這一趟我們是要去美國找卡好和白毛的，出發的前一天白毛的老姊Fion，要我去找她一趟，可以幫她帶點東西給白毛。我特別和她說不要再讓我帶一次棉被，其他都可以。
我們從15歲開始就聽著，Fion的各種傳奇，種種對生活的理解，顯得我們的生活土裡吧幾，她在美國生活，接近好萊屋，她聽的音樂影響白毛，她看的電影影響白毛，牛鞭效應，最終影響到我。有一回，去白毛家裡吃麵，他遞給我一張餐巾紙，我順手擦嘴，白毛大叫，那個是阿諾史瓦辛格的簽名。阿諾史瓦辛格不寫中文，還真得認不出來。
2000年，Fion和男友史大搬回台北定居，經常叫我去他們家修電腦，每次修的過程，我都想講那句"我是賽車手，老是叫我來修車"，只是沒想到每次修車都是奇遇，和史大一見如故，我天生喜歡失控的人類，史大在這方面無遠佛屆，礙於尺度，我們就講音樂，我熱衷在他的身旁紀錄，身為知名音樂制作人，這些奇奇怪怪的故事。
出發之前，我必須感官全開，敏感度調最大，史大，給我來了一節1985年，Queen的Live Aid幾十萬人演唱會，那年我才十歲，聽都沒聽過，這一年我43歲，不明覺厲，不明白但是覺得很厲害，音樂高潮的時候，史大Fion跟著哼歌，包括最難的那一段歌劇唱法也是，不自覺得猛點頭，散發出的阿法波，連苦讀心理學的我都無法理解，大家都紅了眼眶。
November 15, 2018
On this trip, we are going to the United States to visit Cahow and Maco. The day before the departure, Maco’s older sister, Fion, had asked me to go to her place to take something for Maco. I specifically told her not to let me bring a quilt again, everything else was fine.
We have been hearing stories about her since we were 15 years old, about Fion's legends and understanding of life.
She lived in the United States and was close to Hollywood.
The music she listened to influenced Maco. The movies she watched affected him too.
The bullwhip effect, and ultimately it all affected me.
Once, I went to Maco's place to have noodles. He handed me a napkin, then I wiped my mouth with it, and he yelled. The napkin had Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t sign his name in Chinese, so it was really hard to recognize it.
In 2000, Fion and her boyfriend Dw moved back to Taipei to settle down, and often asked me to go to their place to repair computers.
Every time I repaired them, I wanted to say "I'm a racer, but you always ask me to repair cars".
It’s just I didn’t expect that, every time I repair a car, it is an adventure. I like humans who are out of control. And DW is good at that . For children’s sake , I will skip the inappropriate parts that are not to be shared online, and go straight to music. Because he is a well-known music producer, and because of all that follows this occupation, he has many strange stories, but I will not tell them all.
Before I left for the USA, I had to open my senses, adjust the sensitivity to be the highest possible - I was about to go on a magical trip. Dw showed me a concert in 1985 with Queen ’s Live Aid, with hundreds of thousands of people.
(That year, I was only ten years old , and I had no chance to comprehend it. I am 43 years old now ,and i still don’t understand it, but I know it’s a big deal.)
When the music climaxed, Dw and Fion followed it with humming and moving their heads in the rhythm, including the most difficult part of the opera singing.
I couldn’t understand it in a scientific way , even if I had already understood the psychology.
Everyone is red-eyed there.
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