Bizarre, if True

The incredibly prolix Eric Field (aka Lacquer, Semi-Gloss Lacquer) made a comment to my last post that I found surprising. In order to give this startling news more publicity, I decided that it needed to be upgraded from a mere comment on a blog that no one reads to a main article on a blog that no one reads.

Here is Eric's comment:

so, um, like, yah... I was catching up with my younger brother about the NY scene, the potential of Rogue East:
(Peter) '..uh, good luck on that one, bud, that's going to be an uphill to get people to hand over venues, things are really tight if not closing down in a lot of ways, it's just not artist friendly...'

then he drops the bomb..

'...actually, what the buzz is, is how Fresno is going to be the third wave... yep, they're even talking about the Rogue and everything over here, and how that it's the last really affordable and decent place to break in your stuff, has a strong performer-artist base, lots of friendly venues, and affordable housing and all that... you guys are about to boom...'

(me) '...you're kidding.'

(Peter) '...nope, that's what I'm hearing this ways... the trend is now shifting away from places like NYC and S.F. and towards Fresno...'

I just don't know whether to believe this at all. If that's actually the buzz about Fresno in New York, there has got to be a Fresnan in NYC who is a demon publicist.

In other news: Entandem Productions' new film "Fresno: the Documentary" (working title) is now in production, with four days of shooting in the virtual digital video can. Check out our progress on the Entandem Blog!