In liu of an actual update…

Posted on July 31st, 2006

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:32 pm

A Crunk Beat I made for a couple other nerdcore rappers who will rapping about Poke Balls IIRC. Should be amusing.

Oh yeah, if you didn’t know, I’m back in Seattle, atleast until Anime Evolution. However, that won’t really stop me from being busy, but atleast I don’t have to be on my feet to review the 4 DVDs (more like 5) in my backlog, the three advance screenings I caught and the interview I have to transcribe. Oh, at the dating sim and related TV series I need to review as well. At least all of my awesome reporting at Comic Con resulted in my reports getting linked by Anime News Network, Anime on DVD, ICv2, some Japanese site I’ve never even heard of and probably more. I’m pretty darn happy about all that, even if SDCC was a bit of fiasco otherwise (I won’t go into details here.)

Oh yeah, I’m also putting together a website with Misu for a friend of mine in LA that if it works will be awesome, and if it doesn’t will still have atleast shown me how to use cart software, so I can set up a more professional interface to the business side of this website. Speaking of which, I have a CD I should send out to tomarrow.

Anyway, if you want to hear more about my LA/San Diego adventures, you’ll probably just have to talk to me. Any writing I do in the next month is probably going to be about DVDs, shows and movies coming to DVD, games or manga related to shows on DVD, interviews in relations to movies coming to DVD and contact info that I need to transcribe so that in the long term I get more DVDs to review, so it’ll be similar to last month, but a different side of the press thing.

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“Probably the coolest guy we met through the whole Expo” – chibi-tokyo.net

Posted on July 14th, 2006

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:11 pm

So, Slashdot finally talked about the RhymeTorrents compilation. I guess that’s +1 to my nerd HP or something like that. Hopefully, I’m one of the few that ended up in CmdrTaco’s ultimate playlist. On the opposite end of the exposure scale, I was interviewed by these cool dudes from chibi-tokyo.net for their podcast. If you just want to hear me, check in around the hour and 47 minute mark of their AX podcast. I guess they saved me for last. They put together a very good show though, and you should check out their other podcasts – they’re great.

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Temporary Reprieve / Imminent Reprise

Posted on July 13th, 2006

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:40 pm

So, I’m back from LA for a bit, and that time there was fun: I met a lot great people; I hung out with people who I’d previously only known via the internet; I made connections with some old friends who I hadn’t really seen in about a decade; I saw the inner workings of a real animation studio; I ate lunch at said studio; I came back the next day and interviewed two brilliant directors at said studio; I ended up with piles of free DVDs, manga, games and other stuff between touring a studio and the Anime Expo convention; I walked along the Walk of Fame; I watched a couple of great movies; I did some thrifty shopping for both clothes and music; I had breakfast with a legend in the animation industry and I ate a lot of excellent food at various restaurants. By the way, that list isn’t necessarily in order, but as you can see, I was happily busy.

However, I’m happy to be home in the clean, cool, moist air where I can wear jeans rather than shorts and long sleeve sweaters rather than short sleeve shirts. Further still, while being treated all the time to nice food is wonderful, and it was easy on the wallet, I can’t help but feel like a bit of a charity case in the same stroke. Sure, sometimes I was able to help in some capacity, be that via typical household chores or by completely rebuilding a computer. But to be frank, I guess I’ve always viewed myself as someone who helps, not someone who needs to be helped. Of course, without the charity of others, I’d either still be in LA, spending money on a hotel or putting more people out, or I’d be at home with no Comicon in my future. Instead, I’m at home at in Kirkland getting a chance to do a laundry and generally catch up before Comicon. I’ve ended up with what in my view is a near-perfect situation (though the absense of confirmation from Comicon about press stuff is worrisome.)

I guess all I can say at the end of the day to everyone in the LA area who has helped me over the past couple weeks and to everyone in general who has made this trip possible is “Thank You.” I might have been able to do make it work on my own, but not to the extent that I did in this case. So really, I thank you all.

I am lucky to be surrounded by so many wonderful people.

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