I needed to come to Romania and just after a few days to see everything from the perspective. For the past 6 years I’ve been doing basically the same things. Organizing events, writing, drinking heavily, traveling around, bitching and not caring. And I love it. I love people around, I love the country, I love my flat, my cat, what I do, gosh, I even love being miserable. I am in the loop, same level, where is no challenge, when I do the same over and over again, when there are trusted people and trusted activities;
go to the concert, feel happy for a moment
go to a lecture, bitch about it
go to a bar, drink till you can barely stand, then drink a bit more, feel a need to cry, go home alone, talk with random strangers on the street, smoke a joint, look at the rain, buy a kebab, throw half of it to the river, meet a cab driver who gives you a free ride because its Easter
go to Romania, look back, make a characteristic to yourself:
Twentysomething, just a few months before finishing her BA in random human science, organizing underground concerts, writing for pseudofancy webzine about contemporary culture, managing 20 volunteers. Interested in postindustrial music, anthropology, contemporary culture, bizzare shit, lo-fi cinema;
interested basically in things I can name as “interesting”, it is the only quality which I search in everything, there is nothing good, nothing bad, nothing in between. Interesting or not.
This evening we were eating at some restaurant. We are in mostly Hungarian Romania part, in a Mexican restaurant, where you can find a meal called “Mexican chicken with Chinese sauce a la Mercurea Ciuc”, eating pizzas or ice cream with Swedish flag in it.
We are traveling 4 ours by the mountain roads on 110km/h, adoring the slums and those bizarre, huge houses, when the pressure makes you feel that you are in the plane, drinking kiwi juice from some gas station.
We are walking around the
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Short interview with Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff from Canadian band NADJA, made just before their concert in Vilnius on 2011-10-30.
