The Music of the Night, from The Phantom of the Opera. I <3 it.
What are you listening to now? Page 180
Bon Ivor - For Emma, forever go
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
I'm such a pop bitch. 
Roddy Frame - Marble Arch.
TISM - Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas
The only place in the US I really want to go back to.
Quote: Aaron @ May 30 2008, 1:52 PM BSTZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas
The only place in the US I really want to go back to.
I hate to speak ill of the city of my birth, but I'm not a big fan. It's a fun place to drink and carouse with friends, but I can only take about 48 hours on The Strip before I want to run away.
The doctor who delivered me (way back in 1963) was the ringside doctor at most of the big boxing matches in the sixties and seventies. My father used to point him out when we'd watch Muhammad Ali and the rest of the greats on television when I was a kid.
And they play FAR too much ZZ Top on Texas radio stations.
Quote: DaButt @ May 30 2008, 2:34 PM BSTI hate to speak ill of the city of my birth, but I'm not a big fan. It's a fun place to drink and carouse with friends, but I can only take about 48 hours on The Strip before I want to run away.
The doctor who delivered me (way back in 1963) was the ringside doctor at most of the big boxing matches in the sixties and seventies. My father used to point him out when we'd watch Muhammad Ali and the rest of the greats on television when I was a kid.
That is actually brilliant. I can totally understand that it gets old after a while though. I just like pretty lights and things. Extremely overwhelming place, particularly as I went when I was 18 - just in awe of everything. 
almost constantly for the two days we stayed (one either side of visiting the Grand Canyon).
The canyon is amazing. Maybe the most awe-inspiring thing I've ever seen.
When I'm in Vegas I like to get away and see the non-Strip sights like Hoover Dam and the pinball museum. One of these days I want to take the monthly tour of the Nevada Test Site. Not sure if non-Americans can take the tour, but they visit the site of the 1950s atomic tests. My father was stationed there from 1956-8 and participated in about 50 above-ground nuclear tests in Nevada and the Pacific. Sometimes he was only 2 or 3 miles away from ground zero with only a shallow trench to hide in. He many people can say they were knocked off their feet by the blast wave from a nuclear explosion and lived to tell about it?
Here's one of the craters at the test site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)
Intervention-Arcade Fire.
It so counts as Hoover revision. 
Must say, I really didn't enjoy the Grand Canyon much. Yes it's impressive, but once you've been there two or three days it's just a (very big) hole. I didn't go down it, mind. Perhaps that would have been more impressive. Anyway. We were in THE most awful accommodation I have ever experienced anywhere in any country though, so I was in a constant bad mood and perhaps that coloured my judgement!
The test site stuff sounds pretty cool though! I'll have to look into that if I'm over that way again. Would be a pity if it's only nationals, as you say.
Quote: Aaron @ May 30 2008, 3:22 PM BSTMust say, I really didn't enjoy the Grand Canyon much. Yes it's impressive, but once you've been there two or three days it's just a (very big) hole.
It's *the* big hole!
You're forgetting Charley.
Haha! Aw poor Charley!
Ocean of Noise ~ Calexico (Cover of Arcade Fire)
Clearer vocals than the original - beautiful lyrics.