Nachricht Nummer : 278 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 25 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 29 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 29.10.1993 15:08:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 29 October, 1993 Dobar dan, In Pakrac it is always hard to keep this diary running, not only is life there intensive in the group and with all the new things in the town and keeping the old contacts alive, also the technical dilemmas are big, we have only one phone line which we can use for e-mail and that is not even ours, it is the one from UNOV. But I have rented a 3 room flat in Lipik yesterday, just far enough from the front-line to be rebuild (and with all the comfort of gas, electricity (and water when all the negations work) out and even telephone, but just close enough to be used. The owners live as displaced people in Zagreb and their child went to school there, so they would change yet. I haven't seen the place yet, but it sounds great. Jojo is leaving today after his "holidays" in Croatia, he stayed on this side of the cease-fire line this time, but made a lot of contacts with the ArgBat UNPROFORs and that can be very handy for us in the future. The food droppings by their jeeps this week show it already. Back in Zagreb he met some people from "listen loudest" records and bought from them some records which have a historical background in this war. The "company" produces a kind of punk, hard-core records, which you normally will not see in the records shops. One of the records he bought is from another label "Nova Aleksandrija" and the records was produced just in the time that the war broke out, the deal was that the records would be printed in Croatia and the cover designed and printed in Beograd. The war broke out and the designer in charge in Beograd went to the UK, the cover never was finished and so the records has only the inner cover, with the name of the album written on it with a ball-point. Another album he bought is called "nuklearae Olimpijsic" and is made by the group "Satan Panonski", the music is not particular something I would be heavily interested in, a little bit too heavy if you ask me. And the cover has about the same reaction from me feelings, strange, in some parts it wonders me and other parts make me nearly throw up. In the middle of the front cover stands a photo of the singer of the band, Ivica Culjak, who had the habit the hurt himself with scarp things on stage until he was under his own blood. On the cover of the album stands a photo made from him somewhere in 1990, with blood all over his face and breast, looking like an person totally out of his head, singing like being in trace, a good photo although the subject is out of space. On number on this record didn't came through the former Yugoslav censorship, a song about an incest story of a mother with her son. But also the other numbers with titles as "Kiss my cock", "kamikaza" and "Hard blood shock" reveal a lot of the content of the lyrics and the music of those songs. Although I probably never would have gone to one of their concerts, if they still were excising, I knew from stories when I used arrived in Zagreb that they were rather known in the country. The singer became in the war a very known front-line solder, from whom they say that he was even more crazy in the war than on stage. He fought on the frontlines as the "punk rambo". About his dead different rumours are going around, nobody really knows the true one. Two of the stories are that he went walking or skating on ice with his gun and shot himself or was shot, but I have heard some more strange stories of his dead. If you ask the story tellers what the interest of Croatian state of the army would have been to kill him, what the second story implies, they will react that on the moment of his dead he reached a high point of popularity. For the rest I couldn't figure out more about him, nevertheless he is one of those many thousand solders who has a face for me now. A face covered by blood just maybe a year before he really died. He also wrote a kind of poem album, in which I found more pictures from him on stage, this book is relief by "Nova Aleksandrija", which had his main person in Beograd on that time, nearly one and half year later the writer would die fighting against ..... it reminds me on the hitsong in Croatia about one and half year ago about a friend in Beograd .... also that is the war. In the book more pictures from Ivica, photo's about how he carves the "Yugoslav red star" into his breast and back. The naked back with the bleeding star make me think about the photo's I saw in the beginning of my stay in these countries and the stories I still hear daily. Bodies and persons found with the symbols of their "enemies" carved into their flesh. And there this picture of a man who carves one of those symbols into his own body, a body with scares and tattoos (anarchy "A"s in all shapes) all over the place. Every of these pictures does me turning my eyes away and feel a shivering going over by own back. And again yesterday on the news rockets and mortars attacks on the hinterland of Zadar. And of course as always fighting's in BiH. 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