https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Agent+Lex&feedformat=atomJoCopedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T13:35:41ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.34.4https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Talk:Monkey_Shines_(TV_show)&diff=8595Talk:Monkey Shines (TV show)2008-12-13T11:59:22Z<p>Agent Lex: New page: Okay, so I just made another page for the actual ''song details'' of this one. And changed most corresponding links to go there. Still wondering if this page should stick around though. I ...</p>
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<div>Okay, so I just made another page for the actual ''song details'' of this one. And changed most corresponding links to go there. Still wondering if this page should stick around though. I enjoy the humour, but think it's kinda unnecessary. Especially since it obliterated the useful information I had to go recover. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 06:59, 13 December 2008 (EST)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Template:FuNav&diff=8594Template:FuNav2008-12-13T11:58:11Z<p>Agent Lex: Why yes, I am removing all links to that other Monkey Shines article...</p>
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<div>{| align="center" style="border:1px solid gray"<br />
| align="center" | <small>'''[[Masters of Song Fu]]'''</small><br />
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| <small><i>1. [[Monkey Shines (song)|Monkey Shines]] - 2. [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] - 3. [[Space Doggity]] - 4. [[Always the Moon]]</i></small><br />
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|}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Template:Aftermathnav&diff=8593Template:Aftermathnav2008-12-13T11:57:33Z<p>Agent Lex: </p>
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<div>{| align="center" style="border:1px solid gray"<br />
| align="center" | <small>'''[[The Aftermath]]'''</small><br />
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| <small><i>1. [[Octopus]] - 2. [[Re Vos Cerveaux]] - 3. [[My Beige Bear]] - 4. [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]] - 5. [[Washy Ad Jeffy]] - 6. [[Monkey Shines (song)|Monkey Shines]] - 7. [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] - 8. [[Space Doggity]]- 9. [[Always the Moon]]</i></small><br />
|-<br />
|}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=The_Aftermath&diff=8592The Aftermath2008-12-13T11:56:58Z<p>Agent Lex: </p>
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<div>{{AlbumDetails<br />
|img=<br />
|artist=Jonathan Coulton<br />
|tracks=9 (to date)<br />
|release=none<br />
|albumlink=}}<br />
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===Track Listing===<br />
# [[Octopus]]<br />
# [[Re Vos Cerveaux]]<br />
# [[My Beige Bear]]<br />
# [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]]<br />
# [[Washy Ad Jeffy]]<br />
# [[Monkey Shines (song)|Monkey Shines]] *<br />
# [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] *<br />
# [[Space Doggity]] *<br />
# [[Always the Moon]] *<br />
<br />
(* Indicates these tracks were originally from the [[Masters of Song Fu]] collection, but are also added to The Aftermath.)<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
The Aftermath is currently still being recorded. [[JoCo]] has been releasing tracks to his website as they are completed. In addition, some of the first tracks have been streamed live as part of the [[JoCo in a Bubble]] project.<br />
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===Availability===<br />
The individual tracks are available on the website, but as the album is not completed, there is no CD available.</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Discography&diff=8591Discography2008-12-13T11:56:39Z<p>Agent Lex: /* The Aftermath */</p>
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<div>=Albums=<br />
<br />
==Thing a Week==<br />
===[[Thing a Week One|Thing a Week One]] ===<br />
(released August 31, 2006)<br />
# [[See You All in Hell]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[W's Duty]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]] (Sir Mix-a-Lot cover)<br />
# [[Someone Is Crazy]]<br />
# [[Brand New Sucker]]<br />
# [[Sibling Rivalry]]<br />
# [[The Town Crotch]]<br />
# [[When I'm 25 or 64]]<br />
# [[Podsafe Christmas Song]]<br />
# [[Furry Old Lobster]]<br />
# [[Drive]]<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Two|Thing a Week Two]] ===<br />
(released November 2, 2006)<br />
# [[Flickr]]<br />
# [[Resolutions]]<br />
# [[You Could Be Her]]<br />
# [[I Will]] (Beatles cover)<br />
# [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance]]<br />
# [[So Far So Good]]<br />
# [[Curl]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[Take Care of Me]]<br />
# [[A Talk with George]]<br />
# [[Don't Talk to Strangers]] (Rick Springfield cover)<br />
# [[Stroller Town]]<br />
# [[Re: Your Brains]] (spelled "Re Your Brains" on album cover)<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Three|Thing a Week Three]] ===<br />
(released December 15, 2006)<br />
# [[Madelaine]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[The Presidents]]<br />
# [[Just as Long as Me]]<br />
# [[Till the Money Comes]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Famous Blue Raincoat]] (Leonard Cohen cover)<br />
# [[Soft Rocked By Me]]<br />
# [[Not About You]]<br />
# [[Rock and Roll Boy]]<br />
# [[Drinking With You]]<br />
# [[Pizza Day]]<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Four|Thing a Week Four]] ===<br />
(released December 15, 2006)<br />
# [[SkyMall]]<br />
# [[Seahorse]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Under the Pines]]<br />
# [[Big Bad World One]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[The Big Boom]]<br />
# [[Make You Cry]]<br />
# [[Pull the String]]<br />
# [[Summer's Over]]<br />
# [[We Will Rock You]] (Queen cover)<br />
# [[We Are the Champions]] (Queen cover)<br />
<br />
==[[Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms|Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms]] ==<br />
(released August 2005)<br />
# [[That Spells DNA]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Womb with a View]]<br />
# [[Todd the T1000]]<br />
# [[Better]]<br />
<br />
==[[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]] ==<br />
(released October 1, 2004)<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[Betty and Me]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
<br />
==[[Smoking Monkey|Smoking Monkey]] ==<br />
(released November 5, 2003)<br />
# [[I'm Having a Party]]<br />
# [[Bozo's Lament]]<br />
# [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Hate California]]<br />
# [[Christmas Is Interesting]]<br />
# [[Over There]]<br />
# [[Millionaire Girlfriend]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[De-Evolving]]<br />
# [[I'm a Mason Now]]<br />
# [[Overhead]]<br />
<br />
== Compilations ==<br />
===[[JoCo Looks Back]]===<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[A Talk With George]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[Re: Your Brains]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
<br />
=Non-Album Tracks=<br />
<br />
==[[The Aftermath]]==<br />
# [[Octopus]]<br />
# [[Re Vos Cerveaux]]<br />
# [[My Beige Bear]]<br />
# [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]]<br />
# [[Washy Ad Jeffy]]<br />
# [[Monkey Shines (song)|Monkey Shines]] *<br />
# [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] *<br />
# [[Space Doggity]] *<br />
# [[Always the Moon]] *<br />
<br />
(* Indicates these tracks were originally from the [[Masters of Song Fu]] collection, but are also added to The Aftermath.)<br />
<br />
==[[Songs from Ze Frank's "The Show"]]==<br />
(all songs are [[wikipedia:Ze_Frank|Ze Frank]] covers)<br />
# [[Fun Winter]]<br />
# [[Giant Baby]]<br />
# [[Hindsight]]<br />
# [[Sandwich]]<br />
# [[Stay the Same]]<br />
# [[Ugly]]<br />
# [[Walnuts]]<br />
# [[Work this Thing]]<br />
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==[[Other Experiments]]==<br />
# [[Screwed (demo)]]<br />
# [[Bills, Bills, Bills]] (Destiny's Child cover)<br />
# [[A Laptop Like You (demo)]]<br />
# [[Bacteria]]<br />
# [[Brookline (demo)]]<br />
# [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (demo)]]<br />
# [[Beds Hurt My Booty]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything (demo)]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain (demo)]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon (demo)]]<br />
# [[Gambler's Prayer (demo)]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set (demo)]]<br />
# [[Camp Bachelor Alma Mater]]<br />
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==Live Cover Versions==<br />
* [[Birdhouse in Your Soul]] (Originally recorded by They Might Be Giants)<br />
* [[Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft]] (Originally recorded by Klaatu. From Little Gray Book lectures. Available from JMonkee's downloads)<br />
* [[Do They Know It's Christmas]] (Originally recorded by Band Aid)<br />
* [[Free Bird]] (Originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd)<br />
* [[I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry]] (Originally recorded by Hank Williams. with Elizabeth Gilbert, from Little Gray Book lectures. Available from JMonkee's downloads)<br />
* [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] (Originally recorded by Rick Astley)<br />
* [[Rainbow Connection]] (originally recorded by Kermit the Frog. From Little Gray Book lectures. Available from [[awryone]]'s [http://homepage.mac.com/awryone/FileSharing4.html downloads])<br />
* [[The Saturday Boy]] (Originally recorded by Billy Bragg)<br />
* [[Slip Slidin' Away]] (Originally recorded by Paul Simon)<br />
* [[Sweet Caroline]] (Originally recorded by Neil Diamond)<br />
* [[Welcome to the Machine]] (Originally recorded by Pink Floyd)<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
*[[Battle of Galactica]]<br />
*[[Big Rock Candy Mountain]]<br />
*[[Cobras]] <br />
*[[Not This One]] (played at PAX 2008)<br />
*[[One More Score]] (with Adam Stein, from Little Gray Book lectures. Available from [[awryone]]'s downloads.)<br />
*[[PopSci Podcast From The Moon]]<br />
*[[Social History Theme]]<br />
*[[Still Alive]]<br />
*[[Sweet Information]]<br />
*[[You Oughta Know]] (Originally recorded by Alanis Morissette)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Monkey_Shines&diff=8590Monkey Shines2008-12-13T11:55:56Z<p>Agent Lex: Version of Monkey Shines that existed before it was taken over by anonymous IP address</p>
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=Jonathan_placeholder.jpg<br />
|albumname=The Aftermath<br />
|length= 0:51<br />
|release=2008-05-29<br />
|songlink=Monkey+Shines<br />
|bloglink=2008/05/29/song-fu-challenge-1/<br />
}}<br />
"'''Monkey Shines'''" is [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s entry to the Round 1 Challenge of the song writing competition, [[Masters of Song Fu]]. <br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
The Round 1 Challenge was announced on May 20, 2008. The challenge was:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>'''You must do a song in the style of a classic television show'''. Not only that, but this song is the theme for a fictional television show about yourself (or your band). By "classic television show" theme song, we mean the type of themes found in shows from the 1960's - 1980's (ie ''Gilligan's Island'', ''Cheers'', ''The Fall Guy'', ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''Welcome Back Kotter'', ''Greatest American Hero'', ''Happy Days'', ''Laverne & Shirley'', ''The Facts Of Life'', ''Green Acres'', ''Gimme A Break'', ''The Monkees'', etc.). Your theme song '''must include both lyrics and music. It must run no shorter than 30 seconds, and no longer than one (1) minute'''.</blockquote><br />
<br />
Jonathan included the pitch for his "show" in announcing the song on [[joco:2008/05/29/song-fu-challenge-1/|his blog]]:<br />
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<blockquote>I am a stuffy, middle aged bachelor with an enormous inheritance. The monkey is a charming but unpredictable rake, who is also a master thief. In the pilot episode he is arrested while trying to steal my collection of jewels. He charms the judge, who much to my dismay orders that as a condition of his probation, the monkey must become my butler. Hilarity ensues as we try to live together, each of us coming to learn and appreciate the other's perspective on life.</blockquote><br />
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== Availability ==<br />
The MP3 is free to download from the [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2008/05/29/masters-of-song-fu-round-1-challenge-voting-begins/ Quick Stop Entertainment site] and is also available for purchase at the [[joco:songdetails/Monkey+Shines|store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Money]]<br />
* [[Monkeys]]<br />
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{{FuNav}}<br />
{{Aftermathnav}}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Monkey_Shines_(TV_show)&diff=8589Monkey Shines (TV show)2008-12-13T11:54:37Z<p>Agent Lex: Oh yeah, and bringing back a link to an actual song page</p>
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<div>''This page is about the fictional TV show. If you are looking for the song, try [[Monkey Shines (song)]]''<br />
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'''''Monkey Shines''''' is an American TV series that aired for one day in 1985 on ABC. It premiered as a 46-minute pilot at 8 A.M. and was cancelled during the first commercial break. Jonathan Coulton starred as well as writing and directing the pilot episode. Since its cancellation in the first 30-minutes, the show has achieved cult status, best-known for the fact that no one knows anything about it. Numerous myths about the show circulate the web, although few have ever been substantiated. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Premise== <br />
The series features Coulton as a middle-aged bachelor named Jonathan Crouton with an enormous inheritance. The monkey is a charming but unpredictable rake, who is also a master thief. In the pilot episode he is arrested while trying to steal Crouton's collection of jewels. He charms the judge, who, much to Crouton's dismay, orders that as a condition of his probation, the monkey must become his butler. They try to live together, each of them coming to learn and appreciate the other's perspective on life.<br />
<br />
==Cast==<br />
Although the show ultimately failed, the four cast-members who starred in the pilot have gone on to greater success elsewhere. They were:<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Coulton]],<br />
Greg DiCostanzo,<br />
Paul Sabourin,<br />
[[Neil Gaiman]]<br />
<br />
The most notable of these is, of course, Gaiman, who was little-known at the time and struggling to make money, but who went on the achieve worldwide acclaim for his comics, novels, and films. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Theme Song==<br />
The show's theme song, called "Monkey Shines (Wherever You Go)", was also written by Coulton and was a short-lived hit the year the show was cancelled. There were plans to release a full album of monkey-themed songs, but these plans were abandoned after the show failed.<br />
<br />
==Intro==<br />
In early 2008, in a sub-basement of the Yale University anthropological studies department, researchers unearthed a Betacam master video recording of the pilot episode opening credits. (Unfortunately, the remainder of the episode was apparently recorded over with footage of the [[Yale Whiffenpoofs]] "1991 Holiday Jamboree Singabration") To date, this remains the only authenticated footage from "Monkey Shines". (Reclusive star Coulton has not returned repeated requests for comment) The intro has been put on Youtube and the studio has so far made no effort to have it taken down. It can be seen here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uFsUg83cQAs<br />
<br />
<br />
==Cult Rumours==<br />
In the late 1990's, with the tool of the internet, rumours of '''''Monkey Shines''''' began to circulate, as well as speculation as to why the show was cancelled and why its existence is consistantly denied. It has been purged to the point that the then-CEO of ABC Grant Tinker had the show's IMDB entry deleted, it was shortly after this show that he left ABC to work entirely with NBC, where he'd been working in some capacity since 1981. Upon leaving he cited creative differences, saying that he'd had another vision for the show and that it wasn't up to his quality. "First be best, then be first," [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDC153CF936A35757C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all] he famously said, a quote which was later inscribed onto a bronze cup that he kept on his desk. The only information the IMDB page contained was the title, release date, and list of four cast members. However, speculation abounds, with many of the rumours gaining the status of 'fact' until being supplanted by others a few months later. <br />
<br />
===Animal Cruelty===<br />
One assertion that was believed for a time was that the ASPCA was launching an investigation into the production of '''''Monkey Shines''''' and filed a complaint that was processed as the show was airing. Although the report filed was never found (the main reason why this story is considered spurious) it was said to contain details on cruel housing conditions for the monkey as well as describing how the monkey was used gratuitously, being made to perform in shots when the stuffed monkey double would have sufficed. <br />
<br />
===Neil's Hand===<br />
Although this theory maintained that Grant Tinker had the show cancelled, it deviated from the theory that it was he, too, who had the show buried and asserts that it was Neil Gaiman who, after his rise to fame, had the show purged from the internet and had all copies destroyed. This rumour was eventually dispelled when Gaiman himself said that the fact the show had vanished was, "Great loss to the world of entertainment." [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/monkey-shines.html]<br />
<br />
==Episode List==<br />
The show, although cancelled, actually shot and edited 12 episodes that have, up until this time, been unavailable. Here are the names of the episodes.<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #000: PILOT'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #001: Hiding The Bacon'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #002: Gimme Some Oven'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #003: A Threesome, A Monkey And A Whole Lot of Ripple'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #004: What's That Baby Using?'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #005: A Very Special Monkey Shines'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #006: Christmas With A Simian'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #007: The Monkey's Pride Parade'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #008: Take Your Stinkin' Paws Off Me!'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #009: A Visit To The Old Country'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #010: The Very Best of Monkey Shines (Clip Show)'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #011: It's A Jungle In Here!!'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/monkey-shines.html ''Monkey Shines'' at Neilgaiman.com]</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Monkey_Shines_(TV_show)&diff=8588Monkey Shines (TV show)2008-12-13T11:53:02Z<p>Agent Lex: This isn't wikipedia. Vastly toning down the number of needless redlinks. Or should I add a bunch of [citation needed]'s?</p>
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<div>'''''Monkey Shines''''' is an American TV series that aired for one day in 1985 on ABC. It premiered as a 46-minute pilot at 8 A.M. and was cancelled during the first commercial break. Jonathan Coulton starred as well as writing and directing the pilot episode. Since its cancellation in the first 30-minutes, the show has achieved cult status, best-known for the fact that no one knows anything about it. Numerous myths about the show circulate the web, although few have ever been substantiated. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Premise== <br />
The series features Coulton as a middle-aged bachelor named Jonathan Crouton with an enormous inheritance. The monkey is a charming but unpredictable rake, who is also a master thief. In the pilot episode he is arrested while trying to steal Crouton's collection of jewels. He charms the judge, who, much to Crouton's dismay, orders that as a condition of his probation, the monkey must become his butler. They try to live together, each of them coming to learn and appreciate the other's perspective on life.<br />
<br />
==Cast==<br />
Although the show ultimately failed, the four cast-members who starred in the pilot have gone on to greater success elsewhere. They were:<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Coulton]],<br />
Greg DiCostanzo,<br />
Paul Sabourin,<br />
[[Neil Gaiman]]<br />
<br />
The most notable of these is, of course, Gaiman, who was little-known at the time and struggling to make money, but who went on the achieve worldwide acclaim for his comics, novels, and films. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Theme Song==<br />
The show's theme song, called "Monkey Shines (Wherever You Go)", was also written by Coulton and was a short-lived hit the year the show was cancelled. There were plans to release a full album of monkey-themed songs, but these plans were abandoned after the show failed.<br />
<br />
==Intro==<br />
In early 2008, in a sub-basement of the Yale University anthropological studies department, researchers unearthed a Betacam master video recording of the pilot episode opening credits. (Unfortunately, the remainder of the episode was apparently recorded over with footage of the [[Yale Whiffenpoofs]] "1991 Holiday Jamboree Singabration") To date, this remains the only authenticated footage from "Monkey Shines". (Reclusive star Coulton has not returned repeated requests for comment) The intro has been put on Youtube and the studio has so far made no effort to have it taken down. It can be seen here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uFsUg83cQAs<br />
<br />
<br />
==Cult Rumours==<br />
In the late 1990's, with the tool of the internet, rumours of '''''Monkey Shines''''' began to circulate, as well as speculation as to why the show was cancelled and why its existence is consistantly denied. It has been purged to the point that the then-CEO of ABC Grant Tinker had the show's IMDB entry deleted, it was shortly after this show that he left ABC to work entirely with NBC, where he'd been working in some capacity since 1981. Upon leaving he cited creative differences, saying that he'd had another vision for the show and that it wasn't up to his quality. "First be best, then be first," [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDC153CF936A35757C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all] he famously said, a quote which was later inscribed onto a bronze cup that he kept on his desk. The only information the IMDB page contained was the title, release date, and list of four cast members. However, speculation abounds, with many of the rumours gaining the status of 'fact' until being supplanted by others a few months later. <br />
<br />
===Animal Cruelty===<br />
One assertion that was believed for a time was that the ASPCA was launching an investigation into the production of '''''Monkey Shines''''' and filed a complaint that was processed as the show was airing. Although the report filed was never found (the main reason why this story is considered spurious) it was said to contain details on cruel housing conditions for the monkey as well as describing how the monkey was used gratuitously, being made to perform in shots when the stuffed monkey double would have sufficed. <br />
<br />
===Neil's Hand===<br />
Although this theory maintained that Grant Tinker had the show cancelled, it deviated from the theory that it was he, too, who had the show buried and asserts that it was Neil Gaiman who, after his rise to fame, had the show purged from the internet and had all copies destroyed. This rumour was eventually dispelled when Gaiman himself said that the fact the show had vanished was, "Great loss to the world of entertainment." [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/monkey-shines.html]<br />
<br />
==Episode List==<br />
The show, although cancelled, actually shot and edited 12 episodes that have, up until this time, been unavailable. Here are the names of the episodes.<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #000: PILOT'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #001: Hiding The Bacon'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #002: Gimme Some Oven'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #003: A Threesome, A Monkey And A Whole Lot of Ripple'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #004: What's That Baby Using?'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #005: A Very Special Monkey Shines'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #006: Christmas With A Simian'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #007: The Monkey's Pride Parade'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #008: Take Your Stinkin' Paws Off Me!'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #009: A Visit To The Old Country'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #010: The Very Best of Monkey Shines (Clip Show)'''<br />
<br />
'''EPISODE #011: It's A Jungle In Here!!'''<br />
<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/monkey-shines.html ''Monkey Shines'' at Neilgaiman.com]</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle/NS102:December_14&diff=8574Special:Badtitle/NS102:December 142008-12-10T15:19:42Z<p>Agent Lex: </p>
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<div>|General: [[Monkeys|Monkey]] [[Wikipedia:Monkey_Day|Day]].<br />
|-<br />
|1799: [[The Presidents|George Washington]] [[Wikipedia:George_Washington|died]].<br />
|-<br />
|2005: [[Wikipedia:King_Kong_(2005_film)|US release of the Peter Jackson remake]] of [[De-Evolving|"King Kong"]].</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=This_Day_in_JoCo&diff=8573This Day in JoCo2008-12-10T15:18:47Z<p>Agent Lex: /* December */</p>
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This page is a compilation of dates, not necessarily important dates, with [[Jonathan Coulton|JoCo]] relevance. (If the relevance to JoCo is not obvious, please provide a link!) See also the [[shows calendar]] for a more chronological version of JoCo shows.<br />
== January ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:January_1|January 01]], 1970: Beginning of the [[A Laptop Like You (demo)|Unix]] [[Wikipedia:Unix_time|Epoch]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_3|January 03]], 1977: [[A Laptop Like You (demo)|Apple Computer]] [[Wikipedia:Apple_Inc.|incorporated]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_5|January 05]], 1933: [[The Presidents|Calvin Coolidge]] [[Wikipedia:Calvin_Coolidge|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_6|January 06]], 1918: [[Mandelbrot Set|Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor]] [[Wikipedia:Georg_Cantor|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_6|January 06]], 1919: [[The Presidents|Theodore Roosevelt]] [[Wikipedia:Theodore_Roosevelt|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_6|January 06]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #16, [[You Could Be Her]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_7|January 07]], 1800: [[The Presidents|Millard Fillmore]] [[Wikipedia:Millard_Fillmore|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_7|January 07]], 1844: [[Screwed (demo)|Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (Bernadette)]] [[Wikipedia:Bernadette_Soubirous|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_7|January 07]], 2003: [[A Laptop Like You (demo)|Aluminum PowerBook G4]] [[Wikipedia:PowerBook_G4|announced]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_8|January 08]], 1815: US forces, unaware that the War of 1812 had ended in the Treaty of Ghent two weeks earlier, [[The Presidents|defeat Britain]] in the [[Wikipedia:Battle_of_New_Orleans|Battle of New Orleans]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_9|January 09]], 1913: [[The Presidents|Richard Nixon]] [[Wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_17|January 17]], 1893: [[The Presidents|Rutherford B. Hayes]] [[Wikipedia:Rutherford_B._Hayes|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_17|January 17]], 1991: [[The Presidents|"Operation Desert Storm"]] [[Wikipedia:Gulf_War|begins]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_18|January 18]], 1854: [[Screwed (demo)|Thomas A. Watson]] [[Wikipedia:Thomas_A._Watson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_18|January 18]], 1862: [[The Presidents|John Tyler]] [[Wikipedia:John_Tyler|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1953: [[Wikipedia:Dwight_D._Eisenhower|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Dwight D. Eisenhower]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1961: [[Wikipedia:John_F._Kennedy|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|John F. Kennedy]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1969: [[Wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Richard Nixon]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1977: [[Wikipedia:Jimmy_Carter|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James "Jimmy" Carter]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1981: [[Wikipedia:Ronald_Reagan|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Ronald Reagan]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1989: [[Wikipedia:George_H._W._Bush|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|George H. W. Bush]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 1993: [[Wikipedia:Bill_Clinton|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|William "Bill" Clinton]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 2001: [[Wikipedia:George_W._Bush|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|George W. "Dubya" Bush]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_20|January 20]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #17, [[I Will]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_22|January 22]], 1973: [[The Presidents|Lyndon B. Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_24|January 24]], 1941: [[Sweet Caroline|Neil Diamond]] [[Wikipedia:Neil_Diamond|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_25|January 25]], 1870: [[Mandelbrot Set|Niels Fabian Helge von Koch]] [[Wikipedia:Helge_von_Koch|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_27|January 27]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #18, [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_29|January 29]], 1843: [[The Presidents|William McKinley]] [[Wikipedia:William_McKinley|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:January_30|January 30]], 1882: [[The Presidents|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] [[Wikipedia:Franklin_D._Roosevelt|born]].<br />
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== February ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:February_2|February 02]], 1848: [[Wikipedia:Mexican-American_War|Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] signed, marking the end of the [[The Presidents|Mexican-American War]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_3|February 03]], 1924: [[The Presidents|Woodrow Wilson]] [[Wikipedia:Woodrow_Wilson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_3|February 03]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #19, [[So Far So Good]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_4|February 04]], 1992: [[Baby Got Back|Sir Mix-A-Lot]]'s [[Wikipedia:Mack_Daddy|"Mack Daddy"]] album released.<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_6|February 06]], 1911: [[The Presidents|Ronald Reagan]] [[Wikipedia:Ronald_Reagan|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_7|February 07]], 1812: [[Christmas Is Interesting|Charles Dickens]] [[Wikipedia:Charles_Dickens|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_9|February 09]], 1773: [[The Presidents|William Henry Harrison]] [[Wikipedia:William_Henry_Harrison|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_10|February 10]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #20, [[Curl]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_11|February 11]], 1858: [[Screwed (demo)|Marie-Bernade Soubirous (Bernadette)]] had the first of her [[Wikipedia:Bernadette_Soubirous|visions]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_12|February 12]], 1809: [[De-Evolving|Charles Darwin]] [[Wikipedia:Charles_Darwin|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_12|February 12]], 1809: [[The Presidents|Abraham Lincoln]] [[Wikipedia:Abraham_Lincoln|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_12|February 12]], 2008: [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]] released<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_13|February 13]], 2006: [[Curl|The 2006 US Olympic curling team]] [[Wikipedia:Curling_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics|plays its first game]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_13|February 13]], 2008: Betty "Lady" Aberlin [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/02/12/new-song-lady-aberlins-muumuu/#comment-175915 comments on JoCo's blog]<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_14|February 14]], 1876: [[Screwed (demo)|Alexander Graham Bell]]'s lawyer [[Wikipedia:Alexander_Graham_Bell|files a patent application for the telephone]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_17|February 17]], 1876: [[Wikipedia:Alexander_Graham_Bell|Bell]] [[Screwed (demo)|calls]] [[Wikipedia:Thomas_A._Watson|Watson]]: "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_17|February 17]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #21, [[Chiron Beta Prime]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_18|February 18]], 1930: [[I'm Your Moon|Pluto]] [[Wikipedia:Pluto|discovered]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_20|February 20]], 2004: [[Flickr]] [http://www.ludicorp.com/news_item_display.php?id=36 launched by Ludicorp].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_20|February 20]], 2005: [[A Talk with George|Hunter S. Thompson]] [[Wikipedia:Hunter_S._Thompson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_21|February 21]], 2007: [[Los Angeles, CA: 2007-02-21|LA show]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_22|February 22]], 1732: [[The Presidents|George Washington]] [[Wikipedia:George_Washington|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_22|February 22]], 2006: US Men's [[Curl|Curling]] team [[Wikipedia:Curling_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics#Semi-finals_-_Wednesday.2C_February_22.2C_1900|loses Olympic semifinal]] to Canada<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_22|February 22]], 2008: [[San Francisco, CA: 2008-02-22|San Francisco DVD show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_23|February 23]], 1847: [[The Presidents|Zachary Taylor]] leads US Army forces in the [[Wikipedia:Battle_of_Buena_Vista|Battle of Buena Vista]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_23|February 23]], 1848: [[The Presidents|John Quincy Adams]] [[Wikipedia:John_Quincy_Adams|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_23|February 23]], 2006: US Men's [[Curl|Curling]] team [[Wikipedia:Curling_at_the_2006_Winter_Olympics#Bronze_medal_game_-_Friday.2C_February_24.2C_1300|wins Olympic bronze medal game]] over the United Kingdom<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_24|February 24]], 1868: [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|impeached]] by the House of Representatives.<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_24|February 24]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #22, [[Take Care of Me]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:February_24|February 24]], 2007: [[Seattle, WA: 2007-02-24|Seattle show]]<br />
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== March ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:March_1|March 01]], 1845: Joint Resolution for [[The Presidents|Annexing]] [[Wikipedia:Texas|Texas]] passed by Congress.<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_3|March 03]], 1845: [[Mandelbrot Set|Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor]] [[Wikipedia:Georg_Cantor|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_3|March 03]], 1847: [[Screwed (demo)|Alexander Graham Bell]] [[Wikipedia:Alexander_Graham_Bell|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_3|March 03]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #23, [[A Talk with George]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1797: [[Wikipedia:John_Adams|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|John Adams]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1801: [[Wikipedia:Thomas_Jefferson|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Thomas Jefferson]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1809: [[Wikipedia:James_Madison|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James Madison]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1817: [[Wikipedia:James_Monroe|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James Monroe]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1825: [[Wikipedia:John_Quincy_Adams|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|John Quincy Adams]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1829: [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Jackson|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Andrew Jackson]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1837: [[Wikipedia:Martin_Van_Buren|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Martin Van Buren]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1841: [[Wikipedia:William_Henry_Harrison|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|William Henry Harrison]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1845: [[Wikipedia:James_K._Polk|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James K. Polk]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1849: [[Wikipedia:Zachary_Taylor|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Zachary Taylor]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1853: [[Wikipedia:Franklin_Pierce|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Franklin Pierce]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1857: [[Wikipedia:James_Buchanan|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James Buchanan]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1858: [[The Presidents|Commodore Matthew Perry]] [[Wikipedia:Matthew__C._Perry|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1861: [[Wikipedia:Abraham_Lincoln|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Abraham Lincoln]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1869: [[Wikipedia:Ulysses_S._Grant|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Ulysses S. Grant]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1877: [[Wikipedia:Rutherford_B._Hayes|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Rutherford B. Hayes]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1881: [[Wikipedia:James_A._Garfield|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|James A. Garfield]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1885: [[Wikipedia:Grover_Cleveland|First inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Grover Cleveland]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1889: [[Wikipedia:Benjamin_Harrison|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Benjamin Harrison]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1893: [[Wikipedia:Grover_Cleveland|Second inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Grover Cleveland]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1897: [[Wikipedia:William_McKinley|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|William McKinley]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1909: [[Wikipedia:Theodore_Roosevelt|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|William Howard Taft]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1913: [[Wikipedia:Woodrow_Wilson|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Woodrow Wilson]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1921: [[Wikipedia:Warren_G._Harding|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Warren G. Harding]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1929: [[Wikipedia:Herbert_Hoover|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Herbert Hoover]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_4|March 04]], 1933: [[Wikipedia:Franklin_D._Roosevelt|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_7|March 07]], 2008: [[Alexandria, VA: 2008-03-07|Alexandria show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_8|March 08]], 1874: [[The Presidents|Millard Fillmore]] [[Wikipedia:Millard_Fillmore|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_8|March 08]], 1930: [[The Presidents|William Howard Taft]] [[Wikipedia:William_Howard_Taft|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_8|March 08]], 2008: [[Austin, TX: 2008-03-08|Austin show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_10|March 10]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #24, [[Don't Talk to Strangers]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_11|March 11]], 1924: [[Mandelbrot Set|Niels Fabian Helge von Koch]] [[Wikipedia:Helge_von_Koch|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_13|March 13]], 1901: [[The Presidents|Benjamin Harrison]] [[Wikipedia:Benjamin_Harrison|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_14|March 14]], 1882: [[Mandelbrot_Set|Wac&#x0142;aw Franciszek Sierpi&#x0144;ski]] [[Wikipedia:Wac%C5%82aw_Sierpi%C5%84ski|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_15|March 15]], 1767: [[The Presidents|Andrew Jackson]] [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Jackson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_16|March 16]], 1751: [[The Presidents|James Madison]] [[Wikipedia:James_Madison|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_17|March 17]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #25, [[Stroller Town]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_18|March 18]], 1837: [[The Presidents|Grover Cleveland]] [[Wikipedia:Grover_Cleveland|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_18|March 18]], 1927: [[A Talk with George|George Ames Plimpton]] [[wikipedia:George_Plimpton|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_19|March 19]], 1915: [[Wikipedia:Pluto|Earliest known photograph]] of [[I'm Your Moon|Pluto]] taken.<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_19|March 19]], 1944: [[A Talk with George|Sirhan Sirhan]] [[Wikipedia:Sirhan_Sirhan|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_20|March 20]], 2008: [[London, UK: 2008-03-20|London show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_22|March 22]], 2008: [[Atlanta, GA: 2008-03-22|Atlanta show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_24|March 24]], 2001: [[A Laptop Like You (demo)|Mac OS X]] [[Wikipedia:Mac_OS_X|released]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_24|March 24]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #26, [[Re: Your Brains]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_26|March 26]], 1931: [[Under the Pines|Leonard Nimoy]] [[Wikipedia:Leonard_Nimoy|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_28|March 28]], 1969: [[The Presidents|Dwight D. Eisenhower]] [[Wikipedia:Dwight_D._Eisenhower|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_29|March 29]], 1790: [[The Presidents|John Tyler]] [[Wikipedia:John_Tyler|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_29|March 29]], 2007: [[San Francisco, CA: 2008-03-29|San Fran show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_30|March 30]], 1926: Ingvar Kamprad, founder of [[Ikea|IKEA]], [[Wikipedia:Ingvar_Kamprad|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_30|March 30]], 1937: [[Flickr|Warren Beatty]] [[wikipedia:Warren_Beatty|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:March_31|March 31]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #27, [[Madelaine]], released<br />
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== April ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:April_1|April 01]]: April Fools' Day<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_1|April 01]], 2008: [[Still Alive]] released on Rock Band<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_2|April 02]], 2008: [[Philadelphia, PA: 2008-04-02|Philadelphia show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_3|April 03]], 2008: [[Northampton, MA: 2008-04-03|Northampton show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_4|April 04]], 1841: [[The Presidents|William Henry Harrison]] [[Wikipedia:William_Henry_Harrison|died after one month in office]]; [[The Presidents|John Tyler]] [[Wikipedia:John_Tyler|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_5|April 05]], 2008: [[Northeastern University, MA: 2008-04-05|Northeastern University show]] (not open to public)<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_6|April 06]], 1917: [[Wikipedia:World_War_I|US declares war on Germany]], formally entering [[The Presidents|World War I]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_6|April 06]], 1928: [[That Spells DNA|James Watson]] [[Wikipedia:James_Watson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_6|April 06]], 1930: [[Over There|Twinkies]] [[Wikipedia:Twinkie|invented]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_7|April 07]], 1933: [[Wikipedia:King_Kong_(1933_film)|US release]] of the original [[De-Evolving|<em>King Kong</em>.<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_7|April 07]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #28, [[When You Go]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_9|April 09]], 1865: [[Wikipedia:Battle_of_Appomattox_Courthouse|Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House]]; the event is generally regarded as marking the end of the [[The Presidents|Civil War]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_10|April 10]], 1794: [[Wikipedia:Matthew_C._Perry|Birth]] of [[The Presidents|Commodore Matthew C. Perry]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_12|April 12]], 1945: [[The Presidents|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] [[[Wikipedia:Franklin_D._Roosevelt|died]]; [[The Presidents|Harry S. Truman]] [[Wikipedia:Harry_S._Truman|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_12|April 12]], 1989: [[A Talk with George|Walker Smith, Jr. (Sugar Ray Robinson)]] [[Wikipedia:Sugar_Ray_Robinson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_13|April 13]], 1743: [[The Presidents|Thomas Jefferson]] [[wikipedia:Thomas_Jefferson|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_14|April 14]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #29, [[Code Monkey]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_15|April 15]], 1865: [[The Presidents|Abraham Lincoln]] [[wikipedia:Abraham_Lincoln|died]]; [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]] [[wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_16|April 16]], 1879: [[wikipedia:Bernadette_Soubirous|Death]] of Marie-Bernarde Soubirous ([[Screwed (demo)|Bernadette]]), subsequently Feast Day of St. Bernadette.<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_16|April 16]], 1958: [[That Spells DNA|Rosalind Franklin]] [[wikipedia:Rosalind_Franklin|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_18|April 16]], 1958: [[Brookline (demo)|Ride]] of [[wikipedia:Paul_Revere|Paul Revere]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_19|April 19]], 1882: [[De-Evolving|Charles Darwin]] [[wikipedia:Charles_Darwin|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_20|April 20]], 1932: [[Mandelbrot Set|Giuseppe Peano]] [[Wikipedia:Giuseppe_Peano|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_22|April 22]], 1994: [[The Presidents|Richard Nixon]] [[wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_22|April 22]], 2008: [[Main Page|JocoPedia]] goes public!<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_23|April 23]], 1791: [[The Presidents|James Buchanan]] [[wikipedia:James_Buchanan|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_23|April 23]], 1898: [[The Presidents|Spain]] [[wikipedia:Spanish-American_War|declares war]] against the United States.<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_25|April 25]], 2008: [[Portland, OR: 2008-04-25|Portland show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_26|April 26]], 2008: [[Seattle, WA: 2008-04-26|Seattle show 1]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_27|April 27]], 1822: [[The Presidents|Ulysses S. Grant]] [[wikipedia:Ulysses_S._Grant|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_27|April 27]], 2008: [[Seattle, WA: 2008-04-27|Seattle show 2]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_28|April 28]], 1758: [[The Presidents|James Monroe]] [[wikipedia:James_Monroe|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_28|April 28]], 1937: [[The Presidents|Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti]] [[Wikipedia:Saddam_Hussein|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_28|April 28]], 1977: The [[Under the Pines|Bigfoot]] episode of [[wikipedia:In_Search_of..._%28TV_series%29|In Search of ...]] airs.<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_28|April 28]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #30, [[The Presidents]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_29|April 29]], 1945: [[wikipedia:Wehrmacht|German Army]] in [[wikipedia:Italy|Italy]] unconditionally surrenders to the [[wikipedia:Allies of World War II|Allies]], ending World War II on the Western front.<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_30|April 30]], 1789: [[wikipedia:George_Washington|Inauguration]] of [[The Presidents|George Washington]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:April_30|April 30]], 1803: [[The Presidents|Louisiana Purchase]] [[wikipedia:Louisiana_Purchase Treaty|signed]].<br />
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== May ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:May_1|May 01]]: [[First of May|Outdoor fucking starts today!]], which means it's time for the [[First of May Olympics]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_1|May 01]], 1941: [[Wikipedia:Citizen_Kane|US release]] of [[Christmas Is Interesting|Citizen Kane]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_1|May 01]], 2008: [[Minneapolis, MN: 2008-05-01|Minneapolis show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_2|May 02]], 2008: [[Madison, WI: 2008-05-02|Madison show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_3|May 03]], 1921: Walker Smith, Jr. aka [[A Talk with George|Sugar Ray Robinson]], [[Wikipedia:Sugar_Ray_Robinson|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_3|May 03]], 2008: [[Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03|Chicago show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_5|May 05]]: [[Over There|Europe]] [[wikipedia:European_symbols#Europe_Day|Day]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_5|May 05]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #31, [[Just as Long as Me]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_6|May 06]], 1882: [[The Presidents|Chester A. Arthur]] signed the [[Wikipedia:Chinese_Exclusion_Act_(United_States)|Chinese Exclusion Act]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May 7|May 07]], 2006: [[Visual Thing A Week]] for [[Just as Long as Me]] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jawboneradio/142065787/in/set-72057594103636347/ released on Flickr]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_8|May 08]], 1884: [[The Presidents|Harry S. Truman]] [[Wikipedia:Harry_S._Truman|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_8|May 08]], 1945: [[The Presidents|Victory]] in [[Over There|Europe]] [[Wikipedia:Victory_in_Europe_Day|day]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_9|May 09]]: [[Over There|Europe]] [[wikipedia:European_symbols#Europe_Day|Day]], again<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_9|May 09]], 1973: [[Chiron Beta Prime|Soylent Green]] [[Wikipedia:Soylent_Green|released]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_10|May 10]], 1818: [[Brookline (demo)|Paul Revere]] [[Wikipedia:Paul_Revere|died]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_12|May 12]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #32, [[Till the Money Comes]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_13|May 13]], 1846: [[The Presidents|The US]] declares war on [[Wikipedia:Mexican-American_War|Mexico]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_15|May 15]], 1868: Senate vote on [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]]'s eleventh article of impeachment fails by [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|one vote]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_15|May 15]], 2008: [[Phoenix, AZ: 2008-05-15|Phoenix show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_17|May 17]], 1977: [[Bills, Bills, Bills|Kandi Burruss]] [[Wikipedia:Kandi_Burruss|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_17|May 17]], 2008: [[San Diego, CA: 2008-05-17|San Diego show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_17|May 18]], 2008: [[Los Angeles, CA: 2008-05-18|Los Angeles show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_19|May 19]], 1994: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis ([[A Talk with George|Jackie O]]) [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis|died]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_19|May 19]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #33, [[Tom Cruise Crazy]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_20|May 20]], 1908: [[Christmas Is Interesting|James "Jimmy" Stewart]] [[Wikipedia:James_Stewart_(actor)|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_21|May 21]], 1980: [[Wikipedia:Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back|US release]] of [[Screwed (demo)|<em>The Empire Strikes Back</em>]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_23|May 23]], 2005: [[Tom Cruise Crazy|Tom Cruise]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Tom_Cruise#Oprah_Winfrey_Show_incident|Oprah]], jumps on couch.<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_24|May 24]], 1626: [[Wikipedia:Peter_Minuit|Peter Minuit]] purchases [[Screwed (demo)|Manhattan]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_25|May 25]], 1977: [[Wikipedia:Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope|US release]] of [[Better|<em>Star Wars</em>]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_25|May 25]], 1983: [[Wikipedia:Star_Wars_Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi|US release]] of [[Screwed (demo)|<em>Return of the Jedi</em>]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_26|May 26]], 1868: Senate votes on [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]]'s second and third articles of impeachment both fail by [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|one vote]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_26|May 26]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #34, [[Famous Blue Raincoat]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_28|May 28]], 1830: [[The Presidents|Andrew Jackson]] signs the [[Wikipedia:Indian_Removal_Act|Indian Removal Act]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_29|May 29]], 1917: [[The Presidents|John F. Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:John_F._Kennedy|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:May_30|May 30]], 1854: The [[Wikipedia:Kansas-Nebraska_Act|Kansas-Nebraska Act]] is passed, marking the end of the [[The Presidents|Missouri Compromise]]<br />
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== June ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:June_1|June 01]], 1868: [[The Presidents|James Buchanan]] [[Wikipedia:James_Buchanan|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_2|June 02]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #35, [[Soft Rocked By Me]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_3|June 03]], 1971: [[John Hodgman]] born<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_5|June 05]], 1910: [[Christmas Is Interesting|William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)]] [[Wikipedia:O._Henry|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_5|June 05]], 1968: [[A Talk with George|Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:Robert_F._Kennedy|shot.]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_5|June 05]], 2004: [[The Presidents|Ronald Reagan]] [[Wikipedia:Ronald_Reagan|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_6|June 06]], 1944: [[Over There|Normandy]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Landings Landings] <br />
* [[TDiJC:June_6|June 06]], 1968: [[A Talk with George|Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:Robert_F._Kennedy|died.]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_8|June 08]], 1845: [[The Presidents|Andrew Jackson]] [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Jackson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_8|June 08]], 1916: [[That Spells DNA|Francis Crick]] [[Wikipedia:Francis_Crick|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_9|June 09]], 1870: [[Christmas Is Interesting|Charles Dickens]] [[Wikipedia:Charles_Dickens|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_9|June 09]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #36, [[Not About You]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_12|June 12]], 1924: [[The Presidents|George H. W. Bush]] [[Wikipedia:George_H._W._Bush|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_12|June 12]], 1981: [[Wikipedia:Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark|US release]] of [[Screwed (demo)|<em>Raiders of the Lost Ark</em>]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_13|June 13]], 2008: [[Washy Ad Jeffy]] [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/06/13/washy-ad-jeffy/ released].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_15|June 15]], 1849: [[The Presidents|James K. Polk]] [[Wikipedia:James_K._Polk|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_15|June 15]], 1999: US release of Destiny's Child's [[Bills, Bills, Bills]] [[Wikipedia:Bills,_Bills,_Bills|single]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_16|June 16]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #37, [[Rock and Roll Boy]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_17|June 17]], 2005: [[Tom Cruise Crazy|Tom Cruise]] [[Wikipedia:Tom_Cruise|proposes]] to Katie Holmes.<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_18|June 18]], 1812: [[The Presidents|The US]] declares [[Wikipedia:War_of_1812|war on Britain]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_18|June 18]], 1942: [[I Will|Paul McCartney]] [[Wikipedia:Paul_McCartney|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_22|June 22]], 1978: [[I'm Your Moon|Charon]] [[Wikipedia:Charon_(moon)|discovered]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_23|June 23]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #38, [[Drinking With You]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_24|June 24]], 1717: [[I'm a Mason Now|The Grand Lodge of England]] [[Wikipedia:Freemasonry|founded]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_24|June 24]], 1862: [[The Presidents|Martin Van Buren]] [[Wikipedia:Martin_Van_Buren|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_24|June 24]], 1908: [[The Presidents|Grover Cleveland]] [[Wikipedia:Grover_Cleveland|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_28|June 28]], 1836: [[The Presidents|James Madison]] [[Wikipedia:James_Madison|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_28|June 28]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Treaty_of_Versailles|Treaty of Versailles]] marks the formal end of [[The Presidents|World War I]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_28|June 28]], 1969: [[Sweet Caroline]] [[Wikipedia:Sweet_Caroline|released]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:June_30|June 30]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #39, [[Pizza Day]], released<br />
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== July ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:July_2|July 02]], 1881: [[The Presidents|James A. Garfield]] [[Wikipedia:James_A._Garfield|shot]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_2|July 02]], 1890: [[The Presidents|Benjamin Harrison]] signed the [[Wikipedia:Sherman_Antitrust_Act|Sherman Antitrust Act]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_2|July 02]], 1961: [[A Talk with George|Ernest Hemingway]] [[Wikipedia:Ernest_Hemingway|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_2|July 02]], 1997: [[Christmas Is Interesting|James "Jimmy" Stewart]] [[Wikipedia:James_Stewart_(actor)|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_3|July 03]], 1962: [[Tom Cruise Crazy|Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (Tom Cruise)]] [[Wikipedia:Tom_Cruise|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_3|July 03]], 2008: Larry Harmon, longtime owner of [[Bozo's Lament|Bozo the Clown]], [[Wikipedia:Larry_Harmon|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_4|July 04]], 1826: [[The Presidents|John Adams and Thomas Jefferson]] [[Wikipedia:John_Adams|di]][[Wikipedia:Thomas_Jefferson|ed]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_4|July 04]], 1831: [[The Presidents|James Monroe]] [[Wikipedia:James_Monroe|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_4|July 04]], 1872: [[The Presidents|Calvin Coolidge]] [[Wikipedia:Calvin_Coolidge|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_6|July 06]], 1946: [[The Presidents|George W.]] [[W's Duty|"Dubya"]] [[The Presidents|Bush]] [[Wikipedia:George_W._Bush|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_7|July 07]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #40, [[SkyMall]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_8|July 08]], 1853: [[The Presidents|Commodore Perry]] [[Wikipedia:Commodore_Matthew_Perry|arrives in Uraga Harbor]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_9|July 09]], 1850: [[Wikipedia:Zachary_Taylor|Death]] of [[The Presidents|Zachary Taylor]]; [[The Presidents|Millard Fillmore]] [[Wikipedia:Millard_Fillmore|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_9|July 09]], 1938: [[My Monkey|Brian Mannion Dennehy]] [[Wikipedia:Brian Dennehy|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_11|July 11]], 1767: [[The Presidents|John Quincy Adams]] [[Wikipedia:John_Quincy_Adams|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_14|July 14]], 1913: [[The Presidents|Gerald Ford]] [[Wikipedia:Gerald_Ford|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_14|July 14]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #41, [[Seahorse]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_16|July 16]], 1888: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson]] [[Wikipedia:Shoeless_Joe_Jackson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_18|July 18]], 1937: [[A Talk with George|Hunter S. Thompson]] [[Wikipedia:Hunter_S._Thompson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_19|July 19]], 1947: [[We Will Rock You|Brian May]] [[Wikipedia:Brian_May|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_21|July 21]], 1899: [[A Talk with George|Ernest Hemingway]] [[Wikipedia:Ernest_Hemingway|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_21|July 21]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #42, [[Creepy Doll]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_23|July 23]], 1885: [[The Presidents|Ulysses S. Grant]] [[Wikipedia:Ulysses_S._Grant|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_23|July 23]], 1973: [[The Presidents|Monica Lewinsky]] [[Wikipedia:Monica_Lewinsky|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_25|July 25]], 1920: [[That Spells DNA|Rosalind Franklin]] [[Wikipedia:Rosalind_Franklin|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_27|July 27]], 1999: [[Wikipedia:The_Writing's_on_the_Wall|US release]] of Destiny's Child's [[Bills, Bills, Bills|"The Writing's on the Wall"]] album.<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_28|July 28]], 1914: [[Wikipedia:World_War_I|Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia]], marking the beginning of [[The Presidents|World War I]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_28|July 28]], 1929: [[A Talk with George|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Jackie O)]] [[Wikipedia:Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_28|July 28]], 2004: [[That Spells DNA|Francis Crick]] [[Wikipedia:Francis_Crick|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_28|July 28]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #43, [[Under the Pines]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:July_31|July 31]], 1875: [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|died]].<br />
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== August ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:August_1|August 01]], 2008: JoCo declared winner of the first [[Masters of Song Fu]] contest.<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_2|August 02]], 1922: [[Screwed (demo)|Alexander Graham Bell]] [[Wikipedia:Alexander_Graham_Bell|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_2|August 02]], 1923: [[The Presidents|Warren G. Harding]] [[Wikipedia:Warren_G._Harding|died]]; [[The Presidents|Calvin Coolidge]] [[Wikipedia:Calvin_Coolidge|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_4|August 04]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #44, [[Big Bad World One]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_6|August 06]], 1945: [[The Presidents|Truman]] [[Wikipedia:Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki|drops the Bomb on Hiroshima]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_9|August 09]], 1974: [[The Presidents|Nixon]] [[Wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|resigns]]; [[The Presidents|Ford]] [[Wikipedia:Gerald_Ford|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_10|August 10]], 1874: [[The Presidents|Herbert Hoover]] [[Wikipedia:Herbert_Hoover|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_11|August 11]], 1954: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|David Ian "Joe" Jackson (the one with shoes)]] [[wikipedia:Joe_Jackson_(musician)|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_11|August 11]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #45, [[Mr. Fancy Pants]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_12|August 12]], 1898: [[The Presidents|Spanish-American War]] [[Wikipedia:Spanish-American_War|ends]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_12|August 12]], 1963: [[Baby Got Back|Anthony Ray (Sir Mix-a-Lot)]] [[Wikipedia:Sir_Mix-a-Lot|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_18|August 18]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #46, [[You Ruined Everything]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_19|August 19]], 1812: [[The Presidents|USS Constitution]] [[Wikipedia:USS_Constitution|defeats HMS Guerriere]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_19|August 19]], 1946: [[The Presidents|William "Bill" Clinton]] [[Wikipedia:Bill_Clinton|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_20|August 20]], 1833: [[The Presidents|Benjamin Harrison]] [[Wikipedia:Benjamin_Harrison|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_21|August 21]], 2008: [[Masters of Song Fu]] Two, Round One entry [[Always the Moon]] released.<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_23|August 23]], 1949: [[Don't Talk to Strangers|Richard Springthorpe (Rick Springfield)]] [[Wikipedia:Rick_Springfield|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_24|August 24]], 2006: [[I'm Your Moon|Pluto]] [[Wikipedia:Pluto|demoted]] from "planet" to "dwarf planet".<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_25|August 25]], 1954: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|Declan Patrick MacManus (The Great Elvis Costello)]] [[wikipedia:Elvis_Costello|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_25|August 25]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #47, [[I'm Your Moon]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_27|August 27]], 1858: [[Mandelbrot Set|Giuseppe Peano]] [[Wikipedia:Giuseppe_Peano|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_27|August 27]], 1908: [[The Presidents|Lyndon B. Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_29|August 29]], 2005: [[Jonathan Coulton]] [[joco:dont-quit-your-day-job|quits his day job]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:August_31|August 31]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #48, [[The Big Boom]], released<br />
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== September ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:September_3|September 03]], 1964: [[Podsafe Christmas Song|Adam Curry]] [[Wikipedia:Adam_Curry|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_5|September 05]], 1946: [[We Are the Champions|Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury)]] [[Wikipedia:Freddie_Mercury|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_9|September 08]], 1890: [[Bacteria|Harland "Colonel" Sanders]] [[Wikipedia:Colonel_Sanders|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_8|September 08]], 1974: [[Wikipedia:Gerald_Ford|Ford]] gave [[Wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|Nixon]] [[The Presidents|pardon for his crimes]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_8|September 08]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #49, [[Make You Cry]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_9|September 09]], 1850: [[I Hate California|California]] [[wikipedia:California|admitted to the Union]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_11|September 11]], 1862: [[Christmas Is Interesting|William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)]] [[Wikipedia:O._Henry|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_14|September 14]], 1901: [[Wikipedia:William_McKinley|Death]] of [[The Presidents|William McKinley]]; [[The Presidents|Theodore Roosevelt]] [[Wikipedia:Theodore_Roosevelt|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_14|September 14]], 2006: [[Second Life: 2006-09-14|Second Life concert]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_15|September 15]], 1857: [[The Presidents|William Howard Taft]] [[Wikipedia:William_Howard_Taft|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_15|September 15]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #50, [[Pull the String]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_16|September 16]], 1969: [[Sweet Caroline]] [[Wikipedia:Sweet_Caroline|released as a single]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_16|September 16]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #1, [[See You All in Hell]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_19|September 19]], 1881: [[The Presidents|James A. Garfield]] [[Wikipedia:James A. Garfield|died]]; [[The Presidents|Chester A. Arthur]] [[Wikipedia:Chester_A._Arthur|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_21|September 21]], 1934: [[Famous Blue Raincoat|Leonard Cohen]] is [[wikipedia:Leonard Cohen|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_21|September 21]], 1998: [[Baby Got Back|Florence Griffith-Joyner (Flo-Jo)]] [[Wikipedia:Florence Griffith-Joyner|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_22|September 22]], General: [[Summer's Over|Autumnal]] [[Wikipedia:Equinox|Equinox]] (many years)<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_22|September 22]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #51, [[Summer's Over]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_23|September 23]], General: [[Summer's Over|Autumnal]] [[Wikipedia:Equinox|Equinox]] (many years)<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_23|September 23]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #2, [[My Monkey]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_25|September 25]], 2003: [[A Talk with George|George Plimpton]] [[Wikipedia:George_Plimpton|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_26|September 26]], 1960: [[The Presidents|Richard Nixon]] [[Wikipedia:United_States_presidential_election%2C_1960|sweated]] through the first televised presidential debate.<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_27|September 27]], 1772: [[Brookline (demo)|Samuel Adams]] [[Wikipedia:Samuel_Adams|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_27|September 27]], 1920: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|"Shoeless" Joe Jackson]]'s [[Wikipedia:Shoeless_Joe_Jackson|last Major League game]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_27|September 27]], 1947: [[Screwed (demo)|Michael (fka Marvin) Lee Aday (Meat Loaf)]] [[Wikipedia:Meat_Loaf|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_29|September 29]], 2006: [[Thing a Week]] #52, [[We Will Rock You]]/[[We Are the Champions]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_30|September 30]], 1800: [[Wikipedia:Convention_of_1800|Convention of 1800]] ends the [[The Presidents|Quasi-War between the US and France]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:September_30|September 30]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #3, [[W's Duty]], released<br />
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== October ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:October_1|October 01]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|First game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_1|October 01]], 1924: [[The Presidents|James "Jimmy" Carter]] [[Wikipedia:Jimmy_Carter|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_2|October 02]], 1803: [[Brookline (demo)|Samuel Adams]] [[Wikipedia:Samuel_Adams|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_2|October 02]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Second game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_3|October 03]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Third game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_4|October 04]], 1822: [[The Presidents|Rutherford B. Hayes]] [[Wikipedia:Rutherford_B._Hayes|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_4|October 04]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Fourth game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_5|October 05]], 1829: [[The Presidents|Chester A. Arthur]] [[Wikipedia:Chester_A._Arthur|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_5|October 05]], 2004: [[That Spells DNA|Maurice Wilkins]] [[Wikipedia:Maurice_Wilkins|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_6|October 06]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Fifth game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_7|October 07]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Sixth game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_7|October 07]], 1977: Queen's "[[We Are the Champions]]" [[Wikipedia:We_Are_the_Champions|single released]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_7|October 07]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #4, [[Shop Vac]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_8|October 08]], 1869: [[The Presidents|Franklin Pierce]] [[Wikipedia:Franklin_Pierce|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_8|October 08]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Seventh game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_9|October 09]], 1919: [[Wikipedia:Black_Sox_Scandal|Eighth (yes, eighth) game]] of the [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|1919 World Series]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_9|October 09]], 2006: [[Los Angeles, CA: 2006-10-09|LA show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_14|October 14]], 1890: [[The Presidents|Dwight D. Eisenhower]] [[Wikipedia:Dwight_D._Eisenhower|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_14|October 14]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #5, [[Baby Got Back]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_16|October 16]], 1793: [[Screwed (demo)|Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (Marie Antoinette)]] [[Wikipedia:Marie_Antoinette|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_18|October 18]], 1977: Planetoid [[Chiron Beta Prime|2060 Chiron]] [[Wikipedia:2600_Chiron|discovered]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_20|October 20]], 1964: [[The Presidents|Herbert Hoover]] [[Wikipedia:Herbert_Hoover|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_20|October 20]], 1967: [[Wikipedia:Bigfoot|Patterson and Gimlin]] film [[Under the Pines|Bigfoot]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_21|October 21]], 1969: [[Mandelbrot_Set|Wac&#x0142;aw Franciszek Sierpi&#x0144;ski]] [[Wikipedia:Wac%C5%82aw_Sierpi%C5%84ski|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_21|October 21]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #6, [[Someone Is Crazy]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_27|October 27]], 1858: [[The Presidents|Theodore Roosevelt]] [[Wikipedia:Theodore_Roosevelt|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_27|October 27]], 1977: Queen's "[[We Will Rock You]]" [[Wikipedia:We_Will_Rock_You|single released]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_28|October 28]], 1977: Queen's "[[Wikipedia:News_of_the_World_(album)|News of the World]]" album [[We Will Rock You|rele]][[We Are the Champions|ased]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_28|October 28]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #7, [[Brand New Sucker]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_29|October 29]], 1929: "[[Wikipedia:Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929|Black Tuesday]]" stock market crash triggers the [[The Presidents|Great Depression]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_30|October 30]], 1735: [[The Presidents|John Adams]] [[Wikipedia:John_Adams|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_30|October 30]], 1974: [[A Talk with George|The Rumble]] [[Wikipedia:The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle|in the Jungle]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:October_31|October 31]], 1978: UK release of [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|Joe Jackson's]] [[Wikipedia:Joe_Jackson_(musician)|"Is She Really Going Out With Him?"]].<br />
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== November ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:November_2|November 02]], 1755: [[Screwed (demo)|Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (Marie Antoinette)]] [[Wikipedia:Marie_Antoinette|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_2|November 02]], 1795: [[The Presidents|James K. Polk]] [[Wikipedia:James_K._Polk|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_2|November 02]], 1865: [[The Presidents|Warren G. Harding]] [[Wikipedia:Warren_G._Harding|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_3|November 03]], 1957: [[Space Doggity|Laika]] launched into space aboard [[Wikipedia:Laika|Sputnik 2]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_4|November 04]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #8, [[Sibling Rivalry]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_9|November 09]], 1989: Fall of the [[Wikipedia:Berlin_Wall|Berlin Wall]], seen by many as defining the [[The Presidents|end of the Cold War]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_11|November 11]], 1918: [[Wikipedia:World War I|Armistice on the Western Front]] marks the de facto end of [[The Presidents|World War I]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_11|November 11]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #9, [[The Town Crotch]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_13|November 13]], 1705: [[Brookline (demo)|Brookline, MA]] [http://www.townofbrooklinemass.com/TownInformation/Index.html founded]<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_17|November 17]], 1973: [[The Presidents|Richard Nixon]] denied being a [[Wikipedia:Richard_Nixon|crook]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_18|November 18]], 1886: [[The Presidents|Chester A. Arthur]] [[Wikipedia:Chester_A._Arthur|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_18|November 18]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #10, [[When I'm 25 or 64]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_18|November 18]], 2006: [[Tom Cruise Crazy|Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes]] [[wikipedia:TomKat|married]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_19|November 19]], 1831: [[The Presidents|James A. Garfield]] [[Wikipedia:James_A._Garfield|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_19|November 19]], 1980: [http://applebees-founder.com/history2.htm Opening] of the first [[Shop Vac|Applebee's]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_20|November 20]], 1866: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]] [[wikipedia:Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_20|November 20]], 1924: [[Mandelbrot Set|Beno&#x00ee;t Mandelbrot]] [[wikipedia:Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_20|November 20]], 1925: [[A Talk with George|Robert F. "Bobby" Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:Robert_F._Kennedy|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_22|November 22]], 1859: [[Wikipedia:On_the_Origin_of_Species|Release]] of [[De-Evolving|<em>On the Origin of Species</em>]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_22|November 22]], 1963: [[The Presidents|Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:John_F._Kennedy|killed by a "magic bullet"]]; [[The Presidents|Lyndon B. Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson|sworn in]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_23|November 23]], 1804: [[The Presidents|Franklin Pierce]] [[Wikipedia:Franklin_Pierce|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_24|November 24]], 1784: [[The Presidents|Zachary Taylor]] [[Wikipedia:Zachary_Taylor|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_24|November 24]], 1991: [[We Are the Champions|Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury)]] [[Wikipedia:Freddie_Mercury|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_25|November 25]], 1944: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]] [[wikipedia:Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis|died]] <br />
* [[TDiJC:November_27|November 27]], 1957: [[Sweet Caroline|Caroline Kennedy]] [[Wikipedia:Caroline_Kennedy|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:November_30|November 30]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #11, [[Podsafe Christmas Song]], released<br />
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== December ==<br />
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* [[TDiJC:December_1|December 01]], 1970: [[Jonathan Coulton]] born<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_2|December 02]], 1823: [[The Presidents|James Monroe]]'s State of the Union Address establishes the [[Wikipedia:Monroe_Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_3|December 03]], 1989: Conclusion of the [[Wikipedia:Malta_Summit|Malta Summit]], seen by many as defining the [[The Presidents|end of the Cold War]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_5|December 05]], 1782: [[The Presidents|Martin Van Buren]] [[Wikipedia:Martin_Van_Buren|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_5|December 05]], 1951: [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis|Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson]] [[Wikipedia:Shoeless_Joe_Jackson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_6|December 06]], 1964: [[Wikipedia:Rankin/Bass|Rankin/Bass]] [[Christmas Is Interesting|"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"]] [[Wikipedia:Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(TV_special)|airs for the first time]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_8|December 08]], 1933: [[Screwed (demo)|Marie-Bernade Soubirous]] [[Wikipedia:Bernadette_Soubirous|canonized]] by the Roman Catholic Church as St. Bernadette.<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_8|December 08]], 2007: [[Chicago, IL: 2007-12-08|Chicago show]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_9|December 09]], 1998: [[A Talk with George|Archibald Wright (Archie Moore)]] [[Wikipedia:Archie_Moore|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_9|December 09]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #12, [[Furry Old Lobster]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_10|December 10]], 1962: [[That Spells DNA|Crick, Watson, and Wilkins]] formally awarded the [[Wikipedia:Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine|1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_12|December 12]], 1814: [[Wikipedia:Treaty_of_Ghent|Treaty of Ghent]] marks the end of the [[The Presidents|War of 1812]] between the US and Britain.<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_13|December 13]], 1913: [[A Talk with George|Archibald Wright (Archie Moore)]] [[Wikipedia:Archie_Moore|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_13|December 13]], 1934: [[Screwed (demo)|Thomas A. Watson]] [[Wikipedia:Thomas_A._Watson|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_14|December 14]], General: [[Monkeys|Monkey]] [[Wikipedia:Monkey Day|Day]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_14|December 14]], 1799: [[The Presidents|George Washington]] [[Wikipedia:George_Washington|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_14|December 14]], 2005: [[Wikipedia:King_Kong_(2005_film)|US release of the Peter Jackson remake]] of [[De-Evolving|"King Kong"]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_15|December 15]], 1916: [[That Spells DNA|Maurice Wilkins]] [[Wikipedia:Maurice_Wilkins|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_16|December 16]], 1980: [[Bacteria|Harland "Colonel" Sanders]] [[Wikipedia:Colonel_Sanders|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_16|December 16]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #13, [[Drive]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_18|December 18]], 1978: [[Tom Cruise Crazy|Katie Holmes]] [[Wikipedia:Katie_Holmes|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_19|December 19]], 1843: Dickens' [[Christmas_Is_Interesting|<em>A Christmas Carol</em>]] [[Wikipedia:A_Christmas_Carol|first published]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_20|December 20]], 1946: [[Wikipedia:It's_A_Wonderful_Life|Release]] of [[Christmas Is Interesting|<em>It's a Wonderful Life</em>]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_21|December 21]], 1937: [[Baby Got Back|Jane Fonda]] [[Wikipedia:Jane Fonda|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_21|December 21]], 1959: [[Baby Got Back|Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner]] [[Wikipedia:Florence Griffith-Joyner|born]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_22|December 22]], 1734: [[Brookline (demo)|Paul Revere]] [[Wikipedia:Paul_Revere|baptized]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_22|December 22]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #14, [[Flickr]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_25|December 25]], General: [[Chiron Beta Prime|Chr]][[Christmas Is Interesting|is]][[Podsafe Christmas Song|tmas]]<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_26|December 26]], 1972: [[The Presidents|Harry S. Truman]] [[Wikipedia:Harry_S._Truman|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_26|December 26]], 2006: [[The Presidents|Gerald Ford]] [[Wikipedia:Gerald_Ford|died]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_28|December 28]], 1856: [[The Presidents|Woodrow Wilson]] [[Wikipedia:Woodrow_Wilson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_29|December 29]], 1808: [[The Presidents|Andrew Johnson]] [[Wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_30|December 30]], 1942: [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu|Betty Aberlin]] [[Wikipedia:Betty_Aberlin|born]].<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_30|December 30]], 2005: [[Thing a Week]] #15, [[Resolutions]], released<br />
* [[TDiJC:December_30|December 30]], 2006: [[The Presidents|Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti]] [[Wikipedia:Saddam_Hussein|died]].</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Talk:First_of_May_Olympics&diff=8321Talk:First of May Olympics2008-11-25T03:32:20Z<p>Agent Lex: /* a question */</p>
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<div>Please post your totals here. Awards will be given out once winners are confirmed and award trophy icons created. No fibbing, please!<br />
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==2008==<br />
===Totals===<br />
* [[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] - zero (have no partner :( )<br />
* [[User:brandeks|brandeks]] - zero (worked, then waited in line for Iron Man all day (which rocked)<br />
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===Awards===<br />
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== a question as to what would be a qualifying location ==<br />
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so with doors and windows open so the OUTSIDE was really VERY close at hand - any credit?<br />
and if I woulda read this last night, believe me, we would have moved to the deck.<br />
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== a question ==<br />
Does this have to occur on the First of May? It's usually pretty cold at that time of year, not to mention muddy or raining. Could it be a day near the date, which had better weather?<br />
: Far as I'm aware (though you'd have to ask official rulemaster Spiff), the FoM Olympics are specifically to be held on May 1st. Sorry! --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 22:32, 24 November 2008 (EST)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Talk:Birdhouse_in_Your_Soul&diff=8263Talk:Birdhouse in Your Soul2008-11-11T13:25:22Z<p>Agent Lex: </p>
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<div>I would remove a leg, surgically, with no one else in the room, for a tab of this cover.<br />
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: Your wish is my command! [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=869&page=1#Item_9 Here you go] (it's only rough, which is why I haven't wiki-fied it). Now I want to see that leg removal! :P --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 08:25, 11 November 2008 (EST)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=The_Aftermath&diff=8256The Aftermath2008-11-08T13:13:46Z<p>Agent Lex: Grammar Nazi-ism GO!</p>
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<div>{{AlbumDetails<br />
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|tracks=9 (to date)<br />
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===Track Listing===<br />
# [[Octopus]]<br />
# [[Re Vos Cerveaux]]<br />
# [[My Beige Bear]]<br />
# [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]]<br />
# [[Washy Ad Jeffy]]<br />
# [[Monkey Shines]] *<br />
# [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] *<br />
# [[Space Doggity]] *<br />
# [[Always the Moon]] *<br />
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(* Indicates these tracks were originally from the [[Masters of Song Fu]] collection, but are also added to The Aftermath.)<br />
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===Background===<br />
The Aftermath is currently still being recorded. [[JoCo]] has been releasing tracks to his website as they are completed. In addition, some of the first tracks have been streamed live as part of the [[JoCo in a Bubble]] project.<br />
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===Availability===<br />
The individual tracks are available on the website, but as the album is not completed, there is no CD available.</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Mr._Fancy_Pants&diff=8255Mr. Fancy Pants2008-11-08T13:10:20Z<p>Agent Lex: Linkage</p>
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=mrfancypants.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week Four<br />
|length=1:20<br />
|release=08/11/2006<br />
|songlink=Mr.+Fancy+Pants<br />
|bloglink=2006/08/11/thing-a-week-45-mr-fancy-pants/<br />
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"'''Mr. Fancy Pants'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s seventh album, ''[[Thing a Week Four]]''. <br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" was released as the forty-fifth [[Thing a Week]] on August 11th, 2006. Jonathan has explained in many concerts that it was one of the pieces of music that rattled around in his head, made no sense whatsoever and didn't want to write, but wouldn't get out of his head until he did. <br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
Initially, "Mr. Fancy Pants" was rarely performed live, since Jonathan had felt that a short piece of music with no defined ending and little sense would confuse the listener. This changed at the [[San Francisco, CA: 2007-09-14|September 14th, 2007 show in San Francisco]] when Jonathan started using his newly purchased [[Wikipedia:Zendrum|Zendrum]], and he began remixing the song as a mid-song solo, coming up with such classics as "gonna be- the best in- everybody's- PANTS". "Mr. Fancy Pants" and the Zendrum solo gradually became more and more common, has now become a concert staple, and he has said that he enjoys playing it immensely.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* Recently, [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to [[Wikipedia:Rickroll|Rickroll]] the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".<br />
* It is possible that Mr. Fancy Pants is a hobo. In [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', there exists a "Mr. Wilson Fancypants" in the list of 700 hobo names.<ref>Page 112, hobo 21</ref><br />
*At the 2008 UK tour dates, Jonathan commented that the UK power system had burnt out the power supply for his Zendrum. At the [[Manchester, UK: 2008-10-29|Manchester]], [[London, UK: 2008-10-30|London]], [[Nottingham, UK: 2008-10-31|Nottingham]] and [[Birmingham, UK: 2008-11-01|Birmingham]] shows, he proceeded to play Mr. Fancy Pants using his Iphone to trigger the samples on his laptop.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Mr.+Fancy+Pants|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iv/|Thing a Week IV]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week IV''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton5 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Mr. Fancy Pants" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
Pants. Duh.<br />
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=mrfancypants.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week Four<br />
|length=1:20<br />
|release=08/11/2006<br />
|songlink=Mr.+Fancy+Pants<br />
|bloglink=2006/08/11/thing-a-week-45-mr-fancy-pants/<br />
}}<br />
"'''Mr. Fancy Pants'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s seventh album, ''[[Thing a Week Four]]''. <br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" was released as the forty-fifth [[Thing a Week]] on August 11th, 2006. Jonathan has explained in many concerts that it was one of the pieces of music that rattled around in his head, made no sense whatsoever and didn't want to write, but wouldn't get out of his head until he did. <br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
Initially, "Mr. Fancy Pants" was rarely performed live, since Jonathan had felt that a short piece of music with no defined ending and little sense would confuse the listener. This changed at the [[San Francisco, CA: 2007-09-14|September 14th, 2007 show in San Francisco]] when Jonathan started using his newly purchased [[Wikipedia:Zendrum|Zendrum]], and he began remixing the song as a mid-song solo, coming up with such classics as "gonna be- the best in- everybody's- PANTS". "Mr. Fancy Pants" and the Zendrum solo gradually became more and more common, has now become a concert staple, and he has said that he enjoys playing it immensely.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* Recently, [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to [[Wikipedia:Rickroll|Rickroll]] the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".<br />
* It is possible that Mr. Fancy Pants is a hobo. In [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', there exists a "Mr. Wilson Fancypants" in the list of 700 hobo names.<ref>Page 112, hobo 21</ref><br />
*At the 2008 UK tour dates, Jonathan commented that the UK power system had burnt out the power supply for his Zendrum. At the Manchester, London, Nottingham and Birmingham shows, he proceeded to play Mr. Fancy Pants using his Iphone to trigger the samples on his laptop.<br />
<br />
== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Mr.+Fancy+Pants|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iv/|Thing a Week IV]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week IV''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton5 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Mr. Fancy Pants" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
Pants. Duh.<br />
<br />
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{{JCLBnav}}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Wiki.jonathancoulton.com_talk:Moderators&diff=8250Wiki.jonathancoulton.com talk:Moderators2008-11-06T14:10:43Z<p>Agent Lex: /* Wiki formatting bugs */</p>
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<div>Hi there! If you've got a JoCopedia-related question or request, please leave a note on this page (don't forget to sign your name by typing '''<nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>''' ) and I or one of the other mods will get back to you about it. Hope you're enjoying the wiki! --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 21:21, 29 April 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Some pages that appear to be superfluous ==<br />
''Moved to [[JoCopedia talk:Moderators/Archive (2008-05-11)]]''<br />
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== Some questions about songs ==<br />
Moving the questions I posed in the forum over here, since Talk pages seem to be where it's at. Sweet!<br />
<br />
Where should alternate versions of lyrics should go? Some examples:<br />
* Linked version of the [[Flickr/Lyrics|Flickr lyrics]]. I just put it at the bottom of the existing lyrics - does that seem best?<br />
* In wiki terms, it seems like the demo versions of songs listed under other projects shouldn't have their own page; they're not different songs, just different versions. Just wanted to test that before editing the Songs page to link the demos to the existing pages (or should they be redirects?). Anyway - if that's the desired route, how to handle alternate lyrics like the demo vs. released final verses of [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance|Soterios Johnson]]? Just add the additional verse and note its provenance?<br />
* I've been thinking that there might be some use to a non-ellided version of the [[Re Vos Cerveaux]] lyrics, which might be more readable by some folks. But clearly that wouldn't be the canonical version.<br />
--[[User:Thomast|Thomast]] 00:16, 30 April 2008 (EDT)<br />
::Thanks for all your work, Thomas! I really appreciate it. My thoughts on [[Re Vos Cerveaux/Lyrics]] and [[Flickr/Lyrics]] will be on their talk pages shortly (and I'll add them to [[:Category:RFC]]), but I'm not sure where to put the demo discussion, so I'll leave my thoughts here for the time being.<br />
::I'm inclined to think that demos should have their own pages, but I can see both arguments -- I don't disagree that they're the same songs, but it's in some ways messier to have to combine demos. For instance, demos can be purchased separately, they have their own song-detail page in the Store, they (as you note) occasionally have different lyrics -- I don't know. I wouldn't be against combining demos and "official" releases, provided those (relatively minor) concerns are dealt with somehow. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 00:51, 30 April 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Copying outside sources for Wiki Help pages? ==<br />
<br />
As I was checking our original model, [http://tmbw.net/wiki/Main_Page This Might Be A Wiki], I noticed a really extensive help section that had a [http://tmbw.net/wiki/What_Is_A_Wiki What Is A Wiki] page, a [http://tmbw.net/wiki/Basic_Wiki_Formatting Basic Wiki Formatting] and a few others. So I gotta ask ... what's the legality/formality/propietary/anything else-aty of chopping some of that up and using it here? --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 22:38, 5 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:Eep hopefully none, because I've sporked a lot from Uncyc. I've changed it to fit here though.<br />
:From my understanding, wiki's are free from copyright as detailed below the edit window. <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>02:44, 06 May 2008</small></span><br />
:: Mitch: Well, that help text's not original to TMBW, as a cursory [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Simple+editing+is+one+of+the+major+benefits+of+using+a+wiki.%22 Googling] tells me. However, I haven't traced it to its source, which means I can't tell you that it's usable. We're using a Creative Commons license, and it's more than possible that that text was released under a different license, I'm not sure which. So I'd hold off on taking it directly -- if you must, link to their pages until we can write up our own version. Or else search for a Creative Commons-licensed MediaWiki help text... --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 22:48, 5 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::Actually, according to [http://tmbw.net/wiki/This_Might_Be_A_Wiki:Copyrights TMBW's Copyrights page], the text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, which means we have to cite our source (in this case, TMBW), not profit from it, and JoCopedia must be under the same license. That is, ShareAlike means that anything derivative from that must also be ShareAlike, etc. That would be the catch -- we're currently Attribution-Noncommercial, but not ShareAlike. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 22:51, 5 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
::::Ugggh this stuff always gives me a headache. Can I lift text from Uncyc, change it and then reuse it here? <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>02:54, 06 May 2008</small></span><br />
:::::Well, not that I want to get anyone in trouble, but in terms of the low level legality of some internet stuff ... honestly, if that text is in SO many places, I would think we'd "blend in" rather safely. --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 22:58, 5 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
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=== Creative Commons - +ShareAlike? ===<br />
''(note: this discussion may, at some point, want to move to [[Talk:Main Page]]. Or it might not. I don't mind leaving it here for now. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 16:35, 6 May 2008 (EDT)''<br />
My thoughts exactly. Well, close to. <s>Mine is more along the lines of if its not for profit, who cares?</s> Lets just leave it at close enough ;) /me doesn't want to get a lecture on copyright again <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>03:01, 06 May 2008</small></span><br />
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Pragmatically speaking, Mitch, no doubt you're right, but I don't think much of that as a policy. I'm not going to get on a soapbox and do the whole "JoCo cites [[Creative Commons]] as one of his greatest inspirations and he's jumped through hoops to keep aboveboard, copyright-wise, including taking [[When I'm 25 or 64]] off his CDs, etc., etc." bit, but I wouldn't look too favorably on copying help text. Alternatively, we could change our license to incorporate ShareAlike, in which case we could "steal" away. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 23:06, 5 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:Quick question, can I lift text from Uncyc, change it and then reuse it here? If I change it, is it kosher? I don't know/get how all this CC stuff works <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>03:37, 06 May 2008</small></span><br />
::I'm in favor of making the original JoCopedia content licensed as +ShareAlike. TMBW excepts those items whose copyright is held by TMBG, and all the lyrics pages have a copyright with date on them. Could we do something similar? What's the downside, real or perceived, to ShareAlike? <br />
::: The original JoCopedia had the ShareAlike. I dropped it for two reasons:<br />
:::# To mirror JoCo's own CC license<br />
:::# Because I find ShareAlike to be unnecessarily restrictive on people who want to use the content.<br />
::: This discussion is exactly my point with point 2. We can't use that content unless we adopt ShareAlike (or let the particular page on which we steal content be licensed as ShareAlike). I don't want other people to ''have'' to license their work with ShareAlike, or CC at all. Just my 4 pence ;) --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 16:35, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
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: Officially, we can't use any material from any site that uses Creative Commons with the Sharealike clause or the GFDL. That is, stuff from TMBW, Uncyclopedia, and Wikipedia is technically off-limits. However, for smaller things (templates and the like) that are behind-the-scenes, I doubt they'd point lawyers at us. And if they do send us a Cease-and-Desist letter, we can definitely remove the offending material pretty easily.<br />
: Help pages are getting into the gray area though. Copying their help pages (and other visible pages) may not incur their legal wrath, but it might seem to be in bad taste. Where possible, though, we should copy the heck out of the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents public domain MediaWiki public domain documentation] instead. &mdash; <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:Wesley|Wesley]]</span> | 05:44, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
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::I agree with Lex (above) that I'd rather not take JoCopedia to ShareAlike. I think Wesley's suggestion of taking the public domain help pages (and adapting them / adding JoCopedia-specific ones) is excellent. Off to start [[WikiProject:Help Pages]]. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 16:53, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::Agreed, even though I personally believe that well-traveled page is much better written. Shame. --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 17:00, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::: I don't believe there's any problem with using the TMBW help pages as a starting point, though. Our page should develop organically, like a tomato vine, and their existing page can be the stick that the tomato vine climbs up. Ours should be similar--but never mistakable--for their page. (Yay [[JoCopedia:Editing_guidelines#Sprawl|tasty analogies]].) &mdash; <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:Wesley|Wesley]]</span> | 20:06, 7 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::::Does this relate only to text or is code considered part of it too? Because I've sporked a few utility templates from Uncyc and some haven't been changed much if at all. I don't have the know how to code them myself, only adapt them. Do I have to QVFD all of them and wait for some code-whizz to rebuild them? Uncyc is a parody/joke site of which I am a member, I can ask them how they feel about their words/code being used and get permission if that helps? <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>12:44, 09 May 2008</small></span><br />
::::::In lieu of any more discussion here I have identified which pages I've liberated and am (hopefully) calling in help to recode/rewrite them so they can be considered JoCopedia work not stolen Uncyc work. [[User:Percephene#To_Do|My to-do list]] shows the progress of this as well as other tasks. <span class="nounderlinelink" style="color:#FF3399"><strong>~ [[User:Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">Percephene</span>]] ~ </strong><small> '''[[User_talk:Percephene|<span style="color:#FFC0CB">talk</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Percephene|<span style="color:#FF3399">contribs</span>]]</small></span> <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>05:19, 10 May 2008</small></span><br />
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== This Day in JoCo box ==<br />
''Moved to [[JoCopedia talk:Moderators/Archive (2008-05-11)]]''<br />
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== [[Fan Projects]] ==<br />
No one's commented on the discussion there in over a week, so I'm going to assume it's safe to start moving one-shot creations off of that page. Try and stop me if you like.<br />
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(Oh, and please help out. I'm not going to start moving anything quite yet, I think, at least not until various things I need to finish get finished.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 23:12, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
: I finally got around to finishing this. All done. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 00:25, 8 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Videos sections and Fan Content ==<br />
Currently, the sections on each video page are divided into Live Performances and Fan Videos. [[User:mtgordon|Mark]] suggests that Fan Videos should be further bifurcated into Covers (or rerecordings, or something) and Fan Videos (that use JoCo source tracks). It seems to make sense, and I'm all for the change.<br />
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I also think that we should rethink the "related pages" for each song -- for one thing, there doesn't seem to be a logical place to put things like the audio recordings from [[Atlanta, GA: 2008-03-22]] and [[Chicago, IL: 2008-05-03]], and the "fan content" section, originally intended to encompass "everything fans make that isn't Video", has a confusing name that probably (along with there not, y'know, being all that much non-video fan content) discourages its use. (Full disclosure: The blame for deciding on the original "related pages" is mine, I believe; the credit for the suggestion to fix them belongs once again to Mark.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 23:12, 6 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== "Create show" ==<br />
This really needs to be an extension -- it's too bad the [[Shows calendar]] extension is kludgey enough that it'd need another extension to get it to play nice. But in the meantime, I dare you -- I dare anyone -- to try to create shows using [[User:Bry/Create show page | this page]]. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 16:54, 7 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
: PS: I'm going to clean up this page, particularly the stuff near the top, pretty soon. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 16:54, 7 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
:: Bry: In case you weren't aware, [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Inputbox|Inputbox]] is installed on here, and I'm fairly sure that's what they use on TMBW for their "new song" page helper. Whether or not that will work with your shows thing, I don't know. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 17:31, 7 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
::: I wasn't aware, Lex -- thanks for letting me know! Inputbox does some good things; for instance, type the proper page name for a show into this box:<br />
<inputbox><br />
type=create<br />
preload=User:Bry/Shows template helper<br />
buttonlabel=Create new show<br />
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:::and the proper things should happen, I think. The cheap hack I threw up there on [[User:Bry/Create show page]] handles things like linking to the proper page without your having to know the name of the page (and also it puts up a link to the page required by the [[Shows calendar]]), but I wouldn't call mine easier to use by a long shot. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 17:46, 7 May 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== "One-shot" live covers ==<br />
There is a growing list of songs that JoCo has played in concerts once (often in response to something from the audience) but haven't been played again and seem unlikely to be played again. ([[Do They Know It's Christmas]] in particular, but others, like [[The Saturday Boy]], etc., as well.) I'd be interested in shoving songs like that onto a "List of infrequently played live covers" or something less awkwardly titled -- then creating full pages for them if they get played again. Thoughts? --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 00:30, 8 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
:Agreed! I'm not in favour of one off covers being included in the full song catalogue. {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>01:37, 09 June 2008</small></span><br />
:: I don't think we have enough of them to justify the conversation yet. Are they less important than random old things like [[Cobras]] or [[Sweet Information]]? --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 21:51, 8 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
::: Well, you might have an argument with [[Cobras]], but I'd say [[Sweet Information]] (being at least the theme to many [[John Hodgman|Hodgman]]-related things -- I believe the audiobook as well as LGB, but I can't verify that at the moment) is more important. Mostly I'm just thinking that not every song he plays needs a full page, or can even have anything more than a stub that says, "He played this here." The clearest difference, in my eyes, is that [[Cobras]], [[Sweet Information]], [[One More Score]], etc., are JoCo originals -- the "infrequently played live covers" are a step further removed from the JoCo tree. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 23:46, 13 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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==Forum's Page==<br />
It was suggested by Percephene (in the VFD for Bry's page), and I agree, that the forums should have a page. Before it is made I would like to ask/share my thoughts on how it should be done.<br />
<br>Firstly it would seem to me that there is no place currently on the wiki that it would fit in, so I propose that the link on the main page be changed to link to a wiki page, which contains the link to the forums.<br />
<br>Next, the content needs to be agreed on, what is written and in how much detail. Titles for sections could include such things as: History (when it was created, something about the server crash maybe), Etiquette (maybe some of the FAQ thread could fins a home here), In jokes (if there are any, none spring to mind). Basically I see it as holding an overview which could help new members and something that documents the history to an extent (JoCopedia is the repository of all JoCo related knowledge).<br />
<br>Making a link to the Bry page could be the motive for creating such a page but I think it could be an informative page. But would it fit in the wiki or not? --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 16:00, 13 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
:I have to agree, I don't feel the discussion being held on the JoCo forums is right. Discussions about the wiki should be held on the wiki IMO. I don't visit there (the JoCo forums) much and so I miss all the discussion about the site, a lot of which seems to be ppl asking for other ppl to make edits or create pages. Its a wiki! Just do it! But then of late I haven't had as much time to devote to the wiki so I can't complain too much ;) {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>03:36, 14 June 2008</small></span><br />
::Are we talking about two different things here? I thought Ben meant that there should be a wiki article about the forums. (And I've been trying to put discussion here, but sometimes it's quicker just to ask in the forums.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 23:42, 13 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::Yes it would seem Percephene was talking about something quite different to what I was talking about. You were band on what I was talking about. A wiki page about the forums. Sorry if I was unclear before. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 06:46, 14 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
::::Ah sorry, I suggested both things (separate forums here AND a page about the forums to link to [[Bry]]) and misunderstood from your original comment which you were talking about Ben! I support both suggestions still of course ;) {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>11:58, 16 June 2008</small></span><br />
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== Forums for the wiki ==<br />
''Splitting this off from the "Forum's page" discussion above, in which Percephene repeats her suggestion to have separate forums for JoCopedia.''<br />
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I don't think a separate forum for the wiki is the proper solution to the problem of discussion about the wiki going on in the JoCo forums rather than in the wiki. This page (JoCopedia talk:Moderators) is intended to serve the purpose, actually, of a repository for wiki-questions and discussions, so I don't feel a separate forum for the wiki is called for. Forum people have tended to neglect this page, though, and ask their questions in-forum, and here are some possible causes I see:<br />
* They may '''not know this page exists''', or they may not know it's the proper venue for these questions;<br />
** The only real solution to this is to inform people -- especially new people logging in to the wiki, etc. I think it'd be a good idea to add a link to this page to the sidebar, and once I've finished writing this I'll ask Lex to do that (if he doesn't see this message first). Also, we should divert questions in the forums here.<br />
* They may find it '''easier to post in the forums''' (where they're already logged in, and where they're already familiar with the Way Things Work);<br />
** I see no good way to solve this, since no matter how easy we make the wiki, it's still easiest, at least cognitively, to stick with what's known (unless we make the wiki feel a lot more familiar to forum people, which might make it less familiar to people who know wikis). <br />
* They may feel it's '''more likely to get exposure in the forums''' -- there hasn't been a reliable number of people checking in on this page, and there's always someone watching the forums. (Besides questions and discussion, the forums also kinda get used as a noticeboard for announcements.) What's more, posts in the forums automatically bring the thread to the forefront -- edits to this page may well pass unnoticed, unless people put it on their watchlist, which they won't do unless they know about it, &c., &c.<br />
** To solve this, we basically, well, need more people to keep track of this page -- once we have an "active community" watching this page, questions asked here will get more responses (which hopefully will encourage people to post more): if a question sits here unanswered, its asker isn't going to come here first next time. As for announcements, we should try and get people to cross-post them there and somewhere on the wiki. (Something like a forum post that leads off, "Cross-posted to the noticeboard on the wiki"). At which point, we should probably call this page something like "[[JoCopedia:Noticeboard]]," instead of this unwieldy title. My bad.<br />
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Another option, of course, is to solve the problem in the other way -- have the posts from the "JoCopedia" forum thread appear somehow here. Since every thread in the forums has its own RSS feed, we could put the feed from the JoCopedia thread somewhere on the wiki by installing something like [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mafs/RSS this], which would require more work out of Lex. (Or, for a quick, Percephene-specific solution, Percephene could subscribe to the JoCopedia thread using a feed reader or have new posts delivered to her inbox.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 21:07, 16 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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--[[User:Bry|Bry]] 21:07, 16 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
:I can't begin to comment on all of this information but I thought it might be helpful if I give the way I have seen this page. Before now, when I just read what you wrote, I thought this page wasn't really intended for the more minor queries. I have often had things which I have been a bit unsure on why they are the way they are but did not feel anywhere could be used to ask questions. they didn't seem to fit in anywhere. I agree with the renaming suggestion as the current title gives the impression it is for inter-moderator discussion. Not sure noticeboard would be the right name if you are encouraging queries to appear here. That is too specific, it needs more of an umbrella term. Just my thoughts. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 12:06, 17 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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::I made a mistake, in my brain-fuzz, in restating my case for forums here, which I admitted and apologised for. The fact that I miss the conversations on the JoCo forums is not and never was my main point in suggesting the idea and I know I can easily fix that situation if its a big deal for me (it isn't.) Since everyone else seem to think its unnecessary, this discussion is too, surely? {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>07:51, 23 June 2008</small></span><br />
::: (I missed this comment, or I'd've replied sooner.)<br />
::: Percephene, I'm sorry if I made the above sound like some kind of personal attack! Although I don't agree with your proposed solution, that doesn't mean the problem you identify is less of a problem or that possible solutions shouldn't be explored, IMO. That's what I was trying to do above, figure out ways to make the wiki more accessible and navigable. (I assume your comment was directed at me, because Ben's comment mostly offered advice to improve this page, which I found both helpful and interesting.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 07:40, 26 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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::(Just noticed this, I should keep up more often)<br />
::I can certainly install that extension once I get home this evening, if you want to keep a forum thread for wiki announcements. I can also change the sidebar, since far as I know there's been no discussion on the proposed changes. In fact, I'll go do that now... --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 07:56, 23 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::Extension installed. I hope. Enjoy! --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 15:44, 26 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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:::Oh look, a use for <nowiki>{{Title}}</nowiki>!!!! {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>01:35, 26 June 2008</small></span><br />
:::: Better to move the page, I'd say, to reduce confusion (and make it easier to link to it). (Although we need to figure out what the new page should be called. I'm not attached to "Moderator's Noticeboard" either.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 07:30, 26 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== RSS extension ==<br />
For the record, I installed [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mafs/RSS this] which Bry mentions above. It seems to not work because [http://www.php.net/iconv this] isn't installed on the server, and I can't install it myself. Sorry. I've disabled the extension now. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 18:26, 26 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Sidebar changes ==<br />
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Just wanted to highlight that Bry's made a proposed change to the sidebar, viewable [[MediaWiki talk:Sidebar|here]]. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 16:11, 17 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Editing Show Dates? ==<br />
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Through some research, I was able to figure out that the PAX show actually took place on the 25th of August 2007 instead of the 24th. I can't figure out how to edit that part of my show entry. Help! [[User:Encubed|Encubed]] 11:26, 21 June 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Consistency for Little Gray Books links ==<br />
As I continue to edit and fix up song pages, particularly with all the new info from "A Talk With JoCo", I'm finding more and more than we have no set way to link, or even describe, the Little Gray Book Lectures. Sometimes we call it Little Gray Book, sometimes Lectures; sometimes it's externally linked to Hodgman's site, sometimes to the section in our internal Hodgman page, sometimes not at all. Can we have a discussion on what the "official" way to do it is? Since it almost always tends to appear after John's name, I don't think linking it to his page again ("[[John Hodgman]]'s [[John_Hodgman#Little_Gray_Book_Lectures|Little Gray Book Lectures]]") is very efficient. Unfortunately, the [http://www.littlegraybooks.com/ external website] hasn't had any real info that warrants a link in quite some time. Is it time for LGB to have it's own entry on JoCopedia, so we can link to it? Or maybe we don't link at all, since we know John's link will assuredly be on the page also? --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 10:24, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
:Wow, that's a good question. Gut reaction: Make [[Little Gray Book]] and [[Little Gray Book Lectures]] redirects, for the time being, to [[John Hodgman#Little Gray Book Lectures]]. Then eventually turn [[Little Gray Book Lectures]] into an article on LGB, and move some of the stuff from the section under Hodgman to the new article (with [[Little Gray Book]] redirecting to the new article). Plausible? --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 10:44, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
::Yeah, I'm guessing it does need its own article eventually. It's clearly important enough, particularly as we find more and more needs to link to it. But until then, it goes to my anal retentive concern about back to back links: John's name and the LGB link, back to back, going to the same page: "[[John Hodgman]]'s [[John_Hodgman#Little_Gray_Book_Lectures|Little Gray Book Lectures]]". I have a mildly Gordian Knot suggestion to solve it though: Do we really need to call them "John Hodgman's ..." on the song pages? Both the redirect and the article will explain that they came about because of John, which is where info on the LGB belongs, not on the song page. Bottom Line: I hate to say it, but we delete John's name on the song pages as "owner" of LGB, and just link LGB. --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 11:23, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
::: If that's the objection, I'd rather stub [[Little Gray Book Lectures]] than remove the reference to Hodgman every time it appears. (I think the link to Hodgman is necessary.) --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 12:48, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::: Really? It's less of an objection and more of a nitpick. It goes to that "info belongs where it belongs" thing to me; the fact that it was John's gig isn't pertinent to, say, DSJD. The person who doesn't know anything about it will click and see "Oh, it was John Hodgman's dilly-o". But it sounds like the stub is a sufficient halfway point between the concepts. --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 12:59, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
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==Referencing The man himself==<br />
OK, I have wondered how to reference Jonathan on the wiki for a while and when editting it I tend to write JoCo, this is evident on the press and jawbone interview pages. What is the party line on this, I know from the forum that Mitch thinks that we should refer to him as Jonathan. What is the general consensus on this. Also once one is reached I think it should be added to some page like the editting guidelines or some such for future reference. IT shouldn't be hard to find out what to call him. Thanks for the help in advance. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 12:15, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
:(Oh, God, the editing guidelines. What a mess they are, and I've been meaning to rewrite that page the same way I've been meaning to reformat the forum FAQ.)<br />
: Spiff and I defaulted to "Coulton," but Mitch likes "Jonathan" (sounds less stuffy) and I don't mind. "JoCo" is even less stuffy; I don't object to that either, but I don't think that's what we should use universally. I think "JoCo"'s appropriate for places like speech markers to denote who's speaking, as in your Jawbone transcriptions, Ben. I'm open to suggestions. (Also note that "Jonathan" can't be used adjectivally the way the others can -- that is, one can't say "a Jonathan song" the way one can say "a JoCo song" or "a Coulton song.") --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 12:46, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
:: I've used "[[Jonathan Coulton]]" the first time on any article (including link, obviously), and "Jonathan" as the default thereafter. The exceptions I've done are when last names are already listed in the sentence/paragraph for other reasons (I forget where this was) and in Bry's above adjective scenario: I used JoCo in those cases. Bry knows this, but I feel that a semblance of comfortability needs to be portrayed in the way things are phrased; after all, anyone reading this has, at the very least, clicked on "Wiki" from Jonathan's site already. We crack a few jokes in various places, including the front page and we repeat Jonathan's jokes in blog entries and interviews. My preference to Jonathan over JoCo is that, despite the familiarity feeling of the latter, it's more of a shortcut notation than an actual name; didn't we discuss on the boards once that people rarely call him "JoCo" out loud? --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 12:57, 9 July 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Vandal Watch ==<br />
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I didn't think we'd have to worry about this so soon but it seems we may have to keep an eye on new users we don't recognise and especially, IP edits after I noticed [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php?title=First_of_May%2FLyrics&diff=7328&oldid=1597 this.] <br />
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Why someone would change all the "lay"s to "thing"s but leave "f**king" in boggles the mind, but I have undone this edit. Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up to keep an eye out for vandalism. <br />
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Cheers! {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>01:28, 01 August 2008</small></span><br />
:Argh, I can't believe this is starting again (or else that this never stopped). Apparently there's some kind of contingent, particularly among (sigh) YouTube commenters, who actually believes that the lyrics are "favorite thing." (See [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=328 this thread] on the forums.) Had I remembered the fact, I'd have asked JoCo about that directly, even though the lyrics are very obviously "favorite lay." To quote myself, from aforelinked thread: <blockquote>Hm. On reflection, I guess it could be "favorite thing," except it doesn't rhyme with "May" or "today," doesn't echo the first syllable of "lady," has never been transcribed in that fashion, doesn't make a whit of sense, and doesn't sound like it anyway."</blockquote><br />
: Not so much "vandalism" as willful ignorance, but it seems to me vandalism would be preferable, if only because a vandal is less likely to come back and try to re-"fix" the page, then get all snippy when we say the "fix" is obviously incorrect. --[[User:Bry|Bry]] 08:44, 1 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
:: I agree with Bry in the "probably some poor mistaken sap" camp. I thought your comment on the unedit was a little harsh thinking this, actually :/ --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 14:58, 1 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
:::I didn't know about the "thing" contingent, however I stand by the edit message. Having to patrol IP edits for this sort of unresearched and clearly wrong editing is frustrating and annoying. We have/are worked/ing hard on verifying the lyrics and we don't want them getting mucked up. I don't think the comment was harsh, I did say please. {{User:Percephene/sig}} <span style="color:#FF3399"><small>05:57, 02 August 2008</small></span><br />
<br />
== Shows pages ==<br />
Formatting- OK I know this was discussed a lot back in the early days of the wiki and I lost track of the discussion and have never been involved with the shows section so never worried about it. However, upon looking through it for my bot I noticed that it was painful. There is no consistent style to the pages. I am going to go through and give them a consistent style right now so would like to know what that style should be. I have planned to follow the style in [[Alexandria, VA: 2007-08-31|this]] shows page. Is this OK and the right style to follow? This needs to be done for my bot to work properly its current output is wrong because of this so it will need to be run again, I warn thee. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 14:05, 2 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
: Looks good to me. If there's videos, best to keep them in the format of [[Cincinnati, OH: 2008-06-05|this page]] (they shouldn't affect the bot, right?) --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 16:13, 2 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
:: Thanks for that confirmation Lex, I am about 2 thirds through the show pages. I have probably made mistakes but I will finish off the rest tomorrow. I have run my bot 1 last time tonight. If anyone wants to see the results look [[SongStats|here]], the page is by no means finished and the numbers may not yet be correct. I am working on it. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 18:11, 2 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
This is just to say the topic of show pages and statistics on shows are being discussed on the forums in [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=743&page=2#Comment_31779 this thread]. I am posting this here to ensure all those in the wiki community are aware of it. This thread could have large effects on the way we format shows in the future to aid the formation of automated statistics and such like. Please drop on by and join the discussion. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 09:16, 4 August 2008 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Songs by Concert ==<br />
Due to the fact no one has replied to what I said on the thread in the forum 4 days ago I thought I would copy my post over to here and see if it gets more attention. I said:<br />
<blockquote>I just ran my bot again now that we got the PAX setlist finalised and it has been two shows since I last ran it. This time it has added the SongNav bar and a footer saying it was made by a bot and the last time it was updated. We have a problem though as built into the the SongNav bar template has a bit of code that means page is added to the category named after the bit after the forward slash in the page name. Not sure how you want to resolve this but currently they are all in two categories.</blockquote><br />
Fair enough it is not hugely urgent to get this sorted but I can't stand it being like it is, the curse of the perfectionist. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 12:25, 8 September 2008 (EDT)<br />
: I noticed the post the first time, and briefly looked into the code for the template. There is an ifexist scenario there, but unfortunately I don't know enough to modify it. My thought process was to basically say "if /xxx AND NOT /Concert, then category:xxx". --[[User:MitchO|MitchO]] 14:48, 8 September 2008 (EDT)<br />
:: "This was a triumph, I'm making a note here huge success, it's hard to overstate my satisfaction" The wording of that song was too perfect not to use in this case, I have just fixed that final problem that was left with the bot, template Concerts has been redacted. I noticed there was an optional parameter to stop it adding the template, I used it. As I type my bot is removing the template from all the pages. With this I think we can close the book on this project and just run it occasionally when necessary. I think it all came together just nicely. --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 07:09, 18 October 2008 (EDT)<br />
<br />
== Wiki formatting bugs ==<br />
I changed a lone ' to <nowiki>[special ']</nowiki> in the [[Overhead]] page. This fixed the problem where the wiki formatting was dropping the first character off links and appending a ] instead. Of course, the bug isn't showing on the old revision page but it was there i tell you!<br />
: Thanks, but we think that those special characters are what's causing the screwups. Next time, could you just fix what's wrong manually? I don't want these problems to stew and reappear later. Thanks! --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 09:10, 6 November 2008 (EST)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Overhead&diff=8249Overhead2008-11-06T14:09:24Z<p>Agent Lex: Changed the ’ back to ', since ’ and the like are what create the formatting screwups.</p>
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=Jonathan_placeholder.jpg<br />
|albumname=Smoking Monkey<br />
|length=<br />
|release=<br />
|songlink=Overhead<br />
|bloglink=Link-here<br />
}}<br />
"'''Overhead'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s first album, [[Smoking Monkey]].<br />
<br />
==Trivia ==<br />
* According to the ''[[joco:albums//smoking-monkey/|Smoking Monkey]]'' info page, Jonathan says "Overhead" "might be my favorite unappreciated B-side."<br />
* According to longtime JoCo fan and friend [[awryone]], this song has no overarching narrative meaning, other than Jonathan liking puzzles: "Our friend Adam Sachs, blogger of note, coined the phrase, 'Once in a while, I go out of my way, to kill you, a little.' Jon thought it was great, and wrote a song around it. Like a challenge. That's it."<br />
<br />
==Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Overhead" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Overhead|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//smoking-monkey/|Smoking Monkey]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Smoking Monkey''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton here].<br />
<br />
==Themes ==<br />
*[[Monkeys]]<br />
<br />
{{SMnav}}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Paul_and_Storm&diff=8225Paul and Storm2008-11-04T20:48:51Z<p>Agent Lex: Not sure if the quote is correct, but I felt a need to include it</p>
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<div>''"Ladies and gentlemen, the two Yank assholes standing between you and a Jonathan Coulton concert, Paul and Storm!"'' - Paul "Paul" Sabourin<br />
<br />
'''Paul Sabourin''' and '''Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo''' are an Arlington, Virginia-based comedic musical duo. They had formerly been half of the a cappella group Da Vinci's Notebook. When that group went on hiatus the two struck out on their own, with Paul playing keyboard and penny whistle and Storm on the guitar.<br />
<br />
They have toured almost exclusively with [[Jonathan Coulton]], co-billing and usually opening the shows. Jonathan usually joins them during their set for the song "'''Nugget Man'''". They then join Jonathan for several songs during his set, providing harmonies and additional banter, particularly as the three exchange offers of actual soft rock hits during [[Soft Rocked by Me]]. (See [[List of soft rock medley songs]] for, well, a list.)<br />
<br />
Jonathan co-wrote "'''Your Love Is'''", which was recorded on their "News to Us" album, as well as providing instrumental parts for many of their tracks.<br />
<br />
They were one of the other Master artists for [[Masters of Song Fu]] contest, highlighted by their entry for the first contest in the style of JoCo entitled "'''Live'''", which can be heard [http://www.paulandstorm.com/archives/thing-a-week-53-live-masters-of-song-fu-round-2/ on their blog]. <br />
<br />
[http://www.paulandstorm.com/ Paul and Storm Web site]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Collaborators]]</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Tom_Cruise_Crazy&diff=8192Tom Cruise Crazy2008-10-29T18:33:49Z<p>Agent Lex: I'm not really of the opinion that that belongs here, or else we'd have a bajillion links on song pages. Feel free to link it in "other media" though.</p>
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=tom_cruise_crazy.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week Three<br />
|length=3:41<br />
|release=05-19-2005<br />
|songlink=Tom+Cruise+Crazy<br />
|bloglink=2006/05/19/thing-a-week-33-tom-cruise-crazy/<br />
}}<br />
'''"Tom Cruise Crazy"''', a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s sixth album, ''[[Thing a Week Three]]'', is a lighthearted stroll through the demented world of [[wikipedia:Tom_Cruise|Tom Cruise]]. <br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" was released as the thirty-third [[Thing a Week]] on May 19th, 2006. <br />
<br />
== Live Performance ==<br />
<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" is regularly played at Jonathan Coulton concerts. During performances co-billed with [[Paul and Storm]], Jonathan performs "Tom Cruise Crazy" with them. Jonathan performs the lead vocals, accompanied by his guitar, while Paul and Storm snap their fingers on the off-beats. During each chorus, Paul and Storm perform backup vocals as well.<br />
<br />
In the third verse of the song, Paul and Storm ad lib between the first few lines of the verse. Although they vary the actual performance from time to time, these ad libs usually include Paul whistling and Storm vocalizing a trombone.<br />
<br />
The song was performed live by [[Jonathan Coulton|Jonathan]], [[Paul and Storm|Paul, Storm]], and [[Molly]] (on vocals) at the [[Seattle, WA: 2008-04-26|Seattle April 26, 2008, show]] in a rare quartet performance. This is the only known performance at a JoCo concert where anyone other than Jonathan sang lead vocals for an entire Coulton song.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* "Tom Cruise Crazy" is listed as a "funny song" on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* [[Len]]'s [[Visual Thing a Week]] merges Tom Cruise with another character well known for insanity and a big smile: Batman villain [[wikipedia:Joker_%28comics%29|The Joker]].<br />
<br />
== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Tom+Cruise+Crazy|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iii/|Thing a Week III]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week III" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton6 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Tom Cruise Crazy" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Fame]]<br />
* [[Funny songs]]<br />
* [[Insanity]]<br />
<br />
{{TAW3nav}}<br />
{{JCLBnav}}</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Glasgow,_UK:_2008-10-25&diff=8174Glasgow, UK: 2008-10-252008-10-26T21:12:58Z<p>Agent Lex: Apparently, Free Bird is two words.</p>
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<div>== Glasgow, Scotland, UK ==<br />
<br />
* Location: Glasgow, UK<br />
* Date: October 25, 2008<br />
* Venue: [http://www.oran-mor.co.uk/ Oran Mor]<br />
<br />
=== Setlist: ===<br />
<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[Free Bird]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[Still Alive]]<br />
# [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Big Bad World One]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[Over There]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains]]<br />
: '''Encore'''<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
*Complete audio of the show can be found [http://www.box.net/shared/v9z5g3uij4 here].<br />
<br />
*JoCo started this show by announcing to the audience that the marker pen in the green room didn't work so he had no set list for the show. This led to a lot of audience participation regarding song choice. This in itself led to some interesting moments and may end up being a very different set to the rest of this tour.<br><br />
<br />
*Jonathan played the first verse-partial chorus of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird' when it was called out in jest by two audience members after a slew of his own songs had been shouted out.<br><br />
<br />
*The song "When You Go" was suggested by [[User:JoeCovenant|JoeCovenant]] and taken up by JoCo- But it was badly messed up at the chorus, much to JoCo's disgust, but this led to an amusing moment where he asked the audience to bear with him while he worked it out.<br><br />
<br />
*JoeCovenant was invited onto stage to put in the "Message Redacted" comment during Chiron Beta Prime, and can be heard singing harmony to the last chorus.<br><br />
(This also led to some video footage being shot from the stage itself!)<br><br />
<br />
*The end of the show was a surprise to everyone, JoCo included. He announced he would play his "last song" and then pretend to go off and we would applaud and he would then come back and do some more songs. This happened, but he was then told from the wings that he only had 5 mins left, as the venue had to start striking his stage to set up for another gig at 10 instead of 10:30. So instead of another 10-20 minutes, the only encore played was his intended last song "I Feel Fantastic".<br><br />
<br />
[[Category:Shows]]</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Discography&diff=8173Discography2008-10-26T20:57:29Z<p>Agent Lex: /* Live Cover Versions */</p>
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<div>=Albums=<br />
<br />
==Thing a Week==<br />
===[[Thing a Week One|Thing a Week One]] ===<br />
(released August 31, 2006)<br />
# [[See You All in Hell]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[W's Duty]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]] (Sir Mix-a-Lot cover)<br />
# [[Someone Is Crazy]]<br />
# [[Brand New Sucker]]<br />
# [[Sibling Rivalry]]<br />
# [[The Town Crotch]]<br />
# [[When I'm 25 or 64]]<br />
# [[Podsafe Christmas Song]]<br />
# [[Furry Old Lobster]]<br />
# [[Drive]]<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Two|Thing a Week Two]] ===<br />
(released November 2, 2006)<br />
# [[Flickr]]<br />
# [[Resolutions]]<br />
# [[You Could Be Her]]<br />
# [[I Will]] (Beatles cover)<br />
# [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance]]<br />
# [[So Far So Good]]<br />
# [[Curl]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[Take Care of Me]]<br />
# [[A Talk with George]]<br />
# [[Don't Talk to Strangers]] (Rick Springfield cover)<br />
# [[Stroller Town]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains]]<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Three|Thing a Week Three]] ===<br />
(released December 15, 2006)<br />
# [[Madelaine]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[The Presidents]]<br />
# [[Just as Long as Me]]<br />
# [[Till the Money Comes]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Famous Blue Raincoat]] (Leonard Cohen cover)<br />
# [[Soft Rocked By Me]]<br />
# [[Not About You]]<br />
# [[Rock and Roll Boy]]<br />
# [[Drinking With You]]<br />
# [[Pizza Day]]<br />
<br />
===[[Thing a Week Four|Thing a Week Four]] ===<br />
(released December 15, 2006)<br />
# [[SkyMall]]<br />
# [[Seahorse]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Under the Pines]]<br />
# [[Big Bad World One]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[The Big Boom]]<br />
# [[Make You Cry]]<br />
# [[Pull the String]]<br />
# [[Summer's Over]]<br />
# [[We Will Rock You]] (Queen cover)<br />
# [[We Are the Champions]] (Queen cover)<br />
<br />
==[[Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms|Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms]] ==<br />
(released August 2005)<br />
# [[That Spells DNA]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Womb with a View]]<br />
# [[Todd the T1000]]<br />
# [[Better]]<br />
<br />
==[[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]] ==<br />
(released October 1, 2004)<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[Betty and Me]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
<br />
==[[Smoking Monkey|Smoking Monkey]] ==<br />
(released November 5, 2003)<br />
# [[I'm Having a Party]]<br />
# [[Bozo's Lament]]<br />
# [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Hate California]]<br />
# [[Christmas Is Interesting]]<br />
# [[Over There]]<br />
# [[Millionaire Girlfriend]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[De-Evolving]]<br />
# [[I'm a Mason Now]]<br />
# [[Overhead]]<br />
<br />
== Compilations ==<br />
===[[JoCo Looks Back]]===<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[A Talk With George]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains]] (spelled "Re: Your Brains" on album cover)<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
<br />
=Non-Album Tracks=<br />
<br />
==[[The Aftermath]]==<br />
# [[Octopus]]<br />
# [[Re Vos Cerveaux]]<br />
# [[My Beige Bear]]<br />
# [[Lady Aberlin's Muumuu]]<br />
# [[Washy Ad Jeffy]]<br />
# [[Monkey Shines]] *<br />
# [[Big Dick Farts a Polka]] *<br />
# [[Space Doggity]] *<br />
# [[Always the Moon]] *<br />
<br />
(* Indicates these tracks were originally from the [[Masters of Song Fu]] collection, but are also added to The Aftermath.)<br />
<br />
==[[Songs from Ze Frank's "The Show"]]==<br />
(all songs are [[wikipedia:Ze_Frank|Ze Frank]] covers)<br />
# [[Fun Winter]]<br />
# [[Giant Baby]]<br />
# [[Hindsight]]<br />
# [[Sandwich]]<br />
# [[Stay the Same]]<br />
# [[Ugly]]<br />
# [[Walnuts]]<br />
# [[Work this Thing]]<br />
<br />
==[[Other Experiments]]==<br />
# [[Screwed (demo)]]<br />
# [[Bills, Bills, Bills]] (Destiny's Child cover)<br />
# [[A Laptop Like You (demo)]]<br />
# [[Bacteria]]<br />
# [[Brookline (demo)]]<br />
# [[Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (demo)]]<br />
# [[Beds Hurt My Booty]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything (demo)]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain (demo)]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon (demo)]]<br />
# [[Gambler's Prayer (demo)]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set (demo)]]<br />
# [[Camp Bachelor Alma Mater]]<br />
<br />
==Live Cover Versions==<br />
* [[Birdhouse in Your Soul]] (Originally recorded by They Might Be Giants)<br />
* [[Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft]] (Originally recorded by Klaatu. From Little Gray Book lectures. Available from JMonkee's downloads)<br />
* [[Do They Know It's Christmas]] (Originally recorded by Band Aid)<br />
* [[Free Bird]] (Originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd)<br />
* [[I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry]] (Originally recorded by Hank Williams. with Elizabeth Gilbert, from Little Gray Book lectures. Available from JMonkee's downloads)<br />
* [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] (Originally recorded by Rick Astley)<br />
* [[Rainbow Connection]] (originally recorded by Kermit the Frog. From Little Gray Book lectures. Available from [[awryone]]'s [http://homepage.mac.com/awryone/FileSharing4.html downloads])<br />
* [[The Saturday Boy]] (Originally recorded by Billy Bragg)<br />
* [[Slip Slidin' Away]] (Originally recorded by Paul Simon)<br />
* [[Sweet Caroline]] (Originally recorded by Neil Diamond)<br />
* [[Welcome to the Machine]] (Originally recorded by Pink Floyd)<br />
<br />
==Miscellanea==<br />
*[[Battle of Galactica]]<br />
*[[Big Rock Candy Mountain]]<br />
*[[Cobras]] <br />
*[[Not This One]] (played at PAX 2008)<br />
*[[One More Score]] (with Adam Stein, from Little Gray Book lectures. Available from [[awryone]]'s downloads.)<br />
*[[PopSci Podcast From The Moon]]<br />
*[[Social History Theme]]<br />
*[[Still Alive]]<br />
*[[Sweet Information]]<br />
*[[You Oughta Know]] (Originally recorded by Alanis Morissette)</div>Agent Lexhttps://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/index.php?title=Glasgow,_UK:_2008-10-25&diff=8172Glasgow, UK: 2008-10-252008-10-26T20:06:00Z<p>Agent Lex: </p>
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<div>== Glasgow, Scotland, UK ==<br />
<br />
* Location: Glasgow, UK<br />
* Date: October 25, 2008<br />
* Venue: [http://www.oran-mor.co.uk/ Oran Mor]<br />
<br />
=== Setlist: ===<br />
<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[Freebird]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[Still Alive]]<br />
# [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Big Bad World One]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[Over There]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains]]<br />
: '''Encore'''<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
*Complete audio of the show can be found [http://www.box.net/shared/v9z5g3uij4 here].<br />
<br />
*JoCo started this show by announcing to the audience that the marker pen in the green room didn't work so he had no set list for the show. This led to a lot of audience participation regarding song choice. This in itself led to some interesting moments and may end up being a very different set to the rest of this tour.<br><br />
<br />
*Jonathan played the first verse-partial chorus of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Freebird' when it was called out in jest by two audience members after a slew of his own songs had been shouted out.<br><br />
<br />
*The song "When You Go" was suggested by [[User:JoeCovenant|JoeCovenant]] and taken up by JoCo- But it was badly messed up at the chorus, much to JoCo's disgust, but this led to an amusing moment where he asked the audience to bear with him while he worked it out.<br><br />
<br />
*JoeCovenant was invited onto stage to put in the "Message Redacted" comment during Chiron Beta Prime, and can be heard singing harmony to the last chorus.<br><br />
(This also led to some video footage being shot from the stage itself!)<br><br />
<br />
*The end of the show was a surprise to everyone, JoCo included. He announced he would play his "last song" and then pretend to go off and we would applaud and he would then come back and do some more songs. This happened, but he was then told from the wings that he only had 5 mins left, as the venue had to start striking his stage to set up for another gig at 10 instead of 10:30. So instead of another 10-20 minutes, the only encore played was his intended last song "I Feel Fantastic".<br><br />
<br />
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<div>What is better, Freebird being a red link and being included in statistics, or vice versa, as it is not included in the play counts at present (only has 1 play count instead of 2). --[[User:BenS|BenS]] 13:32, 26 October 2008 (EDT)<br />
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I would say included in Stats.--[[User:JoeCovenant|JoeCovenant]] 17:49, 26 October 2008 (GMT)<br />
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: There's a section [[Discography#Live_Cover_Versions|here]] for live covers with quite a few one-offs in there. Notably, [[Do They Know It's Christmas]], which was also semi-played as a joke. I say link it, and maybe even make a page for it. --[[User:Agent Lex|Lex]] <small>([[User talk:Agent Lex|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Agent Lex|contribs]])</small> 15:32, 26 October 2008 (EDT)<br />
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== Question... ==<br />
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During Chiron Beta Prime - Does me adding "Message Redacted" and my chorus harmonies being audible on the recordings of the show make me a JoCo collaborator !?!?!<br />
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<div>[[Jonathan Coulton]]'s (first) greatest-hits collection.<br />
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{{AlbumDetails<br />
|artist=Jonathan Coulton<br />
|tracks=20<br />
|release=October 22, 2008}}<br />
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=== Track Listing ===<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[A Talk With George]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
<br />
=== Background ===<br />
* While preparing this CD for release, Jonathan [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/10/10/funny-story/ discovered] that all previous releases of [[Code Monkey]] had been accidentally exported in mono. This album features the first stereo mix of the song.<br />
* Although track 19 is spelled as [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]] on the back cover of this album, the title lacks the colon in the original [[Thing a Week Two]] release.<br />
* All other songs on the CD are the same as on previous releases.<br />
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=== Availability ===<br />
"JoCo Looks Back" is not yet available for purchase through the website, but physical copies of the CD have been available at live appearances, including the [[Brookline, MA: 2008-10-22|Brookline show]] as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s book tour for "More Information Than You Require."<br />
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| align="center" | <small>'''[[JoCo Looks Back]]'''</small><br />
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| <small><i>1. [[Code Monkey]] - 2. [[Ikea]] - 3. [[I Feel Fantastic]] - 4. [[Mandelbrot Set]] - 5. [[Tom Cruise Crazy]] - 6. [[Shop Vac]] - 7. [[Chiron Beta Prime]] - 8. [[I'm Your Moon]] - 9. [[My Monkey]] - 10. [[Skullcrusher Mountain]] - 11. [[I Crush Everything]] - 12. [[When You Go]] - 13. [[A Talk With George]] - 14. [[You Ruined Everything]] - 15. [[Creepy Doll]] - 16. [[Mr. Fancy Pants]] - 17. [[Baby Got Back]] - 18. [[First of May]] - 19. [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]] - 20. [[The Future Soon]]</i></small><br />
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|albumname=Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow<br />
|trackno=1<br />
|length=3:49<br />
|release=10-01-2004<br />
|songlink=The+Future+Soon<br />
|demosonglink=The+Future+Soon+(Demo)}}<br />
"'''The Future Soon'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s second album, ''[[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. It is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs in his live shows, often appearing at the opening of a set.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"The Future Soon" was, in its early days, performed as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s [[Little Gray Books]] Lecture #18, "What Will Happen In The Future". During the course of ''Little Gray Books'', Jonathan was discovered by Andrew Zolli, curator of the Pop!Tech technology conference. While Jonathan had been playing music for some time (including having released his first album, ''[[Smoking Monkey]]''), it was after a performance of "The Future Soon" that Andrew approached Jonathan.<br />
<br />
Jonathan was invited to play "The Future Soon" at Pop!Tech 2003. On October 17, 2003, he performed as one of the events scheduled between official sessions. This performance was so well-received by the audience that Jonathan was asked to play several more songs over the course of the weekend-long conference, including "[[Gambler's Prayer (demo)|Gambler's Prayer]]" and "[[Mandelbrot Set]]". Jonathan later cites Pop!Tech 2003 as the cause of several career-shaping decisions (contributing to ''Popular Science Magazine'', releasing music under [[Creative Commons]]), making "The Future Soon" a unique keystone of Jonathan's early career.<br />
<br />
== Demo version ==<br />
<br />
A demo performance of "The Future Soon" was recorded by Jonathan Coulton before the version that was eventually released on ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow''. The recording comprised of Jonathan's solo vocals accompanied by an acoustic guitar. Some of the lyrics in the demo version differ slightly from those in the published version. These changes are listed in the [[The Future Soon/Lyrics#Notes|notes]] included on the lyrics page.<br />
<br />
The demo version of this song is part of the non-album collection ''[[Other Experiments]]'' and is available on the Jonathan Coulton Store as "[http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/The+Future+Soon+(Demo) The Future Soon (Demo)]".<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"The Future Soon" is a staple of the Jonathan Coulton live show experience. While Jonathan doesn't always introduce the song with the full background story, he gives a consistent introduction to the song when he does. In brief, Jonathan describes "The Future Soon" as how someone might feel if they were about 12 years old, alone in their room, reading Omni Magazine, and thinking about the future.<br />
<br />
When playing alone, Jonathan usually performs "The Future Soon" as the very first song on the setlist. When the show opens with [[Paul and Storm]], "The Future Soon" marks the beginning of the "Jonathan Coulton" part of the show--a subtle but important detail, considering that Jonathan usually performs backup vocals for Paul and Storm for at least one song.<br />
<br />
When playing the song live, Jonathan uses only an acoustic guitar, and is otherwise unaccompanied. If Paul and Storm were performing prior to this song, they leave the stage until the next song for which they perform backup vocals and percussion. Thus, the recorded version and the live version of this song differ mainly in the instrumentation and the presence of backup vocals.<br />
<br />
A few, much more minor, differences exist between the recorded version and the live version of the song:<br />
<br />
* The line, "And I know that I'll forget the look of pity on her face," becomes, "And I know that I'll forget the pity on her face." Take a look at the [[The Future Soon/Lyrics|lyrics]] to find the line.<br />
<br />
* The final guitar chord of the bridge section is modified to be more reliably played (from Aaug to A); this results in a slight but noticeable change. Take a look at the [[The Future Soon/Tabs|tabs]] to find the chord.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* "The Future Soon" is classified as a funny/sad song on the [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/listen Listening Suggestions] page.<br />
* "The Future Soon" was regularly performed by the character Emil Bleehall at the [[wikipedia:Adventurers Club|Adventurers Club]], a themed nightclub in the Pleasure Island portion of Walt Disney World. The Adventurers Club has since closed down, and Emil's last performance was, appropriately, of [[When You Go]].<br />
<br />
== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"The Future Soon" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/The+Future+Soon|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/where-tradition-meets-tomorrow/|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
As of February 2008, the CD version of ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow'' is out of print and is no longer available.<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
The demo version of "The Future Soon" is also available on the MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/The+Future+Soon+(Demo)|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/other-experiments/|Other Experiments]]''. This song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
A karaoke version of "The Future Soon" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Future]]<br />
* [[Outer space]]<br />
* [[Revenge]]<br />
* [[Robots]]<br />
* [[Unrequited love]]<br />
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"'''The Future Soon'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s second album, ''[[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. It is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs in his live shows, often appearing at the opening of a set.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"The Future Soon" was, in its early days, performed as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s [[Little Gray Books]] Lecture #18, "What Will Happen In The Future". During the course of ''Little Gray Books'', Jonathan was discovered by Andrew Zolli, curator of the Pop!Tech technology conference. While Jonathan had been playing music for some time (including having released his first album, ''[[Smoking Monkey]]''), it was after a performance of "The Future Soon" that Andrew approached Jonathan.<br />
<br />
Jonathan was invited to play "The Future Soon" at Pop!Tech 2003. On October 17, 2003, he performed as one of the events scheduled between official sessions. This performance was so well-received by the audience that Jonathan was asked to play several more songs over the course of the weekend-long conference, including "[[Gambler's Prayer (demo)|Gambler's Prayer]]" and "[[Mandelbrot Set]]". Jonathan later cites Pop!Tech 2003 as the cause of several career-shaping decisions (contributing to ''Popular Science Magazine'', releasing music under [[Creative Commons]]), making "The Future Soon" a unique keystone of Jonathan's early career.<br />
<br />
== Demo version ==<br />
<br />
A demo performance of "The Future Soon" was recorded by Jonathan Coulton before the version that was eventually released on ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow''. The recording comprised of Jonathan's solo vocals accompanied by an acoustic guitar. Some of the lyrics in the demo version differ slightly from those in the published version. These changes are listed in the [[The Future Soon/Lyrics#Notes|notes]] included on the lyrics page.<br />
<br />
The demo version of this song is part of the non-album collection ''[[Other Experiments]]'' and is available on the Jonathan Coulton Store as "[http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/The+Future+Soon+(Demo) The Future Soon (Demo)]".<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"The Future Soon" is a staple of the Jonathan Coulton live show experience. While Jonathan doesn't always introduce the song with the full background story, he gives a consistent introduction to the song when he does. In brief, Jonathan describes "The Future Soon" as how someone might feel if they were about 12 years old, alone in their room, reading Omni Magazine, and thinking about the future.<br />
<br />
When playing alone, Jonathan usually performs "The Future Soon" as the very first song on the setlist. When the show opens with [[Paul and Storm]], "The Future Soon" marks the beginning of the "Jonathan Coulton" part of the show--a subtle but important detail, considering that Jonathan usually performs backup vocals for Paul and Storm for at least one song.<br />
<br />
When playing the song live, Jonathan uses only an acoustic guitar, and is otherwise unaccompanied. If Paul and Storm were performing prior to this song, they leave the stage until the next song for which they perform backup vocals and percussion. Thus, the recorded version and the live version of this song differ mainly in the instrumentation and the presence of backup vocals.<br />
<br />
A few, much more minor, differences exist between the recorded version and the live version of the song:<br />
<br />
* The line, "And I know that I'll forget the look of pity on her face," becomes, "And I know that I'll forget the pity on her face." Take a look at the [[The Future Soon/Lyrics|lyrics]] to find the line.<br />
<br />
* The final guitar chord of the bridge section is modified to be more reliably played (from Aaug to A); this results in a slight but noticeable change. Take a look at the [[The Future Soon/Tabs|tabs]] to find the chord.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* "The Future Soon" is classified as a funny/sad song on the [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/listen Listening Suggestions] page.<br />
* "The Future Soon" is apparently being performed by the character Emil Bleehall at the [[wikipedia:Adventurers Club|Adventurers Club]], a themed nightclub in the Pleasure Island portion of Walt Disney World. Since this would seem to be a commercial performance, it wouldn't be compatible with Jonathan's use of the [[Creative Commons]] license.<br />
<br />
== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"The Future Soon" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/The+Future+Soon|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/where-tradition-meets-tomorrow/|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
As of February 2008, the CD version of ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow'' is out of print and is no longer available.<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
The demo version of "The Future Soon" is also available on the MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/The+Future+Soon+(Demo)|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/other-experiments/|Other Experiments]]''. This song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
A karaoke version of "The Future Soon" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Future]]<br />
* [[Outer space]]<br />
* [[Revenge]]<br />
* [[Robots]]<br />
* [[Unrequited love]]<br />
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=ReYourBrains.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week Two<br />
|length=4:33<br />
|release=03-24-2006<br />
|songlink=Re+Your+Brains<br />
|bloglink=2006/03/24/thing-a-week-26-re-your-brains/}}<br />
"'''Re Your Brains'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fifth album, ''[[Thing a Week Two]]''. It is one of Jonathan's most recognizable and best known songs, a concert staple and an identifier of his place in the [[Wikipedia:Geek rock|geek rock]] genre.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"'''Re Your Brains'''" was released as the twenty sixth [[Thing a Week]] on March 24th, 2006. It quickly became one of Jonathan's most recognizable songs, becoming the first song to receive a WoW video by [[Spiff]]. <br />
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== Other versions ==<br />
There is also a French version of "Re Your Brains", available on [[The Aftermath]], called [[Re Vos Cerveaux]].<br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"Re Your Brains" is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs; it is believed that Jonathan has performed it in every concert since its release. In live performances, the song is almost always played as the closing song of the main portion of the show. It is always introduced as needing audience participation, at which point Jonathan explains to the audience that he needs them to perform the zombie portion of the chorus, instructing them to best sound like properly singing undead. <br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* There is no colon in the song's title ("''Re:''"), though that is easily the most common song title error made by fans, media and even Jonathan himself on occasion. On the back cover of the [[JoCo Looks Back]] compilation album, though, the title includes a colon.<br />
* Spiff's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjMiDZIY1bM WoW video] for "Re Your Brains" has been viewed over 1,800,000 times and is often credited by fans as their introduction to Jonathan Coulton.<br />
<br />
== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Re Your Brains" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Re+Your+Brains|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-ii/|Thing a Week II]]''. Of course this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week II" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton4 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Re Your Brains" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Sing A Longs]]<br />
* [[Work]]<br />
* [[Zombies]]<br />
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== Audio ==<br />
* [http://www.creegah.com/re_your_brains.mp3 Thumbs Up For Pirate Zombies (8 MB's)] from [[Atlanta, GA: 2008-03-22 | Atlanta show]]<br />
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|img=first_of_may.jpg<br />
|albumname=Smoking Monkey<br />
|length=4:10<br />
|release=11-05-2003<br />
|songlink=First+of+May<br />
}}<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* The chorus is a variation on an old folk/schoolyard rhyme, "Hooray, Hooray, the first of May! Outdoor fucking starts today!" In an [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/04/10/first-of-may-bench/ April 10, 2007 blog post], JoCo credited [[John Hodgman]] with the idea for the song, and mentions that the modern dirty rhyme derives from an older, traditional dirty rhyme. Commenters Mike and [[User:Bry|Bry]] tracked the reference down to a [[:Image:Espy - First of May.jpg|poem]] in ''Another Almanac of Words at Play'' by Willard R. Espy. <br />
*The poem which Espy cites, in turn, derives from ancient Pagan customs celebrating fertility on the eve of Beltane, the Celtic name for the month of May.<br />
* [[Wikipedia:James Taylor|James Taylor]] and [[Wikipedia:Bee Gees|the Bee Gees]] have also recorded songs by the same title. [http://lyricwiki.org/James_Taylor:First_Of_May Taylor's song] explores some similar themes with less explicit language, while [http://lyricwiki.org/Bee_Gees:First_Of_May the Bee Gees' song] is a love song lamenting the passage of time.<br />
* One of the six songs listed on the oldest archived version of Jonathan's [http://web.archive.org/web/20020925002351/http://jonathancoulton.com/ website].<br />
* On May 1st 2008, [[Spiff]] started the [[First of May Olympics]], based on the song.<br />
* "First of May" is listed as a "funny song" on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
== Availability ==<br />
Available from [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/First+of+May jonathancoulton.com] as a free MP3 download or for purchase in MP3 or FLAC formats, as well as on the [[Smoking Monkey]] CD.<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Funny songs]]<br />
* [[Sex]]<br />
* [[Sing A Longs]]<br />
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=baby_got_back.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week One<br />
|length=5:30<br />
|release=10-14-2005<br />
|songlink=Baby+Got+Back<br />
|bloglink=2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/<br />
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"'''Baby Got Back'''", a cover of the 1980s rap classic by [[wikipedia:Sir Mix-a-Lot|Sir Mix-a-Lot]], is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fourth album [[Thing a Week One]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Baby Got Back" was released as the fifth [[Thing a Week]] on October 14th, 2005. The song was featured on [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/15/nerd-folksinger-cove.html BoingBoing.net] the next day, and resulted in the first major traffic increase on Jonathan's website ([[joco:/2005/10/18/wowie-zowie/|blog entry]]).<br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"Baby Got Back" is performed regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts, though it has decreased in appearances recently. It is generally performed during the [[Paul and Storm]] portion of the show, as they provide full back up vocals, notably for the "L.A. face with an Oakland booty" refrain.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* After being played on [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2005/10/coverville_139.html Coverville episode #139] (Oct 18, 2005), "Baby Got Back" quickly became a fan favorite and has been in the top five of the annual Coverville Countdown every year since its release. (2005 - #2) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2005/12/coverville_163.html]; (2006 - #5) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2006/12/coverville_280.html]; (2007 - #2) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2007/12/coverville_405_1.html]. Jonathan will be performing at [[Las Vegas, NV: 2008-08-15|Coverville's 500th anniversary concert]].<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Baby Got Back" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Baby+Got+Back|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-i/|Thing a Week I]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week I''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton3 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Baby Got Back" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Butts]]<br />
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[[Category:Cover songs]]<br />
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<div>{{SongDetails<br />
|img=baby_got_back.jpg<br />
|albumname=Thing a Week One<br />
|length=5:30<br />
|release=10-14-2005<br />
|songlink=Baby+Got+Back<br />
|bloglink=2005/10/14/thing-a-week-5-baby-got-back/<br />
}}<br />
"'''Baby Got Back'''", a cover of the 1980s rap classic by [[wikipedia:Sir Mix-a-Lot|Sir Mix-a-Lot]], is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fourth album [[Thing a Week One]].<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
"Baby Got Back" was released as the fifth [[Thing a Week]] on October 14th, 2005. The song was featured on [http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/15/nerd-folksinger-cove.html BoingBoing.net] the next day, and resulted in the first major traffic increase on Jonathan's website ([[joco:/2005/10/18/wowie-zowie/|blog entry]]).<br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"Baby Got Back" is performed regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts, though it has decreased in appearances recently. It is generally performed during the [[Paul and Storm]] portion of the show, as they provide full back up vocals, notably for the "L.A. face with an Oakland booty" refrain.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* After being played on [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2005/10/coverville_139.html|Coverville episode #139] (Oct 18, 2005), "Baby Got Back" quickly became a fan favorite and has been in the top five of the annual Coverville Countdown every year since its release. (2005 - #2) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2005/12/coverville_163.html]; (2006 - #5) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2006/12/coverville_280.html]; (2007 - #2) [http://www.coverville.com/archives/2007/12/coverville_405_1.html]. Jonathan will be performing at [[Las Vegas, NV: 2008-08-15|Coverville's 500th anniversary concert]].<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Baby Got Back" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Baby+Got+Back|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-i/|Thing a Week I]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week I''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton3 here].<br />
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=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Baby Got Back" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Butts]]<br />
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"'''Mr. Fancy Pants'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s seventh album, ''[[Thing a Week Four]]''. <br />
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== History ==<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" was released as the forty-fifth [[Thing a Week]] on August 11th, 2006. Jonathan has explained in many concerts that it was one of the pieces of music that rattled around in his head, made no sense whatsoever and didn't want to write, but wouldn't get out of his head until he did. <br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
Initially, "Mr. Fancy Pants" was rarely performed live, since Jonathan had felt that a short piece of music with no defined ending and little sense would confuse the listener. This changed at the [[San Francisco, CA: 2007-09-14|September 14th, 2007 show in San Francisco]] when Jonathan started using his newly purchased [[Wikipedia:Zendrum|Zendrum]], and he began remixing the song as a mid-song solo, coming up with such classics as "gonna be- the best in- everybody's- PANTS". "Mr. Fancy Pants" and the Zendrum solo gradually became more and more common, has now become a concert staple, and he has said that he enjoys playing it immensely.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* Recently, [[Never Gonna Give You Up]] has been programmed onto one the Zendrum keys, allowing Jonathan to [[Wikipedia:Rickroll|Rickroll]] the audience during "Mr. Fancy Pants", as well as being remixed like "Never gonna give you- PANTS".<br />
* It is possible that Mr. Fancy Pants is a hobo. In [[John Hodgman]]'s ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'', there exists a "Mr. Wilson Fancypants" in the list of 700 hobo names.<ref>Page 112, hobo 21</ref><br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Mr. Fancy Pants" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Mr.+Fancy+Pants|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iv/|Thing a Week IV]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week IV''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton5 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Mr. Fancy Pants" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
Pants. Duh.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*Forty-second Thing a Week, released July 21, 2006<br />
*The song was inspired by various 70s horror movies that "scared the hell" out of Jonathan Coulton when he was a child.<br />
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==Themes==<br />
Horror, surrealism, allegory<br />
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"'''You Ruined Everything'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s seventh album, ''[[Thing a Week Four]]''. A love song to his daughter, this is possibly Jonathan's most personal song. <br />
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== History ==<br />
"You Ruined Everything" was released as the forty-sixth [[Thing a Week]] on August 18, 2006. Jonathan's blog commentary on this song seems worth quoting in full:<br />
<blockquote>I was having a conversation with a friend who had recently become a parent, and she reminded me of something I had forgotten about since my daughter was born. She was describing this what-have-I-done feeling - I just got everything perfect in my life, and then I went and messed it all up by having a baby. I don't feel that way anymore, but the thought certainly crossed my mind a few times at the beginning. Eventually you just fall in love and forget about everything else, but it's not a very comfortable transition. I compare the process to becoming a vampire, your old self dies in a sad and painful way, but then you come out the other side with immortality, super strength and a taste for human blood. At least that's how it was for me. At any rate, it's complicated.</blockquote><br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"You Ruined Everything" is played somewhat regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Always given a full introduction about being a parent, it is played very similarly to the recorded version.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "You Ruined Everything" is classified as a sweet song on the [[joco:/primer/listen|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* It should be noted that Thing a Week was kicked off when his daughter was born in 2005. Jonathan has said in interviews that he suddenly felt his own mortality when looking at the tiny person who was arriving to replace him in the world. He felt that it was way past time for him to make a stab at achieving his dreams, since if he failed to try, he'd be telling his daughter that dreams weren't worth trying for.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
"You Ruined Everything" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/You+Ruined+Everything|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iv/|Thing a Week IV]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week IV''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton5 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "You Ruined Everything" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Parenthood]]<br />
* [[Sweet songs]]<br />
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<div>[[Jonathan Coulton]]'s (first) greatest-hits collection.<br />
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{{AlbumDetails<br />
|artist=Jonathan Coulton<br />
|tracks=20<br />
|release=October 22, 2008}}<br />
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=== Track Listing ===<br />
# [[Code Monkey]]<br />
# [[Ikea]]<br />
# [[I Feel Fantastic]]<br />
# [[Mandelbrot Set]]<br />
# [[Tom Cruise Crazy]]<br />
# [[Shop Vac]]<br />
# [[Chiron Beta Prime]]<br />
# [[I'm Your Moon]]<br />
# [[My Monkey]]<br />
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]<br />
# [[I Crush Everything]]<br />
# [[When You Go]]<br />
# [[A Talk with George]]<br />
# [[You Ruined Everything]]<br />
# [[Creepy Doll]]<br />
# [[Mr. Fancy Pants]]<br />
# [[Baby Got Back]]<br />
# [[First of May]]<br />
# [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]]<br />
# [[The Future Soon]]<br />
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=== Background ===<br />
* While preparing this CD for release, Jonathan [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/10/10/funny-story/ discovered] that all previous releases of [[Code Monkey]] had been accidentally exported in mono. This album features the first stereo mix of the song.<br />
* Although track 19 is spelled as [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]] on the back cover of this album, the title lacks the colon in the original [[Thing a Week Two]] release.<br />
* All other songs on the CD are the same as on previous releases.<br />
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=== Availability ===<br />
"JoCo Looks Back" is not yet available for purchase through the website, but physical copies of the CD have been available at live appearances, including the [[Brookline, MA: 2008-10-22|Brookline show]] as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s book tour for "More Information Than You Require."<br />
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| <small><i>1. [[Code Monkey]] - 2. [[Ikea]] - 3. [[I Feel Fantastic]] - 4. [[Mandelbrot Set]] - 5. [[Tom Cruise Crazy]] - 6. [[Shop Vac]] - 7. [[Chiron Beta Prime]] - 8. [[I'm Your Moon]] - 9. [[My Monkey]] - 10. [[Skullcrusher Mountain]] - 11. [[I Crush Everything]] - 12. [[When You Go]] - 13. [[A Talk with George]] - 14. [[You Ruined Everything]] - 15. [[Creepy Doll]] - 16. [[Mr. Fancy Pants]] - 17. [[Baby Got Back]] - 18. [[First of May]] - 19. [[Re Your Brains|Re: Your Brains]] - 20. [[The Future Soon]]</i></small><br />
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"'''A Talk with George'''", a tribute to American journalist and author [[wikipedia:George_Plimpton|George Plimpton]], is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fifth album, ''[[Thing a Week Two]]''.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"A Talk with George" was released as the twenty-third [[Thing a Week]] on March 3rd, 2006. Jonathan wrote the song for a contest run by the [http://www.plimptonproject.org/ Plimpton Project]. The song [[joco:/2006/05/10/thumbs-up-from-george/|won]] the prize of $400.00.<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"A Talk with George" is occasionally played at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Because of the track's lean arrangement, mostly Jonathan with a guitar, the live version sounds essentially the same.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* "A Talk with George" is classified as a sweet song on the [[joco:/primer/listen|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* Jonathan has said in interviews that this is one of his favorite songs.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"A Talk with George" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/A+Talk+with+George|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-ii/|Thing a Week II]]''. Of course this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week II" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton4 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "A Talk with George" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Fame]]<br />
* [[Sports]]<br />
* [[Sweet songs]]<br />
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"'''When You Go'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s sixth album, ''[[Thing a Week Three]]''.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"When You Go" was released as the twenty-eighth [[Thing a Week]] on April 7th, 2006.<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"When You Go" is rarely played at Jonathan Coulton concerts.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "When You Go" is classified as a sad song on the [[joco:/primer/listen|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* [[Len]]'s [[Visual Thing a Week]] shows Jonathan looking at a picture of the comic strip character [[wikipedia:Nancy_%28comic_strip%29|Nancy]].<br />
* It is featured in [http://www.petalfilms.com/ Miss Shellagh's Miniskirt (film)'s] soundtrack and trailer.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"When You Go" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/When+You+Go|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iii/|Thing a Week III]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week III" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton6 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "When You Go" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
<br />
== Themes ==<br />
* [[Break-ups]]<br />
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"'''I Crush Everything'''" is the third track on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s second album, [[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
"I Crush Everything" was originally written as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s [[Little Gray Books]] Lecture #25, "The Animals: Are They Our Enemies." This lecture took place on March 3, 2004.<br />
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== Live performance==<br />
"I Crush Everything" is performed somewhat regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Usually prefaced with a short explanation, "This song is about a self-loathing giant squid", the live version is essentially the same as the version on "Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow". <br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* Jonathan has said that when he was writing this song, he hadn't initially settled on it being about a giant squid, but more of just a generic sea monster.<ref>[[A Talk with JoCo, Part 2 (Undocumented Songs)]]</ref><br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"I Crush Everything" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/I+Crush+Everything|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/where-tradition-meets-tomorrow/|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
As of February 2008, the CD version of ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow'' is out of print and is no longer available.<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
The demo version of "I Crush Everything" is also available on the MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/I+Crush+Everything+(Demo)|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/other-experiments/|Other Experiments]]''. This song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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A karaoke version of "I Crush Everything" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
*[[Marine life]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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"'''Skullcrusher Mountain'''" is the second track on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s second album, [[Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]. It is one of Jonathan's signature songs.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Skullcrusher Mountain" was originally written as part of [[John Hodgman]]'s [[Little Gray Books]] Lecture #21, "How To Measure Misunderstood Genius."<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"Skullcrusher Mountain" is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs at his concerts. Occasionally, Jonathan will have the audience sing along with the chorus.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* [[JoCo]]'s administrative assistant, [[Scarface]], takes her nickname from the assistant in this song.<br />
* The "half-monkey, half-pony monster" has inspired many fan creations, including the [http://picasaweb.google.com/halfponyhalfmonkeymonster Travels of Code Monkey 2], where a toy "Ponkey" is mailed from fan to fan and photographed in locations around the world.<br />
* It was announced at [[Seattle, WA: 2008-08-29|PAX 2008]] that "Skullcrusher Mountain" will be available as part of the downloadable three pack "PAX 2008" for Rock Band, the second Jonathan Coulton song available for that game.<ref>[http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75232 Rock Band forums]</ref><br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Skullcrusher Mountain" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Skullcrusher+Mountain|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/where-tradition-meets-tomorrow/|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
As of February 2008, the CD version of ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow'' is out of print and is no longer available.<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
The demo version of "Skullcrusher Mountain" is also available on the MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Skullcrusher+Mountain+(Demo)|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/other-experiments/|Other Experiments]]''. This song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
A karaoke version of "Skullcrusher Mountain" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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==Themes==<br />
* [[Insanity]]<br />
* [[Monkeys]]<br />
* [[Sing A Longs]]<br />
* [[Unrequited love]]<br />
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=== Citations ===<br />
<references /><br />
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"'''My Monkey'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fourth album [[Thing a Week One]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
"My Monkey" was released as the second [[Thing a Week]] on September 23rd, 2005. <br />
<br />
At the [[Pontiac,_MI:_2008-07-10|Pontiac, MI]] show, Jonathan explained this song as being a description of an argument. The narrator is trying to explain to the person he's arguing with how he feels but because he can't really talk about his own feelings, instead projects those feelings and experiences through his monkey butler, [[wikipedia:Brian Dennehy|Brian Dennehy]].<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
Because of the sparse arrangement and multiple vocals, "My Monkey" had not been performed at a Jonathan Coulton concert for quite a while after it was released. It was first performed live on [[Seattle, WA: 2008-04-26|April 26, 2008]] in Seattle, in a rare quartet performance with Jonathan (performing on the [[wikipedia:Tenori-On|Tenori-On]], [[Paul and Storm]] and [[Molly]] (on ukelele). Since then, Jonathan, Paul and Storm have performed it occasionally, always accompanied by the Tenori-On.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"My Monkey" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/My+Monkey|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-i/|Thing a Week I]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week I''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton3 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "My Monkey" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
*[[Monkeys]]<br />
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"'''I'm Your Moon'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s seventh album, ''[[Thing a Week Four]]''. <br />
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== History ==<br />
"I'm Your Moon" was released as the forty-seventh [[Thing a Week]] on August 25th, 2006, after several people suggested Jonathan write about [[wikipedia:Pluto|Pluto]]'s new status as a dwarf planet (which has since been renamed "Plutoids").<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"I'm Your Moon" is played somewhat regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Jonathan usually gives a full explanation of the song's origins and what it means before playing it, casually damning the scientists who changed Pluto's status. Because there is no major solo in the song, the live version is essentially an acoustic version of the original recording. <br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "I'm Your Moon" is classified as a sweet song on the [[joco:/primer/listen|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* The song is written from the view of [[wikipedia:Charon_%28moon%29|Charon]], Pluto's moon. Because Charon is almost half the size of Pluto, the two do not have a traditional orbit where the small body basically moves around the center of the large body. Rather, both Pluto and Charon revolve around a point between them, like a bola or a spinning pair of skaters. In addition, the two celestial objects are tidally face-locked, meaning they keep the same "face" towards each other ("like dancers", according to Jonathan's blog of the song).<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"I'm Your Moon" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/I'm+Your_Moon|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iv/|Thing a Week IV]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week IV''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton5 here].<br />
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=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "I'm Your Moon" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
*[[Outer space]]<br />
*Relationships<br />
*[[Sweet songs]]<br />
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|trackno=08<br />
|length=2:51<br />
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|bloglink=2006/02/17/thing-a-week-21-chiron-beta-prime/}}<br />
"'''Chiron Beta Prime'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fifth album, ''[[Thing a Week Two]]''.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Chiron Beta Prime" was originally written around Christmastime 2004 at the request of a friend of Jonathan's who wanted a "Christmas song with a futuristic theme" to send out on a CD as a holiday card. It was later released as the twenty-first [[Thing a Week]] on February 17th, 2006.<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"Chiron Beta Prime" is performed somewhat regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts. If performing with [[Paul and Storm]], they will usually join Jonathan by doing backup vocals for the chorus. Also, Jonathan occasionally selects a member of the audience (or sometimes a "guest star") to do the "MESSAGE REDACTED" line. In more recent shows, that person is also given the opportunity to vocalize the keyboard solo (made famous by fan [[Andy Bates]]) and join in on the third chorus.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* The phrase "soylent green" in the song refers to a [[wikipedia:Soylent_Green|Charlton Heston movie of the same name]] where in the dark, dystopian future, an overcrowded population eats processed food wafers that are secretly made from dead people.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Chiron Beta Prime" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Chiron+Beta+Prime|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-ii/|Thing a Week II]]''. Of course this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week II" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton4 here].<br />
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=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Chiron Beta Prime" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Christmas]]<br />
* [[Future]]<br />
* [[Outer space]]<br />
* [[Robots]]<br />
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|trackno=04<br />
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|release=10-07-2005<br />
|songlink=Shop+Vac<br />
|bloglink=2005/10/07/thing-a-week-4-shop-vac/}}<br />
"'''Shop Vac'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s fourth album [[Thing a Week One]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Shop Vac" was released as the fourth [[Thing a Week]] on October 7th, 2005. It was originally released without a solo. Jonathan held a contest for fans to submit sample solos and put the winning entry, by Vincent, into the song. <br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"Shop Vac" is played somewhat regularly at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Depending on the location of the concert, Jonathan will alternatively explain or bemoan the existence of suburbs. The solo is invariably omitted when the song is played live, but is otherwise an acoustic version of the recorded track.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "Shop Vac" is classified as a funny/sad song on the [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/listen Listening Suggestions] page.<br />
* The radio in the background near the end of the song appears to be saying the following (credit for this discovery to [http://www.jonathancoulton.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=168#Item_7 Blimix]):<br />
**"... the case of two men who have come up with an idea for ads reaching a captive audience. The ads can now be seen inside public bathroom stalls. 'It may seem silly,' says..."<br />
**"A forty-nine-year-old, unidentified man went berserk last night, opening fire with a twelve-gauge shotgun in a crowded, downtown..."<br />
* Jonathan's comments in his blog about these lines: "The newscast is a segment about ads above urinals, and then another about a guy going nuts with a shotgun. It felt a little goofy to drop that in there, but it also gave me chills, so I kept it."<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Shop Vac" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Shop+Vac|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-i/|Thing a Week I]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"''Thing a Week I''" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton3 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Shop Vac" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
(Your themes here)<br />
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|albumname=Thing a Week Three<br />
|length=3:41<br />
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|bloglink=2006/05/19/thing-a-week-33-tom-cruise-crazy/<br />
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'''"Tom Cruise Crazy"''', a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s sixth album, ''[[Thing a Week Three]]'', is a lighthearted stroll through the demented world of [[wikipedia:Tom_Cruise|Tom Cruise]]. <br />
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== History ==<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" was released as the thirty-third [[Thing a Week]] on May 19th, 2006. <br />
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== Live Performance ==<br />
<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" is regularly played at Jonathan Coulton concerts. During performances co-billed with [[Paul and Storm]], Jonathan performs "Tom Cruise Crazy" with them. Jonathan performs the lead vocals, accompanied by his guitar, while Paul and Storm snap their fingers on the off-beats. During each chorus, Paul and Storm perform backup vocals as well.<br />
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In the third verse of the song, Paul and Storm ad lib between the first few lines of the verse. Although they vary the actual performance from time to time, these ad libs usually include Paul whistling and Storm vocalizing a trombone.<br />
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The song was performed live by [[Jonathan Coulton|Jonathan]], [[Paul and Storm|Paul, Storm]], and [[Molly]] (on vocals) at the [[Seattle, WA: 2008-04-26|Seattle April 26, 2008, show]] in a rare quartet performance. This is the only known performance at a JoCo concert where anyone other than Jonathan sang lead vocals for an entire Coulton song.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "Tom Cruise Crazy" is listed as a "funny song" on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* [[Len]]'s [[Visual Thing a Week]] merges Tom Cruise with another character well known for insanity and a big smile: Batman villain [[wikipedia:Joker_%28comics%29|The Joker]].<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Tom Cruise Crazy" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Tom+Cruise+Crazy|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iii/|Thing a Week III]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]].<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week III" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton6 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Tom Cruise Crazy" is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Fame]]<br />
* [[Funny songs]]<br />
* [[Insanity]]<br />
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|trackno=5<br />
|length=4:24<br />
|release=10-01-2004<br />
|songlink=Mandelbrot+Set<br />
|demosonglink=Mandelbrot+Set+(Demo)}}<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* Written for [[John Hodgman]]'s [[Little Gray Books]] Lecture #16, "How to Pour the Perfect Werthmann", delivered on February 5, 2003.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20030208050702/http://www.littlegraybooks.com/</ref><br />
* This lecture concerned things that were named after actual people.<br />
* [http://bantha.org/~lunetta/pix/mandelbrot.jpg Proof that Benoit Mandelbrot is aware of Jonathan Coulton and this song].<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Mandelbrot Set" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Mandelbrot+Set|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/where-tradition-meets-tomorrow/|Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
As of February 2008, the CD version of ''Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow'' is out of print and is no longer available.<br />
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=== Other versions ===<br />
The demo version of "Mandelbrot Set" is also available on the MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Mandelbrot+Set+(Demo)|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums/other-experiments/|Other Experiments]]''. This song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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A karaoke version of "Mandelbrot Set" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Mathematics]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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|trackno=2<br />
|length=3:03<br />
|release=September 2005<br />
|songlink=I+Feel+Fantastic<br />
|bloglink=2005/08/09/the-future-is-now/}}<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* The song (like all the tracks from [[Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms]]) was written as a musical response to [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-08/future-body-soundtrack an article in Popular Science]. The article that inspired this song was about the future of pharmaceuticals, discussing the possibilities of modulating human emotions with medication. The song is an ironic tribute to prescription drugs, portraying its narrator as completely dependent on medication and numbed beyond all emotion as a result.<br />
* Subject of a PopSci [[Fan Projects#Contests|contest]] for the best fan-submitted videos, held from May-June 2007. [[Jonathan Coulton]] said of the winner, Andrea Crain (aka Anniekate76), "I like AnnieKate's video because it's got this very simple visual look, but it's deep, man. I keep noticing new stuff every time I watch it, all these quick cuts to funny things. It's like an episode of Lost, but funny, and with stick figures."<br />
* Gabriel of Penny Arcade has referenced the song to describe his life after beginning to take anti-anxiety pills.<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Future]]<br />
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|albumname=Smoking Monkey<br />
|trackno=04<br />
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|release=11-05-2003<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
*The song was, obviously, inspired by [[Wikipedia:Ikea|the popular Swedish furniture store of the same name.]]<br />
*Of the three products noted, only Billy remains in the current lineup. Ingo was discontinued in 2008, Karl in 2005.<br />
*"And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine" infers to space-efficient products such as loft beds with desks underneath and sofas with hidden storage which allows one to maximize usability in small areas. A typical Ikea showroom would feature such items in mock apartments titled along the likes of ''My Home in 256 sq.ft.''<br />
*"In the land where the furniture folds to a much smaller size" refers to the fact that nearly every piece of furniture sold at Ikea requires assembly. Indeed, even some Ikea sofas require assembly.<br />
*"But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there" refers to Ikea's BoKlok prefrabricated modular houses and apartments. One cannot actually purchase a home from an Ikea store, however.<br />
*"In New Jersey, they got a goddamned Swedish parade" is not an Ikea specific reference, although there are two stores in the state. More so, just as New York used to be New Amsterdam, parts of New Jersey was New Sweden, hence a lot of Swedish heritage to celebrate in the area.<br />
* "Ikea" is listed as a "funny song" on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Funny songs]]<br />
* Foreign countries<br />
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|albumname=Thing a Week Three<br />
|length=3:07<br />
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"'''Code Monkey'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s sixth album, [[Thing a Week Three]]. It is one of Jonathan's most recognizable and best known songs, a concert staple and an identifier of his place in the [[Wikipedia:Geek rock|geek rock]] genre.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Code Monkey" was released as the twenty-ninth [[Thing a Week]] on April 14th, 2006. Jonathan claims in the [[joco:/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey|blog]] entry for "Code Monkey" that the song isn't autobiographical, though he did use the term "code monkey" to refer to himself and his co-workers.<br />
<br />
Shortly after its release, "Code Monkey" was [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/23/159227 linked to] on Slashdot.org; the resultant [[Wikipedia:Slashdot effect|traffic overload]] caused jonathancoulton.com to go down for over twenty-four hours.<br />
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== Other versions ==<br />
Quick Stop Entertainment sponsored a [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2006/11/18/contest-code-monkey-remix/ "Code Monkey Remix" contest] from November 11th, 2006, to December 19th, 2006. Contestants were able to download the source files for the song and remix them as they saw fit. Four of the five winning entries can be found [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2006/12/20/code-monkey-contest-judging/ here]. One of the winners, [[The Doifter|Kristen Shirts]], has since gone on to cover other Jonathan Coulton songs; she has also accompanied Jonathan live at several concerts in New York City as well as at the [[San Francisco, CA: 2008-02-22|San Francisco DVD show]].<br />
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[http://fredleo.com/fredblog Fred Leo] created a version of Code Monkey with an additional guitar track after Jonathan made a remark as to how boring the existing guitar parts sound. It is available from [http://fredleo.com/night-out-recommendation-for-minneapolis-madison-chicago-and-st-louis one of his blog posts]. <ref>http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/12/05/link-roundup/</ref><br />
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Jonathan has also created two "PG" versions of "Code Monkey", where the "cuss words" ("''goddamn''" and "''crap''") have been blanked out (blog entry [[joco://2006/05/29/pg-code-monkey/|here]]) and one with the "bad words reversed" (blog entry [[joco:2006/05/30/code-monkey-like-back-masking/|here]]).<br />
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== Live performance ==<br />
"Code Monkey" is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs; it is believed that Jonathan has performed it in every concert since its release. In live performances, the song is typically slowed down tremendously from the Thing a Week release, becoming more of a ballad. When performing with [[Paul and Storm]], they usually accompany Jonathan with backing vocals. In addition, the song has been played in multiple variations; while accompanied by Kristen Shirts on ukelele, with [[Emily]] doing the [[Code Monkey Dance]], or Jonathan himself using a [[wikipedia:Tenori-on|Tenori-on]].<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* "Code Monkey" is listed as one of the four most popular songs on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* This song was used as the theme song for the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068683/ G4TV series, ''Code Monkeys''].<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Fritos|Fritos]] is a brand of corn chip.<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Tab_(soft_drink)|Tab]] is a diet cola, and [[Wikipedia:Mountain_Dew|Mountain Dew]] is a citrus soda. Both are known for being heavily caffeinated.<br />
* [[Spiff]]'s World of Warcraft machinima video for "Code Monkey" has been viewed over 2,400,000 times.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Code Monkey" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Code+Monkey|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iii/|Thing a Week III]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
<br />
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
<br />
=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week III" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton6 here].<br />
<br />
=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Code Monkey" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Cake]]<br />
* [[Computers]]<br />
* [[Fritos]]<br />
* [[Monkeys]]<br />
* [[Unrequited love]]<br />
* [[Work]]<br />
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|albumname=Thing a Week Three<br />
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"'''Code Monkey'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s sixth album, [[Thing a Week Three]]. It is one of Jonathan's most recognizable and best known songs, a concert staple and an identifier of his place in the [[Wikipedia:Geek rock|geek rock]] genre.<br />
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== History ==<br />
"Code Monkey" was released as the twenty-ninth [[Thing a Week]] on April 14th, 2006. Jonathan claims in the [[joco:/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey|blog]] entry for "Code Monkey" that the song isn't autobiographical, though he did use the term "code monkey" to refer to himself and his co-workers.<br />
<br />
Shortly after its release, "Code Monkey" was [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/23/159227 linked to] on Slashdot.org; the resultant [[Wikipedia:Slashdot effect|traffic overload]] caused jonathancoulton.com to go down for over twenty-four hours.<br />
<br />
== Other versions ==<br />
Quick Stop Entertainment sponsored a [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2006/11/18/contest-code-monkey-remix/ "Code Monkey Remix" contest] from November 11th, 2006, to December 19th, 2006. Contestants were able to download the source files for the song and remix them as they saw fit. Four of the five winning entries can be found [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2006/12/20/code-monkey-contest-judging/ here]. One of the winners, [[The Doifter|Kristen Shirts]], has since gone on to cover other Jonathan Coulton songs; she has also accompanied Jonathan live at several concerts in New York City as well as at the [[San Francisco, CA: 2008-02-22|San Francisco DVD show]].<br />
<br />
[http://fredleo.com/fredblog Fred Leo] created a version of Code Monkey with an additional guitar track after Jonathan made a remark as to how boring the existing guitar parts sound. It is available from [http://fredleo.com/night-out-recommendation-for-minneapolis-madison-chicago-and-st-louis one of his blog posts]. <ref>http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/12/05/link-roundup/</ref><br />
<br />
Jonathan has also created two "PG" versions of "Code Monkey", where the "cuss words" ("''goddamn''" and "''crap''") have been blanked out (blog entry [[joco://2006/05/29/pg-code-monkey/|here]]) and one with the "bad words reversed" (blog entry [[joco:2006/05/30/code-monkey-like-back-masking/|here]]).<br />
<br />
== Live performance ==<br />
"Code Monkey" is one of Jonathan's most regularly played songs; it is believed that Jonathan has performed it in every concert since its release. In live performances, the song is typically slowed down tremendously from the Thing a Week release, becoming more of a ballad. When performing with [[Paul and Storm]], they usually accompany Jonathan with backing vocals. In addition, the song has been played in multiple variations; while accompanied by Kristen Shirts on ukelele, with [[Emily]] doing the [[Code Monkey Dance]], or Jonathan himself using a [[wikipedia:Tenori-on|Tenori-on]].<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* "Code Monkey" is listed as one of the four most popular songs on Jonathan Coulton's [[joco:primer/listen/|Listening Suggestions]] page.<br />
* This song was used as the theme song for the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068683/ G4TV series, ''Code Monkeys''].<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Fritos|Fritos]] is a brand of corn chip.<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Tab_(soft_drink)|Tab]] is a diet cola, and [[Wikipedia:Mountain_Dew|Mountain Dew]] is a citrus soda. Both are known for being heavily caffeinated.<br />
* [[Spiff]]'s World of Warcraft machinima video for "Code Monkey" has been viewed over 2,400,000 times.<br />
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== Availability ==<br />
=== Downloads ===<br />
"Code Monkey" is available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an [[joco:songdetails/Code+Monkey|individual track]] or as part of ''[[joco:albums//thing-a-week-iii/|Thing a Week III]]''. Of course, this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.<br />
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Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the [[joco:store/flac/|Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store]]<br />
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=== CD ===<br />
"Thing a Week III" is available for purchase as a CD [http://cdbaby.com/cd/coulton6 here].<br />
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=== Other versions ===<br />
A karaoke version of "Code Monkey" (studio recording version) is available on the [[joco:store/karaoke/|Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store]].<br />
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== Themes ==<br />
* [[Cake]]<br />
* [[Computers]]<br />
* [[Fritos]]<br />
* [[Monkeys]]<br />
* [[Unrequited love]]<br />
* [[Work]]<br />
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