I don't remember when it was that I first heard of him, but I'm pretty sure the first song I heard was this one:
 | Jonathan Coulton - First of May |  |
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 | Found at skreemr.com |  |
It was love at first sound. This guy, JoCo, was a computer programmer who stopped being a computer programmer to try his hand at writing music:
| Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey | |
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| Found at skreemr.com | |
His lyrics are witty and absolutely relateable to a 28 year old geek. His music, though 'campy' in style, displays a knack for writing some pretty amazing melodies. Case in point is "RE: your brains" a song about an office worker turned zombie trying to debate with an ex-colleague about whether the zombie hoard (of which he is a part) should be let into his mall fortress.
| Jonathan Coulton - Re Your Brains | |
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| Found at skreemr.com | |
JoCo is best known for his "thing a week" project, where he attempted to write. produce, and record one song per week throughout a 52 week period (sept '05 to '06 for a total of 52 songs)--quite an amazing feat, if you ask me. You can read about that here.
| Jonathan Coulton - Tom Cruise Crazy | |
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| Found at skreemr.com | |
The best part was that he released all of the songs, for free, on the internet. And he still ended up making more money than he had working as a programmer (at least by 2007, he did). Oh, and Valve paid him some money for writing the ending song to their hit game "Portal"
| Jonathan Coulton - Still Alive (J.C. Mix) | |
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| Found at skreemr.com | |
JoCo is playing a show at a local watering hole this Thursday. I can't wait:
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