The Fancy Bastard Forum

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.

Flickr makes me laugh every time I watch it.

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)

Mr. Coulton rocks my socks off. Re: Your Brains... Classic!

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?

Darc I'm thinking about wearing my Godspeed shirt. That'll beat the hell out of any 1920's "white carnation" crap!

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!

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!

JoCo interview up on AV Club. It's the feature they do where they do a shuffle on a famous person's MP3 player. Pretty interesting.

OK, so how was the concert? How many FB's were there?

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?

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!!

Posted By: John DarcSean's wife Grace

oops.

I swear, that's what I heard!

*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."

All hail the Underminer!!

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

Speaking of, at this exact moment HE is #1 and #2 in Google Images for "Jonathan Coulton". Even before the man himself. Weird.

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.

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.

I'm seeing him in a few weeks in Manchester with Paul and Storm it should be pretty awesome.

Posted By: his holinessI'm seeing him in a few weeks in Manchester with Paul and Storm it should be pretty awesome.

Are any FB's heading out to the NYC show tomorrow/later today?

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!

Posted By: Dram

Posted By: John DarcAre any FB's heading out to the NYC show tomorrow/later today?

Sean is.

I'll be a few rows back. Staring.

waiting...

in a related note, didn't you guys have to stand last time?

Posted By: John Darc didn't you guys have to stand last time?

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.