Frontalot on the NERDCORE RISING song fight...

Check out the MC's take on the song fight entries.

If you're not up for reading thru the thoughtful and entertaining reviews of all the entries, let me boil it down to the most important takeaway...

cabinboy
this song has a strong point of view. it is very pro-engineer. i support that!!

=)

Voting is open thru Thursday. I don't see "Feature Creep Blues" climbing the chart, but if you feel like throwing your democratic weight around, I'm not gonna stop you—VOTE!

Thanks for your support.

Keep on geekin on~

Vote: Hail To The King Baby!

Still another visual pun design up. Hail To The King Baby. This may be the groaniest of the bunch, but of course, in my eyes, that's not a bad thing. It's too bad I need a really unreasonable deadline in a weirdly-regulated contest (submissions and voting on those submissions begin the same day) to motivate me to produce stuff. Even if it is ridiculous crap.

Blerg.

Voting on the visual puns closes at noon tomorrow. Even if you're not a woot member-customer, check out the designs for some mental sour patch kid enjoyment. =)

ALSO—VOTE FOR MY SONG "FEATURE CREEP" AT THE NERDCORE RISING SONG FIGHT! You can vote from any and all of your Twitter or email accounts. Punch my chad!


Keep on keepin on~

p.s. Yeah, the inspiration of this pun SHOULD be punctuated with a comma, but whatev. Puntistic license, nyeah.

Vote: *FREE* HOT AMATEUR CAM ACTION!

Got a new visual pun design up. The title above is in the spirit of the pun, not the actual pun itself. Hopefully woot management won't reject this due to the celebrity likeness involved. Given the meme-ness of the inspiration, it just didn't occur to me that it would be an issue.

Well, that and the weakness of the grasp of my sleep-deprived senses on what most of you perceive as shared reality.


Keep on keepin on~

Vote for my "visual pun" shirt design (it's pretty awful =)

Please click on over to the shirt.woot derby to check out my "girl sheep vacuum" t-shirt design submission. This week's derby theme: visual pun! I didn't include the pun-translation in the shirt comp or title, but it IS now in the comments below it.

Note that you need to be signed in at shirt.woot *and* have made a purchase at a woot online outlet to vote.

Thanks for your support! =)

Keep on keepin on~

Vote for "Feature Creep Blues" and catch a free screening of NERDCORE RISING!

LISTEN & VOTE! Listen to and vote for my ummm... song. It's called "Feature Creep Blues," and I cobbled it together for the NERDCORE RISING song fight online!

You can (but don't need to =) hear the entire track at Imeem.

Much appreciated!

What is a song fight, you ask? "Godfather of Nerdcore" MC Frontalot explains at the contest site.

And if you feel it's your duty to vote from as many twitter and email accounts as you can, well, I won't stop you. Honest. You do what you have to do... What's right... As many times as you need to... Over and over...

=)

And please pass this message and link on to any nerdcore-friendly peeps you might know. Thanks! Song fight voting closes on the 31st.

I'm including info for voting by webmail below, after the signoff...

And HEY! If you're interested in the hilariously and musically entertaining hiphop-umentary that inspired this songfight, NERDCORE RISING, a Boston-local fan is sponsoring a *free* digital screening at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square on Tuesday, October 27! Space is limited. Space is limited, so if you're interested, get details and RSVP to the organizer here.

And you can check for other screenings in your area, or your friends', here.

Watch the NERDCORE RISING trailer!

Thanks for your support!
Keep on creepin on~

__________ voting by webmail? ___________

My songfight contest entry page: http://www.nerdcorerisingmovie.com/2009/10/15/feature-creep-blues-%E2%80%94-mc-johnny-uncached/

At the page, there are two links/ways to vote: tweeting at Twitter, or via email. I believe that each Twitter or email account is good for one vote. Why do I mention that? Oh... no reason...

If you have trouble w the vote-by-email link launching an email client you don't use (i.e. Outlook or Apple's Mail app), you can vote via webmail (in a browser) by copying and pasting the following info into the appropriate email fields. Thanks!

TO:
nerdcore-contest@bside.com

SUBJECT:
vote for entry #833#

BODY:
By sending this email, you are placing a vote in the contest. Do not change this email or your vote may not be counted!

"Good Night and Tough Luck"

"Getting a good night’s sleep is actually a lot more complicated than one would think."

Click here for Christoph Niemann's illustrated thoughts on the challenges of a good night's sleep. =)


Thanks to Paris Jen for the nudge!

Keep on sleepin on~

(or at least try =)

only hours left to be awesome and vote for "black cat brain food" @shirt.woot!

Voting closes at noon today (Thursday)...


Check out my Halloween-themed t-shirt design submission at shirt.woot. Love it! Sign in and vote for it! Thanks for your support!

Keep on creepin on~

Please RE-vote for my song! (& see NERDCORE RISING for free!)

Blerg. Got a groaner of a headzup to share about song fight votes submitted by email over the last few days...

I haven't received official word from the contest site, but it looks like the vote-by-email counter was offline/busted over the weekend and just today reactivated. Given the current vote count and the feedback I've had from friends who voted, it appears that votes submitted while the counter was down were NOT counted. Bleah. WTF, right? I mean, where are we? Iran? Florida?!

So, if it's not too much of a pain in the bum, if you voted via email between Saturday and today (or even if you didn't =) could you please re-vote?

For ME, I mean!

Much appreciated!

And if you feel it's your duty to vote from as many email accounts as you can, well, I won't stop you. Honest. You do what you have to do... What's right... As many times as you need to... Over and over...

=)

Also, the vote-by-tweet link continues to be working fine. =)

And please pass this message and link on to any nerdcore-friendly peeps you might know. Thanks! Song fight voting closes on the 31st.

Info for voting by webmail below, after the signoff...

And HEY! If you're interested in the hilariously and musically entertaining hiphop-umentary that inspired this songfight, NERDCORE RISING (trailer), a Boston-local fan is sponsoring a *free* digital screening at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square on Tuesday, October 27! Space is limited, so if you're interested, RSVP to the organizer. You can also check for other screenings in your area, or your friends', or arrange to host one of your own!

Thanks mucho for your support, and also for not "report as spam"-ing me! (I hope! =)

Keep on creepin on~

__________voting by webmail?___________

My songfight contest entry page: http://retwt.me/Ysdr

If you have trouble w the vote-by-email link launching an email client you don't use (i.e. Outlook or Apple's Mail app), you can vote via webmail (in a browser) using/copy-n-pasting the following info into the appropriate email fields. Thanks!

TO:
nerdcore-contest@bside.com

SUBJECT:
vote for entry #833#

BODY:
By sending this email, you are placing a vote in the contest. Do not change this email or your vote may not be counted!

please TWEET-vote for my song!

It seems that the vote-by-email counter is down at the NERDCORE RISING Song Fight contest site. Blerg. Not sure what the fate of votes-by-email already cast will be. Comparing the counter to "I voted for you" notifications, it seems that the counter hasn't been ticking correctly since as early as Friday. Bleah.

So, If you're up for voting for "Feature Creep Blues," please click the Twitter link on the contest entry page, and tweet for me, baybay!

Thanks for your support! =)

Keep on creepin on~

VOTE FOR MY DESIGN NOW! (or not =)

Please click on over to the shirt.woot derby to check out my t-shirt design submission. This week's derby theme: Halloween! I only got the design posted today, way late in the derby running (posts close noon tomorrow, voting closes noon Thursday), but the idea was rattling around in my noggin and needed to get out. I conjured it up completely independent of the odd "cats + pumpkins" trend that has rippled thru this weeks' submissions.

Or maybe I only *think* I did...?

Whatev. Please check it out, love it, and vote it. For. That is to say—Vote for it!

Note that you need to be signed in at shirt.woot *and* have made a purchase at a woot online outlet to vote. Not just, like, right this minute (altho that's certainly cool), but anytime in the past as well. They've currently got some very fine smoke detectors for sa—ack. Sold out. Perhaps Poizin wine is more your poison? Available at wine.woot? Just sayin'

Thanks for your support! =)

Keep on creepin on~

VOTE FOR MY SONG! (or not =)

__________just the facts___________

LISTEN & VOTE! Listen to a 30-second sample and vote for my song, "Feature Creep Blues!"

You can (but don't need to =) hear the entire track at Imeem.

If you haven't lost consciousness due to blood loss from the ears, do feel free to pass this post on and share the contest link with friends. Strangers, too. =)

__________rambling backstory___________

I'm in a songfight. "WTF is a songfight?" you ask. A songfight is a song-creating contest. The contest holder suggests a theme or title as a inspiration for a song (in this case, it's "Feature Creep," something with which you're all familiar, even if you don't recognize the phrase... give it a google if it doesn't ring a bell), contestants record and submit their songs based on the contest parameters, then they're posted online for the internet-at-large to vote on. Just like the Founding Fathers intended! Hrmmm... "Fathers" you say? No mother in the picture, eh? How open-minded and progresive! (Gaaaaay...)

MC Frontalot explains in video here.

This is my first songfight. Why would I suddenly, one night, just up and choose to pick a songfight, you wonder? Surprise, surprise! It's cuz of a movie! A really cool, sexy movie, a movie who's sweet, and kind, and poops rainbows, and happens to be fine with accepting my help with her precalc homework, but wouldn't dare think of acknowledging my existence in front of her bitchy friends...

*dreamy sigh*

The movie, NERDCORE RISING, is a wonderful documentary on the nerdcore hiphop movement and one of its most talented icons and musicians, MC Frontalot. The filmmakers and MC are hosting this songfight in honor of the upcoming DVD release of the film. I got a chance to meet Frontalot, his band, and the filmmakers at the Independent Film Festival of Boston two years ago and I grock their rock! I *highly* recommend the film for some amazing and nerdtastic musical magic and some wonderfully entertaining personalities... Check out the trailer for a taste. =)

Okay, enough background. VOTE FOR MY SONG! It's called "Feature Creep Blues" by MC Johnny Cache. The contest entry page has a 30 second sample in an Imeem music player. The player has a "Play full song here" link to the entire track at Imeem.com. Note that IT IS *NOT* NECESSARY TO LISTEN TO THE SONG IN ORDER TO VOTE FOR IT!

Seriously.

My songfight contest entry page: http://retwt.me/Ysdr

At the page, there are two links/ways to vote: tweeting at Twitter, or via email. I believe that each Twitter or email account is good for one vote. Why do I mention that? Oh... y'know, I like counting things... counting is cool, yeah...

If you have trouble w the email link launching a client you don't use, you can vote via webmail (in a browser) using/copy/pasting the following info. Thanks!

TO:
nerdcore-contest@bside.com

SUBJECT:
vote for entry #833#

BODY:
By sending this email, you are placing a vote in the contest. Do not change this email or your vote may not be counted!

Anyhow, enjoy the... "music!" Vote early and often! =)

Keep on creepin on~
p.s. I understand if you've got any philosophical issues with or conscientious objection to the "Feature Creep Blues." If that turns out to be the case, I urge you to throw your vote behind HamSTAR and his frickin ingenious "Feature Creep."

I just love the concept and am kinda floored by the execution. The Force is strong with that one.

"Feature Creep Blues" by MC Johnny Cache

Vote for "Feature Creep Blues!"
(contest ends October 31, 2009)

Click here to listen to the entire... umm... "song." The player above is only a 30-second sample.

VOTE FOR MY SONG, "Feature Creep Blues," via Twitter or email at my songfight page. Please vote BEFORE you listen to my contest song... Actually, please vote before listening to any contest songs. Come to think of it, you should consider listening to be completely optional. Voting, however, is mandatory! Early and often! =)

"Brian, what happened to you? You look terrible! Did you get in another fight?" (Cuz I'm always doing that, y'know.)

"Noooo... Well, not exactly. It was a... It was a... a songfight."

That's why I'm having trouble (more than usual) walking steadily and completing my thoughts today. I fell into a no-sleep zone for a couple nights trying to cobble together something resembling a song to enter into a songfight.

This particular songfight is a contest celebrating the DVD release of kickass musical movement documentary, NERDCORE RISING. The title requirement/inspiration for the song: "Feature Creep." If you're not familiar w the term, thank your stars and google it. =)

My thanks to Duncan, In, Rowan, Jessie, Ann, and Dan for their patience and feedback (the good kind, not the sibilant kind, which sucks).

Keep on creepin on~