A Change Of Plans

Posted on September 20th, 2008

Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:43 pm

So, there were a few things I wasn’t planning to do. I was not planning on releasing anything off The Fourth Estate before well, releasing the album, assuming I ever released it. At the very least, I wasn’t going to put up anything via my website. Via compilations? Maybe. Via other peoples’ podcasts? Definitely, if the podcast producers were game. However, I didn’t want to publicly solicit anything off the disc via any channel until it was very close to release as well. No leaving a coming-soon page for 2 or 3 years before releasing anything, like I did with Opensource. However, I do already have some songs in the can, and I have reason to leak one very specific song today.

You see, Toonami’s last night on television is tonight, and I have a song about that animation block completed for the new CD. Toonami means a lot to me because it is one of the key reasons I am the person I am. In fact, without watching the various Tenchi Series and then a bunch of other good anime on Toonami which itself built into full blown otakuism, there is an exceedingly high probablity I would have never pushed into Nerdcore, as I would have likely felt that I just didn’t have material to rap about nerdy stuff (or rather it’d all have been about computers and being into chemistry at 7. Even outside of Nerdcore, the music and stories of anime had a serious effect on my last 4 or 5 Electronica releases. Toonami, and the otakuism it inspired in me is also a key factor to meeting the love of my life, Danielle (aka Nursehella.) You see, I spotted her in line for PAX2005 because she was wearing what I thought was cosplay (turns out it was her Catholic School girl uniform from High School,) and I talked to her as such. No otaku-ism, and even if I had developed an interest in Nerdcore, she probably would have been another face in the line. Just the thought of that alternate ending freaks me out.

As such, I owe that block I surprising amount – I only hope one day I can tell Sean Akins (the head of the soon-to-be-deceased block,) that he, through a convoluted series of events, helped me meet the woman of my dreams, and also dramatically altered the subject matter of my music.

Or, at the very least, I hope he hears this song: Ultraklystron – Absolution

Lyrics after the break.

RIP TOONAMI 1997-2008.

Absolution
by Karl Olson

ch.
It might seem experimental
But it’s not coincidental
It’s media evolution
Live from the ol’ Absolution
Some might get so temperamental
But this is so transcendental
Defining new institutions
Live from the ol’ Absolution

v1.
Toonami made me the otaku / that I am today
And now I’m covering all / of the an-i-may
Shoujo out to shonen / is the way I’m rollin
From Ms. Sakura out to / Detective Conan
Give repect to Sean Akins / And Jason DeMarco
Reinvented the whole game / From the basic parts yo
They never came whack / never lame like Sharko
They even made Hamtaro / seem cool like El Barto
It’s from the ATL / Where Toonami be kickin it
Up late like Dave Attell / Midnight Run was so stickin it
Atleast that’s how it was / back in 1999
Continued until it was / The Big O’s Showtime
It was so fine to see / the Megadeus on Cable
Other Stations on TV / Were totally unable
To be cast in the name of god – ye not guilty
While Toonami’s bank account got really filthy

(ch)

v2.
They brought a second season out / by Chiaki Konaka
And for viewers like you / because nothing can stop ya
So faithful never doubt / We blowin up like Wing
Keep the experiment alive / Rock the Toonami Bling
Shirts and wristwatches won / at the mobile game unit
Turn your TV on / to one station you should tune it
Get out your leaf headbands / and your bat-a-rangs dudes
Cause it’s Toonami #1 / regardless of attitude!
A fan has right to dream / and we do through animation
Toonami’s the best spot / atleast on basic cable stations
Tom and Sara work / to relay communications
While that Starwind jerk / makes some offensive sensations
So you best tune in / with Nielson Appreciation
As that Blue Sub 6 / Launches whole new innovations
And DBZ’s fun / when it’s not wiped out creation
Moon rules number 1 / If it’s Usagi’s Derivation

(ch)x2

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