Saturday, October 28, 2006

FLIM FAM BIM BAM

THANK YOU, North Carolina, for all your kindnesses, your spicy crab cakes, and your traditional bag pipes.

ON TO OXFORD--see you soon, Oxonians. (Soon=4PM at Square Books).

AND THEN, on OCT 30 to AUSTIN, TX (Then=Oct 30, at Book People, at 7PM).

AND THEN, to Ohio for the Daily Show.

PLEASE NOTE THE PHOTO FOR IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FROM CPT JOY

That is all.

5 comments:

slippmann said...

Did anyone capture the hobo poetry accompanied by bagpipes at the Durham NC event? That was a great night. Thanks John for the many guffaws.

hodg-man said...

Thanks, Suzanne--we shall check out the B-side and doublecheck our Faulkner references. Are you the Shakespeare scholar?

Slippmann--I do believe some audio was captured of the bagpipes (his name was Daniel, no?), and I'm as eager to hear it as you are.

christa said...

a rather large (26MB) video of the poetry/bagpipe mashup is here:
http://singintomymouth.com/blog/images/hodgman.mov

enjoy!
your bootleg-book girl-
christa

slippmann said...

Christa, thanks for posting the video! I bet other people will now show up to readings bearing their oddest musical instruments trying to wrest Jonathan Coulton from his position as official Hodgman Troubadour/Mountain Man.

Christa mentioned the word mashup and that got me thinking...John, have you considered recording a vocal-only version of that poem and "groupsourcing" other mashups? After the 700 hoboes project, who knows what could come out of it?

slippmann said...

Just read that tonight is last tour night. I guess Mr. Coulton is safe...for now.