Talk:Jonathan Coulton

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[edit] YouTube

There are a large number of YouTube videos of Coulton. There also seems to be some sort of project for fans to create music videos using his songs and copyright-free images. Would someone be willing to write that up? I would, but Bob from the office down the hall wants to see me about something. ;-) Brendano 20:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Popular Science was hosting a contest a few weeks ago for the best videos for "I Feel Fantastic." I assume the others are from similar conests... Of course he talks about them on jonathancoulton.com... --Mrcolj 12:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unverifiable content

I removed this: Jonathan Coulton the son of the thunder and the wide-open plain. He eats sixteen eggs for breakfast, and he beat up your big brother. He has played in concert halls in Danzig, Sebastapol and Kinshasa and by command of Michael_I_of_Romania.

In his spare time, Jonathan Coulton likes to fight bears. In fact, before he became a professional software programmer, part-time performer, and contributing troubador to popular technical publications, his dream was to be a professional bear fighter. Unfortunately, however, there really isn't much of a demand for bear fighting. Not anymore. Not since the Swiss-Austrian legend of the game, Andre "the Bear-Fighting Maniac" Schvitzkein was mauled to death during a public demonstration in the animal husbandry exhibition of the 1889 Leipzig Circus. So, having been born to the wrong century, Coulton had to pursue other interests. Still, he sometimes steals off by himself, to one of America's national parks, and seek out a particularly ferocious grizzly, or an agitated brown bear, for a little one-on-one.

Clever, but I'm not sure that can be factually verified. Jon 20:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Creative Commons

Suggest adding that since Jonathan Coulton uses Creative Commons for licensing, a number of music_videos have been creating using his songs. Machinima such as Mike "Spiff" Booth's videos for Re: Your Brains and Just As Long As Me are created using computer generated graphics from games such as World of Warcraft. There are also videos in the style of Coulton's Flickr which use Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr as a slideshow accompaniment to the song. The Jonathan Coulton Project has created a number of these.

Link to Spiff's videos at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=spiffworld Link to The Jonathan Coulton Project at http://jocopro.libsyn.com/ --AiYume 19:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

A simple read of this page reveals it to be woefully biased towards the subject. I reverted some of the "critical overview" added by Hippobabe.--Drat (Talk) 11:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

Most of the sources cited in this article are trivial. The mention on The Daily Show establishes little other than that some guy on TV thought it was funny (a guy who he worked with on a track). The Slashdot and Penny Arcade mentions are extremely trivial (how many millions of things have they linked to?).--Drat (Talk) 07:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, Drat. Are you suggesting that the sources or the subject are non-notable? I don't see any claims in the article that need stronger references - I mean, we're not claiming the man is God.  :-) Ppe42 12:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
He has niche appeal, so it seems reasonable that he'd have niche notices, especially this early in his career. Do articles about singer-songwriters that specialize in songs about, say, old steam engines rather than science and technology have more "non-trivial" citations? Give him a few decades and maybe his cite list will resemble Leslie Fish's.Brendano 20:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I've removed the following external links. They can be reintegrated into the article as references, or not at all.

—Disavian (talk/contribs) 14:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal Themesong

As far as I'm aware, this Jonathan Coulton wrote the themesong/end-credits song for Valve's Portal. Don't know if that's important enough to add, and I don't trust myself beyond minor grammar edits, so hopefully some hero will ride out of the sun and insert mention of the game. 71.107.0.109 07:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he did do the end credits. There's a bunch of comments over on his blog entry regarding the orange box about it. I can't find a source for the song title, so I changed the sentence about it to reflect that, and linked to the voice talent's page. I took the GCF file containing the song apart and the filename is indeed portal_still_alive.mp3, but that doesn't mean that is in fact the song title.Thalakan 15:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops, I just took apart the credits script, and it does indeed refer to the song as Still Alive. Corrected. Thalakan 15:45, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Quoting the article: He is also credited for writing the song "Still Alive" This seems to me to give the impression that he didn't actually write it, people just think he did. So I've changed it to He also wrote the song "Still Alive" instead. --Islomaniac 973 16:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Now I come to think of it, a reference would be nice. Can anyone eg get a screenshot from the credits for me, or find the credits online? Kthxbai. --Islomaniac 973 16:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap

The intro paragraph and the "Discography" section appear to have a lot of overlapping/redundant information. Anybody want to tackle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrguido45 (talk • contribs) 15:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reworked

I did some major reworking to the article - In addition to some minor rewording, I took out the double references, and moved material around to more appropriate sections. Any other suggestions for things to do? -AtionSong (talk) 23:21, 7 May 2008 (UTC)