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Ăn ultimiii 2 ani de relaČie cu Sonicica am petrecut multe cafele la QuertyKey, mica cafenea din faČa magazinului de device-uri IT. Au un designer priceput acolo Či fac tastaturi, mouse-pad-uri Či alte chestii pe care copii sau tineri pasionaČi le comandÄ probabil de prin ĂŽntreaga lume.
Acum vreo câteva sÄptÄmâni mi-a apÄrut ĂŽn feedul Facebook o reclamÄ ĂŽn care host-ul pronunČa numele unui anume âLorinâ. Mi-am adus aminte brusc de unul din âdujmaniiâ mei din liceu, Lorin I., cel cu care s-a ĂŽntâmplat nefericita bÄtaie care a dus la multe ecouri ĂŽn timp Či spaČiu.
Acuma, fac o micÄ legÄturÄ cu crearea unei pagini de Facebook pentru un nou label pe care-l gândisem cu mai bine de 15 ani ĂŽn urmÄ. Atunci voiam sÄ creez un prim proiect de muzicÄ electronicÄ inspiratÄ din curentul avant-garde. Ca sÄ fiu ironic Či amuzant, ca un adevÄrat experimentalist, voiam sÄ-l denumesc âQwerty Quartetâ: o muzicÄ creatÄ (Či) din tastaturÄ, ĂŽn care degetele, miČcându-se febril, se transformau ĂŽntr-o micÄ orchestrÄ. M-am tot gândit dacÄ sÄ-l numesc cvintet sau quartet dar am rÄmas la ultima formÄ.
Anul trecut aveam nevoie sÄ creez un label nou pentru distribuirea muzicii mele pe o nouÄ platformÄ dedicatÄ ( una gratuitÄ, unde plÄteam 15% din royalties ca taxÄ de hosting, ca sÄ nu mai am grija chiriei pânÄ dupÄ sfârČitul carierei mele, lol ). Mi-am adus aminte de vechea mea idee Či am denumit noul label âQwerty Quartetâ.
Či, coincidenČÄ ciudatÄ, brusc scaunele de pe terasa cafenelei s-au vopsit ĂŽn portocaliu. Apare Či reclama cu Lorin. AČ ĂŽndrÄzni sÄ speculez cÄ oamenii se vor fi gândit cÄ âm-am inspiratâ din ceea ce, pânÄ la urmÄ, nu este altceva decât un termen larg rÄspândit ĂŽn lumea pasionaČilor de IT Či gaming. Cetitorii pot trage singuri concluziile. Orisicat, avem de-a face cu un alt cerc vicios care demonstreazÄ cÄ mica reČea de afaceriČti din oraČ poartÄ o âdiscuČieâ, ĂŽn anumite cercuri âselecteâ, care implicÄ pe unele âspeČeâ pânÄ Či activitatea contactelor mele din FB. Care, nu-i aČa, se vor fi sesizat foarte prompt, pentru cÄ le-am dat invite sÄ dea like paginii.
Prin 2012 stÄteam ĂŽn pub-ul Euphoria din Cluj Napoca la o cafeluČÄ Či din câte ĂŽmi amintesc eram cu o amicÄ din acea vreme â Roxana C. Am auzit brusc piesa câČtigÄtoarei Eurovision-ului de atunci: Loreen, cu âEuphoriaâ. Am tresÄrit, Či cred cÄ m-am dus degrabÄ la laptop acasÄ sau poate-l aveam cu mine, oricum am vÄzut cine o cântÄ. Mi-a plÄcut piesa, era plinÄ de energie, drive, vocea extrem de puternicÄ, frumoasÄ, vânoasÄ. Am spus multora cÄ sunt impresionat. Era prima piesÄ câČtigÄtoare la Eurovision care mi-a plÄcut. Nu urmÄresc show-ul niciodatÄ, ĂŽntotdeauna l-am considerat a fi âjucatâ Či extrem de politizat. BineĂŽnČeles, un gând fugar m-a dus la Lorin I dar nu numai. MÄ mai intersectasem cu niČte Lorini, ĂŽn total 3 la numÄr ĂŽn anii `90. Dar, mi-am spus, era parcÄ prea de tot. Am lÄsat gândul sÄ treacÄ, poate era doar o âimpresieâ.
Tot prin perioada aia YouTube ĂŽmi âvâraâ sub nas videoclipul piesei âSilenced by the nightâ, al trupei britanice Keane ( sau Chin, cum s-ar amuza unii prin românia ). DupÄ cum ne aratÄ imaginile miČcÄtoare cuplul care cÄlÄtoreČte cu maČina pare a fi format din 2 tipologii umane, destul de cliČeistice la acea vreme: steagul cubanez ar face o aluzie la adeziunea lor (in)formalÄ pentru cultura zonei, Che Guevarra, trabucuri, fumat, Čamd. ( parcÄ era un trend prin România acum vreo 20+ de ani ). Brusc, ĂŽmi aduc aminte de soČia lui Lorin I., din câte ĂŽmi amintesc numitÄ Alina, pe care am cunoscut-o ĂŽn cele câteva incursiuni spontane ĂŽn âCubaâ, localul fondat de cei doi.
Ăn mod cert fizionomia fetei are ceva, mÄcar la nivel de âcliČeu vizualâ Či din cea a hair-stylistei, Či din cea a pianistei de la Faithless â Sister Bliss Či probabil multe alte fete care aderau la estetica vremii.
MÄ uit la simbolurile vizuale: teniČii mÄ duc cu gândul la expresia româneascÄ âa da papuciiâ. Faptul cÄ cei doi sÄrbÄtoresc pe ĂŽntreg parcursul poveČtii Či cÄ se regÄsesc ĂŽn faČa bisericii ( parcÄ protestante ) ĂŽn final e iarÄČi un indiciu ( poate o fi cântat Či Slash un solo acolo, ĂŽntr-o vreme(a) ). Practic, dupÄ pÄrerea mea, regizorul a fÄcut o scurtÄ recapitulare a unor posibile âspeČeâ ĂŽn care se vor fi regÄsit, cu sau fÄrÄ voia lor, cei âcitaČiâ ca fizionomii sau tipologii ĂŽn videoclip. Orisicat, amândoi sunt âtunČiâ destul de scurt, lol. Mi-am adus aminte brusc de TĂźnde L., femeia de origine maghiarÄ cu care mÄ ĂŽntâlnisesem, aparent aleator, pe un site de dating, undeva la final de ani `00 Či cu care m-am vÄzut timp de câteva sÄptÄmâni. Dar despre aceastÄ âspeČÄâ care va fi fost âexploatatÄâ ulterior â cea a coafezelor, tunsorilor, combinatÄ cu cea complexÄ a âalinelorâ, alinariilor, dentiČtilor, maghiarilor, ungurenilor, voi nota ĂŽntr-o altÄ ĂŽnsemnare, mai ĂŽn detaliu. Nu ĂŽn ultimul rând mÄ gândesc la ânightâ din titlul piesei ca la noapte, ĂŽntuneric, poate ânoaptea minČiiâ, la un âknightâ fÄrÄ âkâ ( chei ), Čamd.
Acum cÄ ne-am obiČnuit unii din noi cu ideea cÄ a existat o inflaČie de content audio-vizual ĂŽn anii `90, via MTV, care âne era adresatâ ĂŽn timpul ârezidenČiatuluiâ nostru din timpul studiilor la acum celebrul Colegiul Gheorghe Čincai Baia Mare, sÄ ne reamintim, dragi cetitori, de punctul zero al speČei âbÄtÄilorâ, mai mult sau mai puČin vizibile, fizice sau virtuale, cu numitul Lorin I. Či, bineĂŽnČeles, cu familia sa, a protipendadei sau a reČelei invizibile de consumatori de droguri prin care cu siguranČÄ cÄ se mai ĂŽnvârt Či astÄzi.
Despre modul ĂŽn care Fekete Z. (ânegruâ, tradus ĂŽn românÄ) a funcČionat ca âspeČÄâ de sine stÄtÄtoare, polarizând interesul comunitÄČii maghiare din România Či apoi din Ungaria Či mai departe, voi detalia de asemenea ĂŽn altÄ postare. Ăn mod cert ĂŽncÄ de la acea vreme aceastÄ comunitate va fi Čtiut decoda Či comunica mai uČor contentul audio-vizual Či informaČia despre cei pe care ĂŽi targetau. Vestea a circulat mai mult sau mai puČin vizibil nu numai prin oraČul nostru minier, ci Či prin BucureČti Či apoi Cluj Napoca. Faptul cÄ MTV s-a ĂŽnchis ĂŽn urmÄ cu câteva luni poate indica faptul cÄ managementul celebrului canal mediatic va fi aflat câte ceva din complicata poveste.
Despre Lorin I. se Čtiu multe ĂŽn oraČ. Fusese exmatriculat pentru bÄtaia cu profesorul de sport Butoi, provocatÄ de ceea ce era pe atunci bÄtÄuČul oraČului ĂŽn numele cavalerismului: se pÄrea cÄ profesorul âse dÄdeaâ niČel la elevele de liceu. Orisicat, adolescentul cu multe probleme datorate cu siguranČÄ mediului familial Či educaČiei deficitare avea multe de… dovedit. Urbei, tinerilor Či lui ĂŽnsuČi.
Am meditat o vreme la celebrele ieČiri violente ale âtipuluiâ, povestite cu admiraČie pe holurile Čcolii de cÄtre bÄieČi, cu ĂŽngrijorare de fete. ĂČi bÄtea cu ĂŽndârjire Či iubita de atunci, pe Carmen T. (cu care aveam sÄ am o micÄ relaČie temporarÄ mai târziu), ĂŽČi bÄtea prietenii, etc. Din povestirile urbei se Čtie cÄ tatÄl sÄu se despÄrČise de mama sa din cauza unor chestiuni legate de amor. Mi-am dat imediat seama, pasionat de psihologie ĂŽncÄ de mic, cÄ bÄiatul devenise violent pentru a-Či exprima furia mocnitÄ, probabil datoratÄ pe de-o parte conflictelor din familie, pe de altÄ parte situaČiei financiare care probabil cÄ ĂŽl mai izola ĂŽntr-o altÄ bulÄ. A anturajului deficitar la multe capitole.
Cum acest âclusterâ familial deČine, din câte Čtiu, averi considerabile â m-am amuzat când am vÄzut cu mult timp ĂŽn urmÄ âcasa cu coloaneâ de lângÄ parc, un amestec de gingÄČii arhitecturale de inspiraČie neoclasicÄ cu supradimensionÄri demne de un adevÄrat conac american aČezat la marginea unor plantaČii de bumbac. ĂncÄ o datÄ mi-am confirmat cÄ alegerile estetice duse pânÄ ĂŽn âtranspunereaâ ĂŽn plan fizic a dizarmoniei din mediul ĂŽn care trÄieČte clientul demonstreazÄ cât de corupt este sistemul social, economic sau cultural românesc Či ĂŽn âspeČÄâ cel local. M-am Či ĂŽntrebat cine va fi fost arhitectul Či cum ĂŽČi va fi justificat compromisul.
Analizând apoi complexul Center (fostul Agrofruct) unde, din câte Čtiam, funcČiona pe vremuri afacerea familiei I., acesta pare a fi o sursÄ constantÄ Či solidÄ de venituri. Din pÄcate, cum nu-mi bag nasul ĂŽn afacerile altora, Čtiu doar din ce mi se povesteČte ĂŽn mod spontan âce se mai ĂŽntâmplÄ ĂŽn urbeâ.
Speculez acum doar ceea ce am observat acum mai bine de 20 de ani: un âbÄiat de bani gataâ, cu un anturaj extrem de dubios: tipologiile clasice: consumatori de droguri, dealeri, muzicieni wannabe, altÄ protipendadÄ de aceeaČi calitate. Či totuČi, totuČi, oameni importanČi, potenČi financiar, al cÄror cuvânt are, nu-i aČa, mare greutate ĂŽntr-o anumitÄ zonÄ a societÄČii din urbe.
Anturajul acestor âcopii de aurâ se extinde radial pe speČa âconsumului de droguriâ Či a atipicului lor âstil de viaČÄâ, cu toatÄ adrenalina, paranoia, psihopatia uneori Či apoi âinfuzia de capital de imagineâ oferitÄ de nenumÄrate produse mass-media dedicate lor. Nu-i aČa, orice muzician occidental care se respectÄ fumeazÄ Či el un joint, se relaxeazÄ cu o ciupercÄ, mai vâra Či un âcartonâ (timbru) sub limbÄ Či aČa mai departe. Sub-cultura lor, cu toatÄ âpropagandaâ pro-sud americanÄ, imaginea lui Che Guevarra purtatÄ cu falÄ pe tricouri se va fi conectat prin âfibreâ invizibile prin toatÄ lumea.
Este uČor de intuit cum, ĂŽn doi timpi Či trei miČcÄri, o artistÄ celebrÄ din America de Sud ĂŽČi va fi gÄsit o âsosieâ chiar lângÄ micul oraČ minier din acum celebra Ro-Mania.
BineĂŽnČeles, nu m-au interesat niciodatÄ asemenea reČele sau anturaje, cu ierarhiile lor atipice, fixate la un capÄt ĂŽn casa âcopiilor de bani gataâ, la un altul ĂŽn cea a providerilor (de orice), cu mai mici sau mai mari actori circulând pe sârme invizibile, conectându-se prin âundergroundulâ cÄruia i se asimileazÄ âca nimeni alČiiâ.
Cu cât mai influenČi, cu atât mai largÄ reČeaua, mai complexÄ corupČia care se infiltreazÄ treptat ĂŽn poliČii, oameni de culturÄ, profesori, Čoferi de TIR, vânzÄtoare la supermarket, asistente medicale sau sportivi de elitÄ Či circulÄ ĂŽnapoi printre artiČtii lor favoriČi care, nu-i aČa, au nevoie de informaČie âca de aerâ sau de-un joint uneori, dând la schimb un bilet gratis sau un cocktail âCuba Libreâ.
(va urma)
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English version
In the last 2 years of relationship with Sonicica I spent many coffees at QuertyKey, the small cafĂŠ in front of the IT devices store. They have a skilled designer there and they make keyboards, mouse-pads and other things that kids or passionate young people probably order from all over the world.
A few weeks ago an ad appeared in my Facebook feed in which the host pronounced the name of a certain âLorinâ. I suddenly remembered one of my âenemiesâ from high school, Lorin I., the one with whom the unfortunate fight happened which led to many echoes in time and space.
Now, I make a small connection with the creation of a Facebook page for a new label that I had thought about more than 15 years ago. Back then I wanted to create a first electronic music project inspired by the avant-garde current. To be ironic and amusing, like a true experimentalist, I wanted to name it âQwerty Quartetâ: a music created (also) from the keyboard, in which the fingers, moving feverishly, transformed into a small orchestra. I kept thinking whether to call it quintet or qwartet but I remained at the last form.
Last year I needed to create a new label for distributing my music on a new dedicated platform (a free one, where I was paying 15% from royalties as a hosting fee, so that I would no longer have to worry about rent until after the end of my career, lol). I remembered my old idea and I named the new label âQwerty Quartetâ.
And, strange coincidence, suddenly the chairs on the cafĂŠ terrace were painted orange. The ad with Lorin appears as well. I would dare to speculate that people might have thought that I âgot inspiredâ from what, in the end, is nothing else than a widely spread term in the world of IT and gaming enthusiasts. The readers can draw their own conclusions. Anyway, we are dealing with another vicious circle which demonstrates that the small network of businessmen in the city carries a âdiscussionâ, in certain âselectâ circles, which involves even the activity of my Facebook contacts. Which, of course, must have noticed very promptly, because I sent them an invite to like the page.
Around 2012 I was sitting in the Euphoria pub in Cluj Napoca having a small coffee and from what I remember I was with a female friend from that time â Roxana C. I suddenly heard the song of the Eurovision winner from that time: Loreen, with âEuphoriaâ. I startled, and I think I quickly went to the laptop at home or maybe I had it with me, anyway I saw who sings it. I liked the song, it was full of energy, drive, the voice extremely strong, beautiful, vigorous. I told many that I am impressed. It was the first winning Eurovision song that I liked. I do not follow the show ever, I always considered it to be âplayedâ and extremely politicized. Of course, a fleeting thought took me to Lorin I but not only. I had also intersected with some Lorins, in total 3 in number in the â90s. But I told myself it was maybe too much. I let the thought pass, maybe it was just an âimpressionâ.
Around that same period YouTube was âpushingâ under my nose the video of the song âSilenced by the nightâ, of the British band Keane (or Chin, as some would joke in Romania). As the moving images show us, the couple traveling by car seems to be formed of 2 human typologies, quite clichĂŠ at that time: the Cuban flag would make an allusion to their (in)formal adhesion to the culture of the area, Che Guevarra, cigars, smoking, etc. (it seemed like a trend in Romania some 20+ years ago). Suddenly, I remember the wife of Lorin I., from what I remember named Alina, whom I met in the few spontaneous incursions in âCubaâ, the place founded by the two.
Certainly the physiognomy of the girl has something, at least at the level of a âreductionist visual clichĂŠâ both from that of the hair stylist, and from that of the pianist from Faithless â Sister Bliss and probably many other girls who adhered to the aesthetics of the time.
I look at the visual symbols: the sneakers take me to the Romanian expression âto give the shoesâ (to dump someone). The fact that the two celebrate throughout the story and that they find themselves in front of the church (seemingly protestant) in the end is again an indication (maybe Slash also played a solo there, at some time). Practically, in my opinion, the director made a short recapitulation of some possible âcasesâ in which those âquotedâ as physiognomies or typologies in the video would have found themselves, with or without their will. Anyway, both are âcutâ quite short, lol. I suddenly remembered TĂźnde L., the woman of Hungarian origin with whom I had met, apparently randomly, on a dating site, somewhere at the end of the 2000s and with whom I met for a few weeks. But about this âcaseâ which would have been âexploitedâ later â that of hairdressers, haircuts, combined with the complex one of âAlinasâ, soothing, dentists, Hungarians, âungureniâ, I will note in another entry, in more detail. Last but not least I think of ânightâ in the title of the song as night, darkness, maybe âthe night of the mindâ, of a âknightâ without âkâ (keys), etc.
Now that some of us got used to the idea that there was an inflation of audio-visual content in the â90s, via MTV, which âwas addressed to usâ during our âresidencyâ during the studies at the now famous Gheorghe Čincai College Baia Mare, let us remember, dear readers, the zero point of the âcaseâ of fights, more or less visible, physical or virtual, with the named Lorin I. And, of course, with his family, of the high society or of the invisible network of drug consumers through which they surely still move today.
About the way in which Fekete Z. (âblackâ, translated in Romanian) functioned as a âcaseâ in itself, polarizing the interest of the Hungarian community in Romania and then in Hungary and further, I will also detail in another post. Certainly even from that time this community would have known to decode and communicate more easily the audio-visual content and the information about those they were targeting. The news circulated more or less visibly not only through our mining town but also through Bucharest and then Cluj Napoca. The fact that MTV closed a few months ago may indicate that the management of the famous media channel would have found out something from the complicated story.
About Lorin I. many things are known in the city. He had been expelled for the fight with the sports teacher Butoi, provoked by what was at that time the tough guy of the city in the name of chivalry: it seemed that the teacher was âmaking movesâ a bit on high school girls. Anyway, the adolescent with many problems certainly due to the family environment and deficient education had a lot to⌠prove. To the city, to the youth and to himself.
I meditated for a while on the famous violent outbursts of the âguyâ, told with admiration on the school hallways by boys, with concern by girls. He was beating with stubbornness his girlfriend from that time, Carmen T. (with whom I was to have a small temporary relationship later), he was beating his friends, etc. From the stories of the town it is known that his father had separated from his mother because of matters related to love. I immediately realized, being passionate about psychology since young, that the boy had become violent to express his simmering anger, probably due on one side to the conflicts in the family, on the other side to the financial situation which probably isolated him in another bubble. Of the entourage deficient in many aspects.
As this family âclusterâ owns, from what I know, considerable wealth â I was amused when I saw long ago the âhouse with columnsâ near the park, a mix of architectural delicacies of neoclassical inspiration with oversizing worthy of a true American mansion placed at the edge of cotton plantations. Once again I confirmed to myself that the aesthetic choices taken up to the âtranspositionâ into physical plane of the disharmony from the environment in which the client lives demonstrate how corrupt the Romanian social, economic or cultural system is and in this âcaseâ the local one. I also wondered who the architect was and how he justified his compromise.
Analyzing then the Center complex (former Agrofruct) where, from what I knew, the business of the I. family used to function, it seems to be a constant and solid source of income. Unfortunately, as I do not stick my nose into other peopleâs businesses, I only know from what is told to me spontaneously âwhat is happening in the townâ.
I now speculate only what I observed more than 20 years ago: a ârich kidâ, with an extremely dubious entourage: the classic typologies: drug consumers, dealers, wannabe musicians, other high society of the same quality. And yet, still, important people, financially powerful, whose word has, of course, great weight in a certain area of the society in the town.
The entourage of these âgolden childrenâ extends radially on the âcaseâ of âdrug consumptionâ and of their atypical âlifestyleâ, with all the adrenaline, paranoia, psychopathy sometimes and then the âinfusion of image capitalâ offered by countless mass-media products dedicated to them. Of course, any western musician who respects himself also smokes a joint, relaxes with a mushroom, also pours a âtabâ under the tongue and so on. Their subculture, with all the proâSouth American âpropagandaâ, the image of Che Guevarra proudly worn on T-shirts would have connected through invisible âfibersâ all over the world.
It is easy to intuit how, in two moves, a famous artist from South America would have found a âlook-alikeâ right near the small mining town from the now famous Ro-Mania.
Of course, I was never interested in such networks or entourages, with their atypical hierarchies, fixed at one end in the house of the ârich kidsâ, at another in that of the providers (of anything), with smaller or bigger actors circulating on invisible wires, connecting through the âundergroundâ to which they assimilate themselves âlike no othersâ.
The more influential they are, the wider the network, the more complex the corruption that infiltrates gradually into police, people of culture, teachers, truck drivers, supermarket sellers, nurses or elite athletes and circulates back among their favorite artists who, of course, need information âlike airâ or a joint sometimes, giving in exchange a free ticket or a âCuba Libreâ cocktail.
(to be continued)
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