The Walk-ing Doll

So long you did me wrong
So long you did me wrong
Baby, what you're doing now you're pissin' me off
Uhh but your hair is so luxurious and your lips are so soft uuh
Anyway you slice it uh, you're doing me wrong
But I love the way you walk now and your legs are so long.

Well your looks had me putty in your hand now
But I took just as much as I can stand now

And you can walk your long legs baby right out of my life
So long you did me wrong

From the moment that I met you I thought you were fine, so fine
But your shitty fuckin' attitude has got me changing my mind
Yeah

Everybody tells me uuh, I need to let go, I know
But your cocoa butter skin now has got me beggin' for more
Well your heels keep on runnin' through my head now
Tryin' to deal but I'm coming to the end now

And you can walk those high heels baby right out of my life
So long you did me wrong

Tell me why, why do you turn the blues skies cloudy grey
You know why I can't let you keep treatin' me this way
You've been chuckin' me around but uhh, I kept my eyes shut yeah
'Cause your shape is like an hourglass but I think the time's up

Well your heart is like a black piece of coal now
And I doubt that you ever had a soul now

And you can walk your cold heart baby out of my life
So long you did me wrong

Yeah you can walk your cold heart baby right out of my life
So long you did me wrong
So long you did me wrong
Leave me alone


Mayer Hawthorne

The Swing Shoes

 

 

The Swing Shoes / European Music.... Night

 

The Swing Shoes were formed in Athens in 2006. Initially a street guitar duo, they gradually evolved into a four-piece with the standard gypsy swing instrumentation: two guitars, bass and violin.

At first their music appears to follow the rules of the swing folk idiom. It is rhythmic, it is vibrant; it is feel-good music. But the way they cover traditional Greek tunes, jazz standards, and several atypical numbers is so unpredictable that the listener finds himself puzzled, wondering “where does this familiar tune come from?”

 

 

Adonis (g), George (g),

 

Panos (b), and Andreas (vl),

combine their influences to create music with a passion. Their first album “Ladies and Gents, HERE’S THE SWING SHOES” - released in 2010 on Prominence Records - has received rave reviews.

 

 

The Swing Shoes appear regularly in many clubs in Athens and play festivals all over Greece. They perform as an instrumental quartet and also as a six-piece with female vocalist Eirini Dimopoulou and drummer Nick Zografos or female vocalist Sughaspank! and percussionist Oxocube. Occasionally the set-up includes full personnel (8 people).   My___link

 

These photos are from their live appearance at: Megaron's Garden 21-06-2012 (European Music Day)

 

21st of June – European Music Day - Summer Solstice and Music is celebrating.

 

"Year by year European Music Day is establishing more and more events all over Greece. The idea is catching on!

 

We hope that one day on the 21st of June, we will hear music everywhere, on every corner, every square, every street, every concert location and every park. All kinds of artists and all kinds of music along with crowds will dance in the streets and displace the cars.

 

Schools, conservatories and every organisation that is familiar with the magic of a “musical-score” will organise their own concerts.

In France the state has passed an act that allows (music) noise disturbance on the specific day, why not in Greece as well? Upcoming Greek and foreign bands will play in public spaces throughout Greece and artist exchanges from city to city and country to country will multiply and we will all discover a previously unknown group.

 

European Music Day is working for a dream come true sooner or later. This is why it organizes with the support of public, state, private sponsors and institutions, as many as possible music performances all over Greece. The events are always free and artists perform free of charge or with minimum compensation. Because when music celebrates we‘re all invited…!" More about E.M.D. here

 

 

Minimaximum Cities and Desire

 

Minimaximum ImproVision
Live _at_ Open Air Cinema Broadway

ΑΝΤΑΛΛΑΓΗ/AUSTAUSCH/ EXCHANGE

 

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Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities

CITIES and DESIRE 5

"From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein.They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations had an identical dream.

 

 

They saw a woman running at night through an unknown city; she was seen from behind, with long hair, and she was naked.

 

They dreamed of pursuing her. As they twisted and turned, each of them lost her.

 

 

After the dream they set out in search of that city; they never found it. but they found one another; they decided to build a city like the one in the dream.

 

In laying out the streets, each followed the course of his pursuit; at the spot where they had lost the fugitive's trail, they arranged spaces and walls differently from the dream, so she would be unable to escape again.

 

This was the city of Zobeide, where they settled, waiting for that scene to be repeated one night. None of them, asleep or awake, ever saw the woman again.
 

The city's streets were streets where they went to work every day, with no linkany more to the dreamed chase. Which, for that matter, had long been forgotten.

 

New men arrived from other lands, having had a dream like theirs, and in thecity of Zobeide, they recognized something of the streets of the dream, and they changed the positions of arcades and stairways to resemble more closely the pathof the pursued woman and so, at the spot where she had vanished, there would remain, no avenue of escape.

The first to arrive could not understand what drew these people to Zobeide,this ugly city, this trap

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Photos and video are from M.I.'s performance at Broadway Cinema 19.06.2012


 

 

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Athenian Balconies

Athenian Balconies photo competition  and exhibition atenistas _at_ CAMP

 

A photo competition on Athenian springtime balconies was under way throughout May and the top 100 photos, as selected by the competition committee, was presented on June 9 and 10 at the CAMP! Gallery in Athens.

The photos are here

 

Urban action group Atenistas has called on Athens residents to take part in a photo safari in search of the city’s most charming balconies. The result was more than 1,000 images of blooming spring balconies, colourful family verandas, neoclassical terraces and much more. 

 

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