March 23, 2010

Thunder roll


The Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975
Bob Dylan & Roger McGuinn
from The Bootleg Series Vol.5, 2002

Mama wipe the blood off my face
I can't see through it any more
I need someone to talk to and a new hiding place
Feel like I'm looking out of heaven's door

Mama I can hear that thunder roll
Echoing down from God's distant shore
I can hear them calling for my soul
Feel I'm knocking on heaven's door

March 22, 2010

Zero gravity


2010

From the fall came such choices
Even worse than the fall
There’s this chain of consequences
Within, without

~ James, "Hey ma"


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Proof of my huge ignorance #347 : For the life of me, I can't tell if this is slightly out of focus or simply blurred. Or both. Or what.
Also, this is the first processed photo here. Meaning that I fooled around with tone and contrast for about twenty seconds. Hm.

March 18, 2010

Stormbringer


February 2010, Patissia, Athens

I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time
I feel my luck could change
Kill me Sarah, kill me again with love
It's gonna be a glorious day

Pull me out of the air crash
Pull me out of the wreck
'Cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge

~ Radiohead, "Lucky"

....
Last Radiohead song, swear to god. Umm, second to last, actually. I'm keeping Exit Music for emergencies.

Crane


February 2010, Patissia, Athens

and though they did hurt me so bad
in the fear and alarm
you did not desert me
my brothers in arms

~ Dire Straits, "Brothers in arms"

March 17, 2010

Motor


February 2010, Patissia, Athens

Zero originality, but I know someone who'll like it.

A boy and his dog


January 2010, Parnitha, above Athens

Copts II


January 2010, downtown, Athens

Our master’s gone;
we’ve stole our master’s horses

and stole away running.
If we return
we shall be drawn and quartered
,
at Tyburn cross hung.

~ Blackbird Raum, "Valkyrie Horsewhip Reel "

Copts I


January 2010, downtown, Athens

La mauvaise herbe


January 2010, Agioi Anargyroi, Athens

Εντελαμαγκέν

March 15, 2010

Rear view


March 2010, Exharcheia, Athens

(rain down) That's it sir, you're leaving
(rain down) The crackle of pigskin
(come on rain down) The dust and the screaming
(on me) The yuppies networking
(from a great height)
The panic, the vomit
(from a great) The panic, the vomit
(height) God loves his children
God loves his children, yeah


~ Radiohead, "Paranoid android"


....
Meanwhile, I've become a living cautionary tale, haven't I? Beware, kids! This is what happens to children who grow up listening to too much Radiohead!

Couch II


February 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar
Shall we set out across this sea of faces
In search of more and more applause

Shall we buy a new guitar
Shall we drive a more powerful car
Shall we work straight through the night
Shall we get into fights
Leave the lights on, drop bombs
Do tours of the East, contract diseases
Bury bones, break up homes
Send flowers by phone
Take to drink, go to shrinks
Give up meat, barely sleep
Keep people as pets
Train dogs, race rats
Fill the attic with cares
Bury treasure, store up leisure
But never relax at all

With our backs to the wall

~ Pink Floyd, "Empty spaces / What shall we do now?"

Noise


March 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

The walls close in
and I need some noise

~ Iggy Pop, "Dum dum boys"

Doomsday


The coward does it with a kiss,
the brave man with a sword
.


2007-2010

Now, in all of my wildest dreams,
it never once was seen

that Doomsday could fall anywhere near
a Tuesday
.

~ Elvis Perkins, "Doomsday"