Did I say on schedule?
Posted on November 21st, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:01 pm
I meant ahead of schedule. Get your paypal ready boys and girls. MSRP announced tomorrow.
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Win/Fail #1: g0S/McMocha
Posted on November 18th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Pictures,Reviews — Karl Olson @ 4:56 pm
Win: gOS. Definitely the most idiot proof and quick booting Linux I’ve played with, and it also looks quite good. Now more than ever, I wish their was Reason for Linux. I mean, Linux at least has drivers for my pro-grade sound card, unlike Vista.
Fail: McDonald’s Cafe Mocha. Too much chocolate (and the wrong kind of chocolate at that,) and not nearly enough coffee. Plus, the cost wasn’t particularly lower than the Starbucks down the street, so it’s not even a decent value buy. In fact, the Mochas from the nearby Costco are vastly superior, and they are only a buck.
Oh, and this:
So far it’s on schedule.
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Upgrade/Update/Upload Time
Posted on November 7th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:58 am
So, my wordpress is upgraded again. Woo.
Meanwhile, my finger was looking bad enough to the doctor today during a check up that I’m back on Keflex, but the stitches were taken out, and I was told to soak it in warm water, and as the doctor expected, the fingernail fell off after soaking it a few times. So, while I’m no longer mummifying the finger in bandages, I still have to take a lot of care, and better still, it turns out that I probably have another 4-8 weeks before the bone’s fully healed. I’m also very “aware” of the finger and injury again. Fun. I hope I don’t bang it into anything.
The upload time is in relation to the music stuff. Basically, the cover art’s stable for Opensource (and very different to the previous rough versions,) as is the track listing. Only question is whether I tag another bonus track to Romance Language. I’ve got a song I’d like to tack on, but I don’t want any one feeling like they got stiffed for buying the old release, so I’ll probably kick it up online in 320kbps mp3 too if do it. Anyway, with in the next week or two it should be completely finalized for real. All the little details are getting done now. If I’m proactive about it, I might even get the CDs in my hand for shipping before the end of this month.
Oh, and I applied to a university. Wish me luck.
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Unusual
Posted on October 23rd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:30 am
So, I’m on my lunch today, and seeing as I had a free soda coming to me via the monopoly promotion, I walked down to the nearest McDonalds. As I sit down and sink my teeth into a Grilled Chicken sandwich, a guy comes up and asks if I happened to be at the PS3 launch at the Best Buy in Bellevue, and of course I say yes. We end up having a conversation, and during it, I kind of felt for the first time since I took my break/acted like a over-dramatic emo-kid that maybe I still wanted to be a musician, atleast to some extent. Not that I’m at all hot to trot into the studio, or get back to doing shows for no money if not effectively paying to do shows after travel and hotel expenses. I just realize now that I need to get Opensource out sooner rather than later, and I should get the Romance Language reprint run done.
I mean, there may not be a lot of people waiting for those things to be done – maybe at best a few dozen people – but, I guess I’ve really made an impression on those folks, and in a case like today, it turns out I’ve even introduced some people to Nerdcore, and everytime I hear that it makes me really happy because it means I’ve had a positive effect on their life (well, I think it’s positive to get into a genre with MCs like MC Frontalot, mc chris, Beefy, Nursehella, ZeaLouS_1 and YT Cracker to name few.) I mean, there are still plenty of things I have to get straight in my life that still take a higher priority, but I think I won’t be turning my back on music even though I’ll have other stuff on my plate as I start getting other stuff underway. I just know I’ll never go back to playing shows that for audiences that don’t care, but as long as there is someone who will listen, I might as well as share what I do.
It’s like I’m happy just being me and doing things the way I want, and in the scale and pace I want. I don’t have to be an overstressed, over-scheduled person who can’t get anything done for anyone because it’s just too much going on. I’ll walk instead of sprint for now, and I’ll enjoy all the warmth and sunshine along the way. I hope people are happy to walk along with me, but they should do what they want to do too. 🙂
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Brand New Old Music & Employment
Posted on October 1st, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:44 am
You know, I thought it was kind of cool (or atleast very smart alek of me) to put out a double CD of “fresh” material while taking a sabbatical from active music production, but somehow I think this might even be cooler still. Namely, a pair of my old friends in the electronic music community, a duo by the name Negative pH, have released a cover of “Sea of Stars” from previously mention double CD. It’s an outstanding cover – leagues better than anything I’ve ever released – but don’t take my word for it. Check it out on their myspace, and click on the song titled “SOS.”
In other news, I am gainfully employed in a retail job again. At least it’s at a computer store this time, and I’m getting paid, as Chamillionaire would say “Mo Scrilla” than I was at Target. It’s also in a strip mall that has an awesome Chinese restaurant in it too, which is always welcome. The teriyaki joint in the same mall is pretty mediocre however.
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About 5 years overdue, give or take a year.
Posted on September 19th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:24 pm
Never Knows Best | Never Yours To Share It
Just another thing to get out the door before hibernating.
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Or perhaps maybe….
Posted on September 16th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 3:55 pm
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Make of it what you will
Posted on September 15th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 11:42 pm
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To everyone freaking out…
Posted on August 29th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:10 pm
Please stop.
Stop writing this up and pontificating upon me taking a break like it’s an obituary. I mean, it’s cool that y’all care – it makes me feel like maybe I achieved something with what I was doing, but it’s not at all the end of the world. Besides, it’s not like I’d had been putting out a lot of music, or gigging all the time anyway. If it takes an extra year for The Fourth Estate (if I even call it that by the time I put it out,) to be released – so say a 2009 release date – that’s not really an obscene gap between releases. I mean, revision4920 (as a CD) was released in 2005, Romance Language was released in 2007 and Opensource could drop whenever I feel like it (maybe if I get some cash together from sort of normal, gainful employment soon, it’ll be out be soon.) Time flies all things considered, and really, in the proper perspective, one can argue this changes nothing. I’m just codifying what I’d probably end up doing anyway.
To put it another way, patience is a virtue: think about how much more polished, soulful and rewarding the next album should be if it’s not part of a pressured deadline or schedule. Don’t think of this as death folks, this is a rebirth. I’m making me Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
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“From my revision beginnings…
Posted on August 28th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:32 pm
To that OpenSource ending
Listen close you’ll hear what I’m about
People feel my truths.”
-Me paraphrasing Jay-Z
So, I’m taking a break from music. After basically losing my temper after a miserable PAX, and generally sort of so/so summer, and given that I just can’t really justify pushing onward when I can’t even get the basics right like being good to my girlfriend, and generally getting my life moving forward, I think to need simplify. Fact is, I need to get back into school (especially since I have my transfer degree from BCC now,) I need to get some gainful employment (especially since I can’t really eat off of my music at the moment,) and I need to get my own place (my parents are great people, but I have to prove myself out in the world, or atleast give it a real shot – if I don’t, atleast I know that I have a caring family to fall back on – not everyone can say that.)
Besides, I don’t think I even really have the heart to do much musically at the moment – all that’d probably come out is dumb emo rap, and lets face it, no one wants to hear that. I will get Rai’s album done, and I’ll make beats for Nursehella when ever she wants them, but beyond that, I’m just not feeling it (if a raft of people want Opensource, maybe I’ll get a run done since all the song for that are ready; however, I doubt that, so maybe I’ll just try to get it on iTunes or something.) I think part of the problem was all this stuff was going to my head, yet, I really didn’t have the basics down. That’s backwards. I think I should be successful and happy in the rest of the facets of my life first before trying to be a public figure of any sort, even in the only vaguely internet famous way that I am. If I don’t, I risk messing things up worse than before.
I’m sorry if I’m letting anyone down or getting anyone’s spirits down by saying all this, so allow me to end on a note of hope; I think Nerdcore is going to be massive with or without me, and that’s a good thing. I mean, if taking one person out of scene meant that it wasn’t going to function, that would have meant it doesn’t really have the legs to go somewhere, right? However, as I saw during the concerts at PAX (when I wasn’t being kicked out from them even though I had a special guest pass,) and just by the general attention and recognition the luminaries of this young genre received, Nerdcore is in better shape than ever. There are wonderfully talented people who are just beginning their careers, and they are the proof that this all has legs beyond just the 1st and 2nd generation acts. I mean, when the 3rd gen acts are already holding their own with people who have been in the game for over 7 years now, that’s wonderful. I wish the best of luck to everyone who makes Nerdcore a priority in their life who are happy with that decision. You’re creating something brand new via your own talent and strength, and that’s lovely and awe-inspiring. Maybe one day, I’ll be strong enough again to stand beside you. I certainly don’t intend to give up with out a fight, I just need to fight through some other things first.