Me 记录......属于怎样的一个自己

       4岁那年老Mam托三姨的关系，死活把我拉到一位小城镇级的“钢琴名师”那里去拜师学艺。在我伟大母亲同志的心里，那时肯定存在着一个“钢琴家”梦。而对我来说唯一特别的是，老妈做的梦，Always的主角总是我。这就是我老妈——非典型性中国母亲的部分典型性屈从。

    好了，我们进入正题。这篇文章的主题其实并不是“关于我们的母亲”这样的标题。今天，我们真正要谈的是“艺术”！！而关于以老妈作为开篇，用意其实简单自然。我想顺便论证，老妈不仅给你肉体，也赋予你灵魂。

    灵魂，这玩意儿挺虚的。灵魂是什么，在我的概念和意识里是这样理解的：“金钱、物质的归属于肉体；艺术、思想的划归属于灵魂”。一个你可以touch，一个你touch不到；这样应该更易于理解了。好了，我们又回到了艺术。我想告诉你的是，我与“艺术”的首次触碰，就基建于我老妈的梦想里，那个有关钢琴家的梦。那是一场迅速建立，却难以消散的梦魇。在我进入琴房的不到5分钟后，“名师”青筋暴显，却还要保持风度的向我老妈婉言了一番。中心思想异常简单——The wood is a piece of crack。老妈异常沮丧，而我却很可怜这位“名师”。为了坚决抵制牺牲玩乐时间去练琴，我成功的用“手刀式”的力道往“名师”的钢琴上一顿烂“砍”。这一招换来了我的自由，却不知道有否将那架“名琴”～～“砍”成内伤。

       4岁的自己不是个能坐下“练琴”的苗子。老妈在旁观测，心急如焚。心想，自己“孵”出来的种，眼看就要落于平庸了。老妈心急的立论有二；其一，中国“三岁看到老”的古训；其二，老妈眼瞅自己经历过了文化大革命、大串联、60年代大饥荒，Always是个“风云变幻”之烈女人物；究其两点，老妈岂能不心急火燎于自己正趋于平凡的儿子。。。。

    说时迟，那时快。。。老妈工作上的朋友又有了门道，决定把我送入中国独特文化界的产物“少年宫”进行全面的“才艺探索训练”。这少年宫想必大家都清楚是何许地方。到如今若要问我对童年时代少年宫的最大印象是什么，那必定是大楼门前的两面“无敌哈哈镜”。小的时候只觉得好玩，无从思考为何“相关领导”要在门前放两道“无敌哈哈镜”。长大了方才品味出来，其中的良苦剖白；这哈哈镜所能之事尽是透过镜面的凸凹，把原本模样的个人折射的外貌全非，身长各异。这就像是“少年宫”的使命；无论你啥模样的孩子进来，竟是凭着身子骨尚软，统统给你来个异样扭曲，来个"金刚狼"式的重新塑造。

    在我的“少年宫”时代，一共经历过四个迥然不同的班种，分别是图画班、电子琴班、书法班、武术班。这四个训练班带来的回忆各有特色；其中当属图画班记忆最为深刻；图画班的训练分为两个阶段。第一阶段蜡笔，第二阶段水粉；第二阶段的班上一个小瘦子同学Always在我一旁作画，这小子天资不错，老师教着画的“大饼”脸，“大饼”太阳他都自己描绘得“饼模饼样”，干湿适中。相比我的“作品”，一堆明显“稀释过度”的呕物状“大饼”脸与“大饼”太阳，他简直迅速晋升为我心目中的“毕加索第二”。只是我心中一直对他的画作感受稍欠那种迸发式的心灵触碰感，于是我在苦苦思考之后，决定在新一周的图画课堂上给小瘦子的画作用“毕加索”式的抽象结构涂上“美妙玄幻”的色彩组合。大功告成之时，我甚为满意。只是这小子不但没感谢我，还哭着把我给告了一状。至此，大饼脸老师向我老妈发出通牒，禁止我再到他的课堂跟随他习艺各种“大饼“艺术。我就这样，又欢天喜地的逃离了充满“艺术氛围”的少年宫。只是，在我离开后的好长一段时间里，我也为此郁郁寡欢。因为我着实爱那两面具有深刻意义的“无敌哈哈镜”。

Damien Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish singer/songwriter and musician. As a musician he plays the guitar, cello, violin, piano and drums.

Rice began his musical career as a member of the 90’s rock group Juniper, releasing two singles with the band, however due to increasing interference from their record label Polygram he decided to leave the band and pursue a solo career. Striking out on his own Rice spent time living as a farmer in Tuscany and later busked his way around Europe before returning to Ireland.

After getting into contact with his second cousin, music producer David Arnold, Rice sent him a demo of his work, which impressed Arnold enough that he bought him a mobile recording studio so he could record his debut. After collaborating with several artists throughout Ireland and England Rice released his debut O on the 1st of February 2002, which peaked at #8 on the UK albums chart and went on to win the Shortlist music prize. O also produced two top 30 singles, "Cannonball" and "Volcano".

Rice released his second album 9 in 2006. The Irish Times placed Rice at number thirty four in a list of “The Best 50 Irish Acts Right Now” in April 2009, referring to him as "the quiet one, the intense one, the singer-songwriter most revered by the other quiet and intense ones” and as “a most excruciatingly honest songwriter.”