Neumos hates your nose
Ok, Neumos, we need to talk about this whole incense thing.
We first noticed the incense during the Camera Obscura show [mb], but we were willing to let it slide. After all, it was very crowded in there, and perhaps you were just compensating for your notoriously poor ventilation. It was back again for Grizzly Bear [mb], but since it was coming from the basement we just figured that it was being used to mask whatever was going on down there. And Seattlest had already told you sternly to quit it. When the Nag Champa was gone for the Mountain Goats I thought that you had learned your lesson, and while it could also have been that the serious beard of the guy standing next to me was doing a really good job of filtering the air, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
But when I got there for Archives last night [mb], it was back. And it was sitting in a holder right next to the entrance to the show room, burning away and creating a little cloud of incense for each and every person that walked in to wander through. This was an aggressive move, Neumos. You are not a head shop. No one was setting up a drum circle. So tell me, what is going on with all of the incense?
Please stop it, Neumos. I don’t want to have to stop going to you because your fragrantly smoky insides make my eyes hurt and my clothes smell worse than they ever did before the smoking ban.
the addition of a velvet curtain to the middle of the club further “enhanced” the atmosphere.
I think the incense thing, if done subtly, is actually kind of nice. It covers up the, um, not-so-nice scents that the cigarette smoke used to take care of. Like evaporated stale beer and other stuff. But it sounds like maybe Neumos isn’t worried about being subtle.
I’m with Ryan…beats the stale beer smell.
Beats actually cleaning the club.
I can get used to the stale beer smell after a few minutes. The incense makes my head all stuffed up and my eyes itch.
I’m not sure that incense can be done subtly. At least not whatever type they’re burning.
They’re probably using the cheap bulk incense that smells like hippie ass (old and grotty boomer hippie ass). There is such a thing a light, subtle incense (I like Tequila Sunrise and Aqua) but it costs more and it’s generally not sold at hemp stores or smoke shops (try Uwijamaya).