It had been two years since Yao Thirteen had left Beijing, and he was thinner than when he left. Wearing a T-shirt, the spectacle legs were heavily glued, and the skin was tanned, we almost didn't recognize him from the crowds at the airport.
Last month, Virgo Yao Thirteen spent his thirtieth birthday, and half a year ago, Yao Thirteen began to quit drinking, and after that, he didn't drink a mouthful of wine again, because his body was broken, and he couldn't quit anymore. Yao Thirteen, who had been drinking wine and undressing at the time of the performance, would probably never appear again. At the beginning of the interview, he pulled out many kinds of medicines for us, laid them out in one word, and told us that this was the end of drinking, and he had to eat a variety of medicines prescribed to him by his father, who was a doctor, every day.
The wine quit, the smoke is still smoking, or the original huangguo tree, sitting on the roof of the Beijing courtyard, Yao Thirteen smoked the huangguo tree of his hometown one by one, until the sky was dark.
Located at the foot of the cloaked mountain of Huaxi University Town in Gui'an New District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, Yao Thirteen now lives in Yelang Valley, a valley built by artist Song Peilun for 20 years, in Yao Thirteen's eyes, there are a bunch of failed musicians living here, there are failed recording studios, failed singing stages, failed selves, like a group of people wandering collectively.
In the eyes of Song Dongye and Ma Wei, Yao Thirteen is an absolute genius, and is undoubtedly the best musician in The Leaf of Sesame Oil. In Yao Thirteen's eyes, Song Dongye and Ma Wei were the best brothers, and during his three years in Beijing, Yao Thirteen lived in the living room of Song Dongye's house, which was painted orange, where he wrote "Second Concubine" and "Longgang Secret".
Yao Thirteen said that he could not live alone in a house, whether it was living in a dormitory with his classmates in college, living with Song Dongye and Ma Wei in Beijing, or returning to Yelang Valley to live with male classmates, guarding the next university town, eating meals in the school canteen, from school to now, living a life like a classmate, so he always felt that he was still a child in college.
"When I stayed in my hometown, I always thought about running outside, I felt unhappy, and when I ran out, I always wanted to go home, and I wasn't happy." 」 Yao Thirteen told Figure that maybe after a while, he would return to the city.
Self-description| Yao 13 |▼
I'm 30 years old, I'm sick, I'm quit drinking, and maybe I can't drink for the rest of my life
Now I haven't drunk it for half a year, I used to drink too much, my whole body is not very good, and now I am also taking medicine, I need to take medicine every day, I need to take medicine every day, tell everyone that you can't drink, and this is what it is after drinking. Let's drink, drink, that's it. (Quickly take several medicines out of the bag)
You can see these few Chinese medicines, are their own home, more is to improve some of the living habits of things, may have a better impact on the body, anyway, it is indeed quitting alcohol, can no longer drink, on the quit for half a year, did not drink a mouthful, especially fierce.
Sometimes I want to drink, but I put up with it, because drinking it will indeed cause a very serious burden on (the body), it will be very miserable, so I don't dare to drink it later, basically I don't dare to drink it.
I once told the world to be a doctor, and then I became a folk singer
I didn't say it myself, and according to my current temper and the feeling of speaking, I don't quite like this.
I would have been quite amused, and I didn't feel so determined, maybe some friends, they thought I was singing songs, the whole person's image, from the whole story of medical school, there may be some such good points, and then friends helped me write these words.
It does express one of my own experiences, and in this experience, maybe it represents the friend who said this, he may envy my life, he may not want to go to the hospital after graduating from medical school, or what college to go to work, may not want that kind of life, so there is a person who is different from him, people are looking at others, they don't have it, they think it's very good.
I think it's cool, I don't have to say such a cool thing myself, I couldn't have said such a cool thing, someone said it for me.
After the college entrance examination, there are four volunteer forms, five are all medical schools, there is no other choice, then do not know what they want to do, do not know what they want to learn, do not know, then study medicine.
Then I went to college and started playing guitar, I hung four doors in my freshman year, I hung up my anatomy in my freshman year, and I hung up my computer until my sixth year, and we only had five years of medicine, but our school had to rework it, so my computer kept dragging until I was in my sixth year of college, and then I came back and took the exam with the first-year children of college, and delayed for half a year to get a degree certificate and a diploma.
From a young age, it is a clinic, and since I was a child, I have watched my father see patients at home, prescribe medicines to people, cure them, and repeat such a process, then I will definitely not like it.
Whether it is Chinese medicine changing Western medicine, or how to change, always in medicine, always facing this person's illness, the worst, the ugliest, the most terrible things are on it, and many things of human nature will also be on it.
When we were interning, we once met an old man who gave up treating patients in the ward, the old man had been paralyzed in bed for two years, and on the day he was sent to the hospital, his hand seemed to be broken, and his fingers were crossed here, because he had been sleeping in bed for a long time, and the old people were almost dead. For the lady and their families, including the doctor, they thought it would be better to give up the treatment, and after a while, another old man, full of white hair, looked at the old man's friend who was lying down, and came over and said, "Doctor, doctor, can you still save?" That doesn't feel good.
I think I don't want to see this every day in the future, even if it is really like this, I will try to see some fun in the future, don't do this every day, it's not good, people are cold and warm.
Yelang Valley is home to a bunch of failed musicians, failed tuners, failed recording engineers, and there is a sense of collective wandering
Yelang Valley lived a bunch of failed musicians, failed tuners, failed recording studios, and failed choirs, anyway, it was particularly fun, the state of everyone living together, there was a little bit of utopian feeling, a little bit of artist village feeling, a little bit of collective wandering feeling.
The place itself was built by Teacher Song Peilun for twenty years, and many totems were built, and many houses were built, and many people could live.
There are a lot of artists related to him living in it, and now there are painters, there are batik artists, and there are academies, which is another kind of place where children study, the kind of academy in ancient times, children are five or six years old to read ancient Texts, and we failed musicians, very good, very happy.
We have no street lights here when it gets dark, nothing, anyway, it is very primitive, and it feels like it can't keep up with the changes of the times outside, which is very good. In recent years, I have gone to bed quite early, I will sleep at 11 o'clock and 12 o'clock, and I basically do not stay up late, because I have quit drinking, so there is basically no entertainment life.
In fact, people should be in such a situation, that is, one (place) to stay, and then change to another place to stay, may not be able to stay in one place for too long, stay too long will always feel bored, always feel that there is a so-called poetry far away, in fact, it is time to go out and play.
My hometown of Zhijin is a very small county town, and it will not take more than 10 minutes to drive around the whole county
Geographically speaking, weaving gold is a very small and small county, living in such a large county for a lifetime, it is likely that this life's friends and social circles are like this. The entire county town plus the surrounding townships, the total population added up to more than 200,000 to 300,000. The county has undergone a lot of demolition in recent years, built new houses, connected to trains, and opened up high speeds, but it will not take more than 10 minutes to drive around the entire county.
Although the sparrow is small and complete, the good things cannot be finished in a word, so a small stall is placed there for many years, many years, many years. When I was in elementary school, his stall was there, I was so old, it was still like that, a lot of places next to it were demolished, it was still there, it retained a lot of its original appearance, but it was affected by these things in the world now very quickly, and it was destroyed a large part, and the rest of the part was probably destroyed.
When they were young, my father came out of their village full of mountains, and it took a day to go to town to buy salt, which was particularly miserable, especially miserable. When he was a child, he said that when he was at his worst, he only ate one meal a day, that is, when he came home from school in the evening, he simply ate a vegetarian soup to make rice, and the next morning when he went to school for breakfast, he might be able to eat a potato, and then not eat for a day, and then go home at night to eat a vegetarian soup to make rice.
Self-denial is fun, and for a few years it was like the past was constantly being buried
I wrote "The Blind Man" in 2011, when I just graduated, I graduated without a degree certificate, I was idle, I didn't do anything, it was just like this.
When that song was made at that time, I didn't really think of it as one of my own songs, I sent it to my friends at home, because it was dialect, fun, they thought it was funny, they passed it on to each other, and then they named it "Blind Man", I didn't even name this song, I just took it out and recorded it, dialect vernacular, just name it.
At that time, I was doing "Yulin Bell", I wanted to make it into Yulin Bell, the chill was miserable, but the accompaniment that I did did didn't feel right, because my ability and level were limited at that time, I couldn't do it, and then I made a dialect feeling, to my family and friends, and then I felt very good, sent out, and then gradually it was heard by more people, and then it was heard by Teacher Zhou Yunpeng and Teacher Liu Dongming, and a teacher who wrote poetry in our school in Wuhan, they first forwarded it on Weibo, and then said that this guy can.
At that time, I actually hated my own situation, I hated everything about myself, all the content of the music, I felt that everything was tattered, ugly and bad and dirty and bad, including now it was almost the same, and now I didn't feel that I was much better. They said on Weibo that it was still very good, and from there, they began to enter everyone's field of vision, the back song, the back performance, and then participated in the Shanghai folk song rescue team performance.
Self-denial is also very fun, play by yourself, just keep thinking about what kind of fool you were before, abandoning that person. Later, I felt that I had a new self, or a fool, it was quite funny.
I will think a lot of things before myself, for example, today I talked about a lot of university things, before coming to Beijing, in fact, for a long time, these things that happened I will habitually think that it has not happened, I want to think that it has not happened, and then happily go to live, so there are some years as if the past is constantly buried, buried, graduation is gone, before there is none, and then go to a new place, and then go to a new place, and then there is no more.
Dongye and Ma Wei are my best brothers
In fact, I have always been a kind of classmate's life, when I was in college, I lived in a dormitory with my classmates, and in the first year of graduation, I lived in the house rented by our guitarists, which is equivalent to saying that male classmates live in groups. Came to Beijing and Ma Wei Dongye, male classmates live in groups, and later returned to Yelang Valley, or male classmates live in groups, so I now feel that I am still a child in college, I myself can not accept that I live in a house, at night the door is closed, the family is only me, so scared, sometimes this will happen.
Dongye and Ma Wei are good friends, good brothers, that is, as mentioned before, the two most important people in Beijing, Beijing basically represents the feeling of Ma Wei and Dong Ye.
In my heart, no matter what has happened in the past few years, they are still very good friends, or the same as before, there has been no change, the feelings and feelings between each other have not changed, but maybe in the past two years because I have lived in Guiyang, because of the distance, I have seen a lot of people, but I miss them, they will also go to see me when they have time.
A few days ago, Ma Wei also said that he would stay in Guiyang for two more days, but he did not go because he still had a job at the Strawberry Music Festival. As soon as Dongye was free before, he felt that he wanted to breathe some fresh air, so he ran to Guiyang to find me, stayed for a week, and ate and drank every day, which was very good.
It's a pleasure to be with them, it's the feeling of not having anything to worry about and to be afraid of.
At that time, when I came to Beijing, without Ma Wei and without Dongye, I might not have been able to stay any longer, or just stay in another way that was not very good. Sometimes I wonder what the three years would have been like if I hadn't been with them.
There is no feast in the world, you have not seen the sesame oil leaf everyone moved here, all to live here, all kinds of friends did not live here, and originally added in the three years in Beijing and the years of study, leaving Guizhou for ten years, so it is good to go back for two years, at least these two years.