坐在她的屋里听她讲惠特尼美术馆的展览“Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era”[1]。 她一边讲一边拿出Janis Joplin 的专辑“Cheap Thrills”出来。她显然对我的无知感到奇怪，居然有人不知道Janis Joplin？她说，惠特尼的展厅中一直在播放Janis Joplin的歌，给我先听一下作为预习。 于是我们两个人摇着兰姆酒加冰块（可惜不是Janis Joplin生前最喜欢的威士忌Southern Comfort），坐在她摊了一地的鞋子中间，听Janis Joplin特立独行的声音。我的耳朵听惯了甜的发腻的兰调爵士，乍一听Janis Joplin用暗哑的歌喉来唱Summer Time，吓了一跳。熟悉的曲调被她唱出了绝然不同的味道。Janis Joplin吸毒过量去世的时候不过27岁的年纪，她的声音何以能具有这种金石之声？她的声音沙哑，但是绝不单调，在中间有无数的层次和变化。她的歌决不讨好，直来直去，掏心肝似的把心底的颤抖和呻吟都喊出来。Janis Joplin生前只出了四张唱片，参加了无数现场演出，短短四五年间，在欧洲和美国的各个地方留下了她的声音。
根据维基不知道的介绍，
“Janis Lyn Joplin (19th January, 1943 – 4 October 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four albums recorded between 1966 and 1970 -- two as the lead singer of San Francisco's Big Brother and The Holding Company, and two released as a solo artist.
She was ranked #41 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Artists of Rock 'n Roll in 1998, the third highest ranking for a female (only behind Aretha Franklin and Joni Mitchell) on the list. In 1999, she was ranked #3 on VH1's The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll (behind Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner). In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin #46 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time”。
我坐在她的转椅上，听她喜欢的Magnetic Fields的专辑“69”。活泼可爱的男生兴高采烈地唱着，I am the Luckiest Guy in the Lower East Side。无忧无虑，没有顾忌，听起来的确像是60年代的Beach Boys。伊一边跟着音乐手舞足蹈，一边擦鞋。为了照顾她的几十双爱履，每当季节变换鞋子更替的时候，她都要把鞋子们请出来，用酒精仔细的消毒，然后才收起来，做她的鞋子真幸福。
伊这次回台湾就要订婚，现在正忙着新家的装修。她是学艺术教育的博士生，品位自然不一般。没想到她从一大堆的装修图册中看中的，居然是一个由Adobe 改建的民宿。高高的圆形屋顶，泥土的墙面，除了简单的床和书桌，没有任何的装饰。同样简洁的厨房和走廊，一切都和泥土一样自然和清新。这个喜欢在喝咖啡的时候吃Haagen-Dazs的冰激凌的女孩子，她梦想的家居然是一个简单到不能再简单的adobe！
顺便翻看伊的部落格，发现她的妹妹和好友都嫁给了法国人。伊两次到法国旅游，留下了不少有趣的照片。比如她穿着美丽的旗袍，脚上却套着随时准备落跑的运动鞋。她们一家人的合影也很有意思。已经离婚多年的爸爸和妈妈同时出现在照片上，爸爸的身边是新妈妈和新妈妈的孩子们，妈妈的身边两个人共同的四个孩子。中国的大家庭和法国的大家庭挤在一起，别提多亲密了。美丽的中国新娘和光头的法国新郎，台北的红灯笼和诺曼底的海滩，穿白色婚纱的新娘和穿中式大褂的新郎，一切都像童话一样美得不可思议。对于那些远嫁的女孩子们我一向都很佩服，她们有勇气把两个文化都背起来，那份爱和定力都很了不起。
临睡前看1993年的老片Indecent Proposal，再次被罗伯特.雷德福所征服。虽然在片中他扮演了一个不那么正经的千万富翁，但是他那种在任何情况下都充满自信和魅力的笑容，真是迷人。黛米.莫尔怎么不嫁给他呢？
[1] Summer 2007 revisits the unprecedented explosion of contemporary art and popular culture brought about by the civil unrest and pervasive social change of the 1960s and early '70s, when a new psychedelic aesthetic emerged in art, music, film, architecture, graphic design, and fashion. The exhibition includes paintings, photographs and sculptures by Isaac Abrams, Richard Avedon, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hamilton, Elliott Landy, Jimi Hendrix (his only known watercolor), Robert Indiana, Yayoi Kusama, Richard Lindner, and John McCracken, among others, as well as a rich selection of important posters, album covers and underground magazines. A special emphasis is placed on environments as well as on film, video and multimedia installations, including works by Jordan Belson, USCO, Stan VanDerBeek, James Whitney, and Lamonte Young and Marian Zazeela. The exhibition includes films of performances and light shows, and spotlights places such as the UFO nightclub in
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