Who mentioned us where now?
Because I am easily amused, one thing I do when I'm bored is check my visitor stats for the doc's website, Nerdcoreforlife.com. We manage to get a pretty strong trickle of people checking out the site, maybe 70 or so every day. Yo, that's not too shabby. Most of those visitors find the site through google searches which is interesting because it shows that that every day, a few dozen people around the world hear about Nerdcore and google the term to learn more about it. We get about 15-25% of our visitor's from Nerdcore's Wikipedia entry too and that's a big increase. Just a few months ago only about 5% of the site's vistors were referred via wikipedia but then SOMEONE edited the Nerdcore Hip-Hop entry and placed the Nerdcoreforlife.com link a little more prominently on the page. Whoever made that edit is awesome...and smart....and me.
Anyway, I was checking our stats today and WTF, I saw that we were getting visitors from Entertainment Weekly's website. Turns out the film was mentioned on EW.com's a few days ago. That's super cool of course but it's also kinda weird. It just seems so bizarre to me that a film I'm making 1.) made Entertainment Weekly's website and 2.) I almost didn't even notice that it had happened.
This is from the EW blog:
Nerdcore for Life is another upcoming documentary about this hip-hop subgenre — in post-production according to the filmmakers' website — that further celebrates dork pride. In its mildly NSFW trailer (hey, they are rappers) we meet an MC who positions nerds as an oppressed minority, an MC who asserts that Nerdcore isn't a parody of mainstream rap, and one who (naturally) devotes hobbity rhymes to J.R.R.Tolkien.
Have a look and a listen, PopWatchers, and then answer me this: Do you/could you take the Nerdcore genre seriously? (If so, tell us why.) Or is it a gimmicky rap-lite joke that'll get you beat up by the cool kids?
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/02/mc-frontalot-th.html
Heh. I like how they mention that trailer is Not Safe For Work. If people think that the trailer is NSFW wait until they see the actual film. Nerdcore For Life has slightly fewer obscenities than say, Clerks, but a lot more than I dunno, The King of Kong. (I just watched the Director's commentary for King of Kong and he mentioned that the film got a PG-13 because of the phrase "gnarly piece of poontang.") As the blogger from EW mentions, our film does feature rappers and though they may be nerdy, they are also hardcore...
Hence the word; Nerdcore.
