Slashdottedissed
Posted on October 28th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:23 pm
Good: The rhymetorrents halloween album is now available for download.
Better: It was slashdotted.
Wait n/m: Slashdot on average apparently doesn’t much like nerdcore.
Oh, well here’s a direct download link to my contribution. It’s about bad horror movies, and it features gratuitous references to Tsukuyomi MoonPhase. Also, I make light of the works of Uwe Boll.
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Revisions and Fresh Meat
Posted on October 20th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:03 pm
(Well, unless you’re Feather or Nursehella, in which case, this is old news, because you’ve already heard everything I have done for Opensource. Well, barring one track I just can’t seem to get a good mix for.)
The new version of “Eighty Three,” now with improved announciation and a great vocal hook added by my friend Zoe, is now up, as is “It’s The Beat,” a song about eating a french fry in Starbucks, if it’s about anything at all. Why now? Because I figure they’re as good they are gonna get, and I have certain persons requesting that certain of these tracks turn up for download because they can’t wait for the album to go up.
However, I think OpenSource as a whole is effectively done outside of that one track I referenced earlier. It’s pretty likely that I’m pushing the Tycho collab back because while it’s going to be great, it’s not going to wrapped anytime soon, and the Nurse Hella collab will probably make more sense on her CD (though it’s going to be great too, make no mistake about that,) so that leaves OpenSource pretty much done. I’m not sure whether people can or even should have to deal with almost 80 minutes of pretty much just me, but that’s probably how it’s going to work for better or worse.
And, yeah, those tracks above are 128kbps-licious, but nice new 320kbps trackage from me will be on the RhymeTorrents Halloween LP when it comes out. In my song for that comp, I make fun of Uwe Boll, and I make a Harry Potter reference in the first line of the chorus, so I figure I’ve it should appeal vaguely to my constituency. I’ve also hedged my bets by referencing a show I recently reviewed that happened to be very fitting for Halloween too.
So, yeah, expect OpenSource Lyricist news somewhere in here soon. Maybe even a release date.
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Long Interview and Other Non-Such
Posted on October 10th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:56 pm
I am extremely verbose. Pleonastic even. Still, thank you Z from Hipster, Please for interviewing me.
Meanwhile, I’m in Kirkland (ear infection == not staying in Spokane this week.) If you have anything you need to get a hold of me for, now would be a great time at I’m almost definitely available. Things like recording vocals, or giving me my laptop, or generally even hangin out can be done. 😉
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So, I Just Finished Bingeing Threw Honey & Clover…
Posted on October 5th, 2006
Filed under: Reviews — Karl Olson @ 2:34 am
…Or rather, through the last 10 episodes of season 1 and all of season 2. I’ve always been a sucker for more character driven anime, and for anime with more realistic settings. I mean, I wouldn’t have had series like Haibane Renmei, Twin Spica and Koi Kaze in my top 5, with Haibane sitting at what felt like a permanent number 1. However, Honey & Clover just might have aced it out. Maybe it’s just because it resonated so directly with my current life (student in a transitional phase and so on.) I mean, after a certain point it felt like I was watching my past, present and possible futures play out before my eyes almost. It was simulateously very hard to watch, yet so compelling and frank I felt that I had to finish it.
But really, it’s an excellent show – like I said, maybe even my new number 1. I mean, the series is loaded with visual cheats, and I can break down the direction easily at points, but yet, I could still get lost in it, I could still be swept up in it. Only a handful of series can grab me so entirely that I can ignore, nay, embrace it’s flaws and formulas. Honey & Clover joins that club. All of it. There are prettier series, their are more directly metaphysical and intellectual series, but ultimately Honey & Clover does what a great show should do first and foremost – it connects with you. Or atleast it connected with me, and deeply. Maybe I won’t say that when I’m 30 or 40 or whatever, maybe it’s just tapping a different issue than earlier top favorites of mine did, but I know that either way I hope some one licences this so I can buy it. I haven’t wanted to buy a series this bad for a while.