So after messing around last night with my Dad over in Canada I ended up heading over to Transmission @ Mohawk with
(e:carolinian) . It was a pretty descent night although it did start off pretty slow. WTF were they thinking in playing the Spice Girls??? It was just great to run into my friends Deb from Roch, Marv & Nick.
So after it ended we ended up checking out the other new bar on Allen. It was previously knows as the Jupiter Room but my circle of friends refered to it as the STUPIDiter Room for some reason. It currently has no name at the moment. All I can say is I won't ever go back there again. For starters Allen does not need another "Smoke-easy" I just hate cigarette smoke. That is why I don't go to the Pink as much just for that reason alone. Second the music just sucked in the place, it was just mindless Pop. Third, the drink prices were a bit high. To me it just seemd that the guys that run the place are trying to get some kind of "chip strip" ambiance to Allen and I just don't get it or they just don't get it. The low point of the night was me making some wrong selection on the Sex portion of the Trivia Wiz 3000 machine that we resorted to entertain ourselves in this lame joint.
Other than that our little group hit Jims and for some reason the Philly hit the spot for me. I don't know why I love that sub so much from that place, but I'll take it over the Steak & Cheese everytime. The highlight of the post night was when we realized that they had the Grateful Dead blaring in Jims @ 4:30 in the AM. I know it's Allen st but it actually did have a subliminal "calming" effect of the crowd of some tough mean looking people most likley making their way back from the Chip Strip.
On my way out from
(e:carolinian) 's place this morning I was almost felt as if I was in some kind of horror movie trap. I closed the door from the stairs from his upper and was subsequently locked as the front door requires a key to exit. So although I did feel like a creep I did knock on his landlady's door as I heard that they wre up and a young woman answered and let me out.
Know i just have to finish up on some auditing stuff and go to work for a short shift. It never fails when I go out in Buffalo, someone calls into work and I have to fill in for a few hours....
Aww, I think sample is fun. But, yeah, probably destined to fail.
Yes, Allen is becoming more and more gentrified... which of course means that the requisite suburban affluence and arrogance(I harp on it, but its true) is infecting the area. As a result we now have absolutely preposterous, sure-to-fail ideas such as Sample.
Allentown is shady, and some investment in the area never hurt anybody. What we currently have is a situation where the character of the area is being slowly eroded in order to give way for investments aimed at target markets that don't actually live here. Is the Strip "selling out?" Generally speaking, yes... but if you want a successful urban setup like ours then you cannot avoid it these days. We are a tourist trap for people who live outside of the city limits.
You know, I *think* that's actually illegal (to require a key to EXIT a multi-family home). Fire hazard, etc. I have the same problem, and it makes me nuts to need a key to get OUT of the house in the morning. I looked into changing the locks but the landlord didn't want me to, and I didn't feel like making a big stink. But that's what the home depot people told me- that if i wanted to pursue it, they could be forced to change the locks.
Ha, ha. That's pretty funny. Yeah, you can easily get locked between the two sets of doors because the inner door auto-locks and the outer door can only be un(locked) via deadbolt. There's a reason that I keep saying that old houses in Buffalo can be a real pain in the butt. This kind of stuff doesn't happen in Amherst or Orchard Park. But then again, you can't really walk to SpOT in Amherst or Orchard Park. Take your pick.