When: Apr 2, 2008 6:00 pm (Wednesday)
Where: World Cafe Live (map)
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good. They repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. And the sick part is, you keep coming back.
Coulton’s is the voice of every spooky elementary school kid who could never quite keep his shirt tucked in or shoes tied; every lovelorn mason and mad scientist; every one of us who has ever sat despairingly on the floor, surrounded by parts of an Ikea endtable, weeping over our allen wrenches. He is ready to soft-rock your socks off.
Jonathan has also been a past guest on Slice of SciFi. You can hear our interview with him HERE.
I’m SO jealous! I’m hoping he’ll head up to MA/RI area and maybe I can catch him live…
Jonathan Coulton is great. His songs are funny, true, but he’s a great songwriter and musician besides. Straight up songs like “When you go” (about a breakup, presumably) and “You ruined everything” (about the bittersweet feelings new parents get) are great examples.
Bah, I was excited for a minute. That side of the state doesn’t count, in my book. Skulking in Pittsburgh……
Carolina? Anytime soon? 🙂