End of April

Go where you want

when you know you can change your direction.

Cause it always arrives 

but it starts with another intention.

  

You could drive for a while,

but you'll never understand what has happened

to the places you left

when you weren't paying any attention.

Your eyes go wide in this night

you were heading to.

And the morning surrounding you with his gloom.

The trails in the back as a nightly track.

Your eyes see the better day

Go where you want

when you know you can change your direction.

'Cause it always arrives

but it starts with another intention.

Balthazar

For Now

  

Getting close by going far away

Going far by staying here

To the kind of place

Where loneliness is traveling best

Leaving ill and well alone

If all fails

All fails

Let the clock strike upon this resting hour

For now

For now

Leaving point despair

Leaving point hope

Getting lost to find a way back home

Getting back by letting go

Make another thought fall

In the flow of things

And death is just a breath away

But so is life

Saying this, but knowing not

Which scares the most

For now

For now

Leaving point despair

Leaving point hope

Whatever worry

running through the veins

When you go, we go

Whatever worry

Raise the flair

When you’re there

You’re there

Getting close

Abandoning point home

Leaving point despair

Looking up from the rush of things

in the point of life

that is now

a point of life

For now

Thomas Feiner and Anywhen

Empty Box

Tore open a package it was an empty box

No meaning to me just an empty box

Sender was a woman

She said she's sending me everything that I I I never gave her before

She said fill it up and send it back

Fill it up and send it back

So I send her back an empty box

A big mistake sent back an empty box

Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight

And half insane just a sound

I crossed into a valley a valley so dark

That when I look back I can't see where I begin

I can't see my hands

I don't even know if my eyes are open

In the morning I was by the sea

And I swam out as far as I could swim

Until I was too tired to swim anymore

And then I floated and tried to get my strength back

And then an empty box came floating by

An empty box and I crawled inside

Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight

And half insane just a sound in the night

Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight

And half insane just a sound

Morphine

Photos are taken from the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

The Night at the Museum

 You're the night, Lilah. A little girl lost in the woods.

You're a folk tale, the unexplainable

You're a bedtime story. The one that keeps the curtains closed.

I hope you're waiting for me cause I can make it on my own.

I can make it on my own.

It's too dark to see the landmarks. I don't want your good luck charms.

I hope you're waiting for me across your carpet of stars.

You're the night, Lilah. You're everything that we can't see.

Lilah, you're the possibility.

You're the bedtime story. The one that keeps the curtains closed.

And I hope you're waiting for me cause I can make it on my own.

I can make it on my own.

Unknown the unlit world of old. You're the sounds I never heard before.

Off the map where the wild things grow. Another world outside my door.

Here I stand I'm all alone. Drive me down the pitch black road.

Lilah you're my only home and I can't make it on my own

You're a bedtime story. The one that keeps the curtains closed.

And I hope you're waiting for me cause I can make it on my own.

I can make it on my own.

You're the paint can falling off the wall at the door that slams at the end of the hall where the kid rings sounds of basketball. The battle of the earth of the angels. The shifting snow drifts so realistic, so realistic - call you carpet of stars. See there is something in the yard. It's awful dark. With the painted strings, the cross, the good luck charm, the prayer, the extra layer....

Morphine 

Photos are taken from the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

ΜΕΣΑ / INSIDE

 The latest project by Dimitris Papaioannou.

Six hours on stage with no beginning, middle or end.

You can watch as much as you like, sit wherever you like, exit and re-enter as many times as you like.

INSIDE is a work born where two situations come together: a performance that runs endlessly meets audiences who come, go and switch seats whenever they like.

On stage the work constantly recycles itself. It makes use of the same material in different ways that are never repeated.

A single simple series of personal, everyday actions is combined and superimposed to create countless compositions.

  

A bedroom in the heart of a theatre transforms a personal place into public space.

A theatre in the heart of the city opens its doors to the public and invites audiences to watch the action as if gazing at a landscape.

INSIDE treats the theatre as an exhibition space, the work as an exhibit, and invites

The stage action begins before you come in, and continues after you leave.

The theatre doors open at 17:30 and close at 23:30.

You can enter whatever time you like, sit wherever you like, and stay as long as you like. You can exit the theatre and re-enter it as many times as you like.

In this way, as the work unfolds and folds in on itself, you can create your own composition depending on how you choose to watch it: when, how many times, and from which seat.

Inside the auditorium, rows of seats have been removed to create extra aisles, and the lighting has been specially designed to let you move around freely. Every seat in the house has the same price and no seat is reserved. You can sit in any seat that’s free.

If you have a DAY PASS (15 or 32 euro) you can visit INSIDE as many times as you like during the opening hours of one day.

If you have a WEEKLY PASS (45 euro), you can watch a total of six hours spread out over one week’s performance days (Wednesday—Sunday). You can also bring a friend with you each time you visit, and share the time left on your card.

All tickets are person-specific - yours will have your name on it. When you enter, we will ask to see a photo ID of any kind, so that we know it’s you.

A screen at the theatre entrance will show how many seats are free at that moment. If the theatre happens to be full when you come, you’ll need to wait a little. We’ll put you on a waiting list and let you know as soon as a seat becomes available.

  

[source - more info] 

False Symbol

Don't wanna see your tears

Baby it will be ok

Don't wanna see you cry darling

No way!

But it just don't feel the same

(just don't feel the same)

I know what you're about

And I guess that I don't love you anymore

And I'm sorry, but it just ain't working out

I'm sorry, it just ain't gonna work out

Mayer Hawthorne

A Pain That I'm Used To

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore

I just know that I'm harder to console

I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me

But the key is a question of control

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway

I just pay while you're breaking all the rules

All the signs that I find have been underlined

Devils thrive on the drive that is fueled

All this running around, well it's getting me down

Just give me a pain that I'm used to

I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive

You just need to achieve something that rings true

There's a hole in your soul like an animal

With no conscience, repentance unknown

Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise

Devils feed on the seeds that are sown

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real

No mistaking the faking, I care

With a prayer in the air I will leave it there

On a note full of hope not despair

All this running around, well it's getting me down

Just give me a pain that I'm used to

I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive

You just need to achieve something that rings true

All this running around, well it's getting me down

Just give me a pain that I'm used to

I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive

You just need to achieve something that rings true

Depeche Mode

Faith

You know in the darkest hour

How to listen to the grass growing up

You say when the coastline lies awaiting

That they shine like precious threads of pearls.

  

And your house of clay built by the river

Hosts your faith in serendipity

And your house of clay built with your strong arms

Hosts your faith in serendipity.

What I've been waiting for?

You are.

You now.

So I keep caring on

Only hope can be above it all.

Parov Stellar

Bus Stop Conflict

Hold it back even though I want to shout it out

My goal is to know and mean what I'm talking about

What you don't mean makes me doubt

I lay down my pride infront of you

I won't take it just cause I love you

It's ok to fold and to regret

Don't let it go just cause you're upset

Anytime is good enough for me

My goal is to listen until your words will make me see

The understanding sets us free

I'm not here to be undefeated

We got here because we competed

It's ok to fold and to regret

I won't let that go cause I'm upset

I lay down my pride infront of you

I won't take it just cause I love you

If your goal it is to defeat me

I'll know you're not one who completes me

Christine Owman

All things must pass away

Sunrise doesn't last all morning

A cloudburst doesn't last all day

Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning

It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass

All things must pass away

Sunset doesn't last all evening

A mind can blow those clouds away

After all this, my love is up and must be leaving

It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass

None of life's strings can last

So, I must be on my way

And face another day

Now the darkness only stays the night-time

In the morning it will fade away

Daylight is good at arriving at the right time

It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass away

George Harrison

The Laughing Heart

If you’re going to try, go all-the-way. 

Otherwise, don’t even start. 

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. 

It could mean not eating for three or four days. 

It could mean freezing on a park bench. 

It could mean jail. 

It could mean derision. 

It could mean mockery—isolation.

Isolation is the gift. 

All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. 

And, you’ll do it, 

despite rejection and the worst odds. 

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. 

If you’re going to try, go all the way. 

There is no other feeling like that. 

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. 

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. 

It’s the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski

Jungle Blues

An I went off sailin for the Congo,

In a sloop called the mississippi Song-o

Now I'm here singin them Jungle Blues

In a shipwreck, way out on the ocean,

Swimmin blind, lord, prayin and a'hopin,

I washed up singin them Jungle Blues.

Can't you hear them Jungle Drums thumpin?

Buddy, thats' what gets my heart to jumpin,

It ain't nutin but them Jungle Blues,

And the monkeys, goin pitter-patter,

In the darkness, my teeth begin to chatter,

There ain't no cure for them Jungle Blues

C.W. Stoneking

No 500

This is only the 500th post...

...in 37 months. 

"All the words are not enough to get anything said." - Yannis Ritsos

the same is with photos.

 But I will keep on trying.

Astro Nayths 

Noise

There are days when you feel so small

And you know you could be so tall

You think you got no chance

Look at the end, look what we do

Here and now we need you

Silence can destroy

Get up and raise your voice

Make some noise

Here and now, noise

To the world, noise

All the things you believe in, noise

Let them hear you, noise

Let them feel you, noise

Make them know

That you can make noise

You are free, you are innocent

You believe in a happy end

Days turn into years

  

Here and now, noise

To the world, noise

All the things you believe in, noise

Make them know

That you can make noise

Tokio Hotel

High and Dry

  

Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever 

don't you boy?

Flyin' on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop

You'd kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop

You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high, 

don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk

All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love

They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world

all sussed out

They're the ones who'll spit at you, you will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high, 

don't leave me dry

Oh, it's the best thing that you've ever had

The best thing that you've ever, ever had

It's the best thing that you've ever had

The best thing you've had has gone away

So don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

  

Don't leave me high

Don't leave me dry

Radiohead

City Boy, City Girl

I fell in love as a boy

Opened my eyes and saw my shadow

With eyebrows raised, they searched my face

And found my mate, too late...

 Don't need no audience round me I'm fond of my own company 

Who wants the birds and the bees when I've always got me up my sleeve.

Who said that no mans an island surrounded by nothing but sea I

I tell you he's wrong and misguided I stand here surrounded by me.

Breaking up the mirror, you're a sinner, you're a sinner 

"Come down to earth" They called up to me

"We have a bed to ease your journey, crazy fools are born to bruise,

But we've the cure for both of you.

Don't need no audience round me I'm fond of my own company

Who wants the birds and the bees when I've always got

Me up my sleeve

City Boy

New Religion

Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector.

He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.

During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (clear display case) became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and the symbol of Britart worldwide.

[source:Wikipedia]

His exhibition titled “New Religion”, presented at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), provides a characteristic as well as comprehensive overview of his artistic practice, his way of working and his subjects.

Through his visual arts practice, Hirst draws a descriptive anatomy of his era, while testing its boundaries. His work is characterized by clarity of images and by the immediacy of the message.

Completely free of guilt, through risk and boldness, he uses and manipulates the mechanisms of creation and the devices of recognition of contemporary art.

“New Religion” is Damien Hirst’s first solo show in Greece.

False Alarm

Hey wait

I have a second heart beating at the right of my chest

A second mouth breathing with oxygen masks

Filled up the cracks but the drills keep spinning

Emotionless

Hey stay

I have a window at the back of my head if you need to escape

A broken clock counting if you say "It's too late"

I pulled the brake but the wheels keep spinning

Emotionless

Love's not enough I guess

We are going up reverse

But I care

Hey wait I have a second heart beating at the right of my chest

A second mouth breathing with oxygen masks

I've cut the wires but the bells keep ringing

Emotionless

Was just a spark I guess

Don't play it back reverse

You said

Film