Arguing Goths!

Argh they annoy me! Not everyone can get on with each other all the time - but surely they can at least speak civilly enough to each other to advance their business ventures. If people don't start talking to each other *everything* will fall apart. Of course I'm talking about Whitby, and the Goth weekend.

Theres so much talk about "official" and "unofficial" events, when really it doesn't seem to be about that now. Its just lots of venues in one place holding goth events, which combine to create the Whitby goth weekend. Plus events at the Abbey, despite being organised by English Heritage does that mean they're "unofficial" as well? :) I think the best plan would be to just create a list of the venues in Whitby which are able to hold events, a list of the people / organisations who wish to hold events, the dates they wish to hold their events on, and match them all up together. I know nothing about promotion of big music events, but this seems the most sensible, so it can all be decided to the benefit of everyone, *and* the goth scene and paying customers. As it's us who lose out the most, through the organisers ineptitude and bickering between themselves. It doesn't seem hard to be able to organise say 3 events on each evening - two band events and one club event - which should give enough choice for everyone. And if I think about it there are at least three music venues and two nightclubs (and thats not even counting the Spa).

Ah I don't know. I hope that even if there isn't anything "official" (argh that word again!) someone will still organise something in April and something in October. I really like Whitby as a town, and for somewhere to go on holiday, its really lovely. Or we could all just go to DV8 in York, as that sounds like an equally lovely city, and it was apparently excellent this year and had some great bands on!

Film 50 and Book Seventy Five

( Film 50 – Scott Pilgrim )

( Book Seventy Five – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell )

kandielei I hope that satisfies your curiosity now! :) 

Ooh and in other interesting news I've joined a book club (well haven't been to it yet, but I'm going to get the book to read on Saturday!). I'm quite excited about it really, isn't that sad, haha. The first book to read is "The House of Special Purpose" by John Boyne, which I have been wanting to buy and read ever since it came out, so now this is a good excuse to do so! 

Just added the "mood" thingy, and for "geeky" its a cat by a computer... I want one to be reading a book! :) 

Book Seventy Six, Film 51

I’ve just realised that I’ve missed out a review for a book which I read months ago, so I’m not too badly off in keeping to my target (120 in a year, which is 10 a month). I’ve now read 84 books (well…83 but I only have one chapter left of the current book I’m reading, so will finish that at lunchtime!). So I either need to read 6 books by Thursday (unlikely!) or read 12 a month for the next three months….which is probably doable – possibly with a bit of cheating! I will try and keep up on my reviews as well, as I keep getting behind…maybe too much time reading the actually books instead of writing about them! hehe! But anyway, pressing on with reviews…

( Book 76 – The Halo Effect by MJ Rose (spoilers) )

( Film 51 – Jack and Sarah )