How long have you been listening to JoCo?
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How long have you been listening to our dearest Mr. Coulton, and where did you first hear about him?
Me: 3 years or so, that popular science article that quoted Ikea. “Norsemen” and “divorced men” — I still chuckle occasionally when I think of it.
About a year and a half or so. I first heard about him on a blog game someone was playing where they posted single lines of songs and people would guess the song in the comments section. One of them was "badass fucking fractal," from Mandelbrot Set. That amused me, so I ran a search and now I'm a fan.
Saw John Hodgman on the Daily Show promoting Areas Of My Expertise last year. I googled his name and came across the Little Gray Books Lectures, and downloaded the podcasts. That was how I heard of him.
Maybe a year ago, I can't really remember. But it was in the album he did for Popular Science. I loved Todd, and I ended up tracking down this website.
I was introduced to JoCo last Thanksgiving. I was at a group dinner, and the host pulled me to the computer because there was this song I had to hear. (Skullcrusher Mountain, of course!) It was all she wrote, after that.
A friend sent me a link to "Baby Got Back" several months ago. I downloaded the song and let some friends listen to it and it was always a big hit. Anyway, it had been on my computer with my wife and I listening to it a lot and I came back to look and see if I could find a CD with that song on it (we like to have legal copies of all our music). When I came back all the songs were organized and you could listen to them and buy them one at a time. So I spent a day at work listening to all the songs and bought quite a few…..
Uh, that was wordy.
I actually have, technically, listened to JoCo for almost a year now. About 9 months ago, I googled his name to figure out who he was. Before that, I found Little Gray Books while browsing the podcast library. And by the way, JoCo, you should contact Hodgman with his ultrabusy life (Doesn't he work at the Daily Show?) and podcast more Lectures. They are pretty cool, and just passed the 9 month "not updated" mark.
A few years ago, someone posted a link to “Ikea” in the comments on some blog…I played the song over and over again while my husband and I assembled our new Ikea kitchen (60-some flatpack boxes!). The kitchen came out great, but I don’t ever want to see another Ikea assembly-instruction sheet as long as I live.
Since then, I have enjoyed all of his other music, but the path to Jonathan Coulton was indeed paved with thousands of tiny proprietary hex wrenches.
I first heard Jonathan on the Delta Park project about 4 months ago, when I heard Ikea. I then checked out his site, but never really found out anything more about him. Then they kept playing his stuff on DPP, and after I heard "Take Care Of Me" (I know, really recent), I decided to get into his music really bad, and get all his "Thing a Week's".
I love the way I can just slip into a conversation "…so I found this song about Furry Lobsters, by the way."
My friend sent me "Baby Got Back" and "A Laptop Like You" last week and I enjoyed them. I then listened to "Scullcrusher Mountain" and was hooked. I purchased all the songs I could through itunes and got some from JoCo's website and have thoroughly enjoyed them so far.
I'm a newbie–just a couple months. I found him on CD Baby in the Quirky Pop section. "Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow" was in the $5 bin, and I couldn't resist anyone who had a song called Mandelbrot Set. I loved the CD from the first second. That was the best 5 bucks I've ever spent!!
Around the same time I saw John Hodgman on the Daily Show for the first time. He made me laugh my ass off. Then a few weeks later I went to his website and realized JoCo did the music for his Little Gray Books series. How weird is this world, that I came across these 2 within just a few weeks of each other, with no idea they were connected?
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