On the train home, while in the middle of reading a particularly interesting page of my Wired magazine, I overheard this from the woman on the phone next to me:
I should tell him I can’t go – I’m going to a concert. (pause) It’s this guy who got started on the Internet. He did a new song every week for a year – like one called Code Monkey about a programmer.
“Ah ha!” thought I to myself (after the words “every week”). “I know that guy!” She was, of course, referring to Jonathan Coulton. That particular song, about a software developer who hates his job and has a crush on the woman at the front desk, inspired any number of YouTube videos (including a group project that represents the “genre” well).
How amazingly fortunate that he’ll be in Boston and that I learned of it from someone else’s phone call on the train! Of course, the moment I got home I checked his schedule of upcoming shows for details. He will next be playing on October 24th! At Whelan’s! In Dublin, Ireland! Wait…
Blërg!
I knew I should have interrupted the nice lady’s phone call to ask for details. Maybe she’s just going to Ireland in a month.
