The Joy of Jonathan Coulton.

This isn't what i was going to blog about before, but it's something to talk about anyway. Jonathan Coulton is awesome. I first his song Code Monkey from the just-ok show of same name, then got the full version and found the song that most encapsulates how I feel about my workplace. After some iTunes digging, I also found songs of the following topics:
[-]Having an ex-boss try to negotiate his way through a door to eat your brains (because he's a zombie) framed as a performance management and development meeting.
[-]How customer-built-test-tube babies can lead to a doctor being hands-on with your missus
[-]How it's hard to celebrate the holidays when you've been banished to a barren asteroid by robot overlord, er, I mean protectors.
[-]And of course, how even though the girl you love broke your heart, it's ok, because it'll be the future soon and you can genetically engineer that stuff away. Plus robots and flying cars!

Oh, and for all you DIYers out there, Coulton makes all of his music copyright free if it's not used for profit. So TONS of machinanima and other videos have sprung up for his songs.

Most impressive, though, is the Thing-A-Week series (from the Wiki):

"Thing a Week" is the name that Coulton gave to a creative experiment which ran from 16 September 2005 to 30 September 2006. In this project, Coulton undertook to record 52 musical pieces in the course of a year, one each week. This target was mostly achieved, missing only a few weeks. The objectives were: (a) to push the artist's creative envelope by adopting what Coulton describes as a "forced-march approach to writing and recording"; (b) to prove to himself that he was capable of producing creative output to a deadline; and (c) to test the viability of the Internet and Creative Commons as a platform capable of supporting a professional artist financially. Early indications are that the experiment succeeded in generating a large number of high quality songs, boosting sales of music downloads, expanding Coulton's public presence and enlarging his fan base."

I look forward to forcing music upon you soon!