Friday, September 30, 2005

Oh My Loveman! 9 / 我的戀愛超人 9

by Weichuen You 2004

So Poopooman decided to love the world in another way. He "sang" to promote world peace, "All we need is love, not wars..."


大便超人仍舊不放棄,他不停地思索著新的出路:「來硬的不行,不如來軟的。」他使出「絕世」的歌聲,唱出胸中的熱情:「這世界需要更多愛,親愛的朋友,讓我們捨棄戰爭吧!」

Barber me

前幾個月把這兩張彩色的圖畫放在部落格上時,並未多做說明,我想說的其實是,當年在美髮業落後的美國剪頭髮的軼事,因為當時沒有選擇,只好找上住家對面的美容院,碰過的美髮師最令我印象深刻的,是個粗壯的傢伙,不出二十分鐘,他就把我頭頂上的捲毛刮除殆盡,毫無任何層次可言,我看了自己的新模樣之後,自然也是相當驚嚇。

為了遮掩我一頭鳳梨頭,還躲在家裡好幾天不敢見人,心裡自是悔恨,當初如此魯莽地把我的髮型交付給陌生人。不過事隔多年之後回想這段小故事,浮現腦海的則是理髮師強而有力的雙臂,在我頭頂上動啊動的,相當有韻律感,要不是我的新髮型太糟,我可能還會感謝他帶給我視覺上的娛樂。

回到台灣之後,居住於講究外表的台北市,美髮師始終是我最怕的一種人,他們對美的神聖使命使我卻步,我這種十幾年不用梳子的自然系女性,也讓他們感到不解,我常懷疑他們內心的對話是否如下:先天不良可以靠後天努力補足,此女分明就是自暴自棄還自以為是!但是我又很性喜考驗忠孝東路上時髦髮廊的設計師,最後就落得自作自受。

在「美髮記」台灣版之一的故事中,我因厭倦前一位不思上進的美髮師,企圖追求新的造型,擺脫我的媽媽桑捲髮,上週五我信步走進某家新潮髮廊,前來迎接的都是打扮精美的女性,我彷彿可以感受到他們看到我的亂髮時,眼中所散發的不屑和驚訝。稍坐一會之後,我當日的專屬設計師便帶著她的小囉囉前來張羅,當時我已體力不支,髮型師說什麼就算,我發揮對美髮師的一貫信心,展開了2005年第一次認真的變髮運動。

過沒幾分鐘我已經沉入夢鄉,只有微微的感覺頭髮不停地被拉扯及梳理,我想等我醒來之後,就可以帶著我俏麗的新髮型離開。也不知睡了多久,再度有意識的時候,一個半小時已經過去了,小姐領我去洗頭時,我以為尾聲將近,回到座位上才發現,連第一步的燙髮都尚未完成。我看到我那精美的晚餐從雙眼前就這麼飄了過去,沒有關係,沒有下定決心怎麼成為美女呢?我如是安慰自己。

因為設計師賣力地吹直我那傑傲不馴的自然捲,我內心最深的恐懼慢慢地侵襲,剛才不是說,會預留一點空間給我的捲髮嗎?現在我的頭髮直得嚇人,還會隨風飄動,我連一點甩動它的慾望都沒有,突然我有股想就這麼衝出去的衝動,捲髮之於我正如台客之於台灣,如果我就這麼地變成直髮,我的個人特色部就消失了嗎?只可惜這些事情對於我的美髮師來說太過偏執,我偷偷向上帝祈禱,讓我快快地離開這個是非之地。

等到上帝聽到我的聲音時,又是好幾個小時之後的光景了。我對著鏡子裡的自己,說不出話來,當然無法對設計師說:謝謝你完完全全地改造了我。我的捲髮呢?我只能在人型模特兒的頭上緬懷我的過去,喔!也許明天我就會學著多愛點直髮的造型,今天,就先讓我哭泣吧!

給很關心我,卻有好一陣子不會看到我的舊雨新知。

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Sometimes

by Weichuen You 1999

I have had difficulties taking up the pencils and brushes this week. Too much work and worries have weighed me down. No matter what I do with the lines, they just don't come out right. I lost my patience somehow. Worse, I started to have doubts about the present.

I am not too obsessed with the past. Instead, my curiosity for the future "me" is much stronger than my nostalgia for what happened. There are days when I wish I could take the time machine and see where and how I'll turn out to be in ten years, in twenty years. My life might always remain the same, but I need some space for dreaming. Or maybe I know my life will be very different and I need to be assured. I am at one of those stages for the moment. It's not easy for someone like me who's full of confidence most of the time. I'll just have to accept the fact that I am just a human.

This morning I thought of a very simple drawing I did six years ago. Back then I never stayed long at a job or at studies. Life seemed easier without commitments. But it was inevitable to feel rootless and tumultuous. Now I am beginning to be afraid of changes. Yet how to explain that I dream of it every day?

The only way out: All I have to do is draw my attention back to this present. It is the only moment that counts. After all, the past is too old while the future is all too unpredictable. I promise to try taking up the pencils again tonight...

Oh My Loveman! 8 / 我的戀愛超人 8

by Weichuen You 2004

However, this world was much more corrupt and mighty than he had known...


但是,世界比他想得強大太多,也複雜太多。

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Oh My Loveman! 7 / 我的戀愛超人 7

by Weichuen You 2004

And Poopooman lived right here. For years and years, he led a lonely life, seeking for love in all kinds of forms. He practiced martial arts in the deep forests day and night in the hope of saving the world corrupted by human vices.


寂寞的大便超人就住在此處。他一心要用他絕世的功夫和滿腔的熱血,拯救這個日益墮落的世界。夜晚的森林裡常傳來一陣颼颼的練功聲。

Oh My Loveman! 6 / 我的戀愛超人 6

by Weichuen You 2004

In the country of Love, there is love everywhere except in one desolate and bleak region.


在愛之國裡,處處可見愛情的踪跡,連空氣中都散佈著迷醉心神的愛之味,唯獨其中一角落,孤零零的,無論如何,愛神就是不願光顧。

Oh My Loveman! 5 / 我的戀愛超人 5

by Weichuen You 2004

Pipi was taken further and further away from her dear island. She realized screaming and resisting was totally futile...


在短短的幾十秒裡,小艾已看不見剛才還在責怪她的媽媽和可憐的小弟,小艾忍不住大喊:「喲,救命啊!誰來救我啊!媽咪!我知道錯啦!啊!」

"Goodbye mama! Goodbye my little bro!"


就這樣,小艾離家鄉越來越遠,只見小島像深藍海水中的一點綠‧‧‧

"GOODBYE my island!"


「嗚嗚嗚‧‧‧再會了,我的寶島‧‧‧」

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Fresh

Last Thursday it started to rain because of the approach of one typhoon whose name I have forgot. Everyone expected the weather to turn sunny the following day, but by the time I got up, it still rained on and off. I felt my whole heart soaking too.

Before I stepped into students' classroom, the two school dogs, the twins Blacky and Blackie sat on the balcony leisurely, as if they enjoyed the rain and the wet morning. Then the rain had stopped. I was greatly amused by the two dogs and my mood became light again, as if I could dance freely like Gene Kelly.

Before I started the first period, part of the sky had turned blue. Along the coconut boulevard, I smelled the fresh air and earth washed by the rain. There were still some rain drops hanging on the coconut leaves.

I think that was quite a fresh start for a day:-).

Oh My Loveman! 4 / 我的戀愛超人 4

by Weichuen You 2004

It was as if God had heard Mama's wrathful prayer. Suddenly, in a crazy fit of thunder and lightening, Pipi was swept away by the swirling wind. She screamed and tried to resist her fate bare-handed, she was too weak to fight against it.
"Mamaaaaaaaaaa!!!"


說時遲,那時快,一陣轟隆雷響,小艾就被狂風捲起,暴風雨力量之大,她無論如何掙扎都無法抵抗,只能任由風雨擺佈。

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Oh My Loveman! 3 / 我的戀愛超人 3

by Weichuen You 2004

"Woo...woo...Mama, it hurts!"
"Jesus Christ! Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! What have you done to our little angel? I can't stand this anymore. I WISH YOU COULD DISAPPEAR RIGHT AWAY!"
The wind outside roared fiercely. Mama shouted at the top of her lungs out of anger. Yet Pipi remained as cool as ever to all this powerful "music."


媽媽:「可惡!為什麼妳不能像女生些!弟弟都被妳嚇得屁滾尿流!有時候我真希望妳在我眼前消失!」想不到小艾卻一副毫不悔改的樣子,惹得媽媽更生氣了。窗外的風雨交加聲,混著弟弟悲悽的哭泣,媽媽頭痛得快爆開了。

Friday, September 23, 2005

Oh My Loveman! 2 / 我的戀愛超人 2

by Weichuen You 2004

Pipi is a very "special" girl. Her expertise is scaring the shits out of her little brother and messing up the whole house. With her in the family, tranquility is just an unattainable dream.


不過,這個女兒很特別,常常把家裡搞得烏煙瘴氣,弟弟更是苦不堪言。「媽媽!救命啊!」

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Oh My Loveman! 1 / 我的戀愛超人1

by Weichuen You 2004

Madam You has three sons. Oh no, she actually has two sons and a son-like daughter...


每當媽媽帶三個孩子出門時,路人總會讚嘆地說:「這三個小男生好可愛喔!」到後來,她都不好意思解釋,其實是,兩個小兒子和一個女兒‧‧‧

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 XII

30 +

三十歲以後的日子,或許會心碎,或許會難過,但也會有晴朗的時候,這些短暫的美好足以給妳走下去的勇氣。在我眼裡,現在的妳帶點滄桑,身上散發著智慧的淡淡光芒,妳沒有比這個時候更美的了‧‧‧也希望妳記得,我很喜歡妳,並且會一直喜歡著妳。

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 XI

29

妳開始一個人獨居的生活,二十年華的青春依舊,但是未來也多了些新的展望。不同的城市,新鮮的面孔,來回於台北和新竹間的旅程‧‧‧

Monday, September 19, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 X

28

倔強的妳決定再試一次,我目送著妳走進荊棘滿佈的叢林,只能看著妳越走越遠的身影,用力地和妳揮手。當時我執意相信,妳的選擇是錯誤的,而現在的我會說,如果傷心沮喪了,請妳借用我的肩膀。

Sunday, September 18, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 IX / Escape II

27

在妳如此心痛之際,我也失戀了。我們遠離人群,獨自療傷了好一陣子,外面的五彩繽紛和千變萬化,對脆弱的我們來說都太傷感。唯一值得慶幸的是,我們還有彼此。

We run away from the colors , the lights, and the shadows of the outer world. We hide ourselves in the dark holes. Our broken hearts are put away in jars stored in the freezer for curing emotional wounds. We draw suns on our warm blankets to feel the temperature of the cruel yet passionate world.

Escape, for us, is not negative. We promise, after our hearts become whole again, to emerge out of the hole. Then, we'll be brave, strong, beautiful and ready for the heart-breaking challenges...

溫柔的大姐頭 VIII

26

早春的某一天,妳對我說,妳從頂點上掉下來。最痛的不是摔下來的當兒,而是墜落谷底之後,痛苦慢慢擴散,我很為妳心疼。

溫柔的大姐頭 VII

25

一年後,我們在紐約重逢,妳依舊是那麼甜美及好脾氣,對於我的古怪堅持,妳也欣然接受。

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 VI

24

我在美國的那年,我們整整一年沒有交談,可是我總是想到妳,想著我的大姐姐過得好不好,即使我們之間的距離有幾千公里,還跨過一整個太平洋‧‧‧

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 V

23

數不盡的夜晚,我們穿越大街小巷,和人群及車輛擦身而過,穿過森林,在黑夜中一同等著妳的巴士。妳上車之後,我對妳揮手再見,心裡充滿著妳的話語,一個人漫步於數個交錯的時空,過去和現在似乎是重疊的,但妳和我,都已經不一樣。

Monday, September 12, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 IV

22

喜歡看妳輕而易舉地通過一關又一關的難題,像輕舟度過萬重山,妳的聰慧和成熟是許多人望塵莫及的,而那人群中也包括我‧‧‧

Sunday, September 11, 2005

溫柔的大姐頭 III

21

漸漸地,山的坡度愈來愈陡峭,妳壓根沒注意到,因為,妳戀愛了。此時的妳是光芒四射的天使,愛情給了妳翅膀,妳盡情地翱翔,天空是一片片彩色的棉花糖,不論妳怎麼跌跌撞撞,始終會降落在軟綿綿的糖被上,人生是如此地美好‧‧‧

溫柔的大姐頭 II

20

妳走出十幾歲的黑暗森林,步入了充滿光亮的第二十個年頭,溫暖的陽光灑滿整個山腰,即使是上坡路段,妳不費吹灰之力,踏著輕盈優雅的步伐,幾乎要飛了起來。

溫柔的大姐頭 I

起點

這是我們相識的起點,有一天我們就這麼交談起來,空氣中瀰漫著愉快的氣味。年少的我時常想,如果我是男孩,要追求的也不過就是像你如此自由自在、善體人意的女生。

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Character study III



Character study II



I've been working on the characters of my coming story this week. I take great delight in transforming people I know so well into the characters with the style I groped for. So in the end, I am no longer I, my dad and mom look so much more cartoonish. Funny isn't it?

Friday, September 09, 2005

Sakura

This is what I think of the unknown when I have to move forward constantly in life and I'd love to share it with Sakura.

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Roots

What I eat forms what I am. When I lived in the US, there were days when I felt so starved mentally and I craved for the food I ate back at home. Images of food swirled right in front of my eyes and I knew my desire couldn't be satisfied. My stomach made such pathetic noise and in the end I had to get up and eat something, American. I could mask my roots in many ways, but it would never be possible when it comes to food.

To show my craving, I change all the objects imaginable into the forms of the dishes I love. Besides, the thought of these foods can give a person la nuit blanche. It's actually a picture full of nostalgic feeling too.

Friday, September 02, 2005

幸福

by Weichuen You 2002

今天我很幸福,被溫暖的人群圍繞著,而我這麼孤僻的人,居然就這麼被融化了。沒有時間也沒有力氣畫一幅圖,說明我今日的心情,找了一張和大家手牽手的大合照,雖然照片裡的人已不是我身邊的友伴,但我的心暖暖的,可以再出發了。

Thursday, September 01, 2005

change of scenery

by Weichuen You 2002

The sky on typhoon days is of a dirty gray color. I miss the pure white sky with cool, even a little bit freezing air. That isn't really impossible on this island. Perhaps in my dreams...