Posts tagged “John Roderick”

‘Nuff said:

Thanks, Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick!

Link of the Month:
My Wish List
‘Tis the season to give me lots of presents! #shameless

Album of the Month:
One Christmas At a Time by Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick
Jonathan Coulton (of Jonathan Coulton fame) and John Roderick (of The Long Winters fame) set out to collaborate on an album of traditional Christmas albums. They quickly found this boring, and were more entertained by the jokes they were coming up with than the traditional songs. So they made those jokes into all-new Christmas songs and recorded them instead. The results is a delightfully daffy while still very mucially polished collection of songs about relatives ruining Christmas and wanting an Atari 2600. There’s a very accurate, old-school country song about Christmas in jail (it reminds me a lot of a Three Ninjas song) and an hilarious song about the dangers of celebrating Christmas based on past experiences, or projecting the current Christmas into next year’s. Very funny and very catchy stuff. Get it!

Movie of the Month:
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
An unconventional Christmas movie, Rare Exports is an extremely straight-faced parody of arctic monster movies (like John Carpenter’s The Thing). Some wealthy American is digging up a mountain in Lapland because he’s certain that it is actually the world’s biggest burial mound. A young boy in the nearby village does some research and comes up with a theory about what (or who) is buried there that turns out to be surprisingly accurate. The results are darkly comedic, with a surprising third-act reveal, and the epilogue is delightful (and explains why the film is called Rare Exports).

Is the title of this post a little much? Have I been on twitter a bit too often?

Anyhoo, last night my wife and I went with @Jayseman and the Unintentional Housewife to Showbox SoDo to see a musical-type performance show.

The opener was Mr. Jonathan Coulton!

JoCo at ShoBo SoDo

He brought out a special guest for the song “Nemeses” — Mr. John Roderick!

JoRo joins JoCo at ShoBo SoDo

Then after they were done out came Mr. John Linnell and Mr. John Flansburgh!

JoLo & JoFo followed JoCo & JoRo at ShoBo SoDo

It was a very good show and a very fun everning! Of particular entertainment were an epic version of “Ana Ng” (which I don’t think I’ve seen them do live in a decade), and the Avatars of They performing “Spoiler Alert.” They did a very good job of mixing the olde and the newe in their set.

We hadn’t actually had a chance to go see They for many, many years, so it was great to have They back (on the other hand I think I’ve seen JoCo four or five times in the last couple of years—not that I’m complaining).