Funny Story
A couple of times since I put out those Thing a Week CDs I’ve gotten emails from people asking me why Code Monkey is in mono. Usually I was all “Huh?” and then sometime later would kind of forget about it. It’s not in mono, it can’t be in mono, why would it be in mono?
Well guess what? Code Monkey is in mono. I just noticed that the track I delivered to the CD production place way back when is about half as big as it should be BECAUSE IT IS IN MONO.
Nevermind that I didn’t notice at the time, nevermind that I didn’t even bother to check when people told me over these last couple of years. What’s amazing to me is that it hasn’t really mattered in any significant way. I’m sure I sweated like crazy over the stereo placement of this or that element during the mixing process, and then I just plastered over all those details with stucco, and turns out nobody really cares. Not even me, apparently. This is a lesson that I learned (or rather, failed to learn) many times over the course of Thing a Week: that thing you’ve been working on forever, buffing and polishing to get to that last 2% of excellence? It’s done. Finish it and move on. Hey, at least it’s not in mono, right? Because that would be a huge disaster with serious consequences.
And so you know, this error will be corrected in the forthcoming greatest hits CD “JoCo Looks Back” that’s being manufactured even as we speak.
The Mistake
I knew there would be at least one – forgot this (no Paul and Storm on this one):
Saturday November 22 at 8 PM
Nyack, NY
Riverspace Arts
Tickets: http://xrl.us/osy8c
Show Schedule Update
If you subscribe to the mailing list you already know all of this. Still:
It’s been a while since I sent one of these updates, and there’s a lot
coming up. Still working on the DVD (I know! How do you think I feel?)
but we’re getting there. And looming in front of me is this obviously
awesome UK/Ireland tour – you may have heard the Oxford show got
cancelled and replaced with a show in Birmingham, so all of you in
Oxford waiting for tickets to go on sale, erm, sorry? I’ll catch you
next time. Here we go:
Friday October 24 at 7:30 PM
Dublin Ireland
Whelan’s Pub
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossgd
Saturday October 25 at 7:30 PM
Glasgow UK
Oran Mor
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossgh
Wednesday October 29 at 7:30 PM
Manchester UK
Manchester Academy (Club Academy)
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossgq
Thursday October 30 at 7 PM
London UK
Shepherd’s Bush Empire
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/onpr2
Friday October 31
Nottingham UK
Performance at Game City
More details TBD
With Paul and Storm
Saturday November 1 at 7:15 PM
Birmingham UK
The Glee Club
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossg8
Sometime shortly after this trip there will be a bit of traveling
with John Hodgman on his book tour, more details coming soon.
And then, a couple things to round out the end of the year, hopefully
New York City sometime in early December, but first:
Friday November 21 at 8 PM
Boston, MA
The Paradise
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/osshv
Saturday November 22 at 8 PM
Nyack, NY
Riverspace Arts
Tickets: http://xrl.us/osy8c
And then after a brief resting period in which gifts will be
exchanged, I am back on the West Coast and in Denver for the very
first time:
Friday January 16 at 9 PM
Denver, CO
The Soiled Dove Underground
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/3gvv53
Saturday January 17 at 9 PM
San Francisco, CA
Great American Music Hall
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossrf
Sunday January 18 at 8 PM
San Francisco, CA
Great American Music Hall
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossro
Thursday January 22
Vancouver, BC
I hope anyway – details to come
With Paul and Storm
Friday January 23 at 8 PM
Seattle, WA
Moore Theater
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossru
Saturday January 24 at 8 PM
Portland, OR
The Aladdin Theater
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossr4
Am I too tired to keep going? No, I am not:
Friday February 20 at 7:30 PM
Alexandria, VA
The Birchmere
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/ossse
Saturday February 21 at 8 PM
Annapolis, MD
Ram’s Head Tavern
With Paul and Storm
Tickets: http://xrl.us/osssg
As always, you should suspect that I have made some errors here and
there – please double check my dates and times before you buy tickets
and make plans. Thanks for reading this far – see you soon I hope!
Oxford Cancelled, Birmingham Saves The Day
As I twittered a bit ago, the show we were hoping to set up in Oxford did not work out. My fairy godmother (whose name is David) has found us a fine replacement though, and while tickets are not on sale yet, it looks like this is going to happen on Saturday November 1:
Glee Club – The Arcadian
15 pounds
7 PM (or “19 of the clock, innit?” as you would say in the UK)
I will of course post a link to tickets as soon as they go on sale. Hopefully this is close enough to Oxford that many of you will still be able to catch a little bit of the old Coulton.
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