intellectual properties

liquid tapestry

i don’t know why i have such a block about writing about things we’ve done lately - i have a queue of events that have not been written up yet, from burning man to the MMW show last month - but it just seems so hard to put my life into words these days. it also takes a lot of concentration and memory to write these autobiographical posts (as opposed to offhand commentary about a link/some cultural event/thing written somewhere else), and sometimes i just don’t have it in me. this, however, is fresh and so i’m just going to bite the bullet and do it now. plus, inquiring minds want to know.

we left for vegas on friday at 6:30pm and arrived in the MGM hotel around 9:00. as there were 5 of us (me, jay, ben, whit, nicole), we booked a 2 room suite. one of the odd things about vegas is that even when you get a suite, you don’t have things like a coffee maker or the standard amenities you would have in any motel 6 in the room. they want you to have the leave the room for everything.

friday night is hard when you’ve worked all week and then traveled to get to your location. we considered trying to find a place to go dancing, but for us jaded ex-raver/club kids/DJs who’ve been to vegas several (if not dozens) of times (this is us in vegas in 1998!), the prospect of paying $150 for the 5 of us to get into some tourist club full of amateurs and 22-year-old OC-types with horrible house music was just not appealing. so we wandered around and just hit the in-casino bars at the hotels within walking distance, including an irish bar where we settled into some guinness and a live band. we were able to amuse ourselves until 3 or 4 am, so it’s not like we crashed, but when nicole’s sister texted to ask what we did, the response was something to the effect of “you’re in vegas: step it up or go home.”

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postcard from the edge

DSC01046, originally uploaded by obi-J.

“happy holidays from las vegas”

NIN

NIN, originally uploaded by benchun

there was something so perfect about hearing the crowd sing/scream along to Terrible Lie in the middle of las vegas that i have trouble even forming words around it all. or maybe it’s because i’ve been up since saturday morning that i can’t form words. in any case: AWESOME.

more photos and all the news that’s fit to print later.

goth vegas

we are going to Vegas to see Nine Inch Nails in 6 hours.

i have packed: a lot of black, and glitter.

in fact, i have my black glitter boots on right now.

ready. to. rock.

kinda i want to

we just bought tickets to see Nine Inch Nails in Las Vegas on 12/13 and i’m superfuckingexcited (that’s what i spent my birthday money on mom!)

not only have i been wanting to see them for, um…. 15 years, check out this Wired article about how spectacular the show is. not to mention that the extreme dissonance that will be caused by seeing trent reznor scream about death and capitalism in america in the heart of las vegas is just too good to pass up.

you can download the latest NIN album, the slip, for free.