Comments on: Three Things About San Francisco

By: Oded Sharon

Oded Sharon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:58:38 +0000

My video from the concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T44HQmIJH-4

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:05:40 +0000

The Harmonix guys put him on Easy, because they were afraid ambient noise from the crowd would mess up the scoring.

By: Floyd Zamarripa

Floyd Zamarripa — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:37:13 +0000

Hey Jon, What difficulty were you set up for on vocals?

By: LizaLS

LizaLS — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:23:55 +0000

Great interview on CNET! I love how your sweater matches your guitar pick matches the bamboo in the corner of the room. (I know, I’m a dork, but it was a good way to keep from just totally staring at JoCo like an obsessed mouth-breather).

Congrats on the Rock Band download!

^_^

By: gaming city blog » GDC08: Jonathan Coulton scores 95% vocals on Rock Band's Still Alive

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:38:21 +0000

[...] on Wednesday. Mr. Coulton posted to his personal blog about the experience yesterday, noting that he ‘only’ got 95% vocals on the song he created. The question we’ve been asking ourselves is: who is singing the song [...]

By: Kevin M.

Kevin M. — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:15:16 +0000

Well, I WAS going to wait until they released the entire Who’s Next album before I bought Rock Band, but now, I think I’m going to get it with my next paycheck.

By: Guybrush Threepwood

Guybrush Threepwood — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:44:14 +0000

That settles it. I’m buying Rock Band in the morning. This was the bonus that finally pushed me over the edge.

(I’m using my tax return for that, a pocket bike, and a whole bunch of cardboard boxes since my son has more fun with those than actual toys.)

My brother, his girlfriend, and I sing JoCo in the car all the time, let’s see what we score…

By: Jason C. Brand

Jason C. Brand — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:25:33 +0000

The concert tonight was absolutely awesome. Thank you for such a great show, not to mention touring with Paul & Storm. I agree with the above poster: when can I pre-order the DVD?

By: Dinah Sanders

Dinah Sanders — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:58:35 +0000

Well that was a goddamn fantastic show.

San Francisco loves you, Jonathan. Thanks for giving us the pleasure of your company.

Now, where can I pre-order the DVD?

By: Hepcat

Hepcat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:00:46 +0000

@Sam: If you can possibly make it to Madison, the club’s site says all ages.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:48:35 +0000

Gah! Why does the one concert that I could even get to have to be 18+ Curse you Minneapolis!

By: Hepcat

Hepcat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:04:29 +0000

The Kevin Sites piece turned up in the main Featured spot on Yahoo’s main page this afternoon, and it was hard to get the blog to load, so it seems a lot of people were checking it out. Congrats, Jonathan!

And I hope the concert is a huge success and you and everyone in the audience have a helluva lot of fun.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:48:17 +0000

Best of luck with the live show and recording.

If you need people to purchase more songs so you can afford to produce the DVD sooner let me know and I’ll call in some favours*.

(*translation: threaten to break people’s thumbs.)

By: Len

Len — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:52:12 +0000

Dude:

I am so going to have to play “Still Alive” with you in RB. Me on drums. And you on guitar or vocals. It just has to happen.

Portal and RB FTW!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:40:13 +0000

Hey JoCo,
I don’t think I truly appreciated just how gifted and talented a singer you are until I watched that CNet interview. Can’t wait until you perform in southern California, I’ll clear my calendar for that! By the way, our burritos are the best in the world!

By: Giggleloop

Giggleloop — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:37:57 +0000

BradOFarrell – email JoCo or message him on Twitter – you might still be able to be a videocam volunteer. (I don’t know if he has any free tickets left, but tickets might still be on sale). (and the show is tonight, I think, isn’t it?)

By: Crooked Wookie

Crooked Wookie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:29:36 +0000

PLEASE tell me we’re going to get to Rock out to “re: Your Brains.” That song would be awesome in Rock Band.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:37:02 +0000

Eric & Chet are indeed awesome.

As are California burritos.

By: Mike Glavin

Mike Glavin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:34:13 +0000

Portal *should* have won best writing – I really liked pretty much everything about Bioshock, but Portal’s writing was outstanding! Game of the Year in every way.

By: Rufo Sanchez

Rufo Sanchez — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:34:05 +0000

You can watch a video of the first minute or so of Still Alive in Rock Band here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkNkFLiRQ8

Credit goes to the Xbox.com team for posting it, but a bunch of people I know had problems with the .asx format, so I thought I’d post it to YouTube.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:56:17 +0000

How appropriate that pretty much all the furnishings in the gorgeous CNET office space came from IKEA.

By: Fred Schechter

Fred Schechter — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:03:10 +0000

Can’t wait to see your show tonight! (I’ll be the biped in the audience) Yaay legs!

By: BradOFarrell

BradOFarrell — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:47:02 +0000

Oh shit. The show is TOMORROW?! I’m going to be in San Fran tomorrow, I didn’t know until just now. Shit. Shit. I wanna go!

And I have a DV camera and a bunch of blank tapes

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:42:31 +0000

I put some photos up on my site and on Flickr.

By: Giggleloop

Giggleloop — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:34:12 +0000

Yay for the Rock Band news! I have been hoping for some JoCo Rock Band goodness for a while now – guess I’ll have to get a new router so I can get my PS3 back on the network and check out the store.

*crosses fingers for a Jonathan Coulton Pack {Still Alive, Code Monkey, and Re: Your Brains, ‘natch}*

By: oddrat

oddrat — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:33:14 +0000

Pretty sure California loves you. At least the Bay Area and Central Coast bits. Come to Santa Cruz! Tacos Morenos has the Best. Burritos. Evurr.

By: TheKeck

TheKeck — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:27:11 +0000

Woot for Portal! Noticed this yesterday and think it’s well deserved.

By: Scarybug

Scarybug — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:21:51 +0000

Yay Rock Band!

Hey, the last 2 blog posts aren’t showing up in the feedburner RSS feed. Is it normal for them to be delayed?

By: Sean L.

Sean L. — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:53:03 +0000

Can’t wait for the DVD and Rock Band Song!!!

Jonathan, is the song going to be your version or the one from the end-credits of portal?

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:44:38 +0000

I liked the CNET piece. Also, can’t effing wait for Still Alive on Rock Band. Any chance we could get some of your other stuff to play too? I’m a wanna be geek rocker!

By: Hauke

Hauke — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:02:32 +0000

Great interview, i love your singing!
Oh, and please come to Hamburg/Germany

By: Trampas

Trampas — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:57:54 +0000

I was excited about the DVD before watching this video. As someone who is 400 miles away from any of your concert venues, I haven’t been able to see you live yet (though that’s changing May 1st… a bunch of us are making the trip to Minneapolis!! WOOT!) and now after hearing Code Monkey played acoustically, I have to say I’m more excited than ever about seeing you live (in person and on DVD). I am amazed at the emotional depth you were able to bring to it.. it was beautiful. Have a great show tonight, and thank you for the music.

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:47:53 +0000

A blog about #2 above: http://www.rockband.com/rockers_blog_entry/hmxsean/216671?redir=1

I hope someone caught this action on video and we can watch it on youtube! I really want to see that…

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:42:25 +0000

YAY Rock Band with JoCo! I can’t wait!

By: selene

selene — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:03:37 +0000

COME TO HOUSTON TX!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:05:58 +0000

By God, I will check the PlayStation Store every week. (Also, hi.)

By: T.J.

T.J. — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:45:34 +0000

I can’t wait to get that song downloaded for Rock Band. Sheer brilliance, Harmonix!!!

I’m thrilled to see you’re becoming bigger and bigger JoCo. You deserve all the success — what a great story you have. It still pales in comparison to the stories of people overcoming multiple-hour car rides to get to the American Idol auditions my wife always talks about, but a great story nonetheless.

Get out to Phoenix, man!

By: Jack F

Jack F — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:36:14 +0000

Damn you California! Us East Coasters demand that you return JoCo to us!