I’m Back

WOO! Sounding good!

I found the octopus video and turned the sound down on it and pretended that was the music video for it. Good times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6jQ6b-Tqg

I drew a visual response to Joco recording the song. You can see it here.

I also recorded myself creating, a la Monster By Mail.

I will edit the video and link it when I am done.

Technically what an octopus will to a crab is liquefy it and suck it out of the shell, but that's pretty gruesome too.

Sounding good! You're right--it would make a pretty good breakup song.

That's awesome, especially "you make my insides, outsides" !

You put Octopus together so fast it didn't have a chance to tear stuff apart!

As promised, here is the video. This may be the fastest video ever done for a JoCo song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE84HH8wNwY

This is me jumping up and down like a fanboy. Awesome song.

Len, you beat my record on the video of 1 day!

I like this song already...probably because I've heard it lots already before it was released.

Wow. What a great song and a fun ride along with it. Thanks for letting us in on the process.

Mr. Coulton,

Since I enjoyed the making of the song so much, I attempted to buy 3 copies of it, so as to pay what I feel is a fair price for the more than a song experience I got, however, the sopping card system automatically reduced my "quantity" to "1" - so I ran through two more transactions. But your songs are worth more than a buck to me. In fact, if you had let me :name my price" I would have probably paid $5.00 for "Octopus"

Whoops. Missed the "Update Cart" feature - carry on.

Oy, one last comment and I'll shut up. I've been singing just the chorus of "Octopus" since yesterday - as my wife left for work this morning, she was humming..."Octopus, some kind off Octopus" having not even herd more than my creaky warbles of the tune. That's what I call an "infectious" riff.

Mmm...extended metaphor....very cool song.

Octopuses have three hearts but it sounds like this particular one lacks any at all...

I really dig this song. I've been jonesing for some new music.

I didn't know octopi had more than one heart.

Ahhh.... a new Coulton track. Perfect addition to a Friday.

So is that an album title, then, on the Music page? "The Aftermath" seems like a great title for a Coulton compilation, evoking both broken relationships and geeky Mandelbrotian academia.

Oh, this is a happy happy week! Birthweek for a new album, birthweek for new online recording experiences, new online illustration/recording/publication formats -- I am off to buy a couple of bananas.

Yes. Awesome.

Excellent. and, ahem, shouldn't You Oughta Know also be in the Aftermath?

Awesome! It's been forever. In return for once again giving me something melodious and geeky to hum you can count on a cut of my paycheck in the form of a banana or two. :)

Is this a sign of things to come? I sure hope so.

Also: I think it's fantastic that your daughter is already watching YouTube and is so interested in natural history and in underwater battles between titans of the deep. Clearly, you are raising her well. ^^

Cool! Great to finally hear it since I wasn't able to tune in on UStream. Now it's time for me to announce this to everyone in my address book. Let the viral marketing begin!

Martin F: If you're just dying to throw your hard-earned cash at JoCo, which I strongly encourage, you can always buy bananas, monkeys and robots on the home page. :-)

Woot! New JoCo song! Sounds great!

The inspiring video makes me wonder: first, I see a shark taken out by an orca (not surprising), then an octopus. Could sharks really be this overated?

Awesome song JoCo. Glad you're back! Im gonna have this friggin song stuck in my head for days...i can feel it.

Long time listener first time writer and all that jazz...is it just me, or did the website go down again yesterday afternoon? It wouldn't load for a while on my computer.

Anyways, three or more huzzahs for octopi and metaphors!

Now if I could just quit slacking off on my creative output...

I paid my dollar. Woohoo!

One of your best, JoCo... thanks so much for continuing to share the music via Creative Commons. I am continuously amazed at what your fans do with your songs.

-CSJ

I guess that an octopus' garden wouldn't be quite as much fun as we have been led to believe.

If your daughter ever fixates on anything from the Discovery Channel drop me a line.

Hmmm..... there's 'Furry Old Lobster', 'Seahorse', 'I Crush Everything', and now 'Octopus'.

A few more songs like that and you'll have enough for a "Jonathan Coulton: Under The Sea" compilation album. Ka-ching! :)

Or, if you don't want to wait, you can throw in 'Code Monkey', 'My Monkey', 'De-Evolving', 'Under The Pines' and 'Cobras' and release a "Jonathan Coulton: A Day at the Zoo" compilation album right now instead. :)

reminded me of an earlier cephalopod intensive internet classic . . . behold the fishy triumphant!
http://www.threebrain.com/dailies2.php?daily=168

JoCo! This is amazing!! Like seriously just sososo good... I'm so happy you got a new song up.. it's gorgeous!

I drew a picture about this song.

http://lunajurai.deviantart.com/art/Octopus-some-kind-of-Octopus-83070993

"My daughter went through a phase where she asked constantly for this YouTube video (which, incidentally, is a blatant violation of copyright) of a National Geographic show about octopuses."

It isn't against copyrite. It was on the actual National Geographic channel, so it was released by the producing company.