Heh

2010

I know it's heavy
I know it ain't light
But how you gonna lift it
With your arms folded tight

~ Arcade Fire, "Month of May"

Overhearing

October 2010, Monastiraki, Athens

But in my teleconference with Houston
they told me I wasn't any use to 'em.
So I walked up the length
of the Street they call Straight
cursing myself
cause I got there too late.

~ The Fiery Furnaces, "Straight Street"

Feed me, Seymour

October 2010, Monastiraki, Athens

I'm your genie, I'm your friend, I'm your willing slave
Take a chance, just feed me and
You know the kinda eats, the kinda red hot treats
The kinda sticky licky sweets I crave

~ Little Shop of Horrors, "Feed me (Git it)"

Unsuspecting

October 2010, Monastiraki, Athens

But whatever they offer you
Though they're slopping the trough for you
Please, whatever they offer you,
Don't feed the plants

~ Little Shop Of Horrors, "Finale"

From above

2010

Run

October 2010, downtown, Athens

I run from their pity, from responsibility
I run from the country and run from the city
I can run from the law, I can run from myself
I can run for my life, I can run into debt
I can run from it all, I can run 'til I'm gone
I can run for the office and run from the cause

~ Amanda Palmer, "Runs in the family"

Night vision

October 2010, downtown, Athens

Slingshot

October 2010, downtown, Athens

I propose a toast to my self control
You see it crawling helpless on the floor
Someday there'll be a cure for pain
That's the day I throw my drugs away

~ Morphine, "Cure for pain"

Propelled

October 2010, downtown, Athens

All I heard was an unearthly silence
Apart from the violence, explode in my head
Where all at once was this moment of beauty
No more since it slew me, no never again

~ Flogging Molly, "Selfish man"

Crossroads

October 2010, downtown, Athens

The Photographer

2010

Should I choose a noble occupation?
If I did, I'd only show up late and sick
and they would stare at me with hatred
Plus, my only natural talent's wasted
on my alcoholic friends
The party never ends

~ The Dresden Dolls, "My alcoholic friends"

Yellow

2004

Hard on

October 2010, Patissia, Athens

What is a dog but a machine for loving
You introduce him to a human being
Giving him the mission to love
And however ugly, perverse, deformed
Or stupid this human being might be
The dog loves him

~ Iggy Pop, "A machine for loving"

Turtles are fundamentally weird animals

September 2010, Exarcheia (!), Athens

And when I say goodnight
The pictures in my head
Will dance around my room
And frolic in my bed

~ Vincent Marcone

Meta

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

And after all this
won't you give me a smile?

~ The Clash, "London calling"

Tling

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

Make your shrink happy.

To pee or not to pee

August 2010, Patissia, Athens

Or sumthin

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

Don't ask.

Feed your head

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

Man is tethered
Spirit free
What spirit is
Man can be

~ The Waterboys, "Spirit"

A forest

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

I wouldn't bother with this one, but when I saw it on full screen mode, I could swear that the curtain moved with the breeze. Absolutely curtains.

Another wonderful view

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

Rite

September 2010, Patissia, Athens

College kids II: dancing away

December 2009, downtown, Athens

College kids I : fourth wall down

December 2009, downtown, Athens

The weight of the centuries was on his shoulders, and a sadness that no logic could dispel.

~ Arthur C. Clarke, "Childhood's End"

Summer in the city

July 2010, Peristeri, Athens

Twisted

April 2010, downtown, Athens

The days are much too bright

~ The Smashing Pumpkins, "We only come out at night"

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