A downtown boy’s thoughts

There I am talking with some people I know but the y fully ignore that I am gay, I really don’t know how they haven’t managed to find it out, I talk about movies, figure skating, no girls and of course not about football). Anyway they talk about how homosexual should not be at the same locker-room with men, because straight men would feel very strange and turned into sexual objects, the same reasons they say that men do not change in the women locker-rooms.

I really never saw that coming, suddenly a part of the male population feels sexually attacked by the queer eyes. They are guys and they know how they would look a naked female body, and they are afraid of being in the same position. Why can’t they just feel happy of being attractive? And then this memory nearly years old came in my mind…

Summer 2005, I was with two friends of mine, a guy T. and a girl S. and we have gone to watch a Morgan Freeman – Kevin Spacey – Justin Timberlake film called Edison. The cinema we chose was “Egli” (Αίγλη) in Zapio Garden in the center of Athens, very nice open air cinema, though I think last year didn’t open. The movie ended around 1:00 a.m. and we walked through the park to reach for our cars, a bit disappointed about the really mediocre movie we have just watched.

Zappio is a well known gay cruising spot, especially during the summer months. If you make a walk right next to the cafes and the bars of the park you can easily spot the cruisers. There are different stories why zapio became such a place, but I really need to study more before I spread the rumors. Anyway Zapio is a gay men’s place of public sex and fast love, as exists in so many cities around the world. It is common knowledge among gay people and their friends but still the so straight greek community ignores it as it usually (willingly) ignores gay people’s existence.

And the story goes like this, as we walk towards our cars and we exit the park, a guy like this pass as by…

me and T we look at each other pretty sure about where he was heading. The whole style and the area was actually crying out a certain sexual tendency. S. who is more innocent just looked at him wondering about the stylistic choices he has made, but still she couldn’t be sure. A guy walking in front of probably thought the same thing. So he stops and proposes him something probably of sexual context… We discretely pass by them not wanting to annoy them.

In the corner of my curious eye I noticed that things didn’t work out as they parted… and then I hear a voice

“I cannot believe that… You are going to pay for that…”

as I turn my head the (let’s say him for now) metrosexual guy was ready to attack the obviously gay one because of the fact that he dared to hit on him. T. just pulled me to go away cause he was no hero and I slowly draw back as I saw that the hole scene stayed on verbal violence by both parts.

i just wonder who’s fault was it? The gay guy for hitting on someone? I bet straight men never drag women in the streets. Plus when a whole straight community decides to copy what they considered the gay dressing style, and adopting the cool metrosexual type, shouldn’t they be more tolerant towards gay people? Was it so irrational to see a gaylly dressed guy in a gay cruising place and to talk to him? And was it so hard to accept the proposal as a compliment od his hotness and not a wound to his macho-man style?

Things change everyday, I think we evolve but still there are always things that I see and flashbacks feel more live than ever.

This post is quite different I think. The Laramie Project nearly doesn’t show gay people or you actually never show them into their everyday life. The Laramie Project is a film that should make everyone of us, gay or straight, wonder of how we’ve chosen to live our lives, and why we call ourselves humans, distinguishing us from any carnivorous animal. But let’s take things from the start though it’s not really easy for me. The memories of this film are so alive in my head…

The film is based on play created by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Mathew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The play was based on hundreds of interviews the group took from the town’s people, the group’s journal and the local news and articles. The play featured more than 60 characters played by 8 actors, but the movie reduced a bit the variety. Still the structure is the same and attracted not an A-list but still stellar great cast Laura Liney, Peter Fonda, Christina Ricci, Clea Duval, Joshua Jackson, Jeremie Davis, Steve Buscemi, Janeane Garofalo. A group of people arrive in the city, not trying to discover the murderers but who is really responsible of such an act of violence. It’s not just a case of violence, not a case of kids going crazy, blaming Marily Manson or whatever. The point of the whole project is to define what is a hate crime based on homophobia, not to just find nother scapegoat in society as whole.

The plot follows the interviews and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd’s visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of “Angels in America” a year after Shepard’s death.

I remember back in 2004 talking with a friend of mine, Gaspard. We had this huge argument about hate crimes against homosexuals. I was living in another planet, I have to say, but him more gay activist and more informed was really pissed off by my ignorance. My point was that if you put a different category of crimes against homosexuals you actually marginalise them. His point was that since homophobia exists, you have to defend yourself by the law, which has to fully understand the consequences of homophobia, as it did once with racists crimes. Not that the law will stop that, but at least some people will understand, where these silly phobias can lead to. It took Gaspard hours of conversations and arguments, to make his stubborn greek friend to truly understand what homophobia could lead to. But he was talking to guy, who’s country didn’t even have a gay pride (at least now things had developed a bit more). On the other hand I think, he should have just showed me Kaufman’s film, as he proposed me to watch some months later.

The film’s slowly built tension almost made tears run, and I am not the crying-in-films type of guy. You would never believe how a documnatry style interviews film could make you feel so uncomfortable and attached. Bit by bit you hear the interviews, you learn about the case, the brutality practiced on someone just because of his sexuality. A whole town is step by step de-constructed and masks fall down, as you realise that the two murderers had a lot of accomplices. The film doesn’t stay on the tragic event of the death of an innocent, tries to dive into the reality and there it really strikes sensitive chords. Because you see the responsibilities don’t lay on the homo-haters but also on the gay and liberal community too. We tend to pretend that we live so freely and normally that we don’t need to fight for anything, we are ok. Our life is perfect, until you discover the discriminations against you, you discover the different closets society puts you in.

I wish I was more active and that I didn’t accept so many things as a victim that cannot change his place in the world. And yes its tough and I really get Clea Duval’s reaction in the film, when she is not able to respond to a verbal attack by a conservative priest -nightmarish layed bu Micahel Emerson diminishing gays and lesbians. How many times I m present in conversation against homosexuals and I just cannot react.

The Laramie project is not your typical queer film, it is something more than that, because it actually puts humanity against itself. It is beyond typical reviews (yes it is beautifully shot, yes well played, yes strong screenplay) because it opens a window that you kept closed for so long. It shows you neither the happy gay life, neither the depressing version, neither a more relaxed real one, it portrays the failure of society -in the larger scale you can imagine – to accept its own people.

Mathew Shepard was not the first to die for these reasons and unfortunately not the last. But it was nearly the first time someone placed the words hate-crime and homophobia net to each other. If you watch this and you still feel relaxed about staying in your closet, it’s too sad. It took hours of conversation with Gaspard, I just hope that other people will prove to be less stubborn and narrow-minded than me.

If you are looking for hot bodies having sex, or laughs avoid it, but still at one point we have to understand that we have to live our lives beyond looking hot models, dancing in gay-bars and looking for mr. Right. Some people really tried hard for you to have this, but you have to make a step further, or else you are jsut staying behind. Here in greece we still miss so many steps, maybe someone should try to put on stage such a story, but on the other hand who will connect to it.?

Sorry for the long talk…

Short Programme

He came he flew on the ice, but unfortunatelly too many mistakes. This years Europe’s Championship was not the best time for Brian Joubert. Second after the Short Programme, where he danced on Sebastian Damieni’s All For You, a music he has used a lot during the closing gala ceremony. Unfortunatelly this year didn’t help him to reach the 1st position.

Long Programme

The same happenned at the Long Programme. He chose to dance on the Apocalyptaca’s version of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters and Unforgiven, and he was electrifying, but the technical mistakes were too many to help him surpass his two main competitors. So, despite this blogger’s passionate support, he ended up 3rd on the Long programme, leaving him on the 3rdplace overall behind Switzerland’s Stepahne Lambiel (3rd after the short programme) and the absolute winner Thomas Verner, the rising star from Czech Republic -still notning to do with Brian’s hottness. Just check him out dancing at Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon O.S.T., technically perfect but still lacking that something (maybe his head is to big, I don’t know)

For the time I am going to watch the Gala Ceremony… Brian, attends! J’arrive!

I have to say that the first Public that opened in Athens was a major disappointment, in most of its parts. I expected something more complete not just a combination of mediocrities. There is a variety on what it has to do with screens, computers, mp3 players, notebooks, but not something more than the Multirama next to you (actually they belong to the same mother company), so what’s the rush to go in the always crowded Syntagma Square. On the music part, you won;t find anything more than the other big cd stores of Athens, plus the prices are a bit higher. Despite my will to see a serious contender for Metropolis, public won’t succeed to that. Ok its new and maybe slowly variety will grow. On the bookstore part things are better, there are two floors full of books, a great variety, despite the employers incapacity to guide you through the maze-like placement. And that’s the worse part of Public, you cannot easily orientate yourself there, not because it’s huge, just because of the limitation that the architects-designers had during the renovation of the old building. So I have to say that the final plan it’s not so user-friendly, and especially in the bookstore things are really complicated (it’s easier to spot the screens and the notebooks from a distance, than the philosophy books from the policiers).

And then we arrive at the DVD corner, and yes when I say corner it’s almost literally used. The variety is very little but suddenly as I was raising up my eyes, I just felt transported in another country, there was a sign saying “queer” it was almost unreal, next to the musicals, as it should have been. I jut walked over there at the empty side and started looking. OK there were films like the Notorious Bettie Paige which needs the six degrees of separation to connect it to queer cinema (Bette Paige is directed by Mary Haron who dirεcted I Shot Andy Warhol, which narrates the story of Valerie Solans who shot Andy Warhol, who was gay). Also you don’t actually put Will & Grace at that category because of its gay characters. The funniest thing, apart the small variety and the lack of important queer films that exist on DVD in Greece, was that most of the films had no greek subtitles, even the ones that I have found in my neighborhood’s dvd club and the ones I know that have been published by greek companies. You see probably there are no greek gays, so there is no need for this filmography to get subtitled…

Life is so strange… I was reading, but I could not get the phrases, I couldn’t even understand the words.

“He was found dead in his bed in one of his residences in Soho by his housekeeper at 3:35 PM ET today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they believe it was not a crime, adding that prescription pills were found near his body. According to NYPD a masseuse arrived at Ledger’s apartment and was let in by a housekeeper. When Ledger didn’t answer his bedroom door, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened it and found him unconscious. They attempted to wake him; when they couldn’t, they called 911. When paramedics responded, the actor was in full cardiac arrest. They attempted to perform CPR on him, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene. There are no immediate answers to how Ledger died. The city’s chief medical examiner’s office was unable to ascertain the cause of death based on an autopsy performed Wednesday morning. “We did the autopsy today and it was inconclusive,” Ellen Borakove, an office spokeswoman, told TIME. Further toxicology and tissue tests were needed to determine the cause of death, she said. It will be at least ten days before results become available. “

Heath Ledger was only two years older than me and at a point that his career was going up to the skies. It was a great shock to see him going there first. It’s not that he was my favourite actor but he was on of these guys that I had followed nearly from the beginning of their career and I always believed that hes was going to be great. Suddenly he entered into the James Dean category, with so many questions, that actually I don’t care to find the answers. Still it seems to me so strange.

He was born in 1979 in the 4th of April, and he and his sister took their names after the main characters of Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights.

I was in high school, when a local channel (Star if you wonder) decided to add in its programme a silly series called Roar. It was a very short-lived series trying to do with the Celtic mythology what Hercules and Xena: The Warrior Princess did for the Greek one. I only watched one episode, it was too silly even for my 16 years, but I happened to notice the young, blond leader. The series ended in a blink of an eye, but still his image had stuck in my mind…

1997 Dated Roar costar Lisa Zane…

A couple of years later, I rented to watch a teenage-high school version of Shakespear’s The Taming of the Shrew , with the title 10 Things I Hate About You with the most famous of each young cast being Julia Stiles, and he was there. His blond hair have turned black, but his strong chin and features reassured me, that there was Roar’s actor. The film was a hit, and a lot of people in there got noticed, so it was inevitable that the two leaders that made it spark had a great chance for their big break. But while Stiles went on playing the teenager, Ledger preferred to bet on diversity than typecasting.

The same year he appeared in his fellow Aussie Gregor Jordan’s film Two Hands, playing Jimmy, a young guy chased by the mob. This role earned him credit as an actor, as he got nominated in the AFI (the australian oscars). The movie didn’t really made it outside Oceania, but still people started taking him seriously. His big break in Hollywood, came when he played the son of Mel Gibson, in Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot. Not my type of film, but still a blockbuster, where the 21-year-old actor stole the attention from the macho Mel Gibson.

Thanks to the attention The Patriot offered him, Ledger was offered his first leading role, in Brian Helgeland’s debut, A Knights Tale , next to the soon-to-be noticed Paul Bettany. The film managed to make a small impact in the box office, thanks to its peculiar mixture of medieval fairytale and contemporary music hits. At that point Heath Ledger is more mature and more beautiful, leaving bit by bit behind his child Roar looks, but still he really needed a role to prove to the rest of the world his acting powers.

2000 dated Heather Graham

Probably his small role in Monster’s Ball could have make him the favors, but unfortunately, it was Halle Berry who attracted all the attention, thanks to her Oscar win. Then two really unfortunate steps were taken. Though in paper things could be great, his collaboration with Shekhar Kapur in The Four Feathers was really too long and boring, and the epic tale of friendship and betrayal, got no-one’s attention, despite playing alongside a fresh and hot young cast including American Beauty’s Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson and Djimon Hounsou. After that, his next collaboration with Two Hand’s director Gregor Jordan, an australian all-star biography of the famous Ned Kelly, never made it to the cinema’s outside the country. Another attempt to prove his leading man status failed, despite being supported by the presence of Naomi Watts, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush.

2002 dated Naomi Watts

And after these two failed efforts, things became worst. His decision to work again with A Knight’s Tale’s director Brian Helgeland and co-star Shannyn Sossamon, added the worst movie in his filmography. The movie waited two years to be released, while it changed titles -in some countries it was presented as The Order and at others as The Sin Eater. Under no-title, there was a reason to see it. If you’s told me that he decided to end his life at this point of his carreer it would have made sense. during that period he lost the role of Alexander the Great by Collin Farrel in the Oliver Stone film.

2004 breaking up with Naomi Watts

A small break in the flops, came thanks to Cathrine Hardwicke’s Lords of Dogtown, a small independent film about the surf and skateboarding trends of the ’70’s, but still it was not the movie that could offer him the career he deserved. The reviews were ok, but still there was nothing to offer him what he needed.

And then came Terry Gilliam, Ang Lee and Lasse Hallstrom. The first one paired him with Matt Damon, playing The Brothers Grimm, in a movie that I believe could have been a lot more, if the Miramax producers had let the eccentric director do what he wanted. Anyway the movie did ok in the box office, proving that Damon and Ledger had enough star power to save a massacred by the critics low profile film.

Meets Michelle Williams

Right after that Ang Lee offered him the role that put him on the map and nobody will forget him. In Brokeback Mountain Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the confused cowboy of the ’70’s, next to Jake Gylenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, and the subtle direction of Ang Lee, created a huge phenomenon. A gay themed movie that wasn’t afraid of its subject (like let’s say Philadelphia) that made love between homosexual being beautiful and normal, despite the obstacles. True emotions arouse and Ledger managed to gain the respect of the critics and the audience 10 years after his first appearance. It seems his second gay role would offer him the chance to prove himself (the first one was in Sweat a TV series about a school for athletes, playing a gay cyclist) The gay community discovered a new icon and suddenly everyone was talking about him.

He never gets married to Williams but they give birth to a daughter named Matilda. Her Godfather is their Brokeback co-star Jake Gylenhaal and Williams fellow Dawson’s Creek co-star Busy Phillips.

After that for a strange reason he became the “best part of this mediocre movie”, that silly line critics like to write. So in Lasse Hallstrom’s Casanova he was teh one that saved the film and blah, blah. To tell you the truth I have no idea, he was really the only one I cared about in the film, stellar box office helped him establish his star power.

After that he seems like taking a long pause, as his only appearance was in the low budget Candy a really hard to watch film as he plays a bohem poet who drags in his heroin addiction life, Candy, a student he falls in love. Despair, drama and two performances by Ledger and Abbie Cornish that really penetrate you.

Breaks up with Michelle Williams on September 2007

This year we saw him in the peculiar Bob Dylan biopic by Todd Haynes, next to Cate Blanchet and Christian Bale, an arty-film of mixed acceptance and as anyone expected low box-office performance.

And as anyone was expecting Chris Nolan’s The Dark Night to come to a theatre near us in the summer, Heath Ledger was dead…

We will see him in the nightmarish portrayal of Joker in the new Batman and after that we will let him rest in peace.

No more gossips…

I wil always though remember him singing loud Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You, that first crush…

Oh my god, finaly there is proof that the diva bitchiness is just in our imagination. After seein the new let’s call it music video (and not recording sessions) of the new Celine Dion single, released only in Japan (Europe will have the cover of Alone and UK will get Eyes On Me, I just wondered why the hell do they hold their hands all the time. And then I remembered how much all these diva’s young or old must love and admire each other. Just look at the tederness and the fullfilment they touch each other, look at the power they gain everytime her friends are there with them…

A World To Believe In

Celine Dion holds hands with Yuna Ito from 0m 08s and they go on…

let’s do now the flashback…

When You Believe

Mariah Carrey holds hands with Whiney Houston at 2m 30s

Hopelessly Devoted To You

Mariah Carrey holds hands with Olivia Newton John at 0m 40s

Tell Him

Celine Dion holds hands with Barbra Streisand at 1 m 8s

The Reason

Celine Dion holds hands with Carole King at 2m 44s

Like A Virgin/Hollywood

Madonna, Briney Spears and Christina Aguilera kissing at the end (dah!)

What us gay guys forget all the time is that queer doesn’t always mean gay, there are so many categories of people that are included in this term. So for this week our trip into queer cinema is going to be a lesbian oriented movie, Angela Robinson’s D.E.B.S.

The story is actually adolescent Charlie’s Angels with school costumes, and Michael Clarke Duncan in the Charlie role. Recruited by the U.S. government Amy, Max, Janet and the french-speaking Dominique join an underground academy of secret agents known only as D.E.B.S. These crime fighting hotties set out to save the world, but keep their femininity and lipstick intact. The girls are about to take their most important mission- capture Lucy Diamond, the deadliest criminal the world has ever known. No-one has foreseen though, that Amy, the role model student of the academy, would fall in love with Lucy…

D.E.B.S. tries to combine nearly everything. Part parody, part teen movie, part sexuality exploring themed, part school comedy, part action. On the other hand is a movie that clearly belongs to the queer cinema family, but really looks like a blockbuster. Action scenes, martial arts choreography, big set-pieces, bright colours. A really rare addition to the genre. And I have to say things start perfectly, with writer-director Angela Robinson showing that she can control the plurality of things. Clever shots, clever lines parodying the stereotypes about women, career-women and women in action-movies all together, achieving a well-balanced result, till the first half. And then things really betray the project.

Probably Angela Robinson could not really develop her short 2003 film D.E.B.S. into a big feature one. The 11 minutes of the original, are here over-expanded to reach 91 minutes, but they cannot re-create the original ’s success. Suddenly you see the movie ending in as many cliches as you can imagine. You start bit by bit being one step before the movie. i guess that if you are in your teens when you see the movie you probably are going to enjoy it,as you enjoy a lot of other films, but I was already 23 when i saw it, and a movie-buff so it was a bit boring.

Still I believe that in the whole, it is part of this queer movies, where being different it’s not easy, but it’s ok and it doesn’t mean that you have to be depressed. Another thing that I give credit DEBS for, is that it proves that queer cinema can expand to more themes than the usual, independent, talking, whining, bitching movies that we are used to. Its a pity it never managed to become the guilty pleasure it promised to be, still worth mentioning.

P.S. Angela Robinson is openly lesbian and she went on with the same subject. She directed some episodes of The L World and created the online series Girltrash! on www.ourchart.com. Unfortunatelly her next full-lenght feature was Herbie: Fully loaded with the despisable Lindsay Lohan.

Sometimes I just wish gay-life in Athens had more variety, was more open to the world, avoiding the two edges of total camp/queenly, or total culture and sourness. Sometimes you need to go out and enjoy not just thanks to the friends you are there with, but because there is a joyful mood there. Sometimes you just want to go out and enjoy as gay guy but not feeling alienated. Sometimes…

There’s a storm outside, and the gap between crack and thunder
Crack and thunder, is closing in, is closing in
The rain floods gutters, and makes a great sound on the concrete
On a flat roof, there’s a boy leaning against the wall of rain
Aerial held high, calling “come on thunder, come on thunder”

Fantaseed a bar in Gazi. It is one of these gay-friendly bars that just stay that way and they are turned into gay. The place where you can go with friends and everyone can flirt, chat, drink, dance. I was there yesterday with two girlfriends, so fine so happy. Nice people and if you pay attention to the corner you are going to sit, you won’t feel pushed by the crowds. Opens at noon, stays up till late, mixing different kind of music.

It’s a monsoon, and the rain lifts lids off cars
Spinning buses like toys, stripping them to chrome
Across the bay, the waves are turning into something else
Picking up fishing boats and spewing them on the shore

I went in and the mood was towards Amy Winehouse, slowly turning onto more electro dance tunes, that really was not my style. A video-projection screen slowly appeared and around two dj got more pop/rock.

The boy is hit, lit up against the sky, like a sign, like a neon sign
And he crumples, drops into the gutter, legs twitching
The flood swells his clothes and delivers him on, delivers him on

And it was at that point that a well known tune sounded, it was James’ Sometimes, something like an all-time classic hymn and the video was on. And it was one of these rare moments were you could feel the music passing through everyone, floating everywhere and filling the room…

There’s four new colors in the rainbow
An old man’s taking polaroids
But all he captures is endless rain, endless rain
He says listen, takes my head and puts my ear to his
And I swear I can hear the sea

What a colourful moment…

Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul
Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul

People just enjoying the music not showing off…

why the hell gay bars are not like this?

Thank you mr VJ for yesterday…

You are a composer is greece and you run out of inspration… Actually there is no problem when you live in a small country, with a small market like Greece. The good thing here is that big names don’t actually know what is going on here and they don’t care. Even big music companies don’t pay attention, probably they cannot place Greece in the world map. So here you can actually copy anything, big international hits or smaller one, not ask for copyright and create your next instant hit. The king of this tactic has been Phoebus (Φοίβος), who copied a lot of hits, like Insomnia by Faithless, Clocks by Coldplay (for others the less known Melanie C’s Understand, 50 cents’ In da club, and the list could just go on. Of course the local press has attacked him about this, not that it stopped the songs of becoming huge hits, earning him and the singers he gave the songs so many gold and platinum disks, that he has no free space on a wall to hang a painting.

On the other hand there is tha case of Giorgos Theofanous (Γιωργος Θεοφάνους) who has been much more subtle and creeping. He prefered to copy less known songs, that people in Greece wouldn’t have heard, avoiding the press critisism on one hand, and finding a nice way to fill up cd’s of the differnet singers he had in his dynamic. Maybe the rudest case have been a boyband he had created called One. Yes the boys were five as any proper boyband should have but they called it one beacuse it was the first official boy band of greece. Or maybe because actually only one of them sang. Or because Five was taken. Or they were pretty sure this idea was so stupid that there would be only one (unfortunatelly Greece managed to create more than one boy or girl bands). At one point One released a ballad called Pos (Πώς; = How?) that was like this…

and yes probably you may not recognize the tune if you are not a Celine Dion fan but in the early ’80’s miss Celine Dion was performing already her hit D’amour ou d’amitie in Olympia, in Paris.

For the history only, One was a band formed by two Cypriots and three Greek guys. They never managed to become the Greek Take That that they dreamed of, but they managed to eneter at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002 and take the 6th place representing Cyprus with the song Gimme Gimme!

Soon their lead singer Constantinos Christoforou went on solo (managing to represent Cyprus for the third time- already having been there solo before joining the group- and taking the 17th place and was the last time Cyprus took part in the finals), so he was replaced by Dimos Beke. The thing was that the group had started to loose its already little impact, since Pop music in greece is a cursed genre. After some efforts in advertisments, an album full of covers, the band split and the memebers who had a voice went on to appear in night clubs, with people trying to remmeber “where have I seen him?”. From all the six “Ones” till now only Christoforou managed to have a kind of carreer with some hits (he even released a Best Of album).

The smarest thing One ever did was that they openly played the sex game, showing off their nude well-built torsos any minute they could. Probably knowing were the interest have been, and I have to admit although their faces were not in my taste, I always was taken away by their abs. Their managers knew that so they didn’t even hesitated go the full monty in the end of a video of one of the most boring songs they ever release, called Η Αγκαλιά Σου (Into your arms), showing their nude arses. At least they you why they were there…

Icelandic singer Bjork has been accused of attacking a photographer at an airport in New Zealand, 12 years after the pop star was filmed wildly lashing out at a journalist at an airport in Thailand. The latest incident apparently happened shortly after the Play Dead singer arrived at Auckland International Airport ahead of a performance at the Big Day Out concert on Friday. She allegedly tore New Zealand Herald photographer Glenn Jeffrey’s shirt in half after he took a photo of her. Jeffrey, a news photographer for 25 years, said Bjork was accompanied by a man who asked him not take photos. He told the New Zealand Press Association: “I took a couple of pictures. And as I turned and walked away she came up behind me, grabbed the back of my black skivvy and tore it. As she did this she fell over, she fell to the ground. At no stage did I touch her or speak with her.” The photographer said that Bjork said nothing during the incident, but her male companion was saying: “B, don’t do this, B, don’t do this.” Jeffrey says he spoke with Auckland police about the incident. A spokeswoman for Auckland International Airport said staff would review video footage of the arrival area where the incident occurred if police requested it. Our main performer of the Athen’s Olympic Games’ Opening Ceremony was involved in a highly publicised altercation with a TV reporter at an airport in Thailand after a long-haul flight in 1996.

Bjork has been distinguished thanks to her exceptional style, her experimental music and her off-the-wall style and appearance, and it’s normal that you can easily be annoyed by photographers following every move you make. But still a little self control is demanded sometimes. Personally there only a few Bjork songs that I am fond off, I have more respect for her video clips and the directors she chooses. but still the best time I had with bjork was a French and Saunders video. Here is the original one…

Here is French and Saunders version (if you don’t know the French and Saunders phenomenon just click to discover somethings before I decide to write something about this talented duo)