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14 December 2不知为何准备开始写作业的时候开了一次QQ，这是我在2007年第一次用QQ，差点就忘记了密码。
曾经熟悉的ID是如此陌生（我是很讨厌这种陈腔滥调的，但真的找不到第二种表达方式）
突然想起7月时回大陆的感觉，为何我有时可以对这片我长大的土地如此地不满意。 14个小时的飞行，穿越的是欧亚大陆，或是前现代与后现代社会的分野？
我明白，我对以前那个城市基本上是无甚牵挂的，很少有要回去的冲动；但若非是生长在那个地方可能也不会有现在开眼看世界的机会。我也时刻记着，在背后支 持着我进行种种不着边际和奢侈思考的，是我从不关心世界局势的父母；每当夜幕降临在这个大都会，心底总有一阵未能回报他们的愧疚。
人总是把现在进行的一切看作是理所当然，我也是，但和一年前那种单纯的兴奋感不同，现在好像总能看见自己回去的那一天。几个月前，电影24 Hour Party People中的原型，曼城传奇音乐经理人‘Mr. Manchester' Tony Wilson在贫困和疾病中辞世。果然天下间没有能尽兴之人。 曾有朋友标榜自己以等徒子 Oscar Wilde为理想人生蓝本，我笑着问道难道在法国村庄中死于贫困潦倒也是你理想的一部分？mod、punk...rave，brit pop，次文化总有褪色的时候，现在每周买NME的孩子，是否还记得十年前的'Cool Britainnia'大潮？身处的party尚未完结，但我已经要开始看表了. 10 December Mile End以前就听过这首歌，但从来就没有联想起这首PULP的经典竟然是关于我现在每日住的地方：位于伦敦东2区的MILE END。由于伦敦政府近年大力发展东区，Mile End虽然未能像附近另外一个印巴区brick lane般成为年轻人夜浦圣地，但也早已远非Jarvis Cocker在歌中抱怨的那个垃圾地区：租金相对低廉，临近大学，the City， shoreditch都是其优势所在，更不能不提这里印巴人经营的Kebab店独有的风味（勉强还可以加上我偏爱的印度风情）。Mile End的转变可算是英国现行多元文化政策的功劳之一（若其以前真的如曲中所描述般垃圾）唯一真正最受不了的地方唯有是每逢match day霸占district line的韦思咸（west ham）球迷。
We didn't have no where to live, we didn't have nowhere to go
'til someone said "I know this place off Burditt Road."
It was on the fifteenth floor, it had a board across the door.
It took an hour to pry it off and get inside. It smelt as if someone had died;
the living-room was full of flies, the kitchen sink was blocked,
the bathroom sink not there at all. Ooh, it's a mess alright, yes it's Mile End.
And now we're living in the sky! I'd never thought I'd live so
high, just like Heaven if it didn't look like Hell.
The lift is always full of piss, the fifth floor landing smells of fish not just on Friday, every single other day.
Below the kids come out tonight, they kick a ball and have a fight
and maybe shoot somebody if they lose at pool.
Ooh, it's a mess alright, yes it's Mile End.
Oo-ooh / Nobody wants to be your friend
'cause you're not from round here, ooh as if that was
something to be proud about.The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs
feels up children in the bogs. Down by the playing fields,
someone sets a car on fire I guess you have to go right down
before you understand just how, how low,
how low a human being can go. Ooh, it's a mess alright, yes it's Mile End. |
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