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引述 :『The date, we both knew, was June 4th, nineteen years since soldiers put down the Tiananmen uprising. The overseas Chinese students’ bulletin board had been alive all afternoon with discussions of the anniversary. Liu mentioned the famous photograph of an unknown man standing in front of a tank—perhaps the most provocative image in modern Chinese history. “We really acknowledge him. We really think he was brave,” Liu told me. But, of that generation, he said, “They fought for China, to make the country better. And there were some faults of the government. But, finally, we must admit that the Chinese government had to use any way it could to put down that event.” Sitting in the cool quiet of a California night, sipping his coffee, Liu said that he is not willing to risk all that his generation enjoys at home in order to hasten the liberties he has come to know in America. “Do you live on democracy?” he asked me. “You eat bread, you drink coffee. All of these are not brought by democracy. Indian guys have democracy, and some African countries have democracy, but they can’t feed their own people. “Chinese people have begun to think, One part is the good life, another part is democracy,” Liu went on. “If democracy can really give you the good life, that’s good. But, without democracy, if we can still have the good life why should we choose democracy?”』

引述 :『1 The Velvet Underground Forget, for a moment, the surly genius of Lou Reed and his songs. Forget John Cale’s experimental background. Forget that the classic Velvet Underground lineup lasted just three years. Forget that Cale and Reed were living and recording on Ludlow Street three decades before it seemed like a good idea. Forget Warhol and the Factory, forget Mo Tucker’s stand-up drumming, forget the shades and the heroin. Just play any of the first three albums. They still sound impossibly cool. The Velvets were born in the space after the Beats and before the hippies, and represented a stern, aloof rejoinder to everything California was spewing at the time. They midwifed the love child of rock and the avant-garde. They remain the ultimate NYC band. Must-own album: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)』