Fragments of Inspiration: Music {nightbook}

Every human being is a collection of selves.
Life is the combination of good luck, and bad luck.
And every life is both ordinary, and extraordinary.

*Any Human Heart*

Ludovico Einaudi ~ Nightbook

Fragments of Inspiration: Music {crepuscolo sul mare}

Crepuscolo Sul Mare - The Twilight Sea

I was listening to this piece of music, yesterday, on the train, on my way back home.

I spent my evening in London, in one of my favourite places ever. Certainly a very memorable place. A place I love going back to, every now and then. I had missed it. I had missed Southbank Centre. I had missed the Thames. And I was there... walking around... taking photographs with my Minolta, trying to imagine how my photographs will look when they are developed. I listened to words of poetry and I looked outside the windows - I could see my heart being somewhere out there, in the streets of London, somewhere among the tall, beautiful, buildings. I could feel my thoughts flying in the sky, like birds. I was free. For a moment, I was completely, absolutely, free - to be whatever I wanted, whoever I wanted. A poet... leading a charming, intellectual, life. Travelling Britain, and the world.

I was there - in Southbank Centre. Music in my ears, and the taste of elderflower. People around me, and my book in my hands. Thoughts in my mind, and ideas in my heart. What if the same thing were to happen again? Going back, two years ago. But no - beautiful things do not repeat themselves. Not in the same way, not when or how we want them too. It may seem that life repeats itself every now and then, but... no... it does not. Everything is different, because we are different. Every day that passes, we become a little bit different.

I would not know what I want now... I can find out later... without even thinking about it, without even trying...

Fragments of Inspiration: Music {romeo and juliet}

A song I remember listening to for the first time years ago - one of my father's cds. I love his taste in music - I love everything about him, to be precise. Images come to my mind - they come and go. Words... song lyrics - words that I want to write down, so I will never forget them. Emotions - I feel overwhelmed by them. Emotions... of different shades - some of them are mild, some of them more powerful. Songs on the radio - it seems like each one of them brings back a memory, brings out a sentiment in my heart. Memories - so valuable, so necessary.

People I met, things I did... fragments of my life that come and go...

My mind is filled with images... sounds... faces... smiles... emotive moments... happiness...

It's raining outside...

A window to the world... a window to my soul... a window to someone's soul, through which I want to see...

It's summer, but the weather resembles autumn. It happened before, a few years ago... I can remember it. This could well mean something - maybe my heart feels more like autumn, than summer. I feel a sweet melancholy in my heart and soul...

I am wearing pink - I am drinking green tea - I am listening to the radio, smiling - and I do feel like crying...

Day-Dreaming: Music {cortina} & Place {italy: cinque terre}

I am listening to a piece of music (Cortina, by Henry Mancini) - purely by accident. I discover that I already know the tune, and that this particular, wonderful, tune makes me day-dream. I close my eyes and I am in Italy...

Walking the street of such a beautiful place...

... listening to my own music inside my head

smiling...

... a stranger among strangers

free as a bird...

Images from: Decorology

Fragments of Inspiration: Music {stray}

... there's a flower that grows in a cave
so lovely to see but need not be saved
its beautiful blossom will wither and die
if ever this flower leave the darkness for daylight...

...there is something about some days of your life

something different - a different sense, a bitter-sweet taste

feeling a bit melancholic - diving into memories

thinking about your past
smiling
having butterflies in your stomach

organising your present
trying to make the best out of your every day

dreaming about the future
hoping that nothing will be taken away from you

ever again...

All we need is love: my brother

It's my brother's birthday today - and this Beatles song is dedicated to him.

 

A charming personality, 

a wonderful, strong bond, 

my eternal affection - my brother.

Fragments of Inspiration: Music {dance with my own shadow}

When I got home, I began to dance. The sound of a band carried me away. I tore the wall apart and found myself out on the streets garish with nightmarish colours. And the bands beat out the rhythms frantically, as I disappeared in Time alone, desolate, enigmatic - disappearing through the place I'd come from, leaving behind me an everlasting smile for human beings to remember. For no one will ever know if I really came, if I really went and if I ever really existed in their midst by chance.

-Manos Hadjidakis