Blog steal: Skaters, the housing crisis and Fashawn
Note: Original posts yanked from The Beehive and Dumb Drum.
* Mike Oz gives us the run down on what's happening with Fashawn. It looks like this guy is on the brink. Now, Fresno has/has had a lot of great musicians/bands, but few (if any) seem to be able to break what I'll call the "Fresno cap" and own it big-time on a national level, like a Korn or Granddaddy, let's say. Will Fashawn be the one? And how will that affect the bands/musicians working it on the home front? Having someone traveling the world saying he's from Fresno (like, actually claiming his hometown) can only be a good thing, right? Side question: Is there any band/performer I am forgetting about? Not K-Fed. Also: This is not discounting the likes Patrick Contreras/Eva Scow/40 Watt Hype/Armen Nalbanian who I know have done some impressive stuff.
* Bryan, over at Dumb Drum has some news on an awesome looking documentary the whole Fresno-pool-skater thing. I'm totally interested in seeing this, though I'm wondering (as Ed did in the comments) what is its intention. Is this a look at the sub-culture of underground pool skaters? Is it a look at the housing market and where it went wrong? Can it be both? The whole thing leaves me lots of questions, which I guess is good marketing. I'll say this: They went to the source as far as the local housing/building industry folks.
Hey, Famous Whitewater
I thought stealing from other bloggers was MY thing?! You're stealing my...stealing...idea.
Good point on the Fresno and OWNING IT with Fashawn. I hope he keeps up the Fresno representing. It always annoyed me when Korn would say they were an LA band and rarely mention they were from Bakersfield.
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Thanks.
See, I'm totally out of the loop. Thanks for the link Mike.
that was me, btw....
above.
thought I was logged in.
pool skating ...
If you want to read more about the doc, I talked to the Paynie guy and wrote about it a couple weeks ago in my Friday column.
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