31 Days of "Spooky" Music Day 21: Creepy Doll

      Yup, it's another piece by Jonathan Coulton, and it is also from one of this Thing-A-Week albums. It doesn't seem that long ago when he really was all over  the internet; I remember being exposed to his music shortly before he gained more mainstream fame for the Portal closing theme, "Still Alive".

     The song very nicely switches back and forth between creepy music box and rock guitar while telling the tale of your experience with the creepy doll that manages to be both unsettling and ridiculous ("The doll disapprovingly asks if you really need that much honey"). 

     I don't know if you could really dance to this one of not, but it's definitely a good trick or treat soundtrack item.

31 Days of "Spooky" Music Day 16: Re: Your Brains

     Jonathan Coulton is one of those musicians where you have heard his music even if you do not know his name. He originally got the internet's attention back in the mid-aughts when he spent a year creating a "Thing A Week", but what you will likely know him from is songs like "Code Monkey", theme song to the series "Code Monkeys" (which was neither great nor horrible) from the old G4 network, "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone" from the Portal games, and this song, "RE: Your Brains", which apparently was in "Left 4 Dead 2", which I do not remember being there at all, but it has been a long time since I have played that.

     "RE: Your Brains" tells the story of a rather reasonable and pragmatic living corpse who just wants to come to an understanding with his old co-worker regarding the inevitability that brains will be eaten. It's good fun.