Nerdcore For Life, the documentary about nerd and geeks and the hip hop that they make is finally coming to San Francisco! Although I haven’t seen it yet, I do know that several of my (Drown Radio’s) tracks where used for the soundtrack and my interview made it into the film. w00t!
The film will only [...]
Check out this recently uploaded video of Self’s Matt Mahaffey playing a one man band version of AC/DC’s “Back In Black” on drums and Omnichord. I’ve never heard an Omnichord run through guitar distortion before, but the effect is extremely rocking. After I watching more live Self videos, I realize he’s been using them for [...]
but I was really hoping that pan fried cracker-cheese-sandwiches would go into the “good idea” annals of history.
This week’s HipTrax podcast (on Wired’s GeekDad blog) features my song Weapons Grade Porpoise. The whole episode is worth checking out, it’s just the right length. This week’s theme is instrumental songs by nerds, check it out here.
Weapons Grade Porpoise is one of the instrumental’s off of my new album Me Geek Pretty One Day. [...]
The non-Tim Burton Batman is fascinated by a window frame. Via PhotoShop Disasters.
Laughing Squid recently blogged a collection of films by Free Poster Films out of Massachusetts. FPS make some of the most well sequenced stop motion films that I have seen. I hope these guys release a dvd sometime. Check out this video, titled Tony VS Paul:
I believe the charm in a well done stop motion film [...]
Some of you may be surprised today to see PopCast featured on YouTube’s rotating “Spotlight” banner today. I know I was. It’s not a front page spot, but it’s still very appreciated.
I’ve seen about 2,000 new viewers and 15 new subscriptions (vs the 30,000 views I recieved from the front page last year).
The Spotlight feature [...]
The folks at Broken Yo-yos sent me one of their newest products, the Plug-in III.
The Plug-in III is smooth as hell on the string, and probably the shiniest yo-yo I’ve ever seen. But what I really like about it is how inspired I feel every time I pick it up. I’ve been trying out a [...]
Kudos, Blockbuster, just when I thought I couldn’t think less of your franchise, I see an entire shelf stocked full of Aliens VS Hunter at your Mission store.
Which is of course a knock off of:
Some readers may recall that the same store also had a floor to ceiling display with at least 50 copies of [...]
A few months ago I scored a great pair of Rocketown shoes at a Ross Dress For Less in SF.
I’m flat footed, and had actually started leaning towards shoes with more arch support (like New Balance), so I was surprised how comfortable these shoes were for me. There’s no arch support, just a flat sole [...]
