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Detritus
Endogenous

Just got back from a weekend in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon. I'd planned to blog last night, but what with the Oscars and friends over to watch it and being completely fucking exhausted from the trip and the lack of sleep...well, best laid plans.

Vegas: If you've never been, I recommend it. It's the most fascinating and, at the same time, most appalling place in America. Fascinating because it's a great place to watch people. Because of what it offers and where it is--that is to say, nowhere--it attracts the most diverse range of people of any city in the country. All classes, races, ethnicities, people from every state and every country, all there to gamble, drink, look at naked women, and eat till they bust.

Appalling because it's a totally overwhelming and mind-numbing place. An excess of everything: food, alcohol, lights, sound, people. And of course it's also tacky. But we go to be appalled. We want to feel superior to Vegas, as though we're just there to gawk at its debauchery. It's the Anna Nicole Smith of U.S. cities.

And for the record, I lost $100 playing blackjack.

Also today:

65:02 Holocaust Theory, Proclaimed Visions
64:59 ECM, Blechreiz
64:56 Severe Illusion, Shortcut to Civilization
64:56 Sleepwalk, Door to Insomnia...
64:55 Nostalgia, Beyond Horizon
New arrival! 66:44 Mind:State, Decayed-Rebuilt (CD 1 of 2)
New arrival! 65:32 Mind:State, Decayed-Rebuilt (CD 2 of 2)
64:52 Toxic Shock Syndrome, Dead Animal Sodomy
64:49 Dark Sanctuary, Royaume Mélancolique
64:49 THD, Mechanical Advantage
64:49 Void Construct, Estramay Aleph