Coulton'ed Out

[ffutures]

Just back from the London Jonathan Coulton gig, and somewhat surprised that I seem to be the first person on my flist blogging it since at least 20+ SF fans were there. Maybe because I live about 20 minuites from the club. It was a VERY good gig, with a lot of my faves including Code Monkey, Mandelbrot Set, Re: Your Brains, Skullcrusher Mountain, I Feel Fantastic and maybe fifteen other songs in two sessions of an hour or so. Someone else can probably give the complete list, all I'll say is that it is a VERY bad idea to scream "All we want to do is eat your brains" repeatedly when you have a sore throat and an oncoming cold.

Soup, then bed - tomorrow I'm off to the Orbital SF con, hopefully without infecting too many people there. There's allegedly WiFi there but I probably won't be posting much because rumour has it as VERY slow, and I do have other things to do at a con. Maybe see some of you there?

LATER Very weird. One of the songs JC sang was a version of "Baby Got Back", which I'm not sure I've ever heard before, and I gather is usually performed as a rap song. And when I just looked at my flist anachrotech had a post with another version, again not exactly rap...

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[dadiceguy.livejournal.com]

His "Baby Got Back Cover" is what got me listening to him. I love odd covers.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Baby Got Back is a hysterical rap song rhapsodizing about the female rump. It was also a clue I used in The Hunt, the scavenger hunt through the mail I ran last summer.



THe clue answer was (w)rapping, for the raven that was rapping on the chamber door in Poe's The Raven.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm glad you're on my flist, I found out about the show thanks to you and had a great time there. Also, coincidently, I saw you in the queue when I arrived and had to go all the way to back.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

About half of the London SF fan / LJ users were in that little cluster I was in - you should have stopped to get user names.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

I only recognised you because of your icon, and I did half think about stopping but, in very english fashion, I avoided it because I felt slightly awkward and embarrased doing so. My favourite part of the show was "re: your brains."

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a cool show. I keep forgetting to check out Coulton because I can't listen to audio at work (where I do most of my web surfing) but I gotta check out "Baby Got Back" while I'm home this weekend. If he does a version of "Who Let the Dogs Out" I'll fall out of my chair :)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's quite good. Don't think he ever recorded Who Let The Dogs Out.

You can hear everything he's recorded on http://www.jonathancoulton.com

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good time!

And hey, who needs a voice? I mean, compared to the chance to be a member of the zombie horde?

"Baby Got Back" is one of my favorites. The original is seriously lacking in listenability -- most rap songs have something other than spitting lyrics -- even though I get a kick out of the sensibility. Butts, good; hitting and cussing your girlfriend, loserish. What's not to like?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

it's coming back now - actually being blocked was handy yesterday, I was one of the contestants in the "last one thrown out of the spaceship" debate, in the role of Marvin the Paranoid Android, and being unable to breathe through my nose made it easy to do the voice. Went reasonably well - I was the last one to be thrown out, outlasting Prof. Cavor (The First Men in the Moon), Seven of Nine, and Spock. Unfortunately Rodney McKay somehow got more votes than me at the last round, and I had to go. My final words "Told you so - just as well I didn't tell them how to fix the spaceship."

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

I've spent a few hours at Coulton's site over the last couple of days. Great stuff!

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

I guess if Richard Hatch could win the first season of "Survivor," then Rodney McKay could be the last one in the spaceship :)