OurStage & New Nerd of the Week!

People!

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted, officially making me a bad blogger! God awful! First rate crap! Downright ghastly! There’s no excuse for such willful tardiness but if I had to make one, I’d tell you about the evil assault my nose made on my face! It was a violent allergy episode that lasted days, depleted my oxygen sources, and threatened the very power base that keeps this ship-of-negin-state in operation. Thankfully, after mounting a nasal steroid offensive, allergens became the vanquished and I became the glorious victor.

 

And, what did I do with my victory? Wrapped up the latest episode of the wildly ill-titled series, “Nerd of the Week”! This “week’s” episode is on the Chiptunes Nerd. The Chiptunes nerd is known for 8bit melodies, provided by precision crafted instruments like the Gameboy, or its elder, the Commodore 64. Chiptunes music will not only make you dance and sway but it will take you back to those warm and fuzzy days when you scored on the Atari or had wet dreams about Ms Pac-Man. First, watch this episode, then, go rip apart your Nintendo and become a maestro of the chiptunes!

 

The episode will remind you to click on the OurStage link above and become a member. Why would we want for you to do this? Because for every new member that comes through us, Nerdcore Rising gets ONE DOLLAR. You just have to give them your email address, create a password, and verify your membership through the email they send you. Do they send annoying emails all the time? NO! Do they provide a great source for new music? YES! Would your faithful nerdy filmmaker love you forever? ABSOLUTELY!

 

Please, thank you, you’re awesome,

negin & the team @ NR:TM

 

PS: Special thanks to the people at deadCENTER Film Festival who gave us the first ever experience as a closing night film, in the open air no less. Also, Oklahoma City folks are super friendly – the kind of friendly where strangers help you out and give you rides and accurate directions. Who could ask for more? I for one, will never ask for more!

 

PPS: You’ve seen MC Frontalot on G4 haven’t you? He’s done a little spot for them, DVR your face off and hopefully you’ll catch it!

 

PPPS: Extra thanks to Two Player Productions for lending a few second of footage to make our episode extra chiptunes-y, they are afterall, the docu-masters of the genre. Peruse their website to confirm.  

 

Oklahoma, where the nerds come sweeping down the plain

People!

 

Two quick things!

 

First: If you sign up to OurStage through this link, we get ONE DOLLAR! Ain’t that swell? You know who would really like that? My creditors!! They would love it if you help me raise money. They’re real sweet. They like to call me and check up on me regularly. They’re very attentive! I think its love. We here at Nerdcore Rising promise that every dollar raised will go to debt and to getting the movie into your faces, your lovely faces.

 

As for OurStage, they too are lovely because they give you access to new music – you get to listen to it, judge it critically, vote on it ostentatiously, and be a part of the gleeful process of helping musicians “make it.”

 

Thing Number Two: As the title of this blog entry might indicate (a title for which I should possibly be fired) the movie is screening in Oklahoma City at the deadCENTER Film Festival. Nerdcore Rising is, in fact, the closing night film – ain’t that something! And its screening in an outdoor type thingeejig which will make it a very starlit evening of the Nerdcore. Here’s the deal:  

 

deadCENTER Festival Screening Details:
Closing Night Film
Saturday June 14, 9:30pm
Corner N.E. 3rd & E.K. Gaylord
Free to the Public!
www.deadcenterfilm.org

 

See you at the country’s hearty center point.
Love,

negin

 

PS: Here’s a chat I had a with local Sooner named Chad. Outstanding fella.

 

PPS: By the way, did you know that 27,000 new people have visited us here at nerdcorerising.com since the movie premiered? That’s just the newbies, I’m not even counting visits from the old-bies! Those are some numbers! Thank you for visiting!

Nerdcore Rising on From Here To Awesome

Hey Folks!

 

Like Hillary and Barak before us, we here at Nerdcore Rising find ourselves in the midst of a fierce primary struggle. As you might already know from Wolf Blitzer’s "We Report, You Decide" coverage on CNN, Nerdcore Rising is running for President of the From Here to Awesome Discovery & Distribution Festival!

 

What do we win if we win? That’s a good question. We would win different types of distribution deals on multiple platforms, screenings in various cities around the country, free marketing/promotion from fancy big name outlets, and we would win the right to preside as President Pro-tempore of the US Senate. Basically, winning would be really really terribly awesome and it would make it more likely for the movie to come to a theatre near you. Like actually near you.

 

But we need your help. The schtick behind "From Here to Awesome" is that audiences actually help curate the festival. i.e. we report (what films are in the running) and you decide (what films make it to the top ten). FHTA has created an elaborate algorithm that involves, your "awesome vote" on the FHTA website, our youtube hit stats, our youtube subscriber stats, our myspace subscriber stats, our Twitter follow stats, the number of comments our videos get, and the square root of Avogadro’s Number.
 

 

WHAT DO WE WANT FROM YOU?
*Please watch the vid (above) before June 6, also linked here:
http://fromheretoawesome.com/nerdcorerising/

 

IF YOU’RE FEELING EXTRA FRISKY/DEMOCRATIC:
*Please register to FHTA so you can vote "awesome" on the button below our vid (before June 6):

Register to From Here to Awesome

 

IF YOU’RE FEELING RIDICULOUSLY CIVIC & OBSENELY ELECTORAL:

*Please subscribe to our youtube channel, our myspace blog, our twitter account, our facebook group, and comment your face off wherever you can (before June 6):

 If our fanbase proves to be more hardcore than the other fanbases, then we get into the Top Ten and become an official selection of FROM HERE TO AWESOME. The result will be: more screenings, more distribution, and utopia.

 

Please help!!!!

 

Love & Vote-Begging,
Negin & Team Nerdcore Rising: The Movie

 

PS: If you’re really feeling like going the extra mile, please follow the link below and sign up for OurStage – for every new member that signs up to OurStage through this link, Nerdcore Rising gets $1 – which in the world of oh-so-broke-credit-card-debt-laden-negin, is a painfully necessary thing. Plus, OurStage is awesome, its really trying to give independent musicians a designated platform to reach audiences and its giving audiences a chance to bypass record execs, radio playlists, and critics in deciding what tunes are worth listening to.

CLICK HERE SO WE CAN GET A DOLLAR!

 

PPS: Do you live in Oklahoma City? Cause we’re gonna be there as the Closing Night Film at the DeadCENTER Film Festival on June 14. I would love to meet you there.

 

Pimptimonious Blogging

 Folks!

 

I just wanted to get a little pimptimonious on your ass and tell you about some wondrous stuff I’ve run into in the last couple of weeks. Basically, these links are for the clicking, people.

 

Our lovely host at the Burlington screening of, you guessed it, Nerdcore Rising, was a Mr. Bill “mayor of Burlington” Simmon. The guy does everything and knows everyone in Vermont.  He’s got a radio show called Poli Sci-Fi Radio where, along with co-host Steve Benen, he talks about politics and sci-fi. I was a guest on the show and a little nervous about it until I managed to maintain pseudo-sci-fi legitimacy with an over-zealous position on the movie Primer. Bill has also made a short film that’s on the festival circuit called “Digital Pamphleteer" that you can check out on youtube.

 

The Bill Simmonness doesn’t stop there because his wife Emily Stoneking casually hung out with us while knitting a dissected rat. She’s already been on BoingBoing because of a purely excellent, knitted, dissected frog. My camera doesn’t do her rat justice but I was the first to get an official bloggers look so forgive the photo work (below). 

 

My next act of pimptimony involves another favorite find, Solipsistic Nation. Joseph from SN interviewed me for the site but forget that and just listen to Solipsistic for their smart smorgasbord of electronic music and artist interviews.

 

Also met a dude named Arthur who gave me a CD from his San Francisco-based band Blammos. They’re fun. More people should listen to them. 

 

Remember that blog I wrote about Pangea Day? Well, you should see all the films! But if you only have time to see one, make it this one. It will blow your face off. 

 

Finally, I’m on Twitter and it’s about time! Find and follow me, if you dare. For your convenience, the ID is NerdcoreRising.

 

Finally finally, Nerdcore Rising will be the Closing Night film at the DeadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City on June 14. More details on that when I’m emotionally prepared to part with them.

 

That’s all for now.

Your faithfullest NR:TM representative,

negin

 

Photos: 1) a license plate a la Burlington; 2) me and Bill Simmon on the Poli Sci Fi Radio Show; 3) a poor quality photo of a knitted dissected rat; 4) a completely random picture of me and Matthew Modine at Pangea Day – the real star is the hilarious dude behind us.

 

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The Pangea Thing

Folks!
 

We did just screening in Burlington over the weekend and I have some dynamo shit to share about that experience but I’ll get to that in my next post. (Here’s a hint: biology-based knitting was involved – make of that statement what you will).

 
For now, I just wanted to give a brief shout out to Pangea Day. Here’s the scoop, on Saturday, at 11am Pacific time, there will be a series of international short films screening at 45 million locations around the world in 6000 languages (5 points if you can determine which of those figures are inaccurate).  I’m actually in Los Angeles right now at the Pangea Filmmaker Retreat where I will be doing "retreaty" things. Though, to be quite honest, the filmmakers I’ve met so far are super savvy international types that make really epic films about injustice and liberation and… other "epic-y" things so I’m not entirely sure if I belong among then. Alas, this is my chance to engage in the time-honored act of "fronting" like I belong. 

 
Also, here’s an interesting note: who sits on the Advisory Board of this event? A little fella named J.J. Abrams. He totally picked me up from the airport. We talked about what would be happening in season 4 & 5 of Lost. I gave him a lot of good suggestions. The poor kid needs some help wrapping up the narrative elements to his critically acclaimed, universally loved television series. That’s okay, sometimes we all need a little help, right?

 
At any rate, I hope you feel inclined to check out the Pangea Day films and show some support because if Pangea succeeds, we will have world peace! Which could be really cool. Unless you’re a hobbyist war-monger, in which case, you’d have to pick up some other hobby. Like, maybe hobbyist peace-monger?

 

Very soon I will hurl at you the most bloggy Nerdcore Rising update ever.

 

Love,
negin et al at Nerdcore Rising

 

 

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