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As wonderful as those 'all my friends are here and all my friends are drunk' moments on a crowded peak-time dancefloor can be, I think my favourite bit of a lot of nights is near the end, when everyone who's left on the dancefloor just keeps going, wringing every last drop of fun out of the night. So yeah, Don't Stop Moving: ace. I love pop music. And after a very quiet week, I needed that. Will be out again tonight, at Feeling Gloomy; that's more for the first band (Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring) than the club, but now I've found my dancing feet again, I wouldn't be surprised if I stayed.
Scroll about 3/4 of the way through this one, past the comics-related content (which is fine and all, but not relevant to my point here) and you'll find some very interesting stories about the Hillary Clinton campaign's tactics - to wit, using exactly the same sort of dirty tricks which gave Florida 2000 such a bad name. Except in a party's internal contest it somehow seems even more dishonourable.
Another London venue bites the dust. Turnmills, like the King's Cross establishments which died at New Year, really wasn't on my personal going out map - I went there precisely once, to see Drinkme. But I could still see that they had something decent and distinctive going, and so it saddens me to learn that the Easter weekend will be their last, and that "The most important reason is of course that the lease is nearly up and the landlord wants to develop the site". This whole city's being turned into 'luxury flats' and 'retail developments', and if the process isn't checked then nobody will any longer have any reason to live in the flats or shop in the shops because London will have been stripped of the attractions which drew the people here in the first place. The problem being, yes, any individual property owner will make more from a bunch of flats for brokers than he will from a grotty venue. So every owner has to hope that the other owners will take a financial hit in the name of culture, while he gets to cash out.
Mostly I've been upset by the BBC's self-flagellation over its 'phone-in 'scandals'. As against ITV's deliberate and fraudulent profiteering, which was criminal and should be treated as such, the BBC just cut a few corners - yoking the two together does the BBC a grave disservice at a time when it's already under more than enough threat, and plays into the hands of Murdoch and his ilk who would love to see Auntie fall. Which said, if a BBC scalp is needed then how's about we lock up Jo Whiley and throw away the key? In her case, I'll make an exception. And then let's start digging for any non-compliance from Moyles; if he's left the smallest i undotted or t uncrossed, I say we display his head on a pike on London Bridge.
Scroll about 3/4 of the way through this one, past the comics-related content (which is fine and all, but not relevant to my point here) and you'll find some very interesting stories about the Hillary Clinton campaign's tactics - to wit, using exactly the same sort of dirty tricks which gave Florida 2000 such a bad name. Except in a party's internal contest it somehow seems even more dishonourable.
Another London venue bites the dust. Turnmills, like the King's Cross establishments which died at New Year, really wasn't on my personal going out map - I went there precisely once, to see Drinkme. But I could still see that they had something decent and distinctive going, and so it saddens me to learn that the Easter weekend will be their last, and that "The most important reason is of course that the lease is nearly up and the landlord wants to develop the site". This whole city's being turned into 'luxury flats' and 'retail developments', and if the process isn't checked then nobody will any longer have any reason to live in the flats or shop in the shops because London will have been stripped of the attractions which drew the people here in the first place. The problem being, yes, any individual property owner will make more from a bunch of flats for brokers than he will from a grotty venue. So every owner has to hope that the other owners will take a financial hit in the name of culture, while he gets to cash out.
Mostly I've been upset by the BBC's self-flagellation over its 'phone-in 'scandals'. As against ITV's deliberate and fraudulent profiteering, which was criminal and should be treated as such, the BBC just cut a few corners - yoking the two together does the BBC a grave disservice at a time when it's already under more than enough threat, and plays into the hands of Murdoch and his ilk who would love to see Auntie fall. Which said, if a BBC scalp is needed then how's about we lock up Jo Whiley and throw away the key? In her case, I'll make an exception. And then let's start digging for any non-compliance from Moyles; if he's left the smallest i undotted or t uncrossed, I say we display his head on a pike on London Bridge.
