Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Dec 15, 2009, 8:26 am
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Or so they'd have us believe. But for those of you who are a little tired of the incessant Christmas music that's been insinuating itself into yo...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Dec 10, 2009, 7:41 pm
Have you ever noticed that the same half-dozen videogame soundtracks get covered and remixed over and over again? You know the usual suspects: Super Mario Bros., Mega Man II and those age-old motifs f...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Dec 7, 2009, 10:51 am
I am pleased to report that Church, Matt, Jason and I have finally unraveled one of life's great mysteries. We have concluded, after weeks of preliminary testing, that Google Wave exists solely to...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Dec 2, 2009, 9:12 pm
Because of its unfortunate secondary placement in this blog's mantra of "nerd music and culture," I feel I sometimes neglect the all-important non-musical elements of nerd life. I spend lots of ti...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 30, 2009, 3:05 pm
Once again I find myself apologizing for my blogging negligence. I won't bore you with details, but suffice it to say that, at the very time I believed things would become easier on the writing fr...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 25, 2009, 9:55 am
The muse, she is a fickle mistress. And whether you're writing blog posts or songs or long-form fiction or technical manuals, sometimes you just can't seem to make the words fit together. Mor...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 24, 2009, 9:50 am
Word from the Nerdapalooza camp – and by "the Nerdapalooza camp," I mean my boy Hex – is that the live album from this year's festival is all set to go. Priced at a scant 10 bucks and boastin...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 18, 2009, 3:31 pm
Far be it from me to suggest that folks stop dropping kick-ass albums, but Christ-on-a-cracker, people, could you at least slow down?! I mean, 2009 has been positively packed with the new hotness! So ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 10, 2009, 12:07 pm
Perhaps not surprisingly, I have a fairly expansive music collection, and I often wonder if I view it differently than others might. I mean, I organize it via fairly banal methods – by artist and ti...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 9, 2009, 1:41 pm
Apologies for the scant number of posts over the past couple of weeks, folks. It's crunch time at the old day job, and that, unfortunately, means cutting back a bit on other activities. Essentiall...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 5, 2009, 6:49 pm
I probably don't need to remind you of this, but I will. I mean, it's kind of what I do. This very weekend, Pensacola, FL will play host to Nerd Invasion, an event that (I at least hope) is t...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Nov 4, 2009, 10:10 pm
I find it odd that some people don't enjoy chiptunes. I mean, I always endeavor to be a different-strokes-for-different-folks kind of a cat, but what's not to love? Typically, the criticisms ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 30, 2009, 10:08 pm
I am a creature of habit. Any who regularly read Hipster, please! have no doubt come to anticipate my unique brand of consistency. Nerd News in Brief posts always start with a dash of unrelated bulls...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 28, 2009, 2:13 pm
I try not to post album announcements. Really I do. I understand that they are unfair. Exploitative. A veritable cock-tease. I talk about a release and how it's gonna be awesome and I get you all...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 27, 2009, 9:22 am
Demons, gore and song requests: these are the things that Radio Free Hipster's 76th episode are made of. It's got a slightly smaller-than-usual number of tracks, but that's simply because...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 25, 2009, 12:54 pm
Before we get into the nerdy news, just allow me a minute to dispense some heartfelt congratulations to our brother DataVortex. At this year's Fall Fest in Sister Bay, WI, Data proposed to his gir...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 21, 2009, 2:39 pm
Last year I put together a list of timely releases to help y'all round out those ever-important All Hallows' playlists. I liked the concept so much that I have elected to bring it back this ye...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 19, 2009, 1:32 pm
Keeping up with the umpteen artists that I endeavor to cover here at Hipster, please! is tantamount to herding cats. I mean, I can suggest that they send me their tour and album release dates or maybe...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 17, 2009, 9:04 pm
Before I kick off this edition of Nerd News in Brief, I have to pose a question to my geektastic readership, particularly those of the southern persuasion: who else plans to catch the mc chris/I Fight...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 15, 2009, 9:22 pm
This is it, folks: part one of this year's Halloween Crap-tacular. I doubt you look forward to these episodes as much as I do, but I do hope they manage to strike an appropriate seasonal chord. T...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 12, 2009, 8:21 am
While not your typical nerd, cowpunker Mojo Nixon has everything that a discriminating music geek could possibly ask for. His lyrics are clever without being overly intellectual, his delivery is alway...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 9, 2009, 2:16 pm
After listening to Schaffer the Darklord's third full-length, Manslaughterer, I have come to regard his recording career as running oddly parallel to geek horror classic the Evil Dead trilogy. Ser...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 6, 2009, 5:43 pm
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to score a seat at the virtual roundtable that is the Epic Default podcast. Admittedly, this edition was of the drunken variety, so my contribution may have been a ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Oct 4, 2009, 9:34 pm
Sadly, I am forced to offer this edition of Nerd News in Brief a bit later than expected. Okay, so maybe a lot later. I do make an effort to crank these bad boys out in a timely manner, but, sadly, s...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 30, 2009, 9:20 am
Sandwiched between the earlier drunken podcasting and my month-long Halloween Crap-tacular this year I found a single sliver of open space. Within that pause I chose to nestle one of my (ir)regular se...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 28, 2009, 8:15 am
I am not what you would call an anime fan. In fact, aside from the notable exceptions of Cowboy Bebop, the Daft Punk/Takenouchi video production of Interstella 5555 and a brief sojourn into the realm ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 26, 2009, 10:21 am
This week I managed to surpass 1000 Twitter followers. Not exactly sure that's newsworthy, but it does bring up an important question. Namely, why the fuck are there 1000+ people interested in wha...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 23, 2009, 2:10 pm
The time has come for a meeting of the Hipster, please! Board of Directors. Yeah, that means you. Typically, I make decisions unilaterally – not to mention arbitrarily – but I figured I'd toss...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 21, 2009, 10:49 am
You know that weird thing that happens when sometimes I tell you guys to do something and you, y'know, do it? Yeah, I'm a little uncomfortable with that. Still, as I endeavor to use my powers ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 18, 2009, 2:24 pm
Hey Floridians, your rightful place as the nerd motherland of the east coast is dangerously close to being usurped. Apparently the dorks in Baltimore are armed. I am serious, kids, you do not want to...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 16, 2009, 8:40 am
And so we find ourselves once again in the very throes of Drunken Podcasting Month (better known as September). It is an occasion I can't help but be proud of, despite how reprehensible the entire...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 15, 2009, 9:11 am
While most of the attention being paid to Maja of late has centered on his turn as a voice actor in a series of Phoenix-area McDonald's spots, surely no one has forgotten that his primary focus is...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 11, 2009, 12:04 pm
I sometimes get the impression that MC Lars has a master list of potential top-shelf collaborators, perhaps laid out in some sort of Bingo card format. Weird Al – check. Jesse Dangerously – check....
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 8, 2009, 10:30 am
There's nothing quite like PAX to remind you how positively unimportant you are in the grand scheme of nerd culture. At an event where Beefy shared the stage with MC Frontalot, Front was cleverly ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 6, 2009, 10:11 pm
This delayed edition of Nerd News in Brief was sponsored by nerdcore superfan Lance. Y'all remember Lance, right? He was the subject of an awesomely surreal piece of fan art a couple months back. ...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Sep 3, 2009, 2:31 pm
This week I have experienced illness, a shaky transition to a new job and a total failure of my home network. Thankfully, the other Z – known affectionately as Little Miss Gamer – has more than pi...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 31, 2009, 12:04 pm
Okay, so not here, per se, but you can get Hipster, please! t-shirts from our friends at NerdRockstar. Yes, at long last you can proclaim your undying affection for the web's longest running (and...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 31, 2009, 7:22 am
Themed episodes of Radio Free Hipster are becoming fewer and far between, but this one was a request, of sorts, so I took the plunge. Plus, it's always fun to have my son help put together the son...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 28, 2009, 9:55 pm
For those too busy with matters of genuine importance to hang on my every word via Twitter, this week I began transitioning to a new job. It's an interesting position that's much more tonic to...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 26, 2009, 7:33 am
It is apparently kick-ass new album season, and I'm having a little trouble keeping up. Thankfully, I have friends who care enough to keep me from slipping too far behind. My boy Anthony, for exam...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 24, 2009, 10:22 am
Last year I created my own fake holiday. Why? Because this is the internet, a place where you are perfectly at liberty to do ridiculous shit like that. For those who don't remember (or chose to fo...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 21, 2009, 9:20 pm
It's always great when a independent, intrinsically geeky musical community gets some major media attention. Yet it's all the more crushing when that spotlight, rather than shine on the true f...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 20, 2009, 8:18 am
There are many places where I expect to encounter The Grammar Club. Strip bars. Red-light districts. Prison. But one place I never anticipated running across them, or at least their music, is in a pro...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 19, 2009, 9:31 am
Typically, when one is vying for a handsome prize in a random drawing, one keeps his fucking trap shut so as not to further decrease his chances of winning. But you know what? I'm not gonna do tha...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 18, 2009, 9:51 am
I am back! And I have returned with yet another pebble of personal truth. (In addition to a metric ton of sand in my ass crack.) The nature of this revelation? I am not particularly good at vacationi...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 12, 2009, 7:49 pm
As I mentioned earlier, the family and I are about to head out on our annual vacation to the Carolina coast. As is tradition. Of course, this year it's pulling double duty, also serving as a cleve...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 10, 2009, 10:02 am
Shael Riley is the geek rock Woody Allen. Think about it; his music, and indeed his very artistic voice, speaks volumes about love, sex, the folly of the human experience and one man's life in Go...
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Z. posted an article on Hipster, please! - Aug 7, 2009, 9:33 pm
Looks like the family and I will be taking a bit of a vacation next week. So if things get a little quiet on this end, there's no need to send a search party. I hope. But since I'll be away f...
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