Episode 27 :: Nerdy Show Vs. The Generic Dudes
Brian Lee O’Malley‘s series of Scott Pilgrim graphic novels are awesome. They take video game culture and smoosh it inside comic books! In Scott’s world, the nonsense logic of video games are part of reality – you beat up hipsters and generic dudes and they turn into coins – THAT ROCKS! Now that Scott Pilgrim is a movie written and directed by Edgar “Shaun of the Dead” Wright all that geeky goodness is exploding IRL in a nerdgasm the likes of which has never hit the big screen before. In this episode the gang is joined by nerd comedy musician, Insane Ian, to talk about the coolness of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, the differences between the books and the film, and the super-stars behind the soundtrack and score.
PLUS we dialed up Pete of Anamanaguchi, the chiptunes rock band that are providing the score for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game. Together we fight mediocre cellphone reception, dodge the cops, and find out how they scored this sweet gig. We also talk to Reid, Ryan, and Charlie from Starmen.net and Fangamer, about the currently running Mother 3 Fanfest, their upcoming release of chiptunes documentary, Reformat the Planet on DVD as well as chiptunes-inspired merch, and the origins of their prolific fan communities. There’s lots of old school video game conversation including some truth-bombs about River City Ransom, one of the games that most influenced Scott Pilgrim‘s world. So strap on your power glove… and then take it off ’cause it’s useless- But play some cool games and listen to this episode. It goes a little something like this:
Tracks
- We Are Sex Bob-Omb :: Sex Bob-Omb
- Autotune :: Insane Ian
- Black Sheep :: Metric
- Threshold :: Sex Bob-Omb
- Threshold (8-Bit):: Brian LeBarton
- I’m So Sad, So Very, Very Sad :: Crash and the Boys
- We Hate You Please Die :: Crash and the Boys
- Garbage Truck :: Sex Bob-Omb
- Mom’s Hometown :: katanaswordfish
- Super Mario Land :: Action Adventure World (watch video)
- Personal Space :: Shael Riley and The Double Ice Backfire
- MvL (ft. Odd Austin & TV’s Kyle) :: Insane Ian
- Power Supply :: Anamanaguchi
- Airbrushed :: Anamanaguchi
- Rap Loogies (ft. Fatty Goodness) :: KABUTO THE PYTHON
- Death to All Hipsters :: Beck & Nigel Godrich
- T.U.R.T.L.E. Power (ft. MegaRan) :: Klopfenpop
Links:
Play along, August 6th-27th
- Fangamer’s Reformat the Planet DVD set and chiptune-inspired merch
- Watch the Reformet the Planet trailer
- Insane Ian’s “Everything I Know” video
- Watch Triforce Mike play Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World: The Game at E3
- The archive of Nerdy Show’s E3 2010 video coverage
- Watch “Know Your Meme: Weird Al Yankovic Helps Explain Auto Tune”
- Help fund Twenty-Six & a Half, the Weird Al tribute album on Kickstarter
- The official page of Twenty-Six & a Half
- Help fund the next Shael Riley & The Double Ice backfires’ album
- katanaswordfish’s YouTube channel
- Check out Flying High in the Mushroom Kingdom Radio Show Saturdays 1AM-3AM EST
Exhausted and scatter-brained we relive the excitement of Nerdapalooza while it was still fresh in our minds, the day after. As you can probably guess from the lateness of this podcast, we are ALL 
For the last month we’ve been raving about 8-bit artist and musician, Doctor Octoroc‘s NES-styled rendition of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. With his massively popular project recently concluded, the good Doctor has had some spare time to breathe and decided to spend an evening with Nerdy Show. This episode is rife (rife I say) with talk of fan-love projects from Octoroc’s latest concoctions, to a recent assortment of video game fan films – so be sure to thoroughly investigate our links section. You always do, right?
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