I’m Home With Music.
Posted on December 31st, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:12 pm
Had an interesting vacation visiting my various relatives, and I even got a few presents out of the deal, including my own cellphone, some night clothes and some money which bought me some CDs and manga. Not a bad deal on the whole.
Meanwhile, what should be waiting for me at the door but my CD, 100 (now 99 since I gave a copy to my mom for x-mas,) copies of it. Soon to be sale for a measly 8 bucks which includes S&H anywhere in the US. (Intl. Orders contact me for pricing/availability. Ditto for bulk orders.)
Some of you may note that 8 bucks is a 50 cent bump over the original cost. I assure I’m not trying to be a moneygrubbing jerk about it (though I do dare to dream that maybe one day I could eat off my musical talent.) It’s just that it’s costing me more to get each disc made. Actually, more than twice as much per disc, so the 50 cents doesn’t actually fully cover the bump in cost per disc, just off sets it so I don’t have to sell the majority of my run just to break even. Should you know me in real life, I’ll still sell it to you at the old 5 buck price, but only because you’re probably a friend, acquaintance or hanger on, and as such, have probably fed me/lent me money/didn’t kill me when I made some stupid off-color remark/broke your foot, and that kind of favor deserves some kind of repayment.
Anyway, I’ve got to get down to Issaquah to celebrate New Years in the most nerdcore fashion I can: going to an arcade to play DDR and ParaPara with a bunch of nerdy cool friends. Maybe when I get back, I’ll actually have the paypal link for the CDs. Maybe… 😀
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Rocking the mic/End of an Era
Posted on December 23rd, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:14 am
Good News: I wasn’t too terrible for my first live show out side numerous screw ups. I’m really going to have learn how deal with hot lights, sweat dripping into my eyes causing sudden and massive pain, and I’ve got vocally train more – everyday, each day. But, I want to gig more. Even though I wasn’t perfect, it was fun. I’m more sure than ever that this will likely never be much more than a hobby, but atleast its a fun hobby that gets me out of the house and meeting new people.
Bad News: Ampcast the site that had long hosted my music, is going to be shutting down by Feburary. This means it’s your last chance to download any music I’ve put up there, and to buy any CDs I’ve created there. After that point, it’s gone, and unless I can find a decent tracker than I can setup remotely so I can host torrents of my music on my server, that stuff will likely never show up again until a huge boxset retrospective on my career, but given that this is likely to stay a hobby, that boxset “ain’t gonna happen time soon,” as my old anthropology prof might say. So, get it while it’s hot.
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Name Taken.
Posted on December 20th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:01 am
Took my little bro down to a Nintendo WiFi Event/Mario Kart DS Tournement, ran into a friend of mine with a camera and met Reggie from Nintendo who was a really cool guy. Nintendo found a gem in that guy, cause he’s a real gamer himself, and he gets along well with gamers, freely handing out his friend code for Mario Kart. Thus, I end on a picture of me with “the Reggielution” and my little bro.
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Me doing a planned in advance live show? For the first time ever?
Posted on December 18th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:05 am
Yes, and it’s a cancer benefit (the ACS the IBCRF to be specific) at the Preston Community Center at 8625 310th Ave SE, Preston, WA. I’m not sure quite yet exactly when I’ll be playing (heck, I’m still kind of dazed from finding out that I’ll be playing,) but the actual time for the whole event is 5:30pm-10pm on December 22nd (IE: this Thursday.)
How this came to be: What I thought was going to be a little set at an acquaintance’s private X-mas party at their house now may turn out as many as 125 people (assuming capacity can be reached,) and not just myself will be performing, but various local acts who likely are much better known than myself. As such, if any of my friends from AK could turn out (I know my BCC posse will show as that was the original deal with x-mas party,) I think it might make things a little easier for me. Or vastly more stressful. I have no idea. Boy, I hope I can rehearse myself into some level of confidence and competence for this.
PS: Food is apparently going to be covered by the cost of that 5 bucks, so even if you only turn out to see me, and you’re unhappy with me, atleast you will be fed. Besides, I’m sure the other bands and artists will rock, so it’s way totally worth it.
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Progress Report
Posted on December 15th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:12 pm
So, since in next few weeks reprints of my old CD will be available (and since someone brought it up in my myspace,) I thought now might be a good time to go over the progress on the next CD. It’s basically done, save for 2 tracks and cover art. The two tracks are, of course, the collaborations, and really it’s my fault for not persuing them harder. However, I recorded my segment of what will hopefully be the Tycho collab (I think I’ll have another shot at emailing him, but realistically, I should just drive down to Seattle next week and see if I can just talk to him about it at his offices.) Meanwhile, I need to email Nurse Hella about our collab. I really sorta dropped the ball while I was working on school stuff, but school is important, ya know?
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VIDEO GAME?!
Posted on December 7th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 9:24 pm
The compsci final project. A group endeavor that was nothing short insanely trying but rewarding work on. The result is pretty good for roughly two weeks effort IMO (with most of that effort in the last week, err 5 days,) especially since it’s Java therefore isn’t the most glamorous setup for this kind of thing.
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Billards, Burgers and Bomber Girls.
Posted on December 4th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:17 am
Ok, so I basically did nothing today (as in Saturday.) Well, I read the manga I bought yesterday.
But Friday was eventful.
Got some new manga at Anime Kingdom (Nana, Bleach, Full Moon, Fruits Basket, Keroro Gunso, Kare Kano and Midori’s Days.) I went to Starbucks (repeatedly,) chatted with friends, went to Chili’s with friends, got dripped on by Chili’s broken ceiling, bought cheap manga at Half Price Books (Bomber Girl – vapid and fanservicey, but it brings balance to the heavy shoujo stuff – besides, it’s out of print now, and it was a silly little read in Raijin Weekly Comics back in the day, so why not.) Then I wandered around Tukwila looking for a bowling alley that’s also a billards place, and I eventually found it (stopped into Target for Advil and Powerade first. Then, I got my butt soundly kicked all but once (and that was dumb luck.)
Oh yeah, today wasn’t totally uneventful – I got myself running litestep and boy it’s come a long way since the old days. I’m using a very, very stripped down theme, and outside needing a clock that’s not stuck in the launch menu (I’ll find something I can embed on to the desktop,) I’m loving it. Much lower system load than Explorer (which is great, especially since I’m waiting on Kingston to hook me up with fresh RAM under their lifetime warrenty, though I suppose they might stick me on it since I put those RAM heatsinks on. Cept I never OC’d the stuff and they broke with out my stupidity helping it along.)
Anyway, on a less “boring-everyday-life-noone-cares-about” note, I’ve gotten things underway for reprinting the first nerdcore cd. It’ll be even nicer than the last batch when it comes to print quality, and all that, and it’ll probably be available either just before or just after Xmas. Also once class is done for the year, I will get those collaborations I need for my CD resolved in some fashion, some how.