twitterpated
Posted on May 21st, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 8:21 pm
As in i’ve got twitter. Figured i’d finally just give up and do it. Expect infrequent, largely sardonic updates:
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Neck troubles.
Posted on May 21st, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:54 pm
So, my life continues to be more “interesting” than I want. If my car’s radiator dying and getting a new job wasn’t interesting enough, I some how managed to strain my neck (specifically the left trapezius.) It wasn’t going away, so I went to the doctor, confirmed what it was. Now, I’m on Soma so the muscles can maybe relax, but that leaves pretty much useless for driving. I made a point to read up on the drug before taking my first dose, and well, it really does leave me a bit loopy as described (unlike Vicodin, which was prescribed for my smashed finger and my wisdom tooth extractions, and proved to be as useful as Advil.) I hope I’m good to go for Google I/O, but with my luck, I won’t be.
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Time to write another lament
Posted on May 19th, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:42 pm
So, a staple of the past 4 years of my life, Shojo Beat Magazine, is dead as of the upcoming July issue. Shojo Beat got me through some emotionally difficult times; it was also a monthly highlight that was a delight to pick up; it was a constant that I could buy and enjoy whether I was in Minnesota or California or British Columbia; and perhaps most importantly introduced me to some manga series I’d never have looked into independently. On that note, I never once skipped an issue. I’ve got the whole library in my room, and I’m happy to have it.
So long Shojo Beat Magazine. I’m going to miss it.
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Stereoscopic
Posted on May 11th, 2009
Filed under: General,Pictures,Videos — Karl Olson @ 8:12 pm
I wear my stunna glasses at Computer Stop, so I can, so I can, look at expensive 3D monitor effects in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, I am going to Google I/O in San Fran as I am an Android Developer, and the company is paying for it. One of these years, I won’t end up going to a con unexpectedly.
Oh, and someone did a video for an old song of mine that I should probably do fresh vocals on. NintendoNerr bevideoifies “He’s Homsar”.
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What my peers think of the Fourth Estate…
Posted on May 11th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:37 am
Fellow Nerdcore compatriots Antisoc and Dr. MC Mystery have also done reviews. Both are positive on the record. As such, I’m 4 for 4 on that tip. Maybe I should send a copy to Pitchfork. A 0.0 would be delicious, and even with a horrid score, it’d probably be the first review of a Nerdcore album.
The interesting thing is the lack of song-to-song consensus on the record. It’s definitely struck people in very different ways on that basis, which is probably a sign I actually I succeeded in delivering on diversity, even though I did select towards more clubby beats for the most part. The flipside is that I didn’t expect the album to be so impenetrable lyrically. I thought I’d backed the references off relative to the previous albums (not intentionally either – I just noticed I wasn’t saying “[x] like [insert anime here]” as much when I was writing songs, and the raw number of references had subsided,) or that at the very least, they were coached in broader themes, thus at least still communicating the intended emotion. In fact, there were some songs that were much thicker with references that I omitted. Knowing the album’s dense to people who aren’t me is useful to know. It gives me a much better perspective on why I get the level of response I do my music – my lyrics really do result in an intensely limited audience, lauded production aside.
PS: The new Star Trek movie is fantastic; it delivers on action and on sci-fi. Hopefully, they keep it in Abrams’ hands for atleast another film or two. An alternate-universe Trek was long over due, and well, this was just about the best possible way of pulling it off.
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Another Fourth Estate Review
Posted on May 4th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:02 pm
I think Hipster Please thinks I’m deep. This is likely a highly questionable point-of-view, though it’s always interesting to see what other people get out of my rambling rhymes.
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Since LOL MOE is almost at 10K views…
Posted on May 3rd, 2009
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 5:23 pm
I figured I’d post a new video of me doing some more serious(ish) rapping. The beat is lifted from a Chase and Status song named “Running.” Snoop Dogg isn’t the only guy who can lift a great dub/grime beat.
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brave new za warudo
Posted on April 29th, 2009
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:00 am
9 bucks buys you my record as mp3s. Give me a heads up if you buy it off this service, and/or if you spot it on other services (especially iTunes and Amazon mp3.) If this works (IE: it gets out where it should, and it puts $$dollarsigns in my pocket,) the rest of the nerdcore discography will go up including the out-of-print revision4920.
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the grand watunes experiment / some lyrics
Posted on April 24th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:38 pm
So, through this somewhat new (well new to me,) service, watunes I should have The Fourth Estate available on all the major download stores including iTunes and Amazon.com. I hope this works. If it does, I’ll get the other records out the door as well.
Meanwhile, I finally have a lyrics page up for The Fourth Estate. The rest of the lyrics up for Opensource Lyricist are also up.
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Download Delays
Posted on April 23rd, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:00 pm
Over two weeks later, and I still don’t have the record up for download. Why you might ask, even though I have the internet? (Though, funnily enough I’m at an internet cafe right now.) Well, payloadz is consistantly punking out about choking down the massive zip, and I’m sort of still sussing out info about how to get the album on iTunes and/or Amazon mp3 (especially since I’m not sure whether it’d be worth it on the cost tip.)
I feel bad that a lot of people have already received their hard-copies, and yet I still don’t have downloads up. Sorry about that.
I should probably post up lyrics too. -_-;
PS: Behold, the first review of The Fourth Estate. it’s quite positive.