Two world/brands/sides

So, I now have two jewelry brands! The one is "Daily Art by Angelina", cute little colorful jewelry amd accessories. The other one that's coming really really soon is "Psycho Trinkets", a brand with psychobilly inspired jewelry, full of happy skulls and bloody knives!

"Halloween" (a photo)

Project no.11: "Sitting Art"

"A blue guitar" (a photo)

A favorite piece of paper

The thousand words that come with this paper will stay there, 

inside my mind. 

A photo is enough.

Photo of the day!

"Creep"

"Creep" - Radiohead (acoustic version)

"Hurt"

One day, about 3 years ago, I was sitting on my sofa, with my laptop on my lap and I was listening to songs on YouTube. 

At some point I found a song called "Hurt", by Johny Cash. 

And I fell in love!

After some time I learned that this song was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

 (what a soul he must have to write these lyrics...!).

It's basically my ultimate favorite, if I could sing only one song for the rest of my life this would be it. It's the one song that can bring tears to my eyes even if I'm in the best mood, it's the one song that when I listen to it the time and the world around me stop a little bit. 

Its lyrics are changing with me as time passes. At first I was feeling that some people were giving me their "empire of dirt", later that I did hurt myself, almost always that, yes, pain is one of the most real things in life. Nowadays, being in a period of change I keep thinking "what have I become?".

Plus, it will always remind me of the time when a period of depression started for me, 

of all the fragile moments in life and the pain that we come through eventually.

P.S. I think that this version is the best one ever: 

Trent Reznor - Hurt (Unplugged)

Routes of Neptune (a band)

Find them on Facebook here

&

listen to them here!!

A shot (of a music video) that caught my eye

I like noticing details in things and in every day life. 

Nice things.

* Source: "Nothing stands in our way" - Lacuna Coil

"In the pale moonlight"

"I was sleeping, late at night,

when I heard a sound that gave me an awful fright.

I looked out of my window to clear my sight,

there sat the Devil's Son in the pale moonlight......."

"The Devi's Son" - The Creepshow

"Fly" (a poem & a song)

See I can fly away from you

And reach the sky, fly over you

It took me time to rise from the tomb

But I'm alive and I thank you

I was lost in space for a while

I've left my broken heart behind

And as I was fighting my mind

I found something kept inside

Always trying to be there for you 

Cuddle you softly to comfort you

But pain takes turns in life

And hey, the dices keep rolling

I've left the door open for you

You passed by never seeing the view

But what else can you do

Life is for the fighters

Walking next to each other

Sharing our minds with one another

But suddenly a wall between us

Keeps you from seeing the rest

See I can fly away from you

And reach the sky, fly over you

It took me time to rise from the tomb

But I'm alive and I thank you

GED (a band)

I'll begin with one of their songs (my favorite):

"Feel" - GED.

This is their YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEzQkvyqfUDZwVCt5vcTFyA

& you can meet them and their work here:

https://www.facebook.com/theGEdband?fref=ts

The day I was empty

Lately, I had a couple of conversations about feeling empty after giving a lot, or in other words, after giving all you had, the 120% of you. I talked with people who told me that they have felt empty during their life after over-giving and even heard a story of going into emptiness after giving a lot to a man. I don' t really know how does that particular situation feels like but I have felt the total emptiness and I feel great about it, about the way it happened.

For the last 7-8 years I was studying singing. Which means that you have to study music, become a performer and work a lot with yourself, open up and learn to express your feelings. Singing its a combination of all that. So...about one year ago I took the final exam in the conservatory I studied at. The exam was like a small live performance, I had to sing in front of an audience 12 songs (one of them was written, words and music, by me and I was playing the melody on the piano while singing it). It had to be my best performance so far, I have worked a lot for it and I gave my 120%. It went very well, but after the end of the performance I started feeling weird. 

It took me some time (months maybe) to realize what that feeling was:

 emptiness.

I had given all of me, all my feelings, all my energy, and after that I was left totally empty inside. I remember being at the party I had after the exam, at my home, thinking I was thankful that all these friends came, but in the same time wondering what was wrong with me and how much I would like some alone time. I remember this void inside. I had given it all and I couldn' t feel anything. It was like I wasn't 100% there, like I was somewhere inside my head. 

And that's how feeling totally empty inside felt like for me. 

The truth is I liked it, I liked the fact that I was able to feel and give so much and I wish I have the chance to feel like that (through performance and my art in general) many times in the future!

(image by imgbuddy.com)

"Black Hole" (a poem & a song)

I fell again into the hole

Like Alice did once in a dream

I reached the bottom quick enough

Lost conscious of time once more

I left myself in reality

Dresses like a new one there

Saw the underworld and lost gravity

So I can travel inside my head

As I'm entering the black hole

Torn to pieces as I fall

Seeing the abyss straight in the eye

And there I'm left alone

No Madhatter but many mad

Always trying to figure out

Things happen and my poor mind

Spins rounds in a second of time

I saw rabbits with white collars 

And mices with black swords

Fighted with dragons and monsters

So I can reach the surface once more

As I'm entering the black hole

Torn to pieces as I fall

Seeing the abyss straight in the eye

And there I'm left alone

The incredible Mr. Serj

Lately I'm listening so much to Serj Tankian that sometimes wheb I wake up or when I go to sleep I'm listening his voice inside my head. 

So, I thought of creating a playlist of some of my favorite songs (not in order of preference) and share some of my favorite words....

1. "Reality TV"

2. "The Unthinking Majority"

3. "Empty Walls"

4. "Lie lie lie"
5. "Butterfly"
6. "Falling Stars"
7. "Feed us"
8. "Weave on"
9. "Uneducated Democracy"
10. "Beethoven's Cunt"
11. "Baby"
12. "Ching Chime"

" I abhor the whore who calls herself reality" - Reality TV

" I won't be crucified nor terrified, I'm not terrified" - Butterfly

" Do you know that life is ending,
As we go, the dots connecting,
We had our chance to save the garden,
As it dies, our souls will harden." - Feed Us

"We don't need your hypocrisy" - The Unthinking Majority

"Pretentious attention" - Empty Walls

" Why can' t it all be true?" - Blue

"We're the day birds,
Deciding to fly against the sky." - Harakiri

"I want you to be
left behind those empty walls,
Taunt you to see
from behind those empty walls." - Empty Walls


* All words and music by Serj Tankian

Project no.5: "Cloudy Garden"

Note: As I was editing the photos of this project a song came to my mind and was such a great match!

"Fairy Paradise" - CocoRosie

(and a more ethnic version of  it here).

You should listen to them while taking a look at this project....

A song about sorrow

"Αλλάζει πρόσωπα η θλίψη" - Παύλος Παυλίδης

That's one of my favorite greek songs and it's the soundtrack of this day (so far).

It talks about sorrow and its face/faces.

Here you can read the lyrics in greek and in english translation

(source: stixoi.info).

The shower

A more extended title for this post would be "A meditation called shower".

Yesterday evening I was having a shower after a busy and not in the best mood day. Oh... the calmness that hot water brings to your body and mind! Everything seems better and you see things from a fresh point of view. Listening to music, being inside all this white transparent steam... pausing from everything. 

Until time's up. Reality check and time to get out when you hear someone of the family calling your name.

After all the voice from the song playing says it clearly....."sweet dreams are made of this"......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRyMcH6WMM