Half-Way Done In The Wrong Order…
Posted on February 16th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:39 pm
The proper way to handle a CD release given the situation of being an online-oriented artist:
1. Release Promotional mp3s to entice fans.
2. Release CD via nice new online store.
3. Profit.
How I’ve handled it:
1. Release CD via mediocre new online store.
2. Release Promotional mp3s to entice fans.
3. Realize that no one’s going to buy this without mp3s up first, but I promise they’ll be up tomorrow.
To anyone bold/fanboyish/fangirlish enough to buy this on the single and the preview medley mp3 alone (IE: before I get the rest of the preview mp3s up,) I’ll autograph the CD with a silly internet meme or two, and I’ll put a nerdy anime sticker or two in with the CD. Oh, and the first print run has an unintentional grammatical error in the liner notes, which is sure to make the value skyrocket*.
*=Karl Olson, karlrolson.com and any related individuals or subsidiaries can not be held responsible for the fact that the odds of it ever being value are 963 quadrillion to 1. 😉
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See, I’m really working on it…
Posted on February 13th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:17 pm
I’m pretty happy with it.
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Crunch Time
Posted on February 12th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:59 pm
So with about 2 days and change before my next album goes on sale, it’s crunch time. I have the album art, I have the music, but making that into a product is easier said than done. Oh, the lightscribe discs are pretty (but are slow to burn,) and the double sided gloss paper makes for great CD covers (that then need be carefully cut out,) but as I’ve just blatantly insinuated, this process is easier said than done. If I’m lucky, a lot of work tomorrow morning will ensure I have 20 discs available at the show on Wednesday. Online orders will open Wednesday evening or on Thursday morning.
For something that is, at the moment, more of a hobby than a career it sure is very time consuming sometimes. Hopefully though, people enjoy it, and it’ll all be worth while. If not, I’ll probably just keep doing it anyway. After all, not many hobbies give you an excuse to go various nerdy conventions.
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OBJECTION
Posted on February 11th, 2007
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 5:23 pm
(Click For Full Size.)
Oh Apple Store, you’re always a fun way to kill time. If only I could build Apples like PCs (without laying out some serious cash upfront,) I’d almost switch.
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Nerd == Nerd^2
Posted on February 2nd, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 5:05 am
I say this because I am now a Linux User. Well, not a full time Linux User, and besides, the only reason I’m using it now is because Windows absolutely, positively refused to install on a 12″ Dell Laptop my friend Misu gave me. However, Linux (specifically, Damn Small Linux as I’m running a 384MB flash hard drive,) runs quite nicely on it, and it even fires up wifi (which is critical as the whole point of this exercise was getting a lighter laptop running for convention reporting and general usefulness,) so I guess I’m now partially penguinated, atleast when I’m not at home and using my sweet sweet XP machine, though I’d probably even trade that in if the next version of Reason ran on Linux. After all, the rest of my day to day work – word processing, internets chatting, net browsing, image editing and video viewing can be done in Linux. I just can’t make music the way I’m used to (IE: too lazy to try Linux music making software.)
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Even More Video Coverage.
Posted on January 31st, 2007
Filed under: Videos — Karl Olson @ 2:22 am
Though this time I can only link you to the site. I’m not in it a lot, but there is yet another angle of me performing w/ Nursehella, yet another angle of me performing with MCeeP, me interrupting the dispute between MC Plus+ and Monzy, and footage of me autographing a CD for the girls of Nontourage. Barring the stage_6 footage and maybe a little more footage from Podtech/GETV, I think that finally puts Vegas/CES to bed. 15 minutes expended 😉
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Even More Pointless Video!
Posted on January 30th, 2007
Filed under: Videos — Karl Olson @ 5:38 am
Yeah, I went to a Vista launch party for laughs. Had I not already eaten, I would have been all up ons those hamburgers. I didn’t buy Vista of course though.
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From The WINDOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Posted on January 29th, 2007
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 2:49 am
TO THE WALL!!
Teriyaki Shop Tea Drinking Time.
Santa’s gonna kill me.
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Gratuitous
Posted on January 27th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 4:38 am
Gratuitous Video – GeekEntertainmentTV on CES Nerdcore, Part 1 – As is the custom as of late, more video of me (and a number of my fellow nerdcore mcs, namely Nursehella, Zealous1, MCeeP.) I think I’m in this video too much, and my dorkitude is more evident than ever. Also, one can see my undawears, as Homestar Runner might say.
Gratuitous and self-indulgent side thought: The chapters of Nana that are currently running in Shojo Beat are hitting home in a downright bizarre way for me, and yet, while it’s almost unsettling to think just how well I can relate to the situations in that manga, it’s very cathartic and almost revealing at the same time. It’s opening up some interesting perspectives on my own current events, and simultaneously it’s like the things I’ve experienced me have allowed me to better enjoy Nana, or at least better understand where certain characters are coming from. I mean, Hachi, as a character, I used to write off as a bit of caricature – her personality and actions didn’t seem believable to me in some ways – where as Nana, with her pride and love of music really resonated with me; I get being a musician, and I get the DIY mentality. However, I think I get Hachi now too – I understand that personality type is not only plausible, it’s perhaps part of how I conduct myself sometimes as well, so it sort of reveals something about me to me, and then that in that turn reveals a whole new perspective of how to view Nana and what it’s trying to communicate. Beyond that, it’s perhaps even given me a better idea about how a lot of my friends might feel about me and my actions, or rather it gives me some sense of their modus operendi which definitely eases my mind a little.
Of course, I’m fully aware that I could just be over-analyzing, but even if I am, it’s nice to flex those muscles. Lately in review work, I haven’t much in the way of really philosophically, psychologically, spiritually or emotionally intriguing animation come across my desk (the best I’ve seen lately is Rumbling Hearts, and it’s only an emotional kick for the most part,) and I’ve not even seen much coming out of Japan that tickles those senses – heck, I’ve probably seen more Western live-action films that engage my philosopher mode (cases in point: Stranger Than Fiction and Children of Men.) As such, to at least have one manga that is forcing me to think, to be introspective from different perspectives, is very welcome. Even if I’m just over-stretching to connect to my own life, the fact it’s getting me to think about my own life is probably a very good thing.
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Radio Interview!
Posted on January 22nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:27 am
Which originally aired January 22nd @ 9pm on Evolution 107.9: Download Here.
It also was longer originally too, but I didn’t get Audacity fired up in time to catch quite everything. To those wondering what the first question was, it was “what is nerdcore?” I also edited some of my responses around so I make more sense than I actually did because I was nervous if not incoherent at points, and I nixed the songs of mine included too because it’s a mono recording, so it’s not really a great showcase of the music. However, it was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I recieved the chance to do it.