Ghost World

GHOST WORLD is the story of ENID and REBECCA, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship.

Daniel Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the trivial thrills and hourly tragedies of a warning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realized young women.

Clowes spells out the realities of teen angst.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

This special book a really precious friend if mine had given me as a Xmas present some years ago when she had returned home from her first big trip abroad in the UK.

I thank her for this.

This book has been a good friend of mine - a true compagnion and consolation in lonely times.

I just want to thank from the bottom of my heart my special friend as well as Tim Burton for Being There..

Tim Burton - the creative genius behind Sweeny Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Eduard Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Xmas, The Beetlejuice and Corpse Bride - has given birth to a number of gruesomely sympathetic creatures : misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel cruel world.His lovingly horrifying pictures evoke both the swetness and tragedy of these hopeful yet misfortunate beings.

Tim Burton's films exquisitely convey the pain of an adolescent outsider.

Vicky and I

I met my cousin Vicky just some years ago in my adolescence while being on vacation in Kalamata, the hometown of our families, under weird but certainly funny circumstanes-in the house of a mad 90-year-old aunt named Katina...

The rest is just history...lol

We spent the whole weekend together on the beach, under the sun talking observing each other and trying to realize if we could really be cousins..

That's when this relationship had just started and i could never then think that this would really make an impact on me years later when I decided to go on exchange in Amsterdam and get acquainted with the Dutch culture..

So, until then we were just spending some summer weekends in Greece together as she was coming here every summer to absorb some Greek sun..

When I started thinking the possibilty of going on Erasmus in Ams a genuine contact was about to begin on line via msn thus making me familiar with the globalized collunication means of internet for the first time..lol Greeks are always late but that's not my topic today..

What happens when u start sharing your everyday life and thoughts with sb u had just been a distant relative of yours and would turn out to be sth more than an ordinary friend?!

For the period of 5 months while it was all settled about my exchange semester in Ams that would turn out to be a whole year we had developped this daily contact by writing long emails and sharing our experiences and expectations..

So the time had come and I arrived in the most beautiful and cosy city I d been in my life and for the first time living away from my home and the security that my parents had been providing me with so far..

My journey was just about to begin and of course by then I didn't know that it'd be maybe the most crucial stage of my life..

I will always remember the first day Vicky had come to pick me up from the airport..Athens was unbearably hot and I had just arrived in the country of non-stop rain and cold..lol

We were both so crazy that day..she was trying to make me feel really intimate with everything that was extremely new to me but this was not difficult as Ams is the cosiest place on earth..

U can just feel or thing anything u want..U are just free to explore who u really are and find your true self..

And this was MAGIC!

A Great indeed relationship had already begun and of course we were involved in it but hadn't realized it at that moment..

That year, also, it was Vick's escape from her small hometown and the start of her adult life in Ams as a student ready to experience life and uni-life..

So it was for both of us a fresh start!

And many things happened for both of us there and we kinda grew up there and changed a bit inside..

I want to dedicate this post to my beloved cousin Vick

Without u it wouldn't be the same

Thank U for

all the help u ve given me so far

all the unforgettable moments we shared in Amsterdam, Hoopfdorp, Haarlem, Hilversum, Kinkerstraat, Rombout, Sarphati...

all the crazy things we did in Paris, Prague and Vienna

Thank U for

introducing me into the magnificent Dutch country

teaching me how to say good morning in Dutch

showing me Adam and all its secrets

guiding me how to cycle a bike in the Netherlands

encouraging me abt being the shortest person around the tallest people on earth

making me feel like home

I felt special in Adam and U were of great importance in it..

I miss U tons and Love U so much

There is no greater cousinbond than ours in the whole world!

This Year

What can I say about This Year in Athens???

hmmmm

One thing is for sure: this year is filled

with true FRIENDS

with ESN AUEB events

with Good Cinema

with Theatre

with new athens vibes

NOT bad I'd say

Even though I keep realizing things in Athens that make me annoyed and feel nostalgic

about amsterdam life I know things here are GOOD

We have fun

We enjoy ourselves

We get involved in several different things

We are interesting personalities most of us Greeks

and most importantly

We LOVE each other!

and that's a big deal cos

ALL U NEED IS LOVE!!!!!!

I love u my friends xx

Last Year

What can I say about this amazing photo my friend Ian took in Amsterdam!

Yesterday morning I opened up my facebook account and i just saw it and my day was brightened..

The way I smile reflects all my experiences and feelings and things I shared with my friends in my exchange experience..

I'm not sure if I'll ever be as happy as that year 2007 in the Netherlands..

Maybe that's I love this country soo much..

Thank U Ian!

REAL LIFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZYNdocIgjE

I want to dedicate this post to one of the best contemporary greek films and one of my favorites as well..

REAL LIFE - ALITHINI ZOI

I think this is one of the greatest Greek movies ever made.

Well,the story is not that original (it could be the material for yet another Greek series), and not without exaggerations(-but nice ones-->Acropolis burning!!!How ironic!).

But it is a nice story,with great actors in great acting .

Themis Bazaka is unbelievable!

And despite its exaggerations,the story looks very real.

I also have to stress out the quality of images on screen...

Great colors,photography,effects...

The images inside the pool are just perfect...

Music is great too,I d say...Fits very well.It adds up to the melancholic tone of the film and it's composed by one of the greatest musicians of electronic scene of Greece :

Mikael Delta

A tribute to the greatest of all genres: melodrama.

In the end (the great underwater scene) you are going to cry your eyes out as well as keep thinking of all the things you should have dared and you didn't.

Bottomline, I have to say that I think it is one of the greatest Greek movies ever(I know,I said that above also..).

It is very pleasant to watch and you have the feeling its not Greek,it's ...let say (with all the french heard in it!)..a French one!!! :-P

Great job Mr KOUTRAS. Bravo.

PARIS, je t'aime

Paris, my beautiful city, I love U!

Stories of Love. From the City of Love.

One City. 10 Millions Hearts. One Love Story. One Film.

Fall in Love 18 Times.

My 2 favorite quotes in the film:

Listen. Listen. There are times when life calls out for a change. A transition. Like the seasons. Our spring was wonderful, but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn. And now all of a sudden, it's cold, so cold that everything is freezing over. Our love fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise. But if you fall asleep in the snow, you don't feel death coming. Take care.

Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I'd never known before or had always been waiting for, but I didn't know what. Maybe it was something I'd forgotten or something I've been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive. That was the moment I fell in love with Paris. And I felt Paris fall in love with me.