Adventurer #14 30 июня 2003

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Scene - Adventure Finns in Russia: Report on a trip to the Russian party CAFe'2002.

Scene Behind a Curtain
Setok / Aggression

To Russia with Love

In fact, it all started like that.
Was one of the wonderful spring evening. Finnish birds chirping 
... frolicking outside, moaned in ecstasy cats, when they 
interrupted the harmonious voices of nature alien sound. 

Phone rings, I understood. Hence,
someone got my number. Maybe even especially, but not
simply confusing numbers or amused prank
by telephone.

So, I decided to take up. I
invited to a local bar, it seems, invited Nosfe, but it
it did not matter, because to go
in an evening to unwind at the bar
things fun, especially if it's a pub, and there is good music, 
and beer is fresh and not diluted with water, as in Russia. 

When I crossed the threshold bar
Sizzle, I saw there our whole
stsenovuyu elite company shipevshuyu (excuse the pun)
with excitement like a German sausage in a skillet or
Champagne 'Don Perignon' harvest in 1826.

I walked slowly, swaying to the beat on the ears uhayuschey 
cool songs, and greeted each fellow scenery.


Among friends, partly drunk,
people I once spotted a guy who beat his chest with his fist and
with a strange gleam in his eye
interlocutors told something
like 'here are you fucking bourgeois,
Russian spektrumistov otrodjas
not seen ... ' In his flushed face, I concluded that the 
tradition of mixing beer with vodka is an integral feature of 
Russian sceners. 

I'm not mistaken - it is really
was the Russian Spectrum sceners
Apostle ... No, just Paul aka
xPasha, it is not clear how he found himself in Finland. Pasha 
relayed the content of the film 'Peculiarities of National 
Hunt' and passing shill all Finnish

spektrumistov to his guests.

Sensing a dry throat, I decided
take a beer and listen to leap
tales from xPasha. The bar was
stuffy and not comfortable, I
just fly vzmok. Stuffy due to lack of air conditioning and 
neuyutnost - the presence of Gopnik, throwing disapproving 
glances for a couple of hairy bikers in

tight leather pants.

That evening in the bar Sizzle we fucked a lot of kinds of 
adventures in different parts of the body, but is a topic for a 
separate report, to Moreover, the memories come together in my 
head like Russian national dish

'Salad'.

The very next day, sober cola, I suddenly and
seriously think about what happened. Damn, Setok, I said to 
myself, yes because you elected! You can become that bridge 
between East and West, one of the leading international 
movement spektrumizma worldwide! 

Scene. Russian scene ... This is the real secret! Ugly iron 
curtain flung us on the different sides of the fence, 
irreversibly changing the lifestyle and thinking. Can we here 
in Europe, imagine the existence in Russia scene? No, I could 
not. Well, the bears there, snow, trees, sticks all sorts, it is

still all right. But we were firmly
confident that in the Soviet Union
No millionaires, freedom of speech and
even more so - and sex scenes.

And now - for you! 'That's you, grandmother, and St. George's 
Day! " as they say Russian, apparently referring to the

Day of Astronautics. How to tell
I, like a scene reached Rosii?
Maybe it was brought back the Americans with Colorado beetles? 
Probably, the scene somehow reflects the most fundamental human 
traits. Moreover, I convinced that stsenerstvo - one of the

main instincts of man. I
repeatedly noticed that sceners sacrificed for the sake of his 
art, it would seem much more important motives of the body - 
food, sleep, even, do not be afraid of the word - sex and other 
carnal pleasures. 

We have a need to create,
not paying attention to the obstacles.
The desire to show others our
own achievements in hopes of gaining respect. And while other 
members of humanity break new records-jumping with the elephant 
in the sandbox, and are measured pipiskami puzami, compete as 
Eminem, rap with a reading hefty black guys, we are creating a 
dense code, design, and amazing music ... 

Last night, in a state of alcoholic intoxication, Nosfe and
Paul told the company about
so ridiculous and trifling things
as the Alternative Party. Naive
They were hoping that this thing
spread in Russia as
Pepsi, and we'll see, I'm sorry for the pun, the influx of 
scenery, about which no one ever did

I have not.

In turn, Paul told us about CAFe. We are excited. Russian 
party? With spektrumistami? It was diabolically tempting, given 
my long-standing love for the Spectrum ...


Frankly, I hoped that there
will be pancakes with caviar, Ural dumplings with vodka and 
gypsies squatting with bears and dolls, but in reality it was 
much steeper. On the other hand, I feared KGB, Chernobyl, the 
Russian Mafia Chikatily and terrible cold, but xPasha explained 
that KGB has gone bankrupt, Chernobyl inherited Ukraine

Russian mafia all emigrated
in America, Chikatilo soaked in
outhouse and cold summer does not happen, and the decision was 
made. 

True, warm clothing, tents and sleeping bags, we
still stocked, and then how
turned out to be very prudent ...

I omit a long story about how
as we are with my friend Tuomas
reached the Russian city
Kazan (it turned out, at the
Indeed, the Tatar). It was
awful. Indeed, even some
ten years ago, Russia languished
under the brutal oppression of communism! Rather, it languished 
under the yoke of socialism, but the ghost

Communism already hard walking around Europe. Our journey
was similar to the adventure
James Bond, and it began with
crossing the border, where we
simple Finnish guys, saw the value of these so popular in 
Russia as the words 'Rubbish' and 'jail shakedown. "


We do not know how the restructuring and the invasion of 
Pokemon affected former prisoners of the Soviet Union, and only 
when he found himself here, to learn all the truth ... The 
truth was terrible - in Russia, poverty reigned. Disruption, as 
he said the professor Transfiguration. Fences oblezshey paint 
(and maybe it never There was no paint something? "), under 
these fences lying exhausted,

apparently from hunger, people, abandoned factories, rusting 
equipment, the lack of many local telephone service and

electricity (yes, we own
eyes watched as the people
Obviously, employees of the Ministry
connection, cut out the useless wires and hastily carried off 
their kudato ...), the road ... often they were not expensive, 
and the usual dirt ... 

But! Despite all the problems people are full of optimism.
Many with whom I spoke were
convinced: tough times short-lived phenomenon. Soon collapse
end and then come
Full ... mm-mm-m ... forgot
word, in general, it is something like communism, but democracy.

Reception in Kazan was hospitable, and even too much. It seemed 
that everyone was trying to help us get off the train, even the 
conductors and some collectors bottles.

By the way, in Russia, many pensioners are addicted to 
collecting bottles and lead a very healthy lifestyle, devoting 
his long-time pedestrian walks, sometimes even spending the 
night outdoors, under the open sky! 

During our entire stay
in Kazan, we are hot Finnish
guys, enjoyed tremendous success. People were always glad we
see, everyone tried to shake
hand, pour the vodka or even take
autograph! We were on the hands and
gave way to transport the girls gave us flowers ... We are on 
the some time have felt like a star, I'm even one person in

As an autograph written 'with
Regards from Michael Jackson. "

But first needed somewhere to place things. It turned out that
Local six-star
hotel suite to get a free room is much more complicated than we 
thought. Moreover, as time in those days in the city held a 
conference whether Tatar (something like interplanetary chess 
tournament), or thieves get-together in Basically, if someone 
is going to to go there next August,

advised to book a room on the internet with a credit card or by 
using the web money. 

We finally were lucky - we
housed in a presidential
room! They say that the current Russian president has stayed in 
this room, even when he was pioneer (as I understand, a pioneer 
- it's something like Prime Minister).


We managed to see a little bit
the city and its architecture. She was in the same condition as 
when, for I think that was at its core

in the 13 th century (AD), but at the
same time, were clearly visible changes - for example, 
McDonald's and red clown with balloons. 

We Tuomas agreed in
opinion that Kazan great potential. In this city, in bulk
dilapidated buildings. As we
explained, it is restoration,
restoration work, that is
(Probably after the Second World).

Well, optimism - is important.

So now we had a unique number, so it could begin to relax. But 
it turned out that for the full participate in the party need 
to bring DeMouy. Moreover, the cassette version of the Shock 
megademo, caught up in my backpack, did not fit. Needed a new 
deme, and preferably written by himself. But neither I, nor 
Tuomas never in my life done this. 'Well, - said

I Tuomas, decisively shifting
eyebrows, for each sceners once there comes a time when
he needs to do DeMouy! And for you this moment has arrived ... 
' We decided that the best place to create demos - patipleys, 
and even before the official events that direction. Caught on

place, we suddenly realized that
Russian party - it will not finnish
pati ... Not any more.
Instead of tables with rows of computers (buffet), there were
lots and lots of chairs and a large
screen on the stage of the old theater.
Heat of the moment, we even thought that night there will twist 
porn, but it was even cooler ...


The next day we woke up
the hotel is the singing of the Russian
birds and Tatar mat. Gathered
with the forces that arrived on patipleys.
There we were told that night
today have right here in
Hall. I had to agree. Somehow, it's scary happy
Russian ... Still, it became clear
that we, too, punk!

Then we took out their laptops and
began sculpting demo. This caused
among spektrumistov extraordinary
surprise. Many came to
us, clapped on the shoulder and said:
'You Th, here kodit come from? Well
you, damn it, give! There is vodka sour! " These people just do 
not know that the whole civilized world

party shall, to the people there were engaged in coding, 
myuzingom, grafingom stsenerskimi and other gadgets. Here, most 
participants simply fun, which, incidentally, also

not bad.

At patipleys we do feel
like a star. Guest star, so to speak, V.I.P. There. All stared 
at us, greeted, was interviewed and treated a variety of

local drinks. And we were loading people on Alternative
Party. In the West now
Spectrum demoscene almost forgotten, there are praying for the 
Commodore 64. In Russia everything is different. Here cult car 
is ZX. Local sceners somehow miraculously manage to 
successfully fight restrictions on the platform, they

even the demos do. Moreover,
its Spectrum are welling up super-duper-crazy
clones and Superclones, modifying all that is possible.

For life I will remember the dialogue with
one artist whose name is
After all the events forgotten. He
sitting at the table (before it was VGA-monitor and gray
PC-shny minitauer with two 3.5 '
drives) and demonstrated
their work together with a graphical editor. It was like
a scene from the movie Ghost Dog: he
had no teeth kicked in English and
my Russian is about as lame
and my Japanese. Nevertheless, we
completely understood each other. I have it
asked why he uses
emulator. The question, of course, had to translate, but he 
briefly and strangely at me and said: 'This is not an emulator, 
it is Spectrum '. And then the realization of the ability of 
Russian empower their Speccy struck me. It turned out it really 
was the Spectrum, where among other bells and whistles, there 
was More and HDD ...


Another shock experienced by me in
Russia, due to the fact that they did not
popular Linux! At first I thought
that the Russian too much
money, but then found out that the reason is simple: Pirates 
... Left Windows can then buy a couple of

bucks. A bulk-less. In an effort to involve the Russians to 
Linux, I showed them some demos: it was the Fit's

One Day Miracle, and some of the MFX.

Meanwhile, 'on the big screen'
was a demonstration of work: music,
graphics, chip music, ASCII graphics, etc. Listening to music
Tracks, I realized that the Russian
uh-uh ... somewhat different tastes in
this area. Dominated rokili even metal-songs, and all
that somewhat resemble
electronic music was in my
look, uh-uh ... unsuccessful.

The situation reminded me of the end
80 in Finland: then everything (even
grandmother) had T-shirts with Iron
Maiden. I do not want to say that
Iron Maiden - it's bad, but Grandma T-shirt, black leather 
jackets with brass knuckles in his hand - it's disgusting.


Another durnyak that I noticed: they were both ANSI and ASCII
graphics compos. Only
difference is that the ANSI graphics
color, and so-called ASCII
graphics - it's black and white ANSI.
In other words, almost all work in the ASCII graphics compo 
used not ASCII, and ANSI characters (Or, perhaps, IBM). Here at

it's something and it would be a little hint to the organizers!

Night falls. And then we realized
that the Russian sceners not needed
computers to the party because
Tables were meant for them ...
for vodka! Yes, we are also in Finland a little, how shall I 
say? eat, but still tried to focus on computers and 
programming. But Russian has long gotten rid of these

unnecessary things and focus
all their attention on drinking.

Imagine this atmosphere
Universal alcoholism? And we
with Tuomas, naive - trying to
to finish the demo ...

Eventually, people began to really
strange glances in our direction and twist his fingers to his 
temple ... had to throw this stupid

the idea of ​​codec and grab the
glasses. But the strange looks did not
ceased. We, in contrast to
Russian, not drinking vodka at a gulp, and
sip, and it was surprising. I lied that that
vodka in Finland is very expensive, therefore we prefer
drinking beer and alcoholic drinks;
but in reality we behaved
due to the fact that vodka was singed at the 
Russian-travanutsya we feared. It should be noted that there is 
no generally normal vodka. Know happens, for example, whiskey, 
gin, Tequila, Schnapps ... And in Russia, similar to the 
national drink is called 'bodyagi' and done it from the Turkish 
spirit. 

But as we have no birth control, the morning still awake with
symptoms of the disease, which is here
referred to as the 'hangover'.

Our demo screwed to the fullest.
Other works were interesting
concepts, and won the most
technically difficult, the team
Placebo. Well, if they, like us,
sculpted demo directly to the party, I'm sure - hell would 
walrus, as they say in Russia, would have taken the first 
place. We would like to invite those boys in Finland for its 
own account, but they all disappeared ... After

ending party, we still had a few days to see the sights 
tutoshnih places. In the process Tour organized by another of 
xPasha, we visited many low places, tested a huge number of 
national dishes, with emphasis on cheap beer and vodka.


I will say that I was pleasantly
surprised by Russian girls. Maybe I seemed to them too
strange, but some times they
tried to strike up a conversation, which
can not be found in Finland. A
Or maybe just wanted to make ...

Also, I prefer skirts, especially those that are shorter, but 
not pants, which in Finland are

almost everything. Maybe I'll meet more of these in the future.

Summing up, I will say that it was
crazy ride. We were
very happy to return home. But the journey, and all the 
impressions received, I will never forget. Many thanks to 
everyone who helped us: xPasha, Max, Adam, etc. and elph'u, who 
suggested that I write this article. 

Hope to see you all again!