define: Nerdcore

MC Frontalot rocks!

... ehem...

MC FRONTALOT ROCKS!

As mentioned earlier, I caught the Frontalot show at Crash Mansion in NYC.

The performance was tight... with multiple capitals and other assorted exclamations.

Nerdcore Hiphop Could Reign Supreme!

It was most of the usual crew but drummer, The Categorical Imperative, was missing and in his place sat Venom. Still, the sound was dead on. The rhymes were flawless, and the witty stage banter was exquisite. Gminor7 (Gm7), pwned his keyboard and assorted equipment many times over with his solid mastery of musical might, and his singing added that extra bit of polish to the show. Black Lotus, was a bass bashing behemoth of brobdingnagian proportions! The sounds generated by BL were far beyond anything that any bass has ever produced evar... EVAR! A few new songs of the new album, Nerdcore Rising, were performed. A few of the classics were thrown in. It's a shame the crowd wasn't as large as it usually is for the Front... alot of people missed a great show.

My only problem was with Crash Mansion itself. The downsized the drink size and made naught a change to the prices. Although, I only drank beer there, my homie companion was shafted. Even with that, the place is awesome inside, and the door guy had an awesome british accent.

After the show I obtained, for myself, one (1) signed copy of the aforementioned album which quickly made it's shiny spinning way into my cars CD player. I rocked that out all the way to Union City and then to New Brunswick. The old songs are masterfully remade and the new songs are killer. I think my favorite new bit of ear candy is the beat on "This Old Man". The collaboration on the title track, Nerdcore Rising, with Jesse Dangerously and MC Hawking was awesome. A little mc chris would've made it a nerdcore bonanza!

If you haven't heard the new songs, the buy the album. If you are a VSP, you can get some of the new material on the boards.

If you like music for being music, you'll love this album. If you enjoy witty words being weaved in wonderful ways, you'll love this album far more than you enjoyed my pathetic attempt at alliteration. If you love hiphop, you'll love this album.... even if you aren't into comps and tech.

Go buy it at amazon.

Conversations With http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

I recently had the joy of finding this little nugget of internet fun: http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

I felt obligated as a good internet citizen to engage in conversation with whomever was behind this situation.

The following hiliarity ensued...

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ME:
Your class action lawsuit has to be one of the most terrifying acts against the internet that I have seen.

The blatant disreguard for first amendment rights is chilling.

First off, Wikipedia is a site that claims no authority of fact over any topic and they make it clear that what you find may not be factual.

Anybody can change/modify/edit a Wikipedia entry. So the 4 months of hard work and anguish, that you mention on your site, that was suffered by John Seigenthaler could've been fixed by 5 minutes of editing the entry.

Maybe you are unware that the internet is full of false information and that it is not a trusted source of information.

I find it scary how close your agenda falls inline with that of the Iranian president and also that of Fidel Castro who think the internet needs to be censored because it contains too much information that they claim is false because it disagrees with them or is defamatory towards them.

To be honest, I had no idea who this John Seigenthaler person was until his story about being "attacked" by Wikipedia. Glad to see that I wasn't missing out on anything important.

I hope for the quick demise of your lawsuit so that the internet can continue to be what it always has been.

A bastion of free speech.

Good Day Sir.


Response:

Hello,

You do not understand the principals at work here, so perhaps, it is
best for you to sit this one out on the side.

Why must I become involved in your website? If there is offending or
inaccurate content, about me, my business or family, why should I be
required to become a user and edit the content?

I am interested to learn why you thought I would be interested in your
comments.

Regards,



Me:
First a correction, I think you mean "principles" and not "principals".

On the contrary, I think I understand the principles quite well.

If you are a figure of public interest then you are already part of general information. As hard as I searched, I could not find myself in Wikipedia. If Mr. Seigenthaler wished not to be in the public eye, then I would recommend a career outside of the media.

Should we not discuss public figures on the internet unless we can be sure 100 percent that what we say is factually accurate? That would be ridiculous. That's not even a requirement of what we see on television or read in news papers.

I can't help but find one thing ironic. Mr. Seigenthaler is a journalist who himself reports information that may or may not be accurate, yet becomes enraged when he finds inaccurate information about himself. Although, this isn't strictly about him. His publicity and fame is just the snowball that started this avalanche of garbage.

I can't help by find myself amused by your last comment:

"I am interested to learn why you thought I would be interested in your comments."

Let me provide some more information to in addition to it's raw comedic content. I found your website though some of the internet news sources that would be destroyed if you lawsuit were to proceed. Also, I found it important enough to state my opinion. Such is your freedom to ignore my comments as you like, but you reading them was showing your interest.

Again, Good Day Sir.
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After some research it turns out that the site is run by a Mr. Greg Lloyd Smith whom has a sordid history.

MC Frontalot Live!

Saturday Dec 17th
Crash Mansion
199 Bowery @ Spring
New York City
9PM
21+, ten bucks

Be there or be... not there.

He always puts on a good show and Crash Mansion is a really really nice looking place on the inside.

Drinks there are usually on the high side in quality and price.

I'll be there with the usual crew hopefully.

Frustrated

This makes Bush's response to Katrina that much more shameful:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/5/134849/2070

Although you'd think Bush's guys would have experience with something like this:

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000246.htm

Atleast their using the victims for something good:

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/join-us-homeless-confused-people.html

I am poor.

I spent too much money this past week/weekend.

GeoGirl came home for the weekend, and much partying ensued. I don't think one night was spent at home.

Now, I normally hate going bowling, and Ice will get mad at me, but I went this weekend. Though I can't remember the day. I didn't bowl though, I just consumed mass quantities of beer. I think that night we hit up The Breakfast Club. An 80's themed club in Old Bridge which consists of little more than a mediocre bar and an open area for which to dance upon. I think I could have a kick ass club if I rented a busted down shack, painted everything black, dropped in huge speakers hooked up to a laptop with winamp or something and threw in some kegs.

It was fun there... drinks were too expensive though and the lady selection wasn't that interesting. Rey wasn't allowed in because he didn't have sleves on his shirt. So I guess the place has some standards. Though he didn't mind. He lives 2 minutes from it.

Oh, btw, I don't know what I'm doing on the dance floor, but I don't mind standing out there bopping around for a bit. Otherwise the woman yells at me. To be honest, she'll yell at me either way, cause that's what she does.

Saturday dakotah, root and meagan went to Jenks. The gents were invited, but they were too busy loosing money to each other to want to party with hot chicks. So freaking packed. I think NJ has the largest population of New Yorkers outside of NY.... and they are very unwanted. The place was filled with hundreds of goombas with goku hair and popped up collars. I've never seen such a large group of people look so dumb, yet think they look so awesome.

We danced for an hour, but it was too crowded to continue. We stook outside overlooking the ocean for a little bit having some drinks for the rest of our time there. Hit up a diner afterwards somewhere near Colts Neck. Good burger! Then we went home.

Sunday I went home to relax. Did my laundry. IceInferno was generous enough to take me and his woman out to dinner. Good burger! I need to eat things other than burgers.

Leveled up Ion Beam to 13 last night. Fired up some counter-strike for abit. After playing CoH for the past couple months pretty exclusively, I have to say it was good to grab the m4, creep around a corner and blast away a few T's. I did better than I thought, but the servers are different than they used to be. The kids are still getting younger of course, which in turn means I am getting older.

In one month and 11 days I hit the quarter-century mark. Damn I'm getting old.

Oh Noes!!

Supreme Court Justice O'Connor is retiring. The end is now nearer.

Bush is gonna shove in his bible bearing buddies and you can say good by to abortion, gay marriage and anything else bush doesn't like... like freedom.

I doubt the democrats will have the organization and power to stop bush from steam rolling in whomever he wants. He said he'll get somebody in before October.

Rhenquist is likely to leave soon too. BOO! I was hoping these peeps would hold on for another few years so the next president would get to pick, but I understand their reasons for leaving. Both are going through tough personal matters.

Fare ye well O'Connor, Rhenquist and freedom.

Ladies that are fat, ladies that are skinny!

Ladies that are all night on my jimmy!

Saw mc chris last night! Pretty good show. Dirtbike Annie was a good punk band. Of course the chick singer isn't with them anymore, but they still rocked it.

Some arse in the crowd was annyoing... kept pushing his way through people to get pictures.

mc chris rocked it though... he did some songs that I haven't heard before, which was cool, and he played the classics like "Fetts Vette", "Geek", "10 year old" and "Fuckin up my christmas". Much fun was had. The place was maxwells in hoboken. Small cramped space, way too expensive drinks and loads upon loads of pained emo kids and neo-punks that don't know what punk is. All that was still worth it to see the mc in action.

Tonight is Beto's birthday! Happy Birthday!

Iceinferno got a new blog, so you should go over there and cast your opinions on some imminent tattooificationing.

Databyss.net is dead, got my name hijacked the second it expired even though it was set to auto-renew... i guess they didn't renew fast enough.

Databyss.com is gonna be up and running soon. Right now there's just a link to email me and my host Greater Web Design. If you need some hosting, go check them out. I do the programming and design myself, but if you need it, he can build it from scratch for you.

Whats up on politics:

• Republicans trying to remove the 2 term presidential limit.
• Cheyney said insurgency is in the last throes, Rumsfield said this last throe could last 12 more years.
• 13+ Dead soldiers in the helicopter attack. Still looking for 7 more.
• Gay marriage legal in 4+ countries now, including Canada and Spain.
• Bush to double aid to Africa.
• Big hotdog eating contest coming up soon.
• Trade Center tower replacement now officially lamed out.

Nifty quote of the post:

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson

It's Me!

Howdy, Been awhile since I've posted, although I doubt anybody reads it anyway.

I went to a work-related conference yesterday in NYC. Had much fun, but the conference was hella lame. It turned into a 6 hour sales pitch.

Took the train to Hoboken then the path in. Ran into the most interesting person on the path. She was hollerin about how the end is coming. Stock market will disappear by 2020, everybody will be in massive debt and never be able to get out. Never leave a paper trail, buy everything with cash! Don't get married! You never know if your partner is in debt! Don't use any banking!

I miss living in Hoboken... they have the good crazy's!

OK so conference... right... very boring presentations. Although, I have to say that oracle has got the right idea. Have a hot chick present for you. It's easier to stay awake that way. Open bar for coctail/networking hour, but we were tight for time, so we didn't stay there long.

I had forgotten to bring my cell phone with me. If I brought it, I might have been tempted to stay in Hoboken for another hour or so to see if LO was interested in a drink or two. I didn't, so I just hopped on the train to come back.

Got back in time for horrible parkway traffic. BOO! Although I got to Rutgers just in time for free parking. I tried to reconnect to my home computer, since I redid the settings on my router and double checked on my computer, but no luck. :( I really need to get home for some time to update the webchatster so I can add post capabilities. Maybe a special command that's tied to my email address that lets me update the code from anywhere... that'd be hot. So many possibilites!

Anyway, peace out.

And it kept falling! 

The snow fell! 

I would kill for this car. 

E1itegod

I had a good talk with E1itegod tonight. He's in Iraq and getting settled into his camp. He says that so far things are pretty quite by him and he, most likely, will not be leaving camp.

All of this is good news for me. I'm glad to hear that he's ok and will, hopefully, remain safe.

I have his mailing address there so if anybody wants to send him a package or something, let me know.

Iraqi Election

There were elections in Iraq. WoO0T!

Howdy Folks

Let's give this blogspot a run and see how it works.