#christofor

[oc-heaven]

'bout to write some unhinged smut

[jacks-dark-oc-stuff]

After his rebirth, Rowan goes to his most loyal paladin to satisfy his need to be destroyed. Later, Griffith comes into the story to sexually harass Rowan.

I'm just destroying a twink at this point...

[fortheloveofsweat-take2]

[charybdisrevenge]

Stella Christoforou

[monogreek]

L'homme dans le néant (1978) by John Christoforou (1921-2014)

[marcelskittels]

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[oldsardens]

John Christoforou - Personnage blessé

[lift-move-sweat]

Stella Christoforou

[vintageurovision]

[oc-heaven]

Rowan Hcs

When before the fall, he slept with people to get what he wanted or keep a person wrapped around his finger

He never enjoyed sex until he slept with Adonis, in fact, he didn't realize he could enjoy it until he met him

After the fall, he sleeps with Christofor to try and fill the hole that Adonis left, but as you can imagine it doesn't work

He has a very low opinion of himself due to the things he's done and the standards he's held to

The pedestal he's been put on since birth by the people around him along with the curse has put him through a lot of mental turmoil

He's a very unstable person and very codependent when it comes to Adonis, he needs him to feel whole before and especially after the fall

He won't accept that Adonis left him or that he hates him

[sardens]

John Christoforou - Sin título, de la Suite Olympic Centennial. 1992

[fortheloveofsweat-take2]

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2005 - Number 10 - Constantinos Christoforou - "If You Go"

He's back already. Constantinos with his second appearance this year and third overall. Again, this isn't the song he took to Eurovision in 2005, it's the other song by Mike Connaris that was in the four song Cypriot song selection.

If You Go is slow. If I were to guess what song Mike had been listening to when he was writing this, it would The Korgi's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime. It's got a sparse, gloomy verse filled with synth noodles and artificial strings being all legato and romantic. It takes a while for the drums and fuzzy guitars to kick in. After a couple verses of this slow build, the chorus threatens to kick in with some violence.

But it peters out before it ever really gets going - becoming something more like a bridge. Then there are flutes? The instruments begin to drop away again as Constantinos ruefully contemplates a life without the one. And then it's over. What was that?

That is the sound of composer and performer playing with structure and attempting to do something rarely seen at Eurovision: Give us a mood piece. This is all about conveying gloom, despondency and a heart-shattering, stomach-sinking, dawning of reality. The brief moment of anger doesn't last long before the leaden plummet into the abyss recommences. This is a bottom dropping out of your world song.

It certainly isn't for everyone. It's definitely not very Cypriot. You won't be surprised to hear that it came last of the four songs presented in the Monte Caputo Nightclub, Limassol at the national final. I however have put in at number ten. There was a point in going through the 2005 songs when I thought this was going to win - I like it that much. If I'm going to be critical, it needs an orchestra to do all the synth parts, but this is a national final on a budget so I'll make do.

Constantinos, of course, did go to Eurovision for the final time this year and finished seventeenth for Cyprus. He didn't have to go through the semi-final (thanks, in part to Mike Connaris's successful song the previous year) and perhaps that's a good thing. I'm not convinced he'd have been successful. Constantinos did try to represent Cyprus one more time, entering the national final in 2010, and has done his shift as the Cypriot spokesperson for the scoring three times.

He continued writing and recording music for some years after this although his peak successful years were behind him. He will always be one of Cyprus's (and Greece's) favourite entries.

[monogreek]

'L'ange jaune à genoux'(1996) by John Christoforou (1921-2014)

[sheilamurrey]

August 12th - You can't dance

It’s August 12th, 2024; We have an original country song about a guy wanting to dance with his bartender, but she’s working, so she can’t dance. This is one of Richard’s favorite songs. I’m sure it’s because it brings back memories of when he played in a band at Whiskey Creek (in the desert valley of California). Thanks to Steven Cooper, Nashville, TN for this lovely radio-ready song. Here’s the…

[oldsardens]

John Christoforou - Portrait