Here's the tune that will be considered my summer song this year.
As most good things in life, it's a mix. Kind of rock, kind of pop, kind of its own genre.
Prove me wrong, listen to it and judge.
The song is in Greek, but here's the translated chorus.
Hide, lest I find you and love you
lest I touch the things you feel
lest I bend your confidence
and erase the things we've lived
I'll erase them
Ράλλια Χριστίδου - Κρύψου (Rallia Hristidou - Hide)
Monday, June 25, 2007
Saturday, June 02, 2007
On Farewell
We are social creatures. We most of the time enjoy the company of others, and when not enjoying others' company we still remain social, in engaging with ourselves.
I understand the argument is kind of circular and as such the phrase a tautology, but I believe it to be true based on my experience, so to me it's closer to an axiom.
So what happens when we are forced to walk against our nature? It's time for a farewell.
It could be to a family member, a dear friend, a favorite team, an unrequited love or even crush, a person we exchanged lots of smiles in a small amount of time, a perfect stranger at the airport with whom we shared one too many gazes, or ourselves when it's time to leave our-world. The farewell is almost always bitter-sweet, and sometimes addictive.
The recent trip to Paris lent itself to most kinds of farewell to me.
In my search for a video clip able to convey the complicated parting emotions, I settled with an amalgamation of scenes from Jean Grey's Phoenix Saga (X-Men Animated Series). In the video, one can find two spoken farewells, as well as an implied one, which I will leave as an exercise to the astute viewer to discover. If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then the following video should be worth close to 12,905,000 words.
Farewell!
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. [Emily Dickinson]
I understand the argument is kind of circular and as such the phrase a tautology, but I believe it to be true based on my experience, so to me it's closer to an axiom.
So what happens when we are forced to walk against our nature? It's time for a farewell.
It could be to a family member, a dear friend, a favorite team, an unrequited love or even crush, a person we exchanged lots of smiles in a small amount of time, a perfect stranger at the airport with whom we shared one too many gazes, or ourselves when it's time to leave our-world. The farewell is almost always bitter-sweet, and sometimes addictive.
The recent trip to Paris lent itself to most kinds of farewell to me.
In my search for a video clip able to convey the complicated parting emotions, I settled with an amalgamation of scenes from Jean Grey's Phoenix Saga (X-Men Animated Series). In the video, one can find two spoken farewells, as well as an implied one, which I will leave as an exercise to the astute viewer to discover. If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then the following video should be worth close to 12,905,000 words.
Farewell!
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. [Emily Dickinson]
Friday, June 01, 2007
Paris, the highlights
For this once, I am not referring to miss Hilton's hair.
Instead, I'm referring to the Paris vacation which is now nearing its completion....
Our team managed to finish 8th out of 10 in the tournament's A league.
We could have done better, but our performance on Saturday was way below what it should have been. Sunday however, was a different story! A feisty G-Unit put forward a recital performance against the then 2nd team (who would eventually finish 4th), and we scored an important victory with two winning sets, 20-13 and 20-09. You can see the happiness reflected in our faces below.
The New Inside-Joke quotes
The Cheers
The Classics
Instead, I'm referring to the Paris vacation which is now nearing its completion....
Our team managed to finish 8th out of 10 in the tournament's A league.
We could have done better, but our performance on Saturday was way below what it should have been. Sunday however, was a different story! A feisty G-Unit put forward a recital performance against the then 2nd team (who would eventually finish 4th), and we scored an important victory with two winning sets, 20-13 and 20-09. You can see the happiness reflected in our faces below.
The New Inside-Joke quotes
- Oh come on, people are dying back here!
- Just buy shorter shorts...
- - Dan, Dan, Dan, Danny, Danny, Daniel, Daniel wake up! - Whaaaat?!?!?! - G-Unit needs you.
- That's not classy...
- Bravo!!! [frantic clapping ensues]
- When I was in Jamaica...
- Do you like Bob Marley?
- Pita Bread!!!
- Fifth... [delirious laughs ensue]
- Dear diary...
- We ought to talk!
- - Mercy! - Beacoup, Beacoup!
- Bagel. Oh god, I keep getting this picture in my head...
- What's a guy gotta do around here to get a gommage?
The Cheers
- Ace, Martina! M.A.R.T.I.N.A. ACE! Ooohh!
- Dumb bitch [clap, clap, clap], Dumb bitch [clap, clap, clap].
- - Au sigming! - Ping!
- Allons, energy!!! ooooOOOOOHHH
- Barbie, Jouie! Hi hi hi hi hi.
The Classics
- - Didn't your mama teach you how to show affection? - Well, she did, she tried, it didn't work...
- Talk, talk, talk... Just too much.
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