Maximilian Hecker
love his music.
One day, I went on to the Hong Kong Time Out website to see what’s happening around town. Then when I go through some past music events, I came across this article about a German musician. The author wrote that his music is fragile and heartbroken. This totally got my attention. So I went onto his myspace and started playing the music in the player. “Summer days in bloom” the piano and the guitar sound sounds very relaxing and refreshing to me. Then it comes his airy voice. Even with all the drums, violin, piano and guita, the song is still very calming to me.
You know how sometimes, when you’re listening to a song, you just really wish that it could hit a different note? But this song is just hitting all the right notes for me. When I was thinking: “ah, how nice if the up coming part would turn that way”, and it did!. I started listening to all of his other songs. His music is very personal. Lots of his songs are soft, sad, yet calming and very elegant. It’s like watching a tragic romance slowly unfolds in front of you. Heartbreaking, yet beautiful, it was absolutely addictive. Some people might thinks the lyrics is too whiney thought.
Read a lot of his interview and get to understand a little bit of his view of the world. The more I read, the more I love about his work. As you started to know the story behind the lyrics, it just all make sense. I think it’s a privilege to get this close to someone’s personal story and emotions.
Of course, I get SO MAD that I found about about Maximilian a month too late. He had a small concert in Hong Kong a month ago…… darn. Anyway, I’m pretty sure he’ll be back one day. Or I’ll definitely go to Germany to see him in concert, or better yet, busking on the street of Berlin.
My favorites from Maximilian Hecker:
Maybe one day I’ll create a collection inspired by his world.
Is foreign language really that cool?
Living in a Chinese speaking society, where people believe in “better English means better live”, is doomed to come across someone who just looooove to throw English words (or any foreign languages) around. They would try to squeeze in a lots of English words within a Chinese conversation. This is one thing I hate a lot about people here. Especially those people DON’T SAY THINGS RIGHT, and think that they’re ultimate cool and all for knowing extra foreign vocabularies. my ass.
Does it really makes you look cool when you can confuse people with foreign words? When you talk to people, it’s about COMMUNICATION and understanding the conversation. Showing off makes you look like an a-hole, while saying things wrongs makes you look like an idiot.
Geese
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