My own private disco

[emily_strange84]

I do so love being ID'd a week before my 22nd birthday. It's always good to know that in spite of all scary adult type stresses that may occur, I've managed to retain my babyfaced looks. Well, I shall be most thankful when I'm 30, even if being refused admission to a club night I'd been looking forward to for ages isn't so funny at the time

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[statto]

shake-o-rama wasn't on yesterday!

according to holly (who organises it) and is supercasio on here:

"yes oh yes oh yes i got my disco back off its fat lazy yet hott and sexy ass!
shake o rama will be back on the first thursday of every month starting march 2nd at joshua brooks 10-2 £3 entry."

[statto]

also, re: art...

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/

folk art is the best kind of art :D

[emily_strange84]

I feel more inspired already.

And wow, I'm so glad Shake-o-Rama wasn't on, then! I wasn't entirely sure it would be, having heard nothing about it, but thought I may as well take the chance. I'm glad it's moving to Joshua Brooks-the bouncers there tend to be of the less fascist persuasion.

[statto]

The reason it stopped being at the thompsons arms (I gather) is partly because of the shitty bouncers not letting people in, which happened a lot.

Never to me, though. Probably thought I was going to the downstairs bit, haha.

[emily_strange84]

I'm very glad you pointed that out. The idea of chancers like the particularly contemptible Mr Hirst still being revered fifty years down the line doesn't bear thinking about.

[emily_strange84]

Oh, well, I'd hardly expect you to understand. If I know anything about your particular standards, then you positively relish in being able to access the inaccessible. Which admittedly does have its merits in certain situations, but pretensious high-horsery merely for the sake of it is not deserving of any acclaim.

Re: Modern art makes me want to rock out

[emily_strange84]

No, there is nothing at all wrong with producing art in the knowledge that only a very select group of individuals will appreciate it. No producers of any form of culture should feel they have to censor themselves in order to appeal to a particular demographic. On this note, though, no producer should be under the impression that to cobble together a series of, at best, tenuously related images and adding an explanation as an afterthought is in any way groundbreaking or challenging. It does seem wilfully obscure, but only obscure because in today's current art climate the very nature of trendiness lies with inaccessibility. It's a sad thing, because of course there is a huge amount of genuinely inventive art being produced that is simply not recognised due the artist's failure to jump onto the "conceptual" bandwagon.

Of course accessibility does not equate to greatness, far from it. But to create something so devoid of meaning that the observer needs to be constantly reassured that it was created for a purpose in the first place

[rumtruffle]

Yay for finding a tasty house.

Don't get me started on contemporary art. I haven't been to the Bristish shows yet as I'm a tad busy at the mo. But certain artworks like installations make me mad. Bring back paintings and drawings and proper sculptures.

[emily_strange84]

I have nothing specifically against installations, as long as they're genuinely inventive and have seemingly been created with some purpose in mind. It was the utter emptiness of the majority of the exhibits I saw that got to me.

Saying that, I'm nonetheless curious to investigate the other parts of the exhibition in Manchester. I may go and check out the Cornerhouse's display next week, when the evil assignment is nicely out of the way.