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In 1965, there was a short-lived public uprising against the Perpendik government. The story behind it sounds too strange not to be an urban legend, but numerous eyewitness accounts confirm it.

Three Bladovak brothers in their twenties (Sandor, Nagy, and Laszlo) decided to take a stand against the strict official ban on pop-music. The youngest brother, Laszlo, built rudimentary robots that played rock music, with the idea being that the law only applied to humans. The brothers set up underground rock performances by the robots and soon most of the cities youth were in attendance.

Naturally the police found out and soon there were clashes in the street. The brothers went into hiding and the Perpendik regime continued.

In the early 1980’s however “The Laszlo Project” icon (seen at top) began to be graffitied on city walls. There were rumors that Laszlo had been working as an underground political radical for decades. Even stranger stories about Laszlo surfaced; was he working for the CIA? Interpol? Were his robots now so advanced that they were infiltrating the government? To this day no one knows.

A Hollywood version of the event, “Pink Dust”, was released in 1997. It featured Jim Carrey and Danny DeVito, among other notable actors. However, the producers chose to ignore the actual known facts of the story. In addition, the limited budget didn’t allow for there to be any robots in the film. The movie deservedly got poor reviews and is all-but forgotten a decade later.

**What the hell is this all about? It’s an excerpt from my upcoming magazine piece “The Kelv Enthusiast” to be published in Mammal Magazine, Spring 2007. Tune in for details.

-DAN METH