Imaginary Giallo locale - Brighton seafront evening

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Originally uploaded by The Salaryman.

I have been rather busy and thus rather lazy with my leisure. Dont know if anyone is watching yet (or at all) and rather doubt it.

Was down on the Brighton seafront and always notice this building, which seems to attract the birds that once favoured the (now arson gutted) West Pier. It is being restored or something, people are buying flats in it but it could be a dubious enterprise. At the moment, it appears to be some sort of DSS flophouse. I walked in a few yards when the door used to be open and it stank of urine, methadone and mould. Didnt feel hard enough to go further. The various remaining urchins inside, who may or may not know they are about to be joined by bemused yuppies supping at the property trough, have employed fairy lights and other stratagems to add a random sparkle to the lovely decaying edifice. This is from some months ago so who knows what is going on now. Its probably cold.

If films other than export romcoms, mockney monkey gangsta and unchallengingly ironic comedies with BBC One wannabees and faded Hollywood stars were still made in the UK, somebody would notice it would be a great location for a modernised British Giallo or even a credible Noir.