Nerdcore has risen

Nerdcore Rising ticket

I’m glad to report that Nerdcore Rising was better than I was expecting it to be. A documentary that not only tried to explain what exactly Nerdcore Hip-Hop is, but also followed the grand pooh-bah of the genra, MC Frontalot aroundon his first national tour. The tour footage was broken up with short pieces of interviews with notable Nerdcore artists and non-Nerdcore stars like Jello Biafra, Weird Al, Prince Paul and of course NCHH fans from the different stops on the tour. A particular treat for me was seeing their stop in New Orleans which got a pretty good chunk of time in the film. I couldn’t really recognize the venue they played though. My only complaint is that Frontalot has that patch of hair under his bottom lip. Gross. (I still love ya though.)

So, if the movie comes to your town, I recommend going out of your way to see it. :)

Just a thought about the metro’s escalators.

Does it seem to anyone else that the DC Metro’s idea of “modernizing” an escalator is to completely disassemble it and then leave it untouched for a few weeks?

Maybe they figure if they wait a while to re-build it (with the same parts as pre-modernization) that no one will notice it’s still jacked up. Until, as is the case of Columbia Heights’ station, it breaks down once more after a week or two.

It’s like New Coke all over again. And again. And again. It’s not just modernized, it’s Escalator Classic!

Escalators at chinatown.