RUSH #02 30 ноября 1999

meaning without a sense - Travel to Kiev.

       Travel to Kiev

       Author: Znahar / Rush

      AY Music: Panda / BIS |


             "... And they took the Hawk,

               and Kiev have gone ... "

                      A. H. Witch Doctor.


                   VII

  A strong desire to once again see
capital Hohlyandii I did not have, though
Last time I was there before
Transformation. Yielding to persuasion Athens
own curiosity, I succumbed to the
temptation ...

  Bus leaves at 5:44 am. This,
among other things, too, I am confused (it's there
wake up early). Since I took only a
bag with the computer. I was also pleased
the idea that there can not eat Nitsche
and nobody will get.
Accordingly, Hawk, I did not take. Here,
I think, well, it is! Not long, I thought so
and we boarded the bus with a heavy bag
havchika. Sleep in public transport was
rather difficult and we had to contemplate the scenery for
overboard.

  We went from the bus somewhere on the "corner"
capital and have to wait Vitya. And so
time around people all run, run,
can not sit them see exactly who anthill
broken. Bazaar not far seen. AND
heard. (Cited in the will - Censorship
cuts his). We look, then along the sides
and notice the little shop (2 pieces). I have such
squalid buildings in downtrodden rural areas have not seen.
Well, I think that margin all the same.
I was wrong modestly, as it turned out.
Now we are waiting Vitya sitting. The problem
that the bus had come "only" on
40 minutes earlier. But Victor was steep and
came half an hour before arrival, so that
we waited a little. But had povysazhivatsya:
Here we have in Chernigov buses also have
(!) And routes on the strength of 30 pieces will be typed,
and here ... Arrives at the bus stop
N317, and is so peaceful. And Grandma some
comes and asks for a pure Russian:
- Tell me, 312y did not pass? - No, no
passed, "I replied. More than I have this grandmother is not
seen ... And these routes were
long distance.

                    VI

   And now we're going to Whyte in hostel
Record bag havchika (does he have something
eat 2 weeks:). Metro in Kiev, as
Antonievskie caves in Chernigov, everywhere.
I tried zhetonchik not quit ... Not
Timeout. Do not worry, there are options like
zhetonchik save! We're going in the subway
talking on people's glancing, as they are
so smart (externally), silent. Who
just in one spot staring who
book buried who do dryhnet already!
Then we boarded the tram. Such
impression that the trams and other
happens at all: in Kiev, they are the same as in
Germany, more precisely in the eastern part,
Hungary, Poland, just filthy in Kiev
they are much steeper, and since their
painted the factory have already passed
a lot of time. And, incidentally, is why in all
the above mentioned countries streetcars are red?
We can not explain it, but in the capital
they should already be at least
"Zhovto-blakytnymi" ... Well we will not
climb to high politics. Following the slogan
"Every transport of the conductor" to us
the guard came and sold 3 tickets. A
Victor them for some reason zakomposiroval.
Is "not without a composter
valid ".

   We left the tram at some dirty
street. Home old vytsvevshie, walls
chipped and one of them proudly hangs
billboard with a bicycle "Komanchi".
Better if the walls in order resulted. Are we
Victor and I for and on the sides look: These
species, although the picture write. Some branches
sticking out of brokenness, asphalt, can be seen at
the road was, but quite a while. Come to
stairs. A wooden and clumsy.
Bolts sticking out of the floor, the railing is better not to
brothers. - Yes, Victor, well here and the city ... A
on Khreschatyk the same? - There's a better ... -
Nude nude. I also want to see what is the weather
was not sunny and clouds of gray
color blended with the gray houses, the dark
asphalt and torment people. In general,
picture is bleak. And here we are
approached two nine-bleary
windows - this is the hostel of the Kiev Academy
Arts (as proudly!). Inside New Alphabet,
in its classic version looks
worse than nuclear war. The only
difference - the presence of abundant art and
texts on the walls. - And interestingly, the lift
work here or you're on the garbage disposal? -
Yes, sort of works. A garbage disposal forever
clogged. And so we entered the housing
ordinary student of the Kiev Academy
Arts (how cool!), Only one in
ALL Hohlyandii! I made a couple of steps
inside and was stunned: my perverse
sick, rich, depraved, and generally
imagination was so small and
poor against the background of the opened form.
It turns out there are terrible things and
Atomic War! In the terminator I suffer;
probably when we created the scenery for
underground homes of people who are fighting with robots,
but rather was used to come to this hostel.
Well, for most students in the reality
smear soot. And it's New Alphabet Kiev
Academy of Fine Arts (as proudly!). So
Now, all this room is rectangular, with
two beds, one of which
lay some lumber on the other end to the trash
joined socks, standing in the back and
they are almost awake owner. Cabinet with
all parties was blocked by some
paintings, banks and stuff. (Under
"Trash" should be understood part of the male
garderopa, paper, wire, notebooks,
cans, cones, etc.). On the windowsill
there was someone bust and a bunch of junk. On the floor
the same thing. The table was piled full
banks, pots, bottles and only
20x20 snout was empty (apparently for
dish). The owner of socks in the meantime
tried to open my eyes and get out of bed.
By this time I had matured following
Keyword: - stunned! - Hi-cry came
bed. - Here's Meet-Victor
unloaded contents of the bag on the floor - is
Dima, a witch doctor. Meanwhile, Dima
managed to get it from somewhere tube
"Blend-a-med" and a toothbrush: - C
arrival, and went into the bathroom. Victor posted
out of the bag last jar of canned and
solemnly declared: - You
library show? - and went with
Alena to leave the room. - Shaw? In this
Durkee also have a library? - I was surprised.
- And how. - Interesting, interesting ... On
door to the toilet inscription "library" does not
it was, but more importantly, that there was a hook to
from the people close! Our toilets
state-owned all well know. In Scoop, they all
identical. But I am proud to
declare that he sprinkled one of the best
WC dorm Kiev Academy
Arts (as fabulously!).


                    V
- Here you thumps, probably, every day
? - Interest.
- Oh thumps! - Dima sat on his
bed with a dead look, - yesterday won
only in a neighbor's dorm ... Phew!
- A weed?
- Well, we have in this hostel alcoholics, and
Neighbourhood nariki.
- Duc why are not there booze in the neighbor?
- And they come to us and we will smoke them
do not forget.
- Well, where shall we go? - Victor interrupted us.
- And what is there to go? - Poiteresovalsya
I.
- Can the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, shops,
museums. In short, we take the map now.
- See how many cemeteries there, "Alenka
poked somewhere on the map.
- Well, they went to the cemetery ... Only that
probably far away - I asked.
(I do this kind of institution
like. There's so quiet. Calm down.)
- What is far? Then out across the road
cemetery for some. I go lately
on the sketches go, glad-Victor.
- And there are no maniacs? "," Pretty smile
I.
- No ... Nariki perhaps, Dima-sat
Sit back on the bed - recently, between
Incidentally, there is some catch up to the state
drawing instruments and one girl skopytalas.
So they are out there once and it was buried ...
- How sweet - smiled Alenka - Capital
service.


                     IV

   Without deciding exactly where we went
eye gaze, ie, in the center. Again in
subway was crowded and all
silent / read / sleep. Maybe for the markets
rotten here are thrown at once? Keepers of the order
moved frequently throughout and only
wholesale. I was even embarrassed by it: not
pooresh not pobuyanish - zagrebut damned.
And the closer to the center, so they are more like
in the heart of the most rowdy. Circus!


   Long or a short is, but we came to
Museum of Western and Oriental art.
Think the tickets will be a maximum of 1.50 USD.
Break off us: 3 UAH. and ju-ju! This
about 1.5 $. There are pictures of all sorts,
plates, statues, antediluvian, truth and
a lot of fakes, and they are called cool:
"Reduced copy" or "reproduction". Y
I was on their plates at home were the same
Half-naked girls as a museum, only
Museum were the originals! But strangely,
at the Dresden Chamber Arts is absolutely
such as "originals" are available. How so?
Then we went shopping and on Khreschatyk.
How many songs about Khreschatyk folded,
pride in Kiev! This is the main street
Capital! And in the middle of the street burst
sewer! Well at least 2 days before
our arrival. Here you have Khreschatyk. AND
We walked on the street itself (the movement here
blocked, scratched out) and tractor
drove past and the rain began to drizzle. A
umbrellas in a hostel. Shorter because Khreschatyk
did the construction. And yet in 2 months
to "brown flood" At some roof
a house adorned poster "Samsung",
in place of a building constructed Mc
Donald impressive size. (Somewhere I
saw the billboard, "the crown" so much as
wanted to cry: Do not forget to support the
domestic producers in Ukraine!).
At the same Khreshchatyk is gray
semicircular Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Protected by one 40kilogrmmovym and
2hmetrovym policeman vicious form and
cap. Coat of arms of the Soviet Union under the roof of the
building was part of the building and its just
covered piece of iron is dirty-blue color with
trademark trident, which I affectionately
nicknamed "wishbone."


   We passed by the Kyiv Music
Academy (both musically!): Shebang
a gray, old, unremarkable. But by
moans of tools, I realized that the people
neighboring houses with no luck.


  That's about someone not forget, it's about
President and co. Cottage Floor 7. In
German style. Already polished. A
wall, one was obluplena: Attached
this house historical building recently
demolished because You see, Kuchma or his
little woman, it hurt to contemplate any
mounds. And just kind of school.


   St. Andrew's Descent - a bunch of cafes,
shopkeepers and museum of Bulgakov. I, being a
firmovyh sneakers "NIKE" loudly cursing
on a cobblestone street, and Athena Heels
(!) Calmly walked beside her. Women's heroism
I have always been inspired by the exploits and I
stopped. Still not evenly Descent
become. Well, we walked on or
raised.


  By the way of shopkeepers: people in Kiev,
probably 50/50: hucksters / other. On
each corner. Anything up to
budenovok. (Forward-thinking what!)


   Yes. About the city center to say bad
impossible. There's all well and almost clean.
Transport "quietly" roaring to himself,
red light on the go over - sobyut
mad. Only here's the problem: the center
small, and a great city.
- Look, negros - Athena again shows
for someone with his finger.
- It is not good in other finger
show, "I said - this is not the
first account niggaz ... Victor, but where
then watch the racists?
- Live niggaz! Very best! Send them
poschschupaem - Athena quietly deflected in
side residents Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- E-uh! - Victor hard to persuade us not to
harass blacks. And I never knew,
where to watch local racists.


                   III
 Pretty tired, we returned to the Vite in
hostel, but durugoy expensive and that's what I
I saw it: Imagine a private house,
which was demolished, but the outer wall of the left
standing by the logs, sustaining its
from the street. Behind this wall
is skewed a private house, which
too, is about to collapse. Glass in one of
broken windows, exterior wall is cracked
nafig. And here is the thing: over the broken
window flaunts thieves neon sign in
the best traditions: Notary Agency,
blinds in the windows! And between the wall and house
This is a brand new steel fence
gates and coded electronic lock on the
gate. And by the sight passes
lilac Volga, who attended clearly not in
one accident, and therefore rattling as
Red Army, and manages the rumpled
man in a crumpled form element and cap.
Face of the state!
- Come here and gadyushnik ...- I said.
- Why? OK! - Said Victor.


   So we come to the shelter Viator'a. Dima
disappeared somewhere and I decided to explore further
room. Looked the picture of Viti and understood:
The Model - the heroine and out. Finger
I will not show. Not culturally. Topics
time Victor Alena Hawk prepared to
consumption. In the end, Athena,
Smiling mischievously, vruchmla one plate
Vite, and the second gave me. I like
True Witch, was outraged, but confusing.
That does not make. " Currently it does not
prepared, citing a lack of
appetite. I decided that it was genocide
to me: - I have made,
a very post! It's not fair! Dine and
you!
Victor willingly and as a big brother
provide all possible assistance to the sister.
As a result, Alenka ate, but my plate
fell off the bed onto the floor upside down. I
thought can not smeared with tomato, so
eat. Yeah. SchA az! Tomato was
black-black, with a thick layer of sand and
long hair (probably mine).
- That ate ...- I gathered that
dropped out of the back plate and put it on
table - Dima will treat.


                    II
And here we are back in town. We go to Whyte on
work, where he was because we missed by only
2 hours.

- You are even remembered as the train station
everything?
- Of course!
- Yes!
- And to my dorm to get, if anything,
can?
- Yes!
- Of course!

Again, some slop rayonchik again
thieves' fence with a bell and nevnushitelnaya
brick "cottage on antigravah,
disguised as chicken legs "
("Mission In. W" by Znahar).

 Victor phoned his long time were not allowed,
while we stood nearby and watched. In
He eventually got a job, and we
went to look for the bus station. Before sending
the bus was still 3 hours, but we
decided not to risk it.
- Well, Alan, you say, remember to
go?
- I remember?
- Well, yes ...
- I remember. And you?
- Well as you say ... And here we are now
transition from the left or right to go?
- To the right.
- Really?

We went right and I'm broken off.
Indeed, on the right. This is good
I think, is not lost. We sat on the tram,
and again approached the guard and sold 2
ticket. I pretended prokomposiroval
and went on as if nothing had happened. So, I
could heat the Kiev tram depot
60 kopecks. " Though it is necessary to think globally.
In the end we got to the bus without
special problems and decided to investigate
nearby areas, while there is time. There
There was nothing interesting, except
set of residential high-rise buildings with very
"Clean" yard trash and, like
R2D2 from Star Wars. " Savings
quality bricks led to cost
on the tiles, hiding a dirty beige walls
homes from the eye. Slowly tile
collapses and it seems that the city
recently there were fights. Very nice look
National Library. Most, but
nation is too small, though nationalists more
and it is impossible. Let them be their own tales
invent, not the classic Ukrainian
rips. Lamer!

   Strangely, "moo-moo" Turgenev wrote, and
Shevchenko monument was placed. It seems
like Lenin, it is easy to sculpt. So everywhere
shove. Better if the tree planted!

   Charter walk we decided to find a shop with
views of the city, and there to philosophize.
After a while we found a bench, and
Here, overlooking the city had a problem.
Instead of streets receding into the distance, we
saw some rinky-dink shop
located 10 meters from the shop. Under
bench rested three-legged dog and barked at
All that pass by. And people all running around,
walked, crawled, climbed, moving,
moved and sometimes disappeared from the field
view.

   At the bus station a little boy
serve as a reference when creating an animated cartoon
"Treasure Island", not only externally but also
manner of speaking is very much like Jim.
Having built his whole little family in a column on TWO
he kept telling me about the angle of refraction
rays in the camera and tortured all in the
finally took a couple shots.

   And then the bus takes us back home, boy
still gets his little family, admits
otryzhkm and apologetic smiles. We
fallen down on each other, trying to
sleep. And only the carrier, as Stirlitz
calm and devoted to his profession. May
he now sleeps, but after 15 minutes, he
wake up!


                    I


   That's a capital Hohlyandii. I described
Their views and not on your nelly not want
offend the residents of the capital. "The people have
a government that has it. "
In Ukraine, well it turns out
rename the street, put a monument,
hang flags, shouting: "Not Yet Perished
Ukraine "(no, we'll wait:)
"The Ukrainian language is the most melodic language
world !"... I'm not here to talk about
"Proceeds" in the state budget, its cost,
"Refined" tax policy,
"Revival" of the nation (it pleases me)
"Active" measures to "maintain" nat.
producer incomes,
"Lovely and fair" parliamentary
State "funding" (not from
nat. reserves right?), and other trash from
which formed the face of state-va. It is with
August 1991 and did not come out from the
...., Where he pushed the century. And yet
say: we tried to repeat the mistakes
past. Right! We'll be doing
such errors, which in the past do not
guessed!

- = - 27.07.1998.