Merry Christmas...

it's Christmas.

the Ghost of Christmas Past already paid me a visit. the Ghost of Christmas Present is here, I can feel it. when its job is done I only wish I'll be brave enough to face the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. I don't know if I will be... I really don't know.

well...

Merry Christmas

epi Kerameiko

I like large groups of friends going out together. I was part of such a group, about 15 people, when I was invited to a dinner some days ago, in a traditional restaurant in the area of Metaxourgeio. the place proved to be a very good choice that satisfied both our taste buds and our ears. the musicians Vasilis Galazoulas – bouzouki, Eirini Lasithiotaki – guitar and the singer Sofia Savvoukidou performed non stop for almost five hours. what a nice trip in entexno, laiko, rebetiko land. some talking, some laughing, some singing, some dancing, some wine… hmmm a glass of wine is good. two - three glasses of wine are ok. four – five make you happy. six and more make you super happy… nooo… guess what… make you sad! well me at least. all my small, unimportant problems seemed big and important. stupid me! thank God the first aid kit was nearby. my sweet A. I just had to look in her eyes. magically I forgot my problems… in fact I forgot everything, and start thinking how beautiful those eyes can be. and when after a few hours ER’s Dr. A. arrived and we drunk together the last glass of wine, well it was more a medication, I felt much better : )

photos photos photos !!!

Athens Photo Festival 06/11/2009 – 06/12/2009. the Athens photo festival was way more interesting than I could imagine. 120 photographers from 22 countries, 11 solo and group photo exhibitions, 21 video projects, 6 performances, lectures, seminars. even short films. I especially enjoyed Crossroads. a Petros Sofikitis’s piece of art. frugal with great atmosphere + I loooved the Scottish accent.

lots and lots of things to see in a huge building of 5.000 sqm. in fact too many things that I didn’t have the time to see them all as I arrived a couple of hours before the closure and I didn’t find the time to go back the next day, which by the way was the last one... bad timing as always… especially the last few weeks of my life. don’t understand… what’s going on?! eee?! oh! wait a minute. I know! it’s me and the storm inside my head going on.

V. agreed to become my secretary and write down the names and titles of almost all we saw. poor V. if only he knew. I still can’t understand where did he find the patience?! hey V. THANK YOU. although your spelling mistakes almost cost my credibility… ha ha ha. oh and sorry for not answering your phone calls or not calling you back. I become rude sometimes… hmm, rather most of the times. especially with that storm inside my head, remember. hope you are still talking to me when we meet in about 12 hours…

http://www.hcp.gr/exhibitions_program.html

http://photographyandfilm.co.uk/film_petrossofikitis.html

 

theater & movies

theater

Sunday. it was a lovely warm evening. like if we were in the middle of the spring although we were at the end of the autumn. I went with friends to the theatre, to a tavern, to a bar with live music and to another bar after that… in that order. quite a long night out. the play was the amazing Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer, in the Amfitheatro of Spyros Evaggelatos in Plaka. Katerina Xelmi, Marina Aslanoglou and Thanasis Kourlampas in the leading roles. Also Zoi Rigopoulou, Lefteris Polyxronis, Popi Lymperopoulou, Marianthe Kyriou. All very good. Thanasis Kourlampas as Dr. Cukrowicz, neutral, frugal, dissent, gentleman and very handsome shall I say too. Katerina Xelmi as Violet Venable, a very experienced top actor, almost a legent, did her best. Marina Aslanoglou as Catherine Holly, simply amazing! well done!

http://www.hellasgr.net/20091006195956.htm

http://www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&artid=302085&ct=34&dt=29/11/2009

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=17024933321

movies

Tuesday. don’t know if it’s warm or cold. I’ve been in the house all day. ah… I wish I could take all the pain and tears away from you my lovely, lovely friend. I wish I could stop all that crying and suffering. ssshhh my dear…ssshhh… stop damn it!!! I am watching a movie and you interrupt me! it’s the second movie I watched with the talented, as he proves to be, and very ugly Paul Walker. no I haven’t watched all that fast and furious crap movies. I have watched Running Scared and now The Lazarus Project. Running Scared is a way better movie though, plus Cameron Bright’s actting is amazing in that movie, but The Lazarus Project is ok too. not something great, but ok. oh, did I mentioned that Paul Walker is very… ugly?!

http://www.newline.com/properties/runningscared.html

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/thelazarusproject/

remember:

1. never answer the phone during the most crucial point in a movie.
2. always find time for a friend in need… love you baby.

3. definitely watch more Paul Walker’s movies…

4. oh and, 24 days till Christmas...