I guess the date as we were allowed to town only on thursdays and sundays. Now that I knew I'd be going home, went downtown (with Morkec, of course) to get my airplane ticket. With all the money we had from our photo business, I was wondering what to buy to take home. She said in a letter that I should get some shoeware for Go, which I found on the marketplace, even though the tourist season was still far and the souvenir sellers weren't aplenty. Also bought four LPs, something I haven't done in quite a while. One was the triple live album of Azra, "Ravno do dna", then Idoli with "Odbrana i poslednji dani", John Lennon's "Shaved fish" (we called our first cook "the fish") and can't really remember what the fourth was. These I later took home.
On some other occasion, he persuaded me to go see a concert of Parni valjak - the descendants of the old Grupa 220 band (where once Drago Mlinarec began), with maybe two or three guys from the original lineup, which somehow managed to be the first one to publish a RnR LP in SFRY, "Naši dani" in 1968. I thought I was a tad old for concerts, and specially didn't like the idea of visiting one while in uniform, it ran contrary to several of my ideas. But he was adamant and I gave it a try.
And it was good. The guys did rock, and I felt fine, and the bar was open and I had a large gemišt, in a large beer mug. I had my bag of škija with me, and accidentally had a faulty pack of papers, where several weren't cut at one side, so I rolled one double length cigarette at the bar. It was nearly endless and I just got tired of it and then didn't smoke any for the next hour or so.
Of course, all the drink evaporated before we got to the hill road. By the time we were on the peak, it was all gone.
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