愛的西雅圖 + 給親愛的

The rain finally stops. How do you plan for this precious weekend? 最近到處都看得到幾米的畫，幾乎到了視覺氾濫的地步了。公車、捷運、報上、台北畫報，還有各位朋友盛情傳來的，害得我的 email 塞車。   報上說幾米的《向左走，向右走》要拍成電視劇了。好像要找張玉嬿來演那個女孩。希望能拍出像《神通情人夢》那樣有趣而溫馨的影片。   像這樣子的愛情小品，最經典的應該算是《西雅圖夜未眠》了吧！ 西雅圖，愛情好似在西雅圖停格。體溫帶來誠懇的暖意。 介紹這一本美美的《愛的西雅圖》給大家。本來是不打算介紹這本書的，因為實在是太粉紅，太 feminine了。感覺就好像是女性用的粉紅細緻的化妝品。不過剛好小馬傳來這本書的網站 http://lovestory.gif.com.tw/，有好些朋友看了都很喜歡。 那麼就來聊一聊吧。 書中的每一篇短文，每一幅畫，都是100%的西雅圖的感覺。剛看時，覺得好像文不如畫。因為我覺得每一張畫都值得框裱好，找一面素淨的牆面掛起來細細品味。我尤其鍾情第49頁的碧海輕波、萬頃湛藍，直到海天一色；第50頁的〈你好嗎?〉有我最喜愛的寒星伴殘月，以上是藍色的、孤寂的西雅圖。第66頁有繽紛的西雅圖，一方排列整齊的黃紅橙紫的鬱金香，讓我不禁懷念起春末夏初的 Rochester 校園。書中每一幅畫裡都有一隻小矮熊，可以玩一玩找找看的遊戲。 文字呢！再讀過一次時，發現其實有很多頗堪回味。作者的文字能激發出畫家創作出偌許的佳作，自有其獨到的動人之處。〈西雅圖的七八月〉一文娓娓述說這個完美之城如何醫治不如意，讀起來 就像是坐在關了燈的房間裡，看著一張接著一張的幻燈片秀。〈藏在你大衣的口袋〉末了短短三行字，簡單的說出了愛情原來是這麼個樣子的感受。   如果你喜歡這本書，那麼還可以試試看《給親愛的》，一本屬於深夜和思念的書。用碳鉛筆 (?)描繪出一個長頭髮，瞇瞇眼的女孩，寫著她的日記。偶而穿插介紹一些基本的動植物常識。   有空逛書店的時候，請記得翻看第40頁的〈自戀〉，看過第43頁的畫後，請你也照著鏡子 (你會想像你眼前就有一面鏡子嗎?)，對自己說聲：「你好美！(或是好帥！好有魅力！...)    很喜歡書裡女孩坐在書桌前寫東西的那幅插畫，桌子上兩邊堆了高高的書，一邊的角落有一盆生機盎然的觀葉植物，還有一盒養著甲蟲的透明寵物箱。和Roald Dahl 的 Matilda (電影《小魔女》原著)中，Matilda小小的身子沉坐到沙發裡看書的那張插畫有著同樣的趣味。 (所以我把兩張畫都用色鉛筆著上輕淡的顏色.)

既然提到了生物常識，附上幾則僅供充實各位的常識。  (真的粉好笑，如果你實在不想看LLD的英文，可以只看第4,5,9,13,14,16)。   Did you know ?  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!) If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (Oh My Gawd!) A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig!) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.  (Still not over that pig thing!) The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (So what!) A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. (Creepy!) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the fu......") Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig...quality over quantity!) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Nahhhh......I really didn't need to know that) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (OK, so that could be a good thing ...) A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. (I really didn't need to know that either) An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain (I know some people like that.) Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that too!) Polar bears are left handed. (Who bothered to find out....?, Who cares!) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Yeah...yeah...but what about the pig? I wanna come back as a damn pig!!)