《2004年MJ-布莱特•瑞特纳访谈》见第12页【继上次的趣文：《为MJ工作日子》】
本帖最后由 Cathysing 于 2010-1-5 16:25 编辑好长时间没翻译了，决定把我翻译的文章都放在一个帖子上。说要翻译这篇采访已经好久的了，终于完成了，还敬请大家欣赏。
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第12页：《2004年迈克尔•杰克逊-布莱特•瑞特纳访谈》
不知道以前有人翻译过没。作者不祥。我是在WWW.MAXIMUM-JACKSON.COM 看到此文的。
A few weeks ago, I was at a staff meeting for new employees where everyone in the room was asked to mention one interesting thing about themselves that nobody else would know. I waited patiently 'til my turn came around, and then calmly explained how Michael Jackson once sent me to J.C. Penney to buy him underwear.
几周前，我在我们的新雇员会议上的即兴发言引起了巨大反响，我给大家讲了我为MJ工作的期间，有一次MJ派我去J.C. Penney百货公司为他买内裤的事情。
Since I have told my friends this story countless times, I was a little surprised by the strong reaction people had to my off-the-cuff comment. I guess I shouldn't have been. Like him or not, there is no denying that Michael Jackson is still a force of nature. Even my 5th graders are aware of him, and they were all of three years old when his last record came out! So to set the record straight, here is the account of my years with the so-called King of Pop.
引起如此强烈的反响我颇为吃惊，其实我本不该吃惊的，想想看，不管喜欢他还是不喜欢，谁也无法否认，MJ仍然称得上是大自然的一大奇迹。
Back in 1989, I was a fresh-faced college grad in Los Angeles searching for my first job. Since I was one of the six people that year who actually went to college just to learn how to work in a recording studio, I had no problem landing a position at one of the major studios in Hollywood. Of course, even with an expensive college degree, you couldn't just expect to start off working with bands inside the building, because that required actual EXPERIENCE, which of course was what everyone else was out getting while I was pursuing my worthless degree.
1989年，我从大专毕业，开始找工作，我学是关于如何在录音棚工作的专业，当年学这个专业的只有六个人。那年头哪有谁会去大学学习如何在录音棚工作呢？
Instead, they stuck me out in the parking shack across the street for two months. Strangely enough, I had some experience in this area, as I had spent the summer working as a valet in a garage near Fenway Park.
Parking cars for rock stars certainly had its moments. Iggy Pop once drove up in a Hyundai with no windshield. Either Milli or Vanilli tipped me a dollar for parking their Jeep. The Beastie Boys all sped off laughing one day in their rented Escort, and then drove straight up to Mulholland Drive and pushed it over the cliff. And once a week during lunch, David Crosby handed me a twenty-dollar bill to take his brand-new BMW 750 to the car wash, which really only set me back like three bucks. Once when I brought it back to him, he handed me another twenty for a tip.
一开始我只能当门童，在录音棚外为明星们泊车，后来晋升为门卫，情况也好不到哪去。于是，我开始寻找其他工作。
Nevertheless, a promotion was inevitable, and in the winter of '89. I was promoted to the midnight to eight janitorial position. At least I was happy to be inside the building, as it was getting cold in the unheated parking shack. But I knew absolutely nothing about cleaning toilets and mopping floors, as evidenced by the huge cloud of noxious smoke that spewed from the cleaning bucket on my first night when I mixed the bleach and ammonia together.
Washing David Crosby's car for twenty bucks was one thing. But cleaning the studio bathroom after David Crosby had been in there for twenty minutes was a different deal entirely. For starters, I was supposed to stay awake all night, but after six hours of cleaning the entire building, this was easier said then done. Finally, one morning as I was leaving, the studio manager asked me to take two small brass elephant bookends home and polish them up before my next shift. I spent the day looking for another job instead, and found one right away at a studio down the street on Sunset Blvd.
我找到的新工作是当跑腿的，两个月之后，他们把我派往一个录音棚，参与一个秘密的项目，后来我发现我参与的这个项目竟是MICHAEL JACKSON的新专集DANGEROUS。
At my new job, I was hired on as a "runner," which meant I got to run errands all over LA in my trusty '84 VW Rabbit. A couple months later, they moved me out to a studio in the San Fernando Valley for a "special" project.
This project would eventually become Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" album. When I first started, Michael was working with three different groups of producers all trying to take the place of Quincy Jones, who had not been chosen to work on this project. I think Michael wanted to go out on his own for this one, but the problem was that he had no idea what he wanted! One day, Slash from Guns N' Roses would be recording a searing guitar solo, while the next day, a chorus of thirty children would be singing a nursery rhyme or something.
我刚开始这项工作时，MJ正和三伙音乐制作人合作，他们都想取代Quincy Jones的位置。我觉得MJ是想自己当这张专集的制作人。刚开始他看起来有些没确定专集的风格。前面一天，他请SLASH来录吉他独奏，后头一天，他又让30个孩子来唱旋律轻柔的儿歌。
Michael didn't say much to me at first, until one day he ran in screaming that there was a "vagabond" sitting in the alley behind the studio. I took a look, expecting Charlie Chaplin to pop out or something, but there was just some homeless guy sipping malt liquor out of a bag on the back steps.
一开始MJ不怎么和我说话，直到有一天他尖叫着跑进录音棚说小巷里坐着个“流浪汉”，我跑出去看，以为会看到“查理•卓别林”那样的人物呢，结果只看到一个无家可归者坐在台阶上喝酒。
Eventually, Michael warmed up to me, and even started talking to me once in a while if he was in the mood. Once, he asked if I was going to have to go fight in the (Gulf) war. I told him I was probably too old to be drafted, and he responded by saying that he was relieved, because "if you went to the war, you could die."
后来MJ开始和我熟识起来，当他有闲情逸致的时候，还会和我聊上一会儿。有一次他问我是否会去参加海湾战争。我告诉他我可能年龄太大了点儿，根本不会被征去，他松了口气说：“你如果去参战，可能会死的。”
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本帖最后由 Cathysing 于 2009-11-29 18:08 编辑He also started sending me out on errands, like going out with his credit card one afternoon to fill his huge Blazer up with gasoline. If I remember correctly, he had an auxiliary gas tank mounted, so he could get up to his ranch without having to get out and fill up along the way.
后来他开始把我派出去为他办点儿跑腿的事儿，比如带上他的信用卡去给他的巨型越野车加油。我没记错的话，他有个备用油箱也要加到满得不能再满，这样他就可以一路开回他的庄园而不用中途下来再加油了。
I guess I should mention at this point that Michael is an awful driver. He hit everyone's car in the studio lot at least once, including mine. One time, he rear-ended a guy on the 101 freeway, and just left the scene because the guy got out of his car and started screaming at him. Eventually, he gave up and got someone to drive him in to work every day.
此时我得提一下，迈克尔是位极其糟糕的司机。录音棚停车场里所有人的车都被他给撞过，包括我的车。一次，他开车在101高速上和一个人的车追尾了，因为那家伙从车里出来就冲他大嚷大叫，于是他就“肇事逃逸”了。最后，他只好放弃自己开车而让别人每天开车送他来工作。
Other memorable experiences include calling Tower Records (RIP) an hour before they closed, and having them shut down early so that Michael and I could go shopping. Even though it was just up the road, I was glad to get out of MJ's car and into the safety of the store! I think he dropped about $1500 on CDs that night.
还有其他记忆深刻的经历，比如，让双塔唱片店提前一个小时关门，这样迈克尔和我就可以去选购了。尽管唱片店很近，和录音棚都在同一条街上，但是能安全地从MJ开的车里跳出来还是让我感到十分高兴。我记得他当天花了1500美圆购买CD唱片。
Anyway, one day Michael shyly asked me if I could do him a special favor. I'm pretty sure this was after he stopped driving, so I guess he really didn't have any other way to get stuff during the day. Of course I agreed, which was when he told me flat-out that he had just run out of underwear.
一天，迈克尔有些难为情地问我是否能帮他个特别的忙。我确信这是在他放弃自己开车之后的事，他没有办法自己出去购物了。我当然一口答应，于是他直截了当地告诉我他的内裤短缺了。
For pretty much the whole two years that I worked with him, Michael came in every day wearing black dress pants and a red button-down shirt. He had a whole rack of just these two items in his office, which I assume he either had cleaned and returned to him, or just threw away at the end of the day. But on this particular day, I guess he was running low on drawers.
和他工作的两年中，大部分时间迈克尔都穿着黑裤子和红色单排扣衬衫。他有一大衣架子这两样的搭配放在他的办公室里，我想他每天不是让人送去洗了又送回来就是直接扔掉。不过，在这一天，他是内衣匮乏了。
At first, he just said that he wanted underwear. When I asked him what kind, he just repeated "Underwear!" When I told him I wasn't his mother and didn't know what to get, he kind of laughed, and then said "Hanes thirty please." When I was almost out the door however, he came running up and yelled "make them thirty-twos, I don't want them to be too tight!" So there it is folks. The King of Pop wears tightie-whities!
（The type of undergarment I am describing is just a plain white pair of men's cotton briefs. Many men continue to wear these into adulthood, though most switch to boxer shorts at some point.）
开始，他就说了他需要内衣。我问他要什么样的，他只是重复“内衣！”我告诉他我又不是他妈，不知道买什么样的，他笑起来，然后告诉我说“请买汉尼斯30号的。”当我快要出门的时候，他跑过来喊道“买32号的吧，我不想穿着太紧！”伙计们，流行乐天王穿的是白色棉布三角内裤。
Other than that, I never saw any funny business going on for the two years I worked with him. I really enjoyed this experience, and even got my name on the CD! Michael was always polite and reserved in the studio, but he had his silly moments as well.
除此之外，在为他工作的两年当中，我从来没见任何滑稽荒唐的事情发生。我非常珍惜这段经历，这甚至让我的名字得以印到了CD唱片上！迈克在录音棚里总是礼貌、含蓄的，不过他有时也做点儿傻事。
He was also really concerned about doing anything that would inadvertently upset anybody around him. Even though he was spending five thousand bucks a day on studio time, Michael left me this note one day on my desk. I kept it as a souvenir, and pull it out now and then if people ever question my story. It pretty much tells you everything you need to know about him as a person and an artist.
他做任何事都会考虑到别人，生怕给他人引起不便。一天，他从我桌子上拿了根儿笔，还给我留了张条子，尽管他租用录音棚每天要花5000美圆。我把那张条子作为纪念留了下来，每当人们怀疑我讲的故事的真实性时，我就把它拿出来给他们看。这张小纸条充分地向世人说明了他的为人，他是一位怎样的艺术家。
* For the purposes of clarification, Michael was just telling me that he took a pen off my desk. 占位 谢谢楼主 板凳 松了口气说：“你如果去参战，可能会死的。”
呵呵怕死的MJ可爱 录音棚停车场里所有人的车都被他给撞过，包括我的车。一次，他开车在101高速上和一个人的车追尾了，因为那家伙从车里出来就冲他大嚷大叫，于是他就肇事逃逸了。---------哈哈哈哈···叫你对迈迈凶，或许会给你很多赔偿金，傻迈逃逸了
我告诉他我又不是他妈，不知道买什么样的------------哈哈哈哈哈···这个作者也很好玩 快快占位 迈迈太可爱了 谢谢LZ~~
留爪回来看 和人追尾,逃逸的迈好可爱啊,原来他还是自己开过一阵车的
32号的裤裤?多大尺码啊 啊，很有趣，呵呵，谢谢分享，呵呵麻烦楼主再翻全点呀，有几句没翻出来呢。 thanks for interpret 哈哈 汉尼四 32号 迈克尔是位极其糟糕的司机，录音棚停车场里所有人的车都被他给撞过。
果然只能骑三轮啊 怎么有如此可爱的人，咱们的迈迈太逗人喜欢了 一次，他开车在101高速上和一个人的车追尾了，因为那家伙从车里出来就冲他大嚷大叫，于是他就肇事逃逸了。
好可爱的迈迈