Tori Amos & Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over Live

a song is a song is a song is a song

and a love is a love is a love is a love



- Goodnight City of Angels -

What Makes You Happy?

Tori Amos - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (live)

Tori Amos - Like A Prayer

Just a tiniest little cover, but it makes all the GaGas of this world seem like mere fledglings and so utterly transparent....

Respect.

2009: A Year In My Facebook Status Updates

Yannis....

January

• has made a New Year's Resolution, that shall remain secret, until it is fulfilled. Happy New Year everyone! 
• says, You Can't Stop The Beat!!!! :-)
• we are the world, we are the children. 
• is ok 
• the Full Moon rising around sunset in the East tonight, will be the biggest and brightest one of 2009. God helps us all! :-) 
• is cold 
• is casting for ALPHA TV's new Cooking & Hosting Competition TV Show! 
•  ΖΩ, ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΖΩ.. :-)
•  is deconstructing Yannis 
•  is working on ΚΑΤΙ ΨΗΝΕΤΑΙ... http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=117293245061 
• is going to Edward Scissorhands tonight :-))))
• just saw Edward Scissorhands @ the Badminton Theatre, and loved it! :-)))) 

February

• is going to the swimming pool
• had his first swimming session today! Woo-Hoo! 
• is looking for someone to join him to go watch Benjamin Button together! Eleos pia oloi busy eiste! lol 
• is staying in tonight... :-(  
• is ψήνεται.
• REALLY enjoyed using his Speedo Aquabeat waterproff mp3 player for the first time this morning at the swimming pool! It was awesome!!!
• says: ANNOULA CAN DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEEEEE! :-))))))))))))))))))
• is dreaming summer dreams...
• IS DREAMING OF THE SUMMER...
• is going to be shedding dead weight over board. You have been warned. 
• was a victim of road-rage today and feels sorry for all those poor, unfortunate souls with so much anger, violence and hate in their hearts.
• is a slave to Love (especially when it's absent) :-)
• always looks on the Bright Side of Life, του-ρού, του-ρού, του-ρού, του-ρού!
• is alone in a crowd... 
• sexoualika panta milwntas...
• thinks it's a beautiful thing to have a day that celebrates love. As long as we remember to actually love on all of 365 days of the year :-)
• is really an eternal child :-) 
• is sleepless & chocolateless in Athens
• is his own evil little twin >:-) 
• has a rabid little gerbil inside his throat, scratching and trying to claw its way out...  
• is hot. No, really! Like.. feverish-hot.. 
• NEO music video της Σοφίας Στρατή "ΖΩ" se HD sto Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/2936164 & sto YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quWAaWQQ0g&feature =channel_page
•  is a HOPELESS romantic, and likes it that way :-))))

March

• is twilighting... again. Literarywise this time though :-) 
• is reading New Moon... and loving it.  
• has started reading Eclipse... and has become a teenager again :-)  
• is editing, editing, editing & editing... 
• finished reading Eclipse and is in agony. Off to the 4th one now. Here comes Breaking Dawn...
• says Breaking Dawn is simply excruciating.. 
• wishes Breaking Dawn would never end... I'm reading one chapter at a time.. Savouring each word..  
• will be finishing Breaking Dawn today......................................
• "Now you know," I said lightly and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you." - Stephenie Meyer - Breaking Dawn
• When I fall in Love, it will be forever, or I'll never fall in Love.............Forever & forever & forever... 
• doesn't fear the Reaper... 
• is touched by angels 
• is in Summer Hour Mode 
• thinks, that you get over love in a few months. Big love, you get over that, in 2-3 years. But Love, Love changes your life... 

April

• sleepless, breathless, foodless, and (of course) chocolateless. 
• (against ALL adverse circumstances) is singing & humming & whistling & whispering, that same, hauntingly beautiful melody...
• is on the verge of something new and wonderful. Creatively speaking... 
• 's hair just exploded....  
• is uploading onto his blog, his ooooold poetry about love, life and all that stems from them... 
• is suddenly a bit more worried than usual.... http://www.newsweek.com/id/126521/page/1  
• is lost in the long-awaited sunshine... 
• is elated. ALL poetry is finally uploaded. I can die relieved now lol :-) 
• is recovering from the most sensually explicit, vividly floating, inexplicably & complicatedly pleasurable dream he's had in a rather long time... 
• is swimming and swimming and swimming (sadly, at the pool only) 
• is floating in bubbles  
• is amazed at to how a few little tiny pieces of information, previously withheld for various reasons, can suddenly & instantly alter a dramatically vast array of perceptions & beliefs shaped over the course of many years.. People... Forever bound by words
• Auti i Megali Vdomada, tha einai POLY megali telika...
• is slowly (yet surely) turning into a vampire... Good night.
• is boiling inside... 
• is resting 
• I am sleepless, again. My biological clock is completely fucked up. I wonder if murder would help ease me to sleep... 
• has now officially lost track of night & day...  
• is gradually preparing to resurrect himself...  
• will soon be enjoying empty Athens...  
• is leaving work, to start a wonderfully relaxing 3-day weekend, for the first time in a very long time. I will fly solo, and content, lost in sleep, cinema, food and my thoughts. In that order... 
  
• a bright new sun-shiny day in empty Athens, perfect for lazying around, doing house-chores at long last, sleeping, eating and going to the cinema tonight. Maybe even catch 2 movies in a row.. Who's coming with? :-)
• woo-hoooooo! :-))))  
• is elated and glorious :-) 
• let's all resurrect our hearts, our minds and our souls...  
• is about to visit flight-land again. 
• says: Everyone! If you want to catch a glimpse of true evil incarnate, tune it to ALPHA tonight @ 20.00 for "Kati Psinetai"... *giggle*
• is a liquid  
• is an electrical current 
  
• is a force of nature 
• message in a bottle: http://yannzaf.blogspot.com/2009/04/message-in-bot tle.html 
• constantly having sex lately... What's up with that?? :-) 
• : When it rains... it pours... :-p
• rejuvenated and exhausted too :-) 
• is like a sunny Saturday afternoon... 
• is made of vowels and consonants.  
• currently hyperventilating in his sleep. 
• once again, was having bizarre dreams all night long...
• is restless... :-. 
• will take his light, and hide with it, somewhere no-one can find it...
• My own little Bollywood Movie: http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=uk&code=ecbe08528c7ac64a0b6af558b698f3be
• ~My Precious~  
• MY PRECIOUS...!!! 
• is Tori Amos-ing AGAIN... (which in layman's terms basically means, I'm floating ecstatically inside a universe entirely made out of her purple-drenched voice) 
• ~My PRECIOUS eipa~ :-ppppp  
• really doesn't know clouds at all..

May

• both sides now. 
• won't always chase rainbows  
• won't be chasing rainbows for much longer...  
• is 2 days away from Thessaloniki, with Kati Psinetai...  
• will soon be at the swimming pool, and after that will be having lunch with a 5yo boy & 2 twin 3.5yo girls... :-) AWESOME! 
• is equating beauty & pain... 
• is breathing.  
• will be in Thessaloniki tonight...  
• is wondering if friend No. 666 (whoever it is) is going to be the embodiment of evil.... 
• is on his way to Thessaloniki... for a week of work! :-) 
• is overwhelmingly charmed and can't f**king concentrate at work... In a NICE (but currently hopeless) WAY... The universe has got a sick sense of humour... *sigh*
• if Emotional Karma is anything to go by, I'm pretty sure that one day, I will ooze blissful loving happiness, out of every pore...
• is going to a village outside of Thessaloniki for this week's last day of shooting... Tomorrow will find me back in Athens, bewitched bothered and bewildered... 
• is like Arnie (i.e. battered, bruised and scarred, but BACK) 
• thinks that, the opposite of love, is not hate. It's indifference. 
• is slowly letting go of this life.. and preparing for the next (and NO, I'm not suicidal, it's a metaphor, see?)
• Carpe Dickum 
• is doing the locomotion
• has an irritated bowel. FYI. 
• afrikaneeee afrikaneeeee, ti mouri mou'kanes paneeeeeeeeeee 
• is calmly watching the eternal sunset of his spotty mind (sic). 
• Giati eimai aeras pou perna, mesa stis polis ta stena, kai kanei ta kleista parathyra na trizoun, giati eimai aura esperini, pnoi katharia zwntani, pou kanei ta germena fylla na throizoun...
• has always been in love with Irish folk music & violins... Well done Alexander for a catchy & lighthearted beautiful melody..! Sakis did his very best with a crappy song, we should all be proud of him. Let's all remember that success has many parents, but failure is always an orphan
• is dreaming of boor-boo-lee-thres... 
• is BOOR-BOO-LEE-THRAS  
• is a fiddler on the roof 
• here comes the rain again... falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion...
• is going to change the world. A little bit. 
• is going to change the world. A little bit. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84941173406  
• Xronia polla se oles kai olous pou giortazete simera (eiste kai polloi panathema sas)! Na eiste panta kala! :-) 
• is swaying in the summer sun
• is slowly turning ethereal again..
• is fluorescent and bright.................
• is evaporating... in a good way..
• was meant for Yannis
• take me to the beach 
• is hyperventilating 
• is restless
• will be understood after he dies. Or not. 
• is working around the house, naked :-p
• is getting ready to soak up some sun (and then go hide in the editing dungeons until 01.00am). Talk about the life of vampires... ts ts ts
• is oozing sexual energy... Summer is upon us. 
• is a sensual being... 
• does not fear The Reaper 
• ™ since 1976
• My head is twirling and twisting and turning... I guess this is what fainting is all about... Or is it flying?  
• will be living inside morning dreams from now on. 
• is awake... unfortunately. 
• is being reduced to a fucking cliché and is helpless to resist...
• ♥
• ♥♥
• is ♥♥ just around the Riverbend
• is revisiting the place where his profile photo was taken ♥♥
• is missing you 
• is hoping to see you there, again tonight ♥♥
• ♥♥ another night another day & I'm missing you
• is on his way to beautiful Thessaloniki  
• is in Salonika vibro 

June

• mono sta oneira mporw na se ♥♥
• says, the one true, most difficult & ultimate test for a human heart, is having to silence itself, when it's the right thing to do...♥♥
• is taking a prescription of work-therapy 
• You don't know what I feel. 
• is cold. In the summer heat. 
  
• is grateful for all the smiles on those beautiful faces he has once fallen in love with... 
• kissed himself and he liked it 
• is de-constructing Yannis Zafeiriou 
• is in inferno 
• is in a constant circular orbit around Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso... 
• is in Purgatorio 
• is flirting with paradiso 
• is Annoying, Irritating, Disagreeable, Difficult, Objectionable, Troublesome, a Real Nuisance and ... Great! (according to Amnesty International) :-))))
• is Tom of... Jerry. 
• is ancient 
• is radiant  
• is @ the cimena with Olympia & Meletis  
• says the time is now...  
• is miles away... 
• is erupting........... Run for cover. 
• is boiling 
• is scorching 
• is burning a hole in the universe 
• is pure energy. 
• is a supernova. 
• is a black hole. Nuff said. 
• is elevated to the heights of you 
• is plummeted down to the depths of you 
• is distance personified. 
• is gone. 
  
• was back & is now gone again 
• is hot. Literally.  
• is destined for solitude. 
• is a laid-off Easter Bunny...  
• has failed tragically.  
• is floored..  
• is much like the New Acropolis Museum (awkward and bizarre-looking on the outside, but filled with obscure little treasures and flooded with light on the inside)  
• is peaceful 
• θερινό ηλιοστάσιο.
• is shaken by a little distant Earthquake 
• is somewhere beyond the sea 
• is in a complicated relationship with Yannis
• is engaged to Yannis Zafeiriou  
• last night dreamt that somebody loved him
  
• is frustrated AS HELL. 
• has had a terrible night and very little sleep. 
• is 6 again :-( 
• Je t'inventerai Des mots insensés Que tu comprendras Je te parlerai De ces amants-là Qui ont vu deux fois Leurs coeurs s'embraser Je te raconterai L'histoire de ce roi Mort de n'avoir pas Pu te rencontrer
• I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change 
• when Michael met Farrah... 
• is cold
• this too shall pass. 
• is lost in 1 million dreams  
• is recovering from a little health incident. 
• is always chasing rainbows (as usual)
• is slowly turning to stone 
• is frozen (if but with a brief interlude of a rapid heartbeat)  
• Oltre le distanze, noi non siamo soli Senza più certezze e verità Anime confuse, cuori prigionieri Con la stessa idea di libertà…libertà
• is finally broken. 

July

• is black  
• is really really really sad...  
• is lost in great expectations that sadly remain unfulfilled... 
• is giving up. 
• is sleepless, motionless, sensationless and hopeless...  
• is wild, like the wind.  
• is captain Ahab. Unfortunately.  
• is withdrawing from this fight. 
• is dead. Not pretty. 
• Strange how hard it rains now Rows and rows of big dark clouds When I'm holding on underneath this shroud Rain 
• must love you.  
• is about to go out and abuse every aspect of himself tonight. Fine. That's settled then. 
  
• the brilliant plan of self-abuse failed miserably. All I ended up doing, was getting drunk and smiling like a jerk all the fucking time. Any more bright ideas?
• much like a leopard, can't change his spots. 
• is waiting for a star to fall 
• One great thing about hitting rock bottom: The only way to go... is up. 
• just wants another chance to live. Or leave for that matter. 
• in tempered awe & silent desperation, is watching himself transform into a solitary, peculiar creature slightly less downtrodden than usual, but alas! now entirely drenched in the shadow of Love...
• is moonstruck
• is having an out-of-body experience
• is desperately seeking summers...  
• : my body is now wide open and ready to receive new inhabitants, because previous owner has now officially left the building, leaving only old furniture behind.  
• sees no colours, if they're not your eyes. Hears no sounds, if not your laughter. Tastes nought if your lips are far. No smells reach him that don't belong to you. And he touches nothing but the delicate of your skin. Yannis isn't, if you are not.
• is in Hydra... 
• gets burned, but never learns. 
• has really got to stop shedding tears one of these days...  
• ♥♥
• is asking you to help him help you...♥♥
• is left to fend for himself. Survival, is the first natural instinct. It comes even before eating, sleeping or procreating.
• may be dumb and slow, but is certainly capable of progress & evolution. Remember, all you have to do is ask. Thank you ♥♥
• is sad at the memory of your voice, my world. 
• how did it go so fast you'll say as we are looking back and then we'll understand we held gold dust in our hands in our hands 
• is in love with an alien  
• is wondering why street window cleaners @ traffic lights suddenly vanish from the face of the earth every time his wind-shield gets attacked by bird shit.
• is addicted to Κωνσταντίνος Τζούμας on Eν Λευκώ 87.7
• is on a private island in the Maldives... 
• non siamo soli  
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (Paraphrasing John Keats, 1820).
• will be on "Heart-Patrol" tonight.. and every night... from now on :-)))) 
• is addicted to sleeping & dreaming & sleeping & dreaming & sleeping & dreaming... 
• loves the smell of your words in the afternoon 
• danced the night away 
• is waiting for the "summer"... 
• can't wait to get rid of his glasses this coming September once and for all. 30 years are enough, I think.  
• 12 days to go (including today) 
• is warning you: Heavily tanned people should SERIOUSLY avoid ALL social contact with me, until about the end of August, at which point any said mutual interaction will not resemble old-school-Benetton adverts any more. Ignore this message at your own peril.
• is retiring to the dusty cellar where he belongs.  
• is like a twig in the summer wind  
• I am not sure I am the one you are talking about. The one you think I am... 
• vaunts too bee alawn. 
• shiver me timbers... 
• every fairytale has its ending. 
• it's amazing what a little tenderness and some caressing kisses can do for one's sense of well being... 
• KYLE XY, Season 2, all day today... Happiness. 
• only 5 days more, till he be released. 
• Thanks for all your generous love and thanks for all the fun Neither you nor I'm to blame when all is said and done Standing calmly at the crossroads, no desire to run There's no hurry any more when all is said and done.
• is counting down the days, till the surf takes him away... 
• is not David Bowie.  
• will soon be out of everyone's face. So rejoice! :-)  
• Do you want to change the world? A little bit? For more info on how to, ask within :-)  
• is counting down...  
• THIS IS IT! SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE! END OF WORKING SEASON :-) 

August

• is free. 
• All We Need Is Love... 
• is waiting for your e-mail addresses, so that I can send you the audio file and the lyrics for our little project of Changing the World... :-)  
• my 33rd birthday is approaching rapidly and I'm feeling GOOOOOOOD! :-))))  
• is 33...
• is eating chocolate (for the first time in 6 months) and picking up ABC Monster from the airport! What a beautiful way to start my day! :-)
• ABC MONSTER IS SITTING ON MY SOFA DRAWING WHAT I WOULD LOOK LIKE IF I WAS A FAT MEXICAN!!!!! WOO-HOO! :-)))  
• Just a perfect day... simple, happy and filled with friends. :-) 
• is enjoying his days with ABC Monster :-))))))))))))))) 
• said adieu to ABC Monster today...... :-( 
• is barely in Athens anymore...  
• only a few hours left....... the surf is calling me....  
• is packing... *grin*  
• has left the building... Εις το επανιδείν ♥
• is back (for a short while hopefully) :-) 
• is living his myth in Greece (sic). 
• will never be able to look at Minis (cars) the same way ever again :-)  
• will be watching Ethan Hawke in a Winter's Tale @ Epidaurus tonight... 

September

• is back. And that's a threat :-) 
• only 7 days till I see the world like I've never seen it before.. (ever since I was 3 anyway) :-)))) 
• will have a brand new set of eyes soon!!! :-)))) 
• hasn't got swine flu after all. Oh well. 
• No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day
• is really confused. But will not allow his zen to be disturbed :-) 
• is zen 
• I'm not a large water-dwelling mammal Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve..!
• ...and the Truth shall set you free :-) 
• is pondering on his last ever 24 hours with spectacles :-) 
• Today is the BIG DAY! 8-) 
• is off to change his eyes for new better ones. See you all (in a brand new way) in a few days! :-)  
• has a brand new set of eyes :-) 
• oi Ellinikes trapezes einai for the pouts. Mpika se 2 apo autes tis sixamenes, gia na mou allaksoun ena sakkoulaki gemato 2eura kai 1eura (synolo 400 euro) kai afou me koitousan les kai eimai tromokratis, zitisan ti gnwmi tou Proistamenou, o opoios kai stis 2 periptwseis apefanthi oti mono an exw logariasmo mazi tous dexontai na mou kanoun tin allagi se xontra. Surely, there MUST be SOMETHING illegal about that, non?
• "Alexandre Charouli", if you can read this GET A FUCKING LIFE OF YOUR OWN, YOU TOSSER! R.I.P.  
• but soft... what light from yonder window breaks?  
• dressed as a pirate once again, is now officially off to bed.  
• can see through walls :-)  
• Τα γυρίσματα για τα νέα επεισόδια του ΚΑΤΙ ΨΗΝΕΤΑΙ έχουν ξεκινήσει. ΔΗΛΩΣΤΕ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗ ΚΑΛΩΝΤΑΣ ΣΤΟ 6936 667 938 (κα Στυλιανού) Ή στέλνοντας ένα e-mail με τα στοιχεία σας (Ονοματεπώνυμο, διεύθυνση και τηλέφωνο) στο dinner@alphatv.gr για να επικοινωνήσουμε μαζί σας. Επίσηε ενημερώστε όσους φίλους και γνωστούς σας μπορεί να ενδιαφέρονται να λάβουν μέρος!
• cinema, double bill tonight. Yeah baby, yeah! 
• is an outcast.  
• "Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." - G. K. Chesterton  
• can hear The Bells! 
• was mugged and had his phone (and money) stolen a few hours ago. If you ever want to hear from me again, please send me a message with your phone-numbers here. Thanks...
  
• regular phone number is back on... and anger's subsided... a bit. 
• has his regular phone-number back on again. And is sending bad joo-joo to the 2 muggers. 
• here comes the rain again. 
• Σ' ένα μήνα σ' ένα χρόνο βλέπουν μπρός τους τον Αλλάχ Που από τον ψηλό του θρόνο λέει στον άμυαλο Σεβάχ: «Νικημένο μου ξεφτέρι δεν αλλάζουν οι καιροί, με φωτιά και με μαχαίρι πάντα ο κόσμος προχωρεί»
• the world will not change... until we change ourselves.  
• is wondering if he should actually get himself a portrait and hide it in the attic. 
  
• is already missing the carefree summer days... 
• sees the beginning of a New Age... 
• is about to go watch Alvin Ailey's show @ Megaro. 
• thinks that all artists are magical beings, but dancers, actors and musicians in particular, are all simply beautiful alien creatures...

October

• Το Hotel Inspector έρχεται στον ALPHA. Ξενοδοχεία 20-25 δωματίων max, με οικονομικά προβλήματα, χαμηλές κρατήσεις ή λιγοστούς πελάτες,θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να δεχτούν επίσκεψη από την Hotel Inspector, η οποία θα αναλύσειτην κατάσταση και θα προτείνει λύσεις, σε μια προσπάθεια να βοηθήσει τους ιδιοκτήτες να ξεπεράσουν τα προβλήματα των ξενοδοχείων τους. 'Οσοι ενδιαφερόμενοι για πληροφορίες, στείλτε μου μήνυμα.
• o lykos ki an egerase, ki an asprise to malli tou, mite ti gnwmi allakse, mite tin kefali tou... 
• Oi (skinothetikes) paratiriseis mou gia tous politikous arxigous apopse: -Karamanlis: Anakoufismenos. -Papandreou: Elafrws xesmenos. -Papariga: Tapirokraniwmeni. -Tsipras: Out of focus. -Karatzaferis: Kaulwmenos. -Xrysogelos: Zen. Conclusion: O Theos mazi mas. Amen.
• is somehow being constantly misunderstood lately. It's rather bizarre, when people prefer to focus on the tree rather than the forest, despite one's best & most honest intentions to the contrary. I can feel the strange energy in the air tonight. What gives?
• is relieved, and hopeful again. 
• is mellow  
• every night, after 00.00, turns back into a pumpkin. 
• is unexpectedly fragile. This side up. Handle with care. 
• will (definitely) let Love shine a light (when Love arrives). 
• is floating inside a peculiarly shaped bubble of light. For no reason whatsoever :-) 
• starts shooting on Hotel Inspector (Greek Edition) tomorrow. Wish us luck :0) 
• is... inspecting hotels... Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you! lol! 
• is slowly unclenching. 
• because the night belongs to lovers, because the night belongs to us.  
• is back from shooting Hotel Inspector in Aegina! :-)  
• sometimes when you love something very much, you need to be surrounded by it.  
• Τι φοράς;
• "In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about." --Cameron Crowe
• has succumbed to the iPhone frenzy. Sigh.  
• is floating in a tin can  
• "In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose. I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn. "Come in," she said,"I'll give you shelter from the storm." - Bob Dylan
• is slowly fading into limbo 
• is wondering where the ancient art of flirting has shrivelled away to. 
• is horny. Brace yourselves good people. Brace yourselves. 
• is being flirted upon. Any bakery left standing, per-chance?  

November

• has had enough of this winter already. Bring back the summer or else... 
• is a legend in his living-room.  
• too much work & no play, makes Yanni a dull penguin.  
• Is stuck in traffic and laughing at the fact he can facebook about it... 
• is single. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!  
• is on his way to epidauros with hotel inspector...  
• loves traveling outside Athens in winter 
• is lazying the day away and loving it. 
• is in a cinema state of mind.  
• is looking for an early cinema buddy/buddette lol. All interested parties, please fill in 3 copies of the relevant form and submit it for consideration. Thank you.
• is on his way to Andros with Hotel Inspector 
• is back (for limited shows only).
• sou lew den exw syndromo, egw katoxiko. Einai pou 8 sta 10 exoun katw apo 5 eurw! 
• Λέω να κάνουμε κι εμείς ένα χορευτικό TRIBUTE στο MICHAEL JACKSON στην Αθήνα σε 2-3 σημεία, όπως έκαναν στη Στοκχόλμη, στο Βουκουρέστι και διάφορες άλλες πόλεις... Χρειαζόμαστε καμιά 200-300αριά χορευτές (επαγγελματίες κι ερασιτέχνες) και 5-6 video cameras... ΨΗΝΕΣΤΕ;
• is back, and looking for some urgent cinema therapy. Any takers?  
• is in MJ mode 
• οι μάγκες δεν υπάρχουν πια, τους πάτησε το τρένο, γιατί ο βλάκας ο οδηγός, δεν πάτησε το φρένο...
• thinks it's about time I finally went to sleep after a fun night out.. There's a good lad! 
• To pio glyko anekdoto pou akousa prosfata: milane duo xtapodakia ka leei to ena sto allo: "Thes na pame mia volta piasmenoi xeraki xeraki xeraki xeraki xeraki xeraki xeraki xeraki?"
• is thankful for little miracles and little smiles filled with love. People make each heart go round. Thank you, little octopus. This ♥ is for you.
• vissi d'arte 
• is on his way to Syros with Hotel Inspector... 
• Congrats to Greece for beating Ukraine and getting into the world cup! :-))))  
• is on the boat back to Athens but sadly won't make it back in time for Pet Shop Boys... I hope the rest of you children of the night have a great time...  
• is back, physically tired, emotionally frozen, psychologically exhausted, and mentally resigned.  
• young eyes run free...  
• is seriously considering taking up knitting or cuttlery-organizing, and moving away from sex or any other socially accepted passtime.
• thinks it's hilarious people are getting freaked out by his eye laser surgery video :-D  
• who's your daddy baby, who's your daddy?  
• has a really sore back... 
• is in pain.
• smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you? smelly cat, smelly cat, it's not your fault! 
• The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!  
• All my charms are overthrown. 
• let it be
• "You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.... The over-man is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the over-man shall be the meaning of the earth.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and over-man—a rope over an abyss ... what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Woody Allen's new movie rocks! Off to see the imaginarium of dr. Parnassus now! Woo-hoo! 
• everlasting summer. I like.
• is on his way to Santorini with Hotel Inspector..  
• Santorini is green, empty and beautiful.. Go go Hotel Inspector!  
• is wondering if he's ever going to manage to sleep peacefully in Athens ever again, after all this wonderful stillness of Santorini in the winter...

December

• World united against the HIV pestilence. All you need is Love. 
• Last night in Santorini (for now).. 
• is back. And that's a threat.  
• is slowly turning into Frau Blücher!
• "in youth we learn, in age we understand" - Ashenbach  
• is having an out-of-body experience (and is seriously considering keeping it up for ever).  
• District 9 rocks. Best sci-fi movie of the year..
• is looking for a career in the tropics (or as far away from Greek tv execs as possible). Any offers?  
• finds it hilarious when guys don't know how to change a car tire! loooool :-) 
• Que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be. The future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera. What will be, will be. 
•  in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is God. 
• is no longer working on Hotel Inspector :-)  
• will keep on telling it like it is, regardless if some irresponsible people still refuse to face their shit. In the end, it's all about karma bitches! ;-)
• is laughing in the face of adversity and talentless cowards.  
• is currently serving a term in hell, patiently awaiting his future return of RIDICULOUSLY GOOD KARMA :-)  
• must be an acrobat  
• vaunts too bee ah-lawn.
• carries on regardless.  
• next time some idiot tells you "Don't worry!", ask them to provide you with specific instructions..
• is curious about what lies on the Other Side. 
• All the lonely people... Where do they all come from? All the lonely people... Where do they all belong?  
• the sound of the tree branches knocking against my front wall is pissing me off. It's like someone is continuously having sex right outside my window. Lucky bastard. 
• is completely engulfed in his new Project White Room.  
• James Cameron's Avatar... There are no words.. 
• is wondering if sex could be interpreted as either a soft or a hard drug? 
• ante 2009, ton poulo siga siga giati polla mas ta'kanes paliomalakismeno etos. Oust.  
• is looking under the sofa for his missing testicle... If anyone's seen it, please return it to its rightful owner. Greatly appreciated.  
• "Monsters are real. Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." - Stephen King
•  only 160 days until summer comes back. *sigh* 
•  is lost inside a white room fighting (with) his demons. 
• can't believe it's not butter!  
• is officially Christmassy 
• How is it possible that someone who saw me once 4 years ago can remember me so clearly and can actually have a little crush on me now? Am I not transparent after all?
• have yourself, a merry little Christmas.  
• Through the years We all will be together, If the Fates allow Hang a shining star upon the highest bough. And have yourself A merry little Christmas now 
• is celebrating this day of love by going out and spreading some ;-) 
• is wishing Merry KissMas to you all :-) 
• If there is one lesson we should all learn from these holidays at the end of the year, it is to learn how to leave all ill-feeling behind, tolerate others with their faults and weaknesses and try your very best to forgive. Only then can you truly open your heart to the possibilty of Love the New Year promises to bring you. Amen.
• "people. you can never change the way they feel. better let them do just what they will. for they will, if you let them, steal your heart from you. and people. will always make a lover feel a fool." - George Michael 
• In case of severe discomfort (and assuming you are within your warranty terms), please return to point of purchase and a refund will be issued to you ASAP. In Theme-Park-Coupons.
• We kill people who kill people, to show people that we shouldn't kill people............ 
• don't forget to tell the people you love, that YOU LOVE them. You never know when it's going to be the last time you get to say it to them :-)
• SO GO AHEAD TAKE IT ALL YOU WANT MY SOUL TAKE IT ALL IT'S TIME TO LEAVE IF I'M TO LIVE BECAUSE I HAVE NO MORE THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE
• wad⋅dle[wod-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun –verb (used without object) 1. to walk with short steps, swaying or rocking from side to side, as a penguin. 2. to move in any similar, slow, rocking manner; wobble: The ship waddled into port. –noun 3. an act or instance of waddling, esp. a waddling gait.
• has only one serious & heavy quote for 2010: "Penguin is, as Penguin does" Lots of love to everyone :-) 

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Tori Amos

Gold Dust - Tori Amos

sights and sounds
pull me back down
another year

i was here
i was here

gaslights
glow in the street
(flickering past)
twilight held us
in her palm
as we walked along

and we make it up
as we go along
we make it up as we go along

letting names
hang in the
air
what color hair
(auburn crimson)
autumn knowingly
stared
and the day that
she came
i'm freezing that
frame
i'm freezing that frame

and somewhere alfie
smiles
and says "enjoy her
every cry
you can see in the
dark
through the eyes
of laura mars"

how did it go so
fast
you'll say as we are looking back
and then we'll understand
we held gold dust
in our
hands

in our
hands

NB. I like to think that she is relishing those precious few moments (in a whole life span) when/where she lived in Real/Pure Love, but didn't fully realise/know it at the time. And now, much much older, but finally wiser, she knows.
 But it's too late to do anything about it, as time is a friend to no-one, but pain & memory. She can only dream of that "Gold Dust", like some people can now only dream of that "Dream Kiss" they experienced so briefly.
 True Happiness (much like True Love) rarely lasts more than an instant, but the feeling lasts eternally. And merely the shadow of that instant is enough to fuel a whole human lifetime.
 We live our whole life, remembering, dreaming of that instant, and then spend our mortal lives in a never-ending struggle trying to recover it.
 Of course, we can only come near it, unable ever to actually BE it again, until the time we transform back to our original form: ethereal beings of Light & Love.
 This song never fails to elicit tears from my eyes.

1000 Oceans - Tori Amos

These tears I've cried
I've cried 1000 oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating in the darkness
Well, I can't believe that I would keep
Keep you from flying
And I would cry 1000 more
If that's what it takes
To sail you home
Sail you home
Sail you home

I'm aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you
Over silbury hill
Through the solar field
You know that I will follow you

And if I find you
Will you still remember
Playing at trains
Or does this little blue ball
Just fade away
Over silbury hill
Through the solar field
You know that I will follow you
I'm aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you

These tears I've cried
I've cried 1000 oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating in the darkness
Well I can't believe that I would keep
Keep you from flying
So I will cry 1000 more
If that's what it takes
To sail you home

Sail you home
Sail you home

Sail

Sail you home

Winter - Tori Amos

Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens
Wipe my nose, get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter
I put my hand in my father's glove

I run off where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice "You must learn to stand up for yourself
cause I can't always be around"

He says when you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear

Boys get discovered as winter melts
Flowers competing for the sun
Years go by and I'm here still waiting
Withering where some snowman was

Mirror mirror where's the crystal palace
but I only can see myself
Skating around the truth who I am
but I know, dad, the ice is getting thin

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear

Hair is grey and the fires are burning
So many dreams on the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud of me
I always wanted that myself

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear

Never change

All the white horses

Dream of Three as One

I am recovering from the most sensually explicit, vividly floating, inexplicably & complicatedly pleasurable dream I've had in a rather long time...

I saw both of them in my sleep, they were both so identical, in their incredible glowing almost, faces and bodies, both of them so beautiful, almost joined/combined as one strange creature, but each one with a unique body, though each body looked like it was a separate liquid form, running and mixing & sticking into the other body, which was also a liquid form of its own, and what was even stranger, I was being held captive in a lingering kissing embrace, being kissed by both at the same time, our 3 auras and bodies entwined and mixed up together, all three of us, and I was being caressed and we were in a never-ending carousel-like sensation in a zero-gravity joining of bodies and soul, we were floating and twisting and turning all three of us, in a an endless kissing and touching embrace, it was so hot and tender and sensual and I recall the sensation and I was so surprised and amazed and kept asking them, how could it be possible and why and how on earth could it be that two gorgeous angels were with me in that way, and the two of them kept smiling a conspiratorial smile at each-other and then together back at me, and our elegant anti-gravity kissing/caressing dance would start all over again and I couldn't understand why, why on earth they both chose me for this and it felt a bit like it was actually a game between the two of them, and I felt like a complete outsider, and I knew I was going to pay for this somehow, but at the same time I was enjoying it so fucking much, and this guilty pleasure was so intense, I didn't want it to end, even though it seemed ridiculous that those angelic two would find me even remotely attractive and it felt like they were playing a practical joke on me, such an outrageously infuriating one that made me want to scream and accuse them both for intruding in my own personal flight-land like this for their own selfish needs, but it was also a painfully sensual joke I surprisingly didn't mind that much, just as long as I could be lucky enough to drink some of their kisses and hoping I wouldn't wake up any time soon, even though it was painfully obvious by now that I was actually just about to.........

Good News

Over the past several months, I've been searching, hoping, wishing for meaning, longing for any sort of inspiration... to no avail.

Life has been rather quaint (at best) in its meaninglessness & inherent stress (due to various reasons I can't be fucked to mention here all over again...).

Suffice is to say, I was and still am (for the first time in my life) disillusioned by my current career stage/project.

Long irregular hours and exponentially harder work was never my problem, cause I love what I do.

I REALLY DO. And always have. It's what's kept me going all these years.

But when that joyful pleasure-flame was extinguished in a few effective blows by individuals who should really know better, and are not even worth my spit any more, then I knew something had changed inside.

It was me.

I had changed, transformed into a magical, enchanted being that still baffles me.

All of a sudden, my whole life started to change.

Days were long, nights were longer and everything seemed to blend into everything else.

Smells begun to fade.

Flavours followed.

Other sensations started evaporating too.

Touch was among the first casualties.

(Wonderful... non?)

First I gave up sex.

Love was a non-issue. Thankfully I didn't have to give it up. I've been single for over 2 years now, and I'm not really able to even become eligible for a visit by Eros any time soon.

Still, being loveless, is much like being flight-less. With less feathers of course.

(No shit).

Then I gave up social duty (including family & friends).

After that, came sport and recreation. Swimming came to an abrupt halt and so did anything else even remotely resembling a life of luxury (sleep & food, I still count as pretty basic & necessary).

(Please, do try to contain your roaring laughter).

I barely managed to keep "Reading" into my life, and insisted on attempting it, every night, lying in my bed, using pillows as head support, and kept at it for about an hour before escaping to flight-land. Where I was seldom any happier these days (another shocker).

I eventually ceased all diplomatic relations with chocolate... (what a shocker, for everyone that knows me)... Renegotiations are now officially scheduled for the 4th of August, my 33rd birthday. Assuming of course that the international authorities monitoring will allow said meeting to take place.

The final straw was giving up cinema, which admittedly I DIDN'T REALLY give up (how could I? I would rather die), rather, I denoted it to "once every two weeks"-status....

What a sad pathetic state of affairs.

That pretty much did it.

If ever I was more depressed than this I couldn't for the life of me remember it... (notwithstanding my traumatizing "coming out to my family" dark/cubic period)

And that seemed to go on and on and on, in a vicious circle or daily self-inflicted pain, that somehow managed to scathe me ONLY on the surface.

Hmmm...

That's the strange thing about it.

Inside me, a fire burning, NEVER died out. It was like I was watching all this happen to someone else, and I myself kept a safe distance, as an estranged spectator, amused and bewildered but unable or unwilling to intervene and save the day.

(How peculiar... non?)

Up until recently.

A few "minor" incidents...

(including a long lost song from my childhood, a small independent movie I never before heard of until I actually saw it, a 4logy of raw, uncompromisingly romantic adolescent books that made my heart flutter like a baby, a piece of lullaby music on my cell-phone alarm-clock, a humbling "bathroom mirror video" encounter with a charming little angel on the other side of the planet, in my most favourite city in the western world, and finally a totally selfless, giving conversation with an adorable stranger who was inexplicably smitten by my eyes & my honest words, that kept both of us up until very late)

...suddenly seemed to fuel that dormant, yet omnipresent flame inside me.

Feeding it. Teasing it. Smiling at it. Poking fun at it. Flirting with it. Tormenting it. Loving it.

And in a delicate way, much like an early Spring breeze caresses the moist, light feathery hair growing on lovers' backs, as they both lie naked, skin touching, both obliviously lost in flight-land, on a "late to sleep - late to rise" morning, that promises many a "soon-to-arrive" summer afternoons, those incidents touched my flame.

And I am alive again.

(Funny how abstinence of life, makes death seem ever the more pointless)...

No I am not in Love, silly. I guess that will come when the time is right. I have faith and patience.

I feel I am creative again.

After a looong time of feeling useless and hopeless, it surprisingly occurred to me, I actually DO have a few things to say.

And I am growing tired of keeping it all inside (if but with a few minor exceptions of self-expressions, scarcely publicized and randomly accounted for).

So that's what I've decided I am going to do.

Get writing.

For the first time in a very long time, I feel I have something worth talking about.

Something worth writing about.

Something worth living for.

I feel so silly.

It's been staring me in the face for so long now, how could I have been so blind?

They always say, write what you know.

(I don't know much, but what I do know is enough).

They always say, no compromises, just FUCKING write the "Big One".

(There is only one thing that's ever been Big Enough For Me).

They always say, write with your heart, and let the mind follow.

(It's ALL my Life's Soul Journey ever was & always will be).

They always say, now is better than ever.

(And now is the time, more than ever, to embrace the Journey ahead).

I am not sure anyone will even bother to listen when I'm all done and finished. I have barely even started yet, the road is long, the river runs deep. It's too fucking early too celebrate.

Hell, it's even too early to say ANYTHING other than "we'll see..."

Still. That's good enough for me. For now. Till I die again.
.
.
.
.
Fuck that shit.

I'm free and I'm flying again.

The flame is awake and death is dead, so be it.

That's all that matters.

Long live Now.

Cornflake Girl

Thank you...

Tori Amos

The day is finally here.

Tori-fic

OH Yes.

She's coming to Athens.

Finally.

Of course the ticket I bought is also for Air & James on the same day, but... all I REALLY care about is her.

Her music... moves me in ways most people rarely ever feel. Which is a hard thing to do in this day and age...

It's hard to describe how I feel, in anticipation of her show.

It's been years now of her pushing me down into deep oceans of desperately isolated purple, and then pulling me right back up and out into the light blue again. It's a pilgrimage for me. No bullshit.

The final countdown has began.