This weekend I went to Thessaloniki. I have lots of good friends there that is always a pleasure to visit. This time I also got the time to go meet with Thanasis Lightbridge. How can I describe it? Some people have some kind of magic surrounding them. A kind of positive aura that can’t Read the rest of this entry »
Ok.. Muse at Athens. This is something I was waiting(dreaming) for! The band will be appearing at Terra Vibe on the 4th of October. This is just north of Athens (30km) and a lot southern from where I live (300km). The road is open and the car is full of gas… Muse here I come, ready for some serious rocking… Especially after the cancellation of the long awaited Smashing Pumpkins concert…
So anyone else coming??
Hello I finally signed up at last.fm! I find this kind of music-social network very interesting after all!
My profile page is http://www.last.fm/user/harkal/ I welcome you to find out my musical orientations! Waiting for your adds! See ya!
F* the Police
Some things just make me mad! I got a speeding ticket today that I didn’t deserve. I was going with 60Km/h on a road with 2 lanes per direction and a separation barrier with a speed limit of 50Km/h !!! On a road like that its quite easy to pass 100km/h and still being safe. The limit gets to 120km/h 100m later. However the limit is there so that the police can collect funds for their far salaries…
It was 5min ago that I got out of a gas station having filled up my reservoir, having decided to start driving economically to see how many km I will be able to pull out of 44lt of gasoline. So no big accelerations and top speed of 100km/h. So the moment the cop signaled me to pull over I had my eyes on the counter. I was going with 60km/h with other drivers almost bulling at me for disrupting the flow. Read the rest of this entry »
Soldier! At ease!
Finally I am a free man! Yesterday, after one whole year, I completed my military service. I must say it was a long year. I try to remember the first day in the military camp one year ago and it kind of hard. I just remember the desperation of leaving all my life behind to goto something unknown. Family, friends, jobs, ambitions.. everything. I was feeling that I have nothing to do with guns and uniforms. Why should I be obligated to to this? It was unfair. Anyway even if I did serve most of my time near my hometown, the military service was a very upsetting time. It probably had to do with the sensation of slavery that the army gave me. It kind of hard to flush your personality down the toilet and be a dummy private at my age. It is also that I never felt that I was important there. That I was doing something useful. Unless if being a soldier means that you are the charlady Read the rest of this entry »
Even if Greece is full of rock bands, there are very little that get international attension. One such band is the The Last Drive. The Last Drive is actually a very old band that formed in 1983 and played until 1995 when they broke up. However the band reunited in January and announced that there will be curtain gigs around Greece and abroad! I was quite happy to be in the one held at my hometown! The band rocked!!! As an introduction to my flickr page I added some pictured from the gig that a good friend managed to take! If you like garage rock and rock in general give this band a listen. Below are some usefull sites :
The Last Drive Unofficial The Last Drive on mySpace
Meet Maya!
I would like to introduce you to my little dog! So people meet Maya. I always wanted to have a dog and now I got the chance. Maya is a female English Cocker Spaniel puppy. Ever since Maya came to our home everything started to revolve around it. Actually you can’t do elsewise. It is so small and fragile that need attention all the time. However it get everyone to it without and hasle. Most of my family is now just spending their days taking care of it. Actually the first days where a mess Read the rest of this entry »
Down with the flu :(
I’m in bed with the flu today. Such an off-timed thing to happen
It was probably due to the great weather instability we experience the last days… The temperature droped from 27C to 10C in a day!…
I hope it doesn’t keep me down for more than 2 days…
Dol Ammad – Ocean Dynamics
I normally don’t write posts about music. But this is going to change. The last months I got to know a briliantly talented and gifted person : Thanasis Lightbridge. Thanasis is a music composer, producer, keyboardist and drummer. He and his band, Dol Ammad, are trying to create a new music gender. Something that tries to bridge electronica, metal and lyric opera. Even though I must confess that I’m not really fond of metal music, I just got impressed by the latest album by Dol Ammad, Ocean Dynamics. I mean you got to listen to what an Indie music producer Read the rest of this entry »
The village I come from…
Recently the village my father was born in got a web site! The village is located in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwest Greece, 90km north to Ioannina and is part of the Mastorohoria villages. North to the famous Zagorohoria.
I think it’s the most beautiful village in the world ![]()


