PAX 2008: Highlights from the Jonathan Coulton concert

by Ross Miller { Aug 30th 2008 at 3:00PM }

Last night, Jonathan Coulton (preceeded by the awesome OneUps and Frezepop) rocked the PAX 2008 house in the only way a bearded man with an acoustic guitar standing in front of a crowd of nerds can -- with clever puns and nerd references. Check out our highlights reel of the show, including:

A "Still Alive" duet with Dr. Horrible's Felicia Day
A more subdued, romantic "Code Monkey"
A cover of They Might Be Giant's "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
A sea of arms stretched out mumbling "eat your brains"
Lots of great Coulton banter

We've embedded the highlights reel above. Check out the separate videos for "Code Monkeys" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul" after the break.

Birdhouse in Your Soul

Code Monkey

"Flickr" and "Not This One"

Freezepop Highlights

Tags: concert, coulton, freezepop, jonathan-coulton, joystiqfeatures, music, pax-08, pax-2008, penny-arcade, penny-arcade-expo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fuze9 @ Aug 30th 2008 3:07PM

o_o.. he rickroll'd PAX.. Man's got balls.

HHUK @ Aug 30th 2008 3:10PM

Rickroll? Felicia Day?

HHUK @ Aug 30th 2008 3:11PM

Okay, why does Joystiq insist on cutting off half of my comment. It was supposed to finish "Jonathan Coulton rocks as always".

Karlito @ Aug 30th 2008 3:16PM

LOL He RickRoll'd PAX. Mr. Coulton I salute you

deft @ Aug 30th 2008 4:01PM

Indeed.
Gotta love that man!

DAK @ Aug 30th 2008 3:18PM

Oh man, I have a pass to todays show, not last nights and i'm so bummed I missed it. Besides hearing Coulton do "Still Alive" which is always amazing, he covered an awesome TMBG song! Sigh.

Neebs @ Aug 30th 2008 3:48PM

God I hope Freezepop and JoCo play PAX 2010 Boston.

Sam @ Aug 30th 2008 3:53PM

Nerds waving cellphones in the air to terrible songs about fellow nerd customs?

Think i might vomit.

Chez @ Aug 30th 2008 4:28PM

What the hell are you doing on this site if you hate nerds...?

WiiFTW @ Aug 30th 2008 4:31PM

A nerd commenting on a video about other nerds waving cellphones in the air to terrible songs about fellow nerd customs?

Think i might vomit.

The Doctor @ Aug 30th 2008 7:09PM

I thought that words could not express that much extreme stupidity, and then you had to go and prove me wrong.

Madster @ Sep 2nd 2008 1:54AM

Someone's got identity issues...

RazorD @ Aug 30th 2008 4:04PM

Thanks for the PAX coverage, joystiq! Really enjoying it all :)

Ebichu @ Aug 30th 2008 4:08PM

man, why do these embedded movies keep crashing my browser? It only happens here. :/

Poisoned Al @ Aug 30th 2008 4:09PM

Living in the UK, I always wished I could go and see E3. Now I want to see PAX.

Cognizantkid @ Aug 30th 2008 4:38PM

Woooo, Birdhouse In Your Soul! Woooooo!

CubeGuy @ Aug 30th 2008 4:59PM

Please tell me that there's a full video of Felicia Day singing "Still Alive" floating around somewhere...

Sam K @ Aug 30th 2008 6:50PM

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/30/pax-2008-jonathan-coulton-playing-still-alive-with-felicia-day/

snarfoogle @ Aug 30th 2008 7:49PM

# A more subdued, romantic "Code Monkey"

Sounds like the album version to me.

mr mobius @ Aug 30th 2008 8:27PM

Felicia looks quite cute up on stage. It's nice to see how far she has came since she started the guild. Its still weird to see her on tv in the UK. I'm surprised she didn't do badly singing as Glados.

Justin McElroy @ Aug 30th 2008 11:20PM

They Might Be Giants are the best band in the world.

ogvor @ Aug 31st 2008 2:20AM

These were all aweomse parts from last night, especially Still Alive and the TMBG cover, but Fancy Pants was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I was lauching through nearly that entire performance, I really hope their is a video of it online some where.

PAX 2008 Rules!