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PAX 2008: Highlights from the Jonathan Coulton concert

by Ross Miller on Aug 30th 2008 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 (26)

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

Rickroll? Felicia Day?

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

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

Indeed.
Gotta love that man!

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.

God I hope Freezepop and JoCo play PAX 2010 Boston.

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

Think i might vomit.

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

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.

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

Someone's got identity issues...

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

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

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

Woooo, Birdhouse In Your Soul! Woooooo!

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

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

http://www.bieletext.de

http://www.biele-net.de

http://www.bielegroup.de

# A more subdued, romantic "Code Monkey"

Sounds like the album version to me.

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.

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

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!

And Joystiq rickrolls us by proxy by not giving a forewarning. :p

Oh neat, Felicia Day. :u

i love Freezepop

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