Power strips, a collection of chargers and battery types, Hipster Please, and a mess of other electronics - the Nerdapalooza essentials.
Anything for Z.
Hey look, a cooler of booze!
Standard 2-3 star resort rooms.
The main tower with the rooms is an open building with about 12 floors.
View from my room looking up.
View from my room on the tenth floor looking down.
Can't spit in it from here.
Nerds love an inside joke.
The first new friends I made at this years event!
A Comic Shop has this gear inside for people to try on and ... do this with.
MC Gigahertz dons his beer goggles for Absurdcore.
Schaffer the Darklord, the evening's headline performer takes the stage to his customary roar of applause and shouting.
Odd Austin opens up the official event with the first performance on Saturday at noon.
Vitamin Water sponsored Nerdapalooza and supplied a decent amount of free drinks for everyone.
My Parents' Favorite Music rocks the house down.
Devo Spice put on a hilarious and very fresh set.
Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew had the crowd raucous and roaring for the entire set.
I got to feed Beefy my duckie sugar cookies. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Marc With a C had some of the most understated, deadpan humor of the weekend and pulled it off brilliantly, to the audience's delight.
Introducing the Scrub Club.
The Scrub Club tore it up! High energy set that kept people moving and was tons of fun.
The crazy customized classic Nintendo instrumentation used by I Fight Dragons.
I Fight Dragons getting their considerable gear setup.
Hacked DDR pad is indeed a music instrument.
I Fight Dragons playing the DDR pad and various classic Nintendo controllers, including the Power Glove.
G Major 7 just drips with nice guy, doesn't he?
Blak Lotus also brought his own album to sell at the merch table and it is awesome! Check out Underhill Downs at http://brandonpatton.com/
Right before ytcracker came on, I got this tweet and shared it with everyone sharing the front row with me: realytcracker: on my way to venue I've been puking all day let's see how this turns out front row
Despite being pretty sick, ytcracker put on a killer set.
Mister B is not amused.
The crowd went nuts the second the MC Lars set began.
Find the set list.
Real guitar shredding versus Guitar Hero shredding.
Snipe introduces MC Frontalot on behalf of Z from Hipster, Please!
Snipe reading Z's intro for MC Frontalot.
HOLY SHIT IT'S MC FRONTALOT!
Schaffer the Darklord joined MC Loki on stage for a guest verse during Sunday's early open mic session. Having been up with him the night previous, I must add - Bravo, sir.
mCRT takes aim at offending the entire audience.
HamStarr joined mCRT for their Kingdom of Loathing song titled Kingdom of Hip Hop.
Funky49 also joined mCRT on stage to bust some rhymes.
Hex dance!
HEX DANCE!
The Great Luke Ski came on before Emergency Pizza Party due to some technical difficulty.
A fog machine? At Nerdapalooza? It's more likely (and smellier) than you think!
Introducing Emergency Pizza Party.
EPP is who we be!
With our powers combined, you get the pizza for free!
Mike Tyson Punch Out song!
A bit of a mosh got going at the request of the performer.
Moshing.
Int Eighty of Dual Core busting some dope rhymes off the new album, Next Level, which is FUCKING AWESOME.
DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE! DUAL CORE!
An integral part of the Uncle Monsterface stage setup.
There he is. :)
MASHED POTATO
VERSUS VAMPIRE!
Vampire thinks he has struck down mashed potato!
I believe the exact words were "I don't need pants, I have great underwear."
Uncle Monsterface is ... metal? evil? green?
Five days later, I STILL have the ringing in my ears from hundreds of geeks shouting GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! GRAMMAR CLUB! at the top of their lungs for a very long time.
Schaffer the Darklord does the introduction for The Grammar Club.
The gayest shirt? The gayest shirt.
Schaffer the Darklord's second set of the weekend. You can hear the panties get wet all around when he takes the stage.
Schaffer? Animated? You don't say!
This one is for the ladies.
Free zombie targets from Nerdapalooza sponsors http://www.acomicshop/, yay!
We need to be saved. We can only be saved by the Protomen doing their set. It's true, the android told me so.
Sorry there are not more protomen shots - almost immediately after this one I sustained a mosh pit injury that took me out of both the front row, and for a while the show while I iced my ankle.
mc chris is comin' to your town tonight. mc chris is down to bring the sound and light.
Freestyling outside after the offical end of Nerdapalooza.
Fanboy with MC Chris.
The Emergency Pizza Party afterparty, where, much to my surprise, MC Frontalot and MC Lars were filming two music videos.
Who showed up at the afterparty? Pretty much everyone!
Should have brought my own hat for the obligatory fanboy pic.
Snipe tweets!
Fanboy with Int Eighty of Dual Core.
Lars' t-shirt reads "Nerdcore is not dead". These were being sold in the swag room at the show.
Fanboy with ytcracker.
Snipe fans it up with ytcracker.
