// 2012 : The ultimate NY resolution //

2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 5

"FEEL GOOD EVEN WHEN YOU KNEW THAT YOU WOULDN'T"

I had written down my 5 resolutions for 2012 and I was holding my passport with pride and enthusiasm while entering back to the American land on New Years day after a short trip to Greece for Xmas.

"Happy New Year" I said with a smile to the cute customs officer (exw kai prasini karta, pame mia volta elega apo mesa mou opws elege o Voutsas se mia tainia se kathe thyliko pou pernouse dipla tou).

" I hope your New Year's resolution is to cut your hair" the customs officer told me while glancing at my passport photo and then at the real me. hmmm brain freeze and then millions of questions and thoughts like "is he flirting with me?" "maybe he is right that I need to cut the hair. Maybe its in the hair length that men get intimidated and they don't ask me for a date...its true my hair is my sense of independent surviving freedom..."

And then you have a Saturday morning of this New Year that you look yourself in the borrowed mirror from S.V.L cause you are afraid of mirrors suddenly after 30 years..

" If it breaks the bad luck is yours" I remember saying to Sergey when he brought the mirror. "Are you serious? You think if it breaks is bad luck? Geez you Greeks" he had responded to me

and you realize you have been suffocating yourself with your life style because of too much work, stress, and because you have decided to live on your own away from your family and friends. But the good thing is that you have the HAIR to keep you company !

you go to get your morning coffee fix and you meet by chance Sergey;the moving disaster as you call him; who is stepping on your converse All Star whispering to you "They are too clean, East Village boys like dirty All Star shoes on girls" and then he says the words "You should cut your hair to look more sexy".

So you'd better forget the New Year's revolutionary resolutions of the type " I will take Eugie and we go to CUBA for the rest of our lives". If you are not in love, just go get a haircut and Eros is on the way, if you are in love just cut your partner's hair having fun and Enjoy 2012; THE YEAR OF LOVE as I call it..

HAPPY 2012 to all!

"FEEL GOOD EVEN WHEN YOU KNEW THAT YOU WOULDN'T"

SPREAD THE LOVE THIS YEAR & THINK WITH THE HEART FIRST!

- Garia

- Bathroom // ?

static crossroads - Lower East Side // nyc 2006

I am walking upstairs. I am falling in love with these blue stairs. It is the fourth time..or the fifth or the one millionth that i walk them in my dreams. I arrive on the top floor.

The door is open. There are flowers everywhere on the floor

There is music loud. VERY LOUD. EXTREMELY LOUD

Its the Led Zeppelin song "Rock and Roll" playing

It definitely was the Rock and Roll period for both of us. I was wearing my half waisted leather men's jacket and he was wearing one ring on every finger notating one woman for every finger.I knew that all I had to do was to get undressed and walk straight to the bathroom to find him and find my peace.

And the morning after, all I had to do was to take a foto early am in the morning like the one above that was shot one early morning close to East Broadway street.

It has been almost two years that his house was not in a good condition. The bathroom was not fixed. The house was deserted just like the moments between us.

Year 2011. Friday December 9 //

sms SM: Come see my new house

sms GA: Bathroom?

sms SM: yes new

sms SM: "Its been such a long long time since we Rock and Roll" Carry me babe

sms GA: Yes it has been a long time. We can fix that

sms SM: Are you still writing?

sms GA: Will you still bathe me?

Am I still writing I questioned myself?

Is anyone still reading ?

? ? ? ?

It's been a long long time......

- Garia August

photomontage by Maurice Tabard

Mathilde Dear,

It is what it is now.

This morning, I thought I saw you from afar. Same garments and same hat. Same all.

It is time for new sounds. It is time we reflect the perception of what we were and bring it to a new period of creativity. We should both let our creativity have wings again and Fly.

I am more in Europe these days than I am in New York or at least my heart is. Do you remember that I used to write "heart" as "hurt"? Yes, it is true that any matter of the heart does hurt but we know well that new sounds can bring us closer to each other with or without one another.

I am listening a lot the sounds of the band Austra.

Look inside me now same way I look inside you.

We are like a vintage reflection of a photomontage by Maurice Tabard.

Love,

Sandrine X.

Yours // Ours

this morning i had the urge to listen to Bob Dylan's

"One more Cup of Coffee" looking at Tina Bernings' below piece.....

maybe i am inspired again- //

- Garia

// Undun //

i really felt it again tonight. New York is changing.We're changing.

the dinner was very nice. The conversation with my good friends C.T., J.R. and D.M. reminded me of some of the changes that are happening in the city and in our world.

we spoke about ipad magazine subscriptions competing with magazine newsstand sales,disappearance of the so called middle class,protests on wall street, protests of young students on a saturday night at 12:00am on Lafayette street heading uptown.

11:40pm. The streets in Soho are empty. There is no one to continue the conversation with. Maybe everyone has felt the change and they just stay inside their houses synchronizing their ipad with their laptop which is already synched with the contacts of the old iphone but has to be resynchronized again with the newly bought iphone that replaced the previous version.

my iphone which is synched with itunes is playing the song "Undun" by The Guess Who. And all I can think of is the below writing by RILKE:

"Go into yourself. ...Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must" then BUILD YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO THIS NECESSITY;"

Goodnight New York; City that Never Sleeps!

Tonight you felt as if you are

SLEEPING FOR TOO LONG!

Tomorrow of course is a New Day...and who knows, maybe our world will become a better place if we all build our lives according to the necessity of making it one..//

- D.X.G.

- Friends' movements / / The Eternal Summer

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ELAFONISOS 2011 - GREECE

photos 1-4 Maria Garozi

photos 5 + 6 Sofia Tsekoura

The photo - .

Greece - 2011
black n white/ My country

photo # 17

There are afternoons that I leave the office to come home look at fotos accompanied by Garia and our favorite Spanish rose wine. Tonight I received the fotos I took during my eternal summer vacation in Greece.

Film # 1

Foto # 17

I wonder;is it a destroyed foto or is it a foto depicting the way my country presented herself to me after all these years?Either way, I wanted to share with you this foto. I will be sharing few more in the following posts.

There is no more wine left.

I have a dry taste in my mouth knowing that I am far away from the ones I love but also a very spicy taste for what my life in New York will bring new. There, in Greece is the Past,the Eternal Summer Vacation and those I love the most.

Here in nyc is the present. the NOW and also the FUTURE!

So...I finally speak about Future.....

the Future starts when we recognize how COMPLETE we have been as beings from our PAST....

Have you ever imagined how MANY life scenarios you could create for yourself if and only if you allow yourself to DREAM ? Anything is Possible !

Hope you are all dreaming about the Future! Dream On!

Big Hug & Thank you for keep checking back at this blog,

- Maria & Garia