THE FRESNAN

Bloggiest Moment Of The Week: Fresno's Internets Becomes Google's Little Bitch

Have you heard about this whole Google building a fiber network thing? They're thinking of building their own high speed internety network to compete with the Phone Dudes and Cable Guys of the world and Goog' is looking for a test city to build the physical side.

Fresno would like to be one of those test cities.

So the Fresno Internet went into full campaign mode with a post from the Beehive, a Facebook page, a city run site and then subsequent pictures and videos, trying to convince Google to bring their version of Internet here. This Is Conlan having our favorite video thus far:

Really it's "much to nerd about nothing" as it will be years before Google could build actual physical lines going to Fresnans homes, especially when they've never done it before and don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Plus, you know we're not willing to change our name for Google like some cities are.

*Photo of Bubba stolen from Mike Oz's Twitter feed.

Bandgeek: Needy Eevys, Handlebarz, Dangers, Radaguns, Dylans and Clockwork Heroes

Wow, Friday is pretty dead. Yeah, there are a couple things but usually it's the most active night. Weird. Good thing Saturday looks to be crazy enough to make up for it. A lot going on, Fresno's music geeks will be spread out all over the place.

FRIDAY

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: welcomes the punk rock of I Madman, the punk hardcoreness of Handlebarz and the indie grundge punkness of Needy Eevy. [9:00 $6]

VENI VIDI VICI'S: As part of the Rogue Festival, Abigail Nolte will be strumming and sweetly singing her soulful folks-y goodness. [7:30 $3]

SATURDAY
It's at the CYC and it's a full slate headed by Dangers:

TOWER THEATRE: Ya remembers? We told ya about this one a couple days ago. Pretty big undertaking as Radagun headlines a full slate of local rock (even if Radagun has moved to Florida):

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: There is a CD release and live music from Dylan Tidyman-Jones. Also playing is Wheels Of Fortune (Dylan's band) and The Zodiac Twins. [9:00 $5]

CLUB RETRO: The lineup includes, The Classic Crime (Tooth And Nail Records), Write This Down, 5606, This Planet Prelude and Clockwork Hero. [7:00 $10]

Fresno Filmworks Presents: A Night At The Oscars

This is Fresno Filmwoks at its best. Tonight and tonight only, all the 2010 Oscar nominated shorts (both live action and animated) will be available in one place to enjoy:

The live action films are at 5:30 and the animated ones are at 8. Check out all the details.

Ohhhh and the last screening has a Prince party right after... alright, the Prince party may not have anyting to do with Oscar shorts, but it's happening right next door:

In 1958 There Were No 'Filming While Driving' Laws

You kids today, what with your Google Fiber, and Weirdo Festivals. In my day, the only "information highway" was 99, and to have fun you took it to 152. And that was your day. Of fun. Banos.

Check this out, it's pretty cool. A guy uploaded some home movies his grandpa took back in 1958 of a trip from Fresno to San Jose. It's a five part-er, the first two has some old Fresno in it and yeah you may need to be a Downtown and Highway 99 expert to pick out some familiar stuff, but it's fun to watch anyway (although the Los Banos Airport hasn't changed a DAMN bit in 52 years).

Part two:

This Concert Will Have The Most Fucked Up Tailgate You Fresno Nerfherders Have Ever Seen

You know Darth Fresno is gonna be at this show. Hopefully it'll be a no Jar Jar zone:

Damn you Lucas for finding another way to get more of our money. BTW, when is Star Wars coming out on Blu-Ray? Tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10.

Audie's Tonight: Happy Prescriptions, Quiet Americans and Dia Del Astronauta

Some time around 9:30, good old Audie's Olympic will have a full tub of PBR and Olympia ready so to properly host Portland's Happy Prescriptions, Fresno's The Quiet Americans and Dia Del Astronauta.

 
Here is some homespun video fun by Happy Prescriptions:

Rogue Festival 2010: Five Days Of Rogue-ing Left

The 2010 Rogue Festival is back from a couple days off with a full slate of fring-y things happening tonight and continuing through the weekend. Our favorite thing thus far is The Underground Garden... alright, maybe it's only we've caught at the moment - we suck. But we made sure to catch it because we love local music and Fresno history and that's what Underground Garden has been all about.

Some good reviews of Sunday's show are up by Mike Oz and Famous Whitewater, be sure to read up on those. We have a sun drenched video clip up of a small portion of Sunday's Underground Garden show, below. Keep and eye out because there will be a future Flowing With Famous featuring most of Sunday's performance.

In the clip, Joshua Tehee (flanked by Freddie Martinez [Club Fred owner] and Gary Edwards [original Raggin Records owner and music newspaper publisher]) is asked by Blake Jones how Fresno Famous got started:

The final performance of The Underground Garden is Saturday at 5 at VVV's with Dale Stewart from Capital Punishment and Jim Connely an original KFSR DJ.

Music Box Fresno: Radagun Returns Saturday!

Not sure if you guys have noticed but there is a pretty damn huge local rock show happening this Saturday. It's not happening at Audie's Olympic. Not at Starline. It doesn't involve the Crossroads nor Tokyo Garden or the CYC, Babylon, Club Retro or even Kuppajoe's. No, this one is going big time: Tower Theatre:

Yes, Fresno native pop rockers, Radagun, are having one hell of coming home party as they team with some current locals: Mercury Bullet, Poor Man's Poison and The Escorts.

We're struggling to remember a full bill of local rock acts (outside of Rock Of The Tower) playing a Tower Theatre show. Should be interesting to see how many folks they get in there. Hopefully it will be a large enough success that this kind of show will be a regular Tower Theatre occurrence.

For more Radagun back story, have a look at the interview we did with Radagun singer Aimee Ortiz Low, just as they moved from Fresno to Florida. More on Radagun and the show:

Exactly How Many 'Kids Day' Papers Does It Take Until We No Longer Feel Guilty?

Well, the number of papers isn't two because we still feel guilty after buying just two for $2. Yep, we should have bought more, or spent more or whatever. Luckily for those of us that didn't give enough today, there are other ways of donating to Valley Children's.

And no, we didn't go to any celebrity corners, just a good corner with mildly hot high school girls nice folks that didn't try and kill themselves getting their two bucks.

Thorne Cup Watch: Monsters One Win From Championship Series

Fresno had to win last night and they did. Tonight, it's the same thing, they gotsta win to keep their season alive and if they do, they will be playing for the Throne Cup. Tonight at Selland Arena it all goes down at 7:00, tickets are cheap, the hockey is awesome.

Indie Tuesday: Starline and Audie's Olympic Compete For Your Indie Rock Dollar

Whadda we got here... we got this show over at Starline with Bay Area indie rockers Picture Atlantic, and locals From Indian Lakes and Buffalo Guns:

At the same time, down the street, Audie's gots some rock (and stuff) of their own with Fresno ska band The Ecliptics, DJ Dinobyte and touring band (taking a break from hanging with 311) Tomorrows Bad Seeds:

Did you see it? Audie's has dollar OLY and PBR drafts till midnight. Sweet, gotta hit that (in a responsible manner, of course). But then the Starline show looks more interesting and local-y. Any way we could get dollar Olympias at Starline?

Video Dump: Kinda Sorta Interesting Fresno Arch Talk

How about some Fresno architecture history talk to get your Fresno week underway? Cool? Hope so, cause we're too lame to come up with something to post about. This one is for the Arch nerds:

Side note: Where the hell does this program air outside of the internets?

Part two: