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As you may have gathered from my tweets of late, I was given the amazing opportunity to play Jonathan Coulton’s song “Still Alive” on Rock Band with Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, and of course Jonathan! Horrifyingly, it was also on stage and in front of about 600 people at the Great American Music Hall here in San Francisco! I was on guitar (in the video, my part is on the right), Jonathan was on (duh) vocals, Leo on bass, and Merlin on drums.
We were soooo close to getting through the song! 99% isn’t bad, and if we had more time to practice (instead of having only played the song once!) I’m sure we would have made it. But it was a ton of fun, and I even saved the band a couple of times with my overdrive
But I want to thank Jonathan for giving me one of the most memorable experiences I’ll ever have. I’m a huge fan of his music, and I got to live out my rock star dreams for real. Not much can beat that!
Jonathan Coulton performs “Still Alive” in Rock Band from Joy Stiq
Special thanks to Chris from Joystiq for recording the video! Go check out his post for more details.

The Mahalo video team is here at GDC (Game Developers Conference) covering the event with Joystiq! The Mahalo Games team is pumping out tons of pages about all the games we’re covering, and we’ve been shooting constantly for the last day and a half.
Today’s Mahalo Daily is a feature on the Independent Games Festival, happening here in the West Hall of Moscone.
Here are two Valentine’s Day videos that you might enjoy. I’m putting the Mahalo one in first because they surprised me with it today, and I’m still blushing…
And now this one… because it’s hilarious. I found it on Leah Culver’s Pownce page.
Don’t have time to watch over an hour of Steve waxing poetic about his new toys? Let Mahalo Daily help.
MD038 - The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote (in 60 Seconds)