This Weekend
Yes: PAX. I’ll be there. I’m slated to play at around midnight on Friday night, and I bet it will be great fun. I’ll also be hanging around my special merchandise booth to say hello and sign boobs (i.e., manboobs) and whatnot, most likely for a chunk on Friday afternoon, certainly after the show on Friday, and then again for a bit on Saturday morning. I’ve got two new shirt designs that I will first unveil and then sell.
Then Saturday afternoon I’ll make a quick trip over to the Bumbershoot, where I’ll be the musical guest (a song, or maybe half a song) on Jesse Thorn’s “The Sound of Young America.” The other “actual guests” are Tig Notaro and Janeane Garofalo, both of whom I’ve met before in my travels through show business. Funny ladies! And Jonathan Coulton!
It will be a busy weekend of music and gaming and manboobs. Rock!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Can’t wait for the nerdcore concert! Are you ready to play in front of the biggest room of gamers the world has ever known?
August 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Do you ever feel like if you have to play CodeMonkey one more time your head will explode? I mean AWESOME song, but do you ever just want to start going improv with the lyrics? Bless you for your music, and bearing the burden of rabid fans. We love you.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Don’t you ever feel that you just HAVE to go to Texas? I mean seriously….you go to all these cool places. Come to one un-cool one? We can go to Crawford and we can play spontaneously outside the Bush ranch…..something like “Re: Your Brains.”
August 27th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I think that the zombies would starve at that feeding ground….
August 27th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I’ll see you there! I heard you for the first time last year, and haven’t stopped since!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I don’t think the secret service would take a bunch of people shouting “your all going to die” outside of the president’s house very well.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I hope this year’s crowd will be as good as the last! Sadly, it looks like I’ll miss you at PAX. When is the next time you’ll be performing in the Seattle area? I’ll reserve my tickets immediately after they go on sale (as always)!
Have a great time in Washington!
August 28th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Since you’re already travelling 3500 miles to London, can’t you go the extra 700 miles to Oslo, too? -.- So maybe the 21 demands on eventful isn’t that enticing, but we can have the concert in my livingroom, if nothing else :p
August 28th, 2008 at 8:15 am
if i had moobs i’d make you sign them just for this post.
well, if i had moobs and was able to attend pax….
come back! new york city loves youuu!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Ya’ll better get excited for those shirts, too, because they are AWESOME.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I am sure PAX is great and all that, but we will really be missing you at Dragon*Con. I guess we will just have to sing Dr. Horrible instead of RE:Your Brains.
(SOB) I will just have to cry on Nathan Fillion’s very buff shoulders.
Maybe you will grace us with your presence next year!
August 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
If you take requests, please play ‘Mandelbrot Set’ on Friday! I’ve been to four of your shows over the years, and never have I heard you play my favorite song live =( Thank you for coming to PAX!!
August 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
hey man, ur music is great
i was thinking if there is some chance to u come to brazil???
August 28th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
You should have a Über mega nerd convention with Paul, Storm, Kristin Shirts, and Molly whatever her last name is at the Civic Center in Canton Ohio. That would be SO cool
August 30th, 2008 at 3:59 am
JoCo was indeed very awesome. He ended up playing two encores, the second being Sweet Caroline.
I’d say the best part of the concert was a tie between him playing a slowed-down version of Code Monkey and Felicia Day singing Still Alive with him.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:20 am
He rickrolled us. Twice.
Bastard.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:58 am
And I’m sure the internet will not forget that JoCo fricking *rick rolled* the audience on not one, but *two* separate occasions.
So, thanks for that.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:36 am
How dose if fell to be rick rolled?
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/30/pax-2008-music-video-jonathon-coultons-flickr-and-not-this/
August 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
While I wasn’t a fan of the everybody stand in front of the stage setup of the concert, the actual show was excellent & JoCo’s set was easily worth the 3 hours of standing & pushing that preceded it.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:43 am
My Twitter feed is buzzing about how awesome the show was. Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton especially. Can’t wait for videos to start popping up!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Jealous of everyone who’s at PAX! Also, why did you not have Felicia Day sing Still Alive at the Coverville 500 show? Then I would have known she was there, instead of finding out the next day!!!!
And while rick-rolling PAX might have been kind of awesome, I’m sure it was slightly less awesome than the First of May rick-roll on May 1st!
~Sharon, Mpls merch minion
August 30th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING MANDELBROT SET!
August 31st, 2008 at 1:41 am
The show on Friday night was completely and utterly awesome!
Definitely my highlight of PAX thus far. And Jonathan was very cool when I went for an autograph today, even though I didn’t ask him to sign my non-man boobs 
August 31st, 2008 at 10:45 am
Here’s JC and Felicia Day backstage at the PAX 2008 concert afterwards: http://www.flickr.com/photos/egspoony/2810958122/in/set-72157607022725221/
I wouldn’t mind a music video of Still Alive with Felicia in it…
August 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Amazing show! Re: Your Brains was amazingly fun. I was actually kinda hoping you WOULDN’T play it so we could call you in for an encore simply chanting “Brains, brains, brains”! Only at a nerdcore concert…
Not only did you rick-roll the ENTIRE crowd – twice – but the first time we actually *asked* for it… even though we didn’t exactly know what we were asking for
Still Alive was easily the highlight of the performance. I got a low-quality cell phone 20-second video of the chorus if anyone’s THAT desperate… Not sure how well it’ll look on the computer yet, but since I was recording the projection screen it doesn’t look half bad on the cell phone screen. We shall see.
Great show JoCo. Your performance made the insufferable 1Ups and Freezepop worth it (sorry to the fans of those two bands, but they’re just not that good).
August 31st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I was in the front row for the concert and Jonathan gave me a fist pound. I’m trying to find a picture of it. You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. I hope you’ll come back next year.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Skullcrusher Mountain on Rock Band this week, very cool homie.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
PAX08 was one of the awesomest experiences of my life and the concert was a large contributor to that being the case. Thanks, JoCo.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:42 am
Felicia Day and JoCo performing Still Alive?!?! O.o
NERDGASM!!!!
September 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Felicia Day and JoCo singing Still Alive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2812781317/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2813632236/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817497353/
JoCo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2818403390/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2818401648/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2818400050/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817548553/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817547033/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817545423/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2818393276/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817541579/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leftlegofvoltron/2817540023/
September 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
So, did my drawing get all super crumpled up? =D
I am not stalking you– nono! I was exploring purchasing venues for Jonathon music (cause your CD line was out) when I discovered this ‘little blog…’ while in your bushes looking though your window. Not talking, exploring!
September 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Your show was amazing, one of the highlights of an incredible weekend. I’m sorry I missed you when you stopped by the Chronotron PAX 10 booth =(
September 1st, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hi. I’ve heard of your music many times before, but seeing youtube videos of your rickrolling of the audience at PAX finally brought me to your website. Holy crap, your music is awesome and one of these months when I am not busy being pwned by student debt I promise to buy your music.
Cheers from Chicago, IL.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Hey. You were amazing at PAX… I came to PAX with 3 other friends and we all bought your 4 disc set after the concert. I am really interested if we can get the long version of Mr. Fancy Pants somewhere. After seeing you play it live with the Midi Controller the short version just doesn’t give enough justice.
First time replying here so if there is that song floating around I’d take a link to it as well.
Thanks!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
We missed you at Dragon*Con, you gotta come next year!
September 1st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Hey Parks, go to youtube and you’ll find many versions of Mr. Fancy Pants with the zendrum. Here is a link to the first time he performed it in concert with the zendrum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-h4-rlD_sY
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
Please, please give us a studio cut of “Still Alive” without the crowd noise! T’was beautiful!
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Thanks for the great performance, JoCo. I hope my button makes it into the “weird gifts I’ve received from random people” pile you surely have.
Sorry for demanding you out so many times, and delaying your bedtime, but it was an amazing experience.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
@Andrew: Unfortunately all the rights to ‘Still Alive’ are with Valve, JoCo can’t offer it on this website. It may be in the Orange Box pack or in Audiosurf on Steam.
May 19th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Awesome concert on sunday! Me and my freinds cracked up when will wheaton came on stage to present you with the D20.