Propaganda 23 ch01

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     . IN THE HEART OF SCENETOWN .


Dear readers,

It is all back to the roots as I see it.
Editing this magazine has been nothing
short of a nightmare. Not because of
what I have written or the time it has
taken - I tend to love that part. No,
because all my 64's are dying on me. As

most of you know I spend most of the
time editing this magazine with focus
on the news. I'd say the newschapter
takes around 18 hours of effective re-
search and editing from scratch. As I
started writing the news some week back
on my 128D, it just burnt out and re-
fused to cooperate. Of course I hadn't
saved any of the pages and I sighed as I
realized I had to rewrite the damn crap
all over again. So I took out an old
NTSC-machine that we used in the old
days of GENESIS PROJECT and it didn't
take long until it proved just as un-
reliable. I had to dig deeper into the
collection of 64's and 128's I have ga-
thered up through the years. I tried
ALFATECH/CENSOR'S old machine, I tried
the 2nd 64 I bought back in 1987 and 2
more that I don't even know where I got

them from. As it all came down, I was
down to my last one - my first 64 from
1982. As I took it out of the cupboard
I looked at it carefully and was sur-
prised about how clean it looked. No
marks, no stickers, just one juicy,
yellow sticker that JUCKE/GENESIS put
there when ANTICHRIST asked me to take
over the magazine. PROPAGANDA MACHINE,
it said. For a moment I just stood there
solemenly and thought "this machine has
really done it's share to the scene".

I plugged up the machine and my old
drive in my livingroom and started
writing. Believe me if I was surprised
when I started writing and realized this
trusty old piece of technology was not
freezing on me! So it was back to edit-
ing, re-editing and for the past 5 days

I have come home from work, locked all
doors and controlled the magazine from
a comfortable couch. Editing this, I
feel a slight sense of satisfaction,
back to the roots on the trusty old ma-
chine. Heaps of disks are around me, as
are papers, small post-it-notes and a
glass of pure malt on the rocks. The
phone interrupts me every once in a
while, but there are only calls from
people on the scene as most of my fri-
ends gave up when I refused to socialize
over the past few days. I am a true
scener by heart, I'd say proudly if any-
one asked me.

Lucky for me that I saved parts of this
text though. Because after several days
of reliable editing, also this machine
froze on me. I would toss and turn in

my sleep if I would have to go through
such a delicate phase again - I tell
you, this is really worse any program
MICROSOFT ever made.


Regards from Planet Scene,

NEWSCOPY
Editor












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