Dead Cars, Vindictive Birds and Temporary Reprives
Posted on February 24th, 2008
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:33 am
So, life has been crazy lately. Given the college rejection, people hacking the website, a bird defecating on my shirt on the way into work, and another car in my care breaking down (my dad’s ’88 escort – seems the electronic ignition system is shot,) one might think I’m approaching Job territory (ok, nothing that melodramatic, but I like the metaphor.)
However, Danielle came down for a few days and then I took her home and hung out for a day, and that was very nice. We went to Gameworks and nosed around downtown Seattle while she was here, and her dad took us to dinner at the best Thai place in Vancouver, Sawadee, while I was up there, and in general, we just spent some Quality Control together. Makes the fact that she’s moving out East perhaps that much more difficult, but for the moment it’s good. I’ll even be back up in Vancouver later this week…
…assuming I have a car. Maybe the Greyhound is in order? Or will it catch on fire and shoot bees out of the tail pipe at me? 😉
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That’s right I’m back…
Posted on February 17th, 2008
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:28 am
Guess… who’s… baaaack?
So, for all the great stuff wordpress can back up, it figures that my links aren’t one of those things. Thus, I’m running with minimal linkage for the moment. Maybe I’ll add stuff back, maybe I won’t – depends on my laziness. Anyways, for the moment I’m back. BTW, the new redirect structure (.com -> blog) is intentional, as I might build something akin to a front page at some point in the future. Maybe.
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E.F.Me
Posted on February 13th, 2008
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 11:32 pm
So, I was basically rejected by the university I wanted to get into. So, looks like I’m an epic fail guy. They’ll apparently forward my app to the state university of my choice (for $50,) so if anyone has any good ideas in regards to 4 year schools with good Comp Sci programs I should apply to in the state of Washington, or really anywhere at this point, that’d be great. I’d really like to finish my degree. I mean, if I’m not going to eat off of music, I’d atleast like to support myself somehow, and I know selling computer parts for 10 bucks an hour isn’t going to cut it.
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Feelin’ Burned Out, Feelin’ Burned Out*
Posted on February 5th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:51 pm
*=To the tune of “Get Ya Burners Out” by Chamillionaire
Anyways, the site’s back up (hosting was moving locations,) though it might be down again as I’ve recently procured a server which hopefully will end up in a rack soon. Nekodashi might even be back up in the foreseeable future as a result.
Meanwhile, the first review of Nerdcore For Life documentary is in, and it’s pretty good. Can’t wait to see the actual doc in the future.
Oh, and I’ve been totally exhausted lately. Way too much running around and staying up late. I think I might be getting to old for this. 😉
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An Review.
Posted on January 28th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:16 am
I think he likes it. Maybe. BTW, if you know of reviews of my CD, then them to me, so I can post them on the site. Especially if they are very bad reviews. 🙂
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LOL MOE…
Posted on January 15th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:51 am
mp3 download here.
if you need context for this joke, here is it. lolmoney.com
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Revision4920 SOLD OUT FOREVER…
Posted on January 13th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:35 pm
Probably. As far as I know, I have no other copies. Should any ever turn up, I’ll auction ’em off for Child’s Play. Don’t get your hopes up though.
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Two Copies Left…
Posted on December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:11 pm
…of revision4920. I’m not reprinting it again, so get it while you can I guess.
Meanwhile, some music of mine was featured in the recent (as in with in the last month) episode of Nerdcore Rising’s Nerd of the Week segment. You can view that here: youtube. Coincidently, it is the episode about bloggers, so of course, I should blog about that. More surprisingly, it’s an older track of mine too, namely “bellevue” from Are We There Yet?, so that’s pretty cool. Of course, Karl Olson was misspelled, but that’s pretty much par for the course…
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with nekodashi still down…
Posted on December 17th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:04 am
I’m left with myspace to upload content to. Thus, two new songs are up (unless you own the Romance Language reprint and Opensource Lyricist.) First off is “duplicate,” the song added to the Romance Langauge reprint, which is synth laden and song that bemoans the sameyness of the current music industry and the lack of real vision or movement at the moment. The other new track is “fashionable,” my ode to fashion that’s clearly from the perspective of an otaku whose main clues to fashion are clearly only Ai Yazawa, Clamp and other shoujo manga-ka, and it’s a song that also doubles as an absolutely over the top brag track as well.
In other news, anyone who likes my music would probably enjoy the debut EP from nerd music supergroup The Grammar Club. It’s intensely catchy and quite intelligent. Probably one of my favorite releases this year, not just from the nerd music scene, but in general.
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It is officially released.
Posted on November 23rd, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:05 am
So yeah, buy my CDs and such. The Romance Language reprint with a whole extra song on it is available too.