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Barb-squatting (on a big scale) London.

  
  

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
19:39 / 25.10.02
There is a disused office block on the Great West Road in Brentford. I say we take it. All we need is the willpower, people power and the equipment. Rope, grappling, torches and ladders are all we need.
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
12:14 / 26.10.02
Groovy. I have a set of spanners. And heavy boots.
 
 
rizla mission
12:20 / 26.10.02
Squatting?? Barbelith? in *Brentford*???

I'm there!
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
12:27 / 26.10.02
Now that sounds like entertainment. Let me grab my camera and I'll be right there.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:25 / 28.10.02
But wait, what are you going to use the office block for? Do you not need a purpose in this world?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
13:40 / 28.10.02
Aw, shit, I'm jealous. I've been wanting to arrange something like this in Bridgeport CT, for the longest time. I think that whole town is ripe for Barbesquatting, it looks like the Paper Street neighborhood in Fight Club.

Brentford, UK and Bridgeport, CT: Sister cities.
 
 
rizla mission
13:44 / 28.10.02
But wait, what are you going to use the office block for? Do you not need a purpose in this world?

And presumably we've all already got places to live too, but, er, SILENCE! The plan has been enacted and some silliness is sure to ensue!
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:55 / 28.10.02
Wait I envisage big parties with little fairy cakes and pictures of Mickey Mouse. Pass the parcel and musical chairs. Then as we get older LAN parties where we play ridiculous amounts of Quake on our home-modified computers which we ship miles in cars belonging to other people. Then drug infested nights where we all lie on top of one another like dead rabbits piled up for the dogs and finally dinner parties.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
14:00 / 28.10.02
Can I borrow your imagination for ten minutes?
 
 
rizla mission
14:20 / 28.10.02
Skip the one about Quake and I think that sounds like a pretty fine purpose!

Why not drug infested dinner parties with fairy cakes and pass the parcel?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:51 / 28.10.02
Swap Quake for Return to Castle Wolfenstein and I'm in.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:10 / 28.10.02
Crispy... undead... in abandoned building...

Oho yes.
 
 
Rage
15:55 / 29.10.02
Count me in.

How can I help? Keep me updated...
 
 
The Strobe
19:17 / 29.10.02
And tunes. We need tunes. If you're going to have a party, you have to rock it somehow. Right?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
20:46 / 29.10.02
...prison style...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:46 / 30.10.02
Eugh.

Well since we're evolving here we'd have to start with the original soundtrack to 101 Dalmations and then through something scary and digital (not eurodance... too much on Box, keeling over as I type and I'm in the library) and then Ravel. Rarara.
 
 
The Strobe
16:59 / 30.10.02
Janina: what, and indeed, the fuck?

We'll have no fucking Ravel here. Public Enemy, though, is highly likely.
 
 
rizla mission
11:24 / 31.10.02
As is Slayer if I get any say in matters.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:26 / 31.10.02
Continuous looping of Kick Out the Jams Motherfuckers would certainly make a statement.
 
 
rizla mission
12:03 / 31.10.02
Yeah, that would be good too.
 
 
Bear
12:57 / 31.10.02
Where's Brentford?
 
 
rizla mission
13:01 / 31.10.02
East of Ealing.
 
 
Bear
13:28 / 31.10.02
ummm... never mind I'll check a map
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:07 / 31.10.02
I am not having Public Enemy at a dinner party - that's it I'm going to stick on the pan pipe CD of the Gypsy Kings greatest hits that I heard in the new age shop yesterday. You'll like that.
 
 
The Strobe
14:34 / 31.10.02
Janina: you have a very strange concept of what anyone would like. And who said we were having a dinner party?

  
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
20:56 / 31.10.02
Two things:

Cocktails.

and Gilbert & Sullivan.

There's yer Barbentertainment, right there.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:25 / 01.11.02
The question is, will we really do this?
 
 
rizla mission
11:31 / 01.11.02
Like, of course.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:43 / 01.11.02
OK Gilbert and Sullivan is really going too far. Drinking to the sounds of The Mikado *shudder* and we're having a fucking dinner party. Don't question my authoritar.

I'm sweet really.
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
20:40 / 02.11.02
I'm going on a recon in the next few days. The only tools I have at my disposal are a sledgehammer and a pickaxe handle, not the type of shit you want to be walking around with.

I was thinking, maybe champagne breakfast? (may have to have cava depending on funds).
 
 
KnofC
18:55 / 03.11.02
this idea realy amuses me, which is good.

i recon that i'll be able to find the time and money to come.

count me in
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:54 / 05.11.02
Hmm, I just bought a bottle of Kumala wine for £2.99, that's pretty damn bad almost on a level with cava.

I think we should go on a mass pilgrimage to our favourite abandoned building. I can bring a chainsaw and a power drill though we may need electricity to use them.

Has anyone got a generator???
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:00 / 05.11.02
It won't be the fucking Mikado.

I expect Patience. Or Pirates, fuckya.
 
 
The Strobe
22:49 / 05.11.02
Pirates, maybe, but too in-jokey. I will have NO dissing of Mikado in my/our squat, alright?

So we'll settle on Gondoliers or bust. Right? Good.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:55 / 05.11.02
And if ever, ever, ever we get back to Spain...

Deal.

Besides. Gondoliers are like tidy pirates. So it's ALL GOOD.

Sorry, rot. How'd the scoping-out go?
 
  

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