
Just to meet me in the morning.
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed,
You felt as if you just woke up.

And you said, "This is the first day of my life."
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
But now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy.

So if you want to be with me,
With these things there's no telling.
We just have to wait and see,
But I'd rather be working for a pay check
Than waiting to win the lottery.

Besides, maybe this time is different.
I mean, I really think you like me.


拍攝此MV的導演是John Cameron Mitchell，不熟悉嗎？
那我再多說一點，約翰卡麥隆米契爾就是《性愛巴士》（Shortbus）的導演，也是一名帥氣的男同志，
稍稍瀏覽維基的資料，發現他既是導演、編劇、作家，也是演員哪！
雖沒看過《性愛巴士》（想知道這一部片在演什麼的人可以問博涵，她看過），
不過艾帕構猜想該電影和這齣MV應該風格迥異。

很棒的一個題材，
導演找來幾對伴侶，分別跨越年紀、種族、性別、婚姻狀態的差異，
讓他們輪流坐在舒服的沙發上，分別帶上耳機聽這首歌曲，同時間將他們的表情與互動拍攝下來。
在導演的鏡頭之下，細膩的捕捉到伴侶間眼神中的情感傾吐與肢體互動。
MV裡的人物互動自然，在每對伴侶之間流轉的情感都是愛，並且你會訝異愛的本質與面向是如此的豐富，
影片最後那一對可愛溫馨的小情侶，實在是一個完美的句點，
沒想到John Cameron Mitchell在短短的三分鐘裡，帶給我們簡單溫馨而又溫暖不已的感受，他是天才。


艾註：
〈First Day of My Life〉收錄在Bright Eyes 2007年發行的 專輯—《I'M Wide Awake It'S Morning》裡。身為Bright Eyes 的靈魂人物、敢於在歌曲裡批判時政與反應社會現象的Conor Oberst，被美國音樂界譽為是Bob Dylan的接班人，博客來買的到他的同名專輯，也看的到對他的詳細介紹。

這張專輯風格偏向民謠鄉村式的搖滾，跟我在YouTube看的Live演出與KKBOX聽到的其他張專輯多所不同，所以，Conor Oberst不僅對於詞曲議題的掌握精準，連樂風也玩得很上手，至少在電子數位合成的音色與鄉村式搖滾的轉變中，變換得流暢又寫意。