Mar 20, 2008 9:29 pm US/Central
SXSW: What Is A Nerd? Do You Know Any?
Anna Gonzalez, Web Producer
AUSTIN (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
CBS11TV.com Web Producer Anna Gonazlez is attending SXSW. She's there covering it as a journalist, but she's also a fan of a lot of the stuff there. These reports are her impressions of what she's seeing. I think I'm a nerd. Maybe not a hard core one, but nerd enough to be one of the many people who now think MC Frontalot, said to be the father of Nerdcore, is a hero.
For the second showing of the documentary, the line of people trying to see it stretched outside the doors of the theatre.
This is a must-see if you love music or geekdom in general. It kept me laughing until the touching scene where the commentators all exposed the first time they understood they were nerds. All of a sudden, being a nerd wasn't as powerful. They were taken back to all those times someone pushed them down and laughed at them.
In the documentary, Weird Al Yankovic described Nerdcore as "an ironic juxtaposition of two very disparate cultures."
"It's like lyrical content of the geek culture," said nerdcore rapper MC Router.
MC Frontalot got his start on the internet. He remained anonymous until he built a following and decided to go on a national tour.
One of MC Frontalot's fans said that he hadn't been out in over a year, but he had to see the MC live in concert. So here we see another way the internet is helping to foster a community and then bring them out to meet face to face. Just keep that in mind if you think the internet is the demise of face-to-face communication.
If you are interested in seeing this documentary, it will be showing in Dallas at the AFI Filmfest on Thursday, April 3 at 7:15 p.m. at the Angelika. If you don't get a ticket then, you can still see it at the Angelika on Friday, April 4 at 10:00 p.m.
Click here for tickets.
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