昨夜与几个朋友在Stone Arch看烟花。 不知是不是经济危机的影响，比往年短了许多，除了两个心型图案外，也没有什么新意。

 

距离上次在St. Paul 看烟花以五年了，距离上次在Dinkytown看烟花也已四年。往事如烟，随风而逝，而今日的你我又有着怎样迥异于往日的心情。

 

前几天为了搬家收拾旧日衣物，看到那件出国前在北京买的衬衫以及那粒补上的纽扣，又想起出国前那忙乱的日子。已很少这样回首的日子了，除了去年在办公室很意外的接到你的电话，挂上你的电话以后竟觉得有几分伤感。 这一切已无关现实，而只是人生的回忆。

 

初来美国的一年已成遥远的绝响，不需回首也不需忘却。独立日还是如常来到，而满天烟花里我感到的是离别，虽然还不知明年独立日在哪里度过。

从Dinkytown出发，经Stone Arch,Downtown,到Cedar Lake Trail, 然后向北，经theodore wirth Park, Memorial Parkway,到St. Anthony Pkwy, 经Stinson Pkwy,回出发地。全长约18 miles（26公里），用时3小时。谢谢若莲同学，请我吃Taco Bell, 从来没感觉到快餐也这么好吃，只因当时饿得全无体力了。

今天偶然得到一张Minneapolis biking and running trails map,于是晚上就骑了一圈，路线如下：

Dinkytown—-18av se—Stinson Blvd—Minneapolis Diagonal trail(New Brighton Blvd)—St. Anthony Blvd(Gross Golf Club)—Ridgeway Pkwy—Stinson Pkwy—

St Anthony Pkwy—Diagonal trail—Dinkytown—Stone Arch—Downtown Riverfront Ground Round—Boom Island Park—Nicollet Island—Main St.—Dinkytown.  总长大概14 mile (22公里）。

 

在Diagonal trail,一边是biking，running和打高尔夫的人们，他们珍爱生活并在享受生活；另一侧是Hillside Cemetery,逝者已长久的安息，夕阳下墓地显得幽深而略带伤感。这一刻，生者与死者在这里和谐共处，也像在讲述人一生的故事，健康而快乐的生活，优雅的老去，安详的死亡。

 

双城不是那种会让你一见倾心的城市，但当你对她了解增多，你就会爱上她，那种淡淡但很持久的爱。而对明州了解更多感情更深的Guo Yi和Fu Yi就要离开了，无论大家有多么不舍。过去这几年，无数欢声笑语，风风雨雨一起走过，已经习惯了周末的相聚。天下没有不散的宴席，希望分开是为了他日更好地相聚，希望你们未来一切顺心。

 

回到家，天色将昏，打开灯，拍一个黄瓜，切一个萝卜，煮一锅面条，今天吃素食：

清汤煮面且无酒，凉拌黄瓜定须酱；

风卷残云盘已净，闲看窗外唇犹香。

简单的晚饭结束了，看会书，简单的一天结束了。 这就是我简单的生活，一如这简简单单的明州，以及我明州的朋友们那君子之交淡如水的友情，简单，但温馨。

 

 

The Silence Before Bach(Spain 2007 102 minutes): Part-fiction,part-documentary, this film is not an attempt at traditional reconstruction but rather a contemplation of the ways in which Bach’s music pervades the contemporary world and its physical landscape, which are vividly juxtaposed with footage of a guide who offers Bach-themed tours for 21st century fans. Past inhabits present in this cool film suggesting Bach’s music is the quintessence of European civilization, is even a religious experience. 不知道你会不会喜欢这部电影，但也许你会在看完电影后喜欢上巴赫.

 

Eldorado(Belgium 2008,85 minutes): Two mismatched strangers,an awkward 40-ish vintage car dealer Yvan and a thief Elie, drive through a bizarre Belgium, encounting all kinds of weird and wonderful people in this absurd road movie with a rich, dark twist of humor.

 

Just Another Love Story(Denmark 2007, 100 minutes):One of the most imaginative thrillers of recent years from the director of the cult classics, this film is jumpy and high-adrenaline.

 

Salt of This Sea(Palestine 2008, 108 minutes): A Brooklyn-born Palestinian woman, Soraya returns to the chaotic Israeli-occupied Palestine city of Ramallah to fight for the land, money and dignity owned by her family in this controversial look at Israeli-Palestineian relations.

 

 

 

 

 

到周末会写个影评，现在还是继续 今日看点：

Bang-Bang Wedding(Greece 2007): It combines all the features of a good Greek comedy, such as humor,action and vibrant cultural features. Llias and Marina arrive in crete for their wedding,however, a small yet important typo on the wedding invitation will send everyone in different directions. It is an invitation to taste a modern a modern/traditional Greek wedding, starting at the altar and evolving into a crazy ride on the way to the reception. 轻喜剧，适合周末dating.

 

Song Of The Sparrows(Iran 2008, 96 minutes):Hardworking ostrich farmer Karim is unexpectedly fired and resorts to driving a gypsy cab through the busy streets of  Teheran, were his upper-class fares-tainted by the trapplings of capitalism and technology- begin to test his honesty and kindness. It is a story of a decent man’s decline in a material world, his relationship to his family, his community and his faith, with light humor. The film highlights the director Majid Majidi’s classic approach to a morality tale, drawing from Italian neo-realism, with social-realist undertones and a naturalistic almost documentary style.

 

Jerusalema(South Africa 2008,118 minutes): The film is the engrossing tale of a poor kid, Lucky Kunene, from the Soweto slums who grew up to become Johannesburg’s top crime boss. He tries to balance between crime and legality, and his downfall seems as unavoidable as that of Johannesburg as the failed Jerusalem.

 

 

今日看点：

The Secret of the Grain (France 2007,151 minutes): This film is about ordinary people, a family of North African immigrants, and is a slowing-burning drama about fate, food and family. Slimane is bored of his 35 years’ job as a dockworker in Sete in southeastern France, and decides to open a fish restaurant, however he has to convince his loyal but dispersed family: the four children from his ex-wife, current girlfriend and her bright daughter Rym…… It is a film combining realism and humour.

 

Lemon Tree(Israel/germany/France 2008, 106 Minutes): It is a film about people who are trapped in a political situation, based loosely on true stories with a cast of Israelis and Palestinians. Salma Zidane, a Palestinian widow, tends a grove of lemon trees on the Green Line on the West Bank making a small life. Israeli Defence Minister bullds a house on the other side of the line and wants to get rid of the trees seen as athreat to his security. The Defence Minister’s wife, lonely and forgotten, identifies with the distraught widow and the two women reach out to each other for reasons GREATER than politics. The film works with the political microcosm and delicately avoids generalizing the political conflict, addressing the fears of security and displacement that seem to be on ALL SIDES.

 

Personal Che(Brazil, 2007, Documentary, 86 minutes):  Filmed in five languages(Spanish, Cantonese, Arabic, German, and English) the stories presented are wide in range and often contradictory: Che Guevara was a communist, a neo-Nazi, a Chinese rebel, a murderer, a saint. Not a film about the real life of Che Guevara, this documentary’s posthumous approach explores the influence he has left behind, the myth, not the truth. This film is an exercise in humanity, myth, and where the iconic and indexical meet. 

事件：27th Annual Minneapolis/St. paul International Film Festival

时间：April 16-30,2009

地点：St. Anthony Mail Cinemas, 115 main Street SE,Minneapolis

            Oak Street Cinema,309 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis

人物：Anyone who pay the ticket

链接：www.mspfilmfest.org

 

今日看点：

Boogie(Romania,2008,103 minutes): Director Radu Muntean, 38-year old, member of "New Wave" filmmaker. Talking about the complications of "ADULTHOOD". With the remembrances of his glory days of bachelor life, irresponsibility, parties, adventure, drinking and sexual conquests, Bogdan Ciocazanu ("Boogie") is tempted to abandon his responsibilities as a husband and father. However, he is forced to recognize the necessity of time’s passing, and regnized that  "ADULTHOOD is not stagnation in starched shirts, and the blissfully narrowed perspective of youth can NOT be regained".

 

The Tour(Serbia,2008,106 minutes):A dark comedy. In the year of 1993, a group of actors from Belgrade National Theater set off a tour performing Feydeau’s farce through Serbian Krajina, ending up face-to-face with the fierce and problematic war and meeting with all three combat groups, Croatians, Muslims, and Serbians.

 

 

四月已经过半，这次春天似乎是真的到了，傍晚在密西西比河的船上和朋友聊天虽还会感到些许凉意，但午后st paul的阳光已经可以晒的让人昏昏欲睡了。

 

三月是阴郁的，不仅是明州的寒风和雪。无数次从梦中惊醒，泪流满面。对于托梦只说，我是不太信的，我更信是日有所思夜有所梦。虽有人云“未痛哭过长夜者，不足以语人生”，但经常痛哭长夜者也显然去人生之意甚远。我无法像阮籍那样洒脱，但人生很多事情纵有千般不舍，终须挥别。还是要回到正常的生活里来了。

 

三月无法入睡时夜读红楼的日子过去了，很难想象那就在几周以前。最近我已习惯白天看书工作晚上去gym健身，习惯了大脑的忙碌和身体的充实，习惯默默的行走，密西西比河的trail那么的长，似乎总也骑不完，你收获的除了疲惫，也有清风和夕阳，也有longfellow grill户外美味的晚餐和啤酒，以及一个热水澡后沉静的睡眠。更远的，还有VA的Sky drive,New England的枫叶，以及seattle的大海和雪山。。。

 

是啊，春天到了，是换个颜色的时候了，还有心情。小红花也做着春天的梦，虽然秋天还会有落叶，我只想做一棵枣树，可以直起身子，欠身的很舒服，管现在窗外正下着这春日的雨，还是来日落着夏日的阳光，或者又飘起冬日的雪。。。

 

Think hard, live simple, try to enjoy life, good or bad…