2 posts tagged “nerdcore for life”
I'm not all that busy right now. But soon.
June 12th I'll be in Seattle for STIFF (Seattle True Independent Film Fest) for screenings of Nerdcore For Life and to do a show afterwards. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get out of work without using any personal or vacation time as I am trying to save it all for PAX, but I will find a way to be at both one way or another. In more exciting news, Chandra's coming with me. Maybe Ryan too, but who cares about that kid :P
The plan is to drive up Wednesday night or Thursday morning, hit up some Seattle spots, go to the screening, rock the mic, and come back that night so I can go to work Friday. Not as fun as I'd like for it to be, but Chandra is a really laid back co-pilot which I strongly like and she's offered to drive us back home. I don't know if I'll actually allow such things as I really dig driving, but I know I'll be pretty tuckered out. So maybe.
I'm really hoping the flick goes over well. I'm going back to Seattle on Sunday for the second screening, unless they hate it Thursday night, in which case I'm staying far far away. But I've seen the flick twice now and it's goofy and fun and I really don't come off as a dick which is an amazing plus. Maybe I can con Bethany into doing a write up about STIFF since a couple of local boys will be featured. Also kind of cool that Dan will be flying in from Chicago to be here. He's a character and a good dude who should have spent less time fucking with kids on message boards like he told me to do lol. I just wish I could make more out of the Thursday night events and I hope that Chandra is able to come up with me again on that Sunday when we'd have more time to check out all the cool shit Seattle has to offer.
In other news, a dude in LA wants to make a music vid for I'm No Superman and I think he wants to fly me down. I hate LA, but this dude has some really dope ideas for what he wants to do for the vid so I might be able to suffer through SoCal for a short time. I just wish it was San Fransisco or the Bay in general so I could hang out with Doc Pop for a bit. I miss that guy. More info on this as I get it, but for now it's in the possible column of events.
So ya know yesterday when I was all like, "Yeah I'm tired of making music and writing songs. I wanna take a break"? Yeah, well it turns out I'm full of shit. It was probably due to the fact I had gotten very little sleep due to Brawl. Speaking of which, how gay is it that Mario no longer does the spinning fist down-B attack he used to, and instead uses a water gun?
Anywho, last night after work I went to Lacey and Al's to pick up some things and they weren't there. Lacey was picking Al up from work and he was running late. So I sat in my car and listened to my ipod and realized I should do some writing. So I spent like 45 minutes in my very cold car, smoking and writing songs that might never be recorded, but they sounded great in my head. I know for sure I'm using at least one of them, but my hope is to use all of them with Grammar Club. My favorite part about being in the nerdcore genre is that you can write a song about anything and still be taken seriously. I have songs like MY Gayest Shirt, The OG, and Table Top which are fun and silly and nonsensical. Then there are songs like Alternate Ending and wonderfulamazing and 2 Fingers and a Tear and people are like oh yeah, dude is a real person and not some Internet creature. So to make a long story slightly longer, the songs I wrote in the car range from the nerdy obscure to the day to day shit a lot of us face.
Nerdcore Rising is at South By Southwest. This is huge for nerdcore, but not so great for our buddy Dan who is behind the doc Nerdcore For Life. There were times when I didn't think either flick would come out, now they’re both going to compete for each other's notoriety. I guess what I hate the most is that I haven't seen Nerdcore Rising. They interviewed me and I have a personally written bio on their website, but I don't know if I'm in the actual flick and if so, what it's like. I got to see Dan's film and for the most part I don't seem too much like an asshole. Ok, maybe a little like an asshole, but enough that I'm ok with it. That being said, Front is about to blow up. SXSW is huge and when they announced they got in I thought maybe they were joking. No joke. There is a doc about this genre playing to audiences at SXSW. A fest so big that almost every film being played gets a packed viewing. Front was interviewed on G4, their director was on the local news, it's amazing. My dream is for both flicks to be great. I want both to get a lot of notice, not just because I'm in them (don't get me wrong though, that doesn't hurt) but because it would bring some legitimacy that things like Wired and Newsweek have denied us.
