Suburban Living in Sin City

It’s been an interesting change from big city life in New York to suburban life in a fairly booming suburban metropolis. I was blown away by all the strip malls there are and how accessible anything your heart desires is, aside from good music. That’s the one thing I really miss about New York life. I used to be able to open the Village Voice and find at the least one band in any given week that I would pay money to see, not that I had the money to go that often.

On Saturday, Sir Luke and I decided to go out for a movie. Being po-folk, we haven’t really gone out on the town much since we’ve been in Vegas. So we started looking for movies to see and Sir Luke picked Leatherheads, which I settled for. It wasn’t my favorite, and I probably wouldn’t recommend it to you, but it had it’s moments. It could also be that I wanted to see La Misma Luna, and will as soon as it comes out on video, but got vetoed.

Anyway, the point is we went to the theater and I was completely confused because Sir Luke told me the theater was on the left but I didn’t get it because all I saw was a casino. One minor tiff later and several u-turns, we parked and headed into the casino. Yes, ladies and gentlemen the movie theater was inside the casino.

This is an entirely new experience for a little Mormon girl from California. Even if I did spend the last couple years fighting off unwelcome gestures and comments as I made my nightly walk home from the subway.