Malcontentery:
May. 6th, 2009 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skywaterblueI think I should say something about life, about how the Moulin Rouge burnt down today (again) but it doesn't matter because there was never going to be the money to rehab it (are you kidding me, they're trying to wall off that neighborhood so no one notices we have a downtown full of poor black crack-addicts) but thank God we're getting a new Performing Arts Center. I'm glad that the preservation company had moved the sign off the building last week.
I don't know. I'm being too hard on Vegas. The past goes out and in comes the new. We specialize in the rhythm of gentrification. At least the building looks like it belongs to downtown, all Art Deco limestone. They're going to rent the space out to worthy Las Vegas performing companies, and don't you know that it'll make us a world class city for the arts (we mean it for real this time, please don't notice that if we were really a world class city for the arts the LV Philharmonic and the Las Vegas Ballet would be able to afford their own buildings. And people might show up.)
There'll be a gift shop and a Starbucks and retail opportunities, yeah, and someone will make a lot of money, probably, because no one's ever gone broke betting on art in Las Vegas before.
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Peter Dinklage is going to be in the Songs of Fire and Ice movie! Tom McCarthy is directing it! Sounds epic. I'm excited.
Drunk: A Comic about Vegas Bar Stories is due tomorrow. After, I think I'll go see Star Trek at the Neonopolis and then pretend to get a beer at Quark's.
I don't know. I'm being too hard on Vegas. The past goes out and in comes the new. We specialize in the rhythm of gentrification. At least the building looks like it belongs to downtown, all Art Deco limestone. They're going to rent the space out to worthy Las Vegas performing companies, and don't you know that it'll make us a world class city for the arts (we mean it for real this time, please don't notice that if we were really a world class city for the arts the LV Philharmonic and the Las Vegas Ballet would be able to afford their own buildings. And people might show up.)
There'll be a gift shop and a Starbucks and retail opportunities, yeah, and someone will make a lot of money, probably, because no one's ever gone broke betting on art in Las Vegas before.
...
Peter Dinklage is going to be in the Songs of Fire and Ice movie! Tom McCarthy is directing it! Sounds epic. I'm excited.
Drunk: A Comic about Vegas Bar Stories is due tomorrow. After, I think I'll go see Star Trek at the Neonopolis and then pretend to get a beer at Quark's.
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Date: 2009-05-07 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-07 01:59 am (UTC)The problem is not one of resources. We'd have the resources if anyone in town were remotely interested in the arts.