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Gravity's Rainbow and the secret integration.

I've read Gravity's Rainbow four times and thought I understood it pretty well. However, reading Beckett's Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnameable trilogy and the Beckett biography Damned to Fame, and a lot of Jung, and going through some difficult times made me realise how much within me that I had previously repressed. The slow process of integrating everything I was in denial about has allowed me to find peace that I never thought I would attain, having been clinically depressed and suicidal for around ten years. I started reading GR again with this new understanding of myself and realised that I actually hadn't understood it properly at all. I thought I'd share a few things I realised in case they might be of interest to any of you. I will discuss the book from a psychoanalytical perspective and a political perspective here, but I do not wish to reduce what is such a brilliant novel in its own right to these elements alone; I feel like the literary perspective has been discussed far more than these aspects though, and strongly doubt I would be able to add anything new to that excellent body of existing work. Even though I have realised that the political and psychoanalytical aspects are examined and explored very overtly in GR, I think they are often underexamined because the readers themselves haven't come to terms with their own inner conflicts, and are therefore in denial about certain things in themselves, such as their own possible complicity (through inaction or otherwise) with the System - much like Pokler. Therefore I am only going to be discussing the book within the very narrow frameworks of psychoanalysis and politics, while acknowledging that this comprises only a fraction of what it really is.
The sheer density of GR can make it hard to tell what the hell is going on even just in terms of things like the plot. But maybe this isn't such a surprise, Pynchon's intelligence and education, how long he spent writing it, and and how much research he had to do in the process. It's only after doing a lot of the background reading that he refers to that things started to come together for me. With subjects such as Pavlov's theories of conditioning, statistics, physics, engineering, Pynchon reproduces key concepts within the text. For example:
Pavlov was fascinated with “ideas of the opposite.” Call it a cluster of cells, somewhere on the cortex of the brain. Helping to distinguish pleasure from pain, light from dark, dominance from submission... . But when, somehow—starve them, traumatize, shock, castrate them, send them over into one of the transmarginal phases, past borders of their waking selves, past “equivalent” and “paradoxical” phases —you weaken this idea of the opposite, and here all at once is the paranoid patient who would be master, yet now feels himself a slave... who would be loved, but suffers his world’s indifference, and, “I think,” Pavlov writing to Janet, “it is precisely the ultraparadoxical phase which is the base of the weakening of the idea of the opposite in our patients.” Our madmen, our paranoid, maniac, schizoid, morally imbecile—
However, for much of the history, particular that regarding intelligence agencies (whether that is WWII activity such as the O.S.S. or the S.O.E., or CIA activity in the 60s and 70s around the time that Pynchon was writing GR in a Californian beach house, very near where groups such as the Black Panthers were operating, targets of programs such as COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS), the books had not even been written yet. I think the first few pages, with the carriage full of evacuees, can be interpreted as moving into the darkest parts of lost or repressed history, e.g.:
and it is poorer the deeper they go... ruinous secret cities of poor, places whose names he has never heard..
These names he has never heard could range from the Herero tribe whose genocide he discovered while writing V. ten years before, to Novi Pazar (with the Adenoid passage), to the all other hidden history in the book. I have also read people remarking on how in The Crying of Lot 49 it seems like Pynchon was somehow aware of MK-Ultra (which Dr Hilarius was involved with) before well the documents were leaked and the program confirmed. However, fortunately, many these history books have since been written. If anyone is interested, a great place to start is The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, published in 2016, which follows Dulles from his time at the Wall Street law firm Sullivan and Cromwell to his time in the O.S.S. in Switzerland, working with Nazis in Operation Paperclip, to his directorship of the CIA through the 50s and 60s. Reading about this Cold War history, and also the writing of Huey Newton (who I strongly believe Enzian is in part based on), made a lot of GR far clearer. It is important to recognise that these histories of intelligence agencies contain irrefutable documented facts that the public at large is collectively in denial about - because they are too dark for them to acknowledge and face. For them to acknowledge these facts requires integrating that darkness into their conscious minds, before anything can be done about it on the political level. I think that, through the incorporation of all the world's darkness, from politics to history to sexual and paedophilic fantasies to etc..., this is the Secret Integration that Pynchon is trying to accomplish, and which concept he wrote a story about, published in Slow Learner. Reading this book causes the beginnings of this process, as all of the darkness is brought into one's mind by reading it.
Another crucial area for me was understanding a bit about Freud and Jung. Particularly Freud's tendency to project his own incredibly powerful repression onto his patients, because of his own compulsion to analyse and differentiate everything, much in the Western tradition, seen in, for example, his five stages of psychosexual development, oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital stages. Some people don't need to delve into the darkest aspects of their unconscious to find peace, but since Freud did, he felt the need to inflict this also on his patients - seen in the many cases where he would tell victims of childhood sexual abuse that it was due to their own subconscious desires to be raped, which could, obviously, do enormous damage to his patients. His compulsion to do this might have stemmed from, alongside his overanalytical compulsions, the truth that anything we are in denial of or repress causes inner conflicts that manifest in our daily lives, and the only way to get rid of them is to integrate them into the conscious mind. Jung's equivalent of this is his statement that “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Jung's thinking on the unconscious, and particularly the notion of the collective unconscious - this idea that all the darkness in humanity is also within ourselves, and vice versa, much as in Daoism, another critical source for GR - is very useful to help understand the book.
An interesting thing to consider is that the old psychoanalytic approach, more directive/authoritarian (going back to Mesmer powerfully dominating his hypnotic subjects), where the analyst would attempt to integrate these repressions into the conscious mind of the patient by force, has fallen out of favour - it is now seen that the permissive style, in which the therapist tries to help the patient realise things themselves without use of force, is a much healthier approach for the average person (though there are still some cases where the directive style can be more effective). The former's effects can be seen in GR when, after many sessions with Freud, Greta's darkest parts of her unconscious mind rise up and she begins murdering children. Pynchon links Freud's repressions to trauma carried down by Jews from life under the Romans, and elsewhere, slavery under the Ancient Egyptians, which is fundamental to their religious texts (linked itself with attitudes and trauma in the black population about the more recent black slavery).
The trouble with Sigmund was the place he happened to be living in, a drafty, crenelated deformity overlooking a cold little lake in the Bavarian Alps. Parts of it must have dated back to the fall of Rome. That was where Sigmund brought her.
She had got the idea somewhere that she was part Jewish. Things in Germany by then, as everyone knows, were very bad. Margherita was terrified of being “found out.” She heard Gestapo in every puff of air that slipped in, among any of a thousand windways of dilapidation. Sigmund spent whole nights trying to talk it away. He was no better at it than Rollo. It was around this time that her symptoms began.
However psychogenic these pains, tics, hives and nauseas, her suffering was real. Acupuncturists came down by Zeppelin from Berlin, showing up in the middle of the night with little velvet cases full of gold needles. Viennese analysts, Indian holy men, Baptists from America trooped in and out of Sigmund’s castle, stage-hypnotists and Colombian curanderos slept on the rug in front of the fireplace. Nothing worked. Sigmund grew alarmed, and before long as ready as Margherita to hallucinate. Probably it was she who suggested Bad Karma. It had a reputation that summer for its mud, hot and greasy mud with traces of radium, jet black, softly bubbling. Ah. Anyone who’s been sick in that way can imagine her hope. That mud would cure anything. Where was anybody that summer before the War? Dreaming. The spas that summer, the summer Ensign Morituri came to Bad Karma, were crowded with sleepwalkers. Nothing for him to do at the Embassy. They suggested a holiday till September. He should have known something was up, but he only went on holiday to Bad Karma—spent the days drinking Pilsener Urquelle in the cafe by the lake in the Pavilion Park. He was a stranger, half the time drunk, silly beer-drunk, and he hardly spoke their language. But what he saw must have been going on all over Germany. A premeditated frenzy.
This is a similar process to what Slothrop goes through in the Abreaction Ward, when under sodium amytal ("truth serum") and the supervision of psychoanalysts, Slothrop explores the parts of his unconscious that he has repressed, including his feelings towards race and homosexuality.
PISCES: We want to talk some more about Boston today, Slothrop. You recall that we were talking last time about the Negroes, in Roxbury. Now we know it’s not all that comfortable for you, but do try, won’t you. Now—where are you, Slothrop? Can you see anything?
Slothrop: Well no, not see exactly...
By the presence of Red (Malcolm X) in the scene where Slothrop flees the black men at the jazz club trying to rape him down the toilet (which leads through a trip not only through Slothrop's own unconscious racism but also through the repressed histories, all the Preterite lost and forgotten.
Either he lets the harp go, his silver chances of song, or he has to follow. Follow? Red, the Negro shoeshine boy, waits by his dusty leather seat. The Negroes all over wasted Roxbury wait. Follow? “Cherokee” comes wailing up from the dance floor below, over the hi-hat, the string bass, the thousand sets of feet where moving rose lights suggest not pale Harvard boys and their dates, but a lotta dolled-up redskins. The song playing is one more lie about white crimes. But more musicians have floundered in the channel to “Cherokee” than have got through from end to end.
Here, among other things, if we consider Slothrop's mouth harp a (Rilke-referencing) metaphor, in part, for Pynchon's own tools of artistry, I feel like these floundering musicians can be seen as other writers who have not come to terms with the darkest parts of history, and thus their own unconscious. And the decision to delve into these things as an artist necessitates exposing one's own unconscious repressions, which causes you to be in a vulnerable position - particularly since They like to use these aspects of people to control them, as with Prentice and the drawing of the Scorpia Mossmoon lookalike he is given to activate the Kryptosam. In Pynchon's case, this means exposing his own racism and homophobia:
If Slothrop follows that harp down the toilet it’ll have to be headfirst, which is not so good, cause it leaves his ass up in the air helpless, and with Negroes around that’s just what a fella doesn’t want, his face down in some fetid unknown darkness and brown fingers, strong and sure, all at once undoing his belt, unbuttoning his fly, strong hands holding his legs apart—and he feels the cold Lysol air on his thighs as down come the boxer shorts too, now, with the colorful bass lures and trout flies on them. He struggles to work himself farther into the toilet hole as dimly, up through the smelly water, comes the sound of a whole dark gang of awful Negroes come yelling happily into the white men’s room, converging on poor wriggling Slothrop, jiving around the way they do singing, “Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!” [*] And the voice that replies is who but that Red, the shoeshine boy who’s slicked up Slothrop’s black patents a dozen times down on his knees jes poppin’ dat rag to beat the band... now Red the very tall, skinny, extravagantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy who’s just been “Red” to all the Harvard fellas—“Say Red, any of those Sheiks in the drawer?” “How ’bout another luck-changin’ phone number there, Red?”—this Negro whose true name now halfway down the toilet comes at last to Slothrop’s hearing—as a thick finger with a gob of very slippery jelly or cream comes sliding down the crack now toward his asshole, chevroning the hairs along like topo lines up a river valley—the true name is Malcolm, and all the black cocks know him, Malcolm, have known him all along—Red Malcolm the Unthinkable Nihilist sez, “Good golly he sure is all asshole ain’t he?” Jeepers Slothrop, what a position for you to be in! Even though he has succeeded in getting far enough down now so that only his legs protrude and his buttocks heave and wallow just under the level of the water like pallid domes of ice. Water splashes, cold as the rain outside, up the walls of the white bowl. “Grab him ’fo’ he gits away!” “Yowzah!” Distant hands clutch after his calves and ankles, snap his garters and tug at the argyle sox Mom knitted for him to go to Harvard in, but these insulate so well, or he has progressed so far down the toilet by now, that he can hardly feel the hands at all...
GR can be seen even as a process of abreaction that Pynchon underwent. If the rumours that he used drugs through writing it are true, then that would mean exposing things in him unconscious even to himself while writing it. Worth at this point also to note Jung's criticisms of Freud's use of abreaction, and thus the possible dangers of doing this.
Though traumata of clearly aetiological significance were occasionally present, the majority of them appeared very improbable. Many traumata were so unimportant, even so normal, that they could be regarded at most as a pretext for the neurosis. But what especially aroused my criticism was the fact that not a few traumata were simply inventions of fantasy and had never happened at all.
However, as Daoism asserts, light and darkness is in everything. For the Pavlovian Pointsman, who views things in binary, this is impossible to accept - the idea that for between every extreme - like black and white - lies a spectrum, a continuous rainbow. As Western humans understand things through this differentiation and analysis, this continuity causes an inherent conflict. Pointsman, the pure cause-and-effect man, the "Antimexico" (since Mexico, the statistician who thinks all can be explained through independent variables and probability distributions, takes the opposite position), says this on Daoist thinking early on.
“Pierre Janet —sometimes the man talked like an Oriental mystic. He had no real grasp of the opposites. ‘The act of injuring and the act of being injured are joined in the behavior of the whole injury.’ Speaker and spoken-of, master and slave, virgin and seducer, each pair most conveniently coupled and inseparable—The last refuge of the incorrigibly lazy, Mexico, is just this sort of yang-yin rubbish.
But by the end of Beyond the Zero, he's having a breakdown, as his unconscious is trying to tell him the truth of the Daoist wisdom he was so quick to reject in his scientific arrogance.
“Talking to myself, here. Little—sort of—eccentricity, heh, heh.”
“Yang and Yin,” whispers the Voice, “Yang and Yin... .”
With all that out of the way, the plot of what GR is actually about can perhaps begin to be discussed. I'm going to make a lot of assumptions here that many of the male characters are based on Pynchon himself. You may disagree with this approach, which is very understandable, given my total lack of evidence. My justification for it is the following passages from Slothrop's trip down the toilet:
Here now is Crutchfield or Crouchfield, the westwardman. Not “archetypical” westwardman, but the only. Understand, there was only one. There was only one Indian who ever fought him. Only one fight, one victory, one loss. And only one president, and one assassin, and one election. True. One of each of everything. You had thought of solipsism, and imagined the structure to be populated—on your level—by only, terribly, one. No count on any other levels. But it proves to be not quite that lonely. Sparse, yes, but a good deal better than solitary. One of each of everything’s not so bad. Half an Ark’s better than none.
Then slightly later on:
Isn’t there supposed to be only one of each?
A. Yes.
Q. Then one Indian girl...
A. One pure Indian. One mestiza. One criolla. [*] Then: one Yaqui. One Navaho. One Apache—
Q. Wait a minute, there was only one Indian to begin with. The one that Crutchfield killed.
A. Yes. Look on it as an optimization problem. The country can best support only one of each.
Q. Then what about all the others? Boston. London. The ones who live in cities. Are those people real, or what?
A. Some are real, and some aren’t.
Q. Well are the real ones necessary? or unnecessary?
A. It depends what you have in mind.
Q. Shit, I don’t have anything in mind.
A. We do.
However, given the extent to which Pynchon has managed to keep his life quiet, I'm aware that this assumption could be projection from me. I think might be by design of the book though:
“Pre cise-ly why,” leaps Rozsavolgyi, “we are now proposing, to give, Slothrop a com plete- ly dif-ferent sort, of test. We are now de sign- ing for him, a so called, ‘projec-tive’ test. The most famil-iar exam- ple of the type, is the Rorschach ink-blot. The ba- sic theory, is that when given an un struc-tured stimulus, some shape-less blob of exper-ience, the subject, will seek to impose, struc- ture on it. How, he goes a -bout struc-turing this blob, will reflect his needs, his hopes—will pro vide, us with clues, to his dreams, fan- tasies , the deepest re-gions of his mind.”
With those disclaimers out the way, here's what I think. I think Mexico is the "cheap nihilist" of Pynchon as a younger man, before he's delved into his own darkness, and still very much without belief in any sort of spiritualism:
“It makes no sense unless we also consider those who’ve passed over to the other side. We do transact with them, don’t we? Through specialists like Eventyr and their controls over there. But all together we form a single subculture, a psychical community, if you will.”
“I won’t,” Mexico says dryly, “but yes I suppose someone ought to be looking into it.”
Pointsman is his analytical side, obsessed with cause-and-effect, which eventually, he comes to realise, necessitates delving in the darkest regions of Slothrop's mind, but still obsessed with control, never losing control:
Sign and symptoms. Was Spectro right? Could Outside and Inside be part of the same field? If only in fairness... in fairness... Pointsman ought to be seeking the answer at the interface... oughtn’t he... on the cortex of Lieutenant Slothrop. The man will suffer—perhaps, in some clinical way, be destroyed—but how many others tonight are suffering in his name? For pity’s sake, every day in Whitehall they’re weighing and taking risks that make his, in this, seem almost trivial. Almost. There’s something here, too transparent and swift to get a hold on—Psi Section might speak of ectoplasms—but he knows that the time has never been better, and that the exact experimental subject is in his hands. He must seize now, or be doomed to the same stone hallways, whose termination he knows. But he must remain open—even to the possibility that the Psi people are right. “We may all be right,” he puts in his journal tonight, “so may be all we have speculated, and more. Whatever we may find, there can be no doubt that he is, physiologically, historically, a monster. We must never lose control. The thought of him lost in the world of men, after the war, fills me with a deep dread I cannot extinguish...”
Prentice, the employee, the seasoned intelligence veteran, strikes me as a maturation from Pynchon's earlier Mexico phase, into a more realistic and experienced person and, by the time he gets into the Counterforce, "activist". This could be projection but given that the book was written from around the mid-60s until 1973, and how much changed in that time, I feel like this could be based on his own experiences with political activism in California around that time. Might be totally wrong about that, but I just got that impression from reading the weird "interview" towards the end of the book with the Wall Street Journal between the interviewer and the "spokesman for the Counterforce". Who knows, read it again and see what you think.
And Slothrop, the experimental subject, is a model of Pynchon himself, rather than a differentiated portion of his own psyche which he turned into a character.
So, what I think is going on:
PISCES is using Slothrop (conditioned by Jamf) to exploit the racism of the Germans in psychological warfare with the whole Schwarzkommando thing. Pointsman is following his own pathological drive to analyse every facet of Slothrop's psyche. This includes Bloat taking photographs of Slothrop's map of girls linked to rockets, which we find out later might partly be falsified, which I interpret perhaps as Pynchon's recognition of his own attempt to impose his sexual interpretation system onto the world at large - interestingly something touched on early on in Bleeding Edge, though I can't find the passage right now, he quietly references the sexual hysterias of youth or something like that.
Prentice is an employee of the Firm, a greater They than either PISCES or Pointsman, using his ability to have other people's fantasies, notionally for Pointsman, but really for some even grander scheme. This is reflected in the discussion of the message which Prentice picks up from the rocket which he and Slothrop see at the beginning of the book. From the Kryptosam message with the Scorpia lookalike:
Slowly then, a revelation through the nacreous film of his seed, in Negro-brown, comes his message: put in a simple Nihilist transposition whose keywords he can almost guess. Most of it he does in his head. There is a time given, a place, a request for help. He burns the message, fallen on him from higher than Earth’s atmosphere, salvaged from Earth’s prime meridian, keeps the picture, hmm, and washes his hands. His prostate is aching. There is more to this than he can see. He has no recourse, no appeal: he has to go over there and bring the operative out again. The message is tantamount to an order from the highest levels.
This "highest orders" thing can be compared with Slothrop seeing the hand of God pointing down at him.
There is in his history, and likely, God help him, in his dossier, a peculiar sensitivity to what is revealed in the sky. (But a hardon?) On the old schist of a tombstone in the Congregational churchyard back home in Mingeborough, Massachusetts, [*] the hand of God emerges from a cloud, the edges of the figure here and there eroded by 200 years of seasons’ fire and ice chisels at work, and the inscription reading:
In Memory of Constant
Slothrop, who died March
ye 4th 1766, in ye 29th
year of his age.
Death is a debt to nature due,
Which I have paid, and so must you.
...
6:43:16 BDST—in the sky right now here is the same unfolding, just about to break through, his face deepening with its light, everything about to rush away and he to lose himself, just as his countryside has ever proclaimed... slender church steeples poised up and down all these autumn hillsides, white rockets about to fire, only seconds of countdown away, rose windows taking in Sunday light, elevating and washing the faces above the pulpits defining grace, swearing this is how it does happen—yes the great bright hand reaching out of the cloud...
I think Pynchon recognised that with his unique abilities, perception, intelligence, and even privilege, it was his duty to delve into these hidden histories and play his role in bringing about this integration of the darkest levels of the unconscious. But Beyond the Zero is all about systems, and as Pynchon is well aware all systems are inherently limited because there are irrational elements in the world. So after this we have the briefer section in the Casino Hermann Goering, where the role of chance - or fate, depending on your interpretation - is recognised, and systems are examined, particularly language systems, like the drinking game Prince. So after that, with the third part, In the Zone, I think he may have been using drugs and various other techniques to bring out unconscious things in himself, to get past these conscious systems. And then completed with the Tarot reading performed at the end, where it says "here are the cards, exactly as they came up" - I think it's very possible that he did an actual Tarot reading at this point. Maybe I'm wrong about this though, I don't want to make too many assumptions given the lack of information we really have on him. If that thing with the drugs is true, it would explain that infamous quote Jules Seigal attributed to him, "I was so fucked up while I was writing it... that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have meant." But it's unclear whether that quote is real or not.
How does this play into politics? I've written far too much already, but I'll just leave things with a couple more quotes and the observation that the final part, the Counterforce, contains some very valid criticisms of the countercultural movement as it manifested in the 60s through 70s. There's this critical passage when Enzian is motorbiking around the Zone, high on Pervitins, and realises that everything has come together for this. There's definitely a sense that Pynchon is acknowledging here the importance of his work, the fact it has done things that no other book had before. But in it too there's also, in it, the mocking of the temptation to view everything as an ordered conspiracy, and not acknowledge the non-rational and non-causal forces also at work, and mocking of his own self-seriousness.
There doesn’t exactly dawn, no but there breaks, as that light you’re afraid will break some night at too deep an hour to explain away—there floods on Enzian what seems to him an extraordinary understanding. This serpentine slagheap he is just about to ride into now, this ex-refinery, Jamf Ölfabriken Werke AG, is not a ruin at all. It is in perfect working order. Only waiting for the right connections to be set up, to be switched on... modified, precisely, deliberately by bombing that was never hostile, but part of a plan both sides—”sides?” —had always agreed on... yes and now what if we—all right, say we are supposed to be the Kabbalists out here, say that’s our real Destiny, to be the scholar-magicians of the Zone, with somewhere in it a Text, to be picked to pieces, annotated, explicated, and masturbated till it’s all squeezed limp of its last drop... well we assumed—natürlich!—that this holy Text had to be the Rocket, orururumo orunene the high, rising, dead, the blazing, the great one (“orunene” is already being modified by the Zone-Herero children to “omunene,” the eldest brother)... our Torah. What else? Its symmetries, its latencies, the cuteness of it enchanted and seduced us while the real Text persisted, somewhere else, in its darkness, our darkness... even this far from Südwest we are not to be spared the ancient tragedy of lost messages, a curse that will never leave us... . But, if I’m riding through it, the Real Text, right now, if this is it... or if I passed it today somewhere in the devastation of Hamburg, breathing the ashdust, missing it completely... if what the IG built on this site were not at all the final shape of it, but only an arrangement of fetishes, come-ons to call down special tools in the form of 8th AF bombers yes the “Allied” planes all would have been, ultimately, IG-built, by way of Director Krupp, through his English interlocks—the bombing was the exact industrial process of conversion, each release of energy placed exactly in space and time, each shock-wave plotted in advance to bring precisely tonight’s wreck into being thus decoding the Text, thus coding, recoding, redecoding the holy Text... If it is in working order, what is it meant to do? The engineers who built it as a refinery never knew there were any further steps to be taken. Their design was “finalized,” and they could forget it. It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted... secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology... by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, “Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,” but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night’s blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more... . The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms—it was only staged to look that way—but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite...
Yes but Technology only responds (how often this argument has been iterated, dogged and humorless as a Gaussian reduction, among the younger Schwarzkommando especially), “All very well to talk about having a monster by the tail, but do you think we’d’ve had the Rocket if someone, some specific somebody with a name and a penis hadn’t wanted to chuck a ton of Amatol 300 miles and blow up a block full of civilians? Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if it’ll make you feel less responsible—but it puts you in with the neutered, brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the harem of our stolen Earth for the numb and joyless hardens of human sultans, human elite with no right at all to be where they are—”
We have to look for power sources here, and distribution networks we were never taught, routes of power our teachers never imagined, or were encouraged to avoid... we have to find meters whose scales are unknown in the world, draw our own schematics, getting feedback, making connections, reducing the error, trying to learn the real function... zeroing in on what incalculable plot?
Up here, on the surface, coaltars, hydrogenation, synthesis were always phony, dummy functions to hide the real, the planetary mission yes perhaps centuries in the unrolling... this ruinous plant, waiting for its Kabbalists and new alchemists to discover the Key, teach the mysteries to others...
And if it isn’t exactly Jamf Ölfabriken Werke? what if it’s the Krupp works in Essen, what if it’s Blohm & Voss right here in Hamburg or another make-believe “ruin,” in another city? Another country? YAAAGGGGHHHHH!
Well, this is stimulant talk here, yes Enzian’s been stuffing down Nazi surplus Pervitins these days like popcorn at the movies, and by now the bulk of the refinery—named, incidentally, for the famous discoverer of Oneirine—is behind them, and Enzian is on into some other paranoid terror, talking, talking, though each man’s wind and motor cuts him off from conversation.
Some words of wisdom from the seasoned veteran Prentice:
“You’re a novice paranoid, Roger,” first time Prentice has ever used his Christian name and it touches Roger enough to check his tirade. “Of course a well-developed They-system is necessary—but it’s only half the story. For every They there ought to be a We. In our case there is. Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system—”
“Wait, wait, first where’s the Haig and Haig, be a gracious host, second what is a ‘They-system,’ I don’t pull Chebychev’s Theorem on you, do I?”
“I mean what They and Their hired psychiatrists call ‘delusional systems.’
Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We don’t have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart. Your idea that Pointsman sent Gloaming takes a wrong fork. Without any contrary set of delusions—delusions about ourselves, which I’m calling a We-system—the Gloaming idea might have been all right—”
“Delusions about ourselves?”
“Not real ones.”
“But officially defined.”
“Out of expediency, yes.”
“Well, you’re playing Their game, then.”
“Don’t let it bother you. You’ll find you can operate quite well. Seeing as we haven’t won yet, it isn’t really much of a problem.”
Roger is totally confused.
And finally, amid all this darkness, in a superlatively dark book, some hope at last, to hold onto, that makes life worth living, and why I think that despite what many say, GR is not a nihilistic work at all (Tchitcherine, the born nihilist, is almost a parody of this position). It starts with Slothrop's awakening to nature:
Trees, now—Slothrop’s intensely alert to trees, finally. When he comes in among trees he will spend time touching them, studying them, sitting very quietly near them and understanding that each tree is a creature, carrying on its individual life, aware of what’s happening around it, not just some hunk of wood to be cut down. Slothrop’s family actually made its money killing trees, amputating them from their roots, chopping them up, grinding them to pulp, bleaching that to paper and getting paid for this with more paper. “That’s really insane.” He shakes his head. “There’s insanity in my family.” He looks up. The trees are still. They know he’s there. They probably also know what he’s thinking. “I’m sorry,” he tells them. “I can’t do anything about those people, they’re all out of my reach. What can I do?” A medium-size pine nearby nods its top and suggests, “Next time you come across a logging operation out here, find one of their tractors that isn’t being guarded, and take its oil filter with you. That’s what you can do.”
And then, after Slothrop's harp makes its trip down the toilet, and through all of the darkness of the book until that point, where does it next show up? After he draws a rocket mandala, scrawls Rocketman was here on a wall, after the sequence with the Magician using black magic and a mandrake to multiply money, and a delegate from the Committee on Idiopathic Archetypes shows up to visit:
Crosses, swastikas, Zone-mandalas, how can they not speak to Slothrop? He’s sat in Säure Bummer’s kitchen, the air streaming with kif moires, reading soup recipes and finding in every bone and cabbage leaf paraphrases of himself... news flashes, names of wheelhorses that will pay him off enough for a certain getaway... . He used to pick and shovel at the spring roads of Berkshire, April afternoons he’s lost, “Chapter 81 work,” they called it, following the scraper that clears the winter’s crystal attack-from-within, its white necropolizing... picking up rusted beer cans, rubbers yellow with preterite seed, Kleenex wadded to brain shapes hiding preterite snot, preterite tears, newspapers, broken glass, pieces of automobile, days when in superstition and fright he could make it all fit, seeing clearly in each an entry in a record, a history: his own, his winter’s, his country’s... instructing him, dunce and drifter, in ways deeper than he can explain, have been faces of children out the train windows, two bars of dance music somewhere, in some other street at night, needles and branches of a pine tree shaken clear and luminous against night clouds, one circuit diagram out of hundreds in a smudged yellowing sheaf, laughter out of a cornfield in the early morning as he was walking to school, the idling of a motorcycle at one duskheavy hour of the summer... and now, in the Zone, later in the day he became a crossroad, after a heavy rain he doesn’t recall, Slothrop sees a very thick rainbow here, a stout rainbow cock driven down out of pubic clouds into Earth, green wet valleyed Earth, and his chest fills and he stands crying, not a thing in his head, just feeling natural...
And later:
Slothrop moseys down the trail to a mountain stream where he’s left his harp to soak all night, wedged between a couple of rocks in a quiet pool. ... Through the flowing water, the holes of the old Hohner Slothrop found are warped one by one, squares being bent like notes, a visual blues being played by the clear stream.
There are harpmen and dulcimer players in all the rivers, wherever water moves. Like that Rilke prophesied,
And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say: I flow.
To the rushing water speak: I am.
It is still possible, even this far out of it, to find and make audible the spirits of lost harpmen. Whacking the water out of his harmonica, reeds singing against his leg, picking up the single blues at bar 1 of this morning’s segment, Slothrop, just suckin’ on his harp, is closer to being a spiritual medium than he’s been yet, and he doesn’t even know it.
There's hope after all, and I think it's reflected in how much more positive all his later works have been. Thanks so much for reading, I hope it was at least vaguely interesting, not too much of an unstructured ramble. Also, this is such a great subreddit, really I love the community here. My very best to you all!
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The 1000 Greatest Movies

The following is a list of 1000 movies that I have compiled by trying to be as objective as possible, which is an obvious lie, it's a very subjective list, but it should be valuable for anyone interested in finding new movies. The majority of these titles are probably familiar to most of you anyway. Let me know your thoughts!
Rank Title Year
1000. Speed 1994
999. A Silent Voice 2016
998. Cube 1997
997. The Heiress 1949
996. The Cove 2009
995. A Close Shave 1995
994. Viva Zapata! 1952
993. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989
992. Z 1969
991. The Long Goodbye 1973
990. The Naked Gun 1988
989. Son of Saul 2015
988. Around the World in Eighty Days 1956
987. Dawn of the Dead 1978
986. Young Frankenstein 1974
985. Gaslight 1944
984. The Asphalt Jungle 1950
983. Ballad of a Soldier 1959
982. The Man Who Wasn't There 2001
981. Stairway to Heaven 1946
980. The Twilight Samurai 2002
979. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 2007
978. Devils on the Doorstep 2000
977. Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
976. The Assassination of Jesse James 2007
975. Wake in Fright 1971
974. The City of Lost Children 1995
973. The Virgin Spring 1960
972. Earthlings 2005
971. Lord of War 2005
970. There's Something About Mary 1998
969. 28 Weeks Later 2007
968. The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976
967. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974
966. Kelly's Heroes 1970
965. Suspiria 1977
964. 1900 1976
963. Audition 1999
962. Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
961. Midnight Run 1988
960. Animal House 1978
959. Get Carter 1971
958. The Descent 2005
957. The Shop Around the Corner 1940
956. Fort Apache 1948
955. Flight 2012
954. The Ladykillers 1955
953. Argo 2012
952. The Breakfast Club 1985
951. Burnt by the Sun 1994
950. The Lady from Shanghai 1947
949. The War Game 1965
948. The Ascent 1977
947. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
946. The Wicker Man 1973
945. Marty 1955
944. The Naked Island 1960
943. The Palm Beach Story 1942
942. Knight of Cups 2015
941. Road to Perdition 2002
940. As Good as It Gets 1997
939. The Place Beyond the Pines 2012
938. Faults 2014
937. The Gospel According to Matthew 1964
936. American Graffiti 1993
935. Frances Ha 2012
934. Raising Arizona 1987
933. Songs from the Second Floor 2000
932. Anvil: The Story of Anvil 2008
931. The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
930. In Cold Blood 1967
929. Saw 2004
928. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988
927. Cairo Station 1958
926. The Tramp 1915
925. Whatever Works 2009
924. Moulin Rouge! 2001
923. Glory 1989
922. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012
921. Blood Diamond 2006
920. Stand by Me 1986
919. A Brighter Summer Day 1991
918. Stop Making Sense 1984
917. Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures 1965
916. Dredd 2012
915. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
914. Idiocracy 2006
913. West Side Story 1961
912. Repo Man 1984
911. The Last Emperor 1987
910. Papillon 1973
909. About Elly 2009
908. Mary Poppins 1964
907. Zabriskie Point 1970
906. Akira
905. Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
904. The Last of the Mohicans 1992
903. The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
902. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
901. Hamburger Hill 1987
900. Spider 2002
899. Cast Away 2000
898. The Hangover 2009
897. The Lost Weekend 1945
896. Bullitt 1968
895. Frida 2002
894. The Hustler 1961
893. Seven Years in Tibet 1997
892. Nocturnal Animals 2016
891. Swiss Army Man 2016
890. 48 Hrs. 1982
889. High Fidelity 2000
888. Casino Royale 2006
887. Dirty Dancing 1987
886. The Dark Valley 2014
885. Source Code 2011
884. El Mariachi 1992
883. The Meaning of Life 1983
882. The Mask 1994
881. Conan the Barbarian 1982
880. Primer 2004
879. Wall Street 1987
878. The New World 2005
877. The Rock 1996
876. Independence Day 1996
875. Hell or High Water 2016
874. 13 Assassins 2010
873. Traffic 2000
872. Yellow Submarine 1968
871. Apollo 13 1995
870. Empire of the Sun 1987
869. Revolutionary Road 2008
868. Man on Wire 2008
867. Waterworld 1995
866. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008
865. The Road Warrior 1981
864. Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
863. The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
862. Syriana 2005
861. Shaun of the Dead 2004
860. The Terminal 2004
859. The Passion of the Christ 2004
858. Face/Off 1997
857. Napoleon Dynamite 2004
856. From Russia with Love 1963
855. TRON 1982
854. The Secret in Their Eyes 2009
853. Wavelength 1967
852. Anchorman 2004
851. Straight Outta Compton 2015
850. Bad Lieutenant 1992
849. Three Kings 1999
848. Duck Soup 1933
847. Femme Fatale 2002
846. Predator 1987
845. Solaris 2002
844. Miller's Crossing 1990
843. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I... 2000
842. Samurai Fiction 1998
841. The Truman Show 1998
840. Syndromes and a Century 2006
839. The Producers 1967
838. The Killing Fields 1984
837. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002
836. Beau Travail 1999
835. Capote 2005
834. Slap Shot 1977
833. Drowning by Numbers 1988
832. Hard Eight 1996
831. All Is Lost 2013
830. Enter the Void 2009
829. Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016
828. The Hateful Eight 2015
827. Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' 1993
826. The Gift 2015
825. The Man Who Knew Infinity 2015
824. Swimming Pool 2003
823. Monty Python: The Meaning of Live 2014
822. Enemy 2013
821. Lord of the Flies 1990
820. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998
819. Ed Wood 1994
818. Dogtooth 2009
817. Swingers 1996
816. Split 2016
815. The Road 2009
814. Volver 2006
813. The Fountain 2006
812. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005
811. Safe 1995
810. The Wages of Fear 1953
809. American Sniper 2014
808. Woyzeck 1979
807. The Aviator 2004
806. Super Troopers 2001
805. Dr. No 1962
804. Kingsman 2014
803. Hugo 2011
802. The Sound of Music 1965
801. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame 1996
800. Halloween 1978
799. Hatari! 1962
798. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992
797. Escape from New York 1981
796. Highlander 1986
795. The Matrix Reloaded 2003
794. Margin Call 2011
793. Phenomena 1985
792. The Starfish 1928
791. Logan 2017
790. 28 Days Later... 2002
789. The 39 Steps 1935
788. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
787. The Phantom Carriage 1921
786. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
785. Drunken Master 1978
784. Arrival 2016
783. Baraka 1992
782. Brimstone 2016
781. Inside Out 2015
780. Planet of the Apes 1968
779. Dog Day Afternoon 1975
778. Embers 2015
777. Straw Dogs 1971
776. Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
775. Coffee and Cigarettes 2003
774. Driving Miss Daisy 1989
773. A Woman Is a Woman 1961
772. Broken Blossoms 1919
771. Last Tango in Paris 1972
770. Avatar 2009
769. Zatoichi 2003
768. Hoop Dreams 1994
767. Crumb 1994
766. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005
765. The Handmaiden 2016
764. Kung Fu Hustle 2004
763. Carlito's Way 1993
762. Zulu 1964
761. The Longest Day 1962
760. Les Misérables 2012
759. After Hours 1985
758. Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
757. The Bridge 1959
756. Zelig 1983
755. I Vitelloni 1953
754. Snowpiercer 2013
753. I Am Cuba 1964
752. The Return 2003
751. L'argent 1983
750. Fail-Safe 1964
749. Quiz Show 1994
748. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
747. The Thief of Bagdad 1940
746. Nanook of the North 1922
745. The Grapes of Wrath 1940
744. The Life of Oharu 1952
743. The Skin I Live In 2011
742. Bridge of Spies 2015
741. The Day of the Jackal 1973
740. Sexmission 1984
739. Interstellar 2014
738. Rebel Without a Cause 1955
737. Five Easy Pieces 1970
736. The Imitation Game 2014
735. Pirates of the Caribbean 2003
734. Schizopolis 1996
733. I Stand Alone 1998
732. WarGames 1983
731. The Great Train Robbery 1903
730. Star Trek 2009
729. True Romance 1993
728. Sin City 2005
727. Roma 1972
726. Thelma & Louise 1991
725. The Hurt Locker 2008
724. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
723. Falling Down 1993
722. Forbidden Planet 1956
721. Carol 2015
720. Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
719. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001
718. The Usual Suspects 1995
717. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future 1973
716. Cremator 1969
715. In the Name of the Father 1993
714. The Revenant 2015
713. The Cameraman 1928
712. Zorba the Greek 1964
711. Infernal Affairs 2002
710. Onibaba 1964
709. The Raid: Redemption 2011
708. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003
707. Collateral 2004
706. La Haine 1995
705. Irreversible 2002
704. Mouchette 1967
703. The Abyss 1989
702. Bonnie and Clyde 1967
701. Die Hard 1988
700. Italian for Beginners 2000
699. The King's Speech 2010
698. True Grit 2010
697. Gattaca 1997
696. Office Space 1999
695. Stranger Than Fiction 2006
694. Going to Bed Under Difficulties 1900
693. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 1978
692. A Hard Day's Night 1964
691. Nebraska 2013
690. This Is England 2006
689. (500) Days of Summer 2009
688. Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
687. 127 Hours 2010
686. Babel 2006
685. The Magnificent Seven 1960
684. Harakiri 1962
683. Mission: Impossible 1996
682. A Single Man 2009
681. Chicken Run 2000
680. Dead Poets Society 1989
679. Big Fish 2003
678. In the Heat of the Night 1967
677. On the Silver Globe 1988
676. The Scarlet Empress 1934
675. The Tenant 1976
674. Woman in the Dunes 1964
673. Grave of the Fireflies 1988
672. Bad Boy Bubby 1993
671. Strangers on a Train 1951
670. Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
669. Lord of the Flies 1963
668. Inception 2010
667. The Invisible Man 1933
666. Hacksaw Ridge 2016
665. From Dusk Till Dawn 1996
664. A Beautiful Mind 2001
663. Pumping Iron 1977
662. Ordinary People 1980
661. How Far, How Near 1972
660. The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
659. Mrs. Miniver 1942
658. You Can't Take It with You 1938
657. Don't Look Now 1973
656. Doctor Zhivago 1965
655. Elite Squad 2007
654. Chungking Express 1994
653. Spotlight 2015
652. Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
651. The Iron Giant 1999
650. My Fair Lady 1964
649. Mr. Nobody 2009
648. The Devils 1971
647. The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
646. About Time 2013
645. John Wick 2014
644. The Fighter 2010
643. 300 2006
642. Antichrist 2009
641. The White Ribbon 2009
640. Good Bye Lenin! 2003
639. Shoeshine 1946
638. The Arrival of a Train 1896
637. Inherent Vice 2014
636. Everest 2015
635. The Machinist 2004
634. Stand by Me 1986
633. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
632. Munich 2005
631. The Great Beauty 2013
630. Seven Psychopaths 2012
629. Kin-dza-dza! 1986
628. Before Sunrise 1995
627. The Last Samurai 2003
626. Mystic River 2003
625. Blow 2001
624. Divorce Italian Style 1961
623. Up in the Air 2009
622. Resident Evil 2002
621. Up 2009
620. Pierrot le Fou 1965
619. Gettysburg 1993
618. Hot Fuzz 2007
617. Bunker Palace Hôtel 1989
616. Duck, You Sucker 1971
615. The Boondock Saints 1999
614. Clerks 1994
613. Blade 1998
612. Sonatine 1993
611. Ida 2013
610. Teorema 1968
609. Gummo 1997
608. Heist 2001
607. The Big Feast 1973
606. Catch Me If You Can 2002
605. Kids 1995
604. Fury 1936
603. The Prestige 2006
602. Sleuth 1972
601. Cinema Paradiso 1988
600. Koyaanisqatsi 1982
599. Killer of Sheep 1978
598. Saturday Night Fever 1977
597. Now You See Me 2013
596. Le Samouraï 1967
595. Repulsion 1965
594. Shane 1953
593. The Merchant of Four Seasons 1972
592. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007
591. The Manchurian Candidate 1962
590. Monsieur Verdoux 1947
589. Rififi 1955
588. Chef 2014
587. A Wednesday 2008
586. Room 2015
585. The Nice Guys 2016
584. Her 2013
583. A Trip to the Moon 1898
582. I Spit on Your Grave 1978
581. Star Trek: First Contact 1996
580. House of Flying Daggers 2004
579. In Bruges 2008
578. Titanic 1997
577. The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
576. Aparajito 1956
575. I Don't Want to Be a Man 1918
574. The Idiots 1998
573. Borat 2006
572. Sicario 2015
571. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
570. The Life of Emile Zola 1937
569. The Fifth Element 1997
568. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
567. Pinocchio 1940
566. Brother 1997
565. 21 Grams 2003
564. Gandhi 1982
563. The Incredibles 2004
562. Branded to Kill 1967
561. The Lobster 2015
560. Ninotchka 1939
559. Fanny and Alexander 1982
558. Oedipus Rex 1967
557. Kings of the Road 1976
556. Enter the Dragon 1973
555. Hotel Rwanda 2004
554. Warrior 2011
553. The Salvation 2014
552. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid 1942
551. Amores Perros 2000
550. Dark City 1998
549. GoldenEye 1995
548. Rope 1948
547. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2014
546. Fiddler on the Roof 1971
545. Slumdog Millionaire 2008
544. East of Eden 1955
543. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
542. The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
541. The Conversation 1974
540. 2046 2046
539. Black Swan 2010
538. Pi 1998
537. About Schmidt 2002
536. V for Vendetta 2005
535. Dog Days 2001
534. The Artist 2011
533. Fireworks 1997
532. Total Recall 1990
531. Fury 2014
530. Run Lola Run 1998
529. It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012
528. Rain Man 1988
527. Drive 2011
526. A Serious Man 2009
525. Midnight in Paris 2011
524. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011
523. Moneyball 2011
522. The Martian 2015
521. Limitless 2011
520. Goldfinger 1964
519. Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
518. The Edge 1997
517. The Pink Panther 1963
516. Gran Torino 2008
515. Paisan 1946
514. Encounters at the End of the World 2007
513. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
512. Summer with Monika 1953
511. Ocean's Eleven 2001
510. Short Cuts 1993
509. Kwaidan 1964
508. Trouble in Paradise 1932
507. The Untouchables 1987
506. Trading Places 1983
505. Match Point 2005
504. All That Jazz 1979
503. Hunger 2008
502. Let the Right One In 2008
501. Winter Light 1963
500. Sideways 2004
499. The Band's Visit 2007
498. Shadow of a Doubt 1943
497. Arsenic and Old Lace 1944
496. Oliver Twist 1948
495. Nashville 1975
494. Apocalypto 2006
493. The Elephant Man 1980
492. The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
491. Zodiac 2007
490. All About My Mother 1999
489. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991
488. Aliens 1986
487. A Woman Under the Influence 1974
486. Diabolique 1955
485. Network 1976
484. 12 Years a Slave 2013
483. Gimme Shelter 1970
482. Prisoners 2013
481. King Kong 2005
480. Roman Holiday 1953
479. Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
478. The Counterfeiters 2007
477. Night and Fog 1956
476. The Lady Eve 1941
475. Inside Llewyn Davis 2013
474. Alexander Nevsky 1938
473. Dawn of the Dead 2004
472. The Deer Hunter 1978
471. Maria Full of Grace 2004
470. Masculin Féminin 1966
469. American Splendor 2003
468. The Bourne Identity 2002
467. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2001
466. Chariots of Fire 1981
465. Judgment at Nuremberg 1961
464. Donnie Darko 2001
463. My Life to Live 1962
462. A Short Film About Killing 1988
461. Battle Royale 2000
460. Close-Up 1990
459. Jackie Brown 1997
458. The Master 2012
457. Dancer in the Dark 2000
456. Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
455. Gosford Park 2001
454. Punch-Drunk Love 2002
453. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix 1976
452. Touch of Evil 1958
451. Bimbo's Initiation 1931
450. Elephant 2003
449. The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967
448. The Seashell and the Clergyman 1928
447. Man with a Movie Camera 1929
446. Rome, Open City 1945
445. The French Connection 1971
444. Skyfall 2012
443. Open Range 2003
442. El Topo 1970
441. The Endurance 2000
440. The Sixth Sense 1999
439. The Lion King 1994
438. The Big Heat 1953
437. His Girl Friday 1940
436. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982
435. Mommy 2014
434. Dazed and Confused 1993
433. Naked Lunch 1991
432. L'Age d'Or 1930
431. The Maltese Falcon 1941
430. Europa 1991
429. Witness for the Prosecution 1957
428. Do the Right Thing 1989
427. Howl's Moving Castle 2004
426. Children of Paradise 1945
425. The Thin Man 1934
424. Blood Simple. 1984
423. Wings of Desire 1987
422. Dial M for Murder 1954
421. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
420. The Trial 1962
419. Belle de Jour 1967
418. Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1945
417. Time of the Gypsies 1988
416. Captain Phillips 2013
415. The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
414. Starship Troopers 1997
413. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
412. Nashville 1975
411. Vivre sa vie 1962
410. Gangs of New York 2002
409. Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982
408. Snatch 2000
407. Superman 1978
406. Catch-22 1970
405. The Last Picture Show 1971
404. Midnight Cowboy 1969
403. City of God 2002
402. The Ten Commandments 1956
401. The Kid 1921
400. The Party 1968
399. Ghostbusters 1984
398. Monster 2003
397. Million Dollar Baby 2004
396. Cool Hand Luke 1967
395. Princess Mononoke 1997
394. A Fistful of Dollars 1964
393. Stroszek 1977
392. Decapitation in Turkey 1904
391. Nightcrawler 2014
390. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
389. Mother's Day 1993
388. The Nights of Cabiria 1957
387. From Here to Eternity 1953
386. Incendies 2010
385. Top Hat 1935
384. The Punch Bowl 1944
383. MASH 1970
382. On the Waterfront 1954
381. Manchester by the Sea 2016
380. Gone Girl 2014
379. Rush 2013
378. Shutter Island 2010
377. Borgman 2013
376. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
375. Ordet 1955
374. The Salesman 2016
373. The Game 1997
372. Moonlight 2016
371. La La Land 2016
370. Days of Heaven 1978
369. Ex Machina 2014
368. Boyhood 2014
367. Moonrise Kingdom 2012
366. The Wrestler 2008
365. Iron Man 2008
364. Playtime 1967
363. Platoon 1986
362. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011
361. The Hidden Fortress 1958
360. Melancholia 2011
359. Chinatown 1974
358. A History of Violence 2005
357. Léon: The Professional 1994
356. High and Low 1963
355. Napoleon 1927
354. Deliverance 1972
353. RoboCop 1987
352. An American in Paris 1951
351. City of Women 1980
350. The Social Network 2010
349. The Terminator 1984
348. Ratatouille 2007
347. Edge of Tomorrow 2014
346. King Kong 1933
345. Minority Report 2002
344. The Illusionist 2006
343. Broken Flowers 2005
342. House of Games 1987
341. The Phantom of Liberty 1974
340. Pan's Labyrinth 2006
339. Rocco and His Brothers 1960
338. A Trip to the Moon 1902
337. The Dark Knight 2008
336. Erin Brockovich 2000
335. Groundhog Day 1993
334. The NeverEnding Story 1984
333. Little Miss Sunshine 2006
332. Inland Empire 2006
331. Brokeback Mountain 2005
330. Head-On 2004
329. Pickpocket 1959
328. Dances with Wolves 1990
327. Braveheart 1995
326. Three Colors: Red 1994
325. Birdman 2014
324. Oldboy 2003
323. The Thing 1982
322. Lost in Translation 2003
321. Memories of Murder 2003
320. Antarctica: A Year on Ice 2013
319. The Five Obstructions 2003
318. The Pianist 2002
317. Duck Amuck 1953
316. A Separation 2011
315. The Earrings of Madame de... 1953
314. The Kiss 1900
313. The Cranes Are Flying 1957
312. Unforgiven 1992
311. The Mother and the Whore 1973
310. Back to the Future 1985
309. The Experiment 2001
308. The Blues Brothers 1980
307. Carrie 1976
306. Three Colors: Blue
305. Synecdoche, New York 2008
304. Before Sunset 2004
303. La Strada 1954
302. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
301. Kagemusha 1980
300. Badlands 1973
299. The Name of the Rose 1986
298. Being John Malkovich 1999
297. Manderlay 2005
296. The Piano Teacher 2001
295. Y Tu Mamá También 2001
294. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004
293. Videodrome 1983
292. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953
291. Gravity 2013
290. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959
289. The Green Mile 1999
288. Life of Pi 2012
287. L.A. Confidential 1997
286. Children of Men 2006
285. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
284. Dressed to Kill 1980
283. Memento 2000
282. Holy Motors 2012
281. Gladiator 2000
280. Rushmore 1998
279. Good Will Hunting 1997
278. Alphaville 1965
277. The Philadelphia Story 1940
276. The Man from Earth 2007
275. Airplane! 1980
274. Quest for Fire 1981
273. Freaks 1932
272. Se7en 1995
271. Crimson Tide 1995
270. Toy Story 1995
269. To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
268. Heat 1995
267. American Beauty 1999
266. My Neighbor Totoro 1988
265. Le Cercle Rouge 1970
264. The Shawshank Redemption 1994
263. A Man for All Seasons 1966
262. Russian Ark 2002
261. Into the Wild 2007
260. Fight Club 1999
259. Ace in the Hole 1951
258. Master and Commander 2003
257. Strike 1925
256. Simon of the Desert 1965
255. Boogie Nights 1997
254. Down by Law 1986
253. The Hunt for Red October 1990
252. Stranger Than Paradise 1984
251. No Man's Land 2001
250. Wild Tales 2014
249. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971
248. Buena Vista Social Club 1999
247. Hero 2002
246. The Exorcist 1973
245. La Jetée 1962
244. Dersu Uzala 1975
243. Reservoir Dogs 1992
242. Fitzcarraldo 1982
241. Cries & Whispers 1972
240. The Birds 1963
239. The African Queen 1951
238. Toni Erdmann 2016
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[Table] IAma Las Vegas Nightclub Promoter. Ill clear up any misconceptions or reservations you have about this BEAST that's known as "The Strip". AMA

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What's the best way to go about getting a table/bottle service without completely breaking the bank? It's Vegas so of course it's not gonna be cheap by any stretch but do you have any tips to get the most bang for your buck? Stay away from clubs that have a Major Dj/ Act on that night. Fridays and Saturdays are the worst. They'll price you according to how many people you have. For example at Encore beach club, if you have 6 in your group they'll price you at $1k-1500 to start with. Night clubs usually start at 4/bottle. If you have women with you get them inside through a guest list. They'll get in free. Example, its 4 guys and 4 girls they'll want to get you on a two bottle minimum. Instead have the guys walk in for the one bottle minimum and let the girls know what table number youre at. TA-DA! Youll also get just enough seating for 4-6 but fuck it, youre in a club so get up and have fun!
Its all about real estate. If you just want to have a table to enjoy your own space and not have to worry about waiting at the bar then get a table situated off the side. Also give hosts a hard time, don't just say YES to the first offer. Maybe see if they can throw in a bottle of champ or something. Or a buy two get one free.
Whats the craziest thing you've seen in vegas? Craziest? uhm sex inside clubs. Sex in cabs. Sex out in the open. A girl once was sooo fucked up that she was walking around The Aria with only a bikini bottom and a fishnet top. That's it. Fishnets used to catch Whales so a whole tit, and she had very nice sized tits, pretty much was hanging out. You could see a wave of jaws drop and conversations stop as she walked by with her drunk friend and their two guy friends. Ahh memories. But all in all, drugs, sex, and money being spent on the craziest things. Hobos fighting with themselves. Brides-to-be doing the walk of shame. Craziness.
Walk of shame? How do you mean? Still in the clothes that they wore the last night. Usually because they spent the prior night with someone that they shouldn't have. But its Vegas, spend your night with whoever you can!!! Yaaay!
Hobos fighting themselves? Like, Tyler Durden style? I saw a hobo talking to himself. He then got mad at himself and started punching himself in the gut. I didn't know who to put my money on.
Helix or dome fossil? Helix.
What is the biggest scam on the strip? Id say paying for club passes that are to be had for free. Biggest scam is paying for these wrist bands that promise you no line, no cover, and open bar all night. And its on a night when Tiesto or Zedd is playing. Yeah right, youre showing up to the club and they'll laugh at you. And after you tell them that you gave $30 to someone that seemed honest and even gave you his/her number. I once met a group of 26 girls from a sorority from AZ that each paid $25. After I told them that it was fake two out of the seven girls started tearing. I got them on guest lists to access the clubs for free with one offering an open bar. Was happy to alleviate some of the pain.
Oh shit, I forgot! The guys that bring out their tables on the strip and do the whole follow the ball thing. The people winning work with them. Watch them, they'll win and make sure they let out a WHOOO really loud and make sure people are looking. They lure in others and make it look really easy to win. I once saw a guy lose $1700 and a thick heavy as fuck gold chain in less than 3 minutes. he got on his knees and asked for some of it back . The guy gave him $200 because the idiot said it was the last of his money and was with his wife and three kids. Greed I tell ya.
It's always hard for me to believe that in 2014, people actually still fall for that shit... I mean, it's completely unmodified, it's literally a movie cliche scam. Exactly. I'm like really. Really people? I once saw a guy paying out $300 to 3 ladies and 2 dudes for helping. Imagine what he kept.
"A fool and his money are soon parted". Sounds like vegas exemplifies this adage? I pondered how to answer this question for too long. Short and simple... yes. Perfectly.
What's the best way for a middle-aged couple to do clubs? We love the music but feel ridiculous (which kills the fun) queuing up with beautiful twenty-somethings. First off, you wouldn't be the only middle aged couple. I see them all the time. Some just kick back and drink and then some are dancing all night and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks. Let me know what days you are here and I'll put you on some guest lists so you don't pay cover.
Where can I find those hot dogs? At the Casino Royal, next to the Venetian. All the way in the back. Michelobs for $1 at the bar at the entrance.
What about the shots? Bally's Casino. Taco joint in the back.
Sunglasses inside a nightclub. Fucking douche-bags or clever way to hide pupil dilation? Fucking get the fuck out of here. I cannot say "fuck" enough when I see those idiots in the club. I hope they slip on spilled beer, fall on sticky residue and get up right when the confetti is shot out.
Did someone stab you with sunglasses or something? No, they stabbed me with audacity... audacity to wear them inside a club. I guess its because I'm a form follows function type of guy. Sunglasses inside would only be ok when you're covering up a black eye from a beat down or your bloodshot red eyes would give away that you've been on a drug binge.
This is a long shot, but my friends and I are going to be in vegas for EDC, we plan to stay a week, is there anyway you could hook us up when EDC is over? Sure. Text me before you're here and ill let you know what I can do. Worst case ill be able to do a reduced cover. 7736200454.
You are now in my phone as Vegas promoter. I do Vegas about 6 times a year. So expect a text soon and if your down I'll buy you a few beers. You had me at "Beers".
Hey DisasterBUSE, got a question for you. I'm not really a club guy but I do like to go to bars. What are some of the better bars in the casinos that are good for someone who just likes to have a few drinks in between gambling. Also are there any good rock clubs in Vegas? If so, what are the called and where are they? The Wynn and Encore are very lively at night. If you want to gamble and drink with a great view, that's the place. Venetian, Palazzo, Bellagio, Aria, and last but not least The Cosmopolitan ate great places with great energy. The clubs SurrendeEncore Beach Club and XS have gambling tables in case you'd like to soak a little of the scene in while playing a few hands.
How's papa Giorgio? Not sure but I think he might look something like this nowadays.
Going to vegas for a cousins bachelor party from May 14 to 18. I am a student got any tips for me to be money wise? as the people I am going with are all older professionals with money. Any hook ups? thanks! Do most of your drinking at slots, tables. Ill put in $10 in a slot, and sometimes not even gamble at all. Cocktail servers come around and ask if I want drinks..."two vodka/tonics please" and tip her $4. If youre doing any pool parties and not doing bottle service you might want to get tickets before hand since theyre cheaper than paying at the door. Flasks flasks flasks! Let me know if I missed anything that concerned you.
In all seriousness, I'll be in Vegas for the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament. Know of any awesome places (besides the casino sports books) to catch the games? Bars off the strip are always great. No pressure and decent pricing on booze. unless youre willing to pony up and do Lagasses place at Venetian or something.
What's the most common misconception about clubbing and how do you correct people about it? That theyre impossible to get in, theyre not fun, expensive to get in, girls are hard to meet/ leave the club with. The club I work for 75% of the times im able to get couples in free provided that they show up early. On slower nights Im able to get uneven ratios in (more guys than girls) or give tickets that grant free entrance. And the ladies. To me they all look the same BUT its hard to get over it. Ive seen guys pick up ladies super quick and they only had a beer in their hand, you don't need a massive table with free drinks galore. Theres a lot of girls in the clubs that have awesome personalities but have their guards of because theyre just not comfortable with being groped. Approach them in a non creepy way and youre golden. I see this every week. What surprises me is how many people come to vacation here and are just total Debbie downers. The most amazing thing about this place is that people come here to have fun and dance theyre asses off, even when they have no clue what theyre doing. Walk in to a club through a guest list and get in free, have a drink and enjoy an amazing sound system. Even if its for 30 min, I feel its large part of the Vegas experience.
Good answer man! I'd love to have your job Theres a lot of bad that come with the jobs. A significant other will not be happy with your phone blowing up until the early morning. A lof of girls are absolute bitches and think the whole world owes them something for having their tits out. Its a hustle and with every "NO!", "EWW", and "I HAVE A BOYFRIEND CREEP" you have to keep on and hope the next says yes. And please note, I always approach with something non creepy like "Hey ladies sorry to interrupt, have you been invited to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis tonight on a guest list"?
I've always wondered you guys must get paid pretty good money right? (There was one particular promoter I always stuck with until he recently moved) but this guy had an assistant and took nice trips I kinda just always wondered how that system works. And do Diplo and Dillion Francis put on good shows? I wanna see either one sometime soon Great question. First off Diplo is at my workplace tomorrow night so best believe Ill be instagramming tons of Videos. All of Maddecent are awesome. Dillon Francis and Diplo are both awesome. Tons of ass shaking tomorrow for sure!
So everyone pays differently. I only work at SurrendeEncore Beach and have a day job so my time is limited. So Ill breakdown promotions as much as I can. First off there are different types of Promoters. You have the ones that work at a club like yours truly. Since I only work at SurrendeEncore Beach club, which is run by Las vegas Nightlife Group. I only get paid for people that come to my club. XS and Tryst are owned by the same people and we are all located at the Wynn/Encore. You then have Tao Group, Angel Management Group (AMG), and Light Group. Tao clearly has Tao, Tao beach, Marquee and Marquee Dayclub. AMG has (or had, Hakkasan just bought the group out). Hakkasan, Wet Republic, Pure, LAX, Chateau, Venus, Coyote Ugly, Saville Row. LG runs Light, Daylight, Haze, 1Oak, The Bank and a few lounges/restaurants. Tao group promoters can have guest lists at all their venues so if they leave a group with a great impression and they check in on their guest list at all joints then the person just made $ times the number of venues they checked in. Light Group usually confines their employees to one club, unless they need help filling out another (which they usually do) and allow them to be paid (I waited 8 months to get paid by them, I don't like the way they manage their places). AMG varies as well, I heard some are only focusing on Wet and Hak but heard that before they had to have a certain amount check in at other properties. With all this said, if youre a good promoter, hardoworking, and have a good network, 1k a week is a cakewalk. Even 2k can be done for the greater part of the summer. I know of a guy that can make 4-8k/wk and its all through his phone. Money can be real good IF you work hard and hit high numbers. Ill elaborate a little more later on tonight if anyone wants me to. I need to head home.
If you feel like elaborating, what's the difference between the 1k a week promoter and the promoter making 4-8k? Well if you don't bring any people and ate not being paid hourly then you might not get a check at all. Those that are successful in this biz network hard, are usually seasoned, and are good enough to the point that clients want to go back to them and refer them to others. Ive heard of hosts being flown to exotic places, gifts being custom made as gifts, and so on. Its really like any other sales job, many do it, some are good, few are great. There are also many ways to make money. You can book hotel rooms, sell packages, etc. where you receive a kick back. When done right its a win/win/win.
What's are your experiences like with the Vegas drain dwellers? Any good stories? Theyre all over the place. Usually just getting drunk and laying out on the sidewalk. I pay no attention to them. Some have demanded money and when I tell them I have no cash or simply say "sorry, cant help ya" at times can get very aggressive. Then they fall on their ass or something. Comical most of the times. Look at them too long though it becomes depressing. The sad thing is I see a lot that are soo young. There was this young girl with a sign that read "pregnant with 2nd child and cannot afford anything. please help". I sat down next to her and asked her why she was out there. I asked if she sought help. I was baffled that such a young person could be so out of luck. She proceeded with a story about her losing her Social Security Income when she moved to Arizona or something. When she moved back they denied her or something along those lines. In the end it seemed like she lost hope and possible gave up too quickly. She said she didn't have family to turn to. Those are the moments when I realize that I am lucky to have a great family that would take me in if I ever went near that route.
Whats a good tip to you afer helpi. Some people out? I don't ever expect to get tipped. I get paid by the club. There are always people who value what I do and slip me a $20,$40. The most I've ever been tipped was $160. It was for setting up someone with table service at a few clubs. Tips humble me, just buy me a shot and we're good!
Show up at club with a big line. What amount should you slip the bouncer to let you in and a date? What would you say? I'm always afraid i'll hand over a hundred bucks and he'll make me wait in line anyway. Depends on the club. If its just you and a date Id say start at $40. Order of difficulty to skip the line from hardest to easiest: All guys> More guys than girls>even ratio mixed group>all girls. That being said if its just a guy and a girl then Id start out at $40, they might come back with $60-$80. If you feel like pulling their bluff thank them for the help but youll just wait in line. Sometimes they'll see $40 better than nothing. Imagine if he does that 10 times a night? Not bad...
Another thing you might want to think about is say you just left at a restaurant that's in the casino. Id probably use the whole "My buddy So-and-so, manager at ___, told me to come check it out. I forgot the name of who Im supposed to ask though (maybe guess a name). Can we go in and check it out"? Worst case scenario is they say no, next is they let you pass and you pay cover, best thing is you walk in no line and no cover. Ive met people who have succeeded.
I read your comment about tipping and whatnot and how its not really necessary. i went last august with a group of 12 for my buddy's bachelor party and we got tables at light on a friday and lavo on a sunday. we tipped on both occassions, as i was under the impression that it was proper etiquette. for light we gave the guy a little over 200, and he was able to move us from a table on the 2nd floor in the corner to one that was pretty close to the main floor for the same bottle minimum (we had planned on giving him that much anyway before he moved us). at lavo we hooked the guy up with 100. were we too generous? or is that pretty standard? A 20% gratuity is always on the bill plus 8.1% tax. Now, with the $200+ you gave the host you then bettered your real estate setting in the club. While you don't really have to tip your host its customary to throw them a bone. You can get your table and have everyone leave you be except your busseserver. Start tipping security and they will make sure the crowd stays clear of your area. Tip your host and they seat you at a better table. Tip a "girl-guy" and they will bring you hot ladies. Now with that last one be very careful, ladies that table hop are very thirsty and the only way for them to stay alive is to have a constant source of alcohol. Party too hard and your 2k table has turned into 8k. Or your 7k has turned into 22k. Ive seen this happen at many clubs. If you just hit it big at the tables or hit a progressive at the slots then fuck it, LIVE IT UP! (Im kidding, save a small town from hunger).
Do promoters make a huge difference in cutting the line, hooks, and discounts, and saving money? Rather than just walking into the club blind? A good promoter wants your experience to be soo awesome that they contact you on their next visit or mention their name when a friend has Vegas plans. That said, our guest lists offer no cover or reduced entry. Express entry is only done when their at the ropes and have an incentive to get you inside faster. If youre a dude youll probably have to tip someone off to skip the line. When I come across a couple I always offer to set them up somewhere else the following night. Its simply good business and I believe in paying it forward. Before I moved to Vegas I made a trip with my SO and I know how hard the city can be without a hookup. I put myself in their shoes and do what I can for them. I always provide pics of my club and explain the whole line/open bar situation. I don't lie to them just for them to get in, it comes back to bite you in your ass.
So what's the best way for an international tourist to get some good coke? I've heard it's best to hire a limo and ask the driver. What do you think? Be very careful. Vice (undercover cops) are all over and look the role they are playing. I once was walking in front of the Bellagio fountains and within a matter of seconds a couple of men, tattoos on their necks and all, went from talking to a guy one second to quickly pulling out their badges and handcuffing the man. All I heard was "under arrest for possession and intent to..".
I'm a you get guy and I like older women, what are the best spots to meet them? Just to let you know im23 so older form me is 30+ Check out the pools, casinos. There a ton of HOT older ladies. A difference between them and younger chicks: Mature woman have no problem having a drink, laying out, or just walking by themselves. You'll find these that are here for a convention and have nothing planned for the night. Whenever I get them on my guest list theres a 90% chance they'll show up. Two weeks ago I had a large group of 9 woman show up. Every. Single. One. Was. Hot!
What is the incentive for someone under 21 to visit Vegas? To make it to 21 and join the fun! Now you have a goal. youre welcome.
I kid, kind of. I approach many under 21 and they all look like theyre having fun. I don't even think theres a curfew so you can at least people watch while sipping on whatever. The city never sleeps. Jump on the roller coaster at NYNY or head to Strasphere and have some fun. Lots of walking and selfie opportunities.
Are there ways to get a table at a club for free? If you have a group of great looking girls or have a local ID then yes, its possible. Youll only have to pay tip. $70-some odd bucks per bottle instead of $600 and change? not bad.
Does a promoter like yourself just walk up to us and say "hey, want a free table?" It depends. For a group of all ladies and if theyre cute I can get them a table with champagne bottles for free. The clubs want pretty ladies in so some places offer then a free dinner and a free table. Every club is different. But if theyre hot my first questions is "so how many girls/guys with you" and when its all girls then its a go. Some clubs require a picture of all girls, it then has to be sent to a manager to approve the group.
Is that the real Caesars Palace? Did Caesar live there? It was faxed it over bit by bit starting in the 60's. Yes Caesar lived there. Ordered tons of room service.
How often do people offer you drugs/money/sex in order to get into clubs? Those younger than 21 are willing to give me their first born just to get in. I get offered tons of things, Im not surprised anymore.
Has anybody ever told you that you look like Ami James? Like if you tattooed your neck and stuff I swear you could pass as a double. No but I see a resemblance. I always get Vin Diesel or Willie Nelson. Ok maybe not Willie.
What suggestions do you give for a small college restaurant/bar in terms of bringing people inside? Also what do you NOT suggest doing? Suggestions like what works to get them inside your place?
Any place really! I've seen just about everything in my city but most bars here are dead(50-100k population being students alone!) Its really location specific. Im from Chicago and Vegas is a whole different ball game. We deal with people that are here for a short amount of time. In the end though all places want bodies inside their place. Motion created commotion so if youre in a place that's packed and fun people want to stay and consume more. Most important, get bodies inside the club/bar early. Before 11 is key. That way any propect walking by sees that its busy and wants to be part of the fun. Does this make sense?
What would you recommend as far as afterhours edm parties go? You might like Artisan. The times that Ive been there its been nothing but deep house and some edm. Really weird décor too, worth seeing. Body English and Drais usually mix it up.
What's the craft beer scene like? I've always been a fan of travel, and love checking out the local craft breweries/brewpubs in an area. Sin City brewery at a few casinos, Big Dog Brewery, Banger Brewery in Downtown, Chicago Brewery to name a few. Yard House carries a few local brew I believe.
Chicago Brewing, at Rampart and Ft Apache was my stomping ground for the two years that I lived in Summerlin. I loved that place. Decent food and beer, and the upstairs bar area was perfect for baseball viewing. Good memories, thanks for reminding me of it. I remember watching my first Bears game there. I got Goosebumps seeing all the people with their jerseys on. Refreshing in this transient city.
Hey, thanks for the AMA. What's the deal with dress codes at various clubs? Does it depend on night/weekend? Heading out to Vegas with a bachelor party in June, curious to get your thoughts on this and strategy for a group of 15 drunk idiot single guys. You know, even I don't know. I mean if you're put together in a presentable manner than you shouldn't have a problem. If you stick to collared shirts and nice shoes then you're good. No athletic wear, no hats. Sometimes chucks slide but id rather you be safe than sorry. Clearly the day clubs are lenient on dress code, still no athletic wear. If you have a club in mind text me and ill make sure to find out what it is they are/are not tolerating.
You got me with the the VIP pass? Hit me up and if I have tickets I don't see why not.
Whats the best nightclub on the strip? Define Best and Ill tell you which one.
Surprise me. My favorite is XS. Hakkasan is the latest and greatest. It cost $100m and was named Nightclub&Bars best top club for 2014. Light inside the Mandalay Bay is awesome. I like Surrender because its an outdoor club with a dancefloor inside (I don't like being shoved every two seconds). Tryst is also cool with a 90ft waterfall. Marquee has always done well and is a must visit (it also gets too crowded for me though). It really depends if you like dancing in the middle of the dancefloor, what kind of music you like, outdoor vs indoor. Then you have your older clubs that still have a following like Pure, Tao. Maybe its because they've been around FOREVER.
I fly around a decent amount, if I wanted to make Vegas a frequent destination how could I get in contact with you? Buy calling/texting! 7736200454. Christopher Landeroz. Texting is way better, I can reply whenever.
Too bad doubles are 25$ there lol. Yes, a simple sprite sets you back $7. $10 at Hakkasan! That's why I tell people to load up at a slot so you only need 1-2 more when you're inside the club. But the place is awesome. Awesome can be expensive =/
Do those mexican guys on the Strip throwing phamplets at anyone actually manage to get people to call those escort lines? I talk to a few on a regular basis. Super nice people sweating their asses off and getting paid very little. According to one of them theyre just there to pass them out for a company. They almost never see a bonus for it. If the people they work for still have them up and down the strip passing them out then people must be calling. I don't know too much about the escorts you get from calling those numbers. I do know escorts that work for themselves though. Some of those chicks make tons of dough.
Do you know my cousin Tiffany? Does she own jewelry stores all over the place? Make pretty lamps with stained glass? Kidding.
Should I know her? Does she work there?
She used to work at surrender now she works at light. Server? Promoter?
I'll be in Vegas for edc weekend. Any chance you might be able to hook it up with guest list? :) Sure. I'm pretty sure we'll have some major talent that week. Message me sooner than later.
What are y'all gonna do when the water runs out? I should be back home in Chicago by then. Maybe swap out water for Vodka or something.
Promoter. Tae?
Yea, tay. Didn't talk to her much but yes, I remember her.
Leaving for Vegas tomorrow for Spring Break/My Bachelor Party! Any way to to get a sweet deal on your club for Saturday night? Madeon will be there Saturday night! Text me 7736200454.
My fiancee is bringing me to LV for my birthday in April. Any tips on birthday hook ups or perks I can get out there? We're staying at The Wynn. Your hook up is right here! Text me or message me.
I'll be there next week, any chance you could hook me up? :) EDIT: It'll also be my 21st Birthday! Of course! message me.
Wanna hook me up VIP style for my 21st in July? Why not! Message me!
I'll be there with my best friend in two weeks for her birthday. Any way you can help us out? Yup! Message me!
I highly recommend the show Absinthe in Las Vegas. I was there about two weeks ago and the show was AMAZING. Although, the humor in the show can be a bit vulgar so if you're offended very easily then I wouldn't recommend it. This. Ive heard nothing but good things about Absinthe.
I am going EBC when it opens March 29th for my birthday. Can I contact you for bottles !! Yes. Text me! Number is on my instagram profile or message me!
I'll have to check it out from Australia sometime :) Aussie Aussie Aussie!!! Aussies have to be some of the best people that come out. Super friendly, party hard, and uhh party hard!
Headed to Vegas the weekend of April 11th for my cousins bachelor party. Staying at Hard Rock. Need some direction on clubs! Message me, and Ill let you know whats hot. It usually boils down to hip hop or house (and don't get me started on todays "hiphop, Im oldschool but whatev), outdoor or indoor, daytime or night? Ill point you the way. you cant go wrong with the clubs at the Wynn/Encore though. Don't pay for anything online, sometimes they can be had cheaper here. Example: strip club packages for a bachelorette/bachelor party online charge $30-50 when I can get you the same thing for $7-45. A group of girls from back home (Chicago) were referred to me. For some odd reason one of them decided to buy a package for 9 girls. Turns out they overpaid by $135. Its the internet, they know that people like to preplan so they get you like that. Knowing what I know now Id book a room in advance (but would probably willing to try the last minute hotel sites, Ive heard great things about them) and tickets for clubs if it was all males.
So i'm going to vegas for the first time starting the 12th of march for my 21st birthday/ mountain west tournament trip what do you think the best clubs and pool parties are to go to to get the whole first time vegas trip experience Are you the one who text me already? If not then here it goes: (shameless plug) Surrender its an indoooutdoor club. We book talent ranging from hip hop, trap to EDC, Dubstep. While there check out XS and Tryst. Hakkasan at MGM is new and pretty big. Light at Mandalay Bay is new as well. Great lighting and "powered by Cirque du Soleil", meaning performers hang from the ceiling and behind their LED screen. Marquee at the cosmo has always held their weight. Both indoooutdoor. You then have Hyde, Pure, Tao, Moon, Ghost bar and many others. During the day I'm pretty Sure Ghost bar dayclub (GBDC) and Lavo Brunch will be going on during the day on Saturday. Basically they're clubs open during the day. Encore Beach Club might be open and a few others. Those dates are right on the cusp of pools opening so its TBD as of now. Message me and ill see what I can do for you.
You mean you're a mexican immigrant who flips cards at people? Or you're a strip bar "concierge" who wanders the strip getting bachelor parties to go to Treasures? And those cheap beers and tequila shots are available at the Taco place in Ballys... duh! Yes, glad I made myself clear. And not everyone knows their way around Vegas, just trying to help. Thanks for your contribution to the cause.
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