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Code Monkey

4:12 pm, February 14, 2007

I like this.

I like it so much I might go see Coulton in San Francisco this weekend.

4:12 pm, February 14, 2007 -- 12 comments

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Randal said:
(On February 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm)

And to think I had to drive to Oxford Mississippi to see him.
james said:
(On February 14th, 2007 at 5:27 pm)

‘Code Monkey’ is one of my favorite Coulton songs, although I dislike Tab and Mountain Dew. I first heard it about a year ago in the midst of a really terrible CS class, so it struck a chord (as it were).
Joel said:
(On February 14th, 2007 at 5:44 pm)

It is always so very weird when two of my Internet celebrities find each other. (Yes, you are my personal Internet celebrities.) It’s like the time Warren Ellis and Joss Whedon got into an argument on Warren’s blog. Well, maybe not that big, but still.

You should definitely go see Coulton. He’s got a lot of talent and an excellent sense of humor. You should also listen to “First of May,” which has possibly the greatest dropped rhyme in contemporary song. I think it’s available on his website.
Nate said:
(On February 14th, 2007 at 8:46 pm)

He also does a killer country version of “Baby Got Back.”
Scarybug said:
(On February 15th, 2007 at 7:07 am)

It’s not country, it’s “Folk”!
w_nightsahde said:
(On February 15th, 2007 at 8:31 am)

I like “Monkey”, but my favourite Coulton tune has to be the keening love ballad sung by an evil overlord, “Skullcrusher Mountain”.
Rachel said:
(On February 15th, 2007 at 10:02 am)

My boyfriend has been playing this song and the one about Flickr pretty much nonstop. I’d kill him if the songs weren’t as good as they are. The zombie office one is also a gem.

I wish I could come see him up in SF this weekend, dangit. Stupid “previous plans”.
wick said:
(On February 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pm)

I echo Joel’s thoughts. As soon as I saw you mention Coulton’s name, I thought, “Oh, wow, he hasn’t heard Coulton before? That’s so obvious that Lore would love it. Why didn’t I think of that…”
Ben Nesson said:
(On February 17th, 2007 at 9:51 am)

As I recall, I first heard Code Monkey in my car, after an interview for what wound up being my first programming job after graduation.
Byron Hartsfield said:
(On February 18th, 2007 at 1:53 pm)

Actually, Lore introduced me to Jonathan Coulton, several months ago. Back when he was doing “Table of Malcontents,” he had a link to the Spiff video of RE: Your Brains. As I recall, he called the video itself “bog-standard machinima,” but loved the song itself. I did too, so much so that I Googled Coulton and wound up downloading some albums. So now I get that little insider’s thrill when I see a reference to Coulton’s songs in, say, Rob Balder’s Erfworld.
Dave McMillen said:
(On February 19th, 2007 at 11:32 am)

I wish the acoustic, ballad-y version were available through iTunes. The one they have over there seems (from the preview snippet) to be a much harder, rocky version, and the softer version appeals to me more. It makes code monkey seems more sympathetic, somehow.
David McMillen said:
(On February 22nd, 2007 at 11:50 am)

I’d never heard of Jonathan Coulton before this, and just a few days later he showed up in John Hodgman’s audio book! I felt so “in the know” and “with it” when I knew who Hodgman was bantering with at the beginning of the book. (Free this week, at least at the Canadian iTunes store.) (I keep mentioning iTunes, sorry – I really don’t work for them, I promise.)

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