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Friday Night Fever

Formerly the bastard stepchild of club nights, Friday is giving Saturday some competition

"You take all the markets vying for these same big-name DJs, and you realize there's not enough to go around," Lyons says.

There's insane money for headliners in nearby Las Vegas; we were told of a quarter-million-dollar payday for one spinner. Richards of Hard says the Vegas clubs, which are connected to casinos, lose money on such talent but ultimately use them as a draw for the blackjack tables. "We can't compete with that," he says.

"They are so aggressive with each other, they bid the artists' fees to a place where it doesn't make competitive sense in other markets in the country," Lyons adds.

The Vegas effect encourages L.A. clubs to spread beyond Saturday and look for cheaper, fresher talent.

There's nothing wrong with new. It's what has always driven electronic dance music.

"Friday is no stepchild," Lyons says.

Compression's Pointer, who DJs under the name Robtronik, says moving out from under the shadow of Saturdays can be liberating.

"Saturday night you have to deal with the megaclubs," he says. "They have economics you can't compete with. In the dynamics of the club world, I like Fridays. People are up for it. And we can get good artists coming through who want to play in L.A. and then do a big-money night in San Francisco or New York on Saturday. There's more of an option for us to pull talent that can only be available to us Friday night.

"We want to get them, educate them and expose them when they're younger to a proper clubbing experience, instead of just going to the rave or megaclub and getting all electro'd out," Pointer says.

Meanwhile, Lyons is looking to expand his own club empire to a new frontier: weeknights. Where before he reserved them for early-evening pop concerts and Hollywood red-carpet events, Lyons now sees opportunity for dance show one-offs at Avalon.

"If you get an artist with enough of a following," Lyons says, "any night can be a special night."

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 ASIANS CAN READ MINDS
ASIANS CAN READ MINDS

ASIANS CAN ACTUALLY READ MINDS!!!!!!!!!!!they can hear and see what your visually thinkingthis is the complete truth

the reason alot of asians have completely expressionless faces, only associate with asians and dont associate with non asians very much, and are very unfriendly in general is to avoid accidentally revealing that they can read minds, if all over a billion asians were to show facial expressions all the time just as much as non asians, associate with non asians much more, and be much more friendly and talkative, then alot of them might accidentally reveal that they can read minds by accidentally showing a facial expression or dirty look when someone thinks, or visually pictures something in their mind they dont like or find astonishing or funny because those people might see that and really wonder what that was that just happened there and see the connection, and if they were all to associate with non asians alot more there would be alot more people around for them to accidentally show facial expressions when those other people think things they dont like etc, so they only associate with asians so there wont be anyone around for them to see that and have any accidents happen in the first place

think about it, its not normal how alot of them act, and the entire way they act is all to hide their mind reading abilities, it makes perfect sense to do all of that to hide that they can read minds, because all of that is the perfect way to do it!every single asian on the planet is hiding their mind reading abilities, they will lie about having mind reading abilities forever!because they value hiding their mind reading abilities more then their own lives!thats why nobody knows about it!

try thinking, best yet visually picturing in your mind something something absolutely crazy as you possibly can when you are around asians, and try looking for asians who give people particular looks, especially dirty looks for what appears to be for completely no reason, that is them giving people looks when they hear and visually see someone thinking something they dont like, find funny or astonishingit still happens despite a large number of them having completely expressionless faces all the time, it would just happen alot more if none of them had completely expressionless faces all the time, its not uncommon!

i know this sounds crazy, impossible, and completely unbelievable, BUT IT ISNT CRAZY WHEN ITS TRUE

the reason you think this truly is crazy, impossible and unbelieveable is because our society has propagandized people into believing that nothing extra ordinary is real and that is really is impossible, and that its crazy to think that its true that people can read minds, all just to cover up that asians can read minds! who says that cant exist? the people who have mind reading abilities who are trying to cover it up!

you have to spread the message!!!the world has to know about this!!!!

 

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