I was looking for a decent quality image of Alexander Walker’s Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Star book cover, but I couldn’t find any :/ so I decided to scan my own. Take it as a service to the online community. I was going to watermark it, but decided not to. A link back or a shout out would be nice, tho :)
I started listening to Chen Weilun (陈伟伦)’s album, Think Miss Sorrow (å¿µæ€æ„), which just came out last week. While adding it to my iTunes library, it struck me how difficult it was to translate the song names. xD
For those who don’t know because you’ve just stumble upon this post, I usually keep a very organized library of foreign music, which includes ‘Original Name (romanization) – English Name/Translation’; so I was looking if there were official English titles for the songs on Chen Weilun’s album available on Xiami, KKBox or iNDIEVOX. There were not. On my search, already on title #3, I realized they were all titles (or most are, I haven’t gone through all of them yet xDDDDD) for Li Qingzhao (æŽæ¸…ç…§), who is known as the greatest Chinese female poet of the Song Dynasty, mostly for her ci (è¯)/lyrics form of poetry [1][2].
So this is going to be a (hopefully brief) project to translate just the song names xDDDDDDDD
一剪梅·红藕香残玉簟秋
A Twig of Plum Blossoms: The Jade-like Mat Feels Autumn’s Cold [1][2]
念奴娇·春情
The Charm of Nien-nu: Spring Feelings [1][2]
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Like a Dream: I Will Always Recall that Day at Dusk, the Pavilion by the Creek [1][2]
ç›¸è§æ¬¢Â·æ— 言独上西楼
Happy Meeting: Wordless, A Lone Ascend Up the West Tower [1][2]
浪淘沙令·帘外雨潺潺
Waves Against Sand: As the Rain Patters Outside the Drapes [1][2][3]
声声慢·寻寻觅觅
The Sounds of Adagio: Searching and Searching [1]
I ran into the cover for the Hito to KOUMORI (人ã¨ã‚³ã‚¦ãƒ¢ãƒª) single by KINMOKUSEI (ã‚ンモクセイ) with Yu-chan on it. I don’t know how I didn’t know about this before, because the single is over a decade old already. Nearly 15 years old, really.
Yes, it should -on principle- be upside down.
So I thought I would create a post to collect the ones I find at other times in the future. since it’s been ages since I updated Yu’s Wiki [1][2] and my 9th Fandom Anniversary is coming up. Can you believe it? I’ve been following Yu-chan for a third of my life xD That’s endearing… but almost sad. LOL
Anyway, the other single cover I could think of was Moumoon’s Sunshine Girl.
It’s like bright highlighter marker color xD I love it. There’s been a couple of other Chinese posters [the series for Song of the Phoenix (百鸟æœå‡¤), and Big Fish & Begonia (å¤§é±¼æµ·æ£ )].