Time of My Life

'It's something unpredictable, but in the end its right......i hope you had the time of your life'

fuck cliches but im sorry....this was the greatest week ever, with its own wacky charm, this is the greatest festival in the world. I get all those foregin directors who get up and say that this is thier favorite festival ever. I get why 280 kids apply to be worked like dogs, for no money, but just to be a part of an amazing organization. I get why my dad has been going for 7 stragight years, and even missing a good friends wedding for it. I get why i slept for an average of 3-4 hours out of 24 (skewed heavily by one 'night' (by night i mean 24 hour period as the night is a fulll on partyyyy) of 6 hrs) and yet never felt tired, or exhausted.

I met so many people that are just, the nicest and friendliest people ever, a mutual friend introduces us, and within 30 minutes, im dancing with them, giving them my beer (while i still had it) and they were giving me thiers when they had it and mine was drank or being delivered. A boss of mine walked right up to me, and just plastered a giant kiss on my cheek, just straight up SMACCCCKER!!!!! hahahaha. The people are great, and no offense to you miami cats, but its a different culture when it comes to drinks and paying :).....in a hard concept for you my jewish frends to accept ;) people actually fight over who will pay for the round, and get mad if u attempt to pay if they feel that this one is on them, or its their turn to pay, even girls. The whole scence is just so laid back, there was no fights (and there was like 10,000 people who are hammered, in a city that is maybe 1 square mile) and no fights, no arguments......no drama.....perhaps its cause people here are not as repressed, socially and mentally. No one says lets get drunk, everyone says lets get a beer, the girls drink like men, and never say 'woah im so wasted' none of them parade on the ground, telling us how they are drunk....infact no one ever says they are drunk. I think that the repressed stigma the purtians attached to sex, and drinking in america is sad, people are made to feel bad if they wanna drink, infact, they have made it that drinking is actually doing something and as such it makes it a big deal.

I'm gonna have a hard time adapting to the fact that i cant go to a caffe, and order a beer, or a jager, or a medica (honey liker), or that drinking is an event again. So i will impose an new system amongst my amigos.....

1. No more saying that tonite we are getting drunk becuase, that can only happen on the following occasions (birthdays, weddings (pava, hahaha), end of exams etc) and even then we are celebrating something, drinking is the side thing

2. no more light beers

3. no more bud or miller, lest it be a last dying resort

4. shooters are not always need to be shot, sometimes sipping it over the course of 2-3 minutes is better

5. drinking with women is better then with guys, well not miami women (excluding some kick ass miami women, they know who they are, and dani who dont drink but is cool none the less cause she doesnt give in, which is admirable)

6. its a nice world withouth kids with attitude and thug bullshit....so no gangstas

7. older people rock....they have moved past the early 20s and late teens and have a better outlook on life and whats important, and you can talk to them about anything.

8. and most crucial....no going to bed at 2 or 3 cause u feel asleeep or are tired....thats lame...seeing the sun rise is the shit....an evening starts at 10 and ends at anytime from 6 till when....after 6 it can keep on going all next day for all i care.

So to be honest, i have to say, that partywise, these nights have been the best i have had, the crazyiest atmosphere with such cool people, great varietys of music, free flowing alcohol, also perhaps since i worked with mostly girls, i hung out with mostly girls, also more volunteers were girls....so it aint bad to be one guy dancing and having 3-4 girls around you, and at times more aint bad. (But it trade em all for dani...... :) or would i....hahahhahahahhahaha.....course i would!!! i miss my lil dani)

so yeah i did have the time of my life, and i hope to go back next year....but i hope i dont go alone, tristan im gonna make come, pava i already told has to come...and the rest of you dont write me emails....so fuck ya allll :)

p.s. dani is cool cause she been to croatland, and made it back alive

so dani 1, tristan gets .5 cause he is learning croat, the rest of my loser frends get a fat 0, well ill give pava .1 cause he writes me emails :)

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

w00t

PLitivice was amazing...i have like 130 pics of it alone....BEST NATIONAL PARK EVER!!! its also a world heritage site, SICK!!!!!! the lake is so clear you can see like 20 feet down withouth a problem....and the waterfalls are amazing....and from what i have seen in pics of niagra it FUCKING WHOOOPS NIAGRAS ASSSSSSSS!!!

ok ok this is something i gotta say

last nite....i ate Gnocchi, with Deer, they killed a deer, and put him in this amazing ass stew....freaking DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!! and then today at a agrotourism place (btw agrotourism is a brilliant idea i will expand on later) i ate a Srna with Gnocchi, and a Srna is a femal deer......mmmmmmmmmmm freaking amazing

best thing about croatia, is that the tomatoes here are real, pure natural, and taste about a billllllion times better then any vegetable in america, so juica and good....i eat nearly one a day in salads....btw a great salad, some tomatoe, chopped garlic, moon shaped onion, olive oil, vinegar, and its D-licious :)

hahahha

enough babble...

me and luna are working in the shop (basically selling shirts and shit, easiest job there is....w000t to conections!)