Neat Amp Magazine Piece

Hey so this is cool, Amp Magazine did a great story about Nerdcore For Life and you can read it by clicking right here, right now:

http://www.ampmagazine.com/index.php/interviews/comments/nerdcore_for_life/

I did my interview for this so long ago I didn’t even remember what I said. I like this piece because it’s the first time a reporter included anything I had to say about craigslist. Without craigslist, I never would have been able to make the film; I found most of our camera operators there and I even found our editors there! So I’m glad Craigslist finally got a little credit.

Sweet pwn Chicago

What was really amazing about the Chicago screening was the local press it generated for us.  I got to do my second public radio interview and this time it was for the Chicago Public Radio show, Eight Forty-Eight.  It went great and the producer mixed some music and quotes from the film into the final segment.  It turned out awesome.  The podcasted version of the piece is on-line and you can hear it by clicking RIGHT HERE.

After the show aired I heard from a writer at the free daily paper, the Chicago Red Eye.  That paper is everywhere in chicago and they actually did a little thing on us back in july.  Well this time they wanted to mention the screening in their weekend edition.  I thought they’d give us a little blurb but instead, look what we got!

That thing is huge!  It was like a third of a page.  They even used this very blog as source material apparently since they quoted me from my posting about the screening at Reggies.  Do you know how sweet it is to see yourself quoted in a paper you read every day?  Lemme tell you, it’s pretty sweet.  The only thing that could be sweeter though is if the quote they use is “It is on like Donky Kong.” Hell yeah it was.

The actual Chicago screening at Reggie’s was last night and while we had a good turn out, the whole event was kind of crazy.  The White Sox had a make or break playoff game Sunday and when I walked into the club, the game was on every TV and the place was full of people who were there to watch it.  I had calculated that it would be over just in time for the movie to start but thanks to a rain delay both the game and the movie had to happen at the same time.  Thankfully, the kind of people that care about nerdcore aren’t usually the type of people to care about the playoffs so a lot of people showed up for the screening.

Still…..trying to turn off the baseball game and start the movie did not go over well with the regulars.  We had the whole place rented out though and so at 6pm Nerdcore For Life was running on all 20 of the clubs screens and plasmas.  It was a pretty cool way to see the movie and the displaced sports fans all left to seek refuge at the nearby Wabash Tap or the South Loop Club.  After the movie we even had quick performances by The Former Fat Boys and William Sides Atari Party.  So it was a good night.