Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) - Aubrey Tang's blog

Planning a dissertation on the topic of Cantonese opera film, lately, I've been working on a bit of voice studies. The hardest part is probably not the semantic but the empirical: one day, I hurt myself from incorrectly practicing ventriloquism, despite years of singing experience. (Yes, one can hurt one's self if one doesn't know how to correctly use one's voice. I need some new voice lessons it seems like.)

Here are some fascinating performances by Juliana Snapper (1972-), an LA experimental soprano:

Singing under the water-"You who will emerge from the flood..." (underwater operella), a post-modern, re-imagined version of the Mexican folktale of La Llorona: the wailing woman whose ghost wanders the rivers of Mexico crying out from the trauma she suffered in life after disobeying society's gender roles: (Who would imagine how intense it could get? Just ingenious.)

Singing upside down, perhaps also visually inside out:

An inspiring interview with English subtitles:

A Tribute to Kazuo Ohno in the Year of His Hundredth Anniversary (2006):

A really nice mix of many of Ohno's works:

The Written Face:

The Dream of the Fetus:

Tokyo 2002:

The Dream of Love:

Beauty and Energy:
Another compilation:

Model : Shanghai 上海 7120
Manufacturer : Shanghai Watch Factory
Year of Production: 1979
Movement Model : ZSH (19 jewels)
Type : Hand Wind

This is a Shanghai 上海 7120 model. It's one of the most popular models for collectors. I bought it because according to the information here of Micmicmor, a very nice and resourceful vintage watch collector, based on the dial of this watch, it belongs to the earlier batches of 7's series production. I got this baby for a very small sum of money but have been loving it so far. It keeps time, looks good and goes with a simple white long-sleeve collared shirt, blue jeans and a pair of small silver earrings for school.

I had not been able to open the case back and verify the accurate year of production because my Japanese watchmaker told me this type of caseback, with the wavy shape on the edge, needs a special type of opener only available in Mainland China. I was hoping I could beg my local friends to take it to the Mainland and have somebody open it for me.

Micmicmor was kind enough to tell me about this kind of sticky balls that you can buy from maybe Walmart or Target though. Just to do the job right, after the end of the school quarter, I finally ordered a professional one from China for $1.50 . It came in the mail today. Honestly, I felt my heart was pounding like I was going for a hot date. Not kidding, I wrote a paper on the erotics of collection last quarter.

Now I know it's a ZSH, not a SS7 movement in it. ZSH was the movement rolled out by the Shanghai Watch Company in 1974 that replaced its predecessor, the SS7 movement.

The alphabets under the wheel, which my EVO phone failed to capture clearly, say "GF." If my kindergarten-level knowledge suffices, "G" means 1979 because it is the 7th alphabets and the first year of production of 7120 is 1973. "F" means June because it's the sixth month of the year. So this watch was made in June 1979, still the beginning period of the open policy of Mainland China. I believe Micmicmor once wrote he found a watch purchasing coupon from the 1980s here, so back in 1979, this watch might still require a coupon and several month's salary of an ordinary person. Thirty years later, it's on Aubrey's wrist hah!

在台灣好像叫《怪咖情緣》，不知道「怪咖」或「怪ㄎㄚ」是什麼意思？本來是喜劇，但我「喊到劏豬」，可能是柯比所認識的中西電影史上最喜愛的愛情故事，the dream of every woman with low self-esteem, of every woman in pain.



以下是她會嚇死現實生活中據我估計 99.9999% 直男人口的愛的宣言，只有那僅存的 0.0001% 有可能接受，事實上我不明白此片海內外票房成績怎可能如此良好，究竟主流市場的觀眾被它的什麼吸引呢？究竟世上有幾多好像男女主角那麼所謂「變態」的男女呢？暫時我個人從未遇過，希望比我估計多吧。

"In one way or another,
I've always suffered.
I didn't know why, exactly.
But I do know that I'm not
so scared of suffering now.
I feel more
than I've ever felt,...
and I've found someone to feel with,
to play with, to love
in a way that
feels right for me.
I hope he knows that I can see
that he suffers too
and that I want to love him."