We have submitted several tickets now regarding our music players not being fully functional and have not heard back. It's therefore very likely we'll be changing web services in the near future, and that the look and feel of shockandawkward.com will be under some development. I really apologize to those of you who have come here seeking specific downloads, etc. Please send an email to brantandfatty@gmail.com if there's any way we can help you get what you were looking for!
Hey guys!
Just wanted to let you know that the site is being updated and I'm working on making some major improvements.
Enjoy the new navigation menu, etc. I'm working on getting more of the things you're been asking for on the site. It's going to be a week or so before everything is looking great, so thanks for you patience.
Brant & I should have news about our super secret live show very soon. Stay tuned!
In a few hours I begin my long journey to California for BlizzCon, where I will be palling around with WoW Radio and seeing what sort of trouble I can get myself into. This is a worthless new story but I haven't posted in a long time.
I can say this:
My demo "Daily Heroic" will soon be available on iTunes & Amazon.
Brant and I are writing a live show.
Big stuff is coming. Thanks for being patient!
I also have my demo cd coming soon!
It's all very exciting. I should go pack.
Want to hear some songs from my demo?
Click here.
I need to take a moment to thank everybody for the amazing support I have had in WoW Radio's 2009 WoW Idol Contest. I was thrilled to be selected as one of the 5 finalists in the contest, and really genuinely psyched to walk away with first place in the competition.
I love WoW Radio. They have some great programs, new podcasts on the way, and forums with some excellent discussions. The contest brought me there, but the content and community will keep me active over on their site. Check them out:
WoW Radio
The video is doing extremely well on YouTube right now, thanks largely to the WoW Idol competition (especially the favorable posts & reviews by Eriyanna and TotalBiscuit) and also thanks to Sharm featuring my video on her page. Return the favor and go check out her WoW songs & parodies on her YouTube channel:
Sharm's YouTube Channel
The most interesting thing about the success of the /nerdcore video right now, from where I'm sitting, is the wide demographic of people it is entertaining. It gives me some hope. As an artist, it has hard to establish myself outside of the LGBTQ community, hard to have anybody give me the time of day. My hope for /nerdcore was firstly to make people laugh, but also to hopefully expand my audience to include a broader range of subscribers, viewers, and etc. This has been a bigger success in that regard than I ever could have hoped for, really.
And that's good. Because in the real world, my closest friends have never been one "type" of person. I have always been able to make people who were nothing like me smile and laugh. Yes, it's a WoW rap. But knowing that I've entertained a pretty diverse range of WoW players (not just Alliance, not just gnomes, not just women, not just gnomosexuals...) is awesome. The haters showed up, sure. They left their comments and thought that would be the end of it. But you guys have been phenomenal in downflagging hateful remarks and posting your own witty retorts. I can't tell you what that is worth to me. So thank you again!
In addition to winning WoW Idol, I scored a BlizzCon ticket by pure luck of the draw in another WoW Radio contest, so I'm hoping to meet up with people there. If you're going, please let me know! Say hello! I'm hoping to drag either Brant along with me, perhaps in a clever disguise, for some epic LoLz, or my boy J, who plays the guitar parts on the /nerdcore track, is a co-guildmaster with me on Nesingwary (US), and was the best man in my wedding... Need to get my grubby little gnome paws on a second ticket though, and we all know how likely that is. Thus, I'll probably be looking for PuGs when my new friends at WoW Radio are busy working. Halaa at your gnome!
TL; DR:
1)TY for your support
2) Visit the above links
3) Say hi at BlizzCon
Check the Fatty page and you can now download these three mp3s.
Also, I have a quick & simple Death Knight track on the way VERY soon, as I am hoping to enter into WoW Idol 2009, and submissions are due tomorrow. I'll be putting the mp3 up for listening, here and on MySpace, but waiting before decided if I will make a music video for it.
I'll need your votes if I make it into the WoW Idol finals. Don't let me down!
-Fatty
Hey Shockers & Awkwarders
Update fail for months on end? Yes. I apologize. Thanks for hanging in there.
Here's the dillyo. Brant and I are currently in the middle of our move to NYC, a move that is directly related to creating more stuff and being able to prioritize this little S&A thing more successfully. Brant's in NYC right now, wandering around, lost and sweaty. I'm on my way there in July, wifey and passive aggressive pet turtle in tow. (She'd kill me for saying that like that. Wifey. Not the turtle. He's an alpha male. And passive.) When we get there, you can bet your buttons we'll be putting up more stuff more often. /cheer
Speaking of new stuff. If you have somehow missed the /nerdcore: world of warcraft rap on YouTube, you should check it out. It's doing well, with almost 4,000 views in about a month.
/nerdcore music video
Stop by, check it out (I recommend pressing the HQ button), and feel free to hassle the homophobes in the comments for me. I get exhausted. I'm thinking I'll make the mp3 available for free download on my music page at 6,000 views. 6 is my favorite number, by the way.
I have more songs in production (picture a closet with mattress foam stapled to the walls) right now and I am excited to finish my demo, "Heroic Daily," as quickly as I can. I could actually use your help, though. A website offering royalty-free beats to artists lets members download one royalty-free-for-life-no-matter-what beat for free (instead of for $20) for every 100 unique IP addresses I can bring to the site via the following link:
Help Fatty Get L337 B34T5!
If you want more music fast, you can help a homie out by just clicking the link. While you're there, you can even listen to some of the beats and let me know if there's one in particular you'd like me to use. I'll bite. I want to thank everybody for the support, for reals. Those of you who found your way here from the Warcraft community, sweetness. Help us out by adding us the following places:
Twitter
Facebook
Myspace
YouTube
And I've gotten a lot of emails asking for my character name and which server I play on. If you follow the feeds above, you've probably figured it out by now. Thanks to those of you have expressed your support and let me go on my way, questing and what not. /facepalm to those of you who need to remind me how fail my 2H mace is. I'll keep that info as quiet as I can for as long as I can.
Catch you on the flipside.
-Fatty
Welcome to the site!
I'm learning to build a website as I go here, so bear with me. I'm hoping that in the months to come I can put up more and more content. We also are very interested in getting Shock&Awkward merchandise available to help us fund our projects. For now, enjoy what we have and thanks for coming to check us out. Please feel free to comment on this page or send us an email on the contact page and one of us will try to get back to you as soon as we are able. We appreciate the support!
Fatty
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