King Khan and the Shrines at McCarren Pool, photos
Download “Welfare Bread” | This being my first return to the pool parties since last summer, allow me to say: yes, the lines have become ridiculous. When I got there at around 1:46, today’s had already wrapped around the pool, extending to somewhere behind the stage. And it took less than 30 seconds for a large number of people to pile up behind us. One of the (young) girls who joined after us said to her friend, “I don’t think the lines matter. Last week, you just had to be close to the entrance and we all dashed inside.” Damn newbies. Listening to King Khan soundcheck, one of them worried that they were actually maybe missing the show already.
While people hate on beards, headbands and fancy guy shoes, let me tell you, the evil doesn’t lie in that batch of hipsters who no longer check the “25 and under” box, but in that other less tolerable batch of newbies who have turned 18 since last summer, and probably have moved into the Williamsburg vicinity because that is the thing that lies in their bright future. As for the 25+, apart from that actual plumage and hideously “ethnic” shirt one guy was wearing, which incidentally saved him from a fist fight with King Khan (read on for that), the only overkill seemed to be sunglasses with bright-colored rims; everything else they wore was forgivable and harmless, let’s stop talking about that already.
All photos after the jump.
