What do you think of the new Masquerade? I have not had a chance to go yet…
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I liked it, despite how shiny, new, and un-punk-looking it looks.
similar to the old one, you pay on the way in and enter a courtyard on the lowest level. then Heaven is in the south side and Hell and Purgatory are on the north side. We peeked into Purgatory, it was a mid-sized room, it was a DJ. Hell was closed. to the east went to the parking garage, presumably one can enter and exit that way.
Heaven is probably about the same size as the original, but it has a two-tier balcony so you can get close and avoid the pit.
its pretty well thought-out. it’s all coated concrete floors and smooth walls so the acoustics aren’t as good, but they did put foam on the metal balcony. the sound was ok though.
here is up on the top balcony. the main floor goes back about double what you see, ending in a wrap-around bar, stairs up, and the entrance.
I mean, that the classic venue is no more is bullshit, but it’s hard to think of a better replacement that can reasonably re-create the style of the old, other than a custom-built place which obviously would never happen.
the great bonus is that is directly across from Five Points so you don’t have to drink and drive.
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Cool! Yeah, them closing the masquerade was bullshit. Agreed. I rarely go to shows anymore, but I’m trying to get out more often. They still have shows that I’ll likely want to go to…
Thanks for the review!
And how was Bad Religion? Still as awesome as ever, I assume! Who else played with them (I assume they were the headliners).
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I never followed Bad Religion closely, it was more Dave’s touchstone band, but obviously I think they’re cool. They seemed legit, put on a great show. Dave was super into the Against the Grain album, they played the titular track. He said they’ve built a career around doing Warp Tour and similar festivals catering to the skate rat crowd after their “hit” 20th Century Digital Boy, and that they seldom do clubs anymore, so he was stoked on it. The crowd really spanned the ages. Old guys like me down to teens, and some of the old couples brought their kids. I had a blast.
here’s Dave (lower center-right) in the pit, and another good snap he took
I have no idea who the opener was, we apparently got there right when they finished. would’ve been cool to have seen a local group but Dave is like the army: hurry up and wait. so we dicked around the hotel while he tied up loose ends for like an hour. but Ive known this guy since '89, I knew what it would be going into the night.
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Somebody put a jade potato in the tailpipe.
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It’s amazing how at first it so looks like a crack, then a second later suddenly the snake sort of pops out.
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Yes, that was my experience too. Oh … that crack is moving. And yes, the word snek came into my head right then.
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I wonder if in 100 years, folks will wonder why we spell it snake, when we say snek.
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Really?
With all of the weird spelling/pronunciation mismatches throughout the English language, you really think a vowel shift will be anything to comment upon?
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People comment on it now, so yes I think that there will be people who clutch their pearls over all sorts of minutia. English teachers are a (small c) conservative bunch. Then someone will be pedantic and explain vowel shift and holdover spellings, I think that is unlikely to change.
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Do people now say “snek” to rhyme with “Shrek” instead of “snake” to rhyme with “cake?” And which people?
Or do people say “kek” too?
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I’m not sure about kek for cake, but mel for mail is common in Southern California, skek for snake a bit less so, but I’ve definitely heard sell-boat (for sailboat).
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All vowels will become schwa! And then the work of the Great Vowel Shift, started so long ago, will at last be complete!
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All hail the Great Schwa!
“Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh”
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I’ve never said snek out loud and the only place I’ve seen it is in the Xeniverse (and here by extension), but I’ve spent enough time there that it’s in my head now.
Down here in the South, substituting short i for long e is common. It’s the Rill Dill.
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Snek like Shreck is the correct pronunciation as I have now decreed
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Do people now say “snek” to rhyme with “Shrek” instead of “snake” to rhyme with “cake?” And which people?
Or do people say “kek” too?
In 200 years everyone speaking English will be trying to do Glaswegian. Snek indeed bloody right.
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