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Music Tags (I kinda love them)

I was tagged on FB with a music tag I liked, so I thought I'd post it here as well :)

(- Sing only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions.
- Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think!)

Pick your Artist: Pink Floyd

Are you a male or female: A New Machine
Describe yourself: A Saucerful Of Secrets
How do you feel?: Wearing The Inside Out
Describe where you currently live: Cluster One
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Southampton Dock
What is your job? Learning To Fly
Your favorite form of transportation: Echoes
Your best friend was/is:  Money
You and your best friends are:  Us And Them
What's the weather like: Terminal Frost
Favorite time of day:  Eclipse
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: The Final Cut
What is life to you: Sorrow
Your relationship: Wish You Were Here
Your Fear: Waiting For The Worms
What is the best advice you have to give: Run Like Hell
Thought for the Day: Sheep
How I would like to die: Let There Be More Light
My soul's present condition: What Do You Want From Me
My motto: One Of These Days (I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces)
Favorite song by this artist:  Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Bro's b-day and spam

It's my younger brother's birthday today and I promised to spam people further with a song he wrote (collaboration with a friend of his). Sorry, it's in Greek, but foreigners can enjoy the music.
It's called Χωρίς Πληρωμή (Without Payment) and the two friend group Κούφια Καπέλα (Hollow Hats)

Tanjoubi omedetou, otouto!

Sayounara, Hagaren..!

I haven't done this in my new blog.. KEYWORD TIME!!!!!

Boy, I love checking out the weird keywords people use to stumble on my blog. I can never understand tho'... Some of them are SO obscure that don't have anything to do with the blog, yet, people visit it regardless...
I mean.. why on earth would you click on "The Sleep Deprived 21th Century Psycho [ver 2.0F]" when searching for, dunno.. let's say "underage midget semi-porn literature". The blog's title is way beyond this search-subject and there's bound to be a small summary in the search results, which would clearly inform the person searching, that this blog is not about underage midget semi-porn literature...
But I could never understand people, so I won't try now...

Here goes then!

(this blog has less keywords than the previous, but anywayz..)

"francesca tronetti "  
She's an anthropologist, apparently. I think it maybe got linked because of the rss feeds on the right

is it bad for flautists to smoke?
99% the person who wrote that is a greek.... it's FLUTISTS, man... And yeah, smoking's bad for you whether a FLUTIST or not, so snap out of it:P

slod load fuking tobe sleeping
I can't even imagine imagining what this could be... Sounds like "it's a long road for king to be sleeping" tho.. Funny :P

wrong side of town ver online

No, dear sir, there wasn't any online version of this movie released, but maybe they ought to net-release it only (haven't seen it, but, I sometimes respect 3.8 out of 10 IMDB stars....)

elli moka
Oh!! I love you! That's my name! Bullseye!!!

kyle hotz, greeceVery kind man, met him this year along with his family, I love his inkwork, it's blacker than black.

"sleep deprived" "psycho" guy anime
I may use words like "dude" or "fuck" or "bitch" but I'm not a guy.

cca2010 
I love calling Comicdom Con Athens like that ahah (oh, that and 'DomCon :P)

flickr comicdom con 2010 I have a flickr but no fotos from this year's Con, soooorry

naoki urasawa Urasawa-sensei... *sigh*

sleep in this century
I'd say no sleep in the century but it's still 2010, so who knows...

special person you want to annoy

Hahahahahaha why on earth you'd want to annoy a special person? (Special person= prime minister? a wizard? an autistic person? your wife?  Please specify).

Hope more weird keywords turn up, can't wait to see :D

Finally, I've made a background skin for my blog, hope you like.
I also used the same, with some alterations, on my Twitter profile :)
(I wish I could make the center block semi-transparent -maybe at 70%-80% white- but anywayz..)

Bob Lennon

(Sensei) Naoki Urasawa's song, he wrote that for 20th Century Boys. His character Kenji is playing the guitar and singing this song on the new year's eve and on other circumstances (read the manga, it's amazing:P). This song moved me when I read the lyrics in the manga alone, but it really stuck when I heard it from the mangaka's band. It seems like it has a special meaning to me and I know it by heart.
Some times it means more to me, depending on the occasion.

The sun goes down, and somewhere
I can smell curry cookin’

How long will we have to walk before we get home?

Will the croquettes from my favorite shop
Still taste the same? And waiting for me?

Night comes down upon the earth
And now, I’m hurryin’ home

They say the ogres will be laughing next year
And I say, let ‘em laugh all they like

I’ll keep talkin’ about 5 or 10 years in the future
And 50 years later, if I’m still with you

Night comes down upon the earth
And now, I’m hurryin’ home

Rain may fall, and storms may come
Spears may fall, so let’s all go home

They can’t stop us, nobody has the right to stop us

Night comes down upon the earth
And now, I’m hurryin’ home

Night comes down upon the entire world
And the entire world is hurryin’ home

And I pray that these days will
Continue forever and ever…

The Birds, the Bees and the Arseholes

   Yesterday I had a brief conversation with a member of the opposite sex. I did not know him, he was an acquaintance from Facebook (where he added me because I was an anime fan). On Msn I didn't like his manner of talking to me and his kinda ironic tone. And I was suspicious as I always am towards strangers. He was sure he'd figure out all about me and then accused me of "having replaced sex positions with chocolate". I was furious of course and blocked/deleted him. He then sent me an insulting pm where he called me uncivilized, illiterate and other things (and of course, again, of not having any sex). The fact that people think that bitchy women are not having any sex always looked funny to me.I never had any tolerance for insults (except whenever I'm able to use my hands to wash the insults off the mouth of the insulter...), especially when coming from COMPLETE strangers, so it's only natural to me to be ticked off, if not offensive afterwards.. Go figure...

   The air yesterday, as I was heading to work, smelled like too much cinnamon on a veal stew. I hate this smell, it reminds me of my grandmother's cooking and, of course, my grandmother. I HATE her habit of shoving cinnamon sticks to every meat dish. HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT. Oh well, I was happy to hear good news afterwards, so I got over it and my stomach went back where it belongs (a.k.a. my belly and not the back of my neck). As I was heading towards the bus station I saw people drinking coffee on their porches. The weather was especially good (or good for them, I kinda despise heat).

  I'm looking forward to something now. Gonna see my nakamas again (you know who you are, X-men :P). I'm kind of drawn towards people these days, I need people around me, friends, but in the same time I hate other people so much... But some, I  love. Because they care enough to love me back, I love them even more. I'd give my arm for them.
I'm a walking controversy. I hate my guts but in the same time I'm the worst egotist on the planet. Lately, that is. Gonna fuck you up if you screw with me. Cause now I kinda like it. If I bother to care, I guess. No more fakes. I don't need them in my life. People should work hard to gain my trust. I know I'm not the easiest person on the planet, on the contrary. But I prefer being alone than having to deal with people that never understood me and/or will never understand me. Suffering alone makes me stronger. And more bitter. I'm not the only one here being bitter. But, when so many people are sugary tweets, I think the world needs some balance. I'm Jack's gallbladder. Extra bile. Let me be the wolf for your little red riding hood.

Mumbling again. Doesn't matter, it's my blog, SUCK IT.

PS Madagascar. My left arm for you. From the shoulder.
PPS Mugi-saaaan...

Comicdom Con Athens 2010 [CCA2010]

Greece' only comic con is here again, brought to you by Comicdom/Comicdom Press and the Hellenic-American Union. This time it's our 5th birthday and we're going to celebrate with an all-star guest list:

*** Kyle Hotz (courtesy of Jemma Press)
*** D'Israeli
*** John Romita Jr (JR jr)
*** Mike Carey

Also, this year our Con is 3 days long, instead of the usual 2, so there's lots going around in CCA 2010. Here's the Con's program (remember, to attend a workshop you should have registered, our workshops are all closed now so no more entries can be entered, but there are always waiting lists, so consider joining per chance you get to attend a workshop):

Comicdom Con Athens 2010 Schedule

Friday 16/04

Theatre (2nd floor)

18:00 – 19:45 Open Discussion On Comics and Education
20:00 – 20:45 Opening Ceremony. Spotlight On New Publications
21:00 – 22:00 Documentary Screening “Tintin Et Moi”

Saturday 17/04

Theatre (2nd floor)

11:30 – 12:30 Kamishibai: Pictures and Fairytales For Children
13:00 – 14:30 Panel: “Seven Greek Creators Discuss Comics”
15:00 – 18:00 Q&A and Signing: John Romita Jr.
19:00 – 20:30 Sketch Event: Comparative Anatomy In Historical Comic Book Tissue
21:00 – 22:00 Screening of “Marine Express” anime

Seminar Room (4th floor)

12:40 – 13:30 Workshop: Mike Carey – “Structuring A Scene”
13:40 – 15:00 Workshop: D’Israeli – “Thinking About Color”
18:00 – 19:30 Workshop: Edu-Comics – Utilization of Digital Educational Comics in Class

Sunday 18/04

Theatre (2nd floor)

11:00 – 13:00 Playing With Comics
13:00 – 14:40 Screening of the animation feature “Wall-E”
15:10 – 18:00 Q&A and signing: Mike Carey, D’Israeli and Kyle Hotz
18:30 – 20:00 Panel: Comics and Cinema – Far Away, So Close
21:00 – 22:00 Comicdom Awards Ceremony

Seminar Room (4th floor)

12:00 – 12:50 Workshop: John Romita Jr. – “The Art Of Sequential Storytelling In Graphic Novels”
13:00 – 13:50 Workshop: Kyle Hotz – “Making Scary Comics”
14:00 – 14:50 Workshop: Alekos Papadatos – “McCloud’s Panel Transitions – The Logicomix Paradigm”
15:00 – 15:30 Spotlight on Helm Publishing

All three days

Exhibition “From The Yellow Kid To Conan (Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery, 1st floor)
Publishers and retailers bazaar (Kennedy Gallery & Atrium, 1st floor)
Self-publishers hall (Foyer, 2nd floor)
Michael Dialynas spotlight exhibition (Library, 4th floor)


I'll be at the Con for the 3 days, hope you can come as well and have fun (even tho' I'll only be at Comicdom Press' booth only for Saturday, as for the other 2 days I'll be working at Jemma Comics' booth because they are my employers after all, hence I wont be talking much to anyone, so be reasonable...) .
I'll be drawing a little something something for anyone that wants me to.

You don't know what day it is (you just do what you're told) :P

On my chair again, into a blankie, only this time with the cat on my lap. She likes to sleep while I work and, occasionally, stroke her behind the ears. Maybe the slow humming of my pc is inspiring her, what can I say, I wish I could sleep for so many hours a day like a feline. These days I usually sleep for about 2 hours a day and thank Naoki Urasawa and Alan Moore (yeap, my two gods:P) that I have a pc and at least can check out what day it is...
'kinda like it tho'.. I think my body thinks it's tired but it doesn't show that much, maybe it's just a feeling of habit, that I *should* be tired. I'm just happy I get work done (sometimes tho' at a slower rate than I'd like to..)

But the relative quietness is rather refreshing, only me, my feline familiar, my Wacom (love you baby..), tea, headphones (the muffled sound of the keyboard keys - the temp ancient keyboard that I have yet to replace with a shiny new one...) and a bunch of episodes/films playing in the background. Or mp3s. I finished One Piece anime while working. it was simply epic. That's the one word that's able to describe it perfectly. An during breaks I finished the manga as well. Now I have to wait every week to read the next chapter. Man, such agony..! Eichiiro Oda, you are a bastard as well:P

Oh yeah, and we had Easter. Which to me is just another Sunday actually (especially this year:P).


Can't wait for Comicdom Con Athens 2010, to see how it goes and getting done with it:P It's nice but tiring :)
It's our 5th this year, so we kinda have a birthday, our little Con is a 5 y.o. toddler :)

Also, can't wait for my name-day and Sir Crocodile (kuhaaa-haaa-haaa-aaa-aaa | and a little thanks to Inky, cant wait, cant wait, yooosh, hahah) It's been so long since I've sat my bum down relaxing with friends. And I kinda like treating friends for my b-day/name-day.

Oh, well, back to work and my cinnamon milk. Ta!


PS: Note to the anonymous reader that scorned me about my mediocre english, based on the use of "I" a lot :
it's a personal blog after all, you twat.
Maybe this is better for you: http://www.iiiiiiii.com/lyrics.html
Or you can always jerk off with 4chan images. You know, for anonymous users... :P

Blood is in the eye of the beholder

This country's psychology and personality eludes me. It always was elusive to me and I think it will continue to be. I've always considered myself to be -not anti-greek - a non-greek, a neutral amongst Greeks at least. I dunno why. Because. Sometimes I'm ashamed I've been born in Greece, I can't easily relate to people here (of course there are exclusions), I can't understand some things they do. All the controversy of being a Greek.

I know (especially now) some people from abroad think of us as vulgar people, monkeymen, frying stuff around in olive oil and being loud, pretending to pay the bill when is another one's turn, dancing sirtaki or another exotic but stupid dance while drinking wine that tastes like paint thinner (because it's tradition) and speaking in bad bad BAD english to women that we wanna have Greek sex with (ah yeah, Greeks call anal "ottoman sex", while in the UK they call it "Greek sex" and it is said that ALL Greeks love it ) while eating souvlaki/moussaka/rice-in-vine-leaves/something obscure and overpriced. People that have no problem stealing money from the EU or any other benefactors when they are so deep in it for them to do such foolish things...
I don't care about the money stealing accusations, every country/politician/blah random authority is "stealing" from the money they are supposed to use from something else, others steal little, others more and so forth (I just think it's hilarious they get to blame Greece for de-stabilizing the whole economy, when we are in the middle of a WORLDWIDE economical crisis and especially when we are always last to do anything/to feel the waves of changes in general as a country.).

I'm just sad others put all Greeks in one basket. We are all bad. Period.

Yesterday afternoon, while I was riding the bus to work, I saw something that made me feel especially ashamed to tread on this Greek soil. I saw about 5 gorilla-looking 16/17-year olds cheering up for another more-gorilla looking 17-year old that was beating up a Pakistani man (who is a regular on that particular road, usually cleaning windshields like yesterday). The gorillas, after beating the man up, crossed the road again to go wherever they had to go, while the man stood not being able to understand what happened that very moment, his face covered in blood. Some people pulled their cars over and gave him bottles of water. And then the bus left and I couldn't see more.
I, then, wished I was in another bus, a bus that could take me far away.

How can Greeks demand foreign respect when they THEMSELVES treat foreign people like that? How could teenagers be beating up a grown man and NO ONE would lift a fucking finger?

I officially want to be adopted by another country that wouldn't mind about my Greek past.

..but some stupid with a flare gun..

The other day, when I was walking back home from work, I heard the sound of a distant guitar. An amateurish guitar. The guy (or girl) was trying to play...

...guess what...

yeah, it was Smoke On The Water... you guessed it right.
I was wondering about whether the owner of the guitar liked rock or they played that song because they just had to. I think that if someone has a guitar, and they try to learn to play, they are bound to try playing this song.
Is it the best song ever? I doubt that. It's just a catchy classic.
Is it THAT simple? No, if you judge by the way those amateurs' guitars sound like .. :P

I like this song, I was raised in a way that I appreciate rock and hard rock (and its' by-products etc etc), but...
damn..
Smoke On The Water, I hate you as much as I like you.. Couldn't you be less awesome or less easy? It's like hearing a violin playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (all Greeks now will recognize an old tv ad). Those songs for training.. I get it... But wtf..
Why Smoke On The Water and not, let's say, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun?
It's pretty easy, dan dan daaan dan-dan..SEE?! Now you play it! ..GOOD!

Sometimes it feels like a song that was raped and murdered and then raped again by too many bad covers. And that's a generic out-of-the-blue rant, but I just felt like saying it.

Please good people of the world, aspiring guitarists, flutists and so on.. stop fist-fucking Smoke On The Water. It's a decent song and I used to like it a lot.

Asaphειες' whole archive online

For once more, all the comic-strips of my online series "Asaphειες" are online, this time on the site of Comicdom Press (started in Comicdom.gr). http://comicdom-press.gr/category/comic-strips/asapheies/
You now, also, can rate and comment on all the comic strips of Comicdom Press.

Stay tuned for more info, coming SOON...

The always necessary post of introducing/establishing my quirks

I'm watching my cat, Kiriko, stretching on my bed. I'm sitting on my leather chair, wrapped in a fleece blanket, sipping tea and reading the news on my pc, while listening to music, while uploading photos on Flickr, while watching One Piece, while twisting my toes, while contemplating on things I gotta do and when to do them.

While observing this:

which makes me pretty unwilling to go to work, because I'll freeze (while getting there, and while being there).

Don't get me wrong, I like, *like*, LIKE cold, but I prefer dry cold, not rain, not rince-wind, and I utterly HATE HATE HATE humid weather. And that's what we're having for breakfast/brunch/lunch and supper. I also like to not having to *go* to work, but rather work inside, sipping my tea - in which I've sprinkled cayenne pepper - and listening to music. Or watching a film along with a friend or a loved one.

But, I guess, these are breaks we are not given that easily.

I wish I had the necessary funds backing me, then I'd turn into a first grade hikikomori, a recluse, I'd only go out when I really had to (like going to a funeral:P even tho' I can't say I like funerals and that I shouldn't prolly attend them, since I am bipolar and that's not helping:P). Then I'd send a car for my friends to come over (I'd be a visitor-friendly hikikomori:P) and let them stay as much as they wanted. Thus, never having to face and communicate with another stupid customer(see Note below) or person that *I* would not want to. And not having to stand buses ( I can't stand buses). And during the night, I'd work and think about sad stuff and feel blue, which I can assure you I'm pretty good at and doing it for quite some time now :P

So please, someone, give me a job which I can do from home that has the minimum amount of needed direct communication as possible and I promise I'm going to make you proud of my work:P Deal? :D

PS. Dark overlord would be nice, too. I can't say I really like the sun, so something underground and shady is really ok :P

PPS. At least I'm happy I'm making some progress in something I'm making at the mo'.

PPPS Madagascarian vanilla rox

(Note: YEAH, most people outside are stupid and I cannot stand talking to them and explaining every single stupid thing they ask me. Especially because some things are obvious and because the act of asking questions to people means that you have the quota of gray matter needed for understanding the answer they give you!!! So, when I'm nice and helpful. I'm not nice and helpful, I'm just PRETENDING to be nice and helpful, you silly sods. I am *really* nice to people I choose to, not to whomever my second job chooses). And, yeah, I'm an asshole, I know, but I least I don't have the problem admitting it and explaining the reason :P )

Switching from BraveJournal

So, BraveJournal served me fine during these years, I have lots of memories (both good and bad) that will remain online with that blog...
But, in the name of convenience and due to laziness (BraveJournal can be a royal pain) I thought I'd evolve into the more user-friendly Blogspot.

Farewell old "Journal Of A Wandering Mind", hello new "The Sleep Deprived 21th Century Psycho [ver 2.0F]"

(Alas, I cannot import my old blog here... So I guess it's a fresh start with a blank slate..)