Mike Macgirvin
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Sunday, Jul 06 2008, 09:02 am
Feb 22, 2006
Speaking of drugs...

The 'Love Parade' is being revived in Berlin. The European rave festival was shut down a few years back because there was no way to pay for cleanup costs. Looks like they've found a corporate sponsor (McFit - an exercise chain) to pay for the garbage trucks.

Love Parade, indeed. It should probably be called "A week of X". Hope the pharmaceutical companies have pumped up their inventories. One and a half million people doing Ecstasy, speed, whatever -  and dancing 24/7 for a week or so to content-free techno-pop. You do the math. Actually, I wonder if anybody approached the pharmaceutical community for sponsorships... 

Categories: music rantings
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Cindy
February 22, 2006 16:26
[*TOP MEMBER*] Cindy
I had no idea the 'Love Parade' had been shut down. I'll have to consult my Berlin friends about that!

meanwhile, I encountered this error when accessing this page via Firefox:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in data.php on line 99

thought you might like to know :-)


mike (Mike Macgirvin)
February 22, 2006 18:35
mike
Yeah, I've been fighting that function... it's a spider checker. it hasn't been working well and it's darn rudimentary, it loops through a static array with two hardcoded entries (currently) and returns a yes/no result - beginning to think it's a php bug. I'll write it another way until I can trace it through.

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