Mongo Nation

We make the Nerdcore calendar girls scream!

Each year, Nerdcore releases a calendar of naked porn stars and various hot babes re-enacting moments from popular geek fantasies. These have involved subjects ranging from video games, to superheroes, to science fiction. This year, Nerdcore surprised dorks everywhere by going with a horror theme! I don’t know what they were so surprised about; few people are as hopelessly nerdy as a hardcore horror fan. And I should know. We smell our own.

So anyway, our foxy field reporter Laryn Michael went down to Royal Clayton’s English Pub to talk to all the sexy Nerdcore models and the dweebs that coerced them into getting naked in the first place. The resulting interview may be too sexy for some… So if you are watching from your office, please make sure that you don’t have to stand up for at least a few minutes. (Trust me on this.)

Hey guess what else? We also have some preview pics from the calendar itself! (Some of which, we pilfered from our friends at ShockTIllYouDrop.com.) Check em’ out:

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We play the game and talk to the developers of DJ Hero!

By Jeremy Azevedo

Last week, I went to San Francisco to check out the final version of Activision and Freestyle games news music title, DJ Hero. As a longtime Guitar Hero enthusiast, I must say that I was eager to get my hands on the DJ controller that I had seen and heard so much about, but never actually had the chance to operate.

Upon arriving at the club, an unmarked venue with absolutely no signage or advertising out front, I half expected to find myself running for my life by the evening’s finish.

Allow me to explain: In LA, unmarked bars with no signage or advertising are “exclusive” and “hip”. You have to be cool to know where they are. In SF, unmarked bars with no signage or advertising are places where ”large men with mustaches, dressed in leather, try to touch you in the bathing suit area”. You have to be a sex criminal to know where they are. Luckily, 1015 Folsom turned out to be a pretty classy joint. Crisis averted!

What you usually get when you walk in someplace unannounced in SF

Much to my delight, Activision and Freestyle games had the entire, finished game ready to play on numerous consoles. There were (I believe) over 100 songs, though technically many of them were mash-ups of the same songs, so the number of licensed songs is actually a little smaller than that. However, you almost don’t even notice this repetition because the end result of any two songs being mashed together usually results in an entirely different final product.

Not rock stars, I don’t care what you say.

And the songs themselves… I am not a fan in any way, shape or form of the Daft Punks and DJ AMs of the world. I do not particularly care for house music, nor do I subscribe to the notion of the DJ as a rock star. That having been said, I do love hip hop almost as much as I love rock, and I appreciate the art of mixing good two good songs together to make another, wholly different, good song. And when you hear how seamlessly one can blend 50 Cent with the Zombies, or Gangstarr with David Bowie, I think you will agree that the developers behind this game knew very well what they were doing when they put this tracklist together. There are virtually no songs that aren’t fun to play, thanks in part to the assistance of respected underground DJ/producers like DJ Shadow, Z-Trip and DJ Jazzy Jeff (yes, that Jazzy Jeff).

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We drink the “White Lotus” with Chun-Li in Chinatown!

Last week we attended the release party for the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li DVD at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown, LA. In a bid to attract fans from all over the city, the “Shadowloo Bar” (as they were calling it that night) was inviting anyone and everyone to come in, have a few drinks, and watch a handful of super-human Street Fighter dorks compete for a giant pile of cash under the watchful eye of ½ dozen sexy Chun-Lis (who were themselves under the watchful eye of 100 or so horny fanboys). Plus: tacos!

Here’s a few pics from the event:

Two of the very foxy Chun-Li clones present at the event

A couple of the athletes engaged in mortal combat Street Fighter IV!

This dude’s sausage fingers were ON FIRE!

This was the last thing I saw after telling them that one joke about the Chun-Li, the water bed and the hungry buffalo
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We interview all the hot babes, nerds, and Cylons!

By Jeremy Azevedo

Earlier this week, we had the good fortune to attend Maxim’s Hot 100 Party, interview a few celebs, participate in some borderline sexual harassment, drink crazy cocktails made with the new Dr. Pepper Cherry and listen to DJ AM get paid $10,000 to play top 40 records all night!

Our foxy correspondent, Laryn Michael, was on the scene to ask all the hard hitting questions like “Which girl would you make out with if you had to pick one?” and “”Can you believe that every single goddamn one of those girls from the Hills made the list this year?”

Check out Part 1 of our video coverage, featuring Alessandra Toreson, CariDee English, Bai Ling and Danneel Harris (who totally threw me the vibe, FTW!)

Also check out Part 2, featuring Tricia Helfer, Lauren Storm, Vail Bloom and Olivia Munn!

See who else made the list HERE!

Not as annoying to listen to as it is to say!

Even though Junior Senior’s sophomore album, “Hey Hey My My Yo Yo” has already been available in Japan and Denmark for two years now, it could’ve been recorded yesterday and American audiences would not have known the difference. It’s hard to say what caused the delay in release when one considers the relative success of this band both critically and commercially everywhere else. Perhaps it took the recent popularity of dub bands like LCD Soundsystem, Justice and CSS to convince distributors that this album would do well in the U.S.