貓讓人類渺小而卑微的終極必殺技,是她可以睡在盒子裡,讓你感覺她在賣席夢絲



我和我鄙夷的對象,原來距離如此接近



永遠不需要向別人解釋你自己,因為喜歡你的人不需要,不喜歡你的人不會相信。

The Trick Is Keep Breathing




GLORY TO THE SHINING REMOVER OF DARKNESS




順順走, 慢慢來, 自得其樂, 不留痕跡




美韓軍演一波波,北韓聲討李明博叛賊,新聞稿如下:
李明博政權向朝鮮同胞的胸口"開槍放炮插匕首",實在令人恨之入骨,且看北韓的"正義鐵拳",將向仇人發出咆哮!!...........................真是經典啊!


說到我想去的地方,那就厲害了,藍天白雲,椰林樹影,水清砂白,坐落於印度洋上的世外桃源:馬爾代夫...也鬧政變了啊

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
--- French philosopher Blaise Pascal

it’s not nice to piss you off. and i know. but i was poking and sort of prodding, and kinda hoping, and always watching, for a reaction.
--- The Indie Queens are Waiting

Baby don't you know that it is understood, if you take away the sunshine, you also take away the starlight.
--- Architecture in Helsinki

我們自以為在演洛基,KO了就能光榮謝幕,沒想到門一踹卻是打不完殭屍,而我只有一把散彈槍,和一條OK蹦...

很奇怪,"魔球"裡最感人的兩幕,一個是小布聽女兒在樂器店裡唱歌,一個是小布在車裡聽女兒唱歌.......是誰說這是棒球片的?

Life is a Maze, Love is a Riddle.

活得好,不外乎:吃好丶睡好。除此之外,沒別的了。

年少時候,我們追求無限可能,複雜難懂的東西,例如愛情;年老之後,我們嚮往回歸原點,單純實在的東西,例如信仰..........和金錢。

修身,齊家,治國,平天下,僅做到一項,吾願足矣。有誰能做到全部,恭喜你...........ㄟ,醫生啊,這裡有病人。

And I want to be like lovers in an old romantic song, where the music fades away before the love it can go wrong.
--- jill barber




Young Galaxy, We have everything

Fance - Full Speed Ahead

The Book of Joe


6.28.2007

Cool Britannia

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Cool Britannia is a media term that was used in the late 1990s to describe the contemporary culture of the United Kingdom. It was closely associated with the early years of the "New Labour" government of Tony Blair. It is a pun on the title of the patriotic song "Rule, Britannia".

[edit] Origins of the term
The phrase "Cool Britannia" was first used in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, but there is probably no connection between that usage and the modern coining of the term. The phrase "Cool Britannia" reappeared in the mid-1990s as a registered trade mark for one of Ben & Jerry's ice-creams (vanilla with strawberries and chocolate-covered shortbread). The ice cream name and recipe was coined in early 1996 by an American lawyer living in London, Sarah Moynihan-Williams, as a winning entry in a Ben and Jerry's ice cream competition. Her name for the ice cream as "Cool Britannia" was meant to presage the era of New Labour, which came about with their election win in May 1997. The phrase was quickly adopted in the media and in advertising, seeming to capture the "It" quality of London at the time. The election of Blair's government in 1997 on a platform of modernisation and with Blair as a relatively young Prime Minister gave the idea fresh currency. (There is a strong parallel between this and the catch-phrase "Swinging London" during the early years of Harold Wilson's Labour government.)

[edit] 1990s culture

Geri Halliwell, Wearing a Union Flag dress, on stage at the Brit Awards 1997. An iconic image from "Cool Britannia" yearsTo the extent that it had any real meaning, "Cool Britannia" referred to the transient fashionable London scene, 1990s bands such as Blur and Oasis, fashion designers, the Young British Artists and magazines. Cool Britannia also summed up the mood in Britain during the mid-1990s Britpop movement, when there was a sudden influx of lively British rock and pop music from bands such as Oasis, Blur, Suede, Supergrass, Pulp and The Verve. Many link popularity of the Austin Powers films and the resurgence of 007 as factors of the spread of Cool Britannia. The movement, along with political factors, saw a renewal in British pride, typified by such things as Noel Gallagher's Union Flag guitar and Geri Halliwell's iconic skimpy Union Flag dress. In March 1997 Vanity Fair published a special edition on Cool Britannia with Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit on the cover with the title 'London Swings! Again!'. Figures in the issues included Alexander McQueen, Damien Hirst, Graham Coxon and the editorial staff of Loaded. By 1998 The Economist was commenting that "many people are already sick of the phrase," and by 2000 - after the fall of Britpop - it was being used mainly in a mocking or ironic way.

Although "Britannia" usually refers to the whole of Great Britain, and not just England, similar terms for Wales and Scotland, "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia" respectively, were also coined, but never gained any real popular currency.

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