Adam Lowery is of the opinion that downtown sucks. Crappy music, lame people, nothing interesting going on. He’s not wrong. Downtown is nothing if not mediocre. Lowery wants to change that. How? Longer drinking hours!

It’s not like Lowery’s the first to pitch the idea; hell, even Mayor Buddy Dyer toyed with it a few years ago before the League of Boring Ass Conservative Voters (LBACV) convinced him that nothing good happens after midnight.

So what’s different this time around? Lowery, a DJ, is forming a foundation called Keep Orlando Open to collect signatures at events his company, Rendezvous Productions, runs. The campaign kicks off the weekend of July 4, because as patriotic Americans it is your duty to get snozzled. Lowery says he’ll have a website up by then too. We’ll keep you posted.

This is not just about making it easier for frat boys to get their marks plastered before a semi-conscious romp in the sack, Lowery says. “Being a native to Orlando I have seen this city, particularly the nightlife, reduce in freedoms dramatically,” he wrote in an e-mail to Happytown™ .

 “I love this city, and don’t want to hear anymore how it doesn’t compare to Miami or how nothing here is cultural, new and fun.”

His theory is that, if clubs can make money via later hours – he proposes allowing drinking until 3 a.m., and then letting booze-bags have another hour to sober up – they’ll be more apt to bring in better artists. He also thinks it will reduce the number of DUIs, since drunks won’t be leaving bars at 1:50 a.m. to grab a six pack at the 7-Eleven before heading home. (Buy it beforehand for the ride home. Duh.)

It’s past time Orlando started treating its citizens like grown-ups, instead of adolescents in need of a curfew. Besides, wasn’t Dyer the one mumbling something about a “24/7” downtown not too long ago?