The show was actually in Albuquerque. I had never been to New Mexico before, and was totally stoked to finally have my chance. Everybody I talked to raved about how great New Mexico was. Do people just like to lie to me?
The venue sucked. There were cockroaches all over the backstage area. In the chips and everything. The security dudes sucked even more. Everyone who worked there just seemed skeeeezy.
Also, you were not allowed to bring in lighters OR cigarettes OR take pictures of any kind inside. Which was fine for me, because my special plastic pass exempts me from such rules, but still seems a bit overdone. Everyone who entered the club got frisked and a large pile of lighters and cigarettes piled up next to the main entrance.
Although I wasn't worried about making the place mad, I didn't end up taking out my camera all night. I DID get this shot with my phone:
It was somehow surprising to enter the bathroom and find an empty bottle of Wild Turkey in the toilet. I peed on it and flushed and the bottle sorta spun in place and cleaned itself off.
Point being, basically this was the highlight of my night.
Sorry if you're from NM, but I'm pretty sure I wish I had never gone.
** ADDED 9/17 **
Ok, ok. I've read over this post a couple times and feel I am being a bit unfair to the good people of Albuquerque. The show was actually pretty good. Crowd was into it. I had some pretty ok New York style pizza at a pizza place called "New York Pizza Department", which was sorta funny seeing as how I had just had actual delicious NYC pizza a week earlier.
I had to drive all night after this you see, so I was being a bit of a grump the next day. I guess the only complaint I have is that Albuquerque is definitely too hard to spell. I keep having to use my spell check on that. Can we please change it to "Albukirky" or something a bit more phonetic?
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