Las Vegas: DIAF
So I went to Las Vegas for the first time this week. I know that a lot of you out there probably enjoy the place but I, in a word, did not. To be more accurate, I would like to clear everyone out of the place to a safe distance and nuke the whole works.
I have never been able tu understand the bad rep that Los Angeles gets. It gets ripped for being a sprawling blight full of superficial idiots and nothing of any cultural value. In my few trips out there I have never found this to be the case, if fact I have found everyone out there that I have met to be very nice and the city itself to be a lot of fun. So LA gets that kind of slagging from nearly everyone, but Las Vegas is considered a fine place to take a vacation? Fuck that.
There is no place to go unless you want to hang out in one of the myriad casino hotels. If you are unfortunate enough to be stuck in one of these for 3 days (like I was)you will be driven insane. No matter where you are you can't escape the noises and sights of the casino or endless reels of ads for Cirque Du Solei. I would rather undergo the Ludovico treatment to this years superbowl over a Cirque Du Solei show (And for reference, I would rather watch the ball roll between Bill Buckner's legs 1000 times than see that superbowl again). To make it even worse there are stifling crowds of the worst yokels imaginable flooding that place. It got so bad that on the third day there I found myself standing in the parking garage of my hotel just to have some time to myself.
The only good things about the trip are as follows:
1. I think I've made some decent business connections. The convention stuff, which would outwardly seem to be the most boring part, was the best aspect.
2. At least I found out that I hated Vegas for free. If I paid to go there I'd have shot myself in the fucking face.
That's about it. The uninformed believe that loneliness is the result of physical solitude but anyone who knows what they are talking about will tell you that true lonliness is the kind that takes place in public. Being the only person in Vegas who hates being there makes you pretty much the lonliest person in the world.
I have never been able tu understand the bad rep that Los Angeles gets. It gets ripped for being a sprawling blight full of superficial idiots and nothing of any cultural value. In my few trips out there I have never found this to be the case, if fact I have found everyone out there that I have met to be very nice and the city itself to be a lot of fun. So LA gets that kind of slagging from nearly everyone, but Las Vegas is considered a fine place to take a vacation? Fuck that.
There is no place to go unless you want to hang out in one of the myriad casino hotels. If you are unfortunate enough to be stuck in one of these for 3 days (like I was)you will be driven insane. No matter where you are you can't escape the noises and sights of the casino or endless reels of ads for Cirque Du Solei. I would rather undergo the Ludovico treatment to this years superbowl over a Cirque Du Solei show (And for reference, I would rather watch the ball roll between Bill Buckner's legs 1000 times than see that superbowl again). To make it even worse there are stifling crowds of the worst yokels imaginable flooding that place. It got so bad that on the third day there I found myself standing in the parking garage of my hotel just to have some time to myself.
The only good things about the trip are as follows:
1. I think I've made some decent business connections. The convention stuff, which would outwardly seem to be the most boring part, was the best aspect.
2. At least I found out that I hated Vegas for free. If I paid to go there I'd have shot myself in the fucking face.
That's about it. The uninformed believe that loneliness is the result of physical solitude but anyone who knows what they are talking about will tell you that true lonliness is the kind that takes place in public. Being the only person in Vegas who hates being there makes you pretty much the lonliest person in the world.