Jonathan Coulton

Just an update on some things in the pipeline. First the stuff I know for sure:

Thursday 6/21:
I’ll be a guest at Dave Hills’ “The Dave Hill Explosion” at UCB in New York. I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing yet, probably playing some music and pretending to be funny like Dave Hill. Word is, Hodgman is also a guest.

www.myspace.com/davehillexplosion

eventful.com/events/E0-001-004842389-5

Friday 7/27:
I’ll be doing two shows at Milkboy in Ardmore, PA with Paul and Storm. Two shows! One at 7:30 and the other at 10:15. There will certainly be some content overlap in these two sets, so don’t feel like you need to come to both of them. I mean, don’t you people have lives?
Early show: eventful.com/events/E0-001-004842449-6
Late show: eventful.com/events/E0-001-004842503-3

PAX 8/24-8/26
It’s true, I’m playing at PAX along with a lot of other great musicians. I don’t have all the details yet, but the show will be sometime that weekend. Stay tuned for details.

Friday 8/31:
Show with Paul and Storm at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA at 7:30. Expect the standard sort of rocking.

eventful.com/events/E0-001-004479292-8

Bumbershoot 9/1-9/3:
I will be appearing on the comedy stage at Bumbershoot in Seattle 9/1-9/3. There will be both music and comedy from me. More details soon.

bumbershoot.com/

And it’s a little far off to be certain about the details here, but I can tell you for sure that there will be some kind of tour with Paul and Storm happening mid-September on the west coast that may include a swing into a few cities in Texas. A couple dates are set already: Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on 9/14, Triple Door in Seattle on 9/23. I’ll add the rest of them to the calendar as they get firmed up, but expect stops in LA and Portland, and possibly some stuff in Austin, Houston and Dallas somewhere around 9/18-9/20.

Thanks, I just wanted to get all that off my chest.

The makers of the game Guitar Hero are looking for suggestions of songs to include in their new game Rock Band. I don’t know much about the game, but I’m sure it would be about a thousand times better if it had a great song in it like Code Monkey. I’m just saying.

Monkeys: attack!

http://www.rockband.com/index.php?do=/public/

Also, I keep meaning to post to these other things that make me laugh: captions written on SkyMall ads by my friend Melissa. There are these and also these others.

Saw this on Waxy – LOLCODE, a coding language based on LOLCats. My favorite example is this HelloWorld routine:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!”
KTHXBYE

Why in the world is this so funny to me?

Just to wrap up this Canada story: I was unable to get to Toronto at all this weekend. So the clever folks at NXNE had the idea to do the interview anyway via webcam. I sat in my Brooklyn studio in front of my iSight camera and did the Saturday afternoon interview with Clive who was sitting in front of a camera and an audience in Toronto. Played a couple of songs, took a couple of questions, drank a beer. It was yet another nice demonstration of the fact that to do this job, I really don’t need to leave the house.