Music is for Complaining.
Posted on August 24th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:20 pm
Or atleast that’s what I did in my latest Nerdcore song, Scenester Blues, where I bemoan the fact that their isn’t more love in the Nerdcore scene. I mean, really, one would think geeks, nerds and other such social outsiders wouldn’t be so egotistical and mean to each other. One would think that there is an inherent unity on the basis of shared experiences – we’ve all been ostracized at some point, thus one would think that such an action would be unthinkable as such. Alas, it just seems like the same kind of in-fighting and social divisions I thought I left as moved towards higher and higher levels of education came back into play the instant scene was created.
I mean, part of it is that it’s really hard to create a harmonious and complete community when you’re mashing various people who previously were working unaware of each other into one group, but it’d be a lot easier if people could just drop the egos for a second and be honest yet polite. I mean, yeah ego and posturing are a large of part of Hip Hop and Rap, particularly in modern context; however, nothing positive comes of it when it’s taken too seriously and gets in the way being respectful to each other, to your peers. It just sours things. I just mean that I know as a group we can do better. Maybe this will inspire something like that. Atleast that’s all I can hope for.
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Fullmetal Alchemarried and Other Amusing Moments.
Posted on August 21st, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:22 pm
Sorry girls, Ed’s taken. By rapper and good friend Nursehella.
For starters, I have to say that in no way did Nursehella nor myself prod Vic Mignogna, Edward Elric’s VA, into saying that message for Nursehella’s inbound voice mail message. In fact, Nurse was quite nervous about asking him for a message at all, but Vic is one of the nicest guys out there. Not nicest VA – nothing so specific – he’s just really authentic, cool and fun. Beyond all that that though, Anime Evolution, even though I wasn’t able to attend a lot of it, was a heck of a lot of fun. The VA panel with Vic, Brad Swaille and Michael Dobson was a blast, the guest reception was a ton of fun, the dance was better than most anime dances (thanks to great music and an outdoor setting which kept the horrible otaku body odor, or HOBO for short, to a minumum,) and it was all made way more awesome thanks to Nursehella and Jesse from Zannen/Toon Zone.
PS: Pictures and more video forthcoming.
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Northwest, but more so.
Posted on August 20th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 11:42 am
So, I am up in Canada, namely Vancouver, BC so I can check out Anime Evolution, hang out with Nursehella, get filmed while hanging out with Nursehella at Anime Evolution and visit an animation studio (details after the visit and any write up I’d do for Toon Zone.)
Outside of a some what annoying trip up to Canada (the traffic between Lynnwood and Everett was horrible, and the border crossing took forever,) it’s been pretty fun so far. Hanging out with Nursehella is cool, as she’s a very nice and enjoyable person to hang out with. She has tons of great stories about the indie rock scene, and she has in general lived a very colorful life, but she’s totally considerate and polite too (she lent me a comforter, some extra blankets and pillow so I had more than my 10 dollar sleeping bag to sleep in/on.)
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the rest of the trip, but even as a baseline, this might be one of the more fun experiences of the summer, and I have had a very interesting summer, atleast compared to my usual loitering around Seattle.
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Snakes, Planes and other non-such.
Posted on August 18th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:45 pm
So, I spent most of my week in a car driving back and forth to Spokane. Family stuff. Very worthwhile, but very exhausting in a way too – I have a new found respect for truckers, bus drivers and other people in motion all day everyday.
Once that was all wrapped up and I was home, I then saw Snakes on a Plane, as all net-denizens likely did, and it was a pretty good film for a popcorn flick. It definitely stands on it’s own from the internet hype, and though it’s not a classic film in terms of Spielburg or Fellini, it’s something that will still be a decent watch when it runs heavily edited on TNT a decade or so from now because it really does hit the right cues for action/horror movie.
I will, however, note that the internet hype did make it an even more interesting watch in the theater. I mean, there were people dressed up as a snake and another person dressed up as a plane, there were tons of people with rubber snakes, everyone knew the big lines and said them along with the film, and in general the audience energy was great – all though the trailers people were adding “with snakes” or “snake in/on/around a” to all the horror film trailers with dramatic narration. If you don’t atleast catch a matinee, make sure you rent it/buy it and watch it with a decent-sized group of friends – it’ll make a fun film awesome. Also, they ran a trailer for another Samuel L. Jackson movie with the word “Snake” in the name in front of main feature, and that had to be the most brilliant trailer placement ever. I have a feeling a lot more people will be turning out to Black Snake Moan now at the very least.
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Returning Music To Myspace…
Posted on August 9th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:15 am
So, it looks like (much to my pleasant surprise) that myspace.com has backed off on it’s policy of completely claiming everything you post on myspace thanks to Billy Bragg, which means my music can live on myspace again (in addition to the recently updated Nekodashi.) I’m even uploading tracks while I’m writing this post.
Meanwhile, I think I’ll go buy Mermaid Avenue next I time order from Amazon to show some appreciation for the man who helped insure that thousands of amateur musicians don’t end up on some crappy compilation or Fox News expose against their will. Besides, from what I’ve heard off the disc (various tracks on the public radio stations here over the years,) it’s pretty great anyway.
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PS: playing on mc chris’ myspace…
Posted on August 4th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:27 pm
Someone asked about my mix on mc chris’ forum because it’s on mc’s myspace, and the question is part of what spurred the nekodashi update. Took me a while to realize that maybe the fact that Chris picked my mix was maybe news worthy. Almost lame that I get more play on his myspace than I get off my own website though, though I suppose that’s to be expect. Ah well, exposure is exposure, right?
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Nekodashi update – 25 iterations of 8 songs.
Posted on August 3rd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:34 pm
AKA, my mc chris remixes now up for download for this first time in a while, and with gratuitous flavor text on the side. (Flava text? Fava beans? Homestar Runner humor.)
Anyway, on a more serious note, I hung out yesterday with nerdcore artist MC Wreckshin and his friend whose name I forgot (I am still horrible with names. Shoot, I drew a blank on Misu’s last name yesterday even.) It was fun hanging at SushiLand with them, and making an oddly long drive from the Seattle Center to Archie McPhee’s (even if Archie had just closed for the day.) I wish those two the best of luck on their cross-country trip back to Florida, and hopefully they can meet up with a ton of other cool nerdcore mcs and producers along the way.
Now, to trek back to Seattle (my bro and I are going to hit Archie McPhee’s and the Army surplus store.)