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Ladydust

.. u climbed on a ladder & u know how it feels to get too high,to fall too soon..

About Me

Marina (MarinaTsigonaki.com) was born in Athens.She quit french litterature & followed different paths.. During the last years,her main profession,has been:" modelling".She has till this moment,done campaigns,TV commercials,catwalks,catalogues,editorials,& have generally collaborated with so-so many photographers,producers,fashion designers,magazines,cosmetic companies,etc.And it is smth she is still doing.. Besides that,{although,for some,the combination is weird:-)},she has had the last 3 years,studies in drums.Music is & will always be her passion,especially if this"marriage" has to do with rock n"roll philosophy,which she interpretes in a few words,as:being authentic,& following the ways of the heart.She also adores poetry.She beleives it can be the ultimate art,especially when it comes as a way of looking at life,& secondly as expression. For the last 5 years now,her second occupation,is:dj"ing.In 2005,she was the resident dj of "Hard Rock Cafe",in Athens.And for the last 2 years,she was the resident dj of:"Hoxton",&"Booze cooperativa". Actually,there can be many different music profiles in her sets..From indie & alternative of 90"s to 60"s,from "punk" to "surf"rock..Darker or electro sounds also fit in her performances.Sometimes,choices for"harder"ears as well..It all depends on her mood,as long as there is the appropriate,"narrative"style to all that,of course..As a guest dj,now,she has appeared in most famous clubs of her country,like,"Astra"club in Mykonos,"Art House"in Thessaloniki,"Jackson Hall/kolonaki","Red club"in Katerini,"Casablanca soul"in Santorini","Argw bar","Escoba","gazaki","alley cat","Underworld","Fuzz","Corto Maltese","sixnotites","Braff","Mad club",and in terms of festivals"like:"Capoeira","vinyl stores festival",&"Schoolwave",at "Texnopolis"/gazi,or:"Earthdance festival".She has also done the music for shows,like recent one of Daphne Valente-chairman of Greek designers,in terms of fashion week. In the future plans,comes a compilation which gonna include the "soundrack" of her life..The tracks that changed the way she watched the world around her:-)Coming back to dj'ing stuff again-someone sees most flyers involving her events, & he notices,she signs,as:"ladystardust",or sometimes:"ladydust".For those who don't know,the name is inspired by the title of one of D. Bowie"s songs,and has a deeper meaning for her.Sometimes,she uses for" heroine",in her posters,a female(almost-actually she likes women more.:-),called Yoruichi.She"s half human,half cat-& is starring at a Japanese series of mangas,called: "Bleach".. She finds her, really attractive,concerning both looks,and personality!. She also names her dj sets "The Art Of Modern Rock."..In life,generally,she detests any kind of possible "heart" compromise,& thinks that limits exist only as a challenge for people to overcome them.She beleives that in the final"account",we-people,should put whether this life-our life is that interesting,-(be careful!!it may seem but yet,NOT BE interesting-I mean REALLY INTERESTING..) that it could possibly become the theme for a movie.. You can also find Marina on Facebook,by clicking here .Run to the"i like"application to dive into the ocean of her favourite music videos..:)) And as for her recent"acting"& other activities,read"GENERAL"section:-) Finally,you can also contact her,at her e-mail address:[email protected]

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My Interests

What to say,I write everything down,in the"about me" section. A few things I"ve adored in life:poetry,rock n"roll,drums,cats,kinky stuff in general,tattoos,someone from a past life,comics,& the ideas of"love","freedom" & of real friendship.. Now as for the rest,.. ,I work as a model,I've studied drums(!!oh yes),4 the last 3 years,(but this is smth,I"m doing for myself only,that means I don"t do it professionally),I play music as a dj,(now mostly I appear as a guest,),& I've also started some "acting" seminars.Latest participation in"ixni"of mega channel,in TV ads like "amstel",and many-many more(read my cv at my personal website). Also recently starred at a videoklip(supernatural stuff,but script based on ancient myths),which is shown on MTV & many other music channels around the world-& participate in international festivals as a film.For the summer period,are planned two cinema movies,and an interesting role in a tv series,which gonna soon announce..:))

I'd like to meet:


girls who like boys 2 be girls,who treat boys like they"re girls,who treat girls,like they"re boyzz.."Ok,ok,enough with joking..Think that (un)consciously,we"re all seeking for people,that"we"re hoping to share the same truth,right?I mean,the truth,we hardly even confess ourselves,at our loneliest moments..What can be that truth?"My space"can be an alternative substitute,that covers the need 4 communication,we all have..(the bands may use it,for a different reason,but,it"s ok..)As long as we don"t only "stick" to virtual reality bien sur...:-))Otherwise:DON"T FORGET TO CLOSE the pc and go out!!To answer the question,now: seeking 4 anybody cool..It"s nice to have the chance to meet people that u would never meet unless u travelled the world 500 times:-))

Music:

The last 15 years were full of ..concerts,concerts,concerts,oh! & concerts!:-))From "Rodon" to eternity,could possibly be the title of all this period..Am I a total freak??Wondering..:-))Now as for my music interests,(& though I don't necessarily stick to the "hard" stuff in my dj sets),I like bands like Tool(band of the century according to me),a perfect circle,(equal good effort,but second in competition with tool),senser,the screaming Trees,the zounds,Bad religion,pearl jam!,Kyuss,Filter,Buthole surfers,ministry,motorhead,R.zombie,monster magnet,Soundgarden,the fall,rage against the machine,days of the new,puddle of mud,tea party,machines of loving grace,porno for pyros,collective soul,terrorvision,remy zero,stone temple pilots,foo fighters,Bush,400 Blows,John Frusciante,Deftones, Queens Of The Stone Age..Space rock too,Hawkind,(=gods!!-who said anything??)LEGENDARY PINK DOTS!(recently saw them live,& found out why they couldn"t be called other than :"legendary"..)Led Zeppelin,4 sure..Stranglers.The Velvet Underground ,ofcourse.Ramones!!The Clash.Afghan Winxs..Hard electro like crystal method,& Front 242..Apoptygma berzerk,zeromancer & VNV nation..Prodigy.Bob Mould,.. However, I also like alternative, Indie Rock :radiohead,interpol,Muse,(now tell me who could deserve more,to headline Reading?!),sparkle horse,mansun,grandaddy,22-20"s,house of love,Built to spill,(amazing cover of:"Cortez the killer!),charlatans,the go-betweens,the rapture,LuckyJim,manic street preachers,Brian Jonestown massacre,the helicopters,Kula Shaker(!),blur,belle & sebastian,primal scream,placebo,the Sound,Buzzcoks(with the 'coks"!!,not like they call them in the movie:Control!:-),the Gun Club,the zutons,The Bees,the farm,the 5,6,7,8"s(viva rockabilly power!!),just remembered the Skeletons-(speaking of similar great stuff):-),the pretenders!!Hollow men,The Church,the real people,Madness,Audiobullys,Magic numbers,Dodgy,dubrovniks,happy mondays,3 colours red,super furry animals,16 horse power,Cracker,killing joke,flock of seagulls,magnetic fields,Cast,Hefner!!..Magic girls voices like:Elastica(!),Curve-they came first,& then garbage(which I also like,but life"s unfair),broadcast,Le Tigre,Blonde redhead,portishead,salad,life without buildings,texas,cocteau twins,stereolab,Throwing muses,Kate Bush,Courtney Love(Hole),veruca salt,mazzy star,Isobel Campbell,kemonpetrol,Big runga,the walkabouts,Tori Amos,Lush,Electrelane,L7,Al.Morisette,but HollymcNarland, is actually better:-)Oh!Miss Kittin too.. I adore 60"s!!13 floor elevator,Kinks,The animals,electric prunes,The who,The seeds,grateful dead,mommas & pappas,yarbirds,but also nice efforts of our days like the raveonettes,levellers or coral:-)..From more recent stuff again:kent,stellastar,the verve,mercury rev,idlewild,alarma(just discovered them:very interesting sound,tastes like combination of BRMC & Queens of the st.age),autolux,( again-Los Angeles-so creative town finally),she wants revenge,glasvegas-(I"m thrilled about this"new blood"),the Cinematics(also one of the best things lately heard),nada surf,james,Boo radleys from the past,Athlete,stereo mc"s,twilight singers(dying for their sensitivity),new order,the cramps,Longview,the Veils,Mars Volta,doves,inspiral carpets,Shed7,sonic youth,the strokes(band of the 90"s I think),the Killers,(hot fuss stole almost every heart),Vines,Kosheen,the stills,camouflage,Calla,bloc party,international noise conspiracy,kaiser chiefs,echo&the bunnymen(big-big band),Electrafixion also,Ride(really favourite ones),d.warhols,jet,the Smiths,Morissey on his own of course,girls against boys,Peaches,The music,The fratellis,The waterboys(very inspired mr Mike Scott),Janes addiction,Perry Farell"s personal stuff too,Orbit,Jesus & mary chain,(maybe should put them first of all,sooo legendary),Nomads,Hives,puressence,flaming lips,Beta band,(Great-great!!)The Pavement,folk implosion,death in vegas, the Kills,snowpatrol,six by seven,smoking popes,Suede! Brett Anderson brought sexiness into rock n roll,pulp!(Jarvis,another illuminated guy),the libertines,ok-babyshambles can be cool too,Moist,Caesars,the Stone Roses,-Ian Brown"s personal albums too-he"s fucking nuts,the white stripes,fisherspooner,Lcd soundsystem,Kraftwerk,chemical brothers,pixies,Cousteau.Also:god speed u black emperor,orbital,siguros,air,devotchka,spiritualised,mogwai,s ister sonny,Arab Strap,cinematic orchestra..Strange Love(used to adore them-"time for the rest of your life"is always in- between my top5 songs,ever & Patrick is-I beleive,:the most sparkling poetic figure of our days ),tindersticks,deus,zeta swoon as well,the droogs,make up,Cure of course!,the essence,(who were according to me, far better than Cure),porcupine tree(no words to express their majesty-listen to"voyage 34" which is not so well known but THE definition of their version of psychedelia),simple minds,-they wrote their history,massive attack,smashing Pumpkins( a friend says before they broke up,it was the last rock album in history:) ,madrugada(EVERY ALBUM IS FUCKING AMAZING,I JUST L O V E them) and so,so,so many others!,could write for the rest of the day..:-))Or darker sounds like:P.J Harvey,bauhaus,clan of xymox,Nick Cave & the bad seeds couldn"t be absent,einsturzende neubauten,siouxsie & the banshees,mission,in the nursery,miranda sex garden,paradise lost,villies,johnny cronin,cranes and Joy Division..(when love is dead,and ambitions grow cold..well at least,there still exist Joy Division"s music..)Think of it!And ofcourse,Mecano..(Tejo & Dirk are mostly good friends of mine,except of excellent artists):-))Did I mention Lou Reed,'Love",John Cale,the godfathers ofcourse!!BIRTH!SCHOOL!WORK!DEATH!Patti Smith,Rory Gallagher,Tom Petty & the heartbreakers,ocean colour scene.Babe Ruth,Marianne Faithfull(or else:the goddess),Neil Young & Bob Dylan?Think I didn"t,so respect to the roots..Iggy Pop??(by the way he should be called Iggy ROCK!!/Stooges:fucking rockers & that"s it.Steve Wynn.Johnny Cash.Paul Weller.The Triffids.New york dolls.Now I may be a rocker but speaking of "roots", there"s also place in my heart for Cheap trick,Ian Dury,Climax blues band ,Hall & Oates,Curtis Mayfield and BB king..I listen to some special greek rock stuff as well.Trypes..("mesa sti nyxta twn allwn"=oli i ousia tou rock s"ayti tin periergi xwra)Ta xylina spathia(beloved ones){"oti vlepei tin alitheia ston teleytaio papyro,na kaigetai se mia othoni ws to apeiro.."}-super lyrics-Also,Paulos personal albums.My beloved friend"s Vassilis Goudaroulis personal albums,as well,who"s like a brother to me,& someone I respect,most of all.The Velvoids.Very good band indeed.Closer.Absent mindead-they become better & better.Invisible surfers.Last drive.Raining Pleasure.The Fuzzy Nerds.Sleeping pillow.Matisse.Serpentine.Monitor.The Liarbirds.( I"m a huge fan,especially after I saw them live.)Decades.The earthbound.Terminal curve from the past.Deus X-Machina.Monica.Such a great passionate voice for this age.My dear friend Y.Nastas from Xaxakes-amazing band,with whom I did a few gigs as a dj in the past,Katrin the thrill,Ziggy was,(which unfortunately no-longer exist).And Universal trilogy.Stereo Nova.I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E lyrics as well.Anyway want to say that I totally admire & respect all the greek bands(even those which I don"t like a lot),who put effort in producing stuff and do gigs in this country,knowing that there's no much opportunity field.This is exactly what makes their effort SO precious & MORE worthy comparing to other bands from abroad. In the end- one of my top favourite bands - though they do not exist anymore - remain the" faith no more.."(in greek I"d just call them:"number1 aristokrates kafroi!!")ALL of Mike Patton"s projects too.... (Finally,forgot 2 tell,that according to me, very few of all the previous I mentioned could ever give humanity,the vision Morrison did,through the kingdom of his mind).Just to clear things out.And I should also tell that the order of the previously mentioned bands was random. ...Finally I should say I find interest in writing down music(mostly) articles and critiques which are published in magazines & newspapers.You can read some of them at my blog..:-)Also,don"t hesitate to visit my"profile song history"here!I adore spreading out the soundrack of my soul..:) Cheers everybody!!!!!..

Movies:

High fidelity,(thank god it exists as a movie,cause I was thinking that smth "s terribly wrong with me that these silly"top 5 records"thoughts have always preoccupied my mind..:-)))!!!! And worst:THEY STILL DO!The Matrix,(can the human mind conceive that although it remains a hollywood movie-yet it can be so much more than that??)..,night of the iguana,velvet goldmine,"the shining"with Nickolson,(what a man,my god),lost Highway ..(top one & with the top soundrack of all times,I beleive)S.Kubrik"s films as well,24 hour party people,legends of the fall,trainspotting,Tim Burton"s stuff.. Finally,the "movie" of my personal life(which I"m already writing in a book the last years).It may have begun as a "tragedy",but is fascinating,even like that,and has strong perspective to have a FUCKING "WINNING"HAPPY END".Like :"Yoruichi",the heroine I"ve chosen for my flyers,who beats to final death,the "bad ones"!!

Television:

The only reason I have a tv,is for foreign music channels,and ofcourse,for playstation!!Have watched television 10-20 times (the most!!)in whole life,I think..One of those was the time back then when"SUPEROCK" was showed on MTV..It was every Monday after midnight..Showing clips of Nine Inch Nails,and having gorgeous women presenting it!!From Greek television,only the unbeleivable:"A.M.A.N"..!!(those who have seen it,know why..-))Viva Thessaloniki!!Best city in Greece...

Books:

I"m into philosophy & psychology books mostly( oh,yes- u understood well-to help my deranged soul..)Like Emmanuel Kant.Big fan of Carl Yung"s stuff..Soeren Kierkegaard.Roland Barthes.William Burrough"s.Tom Robbins.Vilchelm Reich.Eidika to"akou antrwpako"tairiazei ganti se kapoious pou kserw:-).Xeimwnas.(once upon a freaky time,I even translated:"The poet"s enemy",& sent it to the love of my life).Manwlis Daloukas.He just seems so genuine.Lately I read the"symposio'of Plato,which was a friend"s recomendation.And also,another one,called"I die as a country"of a greek,called Jim Dimitriadis- it was like the writer threw up and there suddenly created 50 pages of extravagant thoughts.Liked it though.My dear friend:Alexis Stamatis,(who has taken the poetry award:"Nikiforos Vrettakos"),& who I really love!Yes,I adore poetry.Allen Ginsberg"s poetry.Karywtakis.Giannis Aggelakas.Consider him first a poet and then a rocker..Love Nietche too,but don"t necessarily agree with everything he said.Anyway,I"m a bit sceptical to"artists",cause I have the suspicion,that some of them should better try to"live"along with "creating"..(instead of doing just the second..)Anyway..As for magazines,I recently found out that"ANOTHER MAGAZINE"is really cool,although it"s a fashion one.And ofcourse:"UNCUT"&"NME"magazines,classical values.

Heroes:

"No more heroes anymore,"said the choir of a song of Stranglers,right?.. Maybe Superman..:-)I like the idea of someone even imaginary saving this world!!! And Corto Maltese.I find his attitude sexy..Anyway,enough with comics..All those who still beleive in the magical word:LOVE.Maybe,only this can change the world.Also,those who beleive & fight for those famous lyrics..->"imagine there"s no country..,I wonder if u do,NOTHING to kill or die for,and no religion too.."Oh,yes,all those ARE heroes.And they can be all around us,not just on tv screens and covers of magazines,beleive me!!:))))..

My Blog

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Posted by Ladydust on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:15:00 PST

Past Dj Sets:-)

"United event",@ Underworld,where I appear as guest among other dj"s on the 30th of March..For more info,click on UnderworlD club..~The Art Of Modern Rock @ Braff~ PART OF THAT NIGHT"S PLAYLIST...
Posted by Ladydust on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:33:00 PST

(iac) page + modelling stuff

view my IAC page as for modelling stuff of mine, there"s always my flick" r gallery.....
Posted by Ladydust on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:57:00 PST

Videoclip SIC

go to the following web address to watch the music video in which I play the lead part of Abigail/Lilith. It will shortly be aired on Hollywood TV (USA), followed by HeadBangers Ball (European MTV) an...
Posted by Ladydust on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:33:00 PST

some web-& other-articles of mine

Published in:"Sfaira",Mirella Kalostipi"s newspaper..also:this,this as well,and :that:-))...
Posted by Ladydust on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:25:00 PST

My music production for Daphne Valente"s show/Fashion Week -2007

Marina Tsigonaki-Music Editorial at the Daphne Valente's show...
Posted by Ladydust on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:16:00 PST

Have made modelling first cousin of dj"ing:-)

The clothes I was wearing at my guest dj"ing in terms of Earthdance festival,were a sponsorship,of the clothe company:"ROUHOMANIA",for which,I personally posed:-)) ...
Posted by Ladydust on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:51:00 PST

Listen to this,& if you won"t cheer up in a second,you have a serious depression problem.

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Posted by Ladydust on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:20:00 PST

SAD DUST GLORIES(Allen Ginsberg)

To the deadTeacherbring me to heavenor leave me alone.Why make me work so hardwhen everything"s spread aroundopen,like forest"s poison oak turned redempty sleepingbags hanging from ...
Posted by Ladydust on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:03:00 PST