The Cake is a Lie.

A couple of weeks ago we got to see our beloved Jonathan Coulton in concert here in Atlanta.

photo by Dale May

Jonathan Coulton used to be a programmer. Now he writes and sings songs that he sells on the internet for dirt cheap, and often free as in air. He's actually making a living with this scheme, and has recently been touring the country based entirely on demand from the people. As far as I can tell without any promoting, or posters or advertising.

Jonathan has seen a pretty big explosion in his popularity lately. He was commissioned to write a song for the awesome new game called Portal. The game is brain-hurting puzzler in which you use a portal opening gun to bend space and time to your own will while trying to defeat an evil artificial intelligence. Everybody who has played the game has loved it, and it's theme song.

The show was great, and we even worked up the nerve to meet him after the show. Something we rarely do, especially if we are big fans of something or somebody. It's weird. But not this time, I actually spoke to him, and found out he was a big fan of Sealab 2021, and also Frisky Dingo. Excellent.

Here's one of our favorite Jonathan Coulton songs:

Here's his smash hit video game song from Portal:

Here's the same song live:

Buy Jonathan Coulton songs!