Everything eventually comes to an end and last night the collective, revolving quagmire that is the Vile Blue Shades called it the end of the road after playing one last show for Will’s birthday. A little box on the interweb can no way capture the live show but here it is in all it’s blue tinted glory….
Unfortunately it’s not a headline from the Onion… When I went out for a run at Liberty Park today I was greeted by a couple sandwich board style barricades and a few feet of police caution tape, figured there were a couple down branches or something. After running about 30 yards down the trail I was flagged down by one of Salt Lake’s finest who informed me the park was closed, once he realized he was in cop mode he got a friendlier tone and said if I stayed on the woodchip trail that was cool. I asked what was up with the closure, he pondered for a minute then responded with a look as if he couldn’t even believe what he was saying, “the pond is contaminated.”
guess it's a low key closure
There wasn’t too much out of the ordinary at first other than a deserted park on a Saturday afternoon which was odd after about two blocks everything started to come into view.
never thought we'd be seeing this
Turns out a Chevron pipe had been leaking into Red Butte Creek since sometime late friday but apparently wasn’t noticed until this morning. In the meantime oil made it all the way down into the pond at Liberty Park.
According to an article in the Tribune oil streamed into the pond at Liberty Park and continued into the Jordan River. It was spotted as far north as 500 South and so far over 150 birds have been affected. It’s also reported that Chevron started receiving pressure warnings on friday but pretty much didn’t check into it until this morning. If it wasn’t for a damn constructed by a Big D construction crew things could have been even worse.
It’s crazy how Wallyworld can inform a store manager within minutes if a refrigerator door is open for a few minutes but yet it takes these chuckleheads over nine hours to realize they are leaking 50 gallons a minute?? One of the guys on the cleanup crew said he thought the park would be able to get cleaned relatively quickly so that’s good but what about the three plus mile area in between the spill and the park? Who knows what the future holds.
Until then get used to seeing this for a while…
In the meantime, think about it before getting in your car the next time – it’s probably not that far of a bike ride or maybe even walking distance.
For those who missed it this past Saturday the Night Sweats opened for Laserfang who opened for the Red Bennies at the Urban. Once again we gave the live webcast thing a go and thanks to Cory, now know that you can watch the liveness on your brophone or droidbot. Unfortunately the saved shows are still flash so until ustream starts using html5 or Mr Jobs and Adobe become friends you have to be on the old computer.
So here’s Laserfang, it took a second to get the audio down so be patient it sounds like poo for about the first minute then sounds good. You can also check out the Night Sweats here and Red Bennies here.
Next up is The Devil Whale‘s “Young Wives” ep release Saturday June 12th. Go check it out at Urban or catch it here: www.ustream.tv/captninetoe
Still slacking on things, actually been kinda busy so haven’t been out and about lately so it’s another from the archives- Tolchok at Gallivan. Actually this one is thanks to gogo inflight wireless, on a flight to Reno for last USSA event of the year and remembered about a credit to try it out. But that’s neither here nor there, it is kinda rad to be able to watch stupid videos online while at 30,000 feet though.
This is also the double down, figure since I’m slacking might as well post two things that you may have missed.
First off is Tolchok Trio at Gallivan last year- for those who don’t know the much beloved Twilight Concert Series is making a mini road trip while the Galivan Center is getting a facelift, so now all of you who go to hang out and ignore the bands will be able to see what you aren’t paying attention to.
If you haven’t got a chance to go check them out yet, you should. Speaking of things that the people of SLC slept on was Mike Watt at Bar Deluxe. If you don’t know who Watt is then I probably don’t want to be your friend -I’m sure a large chunk of your BFF bands know who he is, OG all the way. Next time you hear one of his incarnations stops thru town do yourself a favor and swing by.
Before you stop by Bar Deluxe swing by Rice Fusion on State Street and get the Kung Pao Vegetarian Chicken it’s only 7 beans at lunch – super good yo.
Who knows, one day I might actually stay on top of this this thing.
Next up is City Dogs…
gots to go, need to shut down soon.
check out T Byrnes sweet tweets
Yeah, so I pretty much suck at keeping things up to date which I suppose is kindof the purpose of these things. There was a lot going on up in Canadia and I got sidetracked then upon return to SLC had to locate my camera which took the scenic route home without me. We’ve since been reunited just in time for it’s replacement to be delivered and finally making the switch to tapeless so maybe things might be sped up a bit. We’ll see.
So enough with the excuses…. here’s something from the archives. A couple months back Andale! played at Bar Deluxe opening for the Debi Graham Band here’s a version of “when you were mine” by Prince. How can you not like Prince or Andale! for that matter…
let’s see if I can stay on top of things for at least a month.
So here you go, late as always. I’ll be posting photos of random shiz I see, info on some quality Veggie/Vegan restaurants I’ve run across, techy nerdbot type electronical things I deem as rad… in short, probably nothing that hasn’t been done a million times. But hey, I’m rad and I posted it so it has to be good – right?
