However, before PDX
Posted on August 22nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:44 pm
I still have a show in Seattle: Nerdcore Night II
Featuring a plethora of talented, brilliant MCs, all for the low, low price of 5 bucks and it’ll go down right at El Corazon on Sunday 26th @ 5pm.
Comments Off on However, before PDX
On that Portland, OR show
Posted on August 22nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:56 pm
Here’s the details I have so far:
-It’ll be 9PM @ Backspace
-I have no idea how much tickets/cover are but I’d venture that it’ll be $5-10. That’ll probably be free if you’re a backspace member.
-I think it’ll be all ages. Not sure though.
Comments Off on On that Portland, OR show
Nerds on the Jock Network.
Posted on August 11th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:24 pm
Check this video at about the 4:40 mark:
Nerdcore MCs including me on Spike TV’s Gamehead
Alas, it’s probably not applicable media for the Wikipedia entry on Nerdcore, but I guess this does add somewhat to my notoriety.
Comments Off on Nerds on the Jock Network.
Hot Springs Episode / Castlegar Clubbing
Posted on August 11th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:48 am
So, today (well, technically yesterday) was something close to surreal. I mean, today was almost as awesome as a day can get. Lazily, I woke up around 10am, goofed around the net a bit, and then headed out to Nelson with Danielle for Starbucks, then went up to the Ainsworth Hot Springs which was truly relaxing and soothing. If you ever get a chance to go a natural hot springs, do it. It’s really quite nice and rejuvenating. I mean, my respiratory system had felt out of whack since the San Diego Comic Con, but after a few hours in the hot spring, it was like I was totally reset. Besides, it was quite fun to see the actual cave were the water comes from, and to take a dip in the cold water pool as well.
Around that time, Danielle and I realized that we hadn’t really eaten yet that day, so it was time to hit up a great Mexican restaurant by the name of Mazatlan for a very delicious meal. If you’re ever in Nelson – seriously, go to Mazatlan and get the Chicken Tamales. You’ll love it, and you’ll never be able to do Taco Bell stuff again.
On the way back to Castlegar a couple interesting events occured. First, I discovered that just because normal Pepsi and Mentos are not as volatile as Diet Coke and Mentos, that does not at all mean you should put Mentos in your Pepsi while driving. It still fizzes up… a lot. In fact, lets just say that had the results of this impromptu science lesson been recorded and uploaded to YouTube, I might have even given Chocolate Rain a run for it’s money, as it was just that funny and dumb. After that, Danielle spotted an old friend of hers once we were back in town, and she chatted with him a bit, which was cool and which also led to going to Element, the only club in Castlegar, later that evening.
The club was surprisingly fun. I mean, I’m not a clubber. I listen to and have written club music, but I’ve always been more DJ than a dancer. However, it was really quite fun to be there with Danielle. I mean, the club was almost too cheesy, but in an awesome way. As we walk up, we hear the dance track used in the first episode of the second season of The Venture Brothers, and by the time we’ve paid the 3 dollar cover, a remix of “Everybody Dance Now” was blasting. In general, the music was largely older dance and R&B jams – it was almost like walking on to the set of an episode of Mtv Jams circa 1990-1995, barring a few critical exemptions. There was some random track no one seemed to know, so Danielle and I goofed around a bit by getting on the empty dance floor and doing stuff like dancing the Charleston and breakdancing (well, I breakdanced poorly, she cheered me on.) Later, she and I cleared the floor as we just cut loose like Footloose during Kanye West’s “Stronger.” It really was like something out of a movie, or at least it felt that way. Later in the evening some one even said “you guys are the best dancers here” or something to that extent. Granted, it’s not a feat to be the best dancer at the only club in a tiny town, but it’s certainly fun to be told you’re awesome, even if you know that’s kind of flotsam. As we left the club, TI’s “What U Know” kicked in, which was kind of a fitting end to the evening, if only because Danielle had run into another old friend there and this friend didn’t know who TI was. Said lack of knowledge was a little problematic as Danielle was trying to tell him who she’d been on MTV with last month.
By the way, speaking of media exposure, I was on Spike TV’s Gamehead tonight with a host of other Nerdcore rappers, which is cool. BTW, boourns to Spike for cutting out Danielle. She’s more of a gamer than I, and thus more deserving of exposure on a game-related show. Of course, not that I really mind getting a freestyle on international cable stations either, but you could have cut some of that Uwe Boll interview for more Nerdcore, in as much as gamers like cute girls (like Danielle,) and hate Uwe Boll with a loathing rarely paralleled.
Like I said, an almost totally awesome today. Tomorrow (or rather later today,) I just relax, which is kind of cool in it’s own right.
Comments (4)
Reports Exaggerated, Etc. + ComicCon Video
Posted on August 4th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 11:45 pm
So, turns it’s just Sinusitis (aka a Sinus Infection.) Of course, since it wasn’t just viral, I was put on some good old fashioned Amoxicillin (only 4 bucks at Target, even for my totally uninsured self,) so I’ll be ok. Still sucks a bit though.
Meanwhile, I’m back in Canada, chilling in a internet cafe while my girlfriend drops off some presents from Comic Con for a friend of hers. Tomorrow (or maybe the day after,) I will be driving out to Kelowna, followed by driving to my girlfriend’s hometown of Castlegar so I can spend some time with her, and so that I can see where she grew up.
Then, I’m back home to prove that I’m an awesome and skilled producer, as I will not only finish atleast an EP for Rai, and either do self-replication or get pro-replication done in time for Kumoricon, I might just have a little project that’s, oh, two years overdue out in time for PAX. Why? Because I want to and because I can.
Speaking of egotism, watch this video of me at the Capcom Booth at Comic Con 2007. For something more interesting (in as much as it’s not reliant solely on my stage presence,) check out this video of Nursehella and I performing our collab on the same stage.
Comments Off on Reports Exaggerated, Etc. + ComicCon Video
Ill In The Traditional Sense.
Posted on August 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:05 pm
So yeah, I’m sick, as is my girlfriend. Head Cold with a side of Bronchitis, or at least that’s what it feels like.
This bites. However, at least being sick in hot weather means you don’t have to bundle up to stay warm.
Meanwhile, I have a gig in Portland, OR on August 30th, probably. Rai will also probably be involved. If I’m not well by then, well, I’m probably super sick and that’s it’s own problem.
Comments Off on Ill In The Traditional Sense.
Nerdcore Risen
Posted on July 20th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:24 am
Nerdcore For Life documentary on Mtv Canada
Jesse D, YT Cracker & Nursehella on Mtv Canada
I’m intensely proud of Nerdcore right now, plus a bunch of my friends and my fellow musicians were on Mtv. Well, Mtv Canada. Awesome enough though. I have a feeling something amazing is just around the corner.
Comments Off on Nerdcore Risen
On the note of doing too much in July
Posted on July 18th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:41 am
At San Diego Comic Con, I’m performing at Capcom’s booth on Thursday at 1:30pm. Also playing that day at the Capcom booth right after me will be lovely and talented Nursehella and the ever-so fresh and nerdy Beefy. At the same time on Friday, you can catch Comic Con fixture the Sucklord, nerd rap legends the Former Fat Boys and the original digital gangsta, YT Cracker. Oh, and sometime on Saturday at the Capcom booth, you can check out the Mega Man rap master, Random. Essentially, Capcom’s booth is nerdcore central.
Comments Off on On the note of doing too much in July
102 Degree Burn Out Unlimited Over 9000
Posted on July 11th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 8:56 pm
So, as the disjointed title suggests, I’m currently streaming hardcore drum n’ bass over borrowed wifi while fighting off the exhausting effects of a long and hot day running around the Spokenya (Spokane) area to acquire a reliable used box truck for the purpose of moving my grandfather’s belongings to the West Side of the Cascades so that his house can be sold, the proceeds from which when combined with the sale of my parent’s house will allow them to finally move into a place large enough to not only contain their hobbies properly, but even have their cars in a garage rather than next to the current house which is in fact garageless. Meanwhile, my grandpa will finally have all the stuff that previously didn’t make it into his suite at the retirement home.
However, enough of that drama and nonsense. Instead, let us rejoice, as you can finally here what everyone who caught the Waldo’s show has been waiting for: me covering an mc 500 times more talented than myself. Of course you can also hear such nerdcore luminaries such as the lovely and talented Nursehella and my protege/mecha-godzilla friend Rai brilliantly cover other artists over mediocre (wait, I mean awesome) backings created by your’s truly and mixed/mastered by that guy as well. Of course, if my production isn’t to your taste (in which case, why are you here?) you can always check out great covers by Beefy, Myf (feat. Kal & DJ Snyder), Shael Riley, YT Cracker and a host of other great Nerdcore MCs who I’m too exhausted to list right now.
Now, to work until Midnight, so I can get up at 6am, thus ensuring I can maybe snag a nap in the basement during the worst of the 103 degree weather tomorrow.
Comments Off on 102 Degree Burn Out Unlimited Over 9000
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.