We ain’t goin’ nowhere
Posted on December 8th, 2006
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 1:06 pm
We ain’t goin’ nowhere. We cannot be stopped ’cause we are Nerdcore For Life:
So yeah, the Nerdcore For Life trailer is out. Look out for me doing all the nerdy things you’d expect me to do be doing, and note that even some of my friends made the trailer (and not just nerdcore friends, like friends from Anime Kingdom friends.)
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Ease my troubles, that’s what you do.
Posted on December 7th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:23 pm
Normally stuff like getting towed because I parked in an area you apparently can’t park at between certain hours would leave me dismayed and panicked. However, with my girlfriend, it was OK. I knew I’d get through it without much in the way of a hassle because she’s smart, cool and collected in these kind of situations (well, she’s always smart, cool and collected.) Heck, because we’d parked there, we had a fun time singing MC Frontalot’s “Crime Spree” in public, (not because we noticed the parking rules, but because we were worried about feeding the meter ironically enough,) and while we waited for one of her friends to pick us up and drive us to the impound lot, we goofed around with her cellphone camera at bus stop. Besides, the place we were parking for was this awesome mall loaded with great Asian stores, including multiple anime shops and great import fashion stores. For a day that could have been miserable, it rocked instead.
In less sappy news, I’m back in Seattle, and I’m going to be putting the final touches on my CD within the week, hopefully.
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Breaking and Entering.
Posted on December 5th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:45 am
Cool in a normal way: Enjoying great music and hilarious cartoons at an excellent friend’s house. I mean, coming into a house with a PS2 that has Aqua Teen Hunger Force already cued up is awesome, but breaking into singing songs from Beck’s One Foot For The Grave? That’s outstanding.
Cool in a not as normal way: The same friend also helped to fix my headlight in the parking lot of a Target. I probably couldn’t have done by myself, or atleast I was having a lot of trouble, and having that friend with me made it ok. Holding each others’ grease covered hands as we walked into the store just diffused any stress or worry about the whole problem.
Cool in a completely bizarre way: Getting locked out of said friend’s house, and thus having to work with this friend to get back in, namely by breaking and entering in through a thankfully open window. I will never, ever forget that because even though for a second it was very worrisome, it was all ok and even funny in a sweet, silly way. I mean, I know I have had things like this happen before, but this is the first time that it was somehow ok.
Just plain cool: Sharing a lovely car ride up with said friend after a brilliantly lovely weekend. Being in love is a fantastic thing. Almost too intense sometimes, but that’s probably what makes it real. I mean, shared interests are one thing, but having similarities like making little castles out of the creamer cups that came with coffee when you were little? Connections and similarities like that are surreal, but wonderful and powerfully special.
/days blog has gone w/o emo sappiness: 0.
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Preview Medley
Posted on November 29th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:25 am
Lots of singing, cause it’s all chorus no verse. ETA for CD hopefully this Saturday. Hopefully.
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Apparently, It Is My Birthday.
Posted on November 27th, 2006
Filed under: Pictures — Karl Olson @ 8:20 pm
I am now 23.
Anyway, here is a picture of my new mp3 player. Not technically a birthday present per se, but I’m counting it as one anyway:
I also have a Lite-On LightScribe DVD burner headed my way, which will hopefully be here before the weekend. Yay for self-produced CDs and such.
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Video of Nerdcore Renagade Show @ PS3 Best Buy Line
Posted on November 21st, 2006
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 6:14 pm
It’s hard to rap when it’s cold, but I still sold CDs. It contains 4 songs – 2 off revision, 2 off Opensource, some between set banter and some working out mix issues while rapping. At least the crowd dug it by the time all was said and done, not only buying CDs as mentioned before, but so much so they even asked me to autograph their CDs without prompting from me and they brought me two water bottles too so I could keep rapping. As such, I had fun too. Hopefully the fellow shooting the documentary about waiting in line for a PS3 will have some footage up eventually as well, because that’d be awesome.
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Podcast Promoted / Nerdcore Renagade
Posted on November 18th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 8:40 pm
first half of the headline: Anime Pulse bumps my beats as 4Kids dives into the red for the first time.
second half of the headline: 9pm Toys’R’Us, nerdcore show. might be fun.
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Romance Langauge / Tsundere Graffiti
Posted on November 11th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:43 pm
Because I’ve decided to hold off on Opensource until the Tycho collab comes together or January 2007 (which ever comes first,) I’ve decided to cut an EP/Album that’ll feature 8 songs geared around a central theme (namely the various facets of nerd love) and 8 songs that were at one point intended to be featured on Opensource but ultimately ended up not fitting due to space constraints, but are still pretty good nonetheless. Basically, a 16 song effort at a minumum (I might add a few hard-to-define odds and ends and/or cut some additional remixes,) and it should be out within the month if all goes well. It will be called one of the two names in the title, and it will also feature my collaboration with Nursehella. A page now exists for it here:
Romance Langauge / Tsundere Graffiti
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Slashdottedissed
Posted on October 28th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:23 pm
Good: The rhymetorrents halloween album is now available for download.
Better: It was slashdotted.
Wait n/m: Slashdot on average apparently doesn’t much like nerdcore.
Oh, well here’s a direct download link to my contribution. It’s about bad horror movies, and it features gratuitous references to Tsukuyomi MoonPhase. Also, I make light of the works of Uwe Boll.
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Revisions and Fresh Meat
Posted on October 20th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:03 pm
(Well, unless you’re Feather or Nursehella, in which case, this is old news, because you’ve already heard everything I have done for Opensource. Well, barring one track I just can’t seem to get a good mix for.)
The new version of “Eighty Three,” now with improved announciation and a great vocal hook added by my friend Zoe, is now up, as is “It’s The Beat,” a song about eating a french fry in Starbucks, if it’s about anything at all. Why now? Because I figure they’re as good they are gonna get, and I have certain persons requesting that certain of these tracks turn up for download because they can’t wait for the album to go up.
However, I think OpenSource as a whole is effectively done outside of that one track I referenced earlier. It’s pretty likely that I’m pushing the Tycho collab back because while it’s going to be great, it’s not going to wrapped anytime soon, and the Nurse Hella collab will probably make more sense on her CD (though it’s going to be great too, make no mistake about that,) so that leaves OpenSource pretty much done. I’m not sure whether people can or even should have to deal with almost 80 minutes of pretty much just me, but that’s probably how it’s going to work for better or worse.
And, yeah, those tracks above are 128kbps-licious, but nice new 320kbps trackage from me will be on the RhymeTorrents Halloween LP when it comes out. In my song for that comp, I make fun of Uwe Boll, and I make a Harry Potter reference in the first line of the chorus, so I figure I’ve it should appeal vaguely to my constituency. I’ve also hedged my bets by referencing a show I recently reviewed that happened to be very fitting for Halloween too.
So, yeah, expect OpenSource Lyricist news somewhere in here soon. Maybe even a release date.