If you think Frontalot's privacy is worthless, feel free to violate it by watching Gameplay HD invade his apartment.

Data substitution alert! I Heart Fags (demo) and Livin' At The Corner Of Dude & Catastrophe (old songfight version) have had their MP3s updated to the album versions. Find them linked in the previous sentence, elsewise on the mp3 page.

Also, here are a couple new wallpapers that are so rad that Front hasn't even posted them yet.

Instead! Coming up almost immediately: On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness: Episode One, which is the Penny Arcade game, which has a brand spanking new Frontalot track embedded somewhere, and we won't mention where. But here be hinting: if you've gotten to the final boss and still haven't heard it, woe is you.

Going to be in Florida for super explodey patriotism day? Better get your ticket to Nerdapalooza. There's a buttload of nerdcore rappers coming, plus wizard rockers, plus who knows what kind of tomfoolery. Established Frontalot cohorts Schaffer, YT, Whoremoans, DJ Snyder, FFBs, Random and Lars are expected, as well as plenty of folks Front's been itching to see onstage, such as Wordburglar, ZeaLouS1, Myf of Metamystics, funky49, EPP, and Dual Core.

Rocking the new Chris album? Yeah, same here.

Sept. 24, 1991: Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory comes out. While essentially an album for incredibly cool people, it includes the dorkiest moment in hip-hop to date: a 19-year-old Busta Rhymes growling "RRRRRROAW RRRRRRROAW like a dungeon dragon / Change your little drawers cause your pants are saggin'."

Sept. 2, 1995:I Wish by Skee-Lo hits No. 53 on the Billboard 200, propelled by its title single, a rap about having bad coordination and being short. Includes the immortal lines "Dag, y'all! I never understood / Why the jocks get the fly girls / And me, I get the hood rats . . . "

Oct. 31, 1997: Video game PaRappa the Rapper released in the U.S. PlayStations across the country run hot with youngsters' attempts to beat the All Masters' Bathroom Rap Battle level.

May 23, 2000: Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Kid Koala and Dan the Automator team up for their sci-fi hip-hop epic Deltron 3030. They would later gain favor with the cool-kid audience with the first Gorillaz album, but this original Deltron CD is the ultimate in high-profile nerd rap.

April 30, 2002: Blackalicious releases Blazing Arrow, which includes the track Chemical Calisthenics. A sequel-in- spirit to their famous Alphabet Aerobics, this one overloads the geek-o-meter with lines like "C-A-O-H-2 wine water solution of calcium hydroxide / Slobbin it, C-A-O lime will make bleach powder / Galvanic metal beats stomp out louder."

[Originally published in the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado, Nov 16, 2007]