[NewMusic] Vegas - was Boogie Knights vs. Cirque du Soleil

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of J. Segel
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Boogie Knights vs. Cirque du Soleil

strange, i just played in las vegas last night (in tempe today).

 i really hope i never have to visit that town again. it's so incredibly
horrid, fake, overtly wasteful and greedy. they should change the city
motto to
"you'll be sorry you came here." i just felt sorry for everyone there.
especially the poor people who got suckered into thinking it would be a
fun
vacation. yuck.

PG:
Dude, Tempe creeps me out too!

I haven't been to Las Vegas in over a decade. I was SHOCKED at how much
it had changed since I was a kid. In the 60's it was kind of cool...but
I was a kid who was impressed with all of the unusual swimming pools,
obviously I wasn't there to gamble. My dad took me to a screening of
"The Wild Angels" (a 60's biker flick) there, so I had some nostalgia
about the place. But all of that was destroyed the last time I was
there. I have to pass through LV in January and I'm looking forward to
seeing three good friends of mine that live there (along with Dina if we
can manage it), but I'm not looking forward to seeing how much it has
grown since 1991. In some ways, it is perhaps the greatest symbol of
America - exemplary of all our greed, cultural deficits and foolishness.
Everyone should go there at least once, just so you can remind yourself
what time it is.

I also love it that Stephen King used LV as the setting for the endgame
in his novel, The Stand (my roommate gave me that book to read when I
had a really bad case of the flu back in the early 80's...what a
sadistic sense of humor he had!).