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Matthew Weiner

Simalot — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:09:34 GMT

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Matthew Weiner most recently served as creator, Executive Producer, writer and director on the critically acclaimed drama “Mad Men.” Since the series’ premiere in 2007, “Mad Men” has become one of television’s most honored shows joining an elite group in 2011 when it became only the fourth drama to be awarded four consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series. In addition, “Mad Men” was Emmy®-nominated for Outstanding Drama Series consecutively from 2008 – 2015 and received an overall total of 116 Emmy® nominations during the show’s eight seasons. Additional honors for the series include: three Golden Globe® Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; three Producers Guild Awards; five Writers Guild Awards; two BAFTA Awards; five Television Critics Association Awards, including Program of the Year; and being named on AFI’s Top 10 Outstanding Television Programs for seven consecutive years in addition to receiving a special award at the 2016 luncheon for the show’s eight and final season.
Weiner has been nominated for a total of 13 Emmy’s for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series including as a double nominee for final season’s “Lost Horizon,” written with Semi Chellas, and the series finale, “Person to Person,” which Weiner also directed. He won the award for the series pilot, as well as for the Second Season episode, “Meditations in an Emergency,” with Kater Gordon, and for the Third Season episode, “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.” with Erin Levy. Most recently, Weiner and the show’s writing team won the 2016 WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series for the show’s final season.

Weiner has also received Directors Guild nominations for his efforts behind the camera including for the series finale, “Person to Person,” “Meditations in an Emergency” in Season Two and the Season Three finale, “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.” In 2012, Weiner was awarded the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, which is given annually to television professionals who exhibit extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in the process of creating television programming.

Weiner’s additional credits include serving as an Executive Producer and writer on “The Sopranos,” and writer on various television comedy series including “The Naked Truth,” “Becker,” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe.”

In addition to his television credits, Weiner wrote and directed the feature film, “Are You Here,” featuring complex performances from iconic comedic actors Owen Wilson, Zack Galifianakis and Amy Poehler. “Are You Here” is an unexpected story about family, friendship and the people who keep us afloat while facing the compromises of life.

Born in Baltimore, Weiner studied Philosophy, Literature, and History at Wesleyan University. He also earned his MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television. Weiner currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, architect Linda Brettler, and their four sons.

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Adam Savage

Simalot — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:05:34 GMT

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ADAM SAVAGE has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what’s in his brain and make it real. He’s built everything from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships to dancing vegetables, from fine art sculptures to animated chocolate — and just about anything else you can think of.

The son of a filmmaker/painter and a psychotherapist, Adam has been making his own toys since he was allowed to hold scissors. Having held positions as a projectionist, animator, graphic designer, carpenter, interior and stage designer, toy designer, welder, and scenic painter, he’s worked with every material and in every medium he could fathom — metal, paper, glass, plastic, rubber, foam, plaster, pneumatics, hydraulics, animatronics, neon, glassblowing, mold-making and injection molding to name just a few.

In 1993, Adam began concentrating his career on the special-effects industry, honing his skills through more than 100 television commercials and a dozen feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 3, A.I. and the Matrix sequels. He’s also designed props and sets for Coca-Cola, Hershey’s, Lexus and a host of New York and San Francisco theater companies.

Not only has he worked and consulted in the research and development division for toy companies and made several short films, but Adam has also acted in several films and commercials — including a Charmin ad, in which he played Mr. Whipple’s stock boy, and a Billy Joel music video, “You’re Only Human (Second Wind).”

In 2002, Adam was chosen along with Jamie Hyneman to host MythBusters, which premiered on Discovery Channel in January 2003. Fourteen years, 1025 myths, nearly 3,000 experiments, six Emmy nominations and 53,000 yards of duct tape later, the series continues to inspire.

Today Adam stars in and produces digital content for Tested.com. Adam’s many regular Tested series include his One Day Builds (“Customizing Adam’s Hero Sword,” “Traveling Beaver Box”), Inside Adam’s Cave (“Adam’s Terminator T-800 Endoskeleton,” “Blade Runner Blaster Obsession”) and Untitled: The Adam Savage Project, a podcast with Will Smith and Norman Chan. Adam’s occasional series for Tested is called The Talking Room, in which he interviews such special guests as John Landis, Vince Gilligan, Damon Lindelof, artist Tom Sachs and chef David Chang.

Adam teaches, lectures and consults on a variety of topics to students, business folks and everyday Joes. His regular public appearances include San Diego Comic Con, Maker Faire and w00tstock (with Wil Wheaton and musicians Paul and Storm); in 2014, Adam also served as keynote speaker for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. And somehow Adam finds time to devote to his own art — his sculptures have been showcased in over 40 shows in San Francisco, New York and Charleston, West Virginia. Otherwise, in his very limited spare time you’ll find Adam in his man cave, meticulously building anything from a costume to a movie prop to a space-glove vacuum chamber.

Adam lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, twin boys and their two dogs.

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Peter Sagal

Simalot — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:56:46 GMT

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A native of Berkeley Heights, N.J., Peter Sagal attended Harvard University and subsequently squandered that education while working as a literary manager for a regional theater, a movie publicist, a stage director, an actor, an extra in a Michael Jackson video, a travel writer, an essayist, a ghost writer for a former adult film impresario and a staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.

He is the author of numerous plays that have been performed in large and small theaters around the country and abroad, including Long Wharf Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Seattle Repertory, and Florida Stage. He has also written a number of screenplays, including Savage, a cheesy vehicle for obscure French kickboxer Olivier Gruner, and Cuba Mine, an original screenplay that became, without his knowledge, the basis for ''Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights''.

Among Sagal’s honors in the theater are a DramaLogue award for directing, grants from the Jerome and McKnight Foundations and a residency grant at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. He has been commissioned to write new plays by the Seattle Repertory Theater and the Wind Dancer Theater and has been invited to work on his plays at Sundance, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the New Harmony Project.

In 1997, Peter joined the panel of a new news quiz show on NPR, co-produced by WBEZ-Chicago, that made its debut on-air in January of 1998. In May of that year, he moved to Chicago to become the host of the show. Since then, ''Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!'' has become one of the most popular shows on public radio, heard by nearly three million listeners on 520 public radio stations nationwide, and heard by a million people every month via podcast.

With Wait Wait, Peter has traveled around the country, playing to sold-out theaters from Seattle to Miami to Boston to Los Angeles, and many points in between, such as, for example, Akron. He’s asked Salman Rushdie about PEZ dispensers, Tom Hanks about Hollywood bad boys, then-Senator Barack Obama about the eccentricities of Wade Boggs, and inquired as to Madeleine Albright’s weightlifting accomplishments. The show made history in 2007 when, in May, Stephen Breyer became the first sitting Supreme Court Justice to appear on a quiz show, and then, in July, in front of ten thousand fans at Chicago’s Millennium Park, Peter conducted the first (and so far, only) personal interview with United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald since his conviction of White House Aide Scooter Libby.

In 2008, Wait Wait celebrated its 10th anniversary on the air, and was the recipient of a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. A year later, in the fall of 2009, Wait Wait made its New York debut with a show at Carnegie Hall, which sold out in the first 90 minutes after tickets went on sale.

In October 2007, Harper Collins published Peter’s first book, ''The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How to Do Them'', a series of essays about bad behavior, which was released in paperback in 2008. He is also a regular columnist for ''Runner’s World'', and has completed the Chicago, New York and Boston Marathons. He was named by New Jersey Jewish News as one of the top ten Jewish entertainers from New Jersey.

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Simalot — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:02:09 GMT

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Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Glamourist Histories series of fantasy novels. She has received the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo awards, and the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her work has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies as well as in her collection Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean.

Mary, a professional puppeteer and voice actor, has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA and records fiction for authors such as Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi.

Mary lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit [http://maryrobinettekowal.com maryrobinettekowal.com].

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Zoë Keating

Simalot — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:57:06 GMT

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Cellist and composer Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology – which she uses to sample her cello onstage – and for her DIY approach, releasing her music online without the help of a record label.

Born in Canada and a cellist since the age of eight, Zoë pursued electronic music and contemporary composition as part of her Liberal Arts studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and fell in love with the startup culture of the late 1990’s, finding a career as an information architect and data analyst while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Zoë eventually combined her love of music and technology, using a computer to live-layer her cello and performing for late-night crowds in a San Francisco warehouse where she lived with several other artists.

Now, Zoë has a devoted, global audience. Her self-released albums have several times reached #1 on the iTunes classical chart, she has over 1 million followers on Twitter and her grassroots approach and artists’ advocacy has garnered her much public attention and press. She serves as a governor for the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy, was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serves on the boards of the Magik Magik Orchestra and CASH Music, a nonprofit organization that builds open source digital tools for musicians and labels. She is a trustee of the World Economic Forum’s Future of the Internet Initiative, chaired by Al Gore.

Zoë has composed music for ballet, theater, film and radio and lends her music regularly to film, tv, dance productions and commercials<. In 2014 she began composing for television, working on the scores for the A&E zombie drama “The Returned” and “Manhattan”, a drama about the making of the atomic bomb.

As a cellist, Zoë has played and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini.

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Maureen Johnson

Simalot — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:42:14 GMT

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Maureen Johnson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of several YA novels, including ''13 Little Blue Envelopes'', ''Suite Scarlett'', and ''The Name of the Star''. She has also done collaborative works, such as ''Let It Snow'' (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and ''The Bane Chronicles'' (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan). Maureen has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. She has been nominated for an Edgar Award and the Andre Norton Award, and her books appear frequently on YALSA and state awards lists. ''Time Magazine'' has named her one of the top 140 people to follow on Twitter (@maureenjohnson). Maureen lives in New York, and online on Twitter (or at www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com).

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Ed Brubaker

Simalot — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:23:24 GMT

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Ed Brubaker is a writer of comics and film and television, known for his crime and horror comics, CRIMINAL, FATALE, THE FADE OUT, and KILL OR BE KILLED, and for his work on Captain America for Marvel Comics, where he co-created The Winter Soldier. He recently scripted the remake of MANIAC COP and was one of the writers for HBO’s WESTWORLD.

Interesting fact: Ed cannot swim, so please don’t throw him overboard.

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JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 7

Simalot — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 21:30:57 GMT

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'''JoCo Cruise 2017''' (aka JoCo Cruise 7) was announced on January 22, 2016. Watch the [http://jococruise.com official JoCo Cruise website] for more up-to-date details!

JoCo Cruise 2017 is a whole cruise ship (Holland America's ms Westerdam) full of music, comedy, and general nerdery, departing from San Diego, CA for a 7-night adventure along the Sea of Cortez.

The 2017 cruise will depart from San Diego, CA on '''Saturday, March 4th''' and return on '''Saturday, March 11th''', with ports of call at Cabo San Lucas, Pichilingue and Loreto.

==Booking==
'''Note: All bookings must be made through the [http://jococruise.com JoCo Cruise website].'''

Milestones: TBA

==Itinerary==
Official Events: TBA

Unofficial Events: TBA
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13tV92LycxCfpv_fiMop2gE0c3PcJo9GDGG8U571bZ7g/edit Shadow Cruise Spreadsheet]: A place to organize ideas and people with links to event specific information. Please note that this is not requesting space for your event, just an idea of when you will be requesting space, so we can maybe try and plan around each other and not heavily stack on a particular day

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|Sunday 5 March 2017
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|Tuesday 7 March 2017
|Cabo San Lucas
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|Saturday 11 March 2017
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==Entertainment==
Performers include Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and friends from across the music, comedy, gaming, and writing worlds.

===Performers and Featured Guests†===

* [[Jonathan Coulton]]
* [[Paul and Storm]]
* [[Jim Boggia]]
* [[Ed Brubaker]]
* [[Rhea Butcher]]
* [[The Doubleclicks]]
* [[Cameron Esposito]]
* [[Jean Grae]]
* [[N. K. Jemisin]]
* [[Maureen Johnson]]
* [[Zoë Keating]]
* [[Mary Robinette Kowal]]
* [[Ted Leo]]
* [[Molly Lewis]]
* [[Aimee Mann]]
* [[John Roderick]]
* [[Patrick Rothfuss]]
* [[Peter Sagal]]
* [[Adam Savage]]
* [[John Scalzi]]
* [[Janet Varney]]
* [[Matthew Weiner]]
* [[Wil Wheaton]]

†Featured Guests will not have their own main stage performances; but they will host events, hold Office Hours, and will very likely appear as guests during other performers’ shows and/or other Main Stage events.

==Gaming Track and Writing Track==
TBA

==Crowd-Sourced Activities==
TBA

==Dining==
TBA

==External links==
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-Jxpop-ls7BTaXpWpMYp2n1Ddlxp-PmVm4qfh_4KUU/edit#gid=1676569377 Media Listing] spreadsheet
* Twitter hashtags: [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23JoCoCruiseCrazy #JoCoCruise], [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23jcc2017 #JCC2017, [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23jcc7 #JCC7]
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/JoCoCruise2017/ JCC 2017 Facebook Group]
* Unofficial Joco Cruise 2017 Sea Monkey Migration Chart TBA

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Janet Varney

Simalot — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:17:06 GMT

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Janet Varney is a comedian, actor, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the voice of Korra on Nickelodeon’s hit series ''The Legend of Korra'', and she can currently be seen as Becca on the live action FX series ''You’re The Worst''. She also spent seven wonderful years hosting TBS’s ''Dinner and a Movie'', recurred on HBO’s ''Entourage'', was a series regular on the beloved E! and Yahoo series ''Burning Love'' seasons 1 and 3, and has made guest appearances in hit shows including ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''Key and Peele'', ''Psych'', ''Bones'', on the panel of ''Chelsea Lately'' and ''@midnight'', as a regular producer and co-host on HuffPost Live, and has appeared in films such as ''Still Waiting'', ''Drillbit Taylor'', and ''Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer''. Janet is the host of the popular Nerdist podcast ''The JV Club'' and the co-founder, creative director and producer of one of the largest and most acclaimed comedy festivals in North America, SF Sketchfest: the San Francisco Comedy Festival.

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John Scalzi

Simalot — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:13:41 GMT

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John Scalzi is the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-winning author of science fiction, including the books Old Man’s War, Redshirts, and Lock In, all of which are currently under development for television. He’s also written several non-fiction books, including The Rough Guide to the Universe and Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. He’s the writer of the video game Midnight Star, developed by Halo co-creator Alex Seropian. He was the Creative Consultant for the television show Stargate Universe. Paul and Storm and Jonathan Coulton have both written songs for his books. There was that one time he was covered in frosting by roller derby players on Neil Gaiman’s lawn. He also caused an Internet sensation by taping bacon to his cat. Seriously, what the hell is going on with this guy, anyway. Visit him online at [http://whatever.scalzi.com whatever.scalzi.com].

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Patrick Rothfuss

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:12:31 GMT

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Patrick Rothfuss was born in Madison, Wisconsin to awesome parents who encouraged him to read and create through reading to him, gentle boosts of self-esteem, and deprivation of cable television. During his formative years, he read extensively and wrote terrible short stories and poetry to teach himself what not to do.

Patrick matriculated at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, initially studying chemical engineering which led to a revelation that chemical engineering is boring. He then spent the next nine years jumping from major to major, taking semesters off, enjoying semesters at part-time, and generally rocking the college student experience before being kindly asked to graduate already. Surprisingly enough, he had enough credits to graduate with an English major, and he did so grudgingly.

Patrick then went to grad school. He’d rather not talk about it.

All this time Patrick was working on “The Book,” as he and his friends lovingly titled it. When he returned to Stevens Point he began teaching half-time while trying to sell The Book to publishers. In the process, he disguised a chapter of The Book as a short story and won the Writers of the Future competition in 2002. This put him into contact with all the right people, and after deciding to split The Book into three installments, DAW agreed to publish it. In March 2007, The Name of the Wind was published to great acclaim, winning the Quill Award and making the New York Times Bestseller list.

All this success was wonderful. Patrick eventually had to stop teaching in order to focus on writing, though he screwed that up by having an adorable baby with his adorable girlfriend. He started a charity fundraiser called Worldbuilders and published a not-for-children children’s book called The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle in July of 2010 through Subterranean Press, which was adorable, and seriously isn’t for children.

After a great deal of work and a few cleared throats and raised eyebrows from his patient editor, Wise Man’s Fear came out in March 2011 to even more acclaim, making #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Life continues to rock for him, and he’s working hard on writing the final installment of the series.

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Aimee Mann

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:10:46 GMT

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Interested in the full range of human faults, foibles, dysfunction, and self-delusion? You could spend your evening re-reading the DSM-IV Manual. Or you could opt to spend some time with an even more entertaining catalog of idiosyncracies: Charmer, the latest album from Aimee Mann, as fine a chronicler of the human comedy as popular music has produced. Names have been obscured to protect the guilty, but you will almost certainly recognize yourself in these short narratives, along with the fellow travelers who have conned, enabled, victimized, or (yes) charmed you.

Mann has the presence of mind to write songs about narcissists, which is a little different from the 90 percent of rock songs that are about being a narcissist. “The first song I wrote for the album was called ‘Charmer,’ so that’s kind of what started it,” she says. “And there are obviously songs that aren’t really on that topic, but it was a thing that I kept coming back to, because I do think people who are super-charming are really interesting. And I see how charm is on a continuum that goes all the way from people who can talk you out of anything to people who are manipulative to people who are almost a little sinister. They’re usually people who you really like being around in the beginning, because they’re really good at creating an impression that perhaps is tailor-made for you, and that’s very seductive.”

You might say it naturally follows that an album named Charmer would need to be musically seductive, as well. And this one certainly delivers its own charm offensive with a production style that sometimes harks back unabashedly to an earlier era, three decades or more ago, when electric guitars and synths walked the earth together in harmony. The full sound is in stark contrast to her much starker previous album, 2008’s Smilers, which was not so big on the new wave. She might even have been inspired by some fellow former Bostonites.

“This time, we bring the guitars back in.” she says, “and the bands we kind of listened to for reference were the Cars and Blondie and Split Enz. And ‘Jackie Blue’ by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, that awesome song—that was a big point of reference.” And she won’t disagree if you suggest that this might be her fullest-sounding album since the I’m With Stupid era. “I think if you’re emulating or inspired by that sort of era of radio pop, it’s just by nature more ‘produced.’ On the last record, our template was Area 51, because it was acoustic guitars and this kind of deserty, tumbleweed feel,” she laughs, “with synthesizers on top. This time, I wanted to use more analog synthesizers, because the music I was inspired by was that real ‘70s kind of thing. You know on Parallel Lines, when they were first putting synths in, but they were still being played almost like guitars? When I go back and listen to that stuff now, I go, ‘Oh, this is basically a rock band with just some bloopity bloopity keyboards on top.’” Make no mistake: “I love that,” she affirms. “I wanted to go back to: Remember when synthesizers were super-fun and brand new?”

Super-fun is not a term that everyone would expect to escape the lips of Mann, who well knows that she has an image—and possibly preternatural gift—for songs some would consider sad and downbeat. But there is a subtler kind of levity in her music that, followed to its natural end, leads to the kinship she feels with certain comedians and explains why she frequently does shows with the likes of Patton Oswalt and Paul F. Tompkins. And perhaps it explains why you’ll hear some of the biggest laughs this side of a Bridesmaids screening at a Mann show, sometimes arguably morose subject matter notwithstanding.

“There’s probably a little bit of relief of ‘Oh, I’m so glad that she’s not super-sour and depressed’—so any small joke, I get the laughter of relief, if it’s funny at all,” she says of the mood at her concerts. “Half the shows I still go, ‘Oh, I don’t know what to say,’ but I’ve definitely learned a lot from just being around comics. That’s not to say that I’m funny, but I think just being around it and adopting a little bit of a cadence or vernacular is helpful.” And the wit is certainly there in her songwriting, if you look for it. “There’s an irony that’s implicit through a lot of stuff. There is always a fair amount of moments where I write something that I suddenly realize is a very apt description of a situation that’s uncomfortable or horrible, but that the very accuracy of it makes me laugh, even though I can’t really expect that other people will. It’s a bit of a gallows humor, maybe.”

Articulation of these scenarios is the best medicine, whether or not laughter is part of the tonic, and that’s been the case ever since Mann resisted an overbearing beau’s admonitions to “keep it down now” and “shut up” in “Voices Carry,” the 1985 smash that put ‘Til Tuesday on the map. After three acclaimed albums fronting that band, Mann went solo with the Jon Brion-produced Whatever, and really went solo—label-wise—in 2000 with Bachelor No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains of the Dodo), which she snatched back from the clutches of an unconcerned major label and released on her own SuperEgo Records, beating the indie rush by several years.

This roughly coincided with Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, which featured a good number of Mann’s tunes as a song score—including “Wise Up,” the tough-love anthem that might still be the best summation of Mann’s entire unflinching catalog. Another song from the film, “Save Me,” was nominated for a Best Song Academy Award, which explains the “Oscar loser” self-description in the tagline on Mann’s Twitter account.

Among the albums that followed were One More Drifter in the Snow, an unlikely Christmas album that inspired a yearly series of holiday-themed variety shows, and the semi-narrative The Forgotten Arm. Plans have long been brewing to adapt the latter piece into a stage musical, although that’s on hold till she has a chance to do some serious work with the project’s book writer David Henry Hwang.

Another planned but stalled stage musical led to the creation of one of the new album’s songs, “Living a Lie,” in which Mann trades lead vocals with the Shins’ James Mercer. “Because it’s such a duet-y duet,” she says, “we wanted to get somebody who really had a great voice, and we were just lucky that he was game.” The tune has its “weird genesis” in Mann’s acquaintance with Aaron Sorkin, whom she met through mutual friends (unrelated to her previous cameo on The West Wing). “He started telling me about an idea for a musical he had, and obviously he’s got 50 million projects, so I don’t know if it’s something that’ll ever happen. But he told me the basic plot of it, and just as an exercise, I thought, ‘Suppose this is the song these two characters sing where their relationship is really falling apart.’ It makes me laugh, because two people singing a duet is usually a love song, and these are two people that are ripping each other to shreds. ‘You narcissist!’ ‘Oh yeah? Well, you’re this has-been who thinks he’s so great…’ I should write a whole record of vicious duets.”

The Forgotten Arm dealt with an area of psychology Mann is obsessed with: addiction. She’s also dealing with that on Charmer, but not drugs. Rather, she’s tackling some less obvious but possibly more insidious forms of pathology… as seen on television.

“I was watching Hoarders,” she laughs, explaining the inspiration for the oddly titled “Gumby.” “The thing I was fascinated by is that you have people who are desperate to help their loved ones who are living in squalor and often in dangerous circumstances, but the hoarders themselves do nothing but resent the help. They just see that you’re trying to take their shit from them, and they constantly position themselves to be the victim of these people who are coming in trying to help. It’s really delusional.”

“Soon Enough,” meanwhile, is “about an intervention. Of course another show I watch religiously! Everybody’s reading their letters and everybody’s crying, while once again, the target of the intervention is like ‘Fuck all y’all.’ It’s so classic. So the narrator of the song is like, ‘Yeah, I know, we’re all a bunch of assholes—we’re all against you. Just sit and listen to the letters, and soon enough you can say what a bunch of jerks we are. We get it.’” Mann’s co-writer on this one was comic Tim Heidecker, of Tim & Eric fame, who also signed on to direct a video for the tune.

Those are songs about some not-so-charming types. But Mann gets back to the album’s central conceit with songs like “Disappeared,” about the type of popular fellow who “makes a big production out of cutting people off… and in your relationship with them, you always think, ‘Well, they’ll never do that to me.’”

Then there’s the hooky “Crazy Town,” about “one of my favorite topics, the crazy girlfriend. I have a friend who does out with these girls who always wear short, tight dresses and high heels. They all refer to themselves as ‘spontaneous,’ which to me is code for ‘I’m crazy, and if we’re driving down the street, I might just hang out the window and yell at passers-by.’ Or if someone describes themselves as ‘passionate.’ I honestly think that’s a code word for ‘I will make scenes and throw shit at you in public places.’ The girl who seems to fun at the beginning of the night, whose hair you’re holding while she throws up at the end. There’s a certain type of guy who goes for that girl—the caretaker, who’s very present and sober. And these people go together. The crazy girl can’t flourish without the fixer.”

And of course there’s the “Charmer” himself—a type Mann is intimately familiar with, having been around her share of entertainers and politicians. “They’re usually people who you really like being around in the beginning, and then they’re very exhausting after a while, because they require an audience. But that’s very seductive. My husband has a line in a song which I always think about when I talk about this subject, which is: ‘When you think he likes you, you like the way he thinks.’ To me, that really sums it up, because you yourself are complicit in the interaction of the charmer. As soon as you think somebody likes you, then you suddenly think, ‘What a great guy!’”

As should be perfectly clear by now, Mann is not mired in the traditional business of strictly writing love songs, but more prone toward diving into the vast majority of human interactions that almost never get a song written about them. “To me, the dynamics of a situation can be applied to anything,” she says. “In a love relationship, it just gets amplified, and then people get crazier about the results. But it’s usually all the same kind of stuff, regardless of who you’re dealing with. You think, where have I been in this situation before? ‘Crazy Town’ is more sort of about a relationship, but it could also be about a friendship, or about a guy taking care of his alcoholic mother. You know, it is very sad to have friends who are crazy and can’t take care of themselves. And you can’t get too far into it, because then you’ll be dwelling in the world of crazy, and there’s no getting out. I can apply that to a lot of different circumstances, and the feelings behind that dynamic never change.”

Mann has been cast in a small role in an upcoming independent film, and she laughs about her thespian aspirations, or lack thereof. “There’s not weeping or anything” required in the role, she points out. “I think I look annoyed sometimes, which I feel like I could probably handle.” Possibly aside from a cameo in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, her best known part was playing herself in a celebrated episode of IFC’s Portlandia, in which Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are shocked to have hired one of their favorite singer/songwriters as a maid—and proceed to alternately worship and upbraid their heroine/housekeeper. “That was a true story: Carrie had hired a cleaning service and the girl who showed up was a singer in a band they liked. People love that show. I love that show. And yeah, more people have recognized me from Portlandia than music in the last year.”

In the last year, Mann got invited not just to do a fictional Portland couple’s housecleaning, but to join a Pennsylvania Avenue couple at the White House. She was part of a day the Obamas devoted to celebrating poetry (along with a more controversial musician, Common). It shook her up, in a good way.

The White House confab “had a really big impact, way bigger than I expected. Don’t get me wrong, I knew it was a big gig. But I also didn’t think it would have this big spiritual impact on me. Hearing the poets talk was really inspiring and honestly made me think totally differently about the purpose of art, which I think heretofore I thought was just a nice add-on if everything else is taken care of—like, a fun little frill for life. But I started to realize there’s something more essential about art, and it’s kind of the thing that makes the difference from being just a group, like a herd, to being a civilization.”

The characters Mann writes about tend not to think such noble thoughts, but if art is largely making something functional out of dysfunction, then Mann just might be our laureate, whether or not the president has called back with the official designation. She’s the kind of artist who’d rather disarm than charm, though maybe you’d be forgiven for even applying the C-word to her bracing musical bewitchery.

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The Both

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:06:31 GMT

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In 2014, [[Ted Leo]] joined forces with [[Aimee Mann]] to form The Both; the duo released their eponymous debut record in April of that year.

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Ted Leo

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:05:51 GMT

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Since the early ’90s, Ted Leo has been one of the most progressive forces in East Coast independent music, with a unique combination of punk and folk, soul and hardcore, and tradition and experimentation. Originally rising to a small degree of fame in the late-’80s New York hardcore scene by playing with Citizen’s Arrest and Animal Crackers, Leo left New York for Washington, D.C., in 1990, when he founded and fronted Chisel, one of the first mod/punk revival outfits to gain national renown. Leo was the primary songwriter and singer of Chisel, recording two full-length records with the band which were released on Gern Blandsten in the mid-’90s and leading the band on countless short tours. The songwriting was as infectious and calculated as that of Brit rock legends the Kinks, yet the rhythms remained fueled by the anthemic energy reminiscent of bands like the Who and the Clash.

''Set You Free'': Chisel’s eventual breakup in 1997 came after their critically acclaimed sophomore full-length, Set You Free. The band’s reputation seemed to flourish after their breakup, however, and even though the retro trends in indie rock would eventually gain enough popularity to inspire the likes of mod underground sweethearts like the Mooney Suzuki and the Delta 72, the influence of Chisel goes largely unnoticed. Leo went on to a variety of musical endeavors, including two years of on-again, off-again touring as a guitarist with the Spinanes, and a short-lived project called the Sin Eaters that he founded with his brother, Danny Leo, on drums and former Van Pelt bassist Sean Greene. the Sin Eaters’ progressive, politically charged, punk-fused rock and local all-star lineup took the New York underground by storm between 1997 and 1998, until Danny Leo left the band to work on his own material and eventually founded the Holy Childhood.

''Genealogies'': When the Sin Eaters disbanded without a recorded legacy in 1998, Ted Leo was left without a band and began his career as a solo artist. He remained active by wearing the hat of producer for the Secret Stars’ debut record, Geneologies, and touring alone on the East Coast and through the Midwest. He eventually recorded a self-titled full-length on his homestead, Gern Blandsten Records, in 1999 with a new band, the Pharmacists, that included various friends and affiliates of the Secret Stars, including Jodi Buonanno. This record marked a notable change in Leo’s sound, which, mostly due to his performance practices, was more and more rooted in songwriting legends like Billy Bragg and Alex Chilton. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists released a split with the One AM Radio later that year as a collaborative effort of both Gern Blansten and Garbage Czar.

''Treble in Trouble'': In the spring of 2000, Leo’s sophomore effort, Treble in Trouble, was released on New Jersey-based Ace Fu Records, displaying a more aggressive and romantic bent to Leo’s writing. In the early summer of 2001, Leo released a polished studio effort, The Tyranny of Distance, on Lookout Records. A strong contender for record of the year, it was followed by the equally strong Hearts of Oak in 2003. Shake the Sheets. which appeared in 2004, would prove to be his last for then-troubled Lookout, as Leo signed with Chicago-based indie Touch and Go in February 2006. A tour followed in March, on which he was supported by the Duke Spirit and Les Aus. He continued touring throughout 2006, festivals such as Coachella and headlining dates alike, as new material was worked on as well. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists eventually returned in March 2007 with full-length number five, Living with the Living. In 2009 Leo signed with Matador, and the following year he released his first record with them, The Brutalist Bricks.

In 2014, Ted Leo joined forces with [[Aimee Mann]] to form [[The Both]]; the duo released their eponymous debut record in April of that year.

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N. K. Jemisin

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:01:17 GMT

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N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been nominated for the Hugo (three times), the Nebula (four times), and the World Fantasy Award (twice); shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree; and she has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award (three times).

[http://nkjemisin.com/bibliography/ Her short fiction has been published] in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets (mostly Escape Artists) and print anthologies.

[http://nkjemisin.com/bibliography/ Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection] are out now from Orbit Books. (Samples available in the Books section; see top navigation buttons.) Her novels are represented by Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.

She is currently a member of the [http://www.alteredfluid.com/ Altered Fluid] writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.

Her essays, media reviews, and fiction excerpts are available at [http://nkjemisin.com nkjemisin.com].

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Steve Jackson

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:59:53 GMT

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Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable as long as you don’t let classes get in your way.He has survived involvements with the Republican Party (alternate delegate to the 1972 convention, but he got better — he now considers himself a small-l libertarian), the SCA (former landed baron and National Chronicler) and law school (escaping before the bar exam; game design was more fun). Steve’s first professional design work was for Metagaming, which published his [http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/ ''Ogre''], its sequel ''G.E.V''., ''Melee'', ''Wizard'', and several other games. In 1980, Steve bought the rights to ''Ogre'' and ''The Space Gamer'' magazine from Metagaming and started his own company. That company, [http://www.sjgames.com/ Steve Jackson Games], is now 35 years old and employs more than 40 people. One of the first releases on the SJ Games label, ''Raid on Iran'' (1981), was a critical and sales success. The next year, SJ Games released its first big hit, ''Car Wars'' . . . followed shortly by ''Illuminati''. He’s still writing games. Some of the high points:

* In 1983, Steve was elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.
* In 1984, he tried his hand at interactive books or “game novels.” His first one, ''Scorpion Swamp'', was published by Penguin and spent six months on the British children’s bestseller list.
* 1986 saw the launch of [http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/ ''GURPS''], the “Generic Universal Roleplaying System.” As of 2010, the ''GURPS'' system — now in its fourth edition — has won a number of awards and is still being supported with new releases.
* In 1990, SJ Games made national news when it filed suit after a destructive raid by the Secret Service. The SS agents, in search of “hackers,” nearly forced the company out of business by seizing hardware and data files. With the help of the newly formed Electronic Frontier Foundation, SJ Games took the case to federal court, proved that the raid had been unjustified and improperly executed, and won more than $50,000 in damages. The EFF remains active to prevent similar abuses.
* In 1994, Steve reworked the old faithful ''Illuminati'' to jump on the trading-card bandwagon. INWO (''Illuminati: New World Order'') became the company’s first million-dollar pre-ship.
* In 2001 came ''Munchkin'', which started as a silly card-game parody of a dungeon crawl and grew into the biggest hit we’ve ever had. For the next few years, most of his creative effort went into Munchkin sequels and supplements.
* In 2009, Steve created two quick dice games, ''Zombie Dice'' and ''Cthulhu Dice''. Both were hobby hits which made it onto mass-market shelves . . . and sold more than any other non-Munchkin release that year.
* Steve is a dedicated SF reader and fan, and enjoys attending both gaming and SF conventions. He writes filksongs (adequately) and sings (very badly). His other interests include gardening (especially water gardening), Lego, pirates, trains, beekeeping, dinosaurs and tropical fish. In his copious free time, he looks at webcomics, eats, and sleeps.

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Matt Fraction

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:50:37 GMT

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Matt Fraction writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, the writer Kelly Sue Deconnick, his two children, a dog, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of stags and coyotes. He won the first-ever PEN USA Literary Award for Graphic Novels; he, or comics he’s a part of, have won Eisners, Harveys, and Eagles, which is the craziest thing he’s ever typed. He’s a New York Times-best-selling donkus of comics like SEX CRIMINALS (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series, the 2014 Harvey Award for Best New Series, and named TIME Magazine’s Best Comic of 2013), SATELLITE SAM, ODY-C, HAWKEYE (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Single Issue), and, oh, lordy, so many more. He and Kelly Sue’s company MILKFED CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS turns their comics, and comics by other people, and entirely new ideas, into stuff you’ll hopefully be able to binge-watch over long weekends in 2016. He won the bronze medal in competitive shark-chumming at the 2012 summer Olympics in London.

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Kelly Sue DeConnick

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:49:27 GMT

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Kelly Sue DeConnick got her start in the comic industry adapting Japanese and Korean comics into English. Five years and more than ten thousand pages of adaptation later, she transitioned to American comics with 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: EBEN AND STELLA, for Steve Niles and IDW. Work for Image, Boom, Oni, Humanoids, Dark Horse, DC, Vertigo and Marvel soon followed. Today, DeConnick is best known for surprise hits like Carol Danvers’ rebranding as Captain Marvel and the Eisner-nominated mythological western, PRETTY DEADLY; the latter was co-created with her friend and ‘story soulmate,’ artist Emma Ríos. DeConnick’s most recent venture, the sci-fi kidney-punch called BITCH PLANET, co-created with Valentine De Landro, launched to rave reviews in December 2014. DeConnick lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Matt Fraction, and their two children.

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Jim Boggia

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:48:25 GMT

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For more than 20 years, Jim Boggia has been winning over fans, critics, contemporaries and luminaries alike with his uncompromising devotion to the sort of winsomely nostalgic, emotionally direct songcraft that’s impervious to age. His sonically intelligent retro-pop manifesto informs three studio albums — 2001’s ''Fidelity Is the Enemy'', 2005’s ''Safe in Sound'' and 2008’s ''Misadventures in Stereo'' — and he’s worked with a startling array of artists, including Aimee Mann, Juliana Hatfield, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Bernadette Peters, David Poe, NRBQ’s Big Al Anderson, famed Beach Boys lyricist Tony Asher, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, esteemed ’70s pop misfit Emitt Rhodes, and Canadian songstress Amanda Marshall. Also an accomplished singer and guitarist, Boggia performs with the well-known New York City-based Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux, as well as Mad Dogs & Dominos, an 18-piece collective headed by a heavyweight roster that includes Blues Brothers alum Lou Marini and producer John Leventhal. Oh, and he plays a mean ukulele.

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Paul F. Tompkins

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:44:28 GMT

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Paul F. Tompkins is a comedian and actor. He hosts the Fusion network’s ''No, YOU Shut Up!'' as well as the podcast ''Spontaneanation'' for Earwolf.

For a full list of Mr. Tompkins’ stage, television and film credits, ask your teacher or a policeman.

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Eban Schletter

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:42:22 GMT

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Eban Schletter is a prolific composer and songwriter who has written music for countless television shows including ''Spongebob Squarepants'', ''Mr. Show with Bob and David'' and the Academy Awards. His feature film scores include the 2005 remake of ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' and New Line Cinema’s ''Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd''. He has also maintained a steady output of solo albums which explore a broad range of musical genres.

For over a decade, he has been the musical right hand man for comedian [[Paul F. Tompkins]]: music director/arranger for Paul’s infamous live variety shows at LA’s Largo at the Coronet, and providing the piano atmosphere for the acclaimed ''Pod F. Tompkast''.

A multi-instrumentalist, Eban has performed on keyboards, drums, bass, clarinet and other instruments with a variety of artists, including Jill Sobule, Grant-Lee Phillips and Garfunkel & Oates.

Over the years, he has often been called upon for his piano playing skills. He performed a song (recorded live on set) with Mandy Patinkin in the film ''Run Ronnie Run'' and appeared as the piano player in a scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman in ''The Master'' (where his piano improvisations were also used).

But, it is his abilities on the Theremin which he is fast becoming recognized for. He has played Theremin on albums by Tom Freund, Sean Pawling and [[The Doubleclicks]], and performed on the instrument in Ryan Gosling’s film ''Lost River''.

Fun Facts about Eban Schletter:

* Dressed in character as a rocker chick named “Debbie”, Eban was the original drummer for legendary “all girl” San Francisco rockers Stone Fox (1989-1991).

* Eban is a lawyer who received his JD from the University of San Francisco School Of Law and passed the California State Bar exam in 1993.

* Eban performed the organ “Intermission” on the classic Tool album, Aenima (1996).

* Once, dressed like an elf, Eban squeezed onto a piano bench with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne to accompany them in a song with Triumph the insult comic dog (''Osboune Family Christmas Special'', 2003).

* The first article ever written about Eban was about how, after his child’s toy train set was recalled due to toxic lead paint, he received a thank you gift from the company, in the form of a new train car which was soon also recalled for toxic levels of lead (2007).

* More than once, dressed in a pink fluffy caveman outfit and wearing a fake mustache, Eban played keyboards for Carlos Mencia, who was dressed like a dinosaur (Comedy Central’s ''Mind Of Mencia'', 2007).

* Eban’s voice can be heard on several Official Sea World Marine Mates Talking Plush stuffed animals.

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Amanda Lund

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:36:18 GMT

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Amanda Lund is an actress and writer based out of Los Angeles. She’s appeared on ''New Girl'', ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', ''Community'', ''Fresh Off the Boat'' and the feature film ''Goosebumps''. She also wrote and starred in the web series ''Ghost Ghirls'', which you can watch on Vimeo. She has been a guest on several episodes of [http://www.earwolf.com/show/spontaneanation-with-paul-f-tompkins/ ''Spontaneanation''] and is thrilled to be part of the live show. She also loves cruises and does not get sea sick.

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Imogen Heap

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:33:31 GMT

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Self-produced, independent, engaged, she blurs the boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. Heap has always communicated and collaborated with her loyal following (currently she has over 2.2m twitter followers alone) both on and offline in pioneering ways. This has included fans contributing sounds, words and ideas through her inventive Listening Chair project for example or taking on a whole city in China for her song Xizi She Knows.

Her graceful tunes such as signature track Hide & Seek populate movies and TV shows, accompany dance and theatre performances and more recently, have been sampled by a whole new generation of young rappers and producers. On the more commercial end and being an ‘artist’s artist’, Heap has penned songs for and with Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Mika and Josh Groban among others.

Her ‘Mimu Gloves’ project – a cutting edge experimental gestural music ware developed initially for Imogen’s studio and stage work – was premiered at TEDU Global 2011 and since has attracted worldwide interest from the New Scientist, BBC TV and radio, Wired, Dezeen, Mashable, the list goes on. Now Heap can be found collaborating and supporting new Mimu ‘glovers’ who range from pop starlet Ariana Grande to the the leading UK charity working in music, disability and technology, Drake Music. Other technology projects have included a generative and reactive music jogging app, explorations in 3D sound with leading engineers and technologists and Arboreal Lightning, a sound and movement reactive LED tree spanning over 1.5km!

In August 2014 Imogen curated and headlined a 4 day festival of contemporary classical music with heavy leanings in technology, bursting with installations to inspire at London’s iconic Roundhouse Camden.

Heap’s albums have been nominated 4 times for Grammys winning her one for engineering (the only woman to do so!), an Ivor Novello award and in 2015 saw her receive from the Artist and Manager awards, The Pioneer award.

Now looking to collaborate with coders, artists and companies, Imogen seeks the solution for claiming back and shaping the Music Industry 2.0. Yearning for music to be experienced ‘on tap’, as water, freely flowing. In so doing, remunerating all parties directly and instantaneously via micro payments using cryptocurrencies. Dipping into the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to release music, so to hold not just the music in it’s data but also the the license and credit information. Thus making both the sharing of on one side fair and using the music for commercial ends for instance on the other, an easy task.

Imogen is now adding to her roles, Mum, as her little girl ‘Scout’ was born in November 2014 on her living room floor. True to form of Imogen’s creative character to draw from and experiment with whatever may be going on around her at the time, Scout is the percussionist on Tiny Human, the first song after her birth.

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Jean Grae

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:30:31 GMT

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Critically acclaimed lyricist, producer, writer, director, cinematographer and all around consummate entertainer Jean Grae has been challenging the boundaries of artistry since her debut in 1996. Whether creating music with imaginative narratives that immerse the listener in a dark world of Grae’s design, or spilling her most personal stories of love and life experiences, she always delivers an honest performance that strikes the most vulnerable parts of her audience and keeps them wondering, “what will she do next?” Well into an almost 20-year-long career that maintains not only relevancy, but continues to push the envelope of perception, marketing and branding. Grae has worked alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Pharoahe Monch, and a list that this very small bio cannot contain. Sorry, bio.Grae recently made her directorial debut and created her company, “KAGD.” With videos for The Hellpit Faeries, Talib Kweli and herself under her belt, she created “Life With Jeannie” a half hour sitcom, written, directed by and starring Grae. “Life With Jeannie” premiered on 12/25/2013 on [http://JeanGrae.com JeanGrae.com] and Grae’s latest releases are available on [http://JeanGrae.bandcamp.com JeanGrae.bandcamp.com].

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Matt Gourley

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:21:48 GMT

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Matt Gourley does some podcasts. I’ll say he does. For starters, he’s a creator of the ''Superego'' podcast, the ''James Bonding'' podcast, the ''Pistol Shrimps Radio'' podcast, and the ''I Was There Too'' podcast. There are more but let’s stop talking about podcasts. He’s also been seen or heard on ''Community'', ''Adventure Time'', ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'', and has been featured on Comedy Central’s ''Drunk History'', slurring his way through thoughtful retellings of Watergate, the Alamo, and the life of Wernher von Braun. By day though, Matt teaches acting and improv at College of the Canyons and Riverside College where he will most likely give you an easy A.

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Solomon Georgio

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:20:02 GMT

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Solomon Georgio burst out of the Seattle comedy scene with his own brand of indignant irreverence. He flawlessly intertwines biting social commentary with stories of his life as an openly gay African immigrant. He is a finalist of NBC’s ''Stand Up for Diversity'', a regular performer at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival (Seattle, WA) and the Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland, OR).

Solomon recently had his television debut in February 2015 as the featured comedian on ''CONAN'', and immediately followed it up with an appearance on ''Last Call with Carson Daly''. He will also be the host of several episodes of the upcoming Lance Bangs project for Vice, ''Flophouse''.

As an actor, Solomon will soon be appearing on the upcoming IFC web series ''Ball or Nothing'', the Comedy Central web series ''White Flight'', and TruTV’s ''Adam Ruins Everything''.

Cameron Esposito

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:17:56 GMT

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Cameron Esposito is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer.

In addition to her work as a nationally touring headliner, Cameron has appeared on NBC, CBS, Comedy Central, TBS, IFC, E!, Pivot, Cartoon Network and HBO Canada. Cameron appeared in films at this year’s Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals, and in Garry Marshall’s ''Mother’s Day'' alongside Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson.

Named a "Comic to Watch" by The New York Times, Variety, The Guardian, LA Weekly, Time Out Los Angeles, Jezebel, Los Angeles Magazine and Cosmopolitan Magazine, Cameron hosts her own standup show, ''Put Your Hands Together'', every Tuesday night at the famed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.

Cameron’s sophomore album, ''Same Sex Symbol'' debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts and was named a Best of 2014 comedy album by The AV Club, Consequence of Sound, Laugh Button and Paste Magazine. Cameron’s debut standup special ''Marriage Material'' was released in 2016 and her first book is forthcoming from Hachette/Grand Central Publishing. Cameron’s first television series ''Take My Wife'' will be available August 11, 2016 on SeeSo.

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Rhea Butcher

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:14:18 GMT

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Rhea Butcher is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer. Originally from the Midwest, Rhea grew up skateboarding the mean streets of Akron, Ohio. She moved to Chicago after a series of grad schools, and cut her teeth comically at The Second City and iO before eventually landing in standup. Rhea brings a James Dean type cool to her highly personal jokes. Her blue collar brand of cool has endeared her to audiences nationwide, as she performs standup and appears on shows such as @Midnight and Conan. She has performed in clubs such as Zanies (Chicago), Comedy Works (Denver), The Jukebox (Peoria), and The Improv (LA); as well as alternative comedy instititions like Chicago Underground Comedy and The Lincoln Lodge (Chicago), The Meltdown (LA), UCB (LA), Union Hall (NY) and The Bell House (NY). She was part of the 2013 Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Cleveland Accidental Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest (2014 & 2015), New York Comedy Festival, Atlantic Ocean Comedy & Music Festival (2012) and JoCo Cruise Crazy 5 and 6 (2015, 2016).

Rhea can be heard on NPR, KCRW, Maximum Fun, Nerdist and Feral Audio. She can also be seen on Funny or Die and Buzzfeed as well as the season 9 of ''Last Comic Standing'' on NBC.

Rhea has also featured for Cameron Esposito on the “Same Sex Symbol” tour and been a frequent guest and fan favorite on Kumail Nanjiani’s ''X-Files Files'' as well as Dan Harmon’s ''Harmontown''.

Her debut comedy recording was released as a 7” split with musician Gabe Schray for the Mutual Appreciation series on Jonah Ray’s new imprint, “Literally Figurative” in 2015.

Rhea’s first television series, “Take My Wife” premieres on August 11, 2017 on Seeso and her debut standup album, “Butcher” will be available starting August 19, 2017 through Kill Rock Stars Records. Additionally this year, Rhea will be a recurring performer on the TruTv series “Adam Ruins Everything,” and continue to host the popular web series “She Said” on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Network.

[[Category:JoCo Cruise 5 Performers]]
[[Category:JoCo Cruise 6 Performers]]
[[Category:JoCo Cruise 7 Performers]]

Allie Brosh

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:11:55 GMT

Simalot: Created page with "Allie Brosh lives as a recluse in her bedroom in Denver, Colorado. She is the creator of the webcomic ''Hyperbole and a Half'', and the author of the #1 New York Times bestsel..."

Allie Brosh lives as a recluse in her bedroom in Denver, Colorado. She is the creator of the webcomic ''Hyperbole and a Half'', and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name, which was named the Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Humor Book of the Year. Brosh has also given herself many prestigious awards, including “fanciest horse drawing” and “most likely to succeed.”

[[Category:JoCo Cruise 6 Performers]]

Michael Ian Black

Simalot — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:10:20 GMT

Simalot: Created page with "Michael Ian Black is a comedian, actor, and writer who began his career with the sketch comedy troupe The State. He has created several television series including “Stella..."

Michael Ian Black is a comedian, actor, and writer who began his career with the sketch comedy troupe The State. He has created several television series including “Stella” and “Michael and Michael Have Issues,” written books for children and adults, and currently stars on the television shows “Another Period,” “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” and “The Jim Gaffigan Show.”

[[Category:JoCo Cruise 6 Performers]]

Seattle, WA: 2016-04-08

Bry — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 04:42:12 GMT

Bry: /* Setlist: */ Adding second show! Easier from a real computer than from a phone

== Seattle, WA ==
* Location: Seattle, WA
* Date: April 8, 2016
* Venue: [http://www.thetripledoor.net The Triple Door]
* Supporting act: [[Paul and Storm]]
* Special guest: [[Molly Lewis]]

=== Setlist: ===

First show (7 pm)

# [[Artificial Heart]]
# [[Millionaire Girlfriend]]
# [[Shop Vac]]
# [[Ikea]]
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]
# [[Je Suis Rick Springfield]]
# [[Now I Am an Arsonist]] (with [[Molly Lewis]])
# [[Always the Moon]] (with [[Paul and Storm]] and [[Molly Lewis]])
# [[Walking on Sunshine]] (with [[Paul and Storm]], impromptu)
# [[Birdhouse in Your Soul]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[Make You Cry]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[Big Bad World One]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[The Future Soon]]
# [[Creepy Doll]]
# [[Re: Your Brains]]
: '''Encore'''
# [[Still Alive]]
# [[I Feel Fantastic]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])

Second show (10 pm)

# [[Shop Vac]]
# [[Ikea]]
# [[Code Monkey]]
# [[Je Suis Rick Springfield]]
# [[Now I Am an Arsonist]] (with [[Molly Lewis]])
# [[Always the Moon]] (with [[Paul and Storm]] and [[Molly Lewis]])
# [[Birdhouse in Your Soul]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[Christmas Is Interesting]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[Big Bad World One]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])
# [[I Crush Everything]]
# [[The Future Soon]]
# [[Skullcrusher Mountain]]
# [[You Ruined Everything]]
# [[Re: Your Brains]]
: '''Encore'''
# [[Still Alive]]
# [[I Feel Fantastic]] (with [[Paul and Storm]])

=== Notes ===

[[Category:Shows]]

Your Tattoo/Videos

Bry — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:45:20 GMT

Bry: adding video

{{SongNav}}

== Live Performances ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX34otdj1u0 World Premiere - Live on JoCo Cruise 6 - February 27, 2016] (video by [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])

== Covers ==

== Fan Videos ==

Your Tattoo/Lyrics

Bry — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 20:50:25 GMT

Bry: adding lyrics! again, based on Kevin's first draft

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''These lyrics are preliminary. If you see any inaccuracies, please correct them!''

<lyrics>
Black and blue
Every time I lean into you
Think the words don't mean what they do
Killing me so slow
So it's home instead
Memorize the scars in your bed
Making me see stars in my head
Baby, you don't know

One tough summer and too much sun
The lines get blurry and the colors run
And the red bleeds out with the blue
Picture of the shape of the way it hurt
Planning an escape from beneath your shirt
Do you know I love your tattoo?
Your tattoo...

Your tattoo...

You were there
Little sparks and wire in the air
Everything on fire everywhere
Punishment and crime
Black and white
It's keeping me up late every night
Thinking I can't wait, but I might
Everything in time

Gray gives way to the deepest black
Promises you made and can't take back
When you look too long, you see through
Over on the edge where the ink is thin
Coming up close against your skin
Do you know I love your tattoo?
Your tattoo...

Your tattoo...
</lyrics>

Square Things/Lyrics

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:05:45 GMT

Bry: argh, is it "those things" or

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''These lyrics are preliminary. If you see any inaccuracies, please correct them!''

<lyrics>
I love the shape of square things,
But in my defense,
Right at the edge is where things
Started to not make sense.

Inside the cube you're spinning,
Colors slide into place,
Just when you think you're winning,
You mix up a different face.

Then you wish for
Bigger fish or
Just some other thing,
So you cast her
In your disaster --
Yes, it hurts, but only when you sing

Like your heart is broken,
Bruise at the softest touch.
Best leave the rest unspoken,
Who wants to care that much?

Here's your chance, kid,
Look what you did.
How could I complain?
At the world's end
With a new friend,
Getting high on the same old dumb champagne.

Still me,
Quiet as the grave.
I could play dumb,
Walk away from
What might be something I could save,
Take my chances,
Circumstances
Won't change me…

God forbid you
Leave the grid, you
Know you must disclose
That's your one strike.
What's it feel like?
Something round but sometimes even close

Things are shaped like square things,
Corners where you can hide.
Sometimes you can't repair things --
Everyone choose a side.
</lyrics>

Unreleased 2016 Album

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:34:55 GMT

Bry: Updating album name

{{AlbumDetails
|img=
|artist=Jonathan Coulton
|tracks=TBD
|release=TBD
}}
'''Solid State''' is [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s next studio album, projected to be released in 2016. According to Coulton, the album "has a bit of a concept behind it," with a "character that you follow throughout his life."<ref name="Square Things debut">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViytxCJhzgM Square Things (World Premier) - Jonathan Coulton - JoCo Cruise 2016] (video via [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])</ref>

==History==
In 2015, during [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise Crazy 5|JoCo Cruise 5]], Jonathan Coulton disclosed that he had been working on a new album and played early recordings of two tracks, including [[All This Time]] and another song.<ref>Coulton requested that no bootleg recordings of these songs be distributed. No information has been made public about the other song premiered in this show.</ref>

In 2016, during [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6|JoCo Cruise 6]], Coulton announced that "the music was done" for the new album, saying he was "hopeful that [fans] will be able to hear it very soon."<ref name="Brave debut">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1_yCUWjn0 Brave (World Premier) - Jonathan Coulton - JoCo Cruise 2016] (video via [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])</ref> During the cruise, he performed four tracks from the album: [[Brave]]<ref name="Brave debut" />, [[Square Things]]<ref name="Square Things debut" />, [[All This Time]]<ref name="All This Time live debut">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZjU6r5_q_A All This Time - Jonathan Coulton - JoCo Cruise 2016] (video via [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])</ref>, and [[Your Tattoo]]<ref name="Your Tattoo debut">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX34otdj1u0 Your Tatoo (World Premier) - Jonathan Coulton - JoCo Cruise 2016] (video via [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])</ref>.

==Availability==
The album has not yet been released.

==Track Listing==
''Since the album has not been released, all track listings are speculative.''

# [[Brave]]
# [[Square Things]]
# [[All This Time]]
# [[Your Tattoo]]

==References==
<references />

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Brave/Videos

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:49:04 GMT

Bry: /* Live Performances */ adding attribution

{{SongNav}}

== Live Performances ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1_yCUWjn0 World Premiere - Live on JoCo Cruise 6 - February 21, 2016] (video by [[User:Thalandor46|Thalandor46]])

== Covers ==
*[http://www.facebook.com/cwymore/posts/10100983026848249 Cover by Cody Wymore on JoCo Cruise 6 - February 27, 2016]

== Fan Videos ==

Brave/Lyrics

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:43:12 GMT

Bry: Fixing inaccurate transcription (thanks to fireworksordie's soundboard recording)

{{SongNav}}

<lyrics>
Good things never last long when you've
Come to expect them
The whole world is doing it wrong and I
Can't not correct them
Slack-jawed sheeple with their eyes closed
As if I don't already have
Enough to do
There's too many of you
More than I can save
When I torch the place
Cover up my face
That will make me brave
That will make me brave

Heroes, we pay a high price, there's a
Girl who ignores me
Good guy, I used to be nice, now I
Hate 'til it bores me
Small-time pitiful rebellions
I'm here, puckered up, sucking on these

Sour grapes
Filling in the shapes of
Shadows in my cave
When I torch the place
Cover up my face
That will make me brave
That will make me brave

You speak and presto-change-o, great:
Now I'm the bad one
Your manifesto's strange, oh, wait --
You don't even have one

Sunlight is kicking up dust as I
Stare down the morning
Who's left? There's no one I trust and I'm
Sure it's a warning
Up late, measuring the harm done
My heart hardening, counting up the

Lonely nights
And all the little slights I'm
Taking to my grave
When I torch the place
Cover up my face
That will make me brave
That will make me brave
</lyrics>

Your Tattoo

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:37:07 GMT

Bry: Updating album name

{{Under Construction}}

{{SongDetails
|img=
|albumname=Solid State
|trackno=TBD
|length=TBD
|release=TBD
|songlink=Your Tattoo
}}
"'''Your Tattoo'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s upcoming studio album, [[Solid State]].
== History ==
"Your Tattoo" was debuted as part of Coulton's last set at [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6|JoCo Cruise 6]].

{{#ev:youtube|NX34otdj1u0}}

== Availability ==
"Your Tattoo" has not yet been released.

== Themes ==

Primary Theme:

* [[Commitment]]

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All This Time

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:34:43 GMT

Bry: forgot to update Song Details

{{Under Construction}}

{{SongDetails
|img=
|albumname=Solid State
|trackno=TBD
|length=TBD
|release=TBD
|songlink=All This Time
}}
"'''All This Time'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s upcoming studio album, [[Solid State]].

== History ==
Coulton played a recording of "All This Time" at [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise Crazy 5|JoCo Cruise 5]]. He played a live acoustic version in his last set at [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6|JoCo Cruise 6]].

== Availability ==
"All This Time" has not yet been released.

== Themes ==

Primary Theme:

* [[Future]]

Secondary Themes:

* [[Not Dead Yet]]

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Square Things

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:31:21 GMT

Bry: forgot to update Song Details

{{Under Construction}}

{{SongDetails
|img=
|albumname=Solid State
|trackno=TBD
|length=TBD
|release=TBD
|songlink=Square Things
}}
"'''Square Things'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s upcoming studio album, [[Solid State]].

== History ==
"Square Things" was debuted as part of Coulton's first set at [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6|JoCo Cruise 6]].

== Availability ==
"Square Things" has not yet been released.

== Themes ==

Primary Theme:

* [[Distrust]]

Secondary Themes:

* [[Control]]

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Brave

Bry — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:29:26 GMT

Bry: forgot to update Song Details

{{Under Construction}}

{{SongDetails
|img=
|albumname=Solid State
|trackno=TBD
|length=TBD
|release=TBD
|songlink=Brave
}}
"'''Brave'''" is a song on [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s upcoming studio album, [[Solid State]].

== History ==
"Brave" was debuted as part of Coulton's first set at [[JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6|JoCo Cruise 6]].

== Availability ==
"Brave" has not yet been released.

== Themes ==

Primary Theme:

* [[Oblivion]]

Secondary Themes:

* [[Control]]

{{SSnav}}

JoCo Cruise Crazy/JoCo Cruise 6

Kate — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:52:00 GMT

Simalot:

JoCo Cruise 6 was announced on January 27, 2015. Watch the Official JoCo Cruise Crazy website for details!

JoCo Cruise 6 is a [http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/cruiseDetails/itinerary.do?packageCode=FR07E110&sailDate=1160221 7-night Eastern Caribbean] (please note this link goes to Royal Caribbean's website and the JoCo Cruise must be booked through jococruisecrazy.com) cruise on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas; sailing Sunday, February 21 to Sunday, February 28, 2016. It departs from Port Canaveral in Florida and ports include St. Thomas, St. Maarten and CocoCay, Bahamas.

==Registration==
"Firsties" registration was announced onboard JCC5 on Tuesday, February 3, 2015.

General Public Booking opens TBD.

Milestones: TBA

==Itinerary==
Official Events: TBA

Unofficial Events: TBA
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13tV92LycxCfpv_fiMop2gE0c3PcJo9GDGG8U571bZ7g/edit Shadow Cruise Spreadsheet]: A place to organize ideas and people with links to event specific information. Please note that this is not requesting space for your event, just an idea of when you will be requesting space, so we can maybe try and plan around each other and not heavily stack on a particular day

{| style="" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
!Date
!Location
!Arrival
!Departure
|-
|Sunday 21 February 2016
|Depart Port Canaveral
|
|4:30 pm
|-
|Monday 22 February 2016
|CocoCay, Bahamas (tendered)
|7:00 am
|4:00 pm
|-
|Tuesday 23 February 2016
|At Sea
|
|
|-
|Wednesday 24 February 2016
|Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas (docked)
|12:00 pm
|7:00 pm
|-
|Thursday 25 February 2016
|Philipsburg, St. Maarten (docked)
|8:00 am
|5:00 pm
|-
|Friday 26 February 2016
|At Sea
|
|
|-
|Saturday 27 February 2016
|At Sea
|
|
|-
|Sunday 28 February 2016
|Arrive Port Canaveral
|6:00 am
|
|-
|}

==Entertainment==
This cruise features nightly entertainment by Jonathan Coulton and friends, as well as a host of social events and adventures suggested by fans.

===Performers===

* [[Jonathan Coulton]]
* [[Paul and Storm]]
* [[Michael Ian Black]]
* [[Allie Brosh]]
* [[Rhea Butcher]]
* [[Cameron Esposito]]
* [[John Flansburgh]]
* [[Solomon Georgio]]
* [[Matt Gourley]]
* [[Jean Grae]]
* [[Imogen Heap]]
* [[Amanda Lund]]
* [[Eban Schletter]]
* [[Paul F. Tompkins]]

plus Featured Guests*:
* [[Jim Boggia]]
* [[Kelly Sue DeConnick]]
* [[Matt Fraction]]
* [[John Hodgman]]
* [[Steve Jackson]]
* [[N. K. Jemisin]]
* [[Ted Leo]]
* [[Molly Lewis]]
* [[Aimee Mann]]
* [[John Roderick]]
* [[Patrick Rothfuss]]
* [[John Scalzi]]
* [[Janet Varney]]
* [[Wil Wheaton]]

*Featured Guests will not have their own main stage performances; but they will host events, hold Office Hours, and will very likely appear as guests during other performers’ shows and/or other Main Stage events.

==Gaming Track and Writing Track==
TBA

==Crowd-Sourced Activities==
TBA

==Dining==
TBA

==External links==
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16-Jxpop-ls7BTaXpWpMYp2n1Ddlxp-PmVm4qfh_4KUU/edit#gid=1676569377 Media Listing] spreadsheet
* Twitter hashtags: [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23JoCoCruiseCrazy #JoCoCruise], [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23jcc6 #JCC6]
* [http://www.facebook.com/groups/1592008577702461/ JCC 2016 Facebook Group]
* Unofficial JCC6 Sea Monkey Migration Chart TBA
* [https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_OdILbB2o18S0lmcTdLUVlubXM&usp=sharing Daily SeaMonkey PDFs]

[[Category:JoCo Cruise Crazy]]