Hypothetical Question
October 23rd, 2009
Let’s just say that sometime Summerish 2010 there was a cruise. It lasted a week, it left from Seattle and went to Alaska and back. The first four days featured all sorts of activities and performances involving Jonathan Coulton and his circle of famous entertainment powerhouse friends – kind of a Jonathan Coulton and friends convention. And then lets say the official activities ended and there were another three days of just cruise. And let’s say that it cost around $1300-1500 depending on how nice a room you wanted. What would you say to that?
Oh man, that’s around the time that we’re planning a honeymoon trip. That would be an AWESOME honeymoon trip.
I said “No” because I already have conventions to attend in both July and September 2010 and, quite apart from the basic cost, probably can’t afford the time off from work, at least in 2010. Future years could work better, especially with notice to start saving up.
However, having just attended the Minneapolis TMBG “Flood” show last night and been dreaming about some sort of TMBG/JoCo/Frontalot/etc. festival, I do encourage further planning of this sort.
Also, as an old fat person, I request more venues with seating!
This sounds perfect! We’d love to do it. Curious…is this the kind of cruise where one could bring one’s kids, and there’s kid activities and such? We’d be interested, either way, but might be more inclined to do it if we could bring our children, too, and they could do their thing. We live on the west coast, and Seattle to Alaska would be ideal!
Hell yeah! We live in L.A. and are loaded, so we would love to go! The only thing is convincing my dad to take me, he is not much of a cruise ship guy. Would be awesome if it ended with PAX.
Ha ha ha hah haa ha ha haahhh… I don’t have £892!..
*sighs*
*looks at old, falling apart jeans*..
Pity me.
(It does sound fun, but no.)
It does sound intriguing, and the money wouldn’t necessarily be a huge barrier, but with 3 small children at home I marked “too long.” Because that’s too long to leave my wife at home, and I don’t think we could bring everyone nor would we want to.
If I could engineer an ideal event, it would look more like a 3 or 4-day weekend, probably not a cruise but a landlocked convention type thing in any nearby city.
Having guests and several performances sounds like fun, but what I personally would enjoy more would be some workshops. Some guitar workshops: technique and theory. Joco’s take on how to write an interesting arrangement for guitar, especially for live accompaniment. Maybe a demo and talk session on best practices for home recording, both demos and full multi-tracked songs, and mixing. Especially valuable would be a songwriting workshop. In other words, sessions that were targeted as musician to (aspiring) musician.
That’s what would entice me, at least.
And how would such a cruise be promoted?
Uh-oh; I feel some lyrics coming:
Would you listen on a boat?
Would you listen with a goat?
Shambling zombies recommend:
“”Jon-Con! Jon-Con! Must… attend!
(OK, now all we need is a melody.)
I couldn’t find an option in the poll that fit …
I want you to take the cruise because I live in Alaska, and it’s probably the only way we’ll get to see you up here. Please tell me you’d get off the boat and perform at some of our cool venues!
Geeze, Jon, do you *really* want to spend a whole week with these fanboys?
Yes, it may be the only way to get my husband on a ship!!
Make a pre-PAX event and run with it, but bring Wil Wheaton with you – pretty please.
I’m not going to vote, because it would depend on whether I’d have a convenient excuse/enough leave to be in the US at the time, but I would love this. One of the reasons I went to the UK three times to see you was that your fans are great fun to hang out with. It’d be like the Road Trip of Doom we did for the 2008 UK tour, but with more tripping and fewer roads.
I live about 6000 miles from US, so I voted “no, other reason”.
Just too poor
I’m IN alaska so would you be performing at the towns you stop at?
I’d say, “That’s as much as my car costs”
So, I’m a “No for other reasons” meaning that there should be a “Yes, if I can could scrounge up that cash, but it is doubtful” category. It really is a very detailed category. Since I’m writing, I might as well say I like what you do. Thanks for doing it.
Unfotunately Im on the east coast and airfare would push this far beyond my price range. Maybe if you did a survey to see if you have more willing fans on the east coast or west coast you could choose between a Seattle/Alaska thing or something leaving from New York or Florida. Also if you did a 3 or 4 day cruise it may drive the price down to $500 – $600 which would also help alot. Needless to say this would be the best thing ever and I would totally be down for something leaving from the east coast.
If it went internationally i would.
i dont have enough money to buy gas to get to houston …i dont think i could afford to go ona a cruise anywere
No, because we live in Florida and it’s just too far for a week long cruise. It’s also a bit on the high side price wise. $1000 – $1200 is a bit more reasonable. $1500 would be okay for a cabin with a balcony.