15 posts tagged “nerdcore”
New Grammar Club album is moving along nicely. I am however having a harder time writing this go around now that I'm not angry at any lady-folks. Shael tends to like to focus songs dealing with (and even titled) girl troubles. A while back I pitched a song called Normal I wanted to use for my next album but Shael was able to run with it and now it's going to be a GC track, which I always love. Recorded my vocals for it yesterday and I'm pretty happy with them. I had written the first two sections to much slower music, so this new version has a much faster, Girl Trouble-ish kind of flow. The song is a lot different than I had originally thought of it.
Speaking of Grammar Club, our new site still isn't up which really sucks because there are two items associated with it's launch that I really want some feedback on. Since no one really reads this, I'm going to drop knowledge here. Item One: The Grammar Club, with Jonathan Coulton's blessing, have done a cover of "Code Monkey" that I'm told is very good. It's been covered before, but not with this level of production, or an added hip-hop verse. While it would be nice to take the net by storm with this new song, my real hope is that we make ourselves and JoCo happy. The first part is done. I think it's our best sounding song thus far, and hopefully we'll be able to pass it on to JoCo soon. Item two: We're going to sell t-shirts. The design is badass as far as I'm concerned and I would really love getting pictures of people wearing and loving them! All this and more...AS SOON AS THE FRAKKIN' SITE LAUNCHES!
Ok...breath...
Lot of drinking went down at Chan Chan's the other night with Ryan, Nick, and Chandra's roommates in attendance. Chandra's roommates are weird. Ok, not so much Laura, but Laura's boyfriend is an odd bird. I'm sure he's fantastic once you get to know him...but still lol. I personally had an incredible evening. Last night sucked. All of a sudden I got really hot and my face wouldn't stop sweating. I tried taking an ice cold shower and that didn't seem to do much to help. Laid in my bed for about a half hour just trying to think of cool thoughts until I finally curled up into a ball and fell asleep for 4 hours. Freaky times indeed. Still have a bit of a headache, but everything else is starting to feel a lot better. Tonight I'm suppose to see Chandrabean which always makes me smile. Sometimes these things disintegrate, but I'm hopeful hangouts won't fall through tonight. Have a great day!
Ya know what I like? Elephants. I saw one this weekend that, while others thought he was in a bad mood due to his constant movement, I just thought he was feeling the groove. As a person who constantly dances to the music that only plays in my head, I can appreciate an animal that I can both relate to in size and in mental unstableness. Another thing that I learned while at the Oregon Zoo in Portland is that you can see a mountain lion for free, but if you want to see an animal anyone actually gives a shit about, that shit will cost ya!
Another rule of thumb: Make sure you've got cash before you get in the elephant ear line. I had no idea how popular that shit would be until I was in line for a half hour waiting for sugary deliciousness. You might also want to bring your own drink, because these people know they're your only source for a thirst quenching elixir and they're going to charge accordingly. Goddamn you supply and demand! Also stood in line with a guy who was failing so hard at being gay. He was so overdoing it and it seemed so forced that I think him and his buddy had lost a bet or something.
Went down to Ptown with Chandra. That didn't go so well. Don't get me wrong, I've been on far more difficult trips with people who just honestly suck, but Chan Chan was just not in the mood for an out of town adventure with Beef Thom. Caused a lot of ugliness and revelations that I'm still not fully over yet, but what am I going to do? I have no clue. Like any good Mexican, I live by the Laugh Now, Cry Later motto. Unlike my Mexican people however, I won't have said motto tattooed on my neck in olde english. I'm just not that olde fashion. Thankfully, I've been to Portland so many times that this doesn't even rank as my worst Portland trip. Just would have been better with a less distracted, less home sick Chandrabean. I did get to see my Portlanders again! I missed Kat and Justio and it was cool meeting Jessie for the first time, and I only wish I was there longer. I'm going to try to sneak away up there within the next two months and bug them some more.
Super High Me is a hilarious movie. It was everything I expected, but then so much more. Portions of it was very hilarious, and other parts made more sense to me than any pro or anti legalization arguments I've ever heard. It's part stand up coverage and part medical mary jane doc. The presentation is also amazing. After Doug's 30 days of sobriety, Day 1 of ganja is celebrated with a choir of angels. Now I've been a fan of stoner humor since before I sparked my first bowl. I was digging Friday and Half Baked for years. So clearly I would dig this flick, but I think that even people who don't smoke might dig it a bit too, if only because Doug Benson is very funny in my opinion.
I think that's all for now. I'm going home early cause I've been dragging ass and I honestly just want to take a nap. The rest of the Grammar Club and I just finished our cover of Code Monkey and I can't wait for you guys to hear it! Also, YT Cracker now has all of the tracks and album art for Rolling Doubles, so you should hopefully see it on itunes and amazon within 3-4 weeks. Printed CDs later...I think. I'm not really sure. I just want this to be done. Damon provides me more and more entertainment with every passing day, and he doesn't even know it. I'm kinda gonna miss him when he's gone. Have a great day.
Big day tomorrow. Show day. Seattle day. Movie day. All rolled into one! I haven't done my own set since...February I think. Needless to say I'm more than a little rusty. Thankfully the place will be full of friends like Chandra, Bethany, Ryan, YT, Karl, and Dan to name a few, who have all seen me suck ass at rapping before. So I'm not that nervous.
Wow work has sucked! Turns out one of the Indian offices went down so we we've been having to take tech and general calls. I'm use to having a handful of minutes in between calls, but not today. I'm very spoiled and I had grown accustom to it.
Shitty day at work. Can't wait to go home. It took 10 hours to write this between calls and insane British/Brazilian people who spend over an hour with me wanting to know everything about a product on our website. Guess that's why I get paid the big bucks. Oi. At least my blogs aren't as depressing as Damon's. Sheesh! See ya in Seattle kids!
Last night I watched anime...willingly...and I..I...kinda liked it! Oh sweet mother of God, the end times have finally come!
Watched the last half of Akira (still don't like that one) but then me and Al watched Princess Mononoke and I was digging it. There are tentacles and it gets really hippie powered during a lot of parts, but I love how the bad guys aren't all bad and the good guys aren't so good, and the main character actually feels like a true peacemaker. I can see why Karl raps about anime in general. There is a lot of imagery and overall weird shit one could write rhymes about.
Playing video games tonight...in theory. I haven't sat down with a good game in a while save for playing Advance Wars for a weekend. I say in theory because, well, sometimes Chandra and I lose focus and fight crime, which I'm a bigger fan of actually. We're going to play Lego Indiana Jones which is odd because I've never played any of the Lego games and I've never seen an Indy movie, but I'm still excited. It's important to put her PS3 to use.
Work has been lame all day. It took me like 5 hours to type this. So lame. Had lunch with Chandrasaurus which was not lame at all. MC Lars e-mailed me telling me he loved Balloon Flight which was very nice. And I still have worries I might not be able to do Meltdown because of work. Stress ho!
More writing. More writing. More writing.
I've fully written Orientation, Smiles Times, Don't Fall Asleep and a song with the working title of Girly Crazy Baby Lady. I have verses for WTF Happened?, SMASH!, Playstation, Normal, and Mostly Harmless. I scratched the idea for Turn The Page, the verses for which I'll probably use for a collab MPFM wants to do. The only song I haven't touched yet is Monster and that's because I want to work closely with Doc Pop on that one. And that leaves the skit, and asking a couple people if they wanna be on the album. All this, and I only really have three beats.
With this album I'm going to be the king of the scratch track. Me, fruity loops, and simple kick, snare, high hat, and clap sounds. Record those, send em off to tanner or snyder or doc pop or maybe even shael. And if I cross my fingers and ask real nice, maybe I can even get one from dj john. I still need to ask people if they want to be on the album. Wheelie Cyberman who just dropped the first track from Supercommuter (which is going to be an amazing project), Bethzilla who I just wrote a part for the other day, and I'm going back and forth if I want to do a posse style track of if I just want to get YT on the record. Probably just YT. I have a lot of buddies I want to get on the album, but these songs are writing themselves on this go and I have a lot to say. I might do a fun Collabicide style EP in the future so I can get The Former Fat Boys, Dual Core, Doc Pop, Shael, Karl, Hella, tanner, and Zealous to spit some more bars with me.
Things with me and the girl are still...werid. I focus like a laser and she purposely doesn't. I just met her at the wrong time in her life, but I wonder how long I wait before I admit that it sucks and I don't like it. But I really like hanging out with her. She's quickly becoming one of my best friends. Tuna might have her killed soon lol. Oldboy is going to be moving into my apartment complex, very likely in my same building. Lord knows I like a good hassel. But even though it's not what I'd like, I still love seeing her and spending time with her and spoiling her and being spoiled by her. In a different reality we're the cutest couple ever. In this one though we're a kinda secret ninja pseudo couple. Grumble.
Today is Chandra's birthday. Yay. That whole situation...still complicated. Will more than likely remain that way for the foreseeable future.
I've been doing a lot of writing at work. While tanner toils away on Rolling Doubles, I'm going to do Mostly Harmless a lot differently. I'm going to record a lot of scratch tracks just to a simple click track beat. I'm also going to get a few more producers in on this one and I'll see about either paying someone to master the tracks or to find someone just as good but with more time on their hands. That'll probably mean getting a lot of the project files from the producers. I have a lot to learn. I'd love to pay Adam! from The Grammar Club to mix it actually. That dude is amazing, but very busy.
I finished the writing of two new songs today. One is the opposite of Minimum Wage Slave which just goes to show that I'm never really happy, and the other is a "look, it's not that hard to write a song like mc chris" kind of thing. Talk about feeling left out and girls. Done and done. I still have to go about asking if Wheelie, YT, Dual Core, Ben of FFB, and Bethany wanna be on the album. I also wanna ask Wordburglar because the dude is amazing in my opinion. If he says no I'll beg Jesse D. I'm just really digging those Northern gents lately.
5 minutes till I'm off. Have a good one.
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.
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Hold the presses, I'm ill like kids with polio
I look like the guy on the episode of that show ya know
Keeping up with me, because I play for keeps
I got my ink for free, my baby less than three
I get around, like virus in your inbox
Hot Latino blood like the runner of the White Sox
Like the Hitchhikker's Guide, I got a heart of gold
But if ya think I'm mostly harmless then I'm ripping off your nose
I'm killing you with flows, like hurricane Katrina
Did he really say that shit? Yo I promise I didn't mean to
But honestly, I couldn't give two shits
You're weak like Skee-Lo, he couldn't make two hits
Throw your fits, like tossing Tony Little
I'm so low tech, my mic atop a CD spindle
Kissing and caressing on a girl who's not a freak
I don't get sleep, could write this album in a week
Go!
Don't act like you don't, because I know you know (x3)
I'm killing you with flows
I'm killing you with flows
They call me Beef Thom
Rock it with the lights on
Shake it like a pom-pom
This motherfucker's awesome
I be the bestestist
See you can burn to this
And yo I never miss
So just throw up your fist
Staying Alive, like I'm the BGs or I'm GLaDOS
Hold the world inside my palm, rock a gauntlent like I'm Thanos
Like a clown on retainer, I'm always down to party
People scared when I roll into their town like Katamari
Come on baby, sorry. I didn't know that you weren't naughty
Make you feel like you're in church. When it's in you, you say Lordy!
Cause you're horny like I'm horny. Don't deny it. Don't ignore me.
Get you wet and light headed like it's Sealab and your Stormy
But, um, maybe I should hit the breaks
I vomit Frosted Flakes, everything I spit is gggggreat!
Catch me in a circle like a dot, got my cootie shot
Like tectonic plates, I've been known to make your body rock
Corners asking whatcha got? Medicine and purple pot
Like Damien Hess yo, I've been known to Frontalot
Like carnies on strike, my flow is no fair
I'm not a daredevil, but the devil made me dare
Go!
Don't act like you don't, because I know you know (x3)
I'm killing you with flows
I'm killing you with flows
They call me Beef Thom
Rock it with the lights on
Shake it like a pom-pom
This motherfucker's awesome
I be the bestestist
See you can burn to this
And yo I never miss
So just throw up your fist
So I saw something pretty cool on Dan's vox today:
It's not super amazing, but it's pretty cool to be in print media. I care who you are. The picture is from when the lot of us went to the San Diego Comic Con last summer. Oh how I hated the 24 hour+ bus rides there and back. Never again. For those of you not in the know, the picture features ytcracker, Nursehella, Dan, Sucklord, Ben of The Former Fat Boys, Ultraklystron, and myself. It would seem people are digging Dan's film a bunch. He still hasn't sent me a screener of the finished film, so until he does he's dead to me. Moving on!
So Chandra and I stayed up until 5am again. I think I'm slowly killing this girl. I almost did when she came in and her daughter was wearing a full on Steeler's outfit. If you've forgotten, and if you're a Seahawks fan at all it's impossible, the Steeler's cheated and stole a Superbowl from my motherfucking Seahawks! And being as how I seem to have feathers, and Chandra like to ruffle, it makes for a silly fake unhappiness. Frankly the kid could wear a shirt that said "Beefy Sucks" and I'd still think she was adorable, as well as her mommy. As soon as I can teach Leila to say Beefy I'm putting her on a track!
I'm already late for going over to Chris' for their practice. I kind of don't want to a little. Only because I'm lazy and I don't know what Kevin's going to want to do later. I'm so conflicted. But we might work on a song. We probably won't...but you never know. I wanna do my little rock/rap project so bad but their so busy all the time I might have to find other people who rock but won't fully buy into my vision. My vision must remain intact! I'm out.
Ok, so this is the closest to the deadline that I've come so far in this competition. I'm in my room with my brother and we're listening to me. I love me. He's in town for the funeral we went to today in Wapato, a small town outside of Yakima. I'm not a fan of funerals. My jokes rarely go over very well. Today was no exception. Kevin was all decked out in his Marine dress attire, making him the favorite. Damn his sexy body!
From The Dust did some recording tonight and it was incredible as usual. Turns out my boys can rock out pretty hard in the studio. I'm 99% sure that next week I'm going to try to set up a time where they will go in with me and record our version of Table Top based on Tanner's rock remix, making it technically the third version of the track, and the second rock version. People really seem to dig it at the shows, but I'm so tired of it. It's kind of how they hate performing Watch It Burn but I demand each and every show and practice.
Chandra is on her way over. Always good times. Tuna and Nick are home which means there's a decent chance that some Brawl will be played. If not, maybe Monopoloy or something else. Maybe movie night. So many options! So she's here now and she dressed her daughter up in a Steller's uniform. Clearly this relationship is going to take a whole lot of work.
In closing, try your best to not go to a funeral if you can help it. It's mad depressing. Not only is the person you're there for is not longer with us, but you have to see everyone you love in your family cry. That's no fun. For someone like me at least. Anywho, I hope you're all having a great night and have a nice day.
