Motovun

OK ok.....i have 25 minutes before i gotta get my ass to work, so ill try to publish a little report.

first of....they are playing 'mothers lil helper' by the unparalleled rolling stones....so immediately im happier then i was

its bloody hot here, i mean hot as hell, like nothing compares to this, miami is chilly compared to this.....and im slowly roasting.

basically my job is a 7 and a half hour shift at the Festival shop, which is outdoors, right by the entrance to the top of the city...the ticket office and V.I.P. office and info booth is all there.

We have 3 varietys of shirts, all in white with black text, and the gag is that Vienna is the partner city, so there is this thing in Croatia, called 'bonton' which is a set of rules, rather guidelines for proper behaviour, that is called 'Bečka Škola' (Beč being Vienna in Croat language), so there are amazing gags on the billboards on the snakey road up to the city and on little posters all over.

Vodafone's is the main sponsor, and 'VIP' is thier brand here, and they have funny ass things about phones, stuff like and im translating so it looses some edginess and all that but do try to follow 'Bečka school, especially pays alot of attention on the rights of cellphone numbers. They are a very personal thing, so it is strictly forbidden to give out someones number withouth thier consent' and there is other ones such as 'If the need should arise for you to use your phone, do look around, and try to think if your call might inconvience anyone near you, only if you are sure it will not be rude action, may you pull out your phone and make a call' Basically its a series of gags on how behaviour should be.

the thing is this whole festival is crazy, i mean its a 5 day party, thats huge, non-stop, the camping site at the bottom of the hill that Motovun is on top of, is tent to tent, literally people tell me that while they sleep they have people walking within inches of thier heads, and all that....its crazy, the music dont stop there, and its one big cloud of mary jane. and puke and all that.

But the toilets (porta potty's or as we call em here toy toy's) are cleaned twice a day so its sanitary :) and suprisingly there have been no fights or stealing and any of that trouble, everyone is drunk but uinlike the US people conduct themselves with diginity and their aint no lil wanked off kids who were breast fed too long that get mad if u look at em.....its really nice to have no lil gangstas or any of that, a refreshing thing.

as for the movies, they are great, at night, screen in the main square, and another outdoor location, its cool, cause you can walk in with a beer and w/e and just watch a movie, and its nice and cool in the evening....the music is kinda kept down till about 1 30 am when the last movies finish....by kept low i mean a lil quietter then post movie.....then all hell breaks looose....there is a place i call bambus bar, beacuase its all made of bamboss (and if thats a croatian word i dont know the english equivalent so i will just say that it is the stuff that pandas eat, it may not be the real thing, a cheap fake but thats what it bloody looks like) people there are lying down, chilling, lisening to music, and the floor is littered with empty bottles of beer (plastic ones) plastic cups, and big bottles of water that were filled with cheap wine by the youth that attends this lovely festival.....

so the parties are really going on at about 4-5 locations....there is of course the bamboos place, which plays some hip hop, and where im continuing to film my documentary entitled 'the spics made it' (what can i say im inspired) but mostly dance music, such as techno and all that, a few oldies....'im walking on sunshine' and i even heard 'youre simply the best, bettttter then alllll the rest' by the incomperable Tina Turner.

Then there is a terrace/patio area behind the hotel where there is a live band playing, or djs spiining random music....very coool atmosphere, but dont chill there to much.

VIP (vodafone) has a private place called the VIP garden, which is a cool way to use their name to stnad for VIP (very important persons) which has like low style tables on the grass (japanese style) and those 3 people swing chairs and a bunch of lil bamboos round circular things to sit on....very pimp music, they run jazz dance, and i would say tecnho but thats not it. if anyone knows or would download 'Dzihan and Kamien' they would know what im talking about. ....really chilllll stuff...and good.....Naturally the place is a weeed smokers dream, there is a giant 50 foot pine tree that looks amazing and plants and lavnder around so its a really great atmosphere.....

Then there is the caffe from which im writing now, inside they ahve 3 tables, and VIP set up 4 free computers for use by people (FREEEEEE NET) but they play rock (and right now its a stonees cd......'angieee i hate that sadness in your eyes, angie, angie, aint it time we said goodbye....with no loving in our souls and no money in our clothes, you cant say we're satisfied'..... ok enough stones....they fucking rock....but at night they play all kinds of rock, chilly peppers, stones, rage against the machine, green day, and like old and HUGELY POPULAR yugoslavian music, and chemical borthers and everything, a wicked selection this guy puts up...and people are dancing on the cobble street and there is a magnificent view of the country side from there as it has a stone wall that is 3 feet and nothing else.....dani think of the Tuscan country side, and its jsut like that, but better as there is more trees and you can see vinyards and all that....truly beautiful.


anyways first night we were danicing, singing, talking and walking around till 5 am (and i had work at 8) the whole city area at the top, is no cars, and you can walk it in 5 minutes around so its all close, and cobblestone streets et all....amazing...

an experience you ahve to see, all the directors and guests of the movies say its thier favorite festival.

well i gotta go to my shift starts in 5 minutes