If it's relevant, I just found the vid of JoCo and Hodgman's appearance on Attack of the Show! on G4.
The link to the vid is dead on the song page, since G4 ironically got it taken off Youtube (ironic in that a television network that claims to be based on internet culture and 'getting' its fans got all its clips off Youtubez).
Okay, I tried to be a helpful girl and put this in the Wiki but I did it wrong so if someone could fix it please. : ) Thanks. Here is an interview from a Toronto source.
Thanks for that, it would seem I have taken charge of the press coverage page unofficially. In that I mean I haven't told anyone that I have I have just added a lot of the content to the page. I add any interviews that pop up here straight to the wiki so if you spot one that isn't there and say here the wiki will be updated. Also as of yesterday I have an arrangement with JoCo (well more specifically Scarface) to inform me about any interviews JoCo does so I can put them on the wiki. It isn't quite that simple but that is the gist. It occurred to me it would be impossible to keep the page up to date not knowing when or where to look for the interviews. Google brings up a silly number of results for me to spot all the new ones that appear. So I did the obvious. I can post here as well with any interviews that come through if you want.
I said this on your JoCopedia talk page, Ben, but I really appreciate your work on the press coverage page, and I'm really glad you're taking charge of it. More power to you!
This is the opposite of timely, but according to this article, " Comedy Central is launching a new bi-weekly live comedy event at New York's Crash Mansion."
The first show is tonight [7/7/2008] and features Joe DeRosa, Bob Powers, The Buffoons, Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger and Jonathan Coulton. Be there!"
I have no idea about the thing -- I get a Google update every Monday afternoon of public stuff -- articles and blog postings, basically -- regarding JoCo. I was hoping that CoolJ or Mitch or some other New Yorker would know what the Crash Mansion might be. And, since it's Comedy Central, hopefully it'll be videotaped and show up on TV eventually.
After looking on imdb for JoCo's wife I discovered he has an imdb page. Then I saw that he is credited with a 2008 film as a composer. It would appear that the film "Miss Shellagh's Miniskirt" is featuring When You Go in the soundtrack, taking advantage of it being creative commons licensed. Also upon further google search it would appear the same song is used in the trailer for the film. And now I have found the official site for the film.
I decided this did not need its own thread, but definitely needed a mention. Only a little independent film, JoCo would have liked it as a teenager.
Oh right woops, I thought that thread was for a live show of some sort. Silly misleading name and me not reading threads for live shows I don't attend.
I'm more intrigued with JoCo's role in "The Social History of Hair" and "The Social History of Piercing," on MTV back in 2003. Anyone know more about this?
(That's the cue for Bry to come by and point me to a long-ago thread on the topic...
Well that would be the song "The History Of..." I would expect. This song can be found on awyrone's download page. Of course this is only a guess through logic, not fact.
What a nice set of articles those Kat Angus pieces are! She even asked a question that Bry & I ditched from our question list -- about the poker game at Pop!Tech. Thanks for posting this, Cali!
Ditto Jinx's appreciation of the Kat Angus interview (and of CALI for linking it) -- it was a good read, and not only did she ask that question we'd scrapped, she also asked a few that we ask in not-yet-released segments, grr...
And her intro paragraph to the interview (not the article), which I have to QFT:
No, Jonathan Coulton isn't TV-related, but he is one of the most delightful people alive and the half hour I spent talking to him was the highlight of my year, if not my life. Not only is he a brilliant song-writer, he's also hilarious and incredibly humble and in the days (...weeks) following the interview, I bugged countless friends with "And THEN Jonathan Coulton said..." anecdotes.
(I also like how she mentioned her not having segues. Any segues we had we forced in awkwardly on the fly.)
The first show is tonight [7/7/2008] and features Joe DeRosa, Bob Powers, The Buffoons, Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger and Jonathan Coulton. Be there!"
Ha, I saw JC with his guitar when I was on my way home on Monday evening, I bet he was on his way to that. Now I wish I had done the whole "Taking the guitar for a walk, eh?" thing and found out about it.
The problem with having eight, count 'em, eight stickied threads is that threads keep falling off the front page. Here's video from the Crash Mansion performance.
You know what I love about that site? If you just follow a link, say, to look at the JoCo VideO, then click a link anywhere else on the page? While loading, what you can see is a little sentence at the top that says "You are so not logged in."
Technically not a JoCo media article, but rather one about John Hodgman, but it contains this quote regarding a holiday gift:
How did the last good book you read end up in your hands and why did you read it? I received Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven for Christmas, at my request. Jonathan Coulton, who accompanies me on guitar when I read in public, asked me if I wanted to read a fascinating and disturbing history of Mormonism and of religious fundamentalism in general. Because he has been such a good sport about playing guitar and wearing a buckskin shirt when I read, I figured I owed him one.
Sorry if any of these are repeats... just trying to fill up the wiki with every spec of info we can find. Some day I will be able to contribute more but for now it is this... short of the wiki... Scroll down on this amazon page for Hodgman's book to see the commercial Coulton and Hodgman made for the book.
Here is his creative commons promo... I think it is the best one... but honestly... who submitted THAT picture.
Finally, this Bills, Bills, Bills, youtube video that syncs Coulton's version to the Destinys Child music video.
Ha. Thanks for the crash mansion link.. so interesting to see him perform in front of a different audience.
just noticed this post on Boing Boing from Cory Doctorow about the new website from publisher Tor. Apparently Cory has a story to be published there soon called, THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME WEAK AND STRANGE GET ENGINEERED AWAY.
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The link to the vid is dead on the song page, since G4 ironically got it taken off Youtube (ironic in that a television network that claims to be based on internet culture and 'getting' its fans got all its clips off Youtubez).
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/john-hodgman-and-jonathan-coulton-on-aots/2446017949
PS: JoCo's hair is really lustrous in the vid.
See what others are saying about Coulton on Twitter.
http://quotably.com/search/coulton
http://blog-beta.epicfu.com/2008/06/fu-of-the-week-jonathan-coulto.html
Behold, Code Monkey from his bed!
(Tip of the hat to the excellent coverblog Fong Songs for linking it.)
The first show is tonight [7/7/2008] and features Joe DeRosa, Bob Powers, The Buffoons, Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger and Jonathan Coulton. Be there!"
"Fezzik, tear his arms off."
"Oh, you mean *this* gate key?"
Also upon further google search it would appear the same song is used in the trailer for the film.
And now I have found the official site for the film.
I decided this did not need its own thread, but definitely needed a mention. Only a little independent film, JoCo would have liked it as a teenager.
Oh dear, I really am turning into a "better JoCo fan" than Bry!
Also, if Miss Shellagh's Miniskirt were to ever make money, would she have to license the song from JoCo, or just remove it?
(That's the cue for Bry to come by and point me to a long-ago thread on the topic...
But nothing can distract me from waiting for the next part of the Bry-jinx surprise interview...
The Coulton/Mumy Connection...
Kat's article linked above has appeared in the National Post and is titled "Squid Songs"
And her intro paragraph to the interview (not the article), which I have to QFT: (I also like how she mentioned her not having segues. Any segues we had we forced in awkwardly on the fly.)
you've failed us. :-P
edit: hmm, on that Comedy Central site, looking at articles tagged with Jonathan Coulton, I saw a link to This
Is this an as-yet unreported article about JoCo?
double edit: You know what, it actually looks like an old article. Never mind.
Scroll down on this amazon page for Hodgman's book to see the commercial Coulton and Hodgman made for the book.
Here is his creative commons promo... I think it is the best one... but honestly... who submitted THAT picture.
Finally, this Bills, Bills, Bills, youtube video that syncs Coulton's version to the Destinys Child music video.
Ha. Thanks for the crash mansion link.. so interesting to see him perform in front of a different audience.
ETA: had to fix the CC link.