Orestes choking chicks

July 2010, Epidaurus

Everybody fucks
Everybody sucks
Everybody cries
Everybody dies

~ System of a Down, "Violent pornography"

Threesome

July 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

Zenit ET + Baldixette + Nikon F2

Titanomachy

July 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

Zenit ET Vs Nikon F2

Gorgeous

July 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

Nikon F2

Tourist trap

July 2010, Mount Olympus

I didn't ask for sunshine
and I got World War Three

~ Sex Pistols, "Holidays in the sun"

The fish knows

July 2010, A-1

The man thinks, the horse thinks
The sheep thinks, the cow thinks, the dog thinks
The fish doesn't think
The fish is mute, expressionless
The fish doesn't think because the fish knows
Everything

~ Iggy Pop, "This is a film"

In the sun in my disgrace

July 2010, A-1

Boiling heat, summer stench
'neath the black the sky looks dead
Call my name through the cream
and I'll hear you scream again

~ Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"

GPS

July 2010, A-1

Brace yourself, my dear

~ Dead Kennedys, "Holiday in Cambodia"

Holy key

July 2010, A-1

Shatter

July 2010, A-1

Urban Gothic II

June 2010, Patissia, Athens

The dead have come to claim a debt from thee
They stand outside your door four score and three

~ The Pogues, "Turkish song of the damned"

Urban Gothic I

June 2010, Patissia, Athens

White lady growling on a chain
Peacock caw the sound of my lover's name
The tone was pure and played on gut
from your birdhouse aflame

~ Woven Hand, "Story and pictures"

Darn...

May 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

This human form
Where I was born
I now repent

~ Pixies, "Caribou"

Rails

May 2010, Patissia, Athens

A life for a life
and a truth for a truth

~ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, "The Mercy Seat"

The usual

April 2010, downtown, Athens

Through a frosted stopwatch
Time is ticking
Tick tick tick tick dead

~ The Horrors, "New Ice Age"

Goddammit

2010

The large print giveth
and the small print taketh away

~ Tom Waits, "Step right up"

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

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"

....

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.

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"

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

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"

...and a happy new year

July 2009, Chania

Casting out my sweet line
With abandonment and love
No ceiling bearing down on me
Save the starry sky above

~ The Waterboys, "Fisherman's blues"

We wish you a merry Christmas...

January 2010, Exarcheia, Athens

And when it gets to closing time
and if you still want more,
I know a pub in Inverness
that never shuts its door.

~ Die Toten Hosen, "Auld Lang Syne"

Poetry

December 2009, Patissia, Athens

Οι συλληφθέντες θα παραπέμπονται στην αστυνομία.

Wall

December 2009, Exarcheia, Athens

So don't tell me what to write
and don't tell me that I'm wrong
and don't tell me not to reference
my songs within my songs

~ Dresden Dolls, "Backstabber"

Switchblades preferred

December 2009, Exarcheia, Athens

Angel looks down at him
and says, "Oh, pretty boy,
can't you show me nothing but surrender?"

~ Patti Smith, "Land"

Ola lathos

December 2009, Iris, Athens

A lesson in common mistakes: burned, blurred, grainy AND out of focus. I'm so proud... Oh, and is that lens flare? Yes, I think we covered everything.

Right behind you, I see the millions

December 2009, Patissia, Athens

You can't see nothing,
and pinball completes the scene.
Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to
your very own machine.

~ The Who, "We're not gonna take it"

Quadrophenia

December 2009, Patissia, Athens

I can't sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink
of cool cool rain

~ The Who, "Love, reign o'er me"

Ghostwalk

December 2009, Patissia, Athens

Imagine a past
That you wish you had lived
Full of heroes and villains and fools
And you will see the end

Imagine a soul
So old it it is broken
And you know your invention is you
And you will see the end

~ The Who, "Imagine a man"

Tommy can you hear me

December 2009, Patissia, Athens

Do you hear or fear or
do I smash the mirror?

~ The Who, "Smash the mirror"

I can see for miles

November 2009, Attiki, Athens

I've always said that street photography is simply not my style. Not that I don't like it, of course. Hell, I can spend hours looking at other people's street photos with nothing short of a pervert's glee. But I don't like my privacy being invaded by a stranger's camera, and I don't like invading the privacy of strangers with mine. The fact that lately, hesitantly, this is exactly what I've been doing means one thing: Expect some crappy photos. This is utterly new to me.

Nouvelle Vague

November 2009, Nouvelle Vague @ Gagarin 205, Athens

I got 96 tears
and 96 eyes

~ The Cramps, "Human Fly"

The future is unwritten

2009

Sachs IV

November 2009, Patissia, Athens

“What care I for my house and home
or even my wee baby?
What care I for my own true love
for I love the Gypsy Davey.”

~ Fotheringay, "Gypsy Davey"

Sachs III

November 2009, Patissia, Athens

“How could you leave your goose feather bed
your blankets strewn so comely-o?
And how could you leave your newly wedded Lord
all for a raggle taggle gypsy-o?”

“What care I for my goose feather bed
wi' blankets strewn so comely-o?
Tonight I lie in a wide open field
in the arms of a raggle taggle gypsy-o”

~ The Waterboys, "The raggle taggle gypsy"

Sachs II

November 2009, Patissia, Athens

Meanwhile, cropping remains the most frustrating thing I've ever had to deal with. I just can't get it right. I'm guessing this is because it involves conscious decision making. The horror...

"Go saddle me my black mare,
the grey is ne'er so speedy.
And I'll ride all night and I'll ride all day
till I overtake my lady.''

~ Fotheringay, "Gypsy Davey"

Sachs I

November 2009, Patissia, Athens

Gypsy laddie come riding through the wilderness
Singing so loud and merry-o
His voice rang out through the green green trees
And he charmed the heart of a maiden-o

"How old are you, my pretty little miss
How old are you, my honey-o?"
She answered him with a tee-ha-ha
"I'll be sixteen next Sunday-o"

~ Elvis Perkins, "Gypsy Davey"

Hey Ho

2009

What can you do?
With a brat like that
Always on your back
What can you lose?

~ The Ramones, "Beat on the brat"

P.S. Apparently, you can lose the brat.

Brain kids

November 2009, Iris, Athens

I smoke two joints in time of peace
and two in time of war
I smoke two joints
before I smoke two joints
and then I smoke two more

~ Sublime, "Smoke two joints"

Csillagok

November 2009, Athens Concert Hall