I see where you are getting at. Metelkova is kind of similar, only younger, since it was squatted almost at the same time, that we declared
independance from Yugoslavia and when the soldiers of Yugoslav Army left the barracks. That was about 15 years ago. And in the young age it was a lair
of drugs and very weird people, but it slowly grew and today it is an important part of alternative culture in the city. Yes it does look very scary,
for the people who first visit there - kind of a ghetto like place - but it has evolved a bit. In this compound there is a great hostel called
Celica - meaning Cell or Prison, since it is former Yugoslav Army prison - but it was declared as
the BEST hostel in Europe by the Lonely Planet!
The problem is with the owners of these clubs, bars, galleries and so on - because they do not get together and start to rebuild the Metelkova City on
their own hand, since they would not pass the sanitary inspection by far; the toilets are not suitable (if there is one), the fridges in bars leak
water an cooling fluids, the buildings need some work on the walls and stuff like that. Not to mention that clubs do not have almost any climates, and
the the heat gets pretty much unbearable - especially in a packed club with a good concert going on! But they are kind of "not talking to each
other", which really pissed me off, because for that the City of Ljubljana can in the future come and demolish everything and build a nice little
mall with a parking lot.
The next thing that bothers me, is that the people in charge of security in this clubs acts like complete morons! For example; I was just standing
outside, talking when suddenly two Very drunken dudes start fight each other, with bottles and stuff like that and the security in front of the club
just watched for 10 or 15 minutes before they stand between them. I mean come on! What are you guys waiting for! Them to kill each other? Now that
would be wonderful for the entire Metelkova.
I mean I like the place, it is very free and there can be great parties there - but the people who squat those places are really dumb and shall pay
for that in the near future, as far as I see how things are going on in Denmark. And we also have a hardcore Neo-Con government - extreme right, who
just sent 600 soldiers to Kosovo, which makes us now number
Two on the list of countries with most soldiers abroad (regarding the percentage
according to population). Yes number one is the United States...
[edit on 7/3/07 by Souljah]
, it translates. 
