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[情報] Gotham Chopra又一篇講MJ的blog

看板KingofPop (麥可傑克森 - Michael Jackson)作者oldtrafford (oldtrafford)時間15年前 (2010/06/30 03:40)推噓20(20推 0噓 4→)

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http://tinyurl.com/357yqp9 Remembering my friend Michael Jackson (by Gotham Chopra) 重點翻譯 I was a junior in highschool when my friend Michael Jackson asked me to go on tour with him. He was spending the summer in Europe staging the largest ever (at the time) rock tour for his latest album DANGEROUS. I begged and pleaded with my parents to let me go. We'd known Michael for a few years by then and grown quite close. He'd even come and stayed at our house in suburban Boston for a few days. Who could forget the time he clumsily tried to make his bed in the guestroom in the morning in an effort to impress my mother so he might be invited back? Or the ill-fated breakfast he tried to cook for my sister and I that we forced down our throats with strained smiles as he carefully watched us? Aside from being the biggest celebrity on the planet, he seemed like a pretty good guy so eventually my parents relented and let me go. 高中時MJ邀我跟他去dangerous巡迴我們跟MJ認識很久記得他來我家他總是嚐試每天早上整理好自己的床想要給我媽媽好印象也記得他想要幫我和我妹煮早餐我們很痛苦的吞下去因為他一直用熱切的眼光看著我們吃他是個很好的人所以我爸媽就讓我去了 To describe it in one word: impossibly awesome (because one word is not nearly enough). To be seventeen and the sidekick of the greatest rockstar the world had ever known was indescribable. Paris, Rome, London, Munich, Athens and more. Every city we went to essentially shut down to host him. Where Michael roamed, a million cameras followed. A buzz reverberated and the bright light of fame trailed. And I felt the halo effect, often donning one of his iconic fedoras, his signature sunglasses, and one of the countless slick tour jackets Pepsi supplied us with. Private planes, police escorts, marching soldiers (an inexplicable MJ favorite), Michael was more than happy to share his celebrity because he had more than he'd ever know what to do with. He joked that I could ride "shotgun" with him anytime I liked. He knew I was living vicariously through him and he was happy for it. 是無法用一個字來形容跟他在一起的生活一個字太難了我十七歲跟最紅的明星環遊世界每個我們去的城市都會為了招待他關閉他去哪裡上百萬個攝影機跟著私人飛機警方開道跟他遊行的軍人(這個是MJ的最愛) MJ很開心的跟我們分享他還開玩笑說如果我想要的話我隨時可以跟他一起使用散弹槍 Arriving to stadiums hours before showtime, while he'd have to go through elaborate pre-show routines and wardrobe sessions, I'd wander out onto the stage where dozens upon dozens of sound techs, engineers, and roadies would be rigging the massive stage and prepping the show. Even four or five hours before showtime, thousands of fans would push as far forward as possible so as to get as close to MJ when the show began. You've seen the videos of crazy fans, dehydrated and dazed, having to be dragged out of the crowd by hustling paramedics. I saw it up close and personal - even got involved once or twice when fans started dropping by the dozens. 到了表演場地他會彩排我去舞台上看著各式各樣的工作人員準備演出演唱會前四五個小時成千上萬的歌迷就會想辦法推擠進來想靠MJ更近你在影片裡看到的瘋狂歌迷昏倒脫水擠壓我都親眼見到過 During the show itself, sometimes I'd hang around just off the stage watching Michael kill it. The man knew how to perform and it was like a meditation to just to witness it. At other times, I'd hang in his dressing room, outfitted to the nines with candy, orange juice, and video games. 在演唱會進行中通常我就在場邊看MJ 這個男人知道怎麼演出有時我就待在他化妝間裡裡面有很多糖果果汁和電玩 After the show, Michael would retreat back to the dressing room too and then be forced to stand around awkwardly and greet VIPs, celebrity guests, sponsors and others who'd earned backstage privileges. It was easy to see that he was far more comfortable singing and dancing in front of a 100,000 strong than socializing with a dozen. 表演完後他會回到化妝室然後被迫去見那些名人貴賓和那些有後台許可證的你可以看到他在舞台上遠比去跟這些人社交還要自在 After those formalities, he and I would retreat back to his hotel, usually the biggest and best suite in the whole city. Michael almost always had the place stocked with old movies, more candy, and more orange juice. Even as thousands of adoring fans chanted his name from the streets below, we'd chat about music, movies, video games, girls, and occasionally the meaning of life. 之後回到旅館總是城裡最豪華旅館最大的房間 MJ會有很多老電影糖果果汁在房間外面一堆歌迷鬼叫他名字我們會聊音樂電影電玩女孩有時還聊生命的意義 But then something unexpected happened. The awesomeness wore off for me. Believe it or not, I started to get bored of sitting up in that suite with just MJ. And then I started to feel claustrophobic. I was seventeen years old, in freaking Europe, surrounded by a rock band, sexy dancers who could bend in all sorts of ways and backup singers who hit octaves I fantasized about. They liked to rage every night after the show and openly talked about their exploits the following day. Soon enough, I gained the courage to ask Michael if he minded if I slipped out with some of the others after his shows. 但有些無預警的事發生了不管你相不相信我開始覺得跟MJ一個人在飯店有點無聊很像得了幽閉恐懼症一個十七歲的男孩在詭異的歐洲旁邊是搖滾樂團性感舞者還有合音歌手他們每個晚上在表演後總愛大聲討論舞臺上的事我很羨慕不久我終於鼓起勇氣問麥可我可不可以在演唱會後跟他們出去 Not only did he say it was okay, he encouraged me. Outfitted with his fedora, sunglasses, and tour jackets, getting the best table at the best restaurants, into the VIP sections of the hottest clubs, and the adulation of all the local girls was easier than could be imagined. Often when I got back from a night on the town, Michael would call me in my hotel room and summon me. I'd head up to his suite and proceed to narrate my night's misadventures to him and debrief him on all the latest gossip surrounding his band. I didn't really need to dramatize my exploits, but I did anyway because I knew that he was living vicariously through me and I was happy for it. 他不只說好還鼓勵我帶他的間諜帽太陽眼鏡巡迴的夾克在最好的餐館有最好的位置去最紅的夜店的VIP室而要釣當地的女孩這想也知道這就很容易了我回來後麥可總會打電話來要我跟他講發生了什麼事跟他講他樂團的八卦我通常不太需要講的太戲劇化但我常常會這樣做 It's a cliché to say that your highschool summers are the most memorable of your life, but I challenge anyone to say how mine could not be. For years, I wore the badge of that summer and my many exploits over it boldly and boastfully. Then of course, as time passed and Michael became embroiled in scandals involving teen boys, all of a sudden my summer as his teen sidekick didn't have the same glamour to it. Now it was a stigma, something I treasured but certainly did not tout. 說你高中暑假是你人生最值得的回憶有點陳腔濫調但我的真的是好多年我總是帶著我那年夏天的通行證講我當時發生的事當然不久後MJ就被扯入性親小男孩的醜問 Over the years my brotherhood with Michael evolved. When I went to college in NYC and lived uptown, he lived at the Four Seasons in midtown and I'd see him regularly, sharing with him collegiate exploits and adventures. Years later when he became a father, he invited me over to Neverland to see "the greatest thing he ever created" - his son Prince. More time passed. I watched as he endured the agony of his dramatic fall from grace, his resurrection through his children Prince, Paris, and Blanket, and then once again the agony of his descent into the shadows of things he couldn't control. 之後幾年我和MJ的情感像兄弟我去上紐約大學住在上城而他總是住在中城的四季酒店我常常見到他幾年後他變成父親他請我去夢幻莊園看他創造出最偉大的作品他的兒子 Prince 這幾年我看到他從光芒萬丈跌入無盡的痛苦但是藉由他三個孩子他重生了但不久他又再次跌入無盡的痛苦陰影而無法自拔 During the last years of his life, I got to see his creativity up close and personal once again. He and I were working on a graphic novel together entitled THE FATED. He had big plans for it. One day he wanted to direct it as a film, impress his mentor Steven Spielberg, and have his favorite actor Will Smith be in it. It was classic MJ in terms of process, intense at times, with intermittent months of total inaction in between. The story of an iconic Rockstar worn out by the agony of his fame, driven to the most desperate measures, only to discover that his super-stardom has him "fated" for far more than just fame and fortune. Of course, I eventually realized Michael was giving me a window into his own personal allegory and I felt privileged to help record it. Sadly, we never were able to complete the story and I was left instead with an eerie tale without a proper ending (note: I hope with the assistance of Michael's Estate - in the hands of some very capable and conscious stewards - that we'll one day be able to share The Fated with all the dignity it and Michael deserves). 在他人生最後幾年我再次見到了他的創意他和我正再寫一本小說書名叫The Fated 他有很大的計畫他想要執導這部小說好讓史蒂芬史匹柏印象深刻他想要他最喜歡的演員威爾史密斯主演過程就是非常的典型的MJ 故事是講一個巨星深受他盛名所累但最終發現這一切其實是他的使命而他的使命不只是名氣和財富當然我了解MJ給了我一個他個人的寓言故事我很榮幸可以有機會記錄他很不幸的是我們永遠無法完成這個故事 (他希望和遺產公司合作完成這本書和大家共享) Like The Fated, we never got to see a proper ending to Michael's tale. Instead there's a tangled legacy, the bright light of fame shining over the tumbled necropolis of unfounded allegations twisted around the neverending tenderness for his own children. it's funny to me how in the last year, in death Michael has been canonized by many of the same commentators who were so relentless in tearing him down while he lived. He'd see the irony in it and call them bad names - the man could curse like a drunken sailor. 就像書中一樣的我們無法見到MJ的故事有個適當的結局有太多有的沒的傳言和扭曲的事情纏繞他的孩子們對我而言最有趣的是去年當MJ死時那些在他生前將他撕成碎片的評論員突然把他講的跟偉人一樣他一定覺得這些實在太諷刺了然後說他們的壞話這個人罵人時可是像喝醉的水手一樣的 One night while on that tour with him, toward the end when I was getting ready to go back to school and the real world, Michael asked me if I was glad that I had come, even though I couldn't stay for the whole tour. He knew I was sad that I wouldn't get to stay until the very end. Still, it was an insane question and I told him so. "Are you kidding?" I said. "Every second I was here with you was a privilege. Thank you for letting me ride shotgun even for a little while." 我要回去學校的晚上麥可問我我是不是很開心跟他一起來了雖然我不能待整個巡迴他知道我很難過我不能留到最後但是這還仍然是個瘋了的問題我告訴他你開玩笑嗎我跟你在一起的每一秒都太棒了謝謝你讓我來這篇有點難翻有的實在是很難用中文確切描述大家加減看吧原文比較有趣 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 130.85.56.85

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