JoCo the lost interviews
Five segments of an hour+ interview with Jonathan Coulton from March 17, 2008. Brilliant stuff from him. Find all five episodes HERE or search for A Life of Play on iTunes. It's a podcast.
(sample comments are what JoCo requests in the green room before shows, how Jonathan has been eclipsed by Paul and Storm, why Hodgman hasn't been able to make JoCo a PC, etc.)
Here's the story...
I met JoCo at a show in Somerville, MA. But I knew of his music via the PopSci podcasts from the moon. I didn't realize he had done anything other than those Science shows.
Immediately I realized I - as a professional writer - needed to do a story on him. So I interviewed Jonathan in March 2008 and pitched the story to Yale and the New Yorker and about a dozen other publications. They were nonplussed.
But as a result of my interview, I had an hour and 20 minutes of gold on tape (digital recording via Skype) and figured why not podcast it.
So I talked to Jonathan earlier this month and he gave me permission to release the interview as a podcast. I broke it into five pieces and they are now up at my podcast site. Each is 15-24 minutes long.
Please feel free to make comments and use the podcast in a polite CC way. Also, let me know what you think.
Thanks. Love the forums and look forward to participating more.
(sample comments are what JoCo requests in the green room before shows, how Jonathan has been eclipsed by Paul and Storm, why Hodgman hasn't been able to make JoCo a PC, etc. It was great fun.
Later,
Jeff
My Sites
(sample comments are what JoCo requests in the green room before shows, how Jonathan has been eclipsed by Paul and Storm, why Hodgman hasn't been able to make JoCo a PC, etc.)
Here's the story...
I met JoCo at a show in Somerville, MA. But I knew of his music via the PopSci podcasts from the moon. I didn't realize he had done anything other than those Science shows.
Immediately I realized I - as a professional writer - needed to do a story on him. So I interviewed Jonathan in March 2008 and pitched the story to Yale and the New Yorker and about a dozen other publications. They were nonplussed.
But as a result of my interview, I had an hour and 20 minutes of gold on tape (digital recording via Skype) and figured why not podcast it.
So I talked to Jonathan earlier this month and he gave me permission to release the interview as a podcast. I broke it into five pieces and they are now up at my podcast site. Each is 15-24 minutes long.
Please feel free to make comments and use the podcast in a polite CC way. Also, let me know what you think.
Thanks. Love the forums and look forward to participating more.
(sample comments are what JoCo requests in the green room before shows, how Jonathan has been eclipsed by Paul and Storm, why Hodgman hasn't been able to make JoCo a PC, etc. It was great fun.
Later,
Jeff
My Sites
Comments
CoolJammer00 - you're also off on the Green Room item, JoCo had fun answers to the other two - I asked them tongue in cheek.
robgonzo - I had nothing to gain by delaying all the segments. Just needed to do enough post production to put clips in and cut them in appropriate spots. So all five segments are now available. Enjoy and please share.
Glad you liked it.
Jeff
All five episodes can be found at iTunes (boo, hiss) as a podcast - A Life of Play - or go to the site and download the MP3s.
Thanks,
Jeff
I second your statement about the interview, it's really good.
Amazingly he didn't avoid my questions at all and gave some serious insight. One of the main reasons I thought the recording would be valuable - to fans and the world - was exactly because we didn't go over all the stuff he's talked about before (except maybe DRM stuff). I heard about half a dozen interviews over the past year and nobody brought up Paul and Storm or his lyrical ability (to speak at the speed of an auctioneer) or the paired recording of him and Hodgman.
Thanks for the props. It was really a lot of fun.
Jeff
Seriously: still working my way through, but I'm liking what I'm hearing; nice job, Jeff!
Starting a Meetup Group entirely of people who only do Five-Part interviews of JoCo. Any ideas for the secret handshake? I'm gonna have T-Shirts made too. Will I need to order more than two? :-)
I can't wait to listen to yours. Love what I saw at first glance in the transcript.
Thanks!
I just want to belong.
ETA: I'm another person who downloaded it with iTunes. Since I have all the podcasts (and other spoken-word thingies) that I haven't listened to yet in a smart playlist that plays in random order, and I have a huge backlog, and I can't bring myself to prune it, I expect to listen to one of the five parts some time next year, and then perhaps an early part a few months later... expect some thread resurrection, is what I'm saying.
But I listened to it, great interview. Good job, and I agree the questions asked were fantastic.
So far each episode has about 50 downloads. Coolio and props to everyone here at the JoCo forums.
Best,
Jeff
A month and a half later, but I can't help pointing out that CoolJammer doesn't seem to remember JoCo's blog entry. ;-)