No Way Out

In Paris...

2008-07-04T04:57:55Z

...Las Vegas. Waiting to party it up with the queers. The bulldaggers and bare-midriffers are a nice contrast against the Muslims in their headscarves.

Random observations of the now

2008-07-04T01:37:55Z

1. I have not had so many random people come to my door as I have since moving into this house two months ago. Jehovah's Witnesses, salespeople, beggars ... if I'm home while the sun is still up, someone's at my door. Not that I mind, it's just weird. I mean, I've lived in non-gated neighborhoods a number of times in the last three or four years and never until moving here have I dealt with door-to-door solicitation. What I want to know is where are the Mormon missionaries??

2. Get the hell off your cell phones while driving. Oh, I guess that was less an observation than a command. But it was based on my observation driving home that not only are most people in their cars talking on the phone while driving, but they're not paying a sh*t's worth of attention to things like traffic lights, signaling or not running into other cars while doing it. On a side note, nearly every person I know who has been in an accident in the last few years of their fault was on a cell phone at the time of said at-fault accident.*

3. My belly is full. Must mean it's time to start my engines!

* Side observation: They were all female.

Fisting at Symbolic Gallery

2008-07-03T19:24:25Z

Swung by Symbolic Gallery yesterday for the opening reception of "Pop: Images of the British Invasion." Pretty cool. I'll probably do a write-up at VEGASinsight later, so hang tight if you're interested. That's me showing off my best assets, fist and ass, with Jeremy Ginsburg, who used to sell ads at the Las Vegas Weekly, but now ... well, I don't really know what he does. Except pose for pictures with me and get his ass grabbed.

Christian Audigier: The Nightclub opens tonight, at least for those of us on the invite list, and I may swing by there before going to Risque at the Paris for a party celebrating the launch of the property's "French Kiss II" Gay Days promotion. And probably drag leolz with me. I finished one story for 944 Tuesday night and tomorrow I'll be spending Independence Day finishing another before journeying into uncomfortable heat for First Friday.

Don't forget to buy tickets for As Yet Unbroken's July 27 Battle of the Bands appearance and please don't shoot off any fingers this weekend.

Thanks!

Rachael

2008-06-30T22:20:19Z

See that? That's the future of Downtown Las Vegas right there. Oh, yeah, sure, it's just 61 acres of dirt right now (and one half-completed Frank Gehry designed building), but in five years, that's going to be the pulsing heart of Las Vegas' cultural, philanthropic and non-gaming business communities.

Or so we all hope.

Thursday night feels like it was yesterday, but according to my calendar, it was four days ago. Before all that booty-shaking I did at Tao later that night, I stopped by the Arts Factory to check out the new exhibit inspired by Matt O'Brien's book Beneath the Neon. Took some pics, wrote some words. Matt gave a shout-out here. You're welcome, old buddy. Thank you.

Spent the rest of the weekend ... um, not doing much. Went out to eat a few times. Mixed songs for As Yet Unbroken that are now on MySpace Music. Slept. Self-hypnotized myself into sleep. Watched Office Space. Nothing big.

On deadline for 944 this week, still, so ... yeah, hang tight. There are at least three cool events this week not counting the usual First Friday madness or Independence Day, so if I can get these stories done, I can actually leave the house!

LeBron whut?

2008-06-28T23:00:09Z

So for those of you who didn't figure it out by that post from the other day, I was at Tao on Thursday night, hanging in the VIP area until about 1:30 a.m. I got this celeb spotting notice from Tao's PR firm the next day:

Thursday night at TAO Las Vegas saw basketball player LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers at the club’s famed Worship Thursday party. James and his group of friends were spotted hanging out in the moat VIP section of the nightclub. They were served Grey Goose cocktails and stayed until the early hours of the morning.

Just further proof that I wouldn't know a sports star if he sat on my lap in Tao. Which, for all I know, wasn't that far off.

Back to work. I'm on deadline and seem to behind with a bunch of personal stuff, so keep it real out there, kids.

Bands. Battling. For supremacy. For glory!

2008-06-28T22:53:22Z

Little known fact: That hat makes me a better studio engineer.

It's been a while since I used this space to self-promote anything, so I figure it's safe now to call upon the LiveJournal faithful to support my latest creative endeavor. My (relatively) new band, As Yet Unbroken, is playing its debut gig during Gorilla Productions' Battle of the Bands at Rox Club (5285 Dean Martin Drive) in Las Vegas on Sunday, July 27. What kind of crazy-ass band kicks off its live performance career with a competition? As Yet Unbroken, of course.

More skinny on the band is here: http://www.myspace.com/asyetunbroken. Be our friend, or whatever.

BUT HERE'S THE IMPORTANT THING: We need you to support us at this show on July 27!! As it's a battle of the bands, our success depends on the loud and vocal support of the audience. As well, the show runs from 5 to 11 p.m., but the more tickets we pre-sell, the better time slot we get to pick! So this is where you come in. We've set up a secure, easy PayPal/credit card purchase button on our website for you to buy the $10 tickets from us in advance: http://vegasinsight.net/asyetunbroken/news.html

Not only will you save $2 off the door price, but you'll make us look really good and increase our chances of not only winning the night, but booking future dates with Gorilla Productions. Plus, come on, you know you're dying to see us make asses of ourselves. And what else do you have to do on a Sunday night?

If you're local-like and prefer to hand me cash personally for the tickets, just let me know and next time I see you, I'll be sure to have tickets on me. Actually, I ALWAYS have them with me.

And if you're worried about spending 6 hours at Rox waiting for little ol' us, don't sweat it: We'll make sure we have cell numbers for everyone who says they are coming or buys tickets from us, and when we pick (hopefully) our time slot earlier that day, we'll send out a text to everyone to let them know when we're playing!! Isn't technology wonderful? It sure is!

Thanks in advance for your support and I hope to rock you all on July 27.

tao of the now

2008-06-27T07:17:31Z

It's late but whatever.

This was my weekend ...

2008-06-23T20:28:52Z

How was yours?

Grey Goose FTW

2008-06-21T03:35:30Z

At Planet Hollywood for this CineVegas honorees reception. Outside on sixth floor pool level. It is so hot sweat is running down my back. This drink is the only thing saving me.

They tried to make go to rehab, I said no no no

2008-06-20T19:44:49Z

Rumor has it some guy that looks an awful lot like me was at Revolution Lounge inside the Mirage last night ...

(By the way, I AM making a fist with my right hand, but that glass is in the way.)

Tonight, it's the CineVegas awards reception at Planet Hollywood and then a PR Plus-sponsored shindig at Vox wine lounge. Tomorrow, it's the CineVegas closing party/VEGAS magazine anniversary bash at Palazzo. And then Sunday, band practice as usual, and too early as usual.

Oh, and we booked our first gig. More info coming very soon. Hang tight.

Lame party of the moment

2008-06-18T02:09:13Z

On second floor of Trader Vics at Miracle Mile. Hot and booooring. Plus, I am still a bit sick so I can't even enjoy the free booze.

Sticker of the moment

2008-06-17T04:59:26Z

I'm not sure I'd call $119 expensive, but thanks for the effort!

Jam of the day

2008-06-17T02:53:38Z

So good, I can barely contain it. Neither can the big C.

Hey California...

2008-06-16T19:13:09Z

Happy Gay Wedding Day. May your marriages be far less sucktastic than the breeders' tend to be.

A world without tomatoes

2008-06-14T20:02:26Z

I think i am having lycopene withdrawls. Send reinforcements soon...

Is that an iPhone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

2008-06-10T17:37:46Z

OK, so I had this weird dream last night that involved some sort of theme park and DJ 88 and I don't even know what else, but here's the oddest part: At some point I meet up with meat_tosser, and we both have our laptops set up across from each other on a table, Battleship-style, but we're linking the computers to our PDAs. Jason has the new iPhone, I have my new Blackjack II. He was touting the iPhone's new features, while I was like, "Um, the BlackJack was already 3G compatible" ... or something. It was really bizarre. So all I have to say is this:

STEVE JOBS F*CK OFF FROM MY DREAMS.

(Unless you are bringing me a new iMac in the morning.)

Give the kids your money, or else

2008-06-09T19:15:13Z

All right, kids -- it took a few weeks, but I've successfully spread the funds from my economic stimulus payment to six charities: two international, two national and two local. Just sent off the payments to The Shade Tree and Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, two organizations which you enthusiastically supported in the final voting last month.

The ol' band did some more recording this weekend, but just as I was about to start recording drums, I made a judgment error grabbing a wall covered by corrugated sheet metal, and slashed the hell out of my left hand, so I still have to lay down the drum track. Hopefully my hand will be healed enough by next weekend to do so, but even just typing this is kinda hurting. Ow.

The weekend in pictures

2008-06-09T17:50:42Z

(Sex Pistols photo by Hew Burney)

It's official...

2008-06-09T15:06:11Z

... First Friday has really jumped the shark. A MANDATORY cover charge? Right...

I hope my TPS report is under there somewhere

2008-06-05T18:06:46Z

Der Loopa

2008-06-04T23:24:06Z

German men only wear Speedos still.

Remember Der Stuka (sp?) at Wet & Wild? I loved that thing. I think I dropped out of its trap door 5 times in one day. But I bet if it had AN AWESOME MIND-BLOWING, CROTCH-DESTROYING LOOP, Wet & Wild would still be open today.

Smashing Pumpkins ...

2008-06-04T21:24:19Z

... must be listened to with headphones. WEERRRRRREEEERRRRRRRRRRRYYYYI (that is my terrible attempt at using onomatopoeia to recreate Billy Corgan's lead guitar)

Dear Jimmy Chamberlin:

Can I has drum lessons now?

I'll trade you smack for it.

Ha ha, just kidding. But no really, about them lessons?

Love, Pj

I work new fone

2008-06-04T06:11:53Z

So hot, it's cold

2008-06-03T19:14:21Z

At least in this office it is ...

So I rolled out my national charity donations from the ol' "stimulus" payment to Red Cross (for domestic disaster relief) and Covenant House this morning, as per your votes a few weeks back. Thanks for helping spread this money around to those who need it, and by the end of the week, I'll get to the local organizations.

In other news, if you like to look at pictures of bands in the recording studio, then you'll want to click below:

Once again, I take control of the situation and my loyal band mates rebel. There was a brawl and a shoot-out in the end, but that was not captured on digital.

Dear Perez Hilton:

2008-06-02T23:30:09Z

There is room enough for only ONE blogging Perez in Las Vegas. Only one of us is going to walk out of here under his own steam ...

"Perez Hilton to host Freaky Friday, June 13 at Blush Boutique Nightclub"

Psst ... I'm giving away pretty awesome free comics over at Pop! Goes the Icon today. Hugs for all!