Well, not many people speak English in Budapest. That's the first impression of the place. Even the officials and custome-house officers "fight" with English. Everyone does, except a woman who sells railway tickets.

Hungarian border officers like small or huge gifts in money or anything. One of them was rather interested in our money. I didn't want to give it to him. I took the money from his hand. I didn't even want to give him scabby 20 Croatian kunas. Nor SCH cd. I asked him for 10 euro for the cd. And it was only because of "merhametly" Armin's intervention that I decided to give him one copy of the Vril as a gift. I ran out after him and gave it. Didn't piss.

Also, all the official information is written in Hungarian. The same situation with English language was and is in Czech Republic and in the other ex Warsaw-Pact countries. Probably. But this is going to be changed, I think.

Unbelievebly, some of the people in MU Theatar we talked to were very concerned about their own culture. I can't swallow that, man! They have all the foreign movies and stuff dubbed. You cannot hear a bloody word in a foreign language and still some of them are complaining about their "lost culture".

We, in former Yugoslavia had a really good experience on this matter. We always had original films with the titles under the pictures. Had bloody coca cola and other Western shit, but we never lost our culture (fuck the culture). Better, we now have so many people capable of speaking English or whatever, and it is so cool. We had mostly learnt the language by watching movies and listening to the rock music. Someone should say to the people of these countries: "learning and speaking English, and watching movies in Enghlish, wouldn't harm your culture, if it's so important". And I hate watching dubbed movies and programs. No matter on what dubbing quality they have.

Anyway. I like Hungary a lot. And Armin likes it too. It's my second homeland.

Briefly:

Bela Marias of TUDOSOK is the main "engine" and ideologist of the BIG EAR festival in Budapest. This is a very cool festival. It's always, mostly, about the "kinkiest" music in the world. It's a pity that people in Sarajevo would never have a possibility to hear something like that in their town, because the people who organize gigs here are "peasants". But they should see and hear it, in order to be informed. Then, everybody would be very careful about telling things like advanced, progresive music or something! This is a really advanced and completely uncommercial festival. (No journalists or media showed up there. I don't know why. They should have. Maybe. Maybe not.)

MU Theatar is a nice place. It has a cafe downstairs and a large room upstairs for the performances.

We were a bit sceptic when saw it, but when we started playing, it turned out really good. People enjoyed our gig. They wanted more. We were deaf and cruel, so we didn't play more. It was so spontaneous. Cool atmosphere.

There was a huge screen behind us and we played our video on it. We looked like bloody Pink Floyd, ay! This was our first gig after seven-years-pause and we weren't quite sure about the "sufficiency" of the line-up consisted of two men. Really, it was an experiment. The techinca-people (light show, video and sound) were profesional and a huge help.

At the beginning, I said several sentences in English which is always needed to be done when you get in front of audience. That way you "confirm" the audiences existence and show that the gig is not a bloody EGO TRIP.

I said: Hello, we are SCH from Sarajevo, Bosnia. This is going to have to be a certain amount of violent sound now. We would like to thank to the people in MKC (DPZN) club for they supported this trip to Budapest for us. And, IT'S AMAZING, MAN. Some people from one country (Slovenia), have financed a band (SCH) from other country (Bosnia), to trip and gig to the third country (Hungary). Does this mean something to the bloody fagots in Sarajevo?!! So, we are greatful to DPZN for this unusual and thankworthy deed.

Bela Marias of Tudosok and his wife were very nice to us. They "staffed" us with good Chinese food and drinks. After all, I sold several cds. PUMP ME UP, BABY!! Forintas, ugh, uf! Pushing money - left pocket, right pocket, he he. We really took the skin off of the rabbit there. There was no need to "cram it on the dick".

Some girls were interested in a communication with us, but it was impossible. They spoke Hungarian only. I don't like drunk cunts. They have bad breath, ugh!

He was *a motherfucker*, a guy of middle age. Permanently saying every word or phrase 20 times. So, 20 times he said that I looked like a German and Klaus Kinsky. He became my favourite, he "tossed the right string" for me (some girls told me the same thing before). Thanks a lot.

Armin got into a conversation with a man who had known almost everything about SCH and it made me raise my tail up over my head. We never played a gig in Hungary. Never even "passed water" nor a CD over Hungary and you can imagine how I felt.

SCH is stroooong, ay!

Of course we could shag something if we had enough time.

Still, we were so exhausted. Around 2 o'clock we decided to go to sleep. We got the room with 4 beds in it. We should take some groupies with us. There was enough space. As soon as we fell asleep (it seemed so), we hardly heard the knocking at the door. It was the woman of the reception. She was ordered to get us up at 5:30. No hangover can compare to the dizziness we had that morning in our heads. We packed all the things and got out. I gave some 5 euro to the smiling reception-woman and staggered out of the hotel. Grabbed a taxi which drove us to the train station.

Water, chips, tickets, things and we are already cling-clanging on our way to Ljubljana.

The gig was successful, no doubt.

Thanks to Aurelia

In Ljubljana, Gregor of Žoambo Žoet Workestrao was waiting for us when we got there. He took us by car to the "Metelkova - Menza pri koritu", gave us some pizza and coffee. We spoke with him about politics, music and our gig that night. Gregor is a clever guy. A convinced humanist. He did a lot of good cultural/political actions with the "Society for Protection of Atheistic Feelings".

So, after a while, we set off to the Radio ŠTUDENT. Cool radio station!! The best in this part of Europe, probably. Permanently good music and activities. It has been broadcasting for more than 20 years now. Tea was the name of the girl who interviewed us. I was talking, and talking, and talking so much that others didn't have an opportunity to say anything. Sorry guys! The conversation was all about the VRIL album. Gregor asked for my opinion about the THEORY OF CONSPIRACY and if I believed that a sort of WORLD CONSPIRACY was at work in the "Bosnian case".

Of course not, but the slow, clumsy and confusing reaction of the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY during the "shit" that was happening makes a lot of our people think about a possible conspiracy. It's understandable, isn't it?

Then, we met Alenka. A nice person. She's got all the attributes of a perfect modern woman without complexes.

And besides that, she cooks so good, man.

The meal she made for us was *HEAD-ACHES* good. It was that tasty. And she let us drink as much as we could (we didn't misuse it).

One funny guy (won't say his name) drank with us, joked, laughed a lot (Armin told some good jokes). He smoked, and smoked weed, waiting for the SCH gig. And then disappeared. When we, later on, went backstage to get ready for the show, we found him lying down, sleeping. Completely passed out.

He didn't see the gig although he really seemed looking forward to see us.

Ha ha ha, funny. I like him.

Our friends from Koper came to see us. Šik Andrej, Ivanček and some other people came. I was so delighted. I love you guys. We kept making jokes and laughing loud.

Marko Brecelj and Arijana were there. Very important people in my life.

Soon after our gig finished, they left. They were in the midst of Marko's political campaign.

I remember, two years ago, Marko and the people who were COMPRISING their independent list for the comunal elections, made promo-photo posters for the campaign. They all put some crazy masks on their heads and took pictures like that. Then, they made the posters of the photo and spread them all round Koper. Ha ha.

Of course they didn't win the elections. And they didn't care. Cooool people.

I have to say that Gregor, Alenka and others at the club did everything they could to make things around the gig work perfectly. Slovenians always seem like a "cold audience". But they are not as cold as all that. They are a good audience. The COMPOSITION of the people who come to the gigs is much better than in other places. It's predominantly consisting of the "thinking bodies" and I appreciate that a lot. Because, better 50 of these, than 1000 of "the headless" who show up looking for the "exorcist". Or looking for some cheap fun.

However, they warmed up after a few songs and they enjoyed the SCH gig. I hope. Our friends from Koper contributed to the atmosphere by giving us loud support. Better have a decent applause in Ljubljana, than ovations elsewhere.

The people who organize events in this club "Metelkova-Menza pri koritu" are not much into ELECTRONICA. They don't like it, they don't play it there and they just made an exception for the SCH gig, maybe because SCH has some credit since the "old times"- since the period when we were considered the "real alternative".

After the show, Gregor drove us to the hotel (nice place with all the required elements including sports facilities). We slept like babies.

The next afternoon we left for Zagreb.

PS. The only bad thing is that Gregor never sent the promissed video cass. with our gig taped on.

Thanks to Aurelia.