The Thousands

You’re crouched behind the signal box. You watch the 11.47 roll in through the neck of your t-shirt that you’ve pulled up like a balaclava. The guard steps onto the platform, you can feel your heartbeat in your throat. You look down at your tins, labelled ‘backy’, ‘fill’, ‘outline’ and ‘key’. The guard is out of sight and you’ve heard no warning from your sub on the platform. Shaking, you have to jump in.

While you stumble down the track rocks, your heartbeat gets thicker. If you cop a chase tonight, you’ll puke, you can feel it. But you’d rather feel that than gun shots. Russian vandals risk this every time they’re out – they gamble not only getting caught, but getting shot.**Iron Curtain is a Russian subway graffiti magazine. There are six issues to date, but Australia has just received the first. Issue #1 includes panels from all metro lines in Russia as well as candid photos of the vandals. Read an article about the first whole train in Russia, a broken-English interview with the infamous MDT crew, and learn that relaxation music is ‘only positively Satan Metal! Not hip-hop, cause it’s conspiracy’. So take heed vandals, listen to Satan Metal and paint trains. Aint no guards with guns on Australian trains.