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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

fast track updates


  • for all of you who haven't gone to the sea at least 10 times to swim 'till now...shame on you
  • the never ending circus of the elections is still alive. No one really thought that it would end so soon
  • for the metal heads...Sepultura on the 6th of June and Exodus with Obituary on the 9th of June both events at Fuzz club
  • for the clubbers... Armin Van Buuren on the 9th of July at Global Dance Festival
  • check out ''www.xoris.gr'' for whole sale prices...eatable products straight from the farmers without the ''pimp price'' of the middle men
  • if anyone throws any cans or cigarettes on the beach again we are going to have a serious problem.The well known blue flags will turn into pirate ones
  •  if this country returns to its national currency....we'll have a party...we just don't know yet what kind it will be




return to innocence

We decided to go for a swim the other day. We didn't want any fuzzy beach so we chose something quiet  not too far away. Although the sea is almost everywhere, all locals go outside the city because the waters are away from the everyday corrosion. As soon as we reached there, we realized that the beach was not so quiet and the sea not that warm. Well, as far as the quiet part is concerned we all agreed but the part with the sea being cold...it was just me. I bought a coffee and i just sat under the sun trying to ignore the nasty kids that were screaming and playing  around. The rest of the group got in the sea without looking back. I was in solitude in a beach full of people. Some of you know how that feels...However i had the ''medicine'' for that. I put on my black sunglasses(so that no one would think that i am a psycho and i got straight into my thoughts). I admit, sometimes i get up in a worse state than i was when i sat but i do it anyway. At the time, i was thinking of something a friend wrote which was that '' Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore''. I thought then, that i have been too long on the same shore, on something that i ended up being too tired to leave due to all the attempts that remained plans instead of actions or failed actions that were never replanned due to convenience. The basic roles were reversed. I was waiting for what the sea would bring to my shore instead of diving in and attempting, hoping, trying, fighting, putting in flesh and bones whatever i was searching for.
Suddenly, a small sea stone thrown by a friend hit my arm and brought me back to reality and my mind mocked all these ''philosophical thoughts of...whatever''. On top of that, two kids were right next to me quarreling about who can reach the horizon faster. Their screams to one another were ongoing so i started looking after their parents to save me or the police (that was plan B...just in case). After 10 minutes they went into the sea trying to reach the horizon. I laughed...as you would probably do because i knew they could never make it.
But you know...they didn't think about it. They didn't believe not even for a moment that they couldn't do it, they were sure that each one of them will reach the horizon first, the burning sun didn't scare them nor the depth of the sea, not even the rising likelihood of being slapped by their mother. They mocked the lifeguard and they just went for it. Still, they are kids, their job is to look after their own satisfaction...the thing is...what would you give to have an eighth  of that kind of spirit again?How much?No strings attached, not even things-circumstances-bad habits that you are now bonded to.So, how much would you offer for such a feeling?It would be too sweet to work like that......money for feelings wouldn't it?That's why it is so hard to get it (back) because it can't be bought just conquered. On the other hand, how many of us have the will to go to war with themselves without any ''loyal soldiers''?

Friday, May 11, 2012

Gigs and events


 11-12/5/12 8th Athens Legalize Protestival 2012
                  
                  Former Greek Area Airport (Leoforos Poseidonos,
                  2nd tram station of Ag.Kosmas) 
                  Free Entrance
11-13/5/12 6th Athens Tattoo Convention
                 Faliro Pavilion (Tae Known Do) 
                 1st day 10 euro
                 All 3 days 20 euro 
                 Doors open at 12.00

1-2-3/7/12 Rockwave Festival 2012 (The Locos-Ozzy Ousborne and Friends-The Prodigy)
                
                TerraVibe Park Malakasa 37km Athens-Lamia
                1st Day presale 15 euro Tickethouse at the door TBA
                2nd Day presale 50 euro Tickethouse at the door 55 euro
                3rd Day presale 28 euro(limited), next tickets 35 euro Tickethouse at the door 40 euro


29/5/12 Afghan Wings Live In Athens 
          
               VOX Stage Athens,Iera Odos 16 
               Presale 29 euro Tickethouse 

27/6/12 Ejekt Festival (Kasabian-James-Miles Kane more TBA)
          
               Plateia Nerou Palaio Faliro(next to Village Cinemas)
               Presale 35 euro (limited),38 euro Tickethouse

"Alex Their Law"

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Saturday blues

Τhe elections are tomorrow.Almost everyone is stressed and diffused. It is the first time that most of the people know what not to vote but on the other hand don't know what political party to choose. The media is feeding the monster of brain wash and the revolutionary spirits have found a comfortable seat in the hands of....facebook. We are cyberised and we have a lack of substantial judgement until the delayed or nonexistent payments knock on our door.No my friends, there is no solidarity around us,there is just a flexible frame in which we like to suit in no matter what goes outside our door of fiction. We have been divided for so long and we forgot how to unite.
They have done a great job, too easy and without any master plan that we would comprehend its true nature after many years due to its outstanding complexity and strategy.No, it was so evident and they didn't even bother to think too much about it. Someone said that not all values-rights have evolved on the same rate through out the years...some have remained the same as they were 500 years ago and some of them are too modern and sophisticated (slavery, freedom etc).
 I know...we said no politics here...and i want to stick by that. But then again you would always want to share 2-3 flagrant thoughts with some friends. Maybe blogger should have a beer application, so i could get one for each one of you.
Well lads, we are in the verge of something, that's for sure. Personally, i wouldn't mind to have a simple bamboo house on a beach and be a fisherman (if i could have some music too i wouldn't leave the place). Here's the twist of it...the most simple thing has turned into a complex task because every aspect is combined with something else that can't do without. Sure i could just fire up this place, having a movie-like exit away from all this... but then again my name is not Rambo.

Benefit the most out of each moment even if there's a lame day waiting patiently for you tomorrow because at the end of the...bill we are all formed out of multi-colored fragments.