The (s)Wheat Spot!: Emo-klahoma!

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Emo-klahoma!

Every time I go to Oklahoma, it's cloudy. Now, I refuse to believe that a state in this part of the country can always be cloudy, but something's up with that. My friend Chris just says that Oklahoma has 'emo weather.' I don't usually use 'emo' to describe weather, but in this case it fit. Even in the middle of August, I felt like I should have brought a sweater. To Oklahoma.

To add to the 'emo-ness' of the weekend, I decided to rock Oklahoma bands on my iPod while in state. The Flaming Lips, Blakely and Cheyenne are a pretty good soundtrack to a rainy weekend in OKC. The irony was that all weekend, John David from Pilotdrift (who have a new album coming out 9.20.05 that sounds amazing!) kept talking about going to visit Wayne Coyne (the Flaming Lips' frontman), and once we got back to our hotel Saturday night we realized that we had both been listening to 'The Soft Bulletin' by the Flaming Lips throughout the weekend. Emo/Synchro.

So, on with the promised OK pics. When I was on my way out of OKC, the clouds were low, the rain was gently falling, and it only made sense for me to take a visit to the OKC Bombing Memorial.

Eastern Entry to Monument