Good morning! Here, have a song. From an idea by Bruce Adelsohn. Thanks to Zander Nyrond and Blind Lemming Chiffon for suggesting lyrical tweaks.

Ted Cruz Crazy
Words: © by Tom Smith
Music: "Tom Cruise Crazy" by Jonathan Coulton

Music video for the original song:

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Ted Cruz is so in love with freedom ( Read more... )

You all remember the brouhaha that erupted online several days ago, regarding Glee lifting Jonathan Coulton's unique and hilarious arrangement of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" and not crediting JoCo. Well, the celebrated Mr. Coulson has retaliated in the best possible way:I’ve released this track as a single - it should be on iTunes, Amazon, and ( Read more... )

Some years ago, our friend Jonathan Coulton (I love being able to put those four words together) did a magnificent cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". The arrangement is... distinctive, especially contrasted with the original song.

Apparently, next Thursday, JoCo's exact same arrangement will show up in an episode of GleeAlso apparently ( Read more... )

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This entry was originally posted at http://filkertom.dreamwidth.org/1472937.html. You may comment there or here, although LJ tends to have a livelier conversation at this time.

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This entry was originally posted at http://filkertom.dreamwidth.org/428659.html. You may comment there or here, although LJ tends to have a livelier conversation at this time.

That would be the title of the new Jonathan Coulton song over the end credits of Portal 2, again performed by Ellen McLain in the role of GLaDOS. For those of us unlikely to finish or even play the game, here you go.

Sadness. Mathematician and teacher Benoit Mandlebrot has passed away at the age of 85. He gave us fractal math, including one particularly gorgeous set. And now JoCo has to change his lyrics:

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Heads up, judifilksign:

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Got any good new music videos to link to?

Thanks to invader_tak_1 for noticing that Spiff has a new JoCo WoW video:

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JoCo and Paul & Storm was a great concert night. Especially Paul & Storm, who really kick up the energy on stage. Unfortunately, it was very crowded, so I couldn't go over and talk to them -- I had no idea where they were after the show, actually.

Watchmen was pretty cool, and jayzus god faithful. I literally could only think of two lines (an ( Read more... )