It’s a Remix LP!
Posted on August 6th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:50 am
And it’s free, free, free: Download it off megaupload, and if you don’t like megaupload, download it anyway, repost it somewhere else. and then link me to it.
Anyway, it was a fun little exercise, and it’s reflects where I’d probably take a new Rap record. Darker, harder, techier and nastier. I’m growing weary of polished synths, and sample clearance is a chore. Why are you still reading this? Download the album already.
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And this is why I’m not famous
Posted on August 3rd, 2009
Filed under: Videos — Karl Olson @ 4:38 pm
Videos from the Blue Moon Tavern show:
Greatest
Gothic Lolitas
Absolution
He’s a OG, Animate
Tune in next year for my next live concert :p
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Employeedish
Posted on August 3rd, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:07 pm
So, I’ve been doing mobile development for a start-up my friends run for the past few months, but it looks like I won’t be getting hours for a bit. Call it an unexpected vacation. So, outside of a visit to see Nursehella later in the month, I’m suddenly at odd ends as to what to do with my time.
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Nostalgia Drifting
Posted on July 23rd, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 5:17 am
So, what with Nerdcore For Life apparently being on the road to public, commercial availability, and being in need of extras, I naturally thought, “I know a jerk who can do commentary on the creative process of other people while lacking any skills in said arena – me!” Of course, I doubt that’ll come to pass, but it got me looking at the old Sealab reviews of my commentary, and it turns out I missed some gems.
Amazon actually seems to think I’m informative…
…but this guy seems to have fallen for the troll, and hard…
…while FilmJunk and E! Insider got the point…
…and Digitally Obsessed actually enjoyed my work.
Funny thing is, much like any song I’ve written before about 2002, I really can’t even listen to that commentary without cringing a bit if not a lot. It’s tacky and awkward, and well, undeserved even if the show was mediocre as Adam and Matt are good folks employing animators (something that Cartoon Network seems to be actively be working against.) Yet, I’ve received as much if not more ink and blog noise for those 15 minutes as I probably have for music since I started putting songs on the net about a decade ago. Seems kind of broken, doesn’t it?
Bringing it full circle, I wonder if one day I’ll look at Nerdcore For Life and Nerdcore Rising the same way as I do that commentary and my older music. I mean, yeah, I am hideously nerdy in those docs, but will I rue that? For now, I doubt it. I mean, when I look at them, and it’s clear Danielle’s already borrowing my hats before we’ve ever even thought about going out amongst cute cues, and well, that sweet foreshadowing will always hold a special place in my heart. They’re still lovely time capsules – may they always be.
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Some Photos
Posted on July 22nd, 2009
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 2:27 pm
Haven’t posted some pictures to the blog (rather than forums or twitter) in a while, and I figure all 5 of my readers might enjoy some me.
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I accidentally a show, is this bad? / Progress
Posted on July 19th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:42 am
Details are in the show section, but I’ve got a show at The Blue Moon on July 30th. I will try to rehearse up, but this is my first show in a year; it should be an interesting experience as such. Also in attendance will be Death Star and I think also Press Start to Rock and/or Snickerpuss. Kinda fuzzy on those details.
Meanwhile, Rai and I set up a makeshift recording booth at her house, and I lent her a solid USB mic so she can record vocals for her album. This should, theoretically atleast, speed up progress on her record considerably.
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Stupid Internet Tricks
Posted on July 1st, 2009
Filed under: Videos — Karl Olson @ 3:50 pm
So, having the Google Ion has resulted in me having a camcorder handy at all times. Additionally, most of my co-workers also have mobile devices with cameras built-in. What the result of this? Scads of silly videos. If hearing about the exceedingly boring minutia of my life via twitter wasn’t good enough for you, perhaps this shall quench your need:
Karl Mixes The WoW Mt. Dews
Karl Makes Cellphone Music
Karl @ the iPhone 3GS Launch
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Oh, BTW
Posted on June 13th, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:46 pm
I’m in Canada visiting Danielle (aka Nursehella.) Been pretty good so far. We went on a little hike around Zuckerberg Island yesterday, and we would have hit the Ainsworth Hot Springs had they not been closed this week. We also tried our hand at making tempura which came out ok, and I’ve done a little exploring around the town(‘s dollar and discount stores,) while Danielle was working at the local Chamber of Commerce (as she’s saving up to go back to university.) It’s certainly lovely to see Danielle again, and it’s been a nice little break, leading into what will probably be me grinding on XML and CSS at the office next week.
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Well I’ll Be…
Posted on June 12th, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:48 pm
It seems that widgetizing and twitterpating my layout was easier than I thought; I really should have done it a while back. It’s even a bit closer to what I was originally going for with the layout for the sidebar. Now to tweet about said updates to my blog.
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Blog Upgrade
Posted on June 12th, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:51 pm
You know web management has become easy when the blog can grab the update and upgrade itself. Of course, this is a bit of a reminder that maybe I should think about glossing the site’s look up at some point, or atleast adding a plugin/widget that can grab the twitter updates and jam them into the layout some how. Since that would mean editing the layout, well, maybe it’s time to kill two birds with one stone.