![]() ![]() JONATHAN COULTON WIKI TAB CODEOne of Coulton’s best and most rockin’ numbers, Code Monkey, is an incredibly spot-on portrait of what it’s like to be a developer at a medium-to-large sized company, something that Coulton was until he decided to become a full-time musician. ![]() ![]() If you’d like to find out more about Coulton, he was featured in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Among the songs in his ironic, clever and geeky oeuvre are pieces were office culture and zombies intersect, an ode to SkyMall, quite possibly the only pop tune about Benoit Mandelbrot and ubiquitious household items. While having a very delicious dinner, Ethan and Rachel played us selected tunes from their music library, one of which was Coulton’s Skullcrusher Mountain, a love song from an evil genius to the woman he’s infatuated with.Ĭoulton’s sound could be described as Ben Folds’ and They Might Be Giants’ musical style married to Weird Al’s and MC Frontalot’s nerd sensibilties, with a dash of Green Day’s power pop thrown in for good measure. Wendy and I were visting to work out the details of our wedding ceremony (Rachel was one of the officiants). I remember being introduced to Jonathan Coulton’s music while staying at Ethan Zuckerman’s and Rachel Barenblat’s place in the Berkshires back in the early summer of 2005. ![]()
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