The opening band, Paul & Storm, got the benefit of very shaky camera work. (It gets much steadier. Promise.) They asked for audience participation for a song about pirates. It’s called The Captain’s Wife’s Lament.

Jonathan Coulton started playing, & (four songs in) a place for a tripod opened up. Since I hate shaky-cam, I’m not posting those.

• A Talk with George
• Skullcrusher Mountain
• A bit of banter, involving a butchered stuffed animal.
• I Crush Everything
• Tom Cruise Crazy – fixed
• Code Monkey
• Make You Cry
• Creepy Doll
• I Feel Fantastic
• This camera’s still new to me; it presented the time oddly, so Mr. Fancy Pants was interrupted by a tape swap.
• Mandelbrot Set
• You Ruined Everything

The battery died in the beginning of Re: Your Brains. Mostly, these were split before encoding, but the encoder – mencoder – choked on certain time ranges. So, for some songs, I encoded the whole thing then split it up with avisplit, which caused a few seconds of overlap on those songs.

There is some good video of this event, from kwc.org (the first 40 minutes!) & from Violet Blue (some short segments).

Here are the mp3 & AAC/M4B versions; they’re both 22meg, 32kbps, recorded at 22khz. I was close to the back of the crowd.

I tried out an audio compressor, instead of tweaking audio volume envelopes throughout.

Update, 2007-02-07: Gee, I should’ve mentioned Jonathan Coulton before. I put in chapters:

• 0:00 – setting up
• 2:40 – intro
• 17:40 – Mall of America
• 28:05 – Hobo Matters
• 41:53 – John & Jonathan rest
• 48:19 – Q & A