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- - 5aUl0t Tr@n5l@t0r/Ind production - 09 may, 2k+1 -
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- Yep, you are right it's, as you have already noticed, another report from the
- <link=g11a.scr>party</l>. Why was it so great for me? Errmmm, I don't know how to tell you. It was
- simply talking part in the very first computer party in my life. I haven't any
- comparision with the first edition of this event, but I know that it was simply
- a fucking great experience for me (some people are saying that it hurts the
- first time ;-)) and I will certainly remember it until the last minute of my
- pityful life. Before I go to the main part of this text, I would like to thank
- and say " -HEIL!- " to the organisers for their dedication, nerves of steel and
- angel like attitude. Keep it up guys, I hope to see you soon in another place,
- another time...
-
- The first part of my journey on the way to Wroclaw was very quick and free of
- problems, so I even don't remember it. When I arrived I waited for Grey and
- Sqward. I expected some difficulties with meeting the Mystic Pedophiles
- Dangerous Duo. Hopefully Grey recognized me without too many problems (I don't
- even know to this day how he managed to track me down.. He managed it with help
- of the photo in which I was posing with the burger in my mouth - wanna see it,
- then read the Chosneck mag #0!). We then only had to wait for Sqward ... And we
- waited, and waited and waited and..............................................
- nothing Sqward-like showed up, so we were forced to go without him. Such a pity
- (as you will discover it later, not so completely as it seemed).
-
- The trip to <link=g11b.scr>Dresden</l> was quite nice and it was even more action packed :-))). As
- I finally landed in the train with Grey, the new attractions struck us. The
- first one was the very drunk man (a standard polish guy, really jaded drinking
- veteran) and he started to chase us with something like a blunt spoon hidden
- within his sleeve. Piece of cake. Next one was the control point on the border.
- The germans asked us simply " -Vodka? Zigaretten?- ". After a moment of
- consternation we said " -Noooooo... No, No...-" without any regrets. But when
- this fucking teuton started searching my bag (he even looked into my sandwiches
- ;)) I started to think (a very rare event for Saulot) and something popped into
- my head " -Shit!! Grey has two bottles of vodka in the bottom of his bag. Thats
- too much. We are doomed. I will certainly go to jail. And what I will do there?
- They have no television there..... What about my mum? What I will tell her?- "
- etc..... All I could do at that moment was to sit down and watch as the man dug
- through the many layers of stuff in one of Grey's enormous bags. But before
- uncovering the final layer, after which everything would become clear, this
- asshole (teuton I mean) gave up like a bitch!! Ha!!!!!! We were free!!!!!!!
-
- We arrived at Dresden Hauptbahnhof without any perturbations. Grey had some
- problems with the proper detection of direction (rhyming is fun, I perform it
- in my spare time :-)). After a while we found the GAG 18 building. Grey phoned
- back to Poland and he found out that Sqward had missed his train. We still
- weren't sure if he would arrive. The most important thing was that he was
- holding some prizes for the <link=g11c.scr>EIL</l> competitions. Ah, I haven't mentioned that we
- arrived one day before the official start of party, so we weren't sure what to
- do next after reaching the partyplace, but we were invited to enter a club by
- this weird looking guy, who could even be the vocalist of swedish group called
- "HIM" (hmm, strange similarity) or a member of something like a sado-macho
- community. This time showed that I was wrong, so wrong. He was the owner of
- this club (sorry I don't remember your name) and he had very nice clinging
- clothes (it was something like a system of early-chef-proximity-detection).
- Sorry, I am very clinging sensitive ;). We said " -Hi!- " to 505, Joe Cool,
- Spion and No. After that we were presented with a station that turned out to be
- " our- polish- station- to- the- end- of- party". With a german beer in hand we
- started conversation with the pals mentioned earlier. After a while Deez (Mind
- design) and Asteroid (farting is fun :)) joined us. Grey was shocked that I
- wasn't talking much at first. I told everyone that I must to "accomodate", but
- no one understood that word. So everyone who doesn't understood this word has
- an opportunity to look in dictionary and check it ;).
-
- All we had to do now was sit, waiting and see who reached the partyplace. This
- was a very exhausting activity and resulted in a visit from the well known
- RezGods. Next we set up the Grey's falcy and we nearly didn't noticed Sqward's
- mysterious appearing. Gooooooooooooooood...... Everyone was in the place.
-
- The rest of the evening was mainly spent on talking, drinking, writing realtime
- article and watching old demos Next there was sleeping time. Joe Cool presented
- us with a nice sleeping room, but it was soooooooooo far, soooooo high, but it
- doesn't matter because I normally live on the 7th floor. I'm glad that I didn't
- spend that night somewhere in a park or a street. I also have to mention about
- club localisation. I spendt nearly all five days in a basement full of Atari
- computers (I haven't seen this amount of them in one place in my whole life!)
- and I had no reason to go out. There was everything we needed - food (pizza
- rulez!!!), showers (they showed us some pretty, oriental looking girls, hehehe)
- the sleeping place (with very comfortable chairs to sleep on) and of course
- loads of nice people with computers that maybe don't rule the world nowadays,
- but they are still alive, still kicking and for very long they will be amazing
- us, I assure you...
-
- The next day passed very slowly. More people arrived, I hope that I will not
- forget anyone (I have good memory, but a short one ;)) -CIH, Felice (maggie
- team), YES crew, STS, Sector one, McLaser, a band of pizza mad swedes and of
- course more (big apologies to all people marked as "more"). Even the lost
- transport of polish guys arrived (special hi goes to bus crew: Draco, Monsoft,
- Vulgar, Rafal Kawecki, Piotrek Kruzycki ). Particulary all the time 'till
- saturday evening, when the first series of compos were announced, I was
- bouncing off the walls of the club, annoying some people with my person,
- drinking beer, vodka, playing on the net (aaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! free
- internet access!!!!) and watching video's from other atari partys. Anything to
- kill time.
-
- What I can say about the saturday compos? Well, I will not conceal my
- disappointment. If anyone tries to say that the overall level of this compo was
- *good or better* or something like that then I will be in obligation to cut off
- that person's head and piss down their neck. I will not say that there weren't
- any good pieces of work (I still remember MSG chip&mod music, he is very noisy
- guy BTW), but I am 100% sure that no one in the main room was fully satisfied.
- People please try harder next time. This was like sitting in a cinema, watching
- a boring movie without the possibility to go out. You should bear in mind that
- someone has to watch (and listen) to what you have created! In the end I didn't
- really know from what my first impression originated. Maybe there wasn't a good
- rehearsal enviroment, maybe I am not a chip & mod specialist, maybe all that i
- wrote earlier is true, maybe not, maybe I should be happy for one simple fact
- that someone is still doing stuff on Atari (but this one doesn't satisfy me at
- all, but you?), judge for yourself... I know, I know.. the gentle art of making
- enemies :). But let's stop with this moaning (which is not in fashion and not
- well seen in these grim times).. The positive thing was my very first votesheet
- in my life (small thing you know, but it makes a man happy :)). There was as
- usual some technical problems with video projector, which delayed presentations
- of entries, but I bear in mind that party was organized by only four persons
- (THE FANTASTIC FOUR(five, six?) 505, No, Spion, Joe Cool) and making everything
- run smoothly was nearly impossible, so I will forgive them ;).
-
- The sunday passed off in a similar way (bouncing off and so on.....). Surviving
- until the evening was easier with the help from Blade Runner, Bride of Chucky,
- Carrie 2 and loads of beer. The short trip with Grey and Sygne (Hi!) to the
- nearest Burger King was quite funny and inspiring. The coolest thing in this
- trip was the two noisy german girlie-teens spitting on each other with ice and
- Sygne acting as a werewolf chasing them into the toilet (hmmm, they were
- frightened or what? Finally they ran off with a loud cry, hehehe). But this
- didn't prepare us for the next event at partyplace - THE WHIP-PONG TOURNAMENT.
- Such a pity that we couldn't manage to return in time to sign on the long list
- and take part in it :-/. This compo just knocked me out. The rules were simple
- -you have your channel (Left or Right) and you are making some noizz to the
- microphone. Techniques of various vocalists (If I can use this term) were very
- different and quite original. Finally after a series of confrontations, TAM
- from T.O.Y.S was declared the winner and he earned for himself three beers.
- The tension was growing in every minute. The long awaited demo and wild compos
- were delayed by video recorder malfunction and some other minor things. But
- finally we were presented with entries. Some nice intros, XL/XE demo entries
- (which were awful and shouldn't be called demos). And then there was the ST
- demo compo with the only one entry Sector One and Dune demo, but quality of it
- was astonishing. Great design, presentation, chip-tune and effects really made
- it stand out from the crowd. It was a pleasure to watch it, really worthwhile.
- These sort of productions are showing what ST is capable of. In the wild compo
- there was presented a short film from Havoc & Friends. I liked it very much.
- Action packed, good bashing, blood, very fast cars, guns and women(?). All
- factors required by a good film. But ehm, I don't remember who has won in the
- end ;). Another entry in this competition was Ascii Nation by Maggie editor CIH
- As I noticed it was an ascii comic (someone should read it loudly ;)). The rest
- of entries I don't remember, sorry. And then the most important part appeared
- FALCON DEMO COMPETITION. It was certainly the revival of a falcon demo scene
- from a long recession. At last something is going on :). Thanks to DHS,
- PARANOIA, T.O.Y.S, REMO, SPICE BOYS and ESCAPE for their quality work. Well, as
- always I could stick to some things, but I won't do that. Good work pals!!!
-
- When the smoke after the compos cleared up, it was monday morning. We decided
- with Grey and Sqward to not fall asleep, because we had a train back home at
- eleven o'clock, so going to bed was equal with staying forever in Germany
- (which one isn't as bad). We have somehow survived awake to the official end of
- the party with announcment of competition results and various prizes give away.
- After that the people started to disappear and partyplace deserted slowly with
- each passing moment. After some time we had to leave (me, Grey and Sqward). It
- was sad to leave GAG18, truly. Everything looked like a landscape after a
- battle, so I felt very guilty that I couldn't help a little with tidying up the
- club. I will go to hell for that :].
-
- In the end we reached the trainstation and said good bye to Germany. And then
- there was only the brutal comeback to harsh reality...
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