スウエーデンの面白いものたち


by nyfiken
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Searching for sugar man.

Silver Words by Sixto Rodriguez (Original Version)

SILVER WORDS

Baby I ain't joking
And it's not what I'm smoking
I really think you're nice
Don't think I'm kidding
And don't think that I'm bidding
If silver words are your price

But oh if you could see
The change you've made in me
That the angels in the skies
Were envious and surprised
That anyone as nice as you
Would chance with me

But oh if you could see
The change you've made in me
That the angels in the skies
Were envious and surprised
That anyone as nice as you
Would chance with me





Sixto Rodriguez Cause 1971



Lyrics

Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas
And I talked to Jesus at the sewer
And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business
While the rain drank champagne

My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted
Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted
Oh but they'll take their bonus pay to Molly McDonald,
Neon ladies, beauty is that which obeys, is bought or borrowed

Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel full of rumours
But it's I who pays the rent for these fingered-face out-of-tuners
and I make 16 solid half hour friendships every evening

Cause your queen of hearts who is half a stone
And likes to laugh alone is always threatening you with leaving
Oh but they play those token games on Willy Thompson
And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs. Annie Johnson

Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues
And I explained that I had overpaid them
So overdued I went to the company store
and the clerk there said that they had just been invaded
So I set sail in a teardrop and escaped beneath the doorsill

Cause the smell of her perfume echoes in my head still
Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun
In weekends of whiskey sours
Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?














スウェーデンのフィルムデイレクターがアフリカ旅行している間にふとであった話。シンガーのロドリゲスの噂の話をきき、フィルムドキュメンタリーを作ろうと思った。
二人のプロジェクトがどういう風に始まり、フィルムとしてできあがったのだろうか。







1970の時代はどんな時代だったろうか。あなたはまだ生まれていなかったかもしれないし。横浜から船に乗りナホトカからシベリア鉄道でヨーロッパに渡ってきて、ストックホルムが気に入って住み着いた人もいるかもしれない。日本も高度成長期で、明るい未来に向かって結構楽しく、子供たちは明るくそれなりに元気に過ごしていた時代だった。

30年ぶりオスカーのゴールドをとったスウェーデンのドキュメンタリーフィルムにスウェーデンは沸いている。
テレビのニュースで繰り返し流されているオスカー賞の赤じゅうたんを歩く大スターに混じってスウェーデンの監督とスタッフの姿が映し出されている。最初はこのフィルムを製作したときは、お金がなくて大変だったのです。監督の父親が自宅のアパートでテレビのインタビューに答える。パパのとなりに、かなり派手なママか父親の同居人が座っていたのが印象的である。
by nyfiken | 2013-02-26 07:59