girl you 'll be a woman soon... Until Then.....

Yummy Yummy Yummy......

2010-01-31T07:26:00.009+02:00

...and then i discovered this....Ovomaltine Crunchy.... it's creamy...it's crunchy..... it's yummy yummy yummy....
In Germany, and it is 100% true, you live among billions of tasty distractions.....healthy and unhealthy, but always the second type is the best ;-) So finding something soooooooo yummy accidentally one beautiful day in the S'n'M ......you dirty minds........in the Super Market of course..... it was a delight i couldn't and wouldn't resist to.......

There is always something you fall in love with here in Berlin.... Super Katerina fell in love with yogurt .....i lost my heart over this ..........mmmmmmmmmmmm................

Curious??? You can order it here from amazon.de

Henry Rollins in Berlin......

2010-01-29T03:27:00.003+02:00

...a liar and his spoken word

I would have never allowed myself to miss Henry Rollins on stage but when i heard it was one of his spoken word shows...i wasn't so thrilled though i already had the ticket so i decided to go after all....how bad could it be???
He started at 9 and stopped at 11.45...almost three hours....without stop, without water, without a single breath....Like a shotgun he kept on shooting us with his words and his ideas and his experiences and so much data.....Burma, China, Saudi Arabia, Teheran, Sahara dessert, India.....Minor Threats, Bad Brains, The Stooges....California, Washington DC, President Obama....

I always wanted to know what happens when you grow old and you cannot be young,fast and furious....you cannot be "punk and disorderly"...I remember myself 17 years ago how i used to make fun of my friends that were just some years older than me and i was calling them "Jurassic punks"...Henry Rollins is one of those "punks" that never quitted and never surrendered and despite his gray hair never stopped to live with the punk attitude he introduced us many years ago when he was singing .....rise above.

And as i saw tonight he still in his way tries to make people rise above and face the real world. After his punk youth came writing, acting and activism...now almost 50, he kept saying, and still he travels, he sees, he judges and most of all he enjoys to annoy "like a fly"....and that makes him so happy...like a teenager again...
So after all those years i finally found out....once you go punk...you never go back....

Killing time...

2010-01-22T03:16:00.017+02:00

Moving in a new city ... in a new country is most of all an opportunity for new beginnings...new try-outs and a bunch of crazy things to lose yourself in experimenting. If i don't do it now then when??

So when the time was right i just grabbed the chance and visited a small amazing pink world in the middle of Berlin and it's rock'n'roll district, Friedrichshain. RuthTutGut's workplace looks like a girl's playground and i have to admit i was never into girly things or pink ... but times just change.

Pink elephants and white laces, glass mushrooms and beads of all colors ...you just cannot take your eyes away from this "Alice in wonderland" little pink world. Sometimes you feel hypnotized and captured in this glass world ... but you never open the door otherwise the dream will end.

Making beads out of glass was my first try-out out of my ordinary hobbies. At first it was difficult but slowly as i watched glass melting over the flame my creativity feeling finally awakened ... not so successfully all the time ... but the world wasn't built in a day either. So like a tiny goddess of fire i keep on hoping someday to vanquish glass and it's magic. For now ... this is what i did ... am i natural born talent or what???

You can admire yourself RuthTutGut's world here or you can also contact her (info@ruthtutgut.de) and if you are nice and polite then she can share her knowledge with you

Second try-out was more into the ordinary. Sports' girl ever since i can remember myself ... I can name and count several try-outs in all kinds of sports ... from the super common to the most awkward for a Greek. So being in the city of Berlin Bombshells was just a simple excuse to put on myself wheels for the first time in my life and try to run like the wind ... and i did ... even though my speed was more like midsummer afternoon in the center of Athens ... no wind at all.

After a series of falls in a real glorious style that i might say made me proud of my wasted acrobatic skills, i manage to gather everyone around me and as a real VIP i had two personal guards who were trying to keep me rolling no matter what. Two hours later i finally manage to control my falls, stand up by myself and move in turtle speed ... but still move ... ON WHEELS!!!
So next step is to add more speed, learn the moves and then ... i got it. And as soon as i think i am at the top of the world, i would have to face the reality of a roller derby game.
Keep walking then!!! or shut up and swim as we say in greece ... shut up and roller ...
Read more what wikipedia has to say about roller derby
Join Berlin Bombshells on myspace
Find out more about Women's Flat Track Derby Association(WFTDA) and the rules of the game here

Here's to you...

2010-01-11T04:33:00.000+02:00

How many times someone has to listen to a song to figure out the lyrics????
In this case it was more than i can count....

i love you, you re my angel of all times
you re not like everyone else, you re one of a kind
i love you, you re my angel of all times
you re not like everyone else, you re a different kind

and still i am not sure ....this "of all times" doesn't quite fit, don't you think?

Though the song fits perfect to all of our "one of kind" people, valuable and precious as treasure. Sometimes simple words and direct meanings are more accurate in describing that feeling.
I love you, you re my one of a kind.....

Sons of Cyrus, a swedish band that i saw out of my concert planning some weeks ago. They exist since the beginning of this century. And till now they have three releases, you can find more about them, if you.... google (hahahha) their name. Or if you visit their myspace page here

The gossip is that the band was completely inactive since 2006 but now they are back and they even plan new recordings. I know everyone feels music differently but i think you should pay some attention to these lads from Stockholm.

Ikea, beautiful girls and good bands=Sweden.....ok in the first two there is always a doubt of quality but in music, Sweden offered and still offers more than ABBA and Roxette (....even though i love ABBA).

So here is the song in doubt....listen and judge by yourselves.

Welcome to....Femtasia!!!!

2010-01-11T02:45:00.010+02:00

Her name is Femke Hiemstra, she is an artist based in Amsterdam and she wants to introduce us her amazing fairytale awkward universe of bizarre creatures and sayings in exotic languages among those ...greek(?)too.
I assume that our greek alphabet as russian or japanese must look really mysterious to a western artist... as my dear friend Super Katerina noticed. So this dutch artist with the use of greek in her paintings is one more of the funny coincidences for me ever since i got those special bonds...avec les pays bas.

Her book called Rock Candy contains new and older work. A mixture of childhood nightmares and adult creepy dreams innocent but dangerous....a perfect sample of european pop surrealism.
A picture is a thousand words so why spending time with words while pictures speak by themselves?

Join her in her "femtastic" world.....
Official website
MySpace
Blog

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue...

2009-12-19T04:48:00.017+02:00

Long before being fashion icon, long before being blonde bitch and sexy, long before being the new electro goddess, long before being Lady Gaga......She was just Stefani Germanotta, a brunette girl of Mediterranean origin who sang and played the piano...barefoot wearing a peanut-green satin dress(?).
This old video is the proof though that underneath this Barbra Streisand meets Mariah Carey style.....she was just...WOW!!!

Samavayo are quite known to rock'n'roll audience. Teheran meets Berlin in this ultra interesting sound complex they call ...fuel. As grunge was for Seattle, fuel is the sound of this amazing city in the centre of Europe, Berlin.
"Here, House, Country, Hip Hop, Rock, Heavy Metal and Dub music are concentrated to such a degree that, within a radius of 500 meters, one can fully delve into each of these scenes." they declare in their website.

Their new album is expected in Spring of 2010 and will be the first "fuel" album in the music history. A mixture of all these sounds this city hosts but most of all an unique combination of melodic vocals and distorted guitars.

Meanwhile enjoy their video for the upcoming first single "Wait"....
a pleasure to ears and eyes!!!

This year i promised myself for Christmas...to consume as little as possible. Moving in another country is not the best time to spend money, especially in super useless but extremely cute Christmas things.

But promises are promises and i broke it the moment i made it...so first came the tree ;-)

Super kitschy, absolutely in the days' spirit, and then...
my be loving blue iceman. How can someone resist to the only dressed
in blue iceman on the shelf?

So i thought... ok for this year...but... vanilla or chocolate????
I dont think there is anyone who is sure about this question.
So i ended buying both of them.

Some days ago a friend suggested me this borrowed link with Christmas ornaments... special, funny and completely far from the ordinary....
All of us can get silly sometimes, so just n'joy it.
Ignore the greek text and read between the lines, the deepest meaning of these ornaments ;-)

When it comes to sea and captains...i dont know a thing;-) till now of course...

Because now i met Captain Blue bear, my captain....

He has 27 lives and sails the seas of Zamonia and sees all these amazing things ...that is why he has the most beautiful eyes....

Though he will only speak about his 13 and 1/2 lives, because the rest is still a secret....

And now quiet.....i go sailing with him :-)

Whip 'em Hard...Whip 'em Good...you'll love it ;-)

2009-12-17T02:53:00.004+02:00

They are from Sweden, they are young, absolutely handsome - like models and most of all they really rock....and what less one should expect from a band called The Flare-up!.

flare-up (noun) - a sudden intense happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning"
outburst, burst / happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent - an event that happens / salvo - an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs / rush - a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"

Just read their bio note at http://www.myspace.com/theflareup, hear the tunes and enjoy videos and photos.... No one can predict future but i have a hunch.

this is one of my favorite among their songs....

but this bowie-inspired hit is a must see.....;-)

We 're going steady.....

2009-12-08T03:29:00.006+02:00

So....we have a radio....After our test broad castings, i think we are ready to go on air in a regular basis. So except aliens invade the planet, meteorites crash on earth, biblical floods bring the Water World and all other possible and every day disasters....
A Chick Habit radio will be on air every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 13.00 to 15.00 CET (14.00 to 16.00 Greek time)....exactly as your weekly fitness program to keep your minds and ears in perfect shape:-)

Broadcasting from Berlin, the land of countless newborns, of bio-mania and David Hasselhoff (...maybe it's the german origin name that makes him still so popular here)...the only place on earth where Kevin Costner is considered a rock star(playing live on 18th of March), where you can see headliners in a festival Spandau Ballet and you can make your grocery shopping listening to Nick Kamen (....who is he??? handsome, sexy, one hit wonder pop icon of mid 80's).

From Berlin to all of you....a chick habit radio is now on air :-)

Drop us a line at achickhabit@googlemail.com or login during the show at the chat room. Comments or requests are most welcomed!!!

Du bist schön....;-)

2009-12-07T04:58:00.004+02:00

A movie and a song ...and we catch up with this adventure as we do each one of us with our life's adventures. Last night I saw one of the new indie-american-blockbuster movies “500 days of Summer” and if I remember correct my last post, almost four months ago(it's been so long????), was about The Temper Trap and their “Sweet disposition”.

Well this song appears twice in this movie – unusual for a song, two times? In the same movie? This is a sign – a sign of resurrection....

The movie as it is indicated clearly in the beginning is NOT a love story. I would say that is just a movie about fate, coincidence and that sometimes this everyday adventure and survival that we call life can really surprises you.......How right and wrong can be so confusing sometimes, how expectations and reality are messing up with your feelings....and how almost every time after rain comes sunshine.....after Summer comes Autumn...(you have to see this movie to get this one...)

So here we are ...four months after....a big step AHEAD... a new city, a new life, a new adventure....this time with the feeling “i am in the right way”. “I just woke up one day and I knew ” says Summer, “...what I was never sure of with you”.....(see the movie you ll get that one too).....

So here we are.....back again!!!!

Welcome one more time to this blog, a blog about views of this world through a woman's eye....yeah I know this sounds pompous.....but I am just writing for everything that pops into my eye and leaves an impression, a thought or whatever I wanna share with you.
And from now on we also have a radio......a chick habit radio!!!

We ll start easy and we ll hopefully continue rough...so stay tuned ...
the best times are ahead, cause the good are already here :-)

The Temper Trap.....in perfect CONDITIONS!!!!!

2009-07-27T03:51:00.009+03:00

The Temper Trap are from Melbourne, Australia. Melodic and atmospheric tunes from down under. They just released their debut album named Conditions.... you can find it if you look around the web, listen and love it and then GO BUY it... Official date release in the UK 10th of August.....

The only thing i would say....from Men at Work to Radio Birdman and many many more...Australia always offers the best, i dont know how but 9 to 10 times if it is from Australia, it is GOOD!!!! ...Think Hugh Jackman for example ;-)

Learn more about The Temper Trap here
and join them on myspace here

....as for their songs?
You are on your own on this quest for the holy graal :-P

Well it's not a joke.... (for Steffi and Ralph)

2009-07-27T03:27:00.004+03:00

How many times haven't we ask ourselves what is this magic thing that makes a song really memorable????

Well.... moments. Always moments!!!! And if you consider that our lives are only moments...moments of sadness and happiness. And we go on with these precious moments and their memories and of course the "soundtrack" of these memories........pffff too much thinking makes it really complicated, isn't it???

Well this song was written by The Bee Gees (yeap, the Gibb brothers themselves) in 1968.
Read here what wikipedia says about it....... and hear it (at your own risk) here

In 1998, 30 years later Faith no More offer a second chance to this good but unlucky song. This one was the last single of the band, released after their split up, that is why none of the band members appeared on the video-clip.

Thank God, Faith no More changed their minds and they are back together....REUNITED AGAIN!!!!
In one of those reunion concerts i met Steffi and Ralph.... i am not allowed to say more neither to show you a video of a great love but this song will always remind me of that beautiful night in Wuhlheide..... if they werent there, i would have missed not only the concert but myself in that area. Thank you guys!!!!

And Ralph well done for calling Steffi the right moment ;-) and singing in the right tune :-P

time for round two....

2009-06-16T03:42:00.002+03:00

one more compilation with favorites tunes....

Download here

Daniela Uhlig....a special something from Berlin

2009-06-16T00:54:00.005+03:00

While i was walking around the streets of Berlin, i saw this painting....
A girl with a "fear and loathing in Las Vegas" look in her eyes prefers to lick a green "probably psychedelic" frog over her ice cream.

Lick him until he becomes her prince!!!
Is licking that promising???? i should try it some day ;-)

The artist is Daniela Uhlig, an artist based in Berlin.
She is an illustrator and designer.
You can view her work here and you can visit her blog here...

Isn't she amazing???

when pink takes control!!!

2009-06-03T17:00:00.003+03:00

i read an article about this gang of women in India.
they wear pink and they took control of their lives in a country where women are considered children of a lesser god.

Watch the video and read here for more!

food for your ipods and other dearest friends....

2009-06-03T16:16:00.003+03:00

There are always some tunes that stuck into our minds....
You keep listening over over and sometimes secretly humming the tunes.... i am sure you know what i am talking about :-)
Well these are some picks from last weeks' obsessions..

Download here and njoy!!!

...let's get this party started!!!

2009-06-01T02:03:00.002+03:00

i was wondering what are we made of.... and i 'm talking about us, women....
are we made of some kind of special material? always programmed to do and think and speak as it should be... comme il faut....?
At least in my home country, Greece, women around my age are so well programmed to be perfect mothers, wives and sometime lovers.....Yes, this part of female activity is not the first in ranking among the others.
Well at least it wasn't. Thank god things are changing and women are ready to take back what they want. Most of them still don't know what they are looking for, or how to express themselves, or how to take what they need from their lovers... but at least things are on their way to change for younger women and girls.
The world is changing and all these old fashioned ideas our mothers (driven from their mothers) taught us, are on their way to extinct.
Anyway, this place is dedicated to all free-spirited women who are seeking ways to express themselves, enjoy their lives and have fun. To all women who turned the well-programmed robot inside them into a self-thinking and self-acting unit.
Music, books, magazines, fashion, traveling.... anything that pops into my eye and makes me have a happy thought :-)
Anything that will lead us, like a girly Peter Pan to the Never Never Land... the land where girls Never Grow Old!!!
Let's make it a chick habit!!!