Cheap Date: Dec 19th
Less than a week before Christmas, hopefully you have all your shopping done already. But what about yourself? Are you treating yourself to some fun entertainment? How about you have a Cheap Date? We’ll spend $30 on nerdy entertainment to fill your week. Enjoy!
Hit the jump to read my recommendations.
Baby it’s cold outside…. So here is your album of the week!
Sssssoo freezzzing. I had to scrape ice off my front and back windshields… The closest I will get to a White 
Christmas in San Francisco though. Once I got myself inside, and my blood back to a normal temperature, I was in the mood for one of my favorite holiday albums of this century: A Very She & Him Christmas.
This album takes some of the most popular Holiday songs and gives them the indie treatment. Blues guitars and vintage sounds to really make these covers stand out. I enjoy Zooey’s voice and think she puts an interesting spin on many of my favorites. By far, the best track on this album is Baby it’s cold outside where they swap roles and do an amazingly enjoyable duet.
I loved M. Ward’s album this year and the collaboration between him and Zooey Deschanel is always amazing. Yeah I know, completely pathetic indie pop fan here. Yesterday they released a very cute ANIMATED video for their rendition of Baby it’s Cold Outside and I thought I would share. Enjoy with hot cocoa! Read More…
Top 20 Nerdy Movies to Excite in 2013
Loads of movies for all types of nerds fill up the upcoming year. Let’s countdown the top twenty movies that will excite us in 2013.
Head past the jump for the list.
CYaN Podcast Episode 34: Golden Glasses Awards
Welcome to the first ever Golden Glasses Awards presented to you by Call Yourself A Nerd. We have decided on a number of categories and decided the winners (and in some cases, the losers) of the awards. It was a hard and gruesome process, hopefully for your benefit!
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CYaN Podcast Episode 33: The Late One
Sorry about this late one from last week. Our hosting site decided to move over to Amazon and was down for the week. Either way in last week’s episode; we cover more movie trailers including Oblivion and Star Trek Into Darkness, movie rumors and casting news, as well as talk about Karen Berger leaving Vertigo. Hopefully, you will still enjoy this late episode.
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Cheap Date: Dec 12th
Before anyone can mention it: Yes, this edition of Cheap Date falls on 12/12/12. Definitely not a date that happens very often; by often, I mean only once a century. Anyway, with that out of our systems let’s continue. On Cheap Date, I recommend $30 worth of nerdy entertainment to fill your week.
Head past the jump to see all my recommendations.
Man of Steel Trailer
Originally, the trailer for the Zack Snyder directed Man of Steel was scheduled to show with The Hobbit this weekend. Instead, Warner Bros. decided to show the trailer off a little earlier. Definitely some interesting and fun stuff in the trailer. The teaser had me concerned but this trailer has started winning me back.
Hit the jump for the trailer of the next Superman movie.
Robots exact Revenge
It is rare for this music-nerd to find a music video that just sells her on a band. This is a video from a local SF rock band, King loses Crown. Their song is My Revenge and its video is pretty damn cool. I should probably set it up by saying this song is basically a man saying, “if I can’t have you no one else can.” So they take that message and use robots to exact their revenge throughout the city of San Francisco.
I was trying to find a place to download the song and stumbled upon their SoundCloud, where you can listen to their songs for free. Album out 02.19.13 Click for the songs. Read More…
Friday Playlist – Materialistic Weasel
I have been on a mad dash through all the local malls, cyber sales, and even flea markets trying to find those unique gifts for my family and friends. I am sure most of you are experiencing the same thing and in an attempt to help get through those busy malls with a shred of sanity left I have decided to share my shopping playlist with you.
As you can see from the title of this post I prefer to call it my Materialist Weasel playlist. For some reason when I was putting it together I couldn’t get a quote out of my head. In the movie Armageddon, Steve Buscemi said, “I don’t mean to be the materialistic weasel of this group, but do you think we’ll get hazard pay out of this?” Maybe because for every 10 items I browse I see an item that I hope is waiting for me under my tree. hmmm… anyways
Here is your Shopping Playlist for this Holiday Season. Enjoy! (Click to Embiggen)
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