Jonathan Coulton

I did an interview with the delightful Len and Nora on the Jawbone Radio podcast which you can listen to here: JC on Jawbone. I’m always amazed that these podcasters can keep the conversation rolling and interesting when they’re talking to complete strangers over Skype. I can’t even do that with friends in the same room.

Also, did anyone see John Hodgman on the Daily Show again last night? That man is fast becoming the new king of all media…

I know, Friday came and went and no Thing. Unfortunately, this week has conspired against me in several ways and now I have nothing. But I am alive, thanks for asking. I apologize to you and me both, and I placate us thusly:

1) Mark Forman has posted this mashup of JC songs and a Brad Sucks song. It sounds like an iPod with a bad case of demonic possession. Speaking of Brad Sucks, if you’ve never heard his stuff before, you should check him out immediately. He’s another unsigned, Creative Commons, one man operation who gives lots of music away, and I think he’s a great songwriter and musician. Give him a little love, would you?

2) Kevin Gray sends me a video for “Drive” – the car commercial vibe is now in full effect. Kevin is the guy who did that Baby Got Back video I linked to earlier, featuring a lot of lady butts. As you might imagine, this one’s a little less butt-y.

Thanks to both Mark and Kevin for contributing to the creative soup around here.

3) I almost forgot, I did an interview for a German newspaper about Flickr and other things. They translated me into German, and it’s kind of fun to read the re-translation back to English via Google. I sound like a crazy person.

Now: onward.

CES is over, but your sound journey through our CES experience is just beginning. The podcast is now posted on the PopSci site. There is a 30-second piece of Coulton gold in the form of a CES podcast theme song somewhere in there, also audio proof that I apparently love robots more than old people. Enjoy!

The three or four of you who remember when I used to play in a band called Supergroup will perhaps remember this song. We played it a few times but it somehow never got recorded, so here is an acoustic demo. I had big dreams of loud guitars but in the end had to settle for a drum loop and some hand claps (which I am loving by the way, from now on they’re going to be all over the place). You will note there is no solo – contest anyone? Was that fun? I had fun. Anyway, sorry if you are a person who actually does run a pretzel shop at a mall somewhere, I’m sure it’s really great and probably not as tragic and awful as this guy thinks it is.

The song: You Could Be Her

Not really safe for work, unless you work at Penthouse, but here’s a video of many butts set to my version of Baby Got Back sent by Kevin Gray: Filthy Butt Video. Kevin was concerned that it might bother me that he did this without my permission – it did not. Allow me to take this opportunity to talk about Creative Commons AGAIN: the CC license on the songs page means all the songs are pre-approved for non-commercial use in videos, mashups, remixes and whatever else you can dream up (provided you release the new thing under the same kind of Creative Commons license). It’s really a good thing – it means that Kevin gets to follow his muse without talking to a lawyer, and I get that many more earballs from people who like to look at butts. And the world, she goes round and round…

Item the second: the Flickr video is now on google video: right here.

And finally, I must say it’s a shame this video wasn’t made, because I’m digging the drawing of me in a striped muumuu: Podsafe Christmas Song Video.

I’m off to Vegas in a couple of hours, John Hodgman and I will be podcasting from CES on Friday. If you’re out there, look for me: I’ll be the one in the striped muumuu.