Thursday, May 20, 2010

Fragkosyriani - transformations of a song

A wonderful song and its various performances in time:
the original composer´s version Marcos Vamvakaris 1935:


the classic favourite verions with Poulopoulos in the 60ies


the 70ies version by Flery Ntantonaki and the great Xatzidakis:


the reagge version of this decade

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Strella the film is beeing charged with fine in Greece

Once again a film that has homosexual content or better to say transexual, is turning to a target by a so called independed organization, that monitors the radio and tv broadcasting in greece.
In all these years, this organization only charged fines to films, tv shows, or radio speakermen and skeakerwomen, that deal with homosexual content.
http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=1138789&lngDtrID=253
It is so sad to see this in 2010.
International title: A Woman's Way is a 2009 Greek drama film written and directed by Panos H. Koutras.
The blog about the film

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Gregos no Brasil

Nestes dias tristes para Grecia, achei este vídeo, de uma helenica comunidade que enraizou num canto do Brasil e mantem sua identidade...


E depois do famoso restaurante grego de São Paulo e o seu dono Sr thrasivoulos...


e outros imigrantes no Brasil...(não posso dizer que não foi muito divertido para mim...)

não indicado para pisos de madeira, hahaha, nunca vi tanto prato quebrado na Grecia... estes imigrantes vivem na decada de 50 ainda, epoca de zorba...

Sunday, May 09, 2010

My Natal experience

And there I was after a few days work in Natal, one day free, and this is what happened:

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