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January 08, 2017

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Lena Platonos – Gallop Re-issue

Λένα Πλάτωνος (Lena Platonos) is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. One of the pioneers in the Greek electronic music scene of the 1980s, she remains active today. Lena was born on the island of Crete and grew up in Athens. She began learning how to play the piano at the age of two and became a professional pianist before turning eighteen. Soon afterwards, she received a scholarship to study in Vienna and Berlin, where she was exposed to jazz, rock and Middle Eastern music. She returned to Greece in the late 70’s and began working with the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. She released 3 collaborative albums between 1981-1983 and her debut solo album in 1984. ‘Γκάλοπ’ (‘Gallop’) was Lena Platonos’ second record that she solely composed, produced and sang. The record was released in 1985 and paved the way for Greek electronica of the 1990′s. ‘Gallop’ was composed in the wake of a painful separation, and took several months to c...

quotes from “journey to the end of the night” by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Whenever my diarrhea let me go for a while, the fever took hold. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself. Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn’t quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and the dead. Hurry hurry, cram yourself full of dreams to carry you through the life that’s waiting for you outside, when you leave here, to help you last a few days more in that nightmare of things and people. It’s no joke being poor. Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to clear away the world’s garbage. There’s plenty left. I had no great opinion of myself and no ambition, all I wanted was a chance to breathe and to eat a little better. You never mind very much when an adult passes on. If nothing else, you say to yourself, it’s one less stinker on earth, but with a child you can never be so sure. There’s always the future. Youth may...

Midori (1992) (J-Movie) (Anime)

Title : Midori (1992) (J-Movie) (Anime) Alternative Title(s) : Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show , Shoujo Tsubaki (Japanese) , 地下幻燈劇画少女椿 (Japanese) Hardsubbed or Softsubbed: Hardsubbed English Subtitles: Yes Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): 1992-05-02 More Info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4601 Summary: The film follows the misadventures of a girl called Midori who, after losing her mother, joins the fairground freak show. She is being constantly harassed, abused and humiliated by everyone on the show until a dwarf-magician-hypnotist appears. The film was single handedly created by Hiroshi Harada. Given the subject matter, Harada had found it impossible to gain sponsors. He then used all of his life savings to make the film over a five year period. Over 5000 separate sheets of animation were hand drawn by Harada.The film is very hard to fin...

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