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I Blame It On The Hip Hop (music): Jonathan Coulton (natch)

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      CommentAuthorTindomiel
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2008
     
    So someone had to start this thread eventually, and I figure it may as well be me. Anyone here a Jonathan Coulton fan?

    Saw him in concert with Paul & Storm in February in San Francisco, where he publicly debuted Still Alive for Rock Band and fed us cake. Good times.
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      CommentAuthorFerros
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2008
     
    Big fan, some of the only internet based music i've actually paid for. You should always support a good cause and goddamnit i've never seen a single thing about this guy i dislike.
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      CommentAuthorEddie
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2008
     
    Flickr makes me laugh every time I watch it.
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2008 edited
     
    I discovered JoCo when I simply HAD to download the Code Monkeys theme song. At the time, the only other song I immediately found with his Baby Got Back cover, so I had no idea what I was missing. Then came Portal, and the rest is history!

    Bought the Thing-A-Week box set, and pretty much his entire mp3 catalog. Can't wait for June 21st in NYC!!

    (edited to correct the date. Thanks JD)
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    Mr. Coulton rocks my socks off. Re: Your Brains... Classic!
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    wait, there will be other Fancy Bastards at the JoCo concert on Saturday?

    how will we recognize each other's presence? will we be able to sense it?
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2008
     
    Darc I'm thinking about wearing my Godspeed shirt. That'll beat the hell out of any 1920's "white carnation" crap!
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2008 edited
     
    Hmm, I was gonna wear some sort of "Pluto was a planet!" shirt, which are readily available all over the internet, but I didn't buy it yet. And I don't yet own any HE merch. I might just go dress-shirt and 8bit tie, if the weather isn't super shitty and the place isn't balls-hot. It's looking like it will be both rainy and hot that day.

    edit: Also, the concert is the 21st. Don't be two days late!
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2008
     
    Yeah, I don't know what I was looking at. Tomorrow night I will be there with my FB shirt, and my wife will have her HL2 "Good D0g" shirt. See you there!
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      CommentAuthorAaron
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2008
     
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      CommentAuthorjoel
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2008
     
    OK, so how was the concert? How many FB's were there?
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2008
     
    Uh, counting me, Sean, and Sean's wife Grace (Gracie? I'm bad with names, but good with t-shirts. Good D0G.) there were three accounted-for Bastards of the fanciest nature.

    Does this count as the first official Fancy Bastards meetup?
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2008
     
    It was outstanding! Paul and Storm have the "warm-up" thing down pat, and JoCo was great as expected. There was even a *real* encore (after the phony one), which threw the guys off, as they had no idea what to play. My geek-out moment of the night came when the three of them covered Birdhouse In Your Soul. Pictures and autographs after the show for the ten or so people that cared enough to stick around. His love of his fans came out through the entire show. It was my first live JoCo show, and it somehow lived up to my unreasonable expectations. Sometime later this week, I'll upload the videos to YouTube for everyone to see, and send Joel the pic of JoCo posing with me and my GSYFB shirt.

    John Darc found us while we were waiting for Coulton, Paul, and Storm to come out after the show, which I believe makes this the first official Fancy Bastard meet-up! WooHoo - I'm a pioneer!!
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2008
     
    Posted By: John DarcSean's wife Grace

    It's Kris actually. Oddly enough, Grace was the name of my ex. Have you been stalking me?
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2008
     
    oops.

    I swear, that's what I heard!
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      CommentAuthorFlanked
    • CommentTimeSep 2nd 2008 edited
     
    *Blows dust off of this thread*

    Wow! JoCo is mentioned in my Mass Communications text book (Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, 6th ed, Campbell, pg 89)(emphasis mine):

    Cover Music Undermines Black Artists

    Since the integration of popular music in the 1960s, black and white artists have recorded and performed each other's original tunes. For example, Otis Redding, an established R&B songwriter, covered the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" in 1966. Both the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton covered Robert Johnson's 1930's blues songs, and Clapton had a No. 1 hit in 1974 with Bob Marley's reggae tune "I Shot the Sheriff." In 2005, humorist Jonathan Coulton recorded a soft-rock version of Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 hit "Baby Got Back."
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     
    All hail the Underminer!!
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     
    So apparently JoCo is playing an Obama fundraiser. If any FB's are in NYC and over 21 and support Obama on the 15th of Sept., you could go.

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gplrdq
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      CommentAuthorjoel
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     
    Speaking of, at this exact moment HE is #1 and #2 in Google Images for "Jonathan Coulton". Even before the man himself. Weird.
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     
    As much as I love JoCo, I can't support either candidate. I can either vote for the guy who is all symbolism and no substance, or the guy who will die approximately 38 seconds after taking office, leaving the person who is even MORE symbolic and LESS substance.

    My wife is putting down her dog's name as a write-in vote. And I hereby invite Jonathan Coulton to play at a political fundraiser in my living room.
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
     
    Just write in Colbert or Ron Paul or your dog. Both have the same chances of taking office.

    Or write in the man himself, Jonathan Coulton.
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    I'm seeing him in a few weeks in Manchester with Paul and Storm it should be pretty awesome.
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      CommentAuthorjoel
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2008
     
    Posted By: his holinessI'm seeing him in a few weeks in Manchester with Paul and Storm it should be pretty awesome.


    If it's your first JoCo show then you are in for a treat. Especially with the addition of Paul and Storm. Their set is great but they also really add a lot to JoCo's show in the way of background vocals, etc.
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009
     
    Are any FB's heading out to the NYC show tomorrow/later today?
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      CommentAuthorDram
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009 edited
     
    Posted By: John DarcAre any FB's heading out to the NYC show tomorrow/later today?Move over, bananas! I've got a new source of potassium!

    Sean is.
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009
     
    Posted By: Dram
    Posted By: John DarcAre any FB's heading out to the NYC show tomorrow/later today?
    Sean is.

    He sure is! Front row baby!!! Sorry if that sounds like bragging, but I'm really excited about it.
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009 edited
     
    I'll be a few rows back. Staring.

    waiting...

    in a related note, didn't you guys have to stand last time?
    • CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009
     
    Posted By: John Darc didn't you guys have to stand last time?
    We technically had seats, but they were at a table that was separated from the railing on the balcony by another table, so in order to be able to see anything we did stand most of the time. This should be better.
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      CommentAuthorJohn Darc
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2009
     
    Alright, but you two better not block my view with your heads! If it ends up being you two and the Harlem Globetrotters in the front row, I will be upset.

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