What do No Country for Old Men and Red Dawn have in common?

They're both cinematic brilliance? Yes. They'll share cult classic status? Yes, that too. But there's one more you'll never get. They were both filmed in my li'l hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico. I know, you thought Las Vegas was in Nevada hah-hah blah-blah. But my Las Vegas is quaint, beautiful and a hotbed of hollywood film sets.

Red Dawn is one of my favorites and though it was never up for an Oscar like fancy pants No Country, the movie always manages to entertain. My junior high and parts of Vegas' downtown area were blown up and that's enough to make any angst-ridden kid happy, very very happy. WOLVERINES!!!!

No Country for Old Men sure blew away the critics. The Coen brothers are apparently geniuses, Javier Bardem makes for one hell of a creepy guy, and Las Vegas, NM was a good backdrop for murder and general bloodshed. Congrats to No Country!

Really what I wanted to do is share with you the shopping spree I went on after looking up Las Vegas, New Mexico in our wonderful comparison shopping engine. First, something I couldn't buy: This historic building going for $1.2 million. Shopwiki, can I have a raise? If I'm not mistaken this building is the Murphey's Drug Store building. Many shots from both Wyatt Earp and All the Pretty Horses were filmed there. Anyone want to go halfsies with me? Anyway, my other purchases included a black Las Vegas, NM t-shirt that I will wear proudly in the streets of New York City, a brown "New Mexico: Cleaner Than Regular Mexico" t-shirt that I will wear ironically in some hipster bar, AND a book, Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico. I swore we had ZERO Jewish people in New Mexico because up until I moved away, I had never met one. I have spoken of this to my Jewish coworkers who undoubtedly think I'm an uncultured small town hick.

I'm pretty excited about my purchases and hope that you are excited for me. Now lets hope my jobby job gives me a raisey raise because working here is going to break me.