Posts from Temka Vegtamchik'a

A thread for impressions, reports, doodles, poems, and other works by your humble servant. Yes, something like a blog.

Hello, HeroesWorld! First post in this thread :) The topic has been lying dormant for a very long time and waiting for its moment. And it seems that the moment has finally arrived. When it was created, it had a different name and was intended for fan fiction. I never finished writing it, but it is still stored in my head and notebooks, and I haven't lost hope of finishing it. Along with it, there are many other ideas. After reading this topic, I renamed mine and prepared it for the future. No, J-pop and K-pop will not appear here. This isn't my first attempt to start a blog. A year ago, I started a LiveJournal, but didn't fill it with content. As far as I remember, I posted a link to it in one of the forums. There are still only two posts there, each just a few lines long. Why did that happen? I don't know myself. Laziness, unwillingness to share thoughts, lack of familiar bloggers, and therefore readers - something like that or a little bit of everything. But here, people will read... noooo! I won't let anyone read! My preciousness... created only to please my ego! Or to learn how to express thoughts – this was also the motto behind creating the LiveJournal. It seems that I cannot give a definitive answer to the question of why this topic is needed. I will have to come to terms with the fact that it exists and, if possible, fill it with content. I wanted to publish the first post with a couple of small impressions, but instead, I am rambling on. It doesn't matter; let these ten lines become part of the first message too. An important event yesterday was visiting a bookstore. I felt like someone who had just discovered literature and was grabbing everything off the shelves. A low-quality photo is attached to the post. At home, either these books are almost impossible to find, or they cost twice as much as here. I need to think about ordering literature online. I read one of the books on the very first day - "Flowers for Algernon." One of the most desired books in my personal reading list. It was worth it. The main character of the book is thirty-two-year-old Charlie Gordon, who studies in a "class for slow adults," as he calls the institution he attends. He was chosen as a participant in a dangerous scientific experiment, and the entire book describes the course of this experiment. To say that I liked the book would be an understatement. It captivates, makes you empathize with the hero, and leaves a lot of food for thought after reading. I highly recommend it. Today, I had a nightmare (a rare occurrence), which I only remember in general terms. I was walking through a park, everything around was gray, and a person wrapped in a dark cloak was moving towards me; he wore a wide-brimmed hat, moved toward me but didn't get closer. This continued for some time, then both I and this person started running, but he still didn't get any closer to me. During the run, the part of the cloak covering his face fell down, and I realized that there was nothing where his face should have been. Then other people appeared, there were many of them, including men and women, but they all had no faces. That's when I woke up, finding myself lying on my back (I never sleep like that) and stretched out at full length. My arms turned out to be crossed on my stomach. A strange dream.

It reminds me of a dream scenario, where you keep getting more and more. This happens quite often.

St. Petersburg, the second part of the first part from the third part. In other words, this is the second segment from the first visit to the city during this summer. And in my entire life, I've visited it for the third time.

First, a little about the first day, which I shamelessly skipped.
There wasn't much time between arrival and going to bed, so there weren't many events.

On the way to the temporary accommodation, I decided to look for fellow "dreadlocks" on the streets. Didn't find any. But! As soon as I walked into the first "McDonald's," I discovered a pair of dreadlocked people munching on burgers. And here, no one looks at them with extreme surprise, no one asks how to braid/wash, and no one exclaims, "Heh-heh-heh, look, it's Detsl!".

For the third day in a row, it's been hot and stuffy. And I specifically flew north because I hate the heat.

And a little about this day. Today, there was a lot of subway travel. Usually, the handrail moves faster than the escalator, but at the Spasskaya Ploshchad station, I found the first one that was moving slower in my memory.

I bought myself a jaw harp. Simple, factory-made, metal, cheap. I tried to find the right way to play it myself, but I had to resort to the internet. The sound is quite good; I recorded it and attached it to the post. The microphone built into the laptop is useless. Maybe in the future, I'll order an Altai/Yakut one, handmade. Luckily, I found a great online store for ethnic musical instruments.

Tomorrow, at five in the morning, a bus will arrive to take me to Finland.

Vegtam promised to dedicate a post to Finland. Typing on a virtual keyboard isn't very convenient, but he will try to keep his promise. The most important part of the trip, without a doubt, is the Tuska Open Air Metal Festival. July 22-24 is almost entirely dedicated to this event. Tuska, July 22, Friday. It's impossible to get lost: Helsinki is swarming with metalheads, and following them will definitely lead you to the festival. Five subway stations from the hotel on the only Helsinki line – and I'm already in an industrial area in the suburbs. There's no free space on the grass near the entrance; it's all occupied by people relaxing and drinking – security is very strict, and it's impossible to bring even a drop of alcohol inside. At the entrance, a ticket printed at home is exchanged for a bracelet that cannot be removed without damage – this will be the pass. At the festival, you can meet all sorts of people – there are plenty of well-dressed people of all ages, even with children; there are punks in Misfits/Ramones/Sex Pistols t-shirts (no, there wasn't anyone with "I Hate Pink Floyd" like Sid Vicious); there were people in ripped denim jackets and with mohawks; there were a few Rastafarians and even a couple of hippies. But the majority are still metalheads. Goths in top hats, crosses, and leather; cyberpunks, distinguished from their peers by the presence of purple/red/green spots in their clothes/hair; folk and battle metal fans in kilts and war paint; melodic death metal fans in military attire; heavy metal fans in jeans, bandanas, and hats; I only saw one black metal fan, and even he only had partial corpse paint; and just metalheads of all kinds in t-shirts with the names of their favorite bands, from Iron Maiden to Korpiklaani, from Epica to Burzum, from Led Zeppelin to Bullet For My Valentine. Arch Enemy When I got inside, they had already started playing. I couldn't get close, so I had to watch the screens placed on either side of the main stage, Radio Rock Stage, from a distance. Angela Gossow, the vocalist, was giving it her all, growling wildly, waving a flag with the band's logo. At the end of the performance, along with the usual flaglets, badges, and bottles of water that the musicians didn't use, napkins that Angela had previously used to wipe her face and chest, and even pretended to wipe her anus, flew into the crowd from the stage... the fans must have been delighted. Electric Wizard I listened to only a couple of songs and went to the adjacent market, where I bought an Amon Amarth t-shirt, which I wore for the next two days. Then I went home; the early wake-up and long journey were taking their toll. Tuska, July 23, Saturday. Witchery Not very well-known black metal band (actually thrashers, but with extreme vocals). I was able to get close to the stage, or rather, the left side of it – it was impossible to get to the center. I heard them for the first time; I liked them a lot, and I'll be looking for their recordings. At one point, a circle pit formed in the center. Epica Imaris's favorite band; I recorded a three-minute excerpt on my phone for him. This time, I got to the stage on the right flank. The band members regularly headbanged during the performance, while the audience, although numerous, was mostly non-metalheads, and they supported the band rather weakly. At the beginning of the performance, clouds began to gather, and during the third song, it started to rain – strange, the folk metal band wasn't performing yet. Moonsorrow They played on one of the covered stages, Inferno Stage, and all the space under the tent was filled with people. I heard them for the first time, too. The rain, which had stopped, started again, quite predictably. Katatonia The performance was exceptionally gloomy. I listened for a while, walked around the area, and went back to the hotel to rest and eat – in the evening, two of the three bands that I came to the festival for were playing. Blind Guardian I was delayed at the entrance – a Finn stopped me and was very interested in why I came to the festival, and when I got to the stage, they were already playing their second song. At the end of the song, the vocalist addressed the people in German, apologized for his Swedish accent (the Finns found this funny), and then said: "You didn't come here to listen to German – you came here to listen to good Tolkienian music." And the band started playing Nightfall. This sent the crowd into a frenzy – in the chorus, the audience sang almost louder than the vocalist; my voice also joined in. Next was Valhalla. During the song, the musicians fell silent... and for a minute and a half to two minutes, the audience sang the lines on their own: Valhalla – Deliverance Why've you ever forgotten me beating the rhythm with hundreds of raised hands. It was fantastic. Enslaved They played Fusion of Sense and Earth, Ruun ("Are there many Finns here?" *the crowd of Finns answers in unison, yes* "And Swedes, Norwegians?" *two dozen voices answer in unison, yes* "So, guys, this song is for you!" *draws two runes in the air with two index fingers* "RUUN!!!"), Return To Yggdrasil, and other songs, and at the end, delaying their performance by a few minutes, they played one of their first songs, from their first demo. There was little space, and there were many headbangers, and I was one of them. I don't know how I managed to fall asleep after that. Tuska, July 24, Sunday Turisas A popular local battle metal band – they sang and spoke mainly in Finnish. All the members of the band, except the accordionist, came on stage in war paint, which was repeated by their most devoted fans. There is only one guitarist, so fantastic solos were played on the electric violin. They played "Dark Eyes" in a metal style. The crowd chanted "Battle!!! Battle! Metal! Battle!!!" jumped with their fists raised, and staged a circle pit in the middle, which looked more like a mass dance. I left about five minutes before the end of the performance to take a place for the headliners of the third day, for whom I came here. Amon Amarth Surtr, burning the world, was drawn on the backdrop; the last performance of the festival was accompanied by fire and fireworks. The Vikings gave Tuska a worthy Ragnarok. They played: Asator, Cry of the black birds, Runes to my memory, War of Gods, Death in fire, Destroyer of the Universe, Guardians of Asgard, and, of course, Twilight of the Thunder God. My palms ached from clapping, my hands from making the devil horns, my neck from headbanging, my legs from standing for a long time, and my ears from the noise, but the delight more than made up for it all. My first festival was great. On the 25th, I bought some board games and a whistle, visited an amusement park. The quote of the day: "If you call a whistle a flute, you'll get hit in the face." Today, I just walked around the center, and I was glad to find a monument to the Kalevala and the man who compiled it, Elias Lönnrot. Tomorrow, I'm flying home. Photos and videos. Cameras were not allowed at Tuska. If you're interested, I recommend searching for Tuska 2011 on YouTube. There are videos of Valhalla, by the way. And here are some photos: http://backsteidz.com/2011/07/25/galerii-tuska-open-air-2011/ http://massimmolation.net/entry.php/292-Tuska-Open-Air-2011-Photos.-ALL-YOUR-BANDWIDTH-ARE-BELONG-TO-US! In the attachments: A Jew's harp (Austrian mouth harp) and a whistle (Generation Brass D). New board games (I've wanted to make a photo report about a game from my collection for a long time). A recording of the whistle, I'm slowly learning to play it. I'll be happy to answer questions and comments.

That's awesome, I would definitely give a thumbs up for every day of the festival :) So many great bands gathered in one place. I've been wanting to attend a Blind Guardian concert for a long time. Didn't you see Kvelertak's performance?

Did you communicate with Mytholizdame? Did you talk? Did you understand each other?
Did the musicians perform all day?
Are "Mytholheads" very different from "Mytholizds" (Russian edition)?
And if without a ticket, is the entrance fee charged?
Is the T-shirt of good quality? Or is it the same as in the markets in Russia?
Did you have a beer? A lot? What does it taste like? What's the price?

Wow, what a performance, let's get the media involved! Although I don't listen to most of the bands listed, but Blind Guardian singing their "Hymn to Fantasy" would be amazing. I'd travel halfway across the world for that! I also like Turisas, I wonder if they played their cover of the Rasputin song?

Did they understand each other?

- Hi, I'm from Russia, it's a big country! - What the f*** is he talking about? - MYYYYYYTHOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!11 - YEEEEEE MYYYYYYTHOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!! I think they understood each other)

And yes, what is the price of the t-shirt?

Finland is great; the fishing there is fantastic, especially in Lapland. I liked the topic. Veg, write more about your life!

So many questions have accumulated.

Did you see Kvelertak's performance?

Nope. I listed everyone I saw.

Did you talk to the mythologists? Did you have a conversation? Did you understand each other?
Did the musicians perform all day?
Are "mythologists" very different from "mythologists" (Russian edition)?
If you don't have a ticket, is the entrance fee paid?
Is the T-shirt of good quality? Or is it the same as in the markets in Russia?
Did you have a beer? A lot? What does it taste like? What's the price?

I didn't try to. But it's not difficult to understand.
http://www.tuska-festival.fi/en - there are many answers here. All three days, on four stages. Fifty-one bands. It's physically impossible to see everyone, seeing half is heroic, seeing a dozen is my goal, which I almost achieved.
I live where there are few mythologists, so I don't really have anyone to compare with.
At the entrance, tickets are ten euros more expensive.
Good ones. I also bought an Enslaved one. And unfortunately, Blind Guardian was already sold out, so I didn't achieve the symbolism of "three goals - three T-shirts."
With beer, as with alcohol in general, Finland is extremely strict. And I didn't really want to.

I also like Turisas, I wonder if they played their cover about Rasputin?

No.

And yes, what was the price of the T-shirt?

25.

Finland is great, the fishing there is amazing, especially in Lapland. I liked the topic. Veg, write more about your life!

Fishing... but a fish farm - that's a different story! As for fishing...
Don't count on me writing about my life, I'll try not to write about boring things.

Lizard accurately described everything about understanding. I also attended the festival in Prague (or rather, in Trutnov, Czech Republic). When drunk fans approached me and asked something incoherently (and in their own languages, not in a universal one), I pointed them towards the stage, made the devil horns gesture, and they happily went there to dance.
But I went to the festival with my sister, and there was all sorts of brutal death and grindcore playing, which I don't really listen to, so I didn't even know any of the bands that were playing. Among the loudest names, which no one knows anyway, are Entombed, Brujeria, Lock Up, Benediction, Putrid Pile, Rotten Sound, Brutal Truth, and many others. Google "Obscene Extreme 2011."
I listened to at least ten bands, and I listened to about 20-30 bands in full (or almost in full, if you don't count one and a half songs).
I liked the calm (in terms of the absence of constant blast beats, and there weren't many of them anyway) brutal death of Brujeria, the symphonic intro and outro, as well as the grindcore middle part of Lock Up, the one-man band Putrid Pile, playing brutal with grindcore, Old School Swedish Death Metal (it sounds so beautiful!), Entrails, death/gorggrind Impaled, singing about guts and meat. And a few other bands.

In general, I think the Tuska festival will have a much more decent crowd, because Obscene Extreme was... well, obscene. 10% of the metalheads were already drunk before the first band of the first day started and were lying in front of the stage, already pouring beer on themselves during the second song (I was poured on, though, on the evening of the second day), drunk metalheads climbed onto the stage, danced, and jumped on each other. It was all allowed, in general. One of the porn-grind bands (I think it was Gronibard, although I don't remember) even performed naked. Of course, they had followers among the fans.
We then spent four more days in Prague as tourists and realized that Russia is for losers and failures.
I didn't buy any band t-shirts, only one with the dead Virgin Mary in a gas mask, the festival name, and all the bands on the back.

By the way, I've already downloaded some of the stuff that was at the festival (Brujeria, Impaled, Entrails). I liked them even more at the concert.
We had more space, I could almost always get to the stage. Although in the evenings, for the well-known bands, people gathered and stood very close, so I had to go around to get right up to the stage. I always watched the death metal near the stage, though, at the edge, from where it was also a great view, but beer glasses weren't flying over my head, and metalheads weren't falling off the stage. I got poured on with beer just when my sister dragged me to the center. They were playing either Benediction or Brutal Truth, I don't remember.

Veggy, we need to go to Tuska together next year.
Okay, I've taken over your thread, which is bad and not good, I need to ask you some questions for politeness' sake, but I don't know what to ask, you've already described everything.

P.S. Rain during Epica - so gothic!

P.P.S. I haven't received it yet, I'll come back next time when I get it and write.

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Vegtam, you amaze me.
I'm now flattered and embarrassed.
I just don't know what a "visa" is :-[ Google only says about visa. Although now I have an idea.
How should I properly wear bondo threads, aka a wonderful necklace?
Kuth is funny, such a cute thing.
In general, thank you

How should one properly wear Bond's threads, aka the wondrous necklace?

However you like, it's now your personal trinket, and you can do whatever you want with it. And if you're posting in the general thread, at least show what arrived in the mail.

I wanted to correct and add to the Finnish post; I have material for two more posts... but I can't find the time. Wait and hope.

I'm writing to you, this isn't a general topic, it's about you.
Okay, you convinced me, I'll post it. Just one photo, because the internet is slow.
From left to right: Kutkh (the supreme god of Kamchatka, kind of like a raven), a piece of the bestiary about him, a bracelet, "A magical stone, blazing with fire," and, of course, the epic box from a light bulb, in which all this came to me)) I immediately remembered how long ago, when my sister was given her first mobile phone, my dad packed the box in ten layers, there was all sorts of things, even a wrapper from cockroach repellent.
He also wrote a poem

It's strange that they don't allow cameras at the concert. At my festival, they did, although I didn't take any pictures; my sister did, but I don't need to upload videos, as there are already plenty on YouTube.

Veg, keep practicing! You're not whistling very smoothly. Take more pictures of it, by the way; the upgraded version is in the file ^^.