either toss the piano or fcuk off!

horsemouth is not against hoiking a piano out of a window of the norflab tower - he thinks it would sound great - what he is against is the reduction in the amount of housing available at social rent that the privatisation of norflab tower (and indeed the housing of wob star trust members there) means. of course if doing this led to the creation of more housing (at social rent) in the seaside towns (or even further out) horsemouth would have to modify his objection and admit that at least the best possible thing was being done given the difficult circumstances. 

horsemouth doesn't really care about local connection or consultation - he believes these are myths (but fairplay if you can make them work for you) - what he cares about is having a roof over his head at a price he (and other working or be-benefitted stiffs) can afford - ideally somewhere funky, if not somewhere boring will be fine. he cares about keeping the poor (like himself) in the seaside towns. not because he thinks it is important to have a 'vibrant mix' of rich and poor (fcuk the rich) - but because the poor need to be close to their means of earning a living, they need to be close to the opportunity that the money sloshing around this city provides. it is merely that he will end up even poorer and more knackered if he has to commute in.

it is no surprise that the established tenants of the estates bordering on norflab are unenthusiastic about piano throwing games - it just looks like a waste of money to them - and that they are unenthusiastic about the wonderful community generating claims for modern art (because frankly these  claims are rubbish). the money spent by harca on revamping the neighbourhood (so the rich in norflab don't feel they are moving into a slum) benefits them far more than the presence of 'creatives' and their poodle murals. but the current tenants aren't the people disadvantaged by gentrification (or redevelopment as it is known) - the people disadvantaged are their sons and daughters who cannot get anywhere to live and the people displaced so that the gentrifiers and the bow artists can move in - they are people who (almost entirely) are not local  and have never been local . the people who lose out are not here and will now never come.

but the artists have forgotten something as well - they, in a rush to embrace communitarian rhetoric, have forgotten the contempt the da-daists and futurists felt for the established world and the denizens of it rich and poor - it is not enough to ironize both the world of your parents and the world of the estate trash you must show that you know better than both.

now either toss the piano or fcuk off!