{"id":284,"date":"2010-08-25T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2010-09-05T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T23:20:06","slug":"las-vegas-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/las-vegas-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the second night in Las Vegas my parents and I had tickets to see Le R\u00c3\u00aave, the water acrobatic (aquabatic??) show in the Wynn. We had the buffet around the corner, spent a few minutes gambling (I won $20!) and went to the lobby of the theater. There was a interesting mix of people: high society types in eveningwear, summer vacationers in polo shirts and shorts. I noticed there weren&#8217;t any kids, which made sense when I actually saw the show. <\/p>\n<p>We were led in to the theater, which was a lot smaller than I imagined, and also circular. A thick fog covered the center stage. We took our seats and I waited for my first Vegas show to start. <\/p>\n<p>When one encounters something new, there is a natural tendency to place it within context of prior experiences. Watching Le R\u00c3\u00aave for me was like two videogame elements made liveaction: Final Fantasy, and Cho Aniki. Everyone knows what Final Fantasy is:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Le R\u00c3\u00aave\" src=\"http:\/\/multivu.prnewswire.com\/mnr\/lereve\/27693\/images\/27693-lo-lereve.jpg\" title=\"Man Pile at Le R\u00c3\u00aave\" width=\"192\" height=\"297\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le R\u00c3\u00aave. From PR Newswire<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_285\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"FFVI Man Pile\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final Fantasy VI<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_286\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/tzoo.p.31257.41910.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flying Lady\" width=\"210\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tzoo.p.31257.41910.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tzoo.p.31257.41910-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le R\u00c3\u00aave<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.codesignstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ultimecia%20-%20Mannikin%20(Transient%20Witch).jpg\" title=\"Ultimecia\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final Fantasy<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cho_Aniki\">Cho Aniki<\/a> is a series of homoerotic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoot_'em_up\">shmups<\/a>. How homoerotic?<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a0\/Cd_fa46.gif\" title=\"Cho Aniki\" width=\"256\" height=\"224\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty Homoerotic Actually<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>But Le Reve couldn&#8217;t possibly be as&#8230;<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i261.photobucket.com\/albums\/ii57\/vulken\/Los%20Angeles\/Le_RC3AAve_at_Wynn_Las_Ve.jpg\" title=\"Le Reve Tree\" width=\"345\" height=\"304\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh...<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/regent.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341ca4b653ef01347fdacf7c970c-500wi\" title=\"Le Reve Man on Man\" width=\"345\" height=\"345\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wow...<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it was quite the show. At the end, a few people in the crowd stood up to applaud, but the other 97% did not. To be honest, it wasn&#8217;t mindblowingly spectacular. Early on I saw one of the fruits of the man-tree above try to leap for a branch and epic failed into the water. The show also had a bizarre plot, kinda like Final Fantasy actually. There&#8217;s this girl, and this guy proposes to her or something but she&#8217;s not sure about it she trips out of reality and is taken through some weird scenes of devilry, water, and dance by the bad guy in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temple_of_Doom\">Temple of Doom<\/a>. Oh and a creepy 3D rendered baby was narrating. Then she wakes up from this stupor and says yes to the guy (duh!). Then they&#8217;re salsa dancing and all of the figments are happy. The end. <\/p>\n<p>Ater the show I blew the $20 I won before, and then the rest of my gambling allowance. I retreated to the hotel room and worked on my dissertation, my plan to escape to financial security having been foiled by probability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the second night in Las Vegas my parents and I had tickets to see Le R\u00c3\u00aave, the water acrobatic (aquabatic??) show in the Wynn. We had the buffet around the corner, spent a few minutes gambling (I won $20!) and went to the lobby of the theater. There was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/las-vegas-part-3.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Las Vegas, Part 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}