Reply To: JoCo in NYC!
um, I’m gonna try and get my photo off my camera. I ran out of space on my memory card, so I had to use the space on my camera. If you’re on the forums (and I think you’ve posted), thanks, little kid and family who took the photo for me.
but, in return, behold! http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=28A62FB745A3C167
Incredibly late, but I have on youtube an hour and a half (give or take) of the JoCo set. I am missing “The Future Soon”, which according to the wiki was the show opener. Then I got Ikea, then most of Shop Vac, and then it’s smooth from there. I got the entire main setlist, including banter (if you watch the playlist in a row, it’s like you were there. Sort of.) and I got the first encore.
In conclusion, the video isn’t perfect:
-(the camera fell over a couple of times)
-I sing way too loudly and off-key (I was so caught up in the moment, I forgot that the camera’s mic was pointed at me)
-you can hear me and my friend who went talking at certain times (seriously, this is actually quite embarassing. we discuss the check. we discuss the songs I’ve sent him, we conclude our discussion about “How many people in here know him from Portal?”. When the room exploded at the song, we assumed it was that many.)
The video is mostly static (I left it on its side and tried not to move it all night) but it goes Coultonfield sometimes. Your view gets blocked at points by:
-waitresses
-the fans in front of us
-there’s a part where the waitress put the check in front of the camera (thanks alot, waitress!)
-just the fact that it was on its side meant the camera sort of cut off anyone who wasn’t named Jonathan Coulton from view. There are some exceptions, but it is FAR from what I wanted.
Also, if you hear some stray clapping, yelling, noise making, or obnoxiousness, there was a man sitting to my left who was quite…..enthusiastic about the show. He kept making loud noises inappropriately, and tried to start hand claps where there were none. I won’t go into any more detail, but he did seem to be distracting the tables around him (Confused looks on the people at the table in front of him). Basically, anytime you hear anything on the video, assume it was him and not me. Cause it probably was him.
It really was a great night (and my first concert) and so I just wanna give a quick shoutout to Jonathan Coulton, Paul, Storm, John Hodgman, Kristen Shirts, the Uke Army, and the people at Duracell Batteries. JoCo, Paul, Storm, and Hodgman all talked to me far longer than they should have, so I’m grateful for that. Duracell batteries seemed to power the Tenori-On, if Joco used the same brand when his old batteries split open. MitchO, Jinx, Bry, and any other forumites who were at the show (I heard Jutze was there, and I heard a german man speaking to JoCo, but I was not aware of Jutze’s existence at the time.) Bry and Jinx weren’t repulsed by my JoCo fanboyism on the train, and MitchO talked to me at the show (sorry for missing you on the line. I didn’t even know you went up and down the line looking for forumers. I had sent my friend to see if we were even on the right line, and was distracted.) The crowd had so much energy and that gave me energy to have fun. Also, thanks to the people in this thread and on this forum, who made me finally use my Youtube account! You folks said you still wanted to see this concert, and I see some videos are still blank on the wiki, so um…..here they are.