This week in funky49…

December 16th, 2009 | By 49

Is it good practice to make a blog post when I’m pimped on the web? Let’s say yes!

RFH: First, my mashup of mc chris & David Hasselhoff (which Z named “mc christmas with the hoff”) was included in a Radio Free Hipster podcast, #79! It was a really strange request but I got inspiration and something hot came out of it. The track is available in my discography section. So go download it!

symmetry breaking: Remember that particle collider that I made a song called Particle Business about? Well their “symmetry breaking” publication published a lyrical breakdown on Particle Business. Check it out! I can’t wait to see it in print!

Best Nerd Rapper to Book for Your Party

September 16th, 2009 | By 49

I’m in Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay 2009!

Best Nerd Rapper to Book for Your Party
Steve Rush aka Funky49
Computer jockey by day. Nerdcore rapper by night. Steve has penned a MOSI theme song and recently garnered national press by writing a theme song for the particle physics lab, Fermilab.

funky49 on WBIG (now in mp3)

September 1st, 2009 | By 49

Would you like to hear funky49 be interviewed by Brian at WBIG 1280AM The Big Wake Up Call from Chicago, Illinois? Would you like to make fun of my UHMS and general inarticulation?

WBIG AM1280 Radio Interview

August 21st, 2009 | By 49

I just got off the phone with the Big Wake Up Call, WBIG AM1280 out of Chicago. I totally feel like the “Fresh Prince of Batavia” again! Thank you Chicago!!!

Things went well because before the interview, I was laughing at the sports guy reporting about how the “Cougars” did last night. I made sure to plug Dan Lamoureux of Chicagoland’s Crapbot Productions. What’s odd is they didn’t ask any of the questions they sent me! I got to mention how I was taking the “triple beam scale” back from the rappers talking about cocaine and put it back into the science lab.

What is super-awesome is that earlier this morning, Jonathan Coulton was on the radio too! He was part of a music industry report on NPR.

Fermilab Wednesday

August 12th, 2009 | By 49

Us humans are but such small creatures on this planet…

It must be a slow news day because I’m in it. :)

The Beacon News & Daily Herald & symmetry breaking

Check out the pictures! They did a really good job taking pictures with their cameras!

Today I get to meet Dan Lamoureux (from Nerdcore for Life documentary and the LOLCats & Buggin Out videos!) for the first time. We are going to eat mad breakfast foods and talk about video location shoots. more to come….
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So Dan and I scarf some breakfast and we drive through Fermilab to get our sweet Visitor Passes. We shoot some in front of the Wilson Hall and run to get batteries for his boombox because we didn’t want to be stuck without music for the next stops. We signed our radiation agreements (I think we can blame but not sue Fermilab if we turn sterile or something) and were escorted down into the CDF collision hall with Dee and Brittany. NO ONE GETS TO GO HERE. WE WERE SPECIAL! It was awesome. Crazy cramped. Lots of electronics. The muon scintillators were most visible because they are the outermost sensor package. We got shots with some guys and Brittany and Dee. Too much fun. Amazing stuff.

We bounce out from CDF to go to the Wilson Hall and meet up with Tona & Rachel from Fermilab Communications. We get taken to the huge room where the Cockcroft-Walton is and shoot there! They have two so obviously we went in the second one but only after it was grounded. We don’t need any stray electrons!

We then had this GREAT shoot in the Tevatron Master Control Room. We even were able to get someone’s blog in the shot who has their own Star Wars fan film in post-production! I even got to shoot DAN as a worker in the MCR! It was great! From there we went up to the 15th floor of the Wilson Hall and Dan got some footage up there. It’s really beautiful up there. We stop by CDF and Dan and Ben got to meet. I think I’m hungry. We have been running around since breakfast. Everyone at Fermilab has been so nice. Dan has been great to be around. Because I was in their daily intranet/Fermilab Today website, people I haven’t met wanted to say hi which was really cool.

funky49 is in print!

April 1st, 2009 | By 49

There is a M-F newspaper in Tampa Bay called the TBT (Tampa Bay Times). funky49 was pimped in the TBT on Friday, 20 March! It was on page 42 (that’s like a blessing from Douglas Adams). I always love a reference between me and the Beastie Boys!

Here is the text from the article:

funky49
Nerdcore is alive and well in Tampa!

funky49, a.k.a. Steven Rush of Temple Terrace, was once mentioned in a Wired article about hip-hop that caters to computer programmers and other proud geeks. He recently released Rapbassador, a digital album about the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry. You’d roll your eyes at the sheer geekiness of it — “Wait a sec, let your eyes focus/ you’re face to face with a diplodocus!” — if only funky49’s Beasties-esque dance-rap wasn’t so tight. “If I can have fun and draw some attention to Tampa’s MOSI,” Rush said, “it is a win.” funky49.com.

ScientificBlogging.com hearts me!

April 1st, 2009 | By 49

Check out this writeup on the Rapbassador album on ScientificBlogging.com!

Finally! Science Rap Music For Children
http://www.scientificblogging.com/alternate_allele/finally_science_rap_music_children

Just imagine, all the cool and funky beats of rap music coupled with the wholesome words we use in science class. What a concept! And please, don’t be hate’n on me because you didn’t think of it first.

To lead this movement, I nominate Tampa’s own Steven Rush, also known as, “Funky49.” Funky is the self proclaimed Rap Ambassador of Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). Funky49 takes pride in his hella tight Beastie Boy-ish style.