Complete World Knowledge, etc.
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Hey, Jonathan (and fellow JoCo fans)!
I had the privilege of seeing you in Philly at the 215 Festival (I was the girl in the pirate shirt with the niftty little black scrapbook/notebook/sketchbook thing who briefly stole David's chair), and I have a question. I imagine it's probably been asked before, but I wasn't able to find the answer on your website or on this forum.
Have you made recordings of any of the songs you played that night (John Hodgman's theme song and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain"), and if so, are they available online? (Either to purchase or for free, s'all good. I'll be making a donation anyway!) Or are they secret must-attend-an-actual-event Easter Egg-type songs? They've been stuck in my head for the past few days, and I'd like to have a better-quality recording than the one I may have illicitly taped at the show. *grins*
(And if you have the "Winning Essay" song from The Daily Show about cobras being dropped from airplanes anywhere, that would be awesome.)
In great appreciation of your enormous talent and genius,
PriscillaA John Hodgman Theme song? Wow, I sure want that! I don't care if it's not 'fully produced', that'd be awesome.
Mike, the version I recorded can be found at: http://www.theninemuses.net/junk/hodgmantheme.mp3
Enjoy!
The Cobras song, in audio and video formats, can be downloaded here:
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.mp3
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.aviI founded this version of Big Rock Candy Moutain:
[audio src="http://www.powells.com/mp3/bookcast/5/bookcast_5_bigrock.mp3" /]
I've always loved the theme to the PopSci podcasts, but at the end of it, JC always talks over the end notes of the song, making it impossible to just cut off the talking in the podcast and keep the cool theme as an .mp3. So, I spent hours one night trying to splice the end of the podcast (where the theme is allowed to fade to an end) to the end of the beginning part (if that makes any sense), and I now have a full .mp3 of the PopSci Podcast From The Moon. I never posted it because I didn't know if PoPSci owned it or anything, but if JC says it's cool, I can post it along with the .mp3s of the PopSci Second Life concert. Although, if JC says it's OK, he can probably just post his original recording of the theme song, I guess…
The end part of the Hodgman theme ("holding a key, which fits in a lock… feeding your brain with information") is from JC's theme for the Little Gray Books lecture series they did a while back. Last time I checked, some of those were still available on iTunes as podcasts, and you can probably get chop out the theme from there. I'll take a look myself and see if I can get anything good from it.
I've taken Gle3nn's excellent videos of JC playing live at the Temple Bar in Santa Monica and extracted the audio to make .mp3s of the gig. I posted them on the same page I posted the Second Life concert .mp3s:
http://www.spiffworld.com/unplugged
I also put up two other .mp3s I edited from other sources — the theme JC played at the beginning of the Little Gray Books podcast (no idea what the song's actually called, so I called it "Sweet Information!"), and the theme song he sings at the beginning of the PopSci podcasts (from the moon).
Enjoy!
My roomate and I were just talking about this yesterday! We would both pay money for a "good" version of the Hodgman theme (although your bootlegs are sufficing for now, thanks, Priscellie and Spiff!) The song also apparently appears in the audiobook of "The Areas of My Expertise;" you can hear part of it in the iTunes preview. Maybe I'll just buy the audiobook (plus then I get Hodgman reading the whole beautiful book) and make a donation to Coulton in order to, to paraphrase those great Swedish philosophers, ABBA, thank him for the music.
Wow, you guys have been busy with the bootlegging. I guess I have a few tiny snippets of things I could put up on the site – popsci stuff and hodgman stuff. I'll add it to my to do list…
I say we could do a tribute-a-week.
I'd attempt something but my soundcard no longer accepts input. It's just not talking to me anymore.. well, it's talking to me, it's just not -listening- to me anymore. Frickin' technology.Here's the thing though, if JC got someone with a video camera to make a good-quality video of one of his concerts, I'm sure people would buy it on his site. We only bootleg because we love.
I know I would. A good quality video would be great.
It doesn't have to be an actually real concert if a more controlled envioroment will be easier to get a high quality recording.
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