i dissagree
minor threat was NOT just a band
but the other stuff? sure, i’ll buy that.
my current plan is to return this place to a semblance of quality no later than 9 weeks from now. at that point, school will be over, woohoo!
Friday, April 6, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
beta blockers go me down - part 1
i’ll try and do this one from ang. i’ll prolly start on it tomorrow since i have
1. stuff to finish forr release and will be at work until about 8PM
2. take home test due tomorrow for our clinical diagnostics class
speaking of which, i should prolly post my presentation for that class. it was filled with penis humor. i know how that always goes over well.
Friday, February 16, 2007
bring it on homeboy - part 1
destroying what little nerd street cred i have with my very first try here by insinuating that i had some athletic ability in highschool. case always said i was a jock.
ok, here’s the deal. i have WAY MORE than 12 lines here with this. basically my plan was to just crank something out fast. anything. but apparently i undererestimated my creativity on this one. or at least i thought i would have trouble with material. at this point i have the beginnings of at least 3 verses and i havent even managed to work “bring it on homeboy” into the lyrics. at least not with the 1st verse. well maybe…
as usual, i’m taking something simple and turning it into an forkin epic. chock full of math and thermo references. well, a few. anyways, here’s what i got so far. keep in mind that it’s to the music in my head, so it may read poorly. or it may just suck. yeah, that’s it.
young nerd boy on the soccer field playing “D”
top of the diamond like a planet at apogee
schooling all forwards like they was elementary
handing out slide tackles to all takers for free
or
who knew that someday he’d be hailed as a leet MC?
circling the keeper like an orbital station
protecting the goal from alien invasion
analyzing opponents like stochiometric equations
greatest nerd soccer player in all of creation
everybody says that he looks like a white urkel
bowl cut and glasses, but he runs like a fuckin gazelle
skinny as hell, stuck in a shell
but with his leet kung foo, all opponents are felled
tall blond jock in the zone makes a foray
thinks that he’s fast, yeah that he’s faster than Fourier
to solve differential equations, no chance at evasion
gonna get himself hurt when he tries this invasion
of the Z domain, instead Z brings the pain
with a push off the ball that pulls him up lame
he tries to land a hit, but in this duel of wits,
u know there was no he’s gonna win this shit
behind his eyes you could see the burst of steam
expanding out his ears like stage 2-3 in rankine
pushes the nerd, oh man, that’s a bad ploy
“you wanna go nerd?” “yeah, bring it on homeboy!”
extra credit if you know wtf i’m talking about with the Z domain. the rankine ref is for richie and tanju (if he still reads this)
yeah… this is gonna be a learning experience. 5 days > 2 days right? commence tearing it up. i’ll pick something from the last group of suggestions for monday
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
huh
this is gonna be a little more tricky than i initially thought.
i’m not flaking out here. i’ve actually written some stuff down, the problem is, there’s no real way to demonstrate the lyrical cadence (if such a term exists). think i’m gonna try and record an mp3 or something. podcast or something similar. i’ll have something up tonight or tomorrow, one way or the other.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
i need some help
ok guys here’s my proposal. i need some help to get the creative juices flowing and return full time to this whole blogging thing, so i have an idea. each day i’ll take a topic and either make a comic out of it or write a minimum 12 line rhyme about it. at the beginning, i’ll give myself 2 days max to pump something out, but the plan is to get one out every day.
what i need from you guys are the topic/suggestions. i’m thinking in the form of one-word or one-sentence concept sort of thing. the first suggestion is gonna come from sexyarmo “bring it on homeboy!” (which probably means nothing to anybody except possibly for him and simon).
george, i swear to god, if you come back at me with chocolate milk, i’ll kidnap you when you come to town and drop you off at a hillary clinton support rally and free-love orgy where you’ll be converted to liberalism, pledge allegiance to howard dean style socialized medicine, offer to sell a kidney to fund the al gore “creater of the internet” memorial ziggurat and reflecting pool (to be placed at the capital mall), and join a union. AND YOU’LL LIKE IT!
blogging from work again. and yeah, it is saturday.
Friday, February 2, 2007
nerdcore
well, as expected, i forgot to update again last night. trying to make this routine. tues and weds are tough tho, since i have class til 10PM. wow and look, i didnt update again and it was thursday. hmmmm…
so i’ve been listening to a lot of nerdcore hip-hop lately. i’d started listening to some of it about 5 years ago with MC Chris and his song Fett’s Vette (about boba fett. you can DL the entire album at www.mcchris.com. it’s the “life’s a bitch and i’m her pimp” one). then a few years ago i saw Optimus Rhyme and MC Frontalot (the guy who coined the term, nerdcore) play with the minibosses at the penny arcade expo here in seattle. i picked up their albums, mainly to just give support at the show, but didnt really get to into it. it wasn’t really until a month ago when this interview with MCPlus+ aired on the local NPR station that i decided it might be worth it to go to his site and DL some of his stuff. the lyrical feud between him and monzy led me to dl his “So Much Drama in the PhD”. onward from him to MC Hawking, and so on…
anyways, i thought i might give a quick shot at putting together some sick rhymes. i mean, i’m a nerd right? yeah, i’m not in comp sci, but i do play WoW and i like star trek and anime. what more could you ask for (besides a phd)? anyways, here’s what i got in about 5 minutes.
like a fiber milkshake
got lyrics so thick
like a raw pork steak
gonna make you sick
overclockin these beats
’til they melt the casing
breathin in burned resistors
like i was freebasing
can anybody send me some decent dj backbeats? just for fun, i’d like to see what kind of garbage i can produce.
i knew a guy once in collage who thought you could eat bratwursts straight out of the package like you (theoretically) can with hotdogs. he got pretty violently ill. oh jeff naylor! where are you today?
Thursday, March 30, 2006
edit: added link… and then kept writing
i edited the last post to include a link to the full comic, since apparenly it’s been buried by the sidebar. never used to be a problem for all you IE users out there, but apparently that’s changed
sorry for the lack of promised update last night. we went to see gogol bordello again and didnt get back home until after 1:30AM.
nerdliness comment here. we went to see the show at a place up on capital hill called neumos. compared to a lot the closets i’ve seen concerts in in seattle, this place was relatively open with a large floor in front of the stage that you could easily fit 100 people on. not so easily you could perhaps cram in about 150. that was the case last night
so gogol bordello, who i’ve mentioned before, is definitely a high energy dance band (in the mediteranean-folk-wedding-fiddle-meets-ska style, not the traditional-punjabi-bhangra-sitar-meets-remix-techno sense.) of course when you get 150 people squeezed together in a space that’s maybe 12′ X 20′, dancing gets reduced to enthusiastically bouncing up and down in place while the crowd pushes you in all directions. this was nothing new. i’ve been to a lot of shows in a lot of venues where this was the case. what made this different was the rigidity of the floor we were bouncing up and down on, or rather the lack there of. it was like bouncing on a goddamn trampoline! if the band hit the right rythm, you ended up bouncing up an extra 2 inches or so each time you jumped, just from the rebound in the floor generated by 100 or so people jumping in unison. resonant frequency BIOTCH! it was amazing! and yes indeed, i was thinking of physics and engineering during the concert as i myself was jumping around, noticing the effect and trying to time it. in fact, i was thinking about this.
this is a picture of the shaw center for the arts in baton rouge, LA. i wonder if andre kudrescu has been known to frequent it…
it reminded me of a story our statics/vibes professor at NAU told us about resonant frequency. at a school he had worked at they had a student union building shaped something like this, with a cantilevered 2nd floor and floor to ceiling plate glass windows. apparently after a lecture to a vibes class about resonant frequency, some of the brighter students had the idea to try a real world experiement. the got 30 or so people off in the far corner of the 2nd floor of the student union and started jumping up in down in unison until they got the cantilever beams they were standing over to hit resonant frequency. at resonant frequency, any energy input into the system is transfered entirely to the amplitude of the wave, in this case how far the beams deflected with each jump. supposedly they had the whole side of the building rocking until they actually popped out one of the windows.
anyways, i’ll have something for tomorrow as well. god willing… creek dont rise…
Thursday, October 20, 2005
hopefully the start of a trend
5 years ago i moved to seattle, ancestral home of jimi hendrix, site of the experience music project, and music mecca of the so called grunge scene from the 1990’s where punks from around the globe made pilgrimages to the emerald city in hopes of absorbing some of the energy that suffuses the underground culture here.
5 years ago, i stopped going to shows.
5 years ago, i stopped going to shows.
except for these
in 5 years, i’ve been to only 2 actual, honest to god music events. once, when case’s band stab city came thru town in 2002 and then again in 2003 when they swung thru a second time. in 5 years, i have never gone to a bumbershoot festival. hell, i even had tickets to see the reverend horton heat one time that cost me $40, but d and i were so tired after work that we didnt want to drive back into the city. it’s so bad in fact, that part of my rationale for moving from everett down to seattle was to make it more likely that we would go to these things because we would be a lot closer to the venues. of course, in reality, it just meant that the house was more expensive. what the hell?
graaaaaaaaaaahhh!!
by god, this cannot stand! it kinna be bourn! (scottish accent) i may be unhealthy, crippled by measure and damn near 30, but by god i should be able to get out of the house once in 5 friggin years to go small dark club, get mashed in a crowd of sweaty bodies, bounce up and down and watch some band rock the house to it’s knees!
so last night, i went to a show for a band who’s name i had never even heard, let alone their music. in fact, jay and i went to go see these guys.
gogol bordello - gypsy punk. think eastern european/jewish hava nagila fiddle and accordion meets the ramones. the violinist is russian.
actually, we almost didnt make it in to see them at all. the line was hella long, with two separate lines for people with tickets and those of us waiting to buy at the door. (i was wearing my sockit wenches shirt and was picked out of the crowd by this girl of the DLF. i congradulated her on winning the championship). we stood outside in line for the 1st two acts and only got admitted during the intermission before gogol bordello played. as we stood outside without tickets until 10:30, i was seriously considering just going home. but eventually, we go inside and damn if it wasnt worth it! they put on one hell of a show, and it was exactly the kind of music i was in the mood for. it reminded me of a couple of ska bands that i followed when i was living in germany: tatort and mother’s pride. tatort in particular, probably because of the accordian. definitely dance music. at the end of the night when they were going thru their encore set, with a their infinite loop progression that every band has for such occations, i had to fight the urge to grab the chick next to me and start dancing with her. the only reason i didnt was because i thought she was with the guy standing next to her and i didnt want to cause trouble. part of the problem was, although it was dance music, it wasnt much of a dancing crowd and not much in the way of dancing room. skankin’ would have been virtually impossible, but that didnt stop almost everybody from jumping up and down in place.
not to be confused with golgo 13. one of the best video games ever made for the NES. and yeah… speaking of hentai, the game is based on a manga series of the same name.
as a brief aside, i’m facinated by the concept of the “encore”. i mean, it’s a ritual that has to be observed at every concert or show i’ve ever been to and the result is always the same. never once have i seen a main act NOT come back on to stage to play another set after the crowd had clapped and cheered and yelled for a while. the only variable seems to be the length of time the band is willing to wait to make ppl start to wonder if they’re coming back out or not. personally, i think these guys waited almost too long, as by the time they came back out, the crowd had run out of clapping and whooping energy and had started to get quiet. i think they overestimated the mob’s enthusiasm for staying out past midnight on a tuesday. even at an all ages show.
next show will be mc chris on nov 11th.
