Wish You Were Here

Last night as I was parking my vw around midnight "Wish You Were Here" started on the radio. So I had to wait in the car till iti is over. (Two nights before I had to wait Bohemian Rhapsody to finish :) Anyway I do love wish you were here... So, here is the lyrics and some links ;)

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Pink Floyd 1975
Lyrics/Music: Waters
Vocals by: Roy Harper

Lyrics Copyright: Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.

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Can't keep it in

(Lyrics by Cat Stevens - 1972)

Oh I can't keep it in,
I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've got to show the world, world's got to see,
see all the love love that's in me.
I said, why walk alone,
why worry when it's warm over here.

You've got so much to say, say what you mean,
mean what you're thinking, and think anything.
Oh why, why must you waste you're life away,
you've got to live for today, then let it go
Oh, lover, I want to spend this time with you,
there's nothing I wouldn't do, If you let me know.
And I can't keep it in,
I can't hide it and I can't lock it away.
I'm up for your love, love heats my blood,
blood spins my head, and my head falls in love, oh.
No, I can't keep it in,
I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've gotta show the world, world's got to know,
know of the love, love that lies low, so
Why can't you say,
If you know, then why can't you say.
You've got too much deceit, deceit kills the light,
light needs to shine, I said shine light , shine light.
Love, That's no way to live your life,
you allow too much to go by, and that won't do.
No, lover. I want to have you here by my side
Now don't you run, don't you hide, while I'm with you.
'N I can't keep it in,
I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've got to show the world, world's got to see,
see all the love love that's in me.
I said, why walk alone,
why worry when it's warm over here.
You've got so much to say, say what you mean,
mean what you're thinking, and think anything. Why not?
Now why why why not?

Windmills of Bozcaada

These are the famous windmills of Bozcaada (An island in Egean cost of Turkey) For the last 2-3 years the island started to be a famous holiday resort but there are not too much hotels or place for lodging. You can hire a village house or stay in a little pension. There are 17 windmills on the island and only two of them is enough for the islands energy needs and others supply the needs of some cement factories on the mainland. (Photography & Copyright Özgür Poyrazoğlu, Ozgur
Poyrazoglu ;)

Snowboard in Kars...

I was in Kars - Sarikamis for some more experience with snow and a snowboard. This time everything was much better. No injuries, fractures, sore legs or arms... It was really great... Had plenty of great wines at night and tasted goose for the first time (and after that for the second time :) (Tastes great by the way...)

Anyway, Sarikamis is the town that has one of the oldest ski centers of Turkey, we stayed there and I can tell you that the environment reminded me of Fargo, a film by Coen Brothers. Everywhere was white... Just white and nothing else... Click on the image left to see the whole map, flight route and some more...

This is the first time I travel this far to eastern Turkey...On the map you can see Istanbul (where i live) and Kars where I went to... More than 1400km's(Planes don't go directly so you have to change planes in Ankara) Also the left of the orange line on tje map indicates the part that i have been so far and the right is tje part i have never ever been to.

Kars has lost of ancient buildings... (And honestly we couldn't see anything as everything was under some heavy snow. The ancient (Armenian) city is called "Ani". You can find lots of information about Ani here.... (Both in English & Turkish) There is a great map of the city here! And here is some links about Sarikamis/Kars: Some info about the ski center (tr), some more info from turkski.com, and some hotel phones... ;)... (Son olarak da Radikal'de eskideeen çıkmış bir yazı ve son bir link daha...)

Some photos will be online here shortly ;)

Şu binanın arkasından görünen güneş mi?

(Özgür Poyrazoğlu - Sokakta.com/21.03.2003)

Herhalde kar yağmaz artık ve siz bu yazıyı okurken camdan içeri hafif de olsa vuran güneş ışığıdır... Her ne kadar mart soğukları bir kaç hafta daha içinizi titretecek de olsa güneş yavaştan yavaştan geri döndüğünü hatırlatıyor artık...

Madem hava güneşli de olsa soğuk, sokağa çıkınca üşümeden yapılabilecek birşeyler bulmak lazım. Bir aya kalmadan zaten sokaklara dökülüp içeri girmek istemeyeceğiz, malum bahar gelmiş olacak, güneş, kuşlar, böcekler derken şehir hatları vapurlarında içeride değil dışarıda yer bulamamaya başlayacağız. (Vapura ilk binenlerden biri olsanız da kararsızlık yüzünden ayakta kalma ihtimali her zaman var o ayrı)

Benim size önerim bu haftasonunu plansız programsız geçirmeniz. Atın kendinizi sokağa, bulunduğunuz yere yakın bir sahil varsa mutlaka yolunuzu sahilden geçirin sonra da ismi hiç duyulmamış bir kültür merkezine düşürün yolunuzu, ya bir yönetmenin filmleri gösteriliyordur ya bir şairle söyleşi vardır. Ufacık bir tiyatro sizin gibi “tesadüfen” haberdar olanlar için perdelerini açıyor olabilir. Denemeye değer... Bakalım kimleri, neleri keşfedeceksiniz ismini duymadığınız ufacık bir kültür merkezine düştüğünde yolunuz.

İşiniz (!) bittiğinde ise hemen eve dönmek yok. Yine daha önce hiç gitmediğiniz bir cafeye girip güneşi güzel bir kahveyle batırın. Güneşle gün içinde daha fazla görüşebilmeyi kutlayın ve ertesi gün tekrar buluşmak için sözleşin. Bu aralar gelmediği veya geciktiği olacaktır mutlaka ama ay sonunda tam bir saat daha fazla kalacak yanınızda her buluşmada... Bence affetmeye değer, hele de şu binanın ardından kendisini göstermesini bu kadar uzun süre bekledikten sonra...

Mood Free

Just click on the thumbnail. Whatever mood you're in; this photo will cheer you up... ;) You know, cats like sleeping when its really warm & comfortable...

And the Oscar Goes Toooo...

I woke up really early to learn the winners live via internet, last category was best picture and as soon as it was announced i decided to update fikirbaz.com. There are some surprises i guess... Gangs Of New York got nothing, Adaptation could get just a supporting actor and The Pianist won more than expected... Anyway, here are some, and there are all...

Best Picture: Chicago
Directing: The Pianist - Roman Polanski
Actor in a Leading Role: The Pianist - Adrien Brody
Actress in a Leading Role: The Hours - Nicole Kidman
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Pianist - Ronald Harwood
Writing (Original Screenlay): Talk To Her - Pedro Almodovar
Actress in a Supporting Role: Chicago - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actor in A supporting Role: Adaptation - Chris Cooper
Documentary Feature: Bowling for Columbine
Animated Feature Film: Sprited Away

Here is the acceptance speech of Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine): Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.

Complete winners list...

Blogs From Iraq...

Today morning I read Jason Kottke's opinions about the war, you can find them at kottke.org. As I read his opinions and all that stuff I decided to take some links from his site...

Kevin Sites is a "sojo" - a solo broadcast journalist - he is a CNN correspondent, often working as a one man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has reported from war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. He is in Iraq at the moment and he has a weblog/photolog: Kevinsites.net

"Where is Raed ?" is another weblog of an Iraqi guy and as we all just read some people's opinions and thoughts of Iraq from a very outsider point of view I think it is important (and different) to read it from a guy who is living in there... Go and check ;)

What else can be said?

Careful what you wish

I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight
I want that star
I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish
You may regret it
Careful what you wish
You just might get it

Great song, great lyrics; to read it all all you have to do is...

The Hours

Today i watched The Hours. THE HOURS is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman), in a suburb of London in theearly 1920’s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, “Mrs. Dalloway”. Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), a wife and mother in Los Angeles at the end of World War Two, is reading “Mrs. Dalloway”, and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life. Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep), a contemporary version of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City today, and is in love with her friend Richard, a brilliant poet who is dying of AIDS. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Tom C. Reilly

Last two nights I watched 2 good films. They were "Gangs Of New York" and "Chicago" I would go and watch "The Hours" today but I couldn't. So tomorrow I will be watching "The Hours"... Anyway, these 3 movies has the same great actor in a supporting role: Tom C. Reilly...




By the year 2000, John C Reilly was well on his way to realizing his dream of becoming the Michael Caine or Gene Hackman of his generation. While playing sympathetic and villainous roles with equal aplomb, he has created a rapport with audiences using his Everyman or even "lunkhead" quality, something that made him one of the most sought-after character actors of the late 1990s and early 21st century.

The year 2002 was a significant one for Reilly, as the actor turned in four formidable performances: first, as Jennifer Aniston's unsuspecting lunkhead of a husband in "The Good Girl"; next as a more sinister variation playing Julianne Moore's spouse in 1950s Los Angeles in a segment of "The Hours"; then as Renee Zellweger's hapless husband Amos Hart, performer of the famed "Mr. Cellophane" song-and-dance number, in the film adaptation of the hit musical "Chicago"; and finally as Happy Jack in director Martin Scosese's bloody epic "The Gangs of New York." The actor's "Chicago" performance was recognized as a stand-out, and he received his first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

Here is an interview with the guy, Tom C. Reilly

The Ring

Last night I watched "The Ring", the hollywood remake of Hideo Nakata's "Ringu": In Gore Verbinski's remake chilling horror film, a group of teenagers all die suddenly and inexplicably exactly one week after watching a mysterious videotape at a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. Then our main hero Rachel (Naomi Watts) investigates the case because she, her son and ex-boyfriend are all in danger too... Tho I dont like horror/suspense films too much, I enjoyed it. Now I wanna see the original one, Ringu.

Candied chestnuts

...Kafkas A.S. has been established by Ali.Şakir Tatveren in Bursa in the year 1930. Ali.Şakir Tatveren,who has learned the candy and pastry business from his father in Yugoslavia, has demonstrated his proficiency on the proficiency of marron glace firstly to the people of Bursa. After the death of Ali.Şakir Tatveren on the year 1957, his wife Nedret Tatverenand their children named Alpaslan, Yüksel and Atilla Tatveren brothers have managed to introduce the taste of marron glace not only to Bursa, but also to the other regions of our country.

Kafkas Company, which increases its production capacity and product variety from years to years and realizes its production facility at its modern installations, also exports its products to the U.S.A, Europian Union Countries, Near and Far East Countries. Kafkas Company presents its products to the customers within domestic markets by means of its sales-shop established firstly in Bursa and also in Central Provinces such as Istanbul,.Izmir and Ankara.

Candied chestnuts are individually wrappedin aluminium foil by automatic machinesand packed in boxes of 400 g. and 750 g.

Turn The Page - Bob Seger (1973)

On a long and lonesome highway, East of Omaha,
You can listen to the engine moaning out its one lone song
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before,
But your thoughts were soon be wandering, the way they always do,
When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing else to do,
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through,

Say, here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage,
Here I go, playing star again.
There I go, turn the page.

Well, you walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road,
You can feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold,
You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode.
Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can.
Oh the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
You always see my number, you don't dare make a stand.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage,
Here I go, playing star again.
There I go, turn the page.

Once out there in the spotlight, you're a million miles away,
Every ounce of energy, you try and give away,
As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.
Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed,
With the echo from the amplifiers ringing in your head,
You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said.

Now here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage,
Here I go, playing star again,
There I go, turn the page.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage,
There I go, playing star again,
There I go, there I go.

Snow White in Abant

Abant is a crater lake which is surrounded with pine and fir trees. It is an ideal area for picnicking, camping, fishing and being alone with nature ;) In winters lake freezes but still one can enjoy the whiteness and the silence... Winter Dreams in Abant Photography (& copyright) Özgür Poyrazoğlu

The Thomas Crown Affair & Monet

Last Night I watched The Thomas Crown Affair on tv: Based on the 1968 film of the same name, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR offers a peak into the nefarious lives of the rich and famous. Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is a man with looks, wit, and millions of dollars, yet the only way he can feel truly alive is during the thrill of the heist. When a valuable Monet painting comes to town, Crown decides stealing it would be the ultimate rush. As the New York high society demands justice, little do they--or the police--suspect that one of their very own has committed the crime. Expert Catherine Danning (Rene Russo) is brought in investigate the stolen Monet painting. But as she come closer to proving Crown guilty, she is drawn into his world, and falls in deeply in love with him.

While I was searching the net I found the mistakes in the film. (There were some I myself realized as I watched)

And; I have found some great Monet related links as I was looking for the painting that was stolen by Thomas Crown (Crepuscolo a Venezia, 1908). In The Metropolitan Museum there is an online collection of Monet... Here is a Monet galery and Monet links... If you like puzzles, you can find online Monet puzzles here... Artchive.com has some great information about the artist as well...

A Sunday Afternoon w Westy

I spent my Sunday afternoon driving 210 km's with my Westfalia. I haven't drive it for a good 3 months or so, she was sleeping in a friend's garage and i realized that we both missed each other a lot ;) I am thinking of adding a new link to the main navigation called "vehicles" but as i dont have the time to do so; for now only i can manage is puttting some blind thumbnails in this post :)

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity

This picture came to me from a friend and in fact there is nothing i can say. The title is the original quote... ;) Yes... Thats's right; "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" You can click on the image for a bigger photo... (Special thanks to bamburuk)

Some (cool) lyrics for your listening pleasure...

It's been a while... I'm really busy that can't even update the sites that I own; can't do nothing. I will be away for the weekend (incl. friday ;) (And when i'm back i guess i will have some snowboard injuries :)

Last couple of days i listened some great songs from my mp3 collection... Then i decided to choose some excerpts from the songs... Here they are; special thanx to winamp, lyricsxp.com and lyricsfreak.com and Reallyrics.com and Purelyrics.com

Helpless (Diamond Head)

I can see the stars
I can see what's going on

Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.

Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny. (to read it all ;)

Fade To Black ('Tallica)

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else (to read it all ;)

Red Right Hand (Nick Cave the Bad Seeds)

Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you know
you're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
a red right hand (to read it all ;)

Ugly (Bon Jovi)

And I wish I was a camera sometimes
So, I could take your picture with my mind
Put it in a frame for you to see
How beautiful you really are to me (to read it all ;)

She (Elvis Costello)

May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough in ready years (to read it all ;)

Aint No Sunshine

And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know :))))) (to read it all ;)))

The Pianist

I watched "The Pianist" today, a Roman Polanski film about a Polish Jew escaping from the Nazis. The film is based on a true story of talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman who survived World War 2.

To read lots of reviews about the film you can check my favourite film review site RottenTomatoes.com

Here is the official site of the film; or if you'de like to get some info about the film from movies.com; it is just a click away. (So are the trailers :)