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yona

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish

About Me

I am spending the year in Athens performing reserach on contemporary rebetika performance.www.yonainthefield.blogspot.com www.flickr.com/photos/stamatis

My Interests

Ethnomusicology. Greek people. 1/2 Greek people. 1/2 Greek 1/2 Jewish people. Everyone else.

I'd like to meet:

Sotiria Bellou.

Music:

Sotiria Bellou, Vasilis Tsitsanis (early), Papaioannou, Vamvakaris, Roukounas, Kavouras, Xatzuchristos... Rebetika, gamelan (Javanese), Shostakovich, Big Mama Thornton, Nat King Cole, Brahms,

Movies:

Leon the Professional, The Gods Must be Crazy, Le Placard, Vertigo, America America, Monty Python, Zorba the Greek, Usual Suspects, Psycho, Noises Off, Stella...

Books:

Crime and Punishment, Le Silence de La Mer, Death of a Salesman, Laughter in the Dark, Intvitation to a Beheading, 1984, Brave New World, Road to Rembetika, Nabokov Short Stories, Fear, God's Snake (Spanidou), Not Even My Name (Halo), The Garden of Eden (Hemingway)

Heroes:

Sotiria Bellou

My Blog

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Dirk is writing me again! Brings back Thessaloniki... Went to the Farmer's Market today. Love fresh apples- Want to go apple picking! One day, one day. Am making a delivery of apples and corn t...
Posted by yona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

:)

"may i feel said he (i'll squeal said she just once said he) it's fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she (let's go said he not too far said sh...
Posted by yona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Less sniffly

Happiness of the day: Less sniffly! Annoyingness of the day: Now must do loads and loads of work. Rembetika paper is not going half as well as intended. Is there even enough information to wri...
Posted by yona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

hmm

Online journal, eh? Error of the day: Took the water out of my turtle tank but failed to turn off the heat lamp. It burnt a hole in the side of the lamp holder and I didn't notice until smoke s...
Posted by yona on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST