When I start a band, it’s going to be called…

Liquid Snow.

(Here’s the recipe for liquid snow, if you’re of a culinary bent: Fill a clean pint glass to the top with ice, then fill it to the top again with cold water. Stir vigorously. Guzzle until you think you’re going to pass out from brain-freeze.)

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What a difference a quarter-century makes: A video tour of Las Vegas Boulevard in 1988.

By way of VegasTripping.com, a 25 minute video exploring the Paradise Strip and Las Vegas Boulevard in January of 1988:

From the creator of the video:

Las Vegas Strip street drive from 1988. I taped this from the car window in real time (edited the long traffic lights) on January 11, 1988. Starting from the Landmark casino on Convention Center drive, turning unto Paradise going north to Sahara avenue, then heading south on the Las Vegas Strip, u-turn at the Hacienda casino then going north on the Strip to just past Sahara. Some old casinos that are no longer there can be seen: Dunes, Desert Inn, El Rancho, Stardust, Silver City, Frontier, Silver Slipper, Marina, Hacienda, Paddlewheel, Sands, Vegas World, Westward Ho, Aladdin, Holiday Inn, Peppermill, Landmark and more.

The amazing thing for me is not all the new-replaces-old construction, but simply how much grade-level dirt was still available on the The Strip just 25 years ago. Las Vegas is a city with no past, and that’s a good thing. But it’s nice to have a chance to see it the way it was.

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Start the day dancing: Waiting For My Real Life To Begin by Colin Hay

Any minute now…

I heard this in the movie Morning Glory — a charming send-up of early-morning “news” shows. My kind of movie: Everyone is a better person in the end. I laughed all the way through, and I loved how it resolved. And Rachel McAdams is always worth watching.

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Start the day dancing: Gloria by Patti Smith

Their words are just rules and regulations to me…

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Start the day dancing: Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother

Jack White down under…?

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When I start a band, it’s going to be called…

The Reflux Reflex.

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When I start a band, it’s going to be called…

Ennui in Greens and Blues.

We’ll debut at a gallery opening. Totally Warhol.

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Start the day dancing: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

And every breath we drew was hallelujah…

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When I start a band, it’s going to be called…

Liquid Likud.

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Start the day dancing: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

I used to live alone before I knew you…

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