So, adding on to what I have already compiled earlier, are the recent gigs that I have went recently at other new places.
16. Joe's Pub -- (http://www.joespub.com/) 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
Gig: Clare and The Reasons (http://www.claremuldaur.com/)
17. BB King Blues Club & Grill -- (http://www.bbkingblues.com/) 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan
Gig: Vonda Shepard (http://www.vondashepard.com/)
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Las Vegas
This is just a short one. My first feel for this casino oasis built in the middle of the desert is, too much gold and monies and corruptions and, of course sex. Too much monies and too much temptations to decay the mind and make a person succumb to gambling addiction. This is even more potent than drug addiction.
Every casino I go to, with all that neon lights and flashing light bulbs, you can literally taste the air that is filled with devil's sweet whispers like perfume to seduce men to put out all their money and energy to lose.
Even I couldn't resist this temptation and after dwelling in two huge casinos for 2 hours, I went to the Black Jack table and sat there for 3 hours gambling with only 20 bucks.
Luckily, I am terribly afraid of losing and I've always known I do not have that lucky hand, Las Vegas is just another too touristy place to me. The best part are really the grand casinos, ridiculously expensive shopping, ridiculous people who get drunk in the middle of the day and vomitting all over the place, and best of all, to get to see all the desperate people whose eyes are blodshot red with greed and addiction, have lost everything and still refuse to leave the table.
I love watching people gambling in casinos, anticipate and feel that adrenaline rush when I see someone is winning. All that red-neck shoutings from desperate gamblers when rolling the dices or flipping over their trump card, all the jingle-ling sounds from the jackpot machine that filled all the place, the rattling sound of the silver ball bouncing between the red and black squares on the spinning roulette etc. It is exciting, the possible chances of striking it rich and that cash rolling into your pockets. The beautiful and sexy bunny ladies serving alcohol; I even saw tables of scandily dressed young women dealing cards to the whole table of men (or wolves).
Yes, the fact is that casinos are designed, to drastically decrease the chances of winning it big for every gambler. The Fengshui, different type of games, jackpot machines computerized probabilities, making gamblers stay up late so they do not feel energetic and fresh, etc. etc. I figured that I would probably have higher chances of winning during the CNY get-together gambling sessions with friends and families than in Vegas.
On the other side, there are bond shops, pawn shops that probably are more than the casinos in the city. Places for people who have lost everything to loan even 5 bucks to have their revenges, or re-revenges. The thought of it is scary, I would have imagined the pawn shops probably even accepting wives or sons and daugthers of the gamblers or something as ridiculous. The opposite side of Vegas that has even darker alleys than that of other cities because of the day-like lighting of lavish casino buildings.
So, just my two-cents worth of thought to a city-shrine built to worship money, by the mafias who is laughing their way to the swiss bank every single day. Photos will be up soon.
Every casino I go to, with all that neon lights and flashing light bulbs, you can literally taste the air that is filled with devil's sweet whispers like perfume to seduce men to put out all their money and energy to lose.
Even I couldn't resist this temptation and after dwelling in two huge casinos for 2 hours, I went to the Black Jack table and sat there for 3 hours gambling with only 20 bucks.
Luckily, I am terribly afraid of losing and I've always known I do not have that lucky hand, Las Vegas is just another too touristy place to me. The best part are really the grand casinos, ridiculously expensive shopping, ridiculous people who get drunk in the middle of the day and vomitting all over the place, and best of all, to get to see all the desperate people whose eyes are blodshot red with greed and addiction, have lost everything and still refuse to leave the table.
I love watching people gambling in casinos, anticipate and feel that adrenaline rush when I see someone is winning. All that red-neck shoutings from desperate gamblers when rolling the dices or flipping over their trump card, all the jingle-ling sounds from the jackpot machine that filled all the place, the rattling sound of the silver ball bouncing between the red and black squares on the spinning roulette etc. It is exciting, the possible chances of striking it rich and that cash rolling into your pockets. The beautiful and sexy bunny ladies serving alcohol; I even saw tables of scandily dressed young women dealing cards to the whole table of men (or wolves).
Yes, the fact is that casinos are designed, to drastically decrease the chances of winning it big for every gambler. The Fengshui, different type of games, jackpot machines computerized probabilities, making gamblers stay up late so they do not feel energetic and fresh, etc. etc. I figured that I would probably have higher chances of winning during the CNY get-together gambling sessions with friends and families than in Vegas.
On the other side, there are bond shops, pawn shops that probably are more than the casinos in the city. Places for people who have lost everything to loan even 5 bucks to have their revenges, or re-revenges. The thought of it is scary, I would have imagined the pawn shops probably even accepting wives or sons and daugthers of the gamblers or something as ridiculous. The opposite side of Vegas that has even darker alleys than that of other cities because of the day-like lighting of lavish casino buildings.
So, just my two-cents worth of thought to a city-shrine built to worship money, by the mafias who is laughing their way to the swiss bank every single day. Photos will be up soon.
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