[NewMusic] Boogie Knights vs. Cirque du Soleil

[Travis Johns]

Agreed, Vegas sucks.

However, in the midst of the insanity, there's a little waterin' hole
called the Frog - over 750 beers available and not a gambling device
in sight. In short, a great place to spend those multi-hour/overnight
layovers... provided you dig the beersnob/pianobar vibe, that is. Take
a gander:

http://www.freakinfrog.com/

your friendly travel guide,

t.


On 9/12/07, kristin miltner <miltnerunit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you have to be one of the rich greedy people to actually have a good
> time.  A good time there requires a view of the world that none of us are
> going to have, most of us being liberal, un-mainstream, anti-consumer
> people.
>
> If you're poor there, it's pretty depressing, even if you try to maintain
> the proper sense of irony by sitting on the nickel slots waiting for the
> drink lady to come around.
>
> It's a great place to shoot video, though -- I always found that the airport
> in the middle of the city and the garish jumbotrons and lights make for good
> video especially if you saturate the shit out of it. I always liked the fake
> fake fake oasis-ness of it in the middle of the beautiful and lonely desert
> mountains. Good contrast.
>
> k
>
>
>
>
> On 9/12/07 9:21 AM, "Matthew Goodheart" <matthew at matthewgoodheart.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, they do call it "Sin City". . .
> >
> >
> > On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:28 PM, J. Segel wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
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