Vegas, baby! (What a shithole!)
Vegas, baby! (What a shithole!)
First of all, I'd like to accept my award for Least Imaginative Post About Las Vegas Title.
Next I'd like to let everyone know that I absolutely, positively still hate Las Vegas. I think the pointing out the large selection of sugar-free desserts says quite a bit. There's a difference in the reasoning that Vegas has sugar-free desserts and why everyone else has sugar-free. There are those that choose not to eat sugar because of their diet. There are those who simply prefer the taste of artificial sweeteners to the real deal. There are a relatively small number of diabetics...generally speaking. Vegas provides the sugar-free goods because of the astronomical number of corpulent, type 2 diabetics. It was literally like half the population in Sin City was 400+ pounds.
The remainder of the population went something like this (from largest population to smallest): white trash, frat boys, social parasites and those in town for a hair show. There's some blurring between the groups, but you get the idea.
In addition to all of that, there's something very wrong about a place that's 95° at night. Isn't the desert supposed to freeze at night?
The complaining aside, it was a good time amongst my group. We found a website whose tagline was "Do Vegas for a quarter a day". We spent slightly more than that per day, but only slightly. I think slumming it is the only way to go in that town. After all, what does it mean to be classy in the world's tackiest town?
Anyway, the hair show was great. Our show absolutely blew the others out of the water. Krys--our friend that not only put on her own show but also produced the rest of the show, too--won two awards and got numerous job offers after we went on. That's good news above and beyond the obvious because she'd been out of work for four months while she worked on the show. Needless to say, we ate for free for every meal after the show.
I wish I had more tales of drunken debauchery, but we were neither very drunk or terribly debauchero--hey look! Pictures!
We had a rehearsal shortly after arriving. This was me amusing myself while I waited to go on-stage. Nothing says self-entertainment like enormous glasses, clip-on earrings and a book of string theory. Also, Elton John was in town, and I figured I could sign a few autographs in his name. No dice.
Requisite poolside candy photo number one (Jessie and me).
Requisite poolside candy photo number two (Rose [Jessie's roommate] and Jessie).
Close but not quite on my makeup. Yes. Your eyes don't deceive you. I ended up being a French Restoration Bowie. Are there glam fans in the crowd to-night?? (There were.)
Putting on the clothes looked easier in the instruction manual. I wish we'd had one.
Here's a shot of Jessie's geisha makeup...
...and here's Jessie in her full get-up.
"Who's ready to rock French Restoration style?: or the Konservative King has Returned...to Rock!"
Here's the whole road trip crew. Starting from left to right: Christy, Rose (kneeling), me and Jessie.
So that was pretty much the Vegas gig. Me, a bunch of hot, young co-eds, an army of the frighteningly obese and a drive to look like as many effete rock stars as is possible in a three day period. Très passionnant!
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posted by Drew @ 11:52 AM
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4 Comments:
i like the pictures... it seems like you had a lot of fun! i agree with you on the vegas thing... too hot (WAY too hot) and just too expensive for one to really have a good time. although, my sister lives there and so it always helps to have a place to stay when visiting! save $$! elegant universe - AMAZING! kavalier and clay - AMAZING!! they made a comic book as well, the escapist! since you are into comics, if you don't already know about it (which you probably do) but if you don't, you should check it out once you are done reading the book:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=12-882
oh, and in case you didn't see it, i finished watching the corporation... check out my comment on it in your grizzly man post. later buddy!
I'd heard of The Escapist spin-off from Kavalier and Clay and flipped through a few issues, but I'm waiting to actually sit down with them until after I finish the novel.
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you know that you can rent "the elegant universe" on DVD from netflix?? thought you might like to know.
Yeah. I thought about it. Haven't added it yet, though.
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