VAN WILDER
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.”
Van Wilder
THE NEVERENDING STORY
"Never give up and good luck will find you."
Falcor
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
"Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break."
Vin Tanner
MEMENTO
"We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are."
Leonard Shelby
LEON
"Revenge is not good. Once you're done. Believe me."
Leon
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
“Life does not stop and start at your convenience.”
Walter Sobchak
MANHATTAN
“Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.”
Isaac
LOST IN TRANSLATION
“The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
Bob Harris
GANDHI
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
INVICTUS
"Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear."
Nelson Mandela
12 ANGRY MEN
“Wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth.”
Juror #8
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
“Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.”
Edwin Hoover
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
Willy Wonka
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
"Named must your fear be before banish it you can."Yoda
2012年5月22日 星期二
50 PIECES OF WISDOM FROM NOVELS
WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Haruki Murakami
THE FALL
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION
"No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other."
Bret Easton Ellis
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens
THE BELL JAR
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
Sylvia Plath
THE ROAD
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
Cormac McCarthy
MIDDLESEX
"The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin."
Jeffrey Eugenides
LONG GOODBYE
"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."
Raymond Chandler
LOLITA
"The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes."
Vladimir Nabokov
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
ON THE ROAD
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
Jack Kerouac
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
Jim Thompson
HIGH FIDELITY
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
Nick Hornby
THE WHITE LIONESS
"Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them."
Henning Mankell
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
"It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day."
Roddy Doyle
BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Paulo Coelho
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Ernest Hemingway
FREEDOM
"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
Jonathan Franzen
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Haruki Murakami
THE FALL
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus
THE RULES OF ATTRACTION
"No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other."
Bret Easton Ellis
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
Charles Dickens
THE BELL JAR
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
Sylvia Plath
THE ROAD
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
Cormac McCarthy
MIDDLESEX
"The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin."
Jeffrey Eugenides
LONG GOODBYE
"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."
Raymond Chandler
LOLITA
"The more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes."
Vladimir Nabokov
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Harper Lee
ON THE ROAD
“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
Jack Kerouac
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."
Jim Thompson
HIGH FIDELITY
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
Nick Hornby
THE WHITE LIONESS
"Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them."
Henning Mankell
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
"It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day."
Roddy Doyle
BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Paulo Coelho
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Ernest Hemingway
FREEDOM
"You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."
Jonathan Franzen
2012年5月12日 星期六
巴黎最棒的一餐 Les Enfants Perdu
Les Enfants Perdus
9 rue des récollets
10th Arrondissement
Tel. +33 1 81 29 48 26
http://les-enfants-perdus.com/
在出發前，曾在巴黎居住兩年的友人強力推薦我Les Enfants Perdus，食物美味，還有在巴黎鮮有的親切服務。
Les Enfants Perdus 在第十區的聖馬丁運河Canal St Martin 附近，不是觀光的熱鬧地帶，但回台灣前最後一晚在巴黎的住宿，為求隔天一早方便搭火車到機場，所以住在火車北站Gare du Nord附近，都在第十區，就決定在
Les Enfants Perdus 享用最後一頓巴黎晚餐，這真是此趟旅行最棒的決定之ㄧ。
第十區非觀光勝地，到了夜晚不似市中心的熱鬧。
Les Enfants Perdus 在個低調的小街上，低調的外觀小小的招牌，如果沒有友人推薦，再怎樣也無法有機會來到這餐廳。
一進餐廳，一頭豪邁灰長髮的老闆說著一口流利的美式英文，穿著牛仔褲，沒紮進褲頭的襯衫半捲起袖子，完全沒有法式的傲氣服務，但看看店裡另兩位服務生，可是依循法式禮，規規矩矩的白襯衫配上領結。
(這時餐廳已經客滿，右側已經掛滿滿客人們的外套，吧檯白色襯衫的就是老闆，從手勢就感覺得出他的率性吧！）
法文菜單相當立體。英文菜單只有兩份，並且不是最新版。
最後一晚了，要來開瓶紅酒，請老闆幫我們挑支30歐左右的。
點了兩道開胃菜，血腸和燻鮭魚
血腸真是意想不到的美味！
主菜我點了魚
， 兩位朋有點雞
， 一位朋友點鴨
， 我心中的法式料理就是鴨阿！果真三道料理我覺得鴨最美味。
每一道都太美味了，最後甜點也不能省，最後一晚一定要做全套的。甜點四人都點不一樣，每一道都是創意，有三種不同口味的烤布雷，烤布朗尼，考蘋果派，法式甜點土司，雖然聽起來都是常見的甜點，但每一樣都加入許多主廚的創意和變化，口味絕對獨一無二，每一口都是新滋味。
（以下開始一連串充滿驚喜的甜點）
最後相當心滿意足地離開，跟老闆道再見，謝謝他美味的料理和親切的服務，完整了我們的巴黎旅行。
Feb-2, 2012 @ Les Enfants Perdu, Paris
2012年5月9日 星期三
2012年5月8日 星期二
比利時名偵探丁丁 TINTIN
我心中最紅的比利時人就屬大偵探丁丁Tin Tin了！
在布魯塞爾，布魯日和安特衛普無意買任何紀念品
一心想尋找丁丁明信片
最後在安特衛普的一家二手書店發現這張二手明信片
愛極了！
看起來是一群朋友的簽名，可惜沒有壓日期
這張二手明信片比全新的空白明信片更有味道。
2012年5月7日 星期一
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
電影裡的 Karenin真是最會演戲的狗。我都懷疑牠是道具了嗎？可愛極了。
捷克作家 Milan Kundera（米蘭昆德拉）的作品The Unbearable Lightness of Being（生命中不能承受之輕）在1988年被改編成電影，中文譯為布拉格的春天，雖然是美國電影，但裡面全部是歐洲演員，法國女星茱麗葉畢諾許和瑞典女星Lena Olin濃濃的歐洲口音，迷人極了。
雖然書中主角是Thomas和Tereza，但Sabina的Bowler Hat（黑圓禮帽）象徵著書中最重要的概念Lightness，許多版本的小說也就以這漂浮的Bowler Hat 作為封面。PS. 也有個版本是以
Karenin 作為封面，他們都是書中很重要的配角。
捷克作家 Milan Kundera（米蘭昆德拉）的作品The Unbearable Lightness of Being（生命中不能承受之輕）在1988年被改編成電影，中文譯為布拉格的春天，雖然是美國電影，但裡面全部是歐洲演員，法國女星茱麗葉畢諾許和瑞典女星Lena Olin濃濃的歐洲口音，迷人極了。
雖然書中主角是Thomas和Tereza，但Sabina的Bowler Hat（黑圓禮帽）象徵著書中最重要的概念Lightness，許多版本的小說也就以這漂浮的Bowler Hat 作為封面。PS. 也有個版本是以
Karenin 作為封面，他們都是書中很重要的配角。
2012年5月4日 星期五
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