Qualified To Represent the LBC

Posted on June 29th, 2007

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 8:35 am

Or atleast actually in the LBC, as I’m here for AX. I’m mooching some free wi-fi from the hotel I’m at (side note: boourns on said wi-fi only being free in the Lobby. That’s a lame move for a luxury chain like the Westin.) Of course, I’m on my lightweight but underpowered Linux laptop, but it’ll hold up for taking notes at panels (blantant plug: stick with ToonZone.net for all the latest AX coverage,) and for general internet usage.

Oh, and I think I set a new personal sleep-less record – I went from about noon on Wednesday to about 10pm Thursday. Alas, I didn’t think I was a hummingbird by the end of all that.

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Hey, Actual Music.

Posted on June 25th, 2007

Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 10:36 pm

The first Ultraklystron song for the Desu Desu Desu mixtape, namely Not Your Personal Rapper, rapped over a backing unintentionally provided by Jesse Dangerously as it’s the backing from “Outfox’d” from his album Interalia. He put it up as part of a “rate your cover of me”-thing, but I fail at reading directions and rapped some original lyrics (which are in the “…more” of this post) over the song instead.

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Searching for Validation (Edit: Found.)

Posted on June 24th, 2007

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:50 am

So, after some more messing around, I finally have my site working nicely and looking good (actually it’s better than it was on both accounts,) even on vaguely older browsers (like Internet Explorer 6.0.) However, the site doesn’t at all validate as well, proper anything – XHTML, HTML – you name it. Of course, neither did the old template, so I’m not that sour about things, but I have a feeling it’ll be easier said that done to get it to validate as at least XHTML 1.0 Transitional (though it’d be cool if it were truly XHTML 1.1 compliant.)

Oh well, time to turn the clock back to where I was a decade or so ago, building a website to promote my music and learning the proper code to do so as I went along. ^_^

Edit: Turns out I’m still sorta decent at web programming. The main page atleast is now vaild XHTML 1.0 Transitional with valid CSS.

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Video

Posted on June 20th, 2007

Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 10:09 pm

Of me performing.
Girls With Glasses.
Poorly.

Boy, no one has ever seen that on YouTube before. However, the audio quality is good enough to hear all of the trip-ups on that video, and that if that isn’t good enough, you can always download the awesome and totally not buggy* DivX Video Plug-In for your browser, and watch it in Standard or Hi-Def. So, a huge thanks to DivX for having myself and various other great Nerdcore acts out to CES perform, and for getting a great filmmaker out there to shoot the event.

*=this is a lie. It crashed my browser repeatedly. However, DivX did pay me money to perform at CES. I’ll cut them some slack.

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I’m Banned

Posted on June 20th, 2007

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:17 pm

in China:

I'm blocked in China

Nekodashi.com is similarly blocked, as are most other Nerdcore artists and websites. Apparently, geeks rapping are as threatening to China as Flickr and unfiltered search results. So much for my grand plans for Shanghai and Beijing gigs. All sarcasm aside, you can find out if a site is blocked here: Great Firewall of China. It’s pretty interesting.

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Remixed from Scratch.

Posted on June 19th, 2007

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:09 am

Having recently picked up a book on WordPress, I decided to rebuild the template from scratch, and variable width at that. A few online tutorials later (so much for the book, though it did give me a few clues,) and I have a what I want more or less. If there are some usability problems, give me a shout. After all, this is my first real attempt at a from scratch CSS layout.

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Coming Soon?

Posted on June 16th, 2007

Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 6:05 am

the never knows - never yours album cover

OTOH, I’m not that hot on that album cover, and I won’t release it until I make a good one or someone else makes a good one.

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Promises I Probably Won’t Keep

Posted on June 14th, 2007

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:54 pm

IE, the release schedule for projects involving me in a way beyond a one-shot collaboration:

Ultraklystron Never Yours To Share It / Never Knows Best* – Summer 2007
UltraklystronOpenSource Lyricist – PAX 2007
RaiGrand Guignol – KumoriCon 2007
UltraklystronThe Fourth Estate – 2008
UltraklystronDesu Desu Desu Mixtape – 2008, probably a month or two before Fourth.

*=Not nerdcore. Drum n’ Bass/Electronica double CD of previously unreleased music recorded during the making of Revision4920.

So, this should be nondescript enough to allow me to have some wiggle room. For two of those releases (Open and Never,) the musical content is done. For two others, the content is basically all written and composed (Fourth and Desu, though there is so much time before those releases happen, that the line up on both may change dramatically.) However, to assume everything will go as planned is folly.

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Violating Internet(s) Rules 1 & 2

Posted on June 14th, 2007

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:42 am

slash b mc – slash b-style

I’d say look on RhymeTorrents BBS for the lyrics, but it’s dead, so I’ll put that in the read more (along with another treat.) Anyway, I did this because someone on RhymeTorrents requested an explanation of a certain popular, terrible, English-Language imageboard. I obliged initially with a written freestyle, but I figured I could easily add chorus, make a lazy beat, and have something people listen too, throw on a mixtape (that will probably be called desu desu desu link back too and probably ruin my life with should I ever become a notable MC (ha!)

Meanwhile, apologies to Nursehella for accidentally using “thrillho” in a rap track. I better be on my best behavior from here on out. One more case of intellectual grift, and I fear I really will drive her into the arms of a certain Illy Oi boy. 😉

Side Note: Tube Spark says I display the “most showmanship” in Nerdcore. I think they haven’t seen enough Nerdcore.

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