I got a chance to interview Jonathan Coulton before his Raleigh show last Friday. I hadn’t talked to him since ’07 when he came through town backing up John Hodgman, and he was the opening band for Paul and Storm. Things have changed a bit since then.
I asked him about Thing a Week, when he was making a song every week for a year, and how it affected him. I was going to blog about it, but then I thought, why not just drop that snippet of the interview into the feed? (the interview was not for ISBW) So here it is. Nothing shiny, not an official show, just four minutes of me, JoCo, and the forced march.
(We were backstage during the Paul and Storm opening act, hence the music in the background.)
This did influence my views about my WIP, and I’ve been writing more this week. Thanks, JoCo. I don’t want to think about writing every day. I want to think of it as a forced march. Forward, always forward.
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Loved hearing “Nugget Man” in the background.
@greg – LOL- I was wondering if anyone was going to be able to hear what they were singing!
What you say about writing — you want to be an author of books, but you don’t want to actually write them — is pretty much how I feel about knitting. I want to be able to say that I knit the sweater that I’m wearing, but I pick up everything but my knitting when I have spare time.