A Tale of Two Cities

I'm just gonna jump right in here rather than bother introducing anything.

I love Las Vegas. It's a magical place. It's possibly the tackiest major city in the Union, and certainly the most unabashedly trashy. And up until recently, Vegas was what it was, love it or hate it. (Lately, they've been pushing to make it more family oriented, which it is, if your family loves strippers and expensive alcohol.) What I find most interesting about it though, is basically, there are two sides to Las Vegas: Night Vegas and Day Vegas.


Day Vegas!


Day Vegas takes place whenever the sun is out. It's most noticeable when the weather is 100+ degrees outside, but you'll notice it even when it's not. Day Vegas is a brutal, desolate, lonely wasteland with the smell of cheap alcohol and poor decisions permeating the air. The food is as bad as the waitress' moods. It's so unrelentingly hot!


Night Vegas!

Night Vegas is the exact opposite of Day Vegas. The buffets are magical! Everyone's a high roller, even if you only have three dollars to your name! You're invincible, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it! Even though all you can smell is cigarettes, it's not so bad. Even the heat seems to have let up a little bit. Yes sir, in Night Vegas, everyone's a champion, even when they're losing.

Naturally, the music you listen to in Day Vegas feels terribly out of place in Night Vegas, and vice versa. Some tips to get the right mood going for both:

Day Vegas Music!

Jockey Full Of Bourbon- Tom Waits
Bankrupt on Selling- Modest Mouse
Going Out West- Tom Waits
Mosquito Song- Queens of the Stone Age
Stagger Lee- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Night Vegas Music!

Flashing Lights- Kanye West ft. Dwele
Run This Town- Jay-Z ft. Rihanna and Kanye West
Never Change- Jay-Z
I've Got The World on a String- Frank Sinatra
Piano Man- Billy Joel (but only at a dueling piano bar!)

Songs You Should Check Out Unrelated to the Rest of the Post:

I Wish This Song Was Louder - Electric Six (cause it's fun) 
Gold Soundz - Pavement (I am constantly baffled as to why no one I know has heard of Pavement.)
That's Entertainment! - The Jam (Same with The Jam. Paul Weller is a legend.)