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.