Penny Arcade Expo Rules You All
Posted on August 28th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 6:59 pm
Reason 1: MC Frontalot and mc chris. Both of them rocked the mic. Both signed stuff for me. Both were happy to see me. Both now each have a copy of Revision they can listen to/frisbee/burninate/whatever. Other people who recieved promotional copies include G4TV (yeah, I know they are lame, and I’ve got more on that later on in this post, but promotion is promotion.) But seriously their sets were awesome. Actually, every act there did an outstanding job.
Reason 2: A lot of people bought my CD at the con. Including a man writing a book on Causasian rappers (he interviewed me for the book btw,) and Frontalot’s homeboy and back up vocalist Yook. Oh, and a couple of ToonZoners, and some Valued Suckers, and some other friends, and some random people who I can’t even properly place.
Reason 3: Media Attention. G4’s Attack of the Show interviewed me and did a bit with me. Highly scripted and cheesy, but it was an opportunity to plug the CD. I also did a couple interviews with 1up.
Reason 4: Meeting people, both brand new and relatively new. I met the first female nerdcore rapper, a delightful young lady with the handle of Nurse Hella, aka Danielle. Not only is she awesome for her nerdcore verbal expression, but also for being a hardcore gamer, a hardcore anime/manga fan and a hardcore Dexter’s Lab fan who was so hardcore Genndy freakin’ Tartokovsky wrote her a letter and called her on the phone. I met Glenn Case who I knew both threw the Sockheads Sifl and Olly Fanclub and threw MC Frontalot’s Valued Sucker forums. Not only was he cool enough to buy my CD, he called Matt Crocco, co-creator of Sifl and Olly, and then let me leave a message on Matt’s voicemail. That’s just the tip of the cresent fresh people I met.
Reason 5: Tycho from Penny Arcade says he wants to be on my next CD. I will make this happen. Besides, he’s a pretty good vocalist, as per his score on Karaoke Revolution.
First though, I’ve gotta eat, then sleep.
I’m burnt out… and so happy I could cry. Thank you everyone who made this possible.
Tune in next time when karma balances itself with my computer exploding or something equivalent.
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Saw you post on MC board – now I can listen to your stuff 🙂
-Girl in black dress
Comment by Jenelle — August 29, 2005 @ 10:49 am
Thanks for the shout-out, Señor!
As I posted to the VSP, “Nerdcore Life”, “The Legacy”, and “Pilot” are current faves of mine. I rocked out to them on the bus to work today.
The CD is well worth the $5.
ROCK!
Glenn (DR FUNK)
http://glenncase.songhole.org
Comment by Glenn — August 29, 2005 @ 2:59 pm
Most comments on my blog ever! Shocking!
Comment by Karl Olson — August 29, 2005 @ 5:53 pm
And NOW look at you! You’ve made a name for yourself in nerdcore since this post for sure. Go, Karl!
ROCK!
Glenn Case
Comment by Glenn — January 2, 2007 @ 10:50 am
Shoot, making a name for myself in Nerdcore is one the smaller things that’s happened since this post, at least in the grand scheme of things. PAX05 may have very well changed the entire course of my life.
Comment by Karl Olson — January 2, 2007 @ 12:10 pm