TITLE:PROMOTING ABNORMALIA (Various mags) PALETTE:0223 0779 0989 07a9 3A DISCUSSION IN AARS - It's finished, finally. 2+ Yes, finished. I think it has been a good party. - Well, this is what we have to tell to the scene. 2+ Sure, this is what we have to write. - What do you think about Spaceball's demo? 2+ Nice, but the overall quality of the demos has been a delusion. - Do you think we have to write this too? 2+ I don't know, maybe we can write that. - And about the TRSI demo? 2+ Crap. - Yep, but we close an eye on the votation system, don't we? 2+ Of course we do. The scene forgets things easily. - Do you think that we have somehow to cover the possible voices about our friends in TRSI? 2+ Uhm, yes, maybe we should. We have got the Information, we have the scene 2 opinion in our hands, it's would be a crime not to use our power... - Hehe, a crime... sometimes I don't understand when you joke and when you are serious... 2+ Sometimes I don't understand that too. - Do you like the Crystal intro? 2+ Yes, not bad. I think anyway that we should shake a bit the waters about Melon 2 Dezign, I still don't understand the reason of their huge success. - Maybe because they have a their own style. Something that you can easily recognize. 2+ Yes, that must be the reason... - I liked the Skandal intro, it's strange that it hasn't ranked better. 2+ Well, who is not much known has always an harder job. - I have heard that maybe Zine is not so dead... 2+ Don't talk me about Zine! - You don't like it eh? You get angry when someone start to say that all the other mags have copied its basic structure. 2+ Sure I do, and do you know why? Because it's really true! But we can't say 2 that around and anyway we have an our style, we make things in a different 2 way, with a different professionality, why nobody says that? - Have you seen that mag called Abnormalia? It seems a bit different. 2+ Yes, maybe. - Your opinion? 2+ The scene won't notice it. - Better so. I don't like too many uncontrolled voices. 2+ Who cares? Our voice gives truth to everything. What we say becomes reality. 2 The rest doesn't matter. - Do you really think that the scene is such an idiot bunch of sheeps? 2+ I don't know. I just see that what we write becomes what the scene thinks. 2 This is the only important thing for me. - By the way, where are the others? 2+ You mean the germans, the finn and the english? - Yes, the other "opinions controllers", as you like to say. 2+ They are coming in few minutes. - Do you already have an idea on the things we have to report about the party? 2+ The usual things. The scene just needs that. Big party, many people, good 2 organization with some minor defects, demos quality not exaggerately high and 2 so on... The usual stuff. - It may result too boring. Maybe we can create some polemics... maybe we can discuss the democompo results, you know, just to write something interesting. 2+ We have to be careful anyway. We can't risk to go against the interests of 2 some powerful persons. - Sure we can't. You know, sometimes I wonder if we are really the ones who control everything or if there is someone who controls us... Someone above us. 2+ Uhm, I don't know. There is something strange around, strange pressions, 2 strange voices, sometimes something stops me from publishing some articles, 2 I have also heard mysterious voices at the party. Maybe there is a new power 2 in the scene, an hidden power, something that comes form the past. A major 2 group of the past which has remained in the dark for all these years, 2 controlling and following the scene changements. We have to be careful, it's 2 not so easy to control everything after all. - It seems something strong! What group are you talking about? Quartex? Paranoimia? 2+ I don't know, maybe someone ever older. - Ever older??? Groups like Ackerlight or Triad or something like that? 2+ Maybe, maybe, I don't know. I don't even know if I am right to worry about 2 it... - I have read on that Abnormalia a theory about some Old Masters of the puppets controlling the scene. They are supposed to use the most important diskmags to control the information and direct the opinions of the scene guys. Do you think it was an open accuse against us? 2+ Whatever the theories, however they are, they need a wide spreading in order 2 to have a value. Remember again, it's not important what is true, it's 2 important what the world thinks it's true. For this reason we can control 2 something in the scene. I don't know if there is someone who controls us, for 2 sure we are not at the botton of the pyramid. We have the power, my friend... - And we want to keep it, right? 2+ Yes, whatever the means. - You know, sometimes I wonder if we aren't taking all this too much seriously. I mean, the scene, the diskmagazines, the parties... they should be an hobby but quite often they are considered something more important. 2+ Pray God that this situation will last. Our power is based upon this. 2 If someone realizes that it's just a game, a funny hobby, our influence on the 2 minds will lose its grasp. - Gosh, all these speeches scary me a bit. I thought it was an hobby! 2+ An hobby? You won't obtain anything if you consider all this an hobby. 2 It's our world, our little fantasy world. - And the real friends? The girls? The boozes? 2+ They can all enter in this world. The image of the Amiga scene guy is changed 2 in the last years, WE have changed it and the reason is simple. Some persons 2 started to think that just using Amiga was boring and useless. Being a famous 2 coder but a nerd was something that a person couldn't accept. We had to keep 2 more and more persons in the scene, we had to give them a satisfacory "normal" 2 life too. For this reason you have also to drink and to have girls to be a 2 cool scene dude. This is a pattern that can satisfy persons who want something 2 more than just an Amiga scene life. Do you understand? The new image of the 2 Amiga scene guy is far more acceptable, it can keep persons in the scene and 2 make this thing bigger and bigger. - That's impressive! I hadn't thought about it! 2+ You have to look things with more detached eyes, what is around us, influences 2 us. We often don't think with our mind, we don't see with our eyes. It's 2 difficult to accept it, it's difficult to realize it, it even seems not that 2 true because it can delete our same individuality. - Do you really think what you have said? 2+ I somehow fear that somebody has made me say that. An evil grin behind that 2 monitor, who is putting in my mouth words I don't want to say. - Who is him? 2+ The author of this article. - Talking about articles, do you publish only articles of well-known scene guys? 2+ Of course not. If something is good or interesting I publish it, maybe it's 2 easier for a very famous guy to have published its text in my mag, but just 2 because this is what the scene wants to read. - Right. We give to the readers what the readers want to read, after all. 2+ Yes, maybe giving them also the means to build up "their" own opinions... - Which can't be different from ours, eh? 2+ That's the funny thing of being the editor of a famous and followed mag. - By the way, nice one your idea about the fourth and a half issue... 2+ Thank you, your third issue is good too. 3MURMURS ABOUT ABNORMALIA IN A DARK COLD NIGHT In the dark street I hear the two voices whispering. I get close, silently, I'm here to hear what they are saying. In the night, the rain falling cold, the wind blowing mysterious, the moon hidden by the clouds, I have found what I was looking for: two persons murmuring in an corner of a desert street. I crawl nearer, they haven't noticed me yet. I can hear... + Are you sure of that? 2- Yes! Yes, I can't be wrong! + Can you imagine what all this can mean? Can you imagine what can this mean for us? 2- Yes! Damn, yes, I know! But I was told that, I am sure of that! + Perkele! Many things must be changed now! We have to call the others, we have to tell them what's happening, we haven't much time... 2- Shit! I know, we have to move fast, to do something, to break their 2 connections, we could also... close their mouth... + Uhm... Do you think we have to go so far? 2- Maybe...maybe. I don't know, but maybe it's the only way to stop them... + It's a bad situation. If we don't do anything they can get dangerous, if we move we don't know what could happen... 2- Yes, but maybe they are still too weak. They haven't enough power, if we stop 2 them now, before they get bigger, we can solve the thing. + Maybe you are right. It's better to risk now than to wait. If they get big it will be too late. 2- There is also another way. Less radical. We can disturb their moves, we can 2 limit their spreading, minimize their impact on the people. We can try to 2 discredit them. + It's an important decision, we have to gather with the others and think about the solution. 2- Look! ***** is coming, we can start to tell him the affair. I saw another man coming from the other side of the street. He was wearing a dark coat, he walked towards the two men I was spying... 3= Hi guys, fucking cold night eh? + Hallo *****, there are problems... 3= Problems? Tell me. 2- Someone is planning to make a new diskmag. 3= Who?? + We don't know! They are unknown, nobody of us has heard of them before... 2- Voices around say that actually some of them belong to other groups... but we 2 don't know which ones... 3= Fuck! Another mag! But, wait! It won't be a problem if it's not from a 3 major group! It's will be lame! 2- Maybe, but we got some informations about it... It seems that it will be 2 something revolutionary, something quite new... and dangerous... 3= Dangerous? Nothing is dangerous for us if it isn't spread widely. + Maybe they have good spreading support. 3= Are you sure of that? + No. But we don't know almost anything about the whole project. It's something too misterious, we are worried about it. 3= Ahaha, c'mon! So many people have already tried to make diskmags! Almost all 3 have failed, these nerds will fail too! 2- There are hints around that they could be better than expected, we can't risk 2 to deal with an extraneous voice. We have to keep the control of the 2 Information. 3= There is some risk then. We have to talk with the others. + Yes, we already thought that. We have all to decide what to do. 3= When? At the Aars party? + Yes, that's the nearer occasion to meet with the others. 2- There is a problem, anyway... 3= What? + What? 2- I think they will release the diskmag just at the Aars party. 3= Fuck! + Paska! That's a low blow! What can we do now? 2- I don't know! I don't know! 3= Ehi! Maybe they are really lamers, a lame diskmag will die like a shit. + At this moment we have just to hope that. I don't find other solutions. 3= But, fuck, which groups are involved? 2- I don't know!! I was said that they are just a bunch of guys, maybe from 2 different groups, but working as individuals. 3= A cooperation! 2- No, I don't think so... it's something different, maybe. 3= Do you know what will have this new mag? Is it like the ours? 2- Probably not. This is the problem. It's something different, I was told. I 2 heard that it even doesn't talk about the scene. Others have said that it 2 talks about it, but in a new way, in an ironical way! + An ironical way?? 2- Yes, I heard also that. 3= Fuck! That's dangerous. We can't ridiculize the scene! + Perkele! Sure we can't. 3= We can lose readers! + And money! 3= The scene is a serious thing! 2- Yes! yes, damn, I know, I know... but it's not only that... + Saatana! What else? 2- I was told that it will have quotes, stories, strange and arcane texts, 2 interesting articles! 3= Even interesting articles! Shit, that's too much! + But who told you all this? 2- Some guys... there are voices running around. I tried to collect them, I 2 asked to many people. + From where? 2- What? + From which country will this mag come? 2- It's not sure, but many thinks it's coming from Italy. 3= Italy? Hahaha, those mafia people can't do anything well! They don't even 3 speak english decently! + Uhm... you said Mafia.... 3= Yes, fucking mafia spaghetti eaters! + Mafia... Do you think they can have connections with mafia? 2- I don't know. But if they have any... + ... we are lost. 3= C'mon guys! We will piss on the mafia guys! + I hope. 2- Well, anyway I don't really think that they have something to do with mafia... 2 It would be too much. + Yes, yes, they can't. 3= Sure they can't! + By the way, do you know also the name of this disk magazine? 3= Spaghetti and Pizza? Hahaha 2- No, it's called.... Abnormalia. 3= Christ! A fucking cool name! + Yes, not bad... We have to check the mag out. 3= Ehi boys, do you really think we have to fear a lame Abnormalia??! For sure 3 the title is the best thing they have! 2- I really hope so. 3THE ABNORMALIA NIGHTMARE \ Mr President, Jones is waiting outside. Have I to let him in? 2+ Yes. - Good morning, Mr President, how is your wife? 2+ Cut it here. What do you want? - I have collected around some strange rumors. Hot stuff. Maybe dangerous. 2+ Tell me. - It seems that an new plan against the state is going to be thought of. 2+ Who? - We don't know exactly. It should be a bunch of young people, the thinking nucleus is not wide, but they could have influence on a wide field. We can't let them spread their propaganda. 2+ What kind of propaganda are you talking about? - Something quite dangerous, Mr President. They talk about the importance of Thinking, of meditating about the world and the things. 2+ Hahaha. Thinking...what's this novelty? - This can be dangerous for us. We can't leave any space for individual and subversive forces, we can't leave such a voice going around! 2+ Terminate them. - This is the problem! It's very difficult to understand from where they come. The news we have about them are very limited, we just know that they want to make a magazine in order to spread their philosophy. 2+ Philosophy? Have we to deal with stupid philosophy? - Well, maybe it's not really a philosophy, it's a different way of considering the things but we can't risk leaving it floating among the people. 2+ So, Jones, what are the solutions then? - I don't know Mr President! I think that the only way is to wait the release of their magazine and then catch them. We don't know where to seek them, now. 2+ Well, they must somehow print this magazine, control all the possible places 2 where they can do that! - It's impossible Mr President! Our agents have reported that they won't make this magazine on paper! They will make it on a floppy disk, and we can't check all the computers of the country! 2+ Well, anyway Jones, I don't think this magazine will be a problem, but you are 2 allowed to investigate more about it. Feel free to ask for a pair of the 2 Association's secret agents and go away now. I have other things to think 2 about. - Yes, Mr President! 2+ Ah, a last question, Jones, do you know how it will be called this mag? - Yes, Mr President, its name will be Abnormalia. 2+ Abnormalia? Funny name... do you know also what kind of texts it will 2 contain? - There is nothing sure, Mr President, but we think that it will contain strange stories, meditative articles, it will have also an ironic section, probably. 2+ An ironic section? About what? - We don't know! We don't know what are its targets. Somebody has referred that it will be ironic towards the "scene" but we don't know what this scene is, probably a codename for the Country... in this case we have to eliminate them before they spread their words. 2+ I told you that ten minutes ago, Jones! - Yes, Mr President, you are right, we will do what we can do. 2+ Sure you will, Jones. You like the money you earn, don't you? - Yes, yes, Mr President...I think I have to go now... P- I am not sure, Macno, but I think that someone is following me... M- Furio, cazzo, it will be another girl... P- No, PD! They are strange men, they seem secret agents! M- Cazzo, Furio, you watch too much TV... P- Macno, cazzo, I'm not joking! I think we have to stop with the mag... M- Listen, Pitagora, Abnormalia will live and that's the only important thing! P- Macno, you don't understand! There is something strange in all this! There are agents of the government after me! I am sure of that! I have heard strange voices around, strange voices about our mag, on a board yesterday an unknown guy has sent me a message. He asked me if I were really the coder of Abnormalia! M- Good! The voice is well spreaded! P- Cazzo Macno! You are a fool! He asked me that in a strange way! He was scared of it!! M- Great! "The mag that will scare you!" I have a new slogan now! P- Cazzo cazzo cazzo!!! Macno! When will you understand? Things are getting BIG, too big for us! We have to leave everything till we have time! M- Furio, you are a clever boy, maybe even a decent coder, but you are paranoic. Simply, stupidly, paranoic. Abnormalia HAS TO BE. The rest doesn't matter. P- Ok, Ok, so you think that I am paranoic eh? Well, fuck off Macno, complete the code by yourself! M- No Furio, you will finish it. If you don't want to get involved in the mag you won't be named and I will take all the responsibilities, but you have to finish the code. Leave the rest to me. P- Well... Ok! I will finish it! But you won't see me anymore after it! I am out. You, your fucking mag, the whole affair, I am out of it! I want to clean up myself! M- As you want, Pitagora. Abnormalia is a living mag, I'd never kill it and for sure a crap Government can't stop it! ... P- Have I recited well Macno ;-) ? M- Yeah, Furio, do you think that someone will be interested by this article? P- Uhm, I don't know. Maybe it's not so clear... M- Yes, you are probably right but who cares? The important thing is to spread the name and the disk. Once a guy loads the mag, he can't not love it! P- Are you really sure of that? M- Erm...well...cazzo, not at all. But I like to think that ;-) 3DROWNING WITH ABNORMALIA There is water around me. A sea! A sea! It's a huge and cold sea and I am drowning here. I try to wave my hands, to cry for help, to look for salvation. Useless, the waters grab my legs, the chill enters in my flesh and it squeezes my will. I shout unheard, I cry unseen, I am going to die unnoticed. There is no sign of hope around and I turn my eyes inside. I look inside for the illusion of a saving light. A hope, I dream, I think... The waters are warm, they are not hostile, they are just buzzing their essence. They are talking. I live in a sea of words, I breath them, I drink them, I piss them out. Voices, rumors, lines, articles. Stories, novels, opinions, discussions. The sea of the planetary words is around me, it enters in my passive ears, it morphs my mind, it handles my thoughts. How many words around me! They whisper and they shout different opinions, points of view, they reflect different mouths. I listen them all and I try to talk. I want to contribute to the immense flood of words, I want to raise my voice. I open my mouth, I talk, I write, I discuss, I cry. And nobody takes care. I try again, there must be a way. I write and I write, I face a foreign language to find more possible readers, I send around my words, I exchange flows of words. Useless. The panic handles my soul, the desperation grazes my spirit and it lights my resignation. My words are unheard in a ocean of confused and confusing words. Nobody has time to stop and listen, nobody needs to take care of what I say. A simple diskmagazine is not enough. Alone and unseen I leave the ocean of warm words to finally drown in the sea of cold water. Even the dream of life is over. Look around for ABNORMALIA if you want to take care of another bunch of words, of another diskmag in the scene, of another point of view.