anarky wrote:It appears there's already a half-assed Asian themed hotel called the Imperial Palace on the Strip. Somehow I've missed it in all the trips I've made there. It appears to be one of the older, shit hotels, and their site indicates there's no real unity of theme aside from the name and the facade of one tower.
Is that what Imperial Palace is? It's just a matter of time before they blow it up.
My wedding anniversary was this week. My parents said they watch the kids and buy us tickets to any show we want to go to. We're leaning towards Blue Man Group, but not sure yet. That would kill 2 birds with one stone because I haven't been to the Venetian, either. We've been here for 3 and a half years and haven't been to a show.
Blue Man Group is a fuckin awesome show. I would do it. I saw it when me and my wife got married, our friends bought us front center row seats. Had a great fuckin time.
I'm no Blue Man fanboy (I'd much rather see the knockoff Blue Man, Tobias Funke, because he talks!), but why the fuck would you replace ANYTHING with Carrot Top. Even Kathy Griffin dropping her pants. I'm serious.
The Venetian is a cool-ass hotel. It's all done up like canals inside. And I believe it has that ceiling that looks like a sky going through the regular 24-hour solar cycle every hour that are so popular around there.
BTW, did they bring back the fucking pirates at Treasure Island yet?
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I'm not sure about the Pirates. Haven't heard anything.
"Extreme Engineering" on the Discovery Channel had an episode on the Venetian's construction. They had 3 concrete plants running 24 hours a day for a month to place the foundation. That's a lot of concrete. They also had to get the Coast Guard's approval on gondolas. They weren't fucking around when they put that sucker up.
Well, we went to see Blue Man Group this weekend. Our seats were in the front row of the balcony almost dead center. The show was better than I expected, and almost 2 hours. Well, it better be good for $95. That's more than I paid to see Page & Plant and Pink Floyd combined.
The Venetian was nice, but not not quite as nice as I expected. It looked a lot like Caesar's Palace, but a little nicer. Afterwards, my wife wated to walk over to the Wynn since we haven't been there. The Wynn is now the nicest place I've ever taken a leak.
Oh, and I finally figured out where the Imperial Palace is. It is near the Flamingo and Planet Hollywood (the former Aladin). It is sandwiched in with some of the other buildings and is fairly plain looking so it doesn't stand out. We didn't go in.
Yeah, I went in the last time I was up that way. It blows. It's the most half-assed themed casino I've seen.
Worst thing: at one point, there are bars directly across the casino from one another (maybe 100-200 feet apart, as it's a small casino).
One is called the Sake Bar.
Guess what they serve?
Beer.
The other is called the Geisha Bar.
Guess who's bartending?
Fat white guys.
Dude, if you're going to have a pseudo-Asian casino, and have an establishment called the Geisha Bar, at least have girls with makeup. I can understand that it's probably against some law to only hire Japanese women, and the whole geisha bit takes hours of preparation, but let's make an almost half-baked attempt at what stupid Americans will think is authentic.
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As in rock songs? They did the little medley that had the intro to Crazy Train, part of Freebird, and some other song I didn't pick up on. They also played some songs that are on their CD, like "Rods & Cones".
I ripped their "Baba O'Riley" from the dvd. If you want it, I can either try to e-mail it to you or send it through AIM.
They had a band with them. Looked like 4 percussionists, a bassist, a keyboard, and a guitar. I'm almost never impressed by special effects, but these special effects were pretty darn cool. The incorporated a lot of humor into the act.
