No Purpose Rant

Best. Cover. Ever. (ok maybe not.. but still pretty good :)))) )

It was end of 2008 beginning of 2009 when I was first introduced to this band by my friend Piotrek. I've been a fan ever since. For some reason, the song fits my mood today. Could be the gloomy weather, or the fact that the dignity we once had as a country has now been lost. Or both. Enjoy after the jump.

About a week ago, we were travelling back from Bulgaria with the team. For those that do not know, I play for a hockey team here in Greece. Namely, Aris Thessaloniki. We went to Bulgaria to practice, given that there are absolutely zero ice rinks in my home town. Practice, hockey and the rest are not something I want to talk about right now however... that's something of a back story.

For a couple of days now I've been listening to this tune. For some reason it surfaced long lost memories. Oh well... lyrics follow.

I started writing an article, unpublished as of yet and I will probably never release it. It was meant as an exercise on self reflection. However, here is a small excerpt from that exercise. "In sum, I am a ruled by my own emotions. Dealing with that has never been easy yet I make no apologies or excuses for it. For what reason are we here, but to experience our emotions to their full intensity? I am furious when I am angry, I am passionate when I am in love. Anger, compassion, hate,  romance, love, passion... everything signifies life.... and I love it. I believe, that it matters not if those emotions find response. What matters is that we allow for them to be expressed. For me life is passion. Through its expression we experience life. If we allow it to sit dormant, then we are not stirring the cauldron of life and all its ingredients go straight to the bottom." That, my friends could be my new years resolution. To keep stirring the ca...

Lately I have been addicted  to a band called The Black Keys. Their album El Camino, is easily in my top 5 albums of the year. It just rocks. Every song on the album is just another eargasm. Here is a taste.

One of the reasons I created this blog was to attempt and leave my comfort zone. A first effort was done with my first attempt to poetry . They are in Greek so I expect few people to actually understand them. The theme remains the same: love. Someone once said that the two of the greatest feelings that are responsible for creating art (any form of it) are love and sorrow. I can't say I strongly belong in either one category at the moment, but I find it to be a constant idea I struggle with. I don't know if the following scribbles are considered art, or whether or not they are considered good. I know that it kinda feels like a reflection on murky water. Not expecting anyone to actually make sense of the above... but it, strangely, makes sense to me. By the way writing these was not the hard part. Publishing them has been even harder. Part of it has to be the fact that the following are a step up in boldness, and given my cowardice... ...Deep breath... Here it goes: