Wakow minutes 4/14/07

Shazzam, 'kowers:

Sound ideas:
local news and media?
church/religion sounds
oil: the physical sound, sounds and lines from movies

oil/water
lack of water—drought, landlocked (ties up to dust bowl)
relation entre oil/religion and water? Holy water, transportation
unspoken third term in a triangle
sound of the explosion at the OKC memorial: the hearing is about drilling for water, then interrupted by an explosion caused by ingredients for petroleum-based fertilizer

baptism vs transportation of goods; both industrial

2007 is the 100th birthday of the gas station

Do we know what happened between two days before the oil boom in OK and 2 weeks after? Like Saudi Arabia, in which enormous amounts of money cause a drastic rift? Or a surge in population? etc

all the churches are built in the 20s and 30s—they are literally coming out of the ground at the same time as oil

what were they using to get oil out of the ground? water?

is there a causal relationship between the oil boom and dust bowl? For instance, when did wide-scale damming begin in the state? What kind of power did it provide? I’ve heard that damming changed the climate here, making it more humid in summer—is there some correlation between the dust bowl and damming?

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html
In 1926 after returning briefly to Okemah, Woody set out for Pampa, TX to join his father. There he began painting signs, but an uncle bought him a guitar and taught him to play.
"And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowing kind, I seen there was plenty to make up songs about. . . . I never did make up any songs about the cow trails or the moon skipping through the sky, but at first it was funny songs or songs about what all's wrong, and how it turned out good or bad. Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since."

reading: have someone w/ strong OK accent read some of our source texts? But we ourselves should read our poems.

the OK book section M read from was about missionaries

what about more testimonial, site specific, or process specific readings?

dry, technical readings that link up, perhaps drawn from TU library

write some connective sentences? write in church signs? (M says no)

deal w/ the original Oral Roberts building on Boulder and 18th?

our own sort of testimonials, specifically detailed observations of sites that we record? Photos do that well, but the voice description may add

“rooms and brains and ear canals” –description of psycho-acoustics, but a great title for something