"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." Now, Voyager, 1942

Neither the stars nor the moon, you are such a coward my superhero!

Marlene Dietrich - Blonde Venus

...so correctly wrong and faux comme il faut

Marlene Dietrich - I get a kick out of you

Today I went to the sea with my friend Konstantinos

Melina Merkouri as Blanche DuBois (A streetcar named desire)

(The sea will bring birds / and the wind will bring golden stars / that will caress your hair / and kiss your hand... / Paper moon, fake beach / If you believed me a bit, everything would be real / Without your love / time goes by quickly / Without your love / the world is smaller...)

DESTE Prize Practicalities

The 2007 DESTE Prize is Loukia Alavanou… The ceremony was held yesterday at DESTE Foundation in Athens. They gave me as well my statuette due from 2005… It is faux-shinny and kind of kinky useful real size cute hand:

You can use it as a decoration next to your hotel abas jour

Or as a “bag”

As a weapon

Or as a sex toy


...as you can see it is very handy, even though insanely heavy. My main concern for now is that I will need to pay an overweight fine at the airport to get it out of the country...

"Ping"

Fetch the engines my superhero

Angelo Plessas...

lives in a nice house (in Paleo Faliro - Athens) with Andreas Angelidakis and I love being their guest

End of Summer 4

End of Summer 3

End of Summer 2

End of Summer 1

Kristian Sleeps

Back to Athens (staying at the glam-kinky guest room of Angelo and Andrea)

November's Kiss

Donald Duck is praying

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Words by Jimmy Kennedy
Music by Nat Simon

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Balıklar

Ahmet and Pilvi

My friend Ahmet got married to his love Pivli and they gave yesterday a super Kurdish-Finish party at Platform. We danced to Kurdish traditional music and then to “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo”. Everybody had fun. I wrote my name under the bride’s shoe and touched the wedding bouquet… Inshallah…

...too

Ikki

I have taken this picture of Hüseyin last year, same period, before leaving Istanbul and after spending about six months there. Hüseyin has shorter hair now, a new job (so not a journalist any more) and he moved into a new house. He is negotiating his future and thinking of moving to Austria for a while. He is still calm and shy. He checked if I remember the Turkish alphabet and numbers that he teaches me: Bir Ayran, Ikki Kitap, üch defter…

Tova Mozart and Christodoulos Panayiotou at Big Family Business today (by Antonis Bogadakis)

Away

No way

On the way

Show me the way - Büyükada (The Prince's Island)

Follow the white – lucky – rabbit(s)

There is a spectacular Turkish adaptation of the Chinese fortune cookies, which I came across yesterday… You pay a rabbit to choose a piece of paper (which exist translated in English as well) and which gives you (as always) the most accurate résumé of your projections…



“36. You love so much someone and you are going to crazy when you don’t see him. You are suddenly wake up at midnight and you waste your sleeps. but don’t worry he-she love you too. you will be happy soon…”

Rodeo Openning