{"id":1179,"date":"2007-11-11T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/11\/11\/paul-and-storm-and-jonathan-coulton-and-podcasters\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T16:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T22:51:46","slug":"paul-and-storm-and-jonathan-coulton-and-podcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton and Podcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misty was nice enough to let me drive to Atlanta to see Jonathan Coulton<\/a> in concert on Friday. Paul and Storm<\/a>, who were half of the a capella group Da Vinci’s Notebook, opened for him. They gave up a capella songs just for our friend Liza, though they’re still doing very jokey songs, like their opener, “Opening Band”.<\/p>\n

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It was interesting comparing their style of musical humor to that of Coulton’s. Paul and Storm’s songs are often joke-with-punchline or musical style mashups. Coulton takes more of a folk rock approach, telling stories of people (and the occasional anthropomorphic object) and letting the humor come from the characterization.<\/p>\n

The concert was lousy with podcasters, oddly enough. I ran into Bobby Blackwolf<\/a>, the handsome and talented host of the Bobby Blackwolf show — and I don’t say that just because he had me on his show last year to talk about the Interactive Fiction Competition<\/a>. And after the show, a guy handed me his business card and said, “Hey, we have a podcast about games<\/a> that you should listen to,” to which my friend Brian replied, “Funny, we have a podcast<\/a>, too.”<\/p>\n

I did get to meet Paul, Storm, and Jonathan after the show, helped by the fact that Brian and Crispy were filming the concert for Yahoo! News. And, yes, I apologized for the terrible things we did with Jonathan’s music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stephen, Jonathan Coulton, Brian, Crispy, and Asai<\/p>\n

(Thanks, Amy<\/a>, for the pic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misty was nice enough to let me drive to Atlanta to see Jonathan Coulton in concert on Friday. Paul and Storm, who were half of the a capella group Da Vinci’s Notebook, opened for him. They gave up a capella songs just for our friend Liza, though they’re still doing very jokey songs, like their … Continue reading Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton and Podcasters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t