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An excerpt from my unpublished paper << Returning >> …

I tried to distinguish from the difference in their presentation, the importance they had on the particular level of stairs.
I wondered what their difference was with her
need for coexistence here on the first landing after three steps and
in opposite direction from each other, as if they wanted her upside down
their backs.
My dilemma with the webbing that stretched across the soles
pursuing the inertia of my stride, who was trying to me
hinder, was growing up.
The feeling of impatience was intense
my n’ I discovered what I was looking for. He was thus giving me the equivalent
determination to turn by striding down the corridor to the right
my, where as I got closer, he was getting the coloring he wanted to have on
my eyes.
Vibrations, I thought.
Energy vibrations from time
pulse frequencies will generate diagrams with the analog
coloring, trying to reveal to me a part of what
I was looking for.
The corridor I had decided to walk in a
attempt to uncover its raison d'être, it was paved with slabs
blue and joints that glowed giving the impression, that each
slabs of the corridor are independent of each other.
Maybe me
this way they wanted in my view to give an interpretation, that each
my press, it had some separate significance from that of the simple corridor.
To the right I could see a door that did not touch the corridor, as independent from everything I was going through.
All as separate, but they were showing one.
Like a series of events dependent on each other to reveal the final result.
It was half open with lighting inside as well, that I could barely distinguish the colors.
I gently pushed it open, I tried to discern something that would
I had to be careful inside the protected area.
The look
I fell upon a figure standing with its back turned to
me as if avoiding the revelation of her face.
What my
allowed me to surmise in my tentative thought, was what he wanted me to notice
her presence knowing that I am ignorant of her truth.
He urged me to sharpen my attention by acknowledging my ignorance.
– In a village somewhere once upon a time, I heard her starting to tell me.
– There was a cave where everyone who had some serious problem
they could also visit by reporting their problem, they were receiving one
answer to solve it with wisdom. Everyone heard a voice, ma
no one had ever seen the face that spoke to them. They knew that someone
lived in there and they took care to bring him food for her every day
his survival, respecting his advice.
One day they got together
all who had consulted his voice in the square and under the pretext of it
their interest – for the existence of this man – they decided to
solve their curiosity about his appearance. They all gathered outside
cave asking him to appear and embrace him for their good
had done. The caveman did not deny them, as not his
he had refused to listen to their every problem with patience when they went to
consult it. When he appeared at the entrance of the cave everyone turned around
their faces elsewhere avoiding his ugliness and they left disappointed
for what they saw. This man already knowing her
their reaction he calmly entered the cave again without being
surprised. He knew each of them individually, since they had him
confided much more than they would have told him if they hadn't listened
only his voice.
He knew them far more than they knew him
themselves, since his only occupation was them, having solved it
problem of his own survival.
So he waited patiently for the end
of him without protesting the reaction they had. Non
visiting the cave to consult him, but also without
food to live.
Her silence told me she was done
what she wanted me to hear insisting on hiding her face and
challenging me to make my own thoughts.
Sometimes
by trusting more to our senses we exclude contact with it
deeper that emotion offers you.
The feeling of always having
the intermediate path that results in the arousal of emotion
sometimes it brings the opposite results from those attributed to it.
Logic in its attempt to balance legitimate reality
fails as an intermediary agent of correct conclusions
distorting the truth.
I did not know if the face of the form
this one was ugly or beautiful, but somehow he had revealed to me that the
each sense had a separate meaning.
That perhaps the most useful thing is to balance them with each other, rather than allowing one to prevail over the other.
In this search I had decided through this woman's gaze, I definitely had to not jump to conclusions.
Like a collector to collect what would be given to me and after exhibiting it all somewhere
together, to give all my attention and arrive at the truth that
distinguish.

I stood a little longer hoping that I would find something more in this room to aid my search.
Out of the corner of my eye and turning my body to leave, I noticed her sideways glance.
He had heard me, he had smelled me , but she hadn't seen me since
it was impossible for him to touch or taste me, did not resist the
tempted to cast a sideways glance.
The balance of the senses, have their own distinct degree of difficulty, even in conceptual entities.
Everything that is produced by us, is vulnerable having
weaknesses and thus betray, that it originates as his creation
human mind.
Going back to the landing didn't do much for me
thought space as I gazed in awe at the slabs below
my legs are throbbing, as if they felt each one's presence
my step and they were swaying maybe trying to balance it
my load.

Charalambos Bastas
Research writer

Come on baby don't cry calm down and stop give me your little hand to put out your fire.

I pulled up
again from my old notes a little poem, and i want to
publish, since I am in a period of soul opening and
certifications. I also write a couple of words about the circumstances under which
was written, to remind my people and to share them
my feelings with those affected by the matter.
It was his summer
1983. I was in our summer house with my wife Pepi, both of us
my children, little ones, 8 Maria and 3 Kostas is years old.
That one
in the evening I was very distressed, for Maria had fallen ill and the
thermometer had hit the 40. Pepi was all worry and despite that
it was one of the common situations that young children go through,
the situation had affected us a lot. We all know it's another thing
to rationalize a situation involving other children and another to it
you experience in your own children.
My inability to do anything, in order to
comforting my child and calming Pepi led me to write
the little poem that I present to you today.


Come on baby don't cry
calm down and stop
give me your little hand
to put out your fire.

And’ if something hurts you now
my heart, don't be a shadow
I'm here, your mother.
Egg, don't scratch it,

give me time to look
sweet hazel eyes
to lose myself in their gaze
to erase all meaning

My pride, the fever
it burns you, it drugs you
your lips are tight
and my heart melts

How t’ hold on my doll
let the illness knock you down
and’ απ’ your body is life
with guile to suck;

Good luck running
scatter old myrrh
n’ open his eyes
to shine all around

 

The touch of the Olympic Flame.

Her touch
Olympic Flame.
Few perhaps will
know and perhaps many less will be interested in this new decision of theirs
people of the government to touch the Olympic flame in Panathinaikos
stadium instead of ancient Olympia.
Not me
the indifference of the administrators of this situation is particularly striking as
they treated the renaming of the Olympic games to
Olympic games, as the foreign participants wanted them to be
event of the Greeks from 700 BC approx.
The one that doesn't
they predicted is the fact of the permanent name as a game and the global
relegation as far as the meaning of holding the Olympic games is concerned.
It can now
someone easily equates the Olympic games with the conduct of someone
football or singing competition.
None did
respected the meaning of these competitions by allowing the existence of anabolic with
result in having controls for use.
None did
έδωσε σημασία στην προσθήκη αγωνισμάτων με μη Ελληνικές ρίζες.
Κανένας δεν θα
δώσει σημασία στην αφή της Ολυμπιακής φλόγας εάν αύριο γίνει στην Ουκρανία ή
στην Αγγλία.
None did
δίνει σημασία σε κάτι που είναι Ελληνικό
Έχουμε την
απαίτηση να μας σεβαστούν ως έθνος ενώ επιτρέπουμε να μας κατευθύνουν έτσι που
να μην σεβόμαστε την Ελλάδα.
Για κάποιους
κάθε τι που έχει προέλευση από την αρχαία Ελλάδα είναι εμπορεύσιμο και
παγκόσμιο χωρίς να λένε ότι σκοπιμότητά τους είναι να αφαιρούν κομμάτι
κομμάτι την πραγματική μας ρίζα.
Εάν κάποια
στιγμή δεν αντιδράσουμε , στο τέλος θα μείνουν μόνο οι φουστανέλες για να
επιδεικνύουμε στα μουσεία μας ως έθνος και κράτος, γεννημένο και υπαρκτό μόνο
from 1821.
Εάν δεν
αντιδράσουμε, κάποια στιγμή την Ακρόπολη τα δισέγγονα μας θα γνωρίζουν ως το
σπίτι του Καραϊσκάκη.
Αδιάψευστο
παράδειγμα εμείς ως δισέγγονα κάποιων άλλων που ότι γνωρίζουμε είναι αυτό που
μας πρόσφεραν.
Αν ανατρέξεις λίγο
στα βιβλία της Αρχαία Ελληνικής Γραμματείας θα διαπιστώσεις πως ότι έχει φτάσει
στα χέρια μας, είναι όσα έχουν γράψει για εμάς οι Ευρωπαίοι.
Ακόμα και η
προφορά της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής γλώσσας μελετήθηκε για πρώτη φορά από Ευρωπαίους
της Αναγέννησης και προτάθηκε επίσημα από τον Ολλανδό Έρασμο για να καθιερωθεί
με αποδοχή όλων ως Ερασμιακή προφορά.
Let's get
επιτέλους την τύχη μας στα δικά μας χέρια κι ας αποφασίσουμε εμείς γι αυτή.
Εάν δεν
αντιδράσουμε εμείς ενάντια στην τακτική εξόντωσής μας ως Έθνος, θα έχουμε την
ευθύνη για τα όνειρα που θα δημιουργούν τα παιδιά μας και την ταυτότητα που θα έχουν
όταν τα δημιουργούν.
Το κόμμα Ελλήνων
πολιτεία καλεί όλους σε διαμαρτυρία με στάση εργασίας και αποχής από
οποιαδήποτε δραστηριότητα την ημέρα της παραλαβής
30 April 2014 που θα γίνει στο Παναθηναϊκό
Στάδιο.
Καλούμε
όλα τα πολιτικά κόμματα που αναγνωρίζουν την πρόθεση της ενέργειας αυτής από
τους παράγοντες και της Ελληνικής κυβέρνησης,  να συμμετέχουν μαζί μας αναμεταδίδοντας και
υιοθετώντας την αναίμακτη αυτή πρότασή μας ως διαμαρτυρία. Είναι χρέος μας ως
Έλληνες να αντισταθούμε σε ότι έχει σκοπό να φθείρει τις πραγματικές μας ρίζες .
Is
χρέος μας να σταθούμε με το κεφάλι ψηλά ως Έλληνες.
All
together.
Μια φωνή.
Greece
he lives.
Charalambos Bastas
Υπεύθυνος του επιχειρησιακού & πολιτικού
σχεδιασμού
του κόμματος Ελλήνων Πολιτεία.
Research writer

Jordan, with Marina Aslanoglou from the State Theater of Northern Greece State Theater of Northern Greece

The State Theater of Northern Greece presents the work "Jordan", by Anna Reynolds and Moira Buffini, directed by Nikos Mastorakis.
             
The monologue, who is interpreted by Marina Aslanoglou, will premiere on Wednesday 3 April 2013, at 21.00.

The State Theater of Northern Greece presents the play "Jordan", by Anna Reynolds and Moira Buffini, directed by Nikos Mastorakis. A shocking testimony, based on the true story of Shirley Jones comes to life on stage at the Theater Royal, from Wednesday 3/04/13.

The heartbreaking monologue is performed by Melina Merkouri, who won the Audience Award 2011 of "Athinorama" magazine, Marina Aslanoglou.

A few words about the project:
In a court waiting room, Shirley awaits the verdict of the judges. Her brutal lover, but also welfare want to take her child, but she can't live without Jordan, nor Jordan without her.  A true story, where the central person, Shirley Jones revealed to Anna Reynolds, one of the two authors, when the two of them were inmates in prison.

"Jordan", a play that was presented with great success in Athens during the theater seasons 2010-11 & 2011-12, with Marina Aslanoglou performing – according to the excellent reviews-  with passion, sensitivity and heartbreak Shirley and, finally, to manage to give the viewer no melancholy, but euphoria.

COEFFICIENTS:
Translation: Marios Ploritis
Direction: Nikos Mastorakis
Performed by Marina Aslanoglou

The theater celebrates… on his International Day

Message from the Italian comedian, author, theater director and composer Dario Fo

It has been celebrated for half a century now World Theater Day at 27 Of March: From the 1962 that the institution was established by the International Theater Institute, the world honors an art that looks like it, despite the problems, not to be daunted by anything. A text, an actor, a stage and light constitute the essence of theater which is enriched by sets and costumes, colors, effects and video.

Nobel laureate Dario Fo was chosen for this year's message. It's a habit, every year, a recognized personality to write the message, which is read and transmitted all over the world. They have preceded, including, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Laurence Olivier, Jean Louis Barot, Peter Brook, Pablo Neruda, Eugene Ionesco, Luchino Visconti, Martin Eslin, Iakovos Campanellis, Arian Mnuskin, Robert Lepage, Augusto Boal, Judi Dench, John Malkovich.

The message of the Italian comedian, author, theater director and composer Dario Fo is as follows:

“Many years ago, the authorities solved the problem of their tolerance towards the actors of the Commedia dell’ Arte driving them out of the country.

Today, actors and troupes have trouble finding public stages, theaters and spectators, because of the crisis.
Therefore, the rulers, they have no problem controlling those who express themselves through irony and sarcasm, since there is no room for the actors, but neither an audience to which they can address themselves.

On the contrary, during the Renaissance, in Italy, the rulers had to try hard to put the comedians in a difficult position since they were enjoyed by a large portion of the public.

It is known that the great exit of the actors of the Commedia dell’ Arte took place in the century of the Counter-Reformation, with the institutionalization of the abolition of all theaters, especially in Rome, where they were accused of desecrating the Holy City. The 1967, Pope Innocent XII, under the constant pressure of the conservative side of the bourgeoisie and the clergy, ordered the demolition of the Tordonina Theatre, which according to moralists, had featured the largest number of obscene scenes.

At the time of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, who operated in the north of Italy, had devoted himself to the redemption of "the children of Milan", setting for art a clear division, as the highest form of spiritual education, and the theater as the expression of obscenity and vanity. In a letter he addressed to his associates, which I quote almost verbatim, expressed his beliefs roughly as follows: “I am concerned about the elimination of the bad seed, we have made every effort to burn the texts that contain odd reasons, to obliterate them from the memory of men, and at the same time prosecute those who circulate these texts in printed form. But apparently while we were sleeping, the devil was at work with renewed zeal. What the eyes can see can be more penetrating to the soul than’ what they can read in such books! How destructive to the minds of young men and women can be verbal speech and indecent movements, than a lifeless word printed in books. For’ this is urgent to rid our cities of those who make theater, as we do with unwanted souls".

Therefore the only solution to the crisis is to hope that the great witch hunt is organized against us and especially against the young people who wish to be taught the art of the theatre.: a new dispersion of Comedians, creators of the theater, who through this restriction will create unimaginable benefits for a new representation".

Born on 24 March of 1926 _closed them 87 of years, Fo received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1997. With his work, which picks up the thread from Italian Comedy of’ until, criticizes societies, in political corruption, in the dogmatism of the church, in the bad texts of everyday life. Together with his wife, the actress Franka Rame was founded, the 1959,  the Theater Company that bears their names and started with humorous television sketches. They soon became known and so they developed, gradually a "resistance" theater, often blasphemous and mocking. At the end of the 60s they founded an acting school, were actively associated with the Communist Party of Italy and the 1970 they created the Collective Communist Theatre (La Comune Theater Collective), while also starting factory tours, parks and gyms.

Dario Fo has to his credit around 70 projects, several of which he co-signs with Rame: "The Accidental Death of an Anarchist" stands out (is being performed this year at the Alexandrakis Theater by Spyros Papadopoulos), the “I don't pay! I don't pay", which for years was uploaded by Stefanos Linaios with her Elli Fotiou at the Alpha Theater, while in the list of his plays performed in Athens is also this year's great success of "Mister Bufo", directed by Thomas Moschopoulos at the Thision Theatre.

Source : tovima.gr

15the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: The triumph of a greengrocer!

The public loved Dimitris Koutsiabasakou's documentary and gave him his award

The film "The Greengrocer" by Dimitris Koutsiabasakos that "To Vima" first highlighted in July 2012 before it is even fully completed, finally won the audience award for Greek film over 45′ at the 15th Thessaloniki documentary festival. Koutsiabasakou's film is sensitive and realistic, records the course of a street vendor in the villages of Diodytiki Pindos during the four seasons of the year (see related report entitled "The mountain grocer").
The awards of the 15th Thessaloniki documentary festival were awarded on Saturday night at the Olympian in Aristotelous Square. Best Foreign Documentary Production Over 45′ is for the public of Thessaloniki the "blood brother" («Blood Brother») of the American Steve Hoover, the story of Rocky a man who decided to dedicate his life to caring for children suffering from AIDS in India.
In movies under 45′ "A heritage" was considered the best Greek: With the soul in the mouth" by Kyriaki Malama in which the actor Akyllas Karazisis appears: Kyriakos Poimenidis gives a shocking account of his terrible days 1920 in Kavac, on the outskirts of Samsounda, and the painful wandering of the Greek Orthodox women and children of the village on the streets of exile to the South of Turkey, near the border with Syria.  
Best Foreign Production Under 45′ the "High Price of Gold" was judged, a DRC/UK co-production directed by Ross Domony. The film points out that Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is the most dangerous place in the world for a woman and that every hour that passes, about 48 women are being raped in a country famous for its mineral wealth.
At the awards of the international committee of film critics FIPRESCI, the film "They Glow in the Dark" directed by Panagiotis Evaggelidis was judged the best Greek film over 45′  and the “Parts of a Family| (Netherlands, Mexico) directed by Diego Gutierrez, best foreigner.
ERT3's television viewing award in a documentary in the "Society and Environment" section was awarded half-way to the films "Little Land" (Hellas, France) directed by Nikos Dayatas and "Winter Nomads" (Switzerland) directed by Maniel von Stirler. The ERT "Doc on Air" award for the best film project proposed by the Pitching Forum of the European Documentary Network EDN and corresponds to a cash prize 7.000 euro was awarded to "Playing With Fire" (Hellas) of Anneta Papathanasiou and the international award for the documentary "Lege me Koutsou" (USA) directed by Kathryn Fairfax Wright and Malika Zuhali- Warroll.
Source : tovima.gr

Musicbox: Depeche Mode confirm their legend

David Bowie was worth the wait, Justin Timberlake releases one of the albums of the year

What a great month; It's not a small thing to hear Bowie's new album after ten years, The,what this might mean for each, the best Justin Timberlake you could imagine, Depeche Mode on form and a new artist like Assaf Avidan to move you. That's all!

Justin Timperlake – «20/20 Experience»


WWG-RCA

I declare myself a fan of Justin right off the bat, but that doesn't mean I accept that he effortlessly pitches to me.. But how can I remain unmoved in this storm of ideas and inspiration that came upon me from the first moment I heard this news, his third album.

I had a fear because I thought his relationship with Timbaland would end in fiasco, since the latter has long since run out of ideas, in addition to the fact that his very good works bear the signature of the beloved Missy Elliott. But Justin is a smart guy.

He knows and gets what he needs from everyone he works with, as all the greats of the past did, and so does his new co-producer Jerome “J-Roc” Harmon. But above all, he has a vision. In this album he manages in a magical way to bring together the great things from the past, see The Chi-Lites, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Prince with the so-called neo-soul of our day and to present a bold project for an artist of this scope.

Instead of presenting easy-to-digest sketches of three to four minutes and adding two or three rhymes from some well-known rappers and ending, he worked hard and blended almost everything in his personal blender.

Groovy Oriental and African rhythms on 'Let The Groove Get In', sweet seventilla on "Spaceship Coup", Prince's looks in 'Tunnel Vision'. No doubt, one of the albums of the year, and one of those that challenge you to explore them constantly. I didn't like it, when he answered about the long duration of the songs how: "I don't understand why Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd had the right and we didn't". A soul messiah was born. I hope the obsession with color stays in music and doesn't follow in Michael's footsteps!

9/10

Depeche Mode – «Delta Machine»


Columbia

If Delta refers to selling their soul to the devil in order to gain maximum inspiration for their music, perhaps Depeche Mode should try harder. On the other hand because I belong to those whose DNA has been watered by the Holy Trinity of their discography "Black Celebration" – «Music For The Masses» – "Violator" and I accept like a good boy any of their offers, especially in a period when we are not even shocked by innovations.

"Delta Machine" according to Dave Gahan is the last part of a trilogy, that no one realized, with producer Ben Hillier. But it magically contains all the elements and reasons why we loved this band from Britain. Maybe not, it's the first time their work takes on that dark dimension we loved in the Alan Wilder era, especially in songs like 'Angel' and 'Secret To The End'.

Electronic vignettes of high aesthetics and deep introspection as always happens with Martin Gore's speech. There are many reasons to love 'Delta Machine', I pick 'Should Be Higher' a twist, post-dance dynamite with vocals beyond imagination.

8/10


 David Bowie – «The Next Day»


Sony Music

I wanted some time to die down with all this fuss about David Bowie's new release, already No. 1 in all countries of the world. I wanted to see more calmly not only if it was worth all this ten-year wait, but also if he finally had a reason to break his silence and release an album of new songs on 66 his years and after all he has done.

I'm not going to fall into the trap of ranking it, it has become boring to have every new album of his judged as 'the,what's better than the 70s" or "o,what better last ten, twenty or thirty years". We'd better make up our minds that with such an offer as he had throughout the 70s it's impossible for him to ever record anything like it. On the other hand, in the last thirty years, he has released albums that put the glasses on many newcomers, such as the excellent "1. Outside' or 'Heathen'.

In this context, "The Next Day" also moves and goes even further I would say. It is Bowie's attempt to read himself after the countless copies that have preceded him by others. His Bowie 2013 he opens his colorful palette and chooses the ones that make him happy or at least the ones that help him express himself today.

Starting with an inventive cover that takes us back to 'Heroes' as the title heralds the future, we are in the song of the same name whose intro is 'Repetition' from 'Lodger' to later become the,anything from "Scary Monsters". Valentine's Day is new-glam, becomes the crooner we loved in the past with 'Heat', "How Does The Grass Grow" with its chorus is reminiscent of "Soul Love", 'Dirty Boys' his collaborations with Iggy and 'Love Is Lost' his industrial vignettes '1. Outside».  Το «Where Are We Now?” was just the right introduction for this self-reading with the flashback to the Berlin days that everyone likes to refer to today. But nothing in "The Next Day" sounds outdated and outdated. Very neat production by Visconti as always and flawlessly performed music by experts like guitarist David Thorne and of course the beloved Earl Slick.

The 2004 after the health problem he had, very wisely he had said that he was not going to write warmly about o,what happened to him, he followed it and did well. The references to death now especially through the wonderful track "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die" are not so much about the shock of the fear of death but more about the awareness of mortality.

In short a solid piece of work from an Artist who has absolutely nothing to prove and still knows how to market some of the most adventurous music around like no other..

9/10

Asaf Avidan – «Different Pulses»

Universal

One of the biggest surprises of the year is without a doubt this awesome kid from Israel. The "spiritual child of Dylan and Joplin" as they call him did not come from heaven after he has recorded in recent years with his band Asaf Avidan & The Mojos and became known to the wider public both with the hit 'One Day / Reckoning Song" as well as for his participation in the Who tribute at Carnegie Hall and his support appearances with Bob Dylan.

The big asset in Asaf Avidan's case is his unique voice and that's what's interesting about his first solo album, that while it could remain in the ease of impressing us lists a dozen songs of excellent writing, mature verse and most importantly amazing choruses. Songs that you can identify with for one reason or another but mostly you can sing along _ a rare thing these days.

8/10

Source : tovima.gr