Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Redneck Concert Madness

Thursday, February 7 Foghat will take the stage at the Million Dollar Elm Casino. Tickets start at $15. I mean, a 30 year old rock band for $15 bucks? That's such a great deal. I can hardly stand it.

But seriously who would pay even $15 for Foghat? Their most famous song has only one redeeming quality whatsoever: the bass line. Not to mention the incredible amount of Jimbos, Billy Bobs and Jimmy Jons sure to be in attendance. Come on, it's Foghat. At an Indian casino. The only time you'll find more rednecks in one place is if the casino was showing professional wrestling inside of monster trucks and handing out free cans of Copenhagen.

MP3: Slow Ride

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Urban Renewal?

According to various news outlets the city of Tulsa and the Tulsa Drillers (minor league affiliate of the NL Champion Colorado Rockies) have reached an agreement to negotiate a deal to keep the Drillers from moving to Jenks (AKA Yuppieville). The two parties have until May 30 to reach an agreement that involves building a baseball stadium in the east-side of Downtown (1st-6th and Elgin). You know, the part of Downtown where all the restaurants and bars are...the part where they should of built the BOK Center...the part where they had originally, foolishly planned on building a Wal-Mart...that part.

This sounds like a good deal for the city, and as far as Jenks is concerned...fuck Jenks. One of the big arguments I've heard being tossed around is the fact that people from Broken Arrow, Bixby and Jenks don't want to have to drive to Midtown on Downtown to watch a baseball game, which is hurting the ticket sales. Refer to previous sentence for that resolution to that argument. Specifically the part right after the ellipses. There ya go.

Hopefully the city government has started to finally commit to making Downtown exciting and comparable to Oklahoma City's downtown which is far superior to ours. I pray they have to level that death-trap Club UV or whatever the fuck it's changed its name to now. Only 4 people shot in the last year? That's not too bad, at all.

A developer is planning on spending $30 million on land in the historic Greenwood district to put in some kind of development (the details are understandably hazy). For those of you that don't know, the entire district of Greenwood was burnt to the ground in the 1921 race riots, evidently the worst in U.S. history. It's only taken 87 years to begin some kind of development there, which is the most apt illustration of the way Tulsa does business. Way to go, team!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

It's About Time!

Everyone in Oklahoma (specifically in Tulsa where this was filmed) is driven (no pun intended) crazy by idiot drivers doing idiotic things like driving under the speed limit in the fast lane. Thank you to the OHP.

Pull the Fuck Over!

2008 Tulsa Music Wishlist

We present to you a list of bands we would love to have come through Tulsa (we'll even settle for near Tulsa, we aren't too needy). This is not a complete list of the bands we would like to see in town, just the ones we want to see the most right now. This list could, and very likely will, change.

1. Deer Tick





2. Rosie Thomas





3. Battles



4. M.I.A.



5. Beirut



6. Panda Bear


7. Okkervil River


8. Les Savy Fav


9. Les Savy Fav

10. Liars



A thank you to IMEEM and Pitchfork.

Wishes fulfilled so far: Tiger Army and Wilco.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

There Will Be Blood

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is behind the baton for Paul Thomas Anderson's new flim There Will Be Blood based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! This is Greenwood's first attempt at film compositions, but if you listened you wouldn't think so. It's clearly and painfully obvious now that Jonny Greenwood is the genius behind the band.

To hear new Radiohead, click In Rainbows.
There Will Be Blood opens nationally January 11, 2008.

Shameless Plug

Read my friend Wendell Summers' recount of the locally performed, Jose Rivera play Marisol, starring the lovely ladies Ayumi Manabe and Claire Ludwig [both pictured]) here!

The Money in the Bank Goes Bye, Bye, Bye (sometimes)

A rash of bank robberies are sweeping through the Tulsa metro, and by "rash" I mean 4 of them, at least 1 of which was unsuccessful.

On Thursday, January 3 three individuals attempted to rob the BancFirst location near 91st and Yale. A teller saw three men wearing masks approach the bank sometime around 9:30...so she locked the door on them (their sigh on disappointment was audible in Midtown). They fled the scene in an "Acura-type" vehicle (whatever that means). One of those men was apprehended.

And then there's this guy who is suspected of robbing 4 banks in Tulsa. He likes to wear panty hose on his face.


For more info click here and here.
For more info on what people will do take your money click here, here and here!

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Man Drives Into Backyard. Wasn't Drunk.


According to Channel 2 Works For You (sort of) a Tulsa man lost control of his car, jumped a retaining wall into someone's back yard only then to pull the most anti-climactic move in history...stop mere feet from the house.

Upcoming Shows 01/05/08

Keller Williams and the WMD's January 24
Tiger Army February 05
Wilco March 08

All shows at Cain's Ballroom, The Legendary

Serial Killer on the Loose! Hide your bovines?

Authorities are working frantically to hunt down a serial murderer that has claimed the lives of nearly 30 cows in northeastern Oklahoma since August. Most of the murders have taken place in Nowata, Rogers, Craig and Mayes Counties (apparently Tulsa county bovines aren't priority number one). The first cows to go before their time were mutilated and butchered on scene, however, the latest victims have just been shot and left to die.



Investigators are busy passing out fliers and information at agriculture stores and feed lots across the 120 square mile area affected by the "Bovine Bundy" (my term) and are encouraging ranchers and farmers to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity (drunk rednecks firing guns from moving pickup trucks is not suspicious in this part of the state, mind you).

For more info click here. To find out the "humane" ways ranchers murder and mutilate their own cows click here and here