06-V-1978.
Smuggling trip to Timişoara.
Again, no clue as to what exactly we did, what we bought, how was the pass through the customs. Did we already have the line through the two brothers, or did we just bring the lei, rolled into neat sticks like cigarettes and stuffed in the upholstery on the backside of the backrest of the rear seats.
Who knows, some of those lei could have ended in a car junkyard some twenty years later, as this škodilak somehow refused to leave the scene, we kept seeing it in the area.
One weekend at home we scheduled to meet downtown in the evening (I somehow remember it being colder, could have been january or february). The old gang wasn't meeting at the shoe store, but there's the other one (mostly IV6.73 - Vanji, Kid, Eči plus Dženk and a few others, sometimes Šaki or Mongol), so I find them and stand with them while I wait. Eči takes me aside and tells me the long monkey joke (a copy of the joke is at 09-X-1995.). The punchline of the joke is sung, so at that moment the other four guys turned and they sang it all together. Unforgettable.
I first thought this shot would go to may 1977, but no, this is exactly the time. First off, these sound boxes didn't exist then (see 26-XI-1977.), and a year later we didn't look like this, i.e. her hair was different already. So this is when.
I see there's a bunch of printed shots on the lower plate of the coffee table, along with a roll of paper. The shots were probably printed in the document paper, which is A4. I used a couple of boxes of that this winter, to reshoot the projective geometry textbook, which I needed for the exam and it was impossible to buy. It was out of print, so I managed to borrow one. Printed three of each page and of course I was left with some paper.
The fold of cloth on the cocklestove furnace is for camping chairs. Those bought in 1968 are still in use, just the cloth needs to be replaced periodically. This I think we bought in Novi, there was more choice there. I guess another cloth change was due.
The beer is local, the beer mug is badly glazed romanian ceramic, smuggled. Next to it is the blue ashtray, also romanian, which I picked because it looks like the maltese cross, which is a cogwheel in classic movie projectors. Behind it is the flowerpot cum ashtray, which I sculpted and baked in the kiln back in the 7th grade, when I was in the arts sekcija. There's a bandanna around the beer bottle, I think there's a shot of me wearing it, some time in 1972 or so. The black and white striped bit on the photo wall is a toilet paper holder. The toilet paper was then still in cut sheets, relatively rough and single layered, laid in zig-zag. The rolls and layered paper appeared en masse only in the late eighties.
The tie die t-shirts we did this spring. The chair on which she's sitting is the „reks fotelja“, designed by slovenian architect Kralj (King). Excellent ergonomy, and practically indestructible. They lasted between 1961 and 2007. Maybe they are still in use somewhere; we kept only the table of the set.
Too bad the colors aren't exactly right, so it's not obvious that the walls are purple and the floorboards are pink...
Mentions: 26-XI-1977., 09-X-1995., Endre Felbab (Eči), Gradivoj Jankulov (Dženk), IV6.73, Novi Sad, sekcija, Šaki, škodilak, Vilmoš Baranji (Vanji), Zoltan Kadar (Kid), Žika Šašić (Mongol), in serbian
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