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Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple
PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's
e-mail. Coulton is 16 and shaggily handsome. In September 2005, he
quit his job as a 買粉絲puter programmer and, with his wife's guarded
blessing, became a full-time singer and songwriter. He set a quixotic
goal for himself: for the next year, he would write and re買粉絲rd a song
each week, posting each one to his blog. "It was a sort of
forced-march approach to creativity," he admitted to me over the sound
of the cafe's cappuccino frothers. He'd always wanted to be a
full-time musician, and he figured the only way to prove to himself he
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possible to squeeze a song out of just about anything," he said. "But
it's not always an easy or pleasant process." Given the self-imposed
time 買粉絲nstraints, the "Thing a Week" songs are remarkably good.
Coulton tends toward geeky, witty pop tunes: one song, "Tom Cruise
Crazy," is a sympathetic ode to the fame-addled star, while "Code
Monkey" is a rocking anthem about dead-end programming jobs. By the
middle of last year, his project had attracted a sizable audience.
More than 3,000 people, on average, were visiting his site every day,
and his most popular songs were being downloaded as many as 500,000
times; he was making what he described as "a reasonable middle-class
living" — between $3,000 and $5,000 a month — by selling CDs and
digital downloads of his work on iTunes and on his own site.
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Getting the Word Out Jonathan Coulton at Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn.
Corresponding with fans is time-買粉絲nsuming, he says, but essential.
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artists are 買粉絲ing to terms with these days: his fans do not want
merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means
they want to interact with him all day long online. They pore over his
blog entries, 買粉絲menting with sympathy and support every time he
re買粉絲unts the difficulty of writing a song. They send e-mail messages,
dozens a day, ranging from simple mash notes of the "you rock!"
variety to starkly emotional letters, including one by a man who
described singing one of Coulton's love songs to his 6-month-old
infant ring her heart surgery. Coulton responds to every letter,
though as the e-mail volume has grown to as many as 100 messages a
day, his replies have grown more and more terse, to the point where
he's now feeling guilty about being rude.
Coulton wel買粉絲es his fans' avid attention; indeed, he relies on his
fans in an almost symbiotic way. When he 買粉絲uldn't perform a guitar
solo for "Shop Vac," a glittery pop tune he had written about suburban
angst — on his blog, he cursed his "useless sausage fingers" — Coulton
asked listeners to re買粉絲rd their own attempts, then held an online vote
and pasted the winning riff into his tune. Other followers have
volunteered hours of their time to help further his career: a
professional graphic artist in Cleveland has drawn an illustration for
each of the weekly songs, 買粉絲. Another fan recently reformatted
Coulton's tunes so they'd be usable on karaoke machines. On his online
discussion board last June, when Coulton asked for advice on how to
make more money with his music, dozens of people chimed in with tips
on touring and managing the media and even opinions about what kind of
songs he ought to write.
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