I made a Halloween playlist on my ipod that my coworkers didn't like. There's a lot of TMBG, but that's cause they mostly write songs about corpses and nightmares. This is it:

1. Christmas Eve Montage (nightmare before xmas)
2. Shalloween (Andy Partridge)
3. The Creatures (Brian Dewan)
4. A Walk In The Dark (David Byrne)
5. The Creature Crawling (Frank Black)
6. Skeleton Man (Frank Black and the Catholics)
7. Down Among The Dead Men (Cynthia Hopkins)
8. City of the Damned (Gothic Archies)
9. Your Long White Fingers (Gothic Archies)
10. Scream and Run Away (Gothic Archies)
11. Freakshow (Gothic Archies)
12. Halloween (Trouble's Afoot)
13. Creepy (Mono Puff)
14. Ouija Board Ouija Board (Morrissey)
15. Satan Rejected My Soul (Morrissey)
16. Jack the Ripper (Morrissey)
17. Beware the Killer Tents (Moxy Fruvous)
18. Halloween Time (Muckafurgason)
19. Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo)
20. Flesh N Blood (Oingo Boingo)
21. Was He Cutting Up A Body? (People From Earth)
22. Monster (People From Earth)
23. Gramercy Ball (Pinataland)
24. I Bleed (The Pixies)
25. Satan is the Whistler (Rheostatics)
26. Cemetry Gates (The Smiths)
27. Monster Man (Soul Coughing)
28. Swamp (Talking Heads)
29. Dig My Grave (They Might Be Giants)
30. Turn Around (TMBG)
31. Haunted Floating Eye (TMBG)
32. Exquisite Dead Guy (TMBG)
33. Lullaby to Nightmares (TMBG)
34. Cyclops Rock (TMBG)
35. The Edison Museum (TMBG)
36. Where Your Eyes Don't Go (TMBG)
37. Now Is Strange (TMBG)
38. Skullivan (TMBG)
39. Monsters of Mud (TMBG)
40. Somebody's Body (TMBG)
41. Country Death Song (Violent Femmes)
42. Slime Creatures from Outer Space (Weird Al)
43. Nature Trail to Hell (Weird Al)
44. Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars (Weird Al)
45. Scissor Man (XTC)
46. Poor Skeleton (XTC)
47. Scarecrow People (XTC)
48. Living in a Haunted Heart (XTC)
49. The Dead Only Quickly Decay (Gothic Archies)
50. I've Got A Theory (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer)

Hey Trouble's Afoot friends!

Jordan from Trouble's Afoot has been doing a sketch comedy blog, where he's writing 30 sketches in the 30 days of September, as per NATIONAL SKETCHWRITING MONTH.

Http://jordancooperblablabla.blogspot.com



Enjoy!


-Jordan

Hello everyone!  Jordan here.

My lady friend was sending me a lot of mp3s of her favorite songs.  I noticed there was something noticeably different about them, compared to the bulk of music that I listen to.  Then it hit me:  Sexy, sultry male voices.  I realized the music I love has decidedly unsexy (in the eyes of the mainstream, at least) voices.  Here is a run down:

They Might Be Giants: Nasal, dorky
Violent Femmes: Nasal, creepy
Magnetic Fields: Flat, subdued, monotone
Morrissey: Effeminate, can be seen as sexy but only in a strange, weird way (based on interviews and lyrics, i.e. is he celibate? bisexual? not sexual?), too cynical to be truly "sexy" in that comfortable way.
David Byrne: stringy, high pitched, strange
Pixies/early Frank Black: Scary, whiny
Later Frank Black: Tough, funny
Rheostatics: Canadian
David Lowery (Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven): Rough, Ironic
Soul Coughing/M. Doughty: Ok, sexy, but in an upbeat, strange, somewhat unaccessable way.
XTC (early): Dog-like barking
XTC (later): Poppy, fun, cheesy
Ben Folds:  This is a tough one...Youthful?Whatever it is, it sure ain't sexy.
Weird Al Yankovic: Nasal, annoying


So there you have it!  Arguably not a sexy, sultry, manly voice in the bunch!


-Jordan

Hello everyone!

For a long time now, this was a myspace page for any and all music by me, Jordan Cooper.

It still basically is.  BUT -- Now that my band has a name, Trouble's Afoot, I have decided to re-name the page.  Trouble's Afoot is me, Dave Fox and Chris Roberts.

It is still basically the same, except more band oriented.

More solo music can be seen at my website www.jordancooperlalala.com

and my mp3 of the week blog, http://jordansmp3oftheweek.blogspot.com

I will work on getting some new band recordings to put up soon!


-Jordan (Trouble's Afoot)

Is it too much to ask to be fed grapes? I just want a woman (or several women) to put on robes and feed me grapes for a few hours. I mean, jesus. I LIKE GRAPES OK? I really like grapes. BUT I HATE TOUCHING THEM. Probably more than I hate touching diseased dead animals or feces. I CAN'T TOUCH GRAPES.

Is it too much to ask for 50 women to line up and each one steps up and feeds me one single grape, repeat, repeat, for like...12 hours? After they feed me a grape they can go home!! I don't care! They can go to the mall for all I care.

My mouth is open, ladies. Let's have it.


-Jordan

Huh? Huh??

I got Chex Mix. A big bag.

"Hey, you want some?"

"No."

"Hey man, take some Chex Mix, the bag's too big, haha!"

"Nah, no thanks."

"Chex Mix? Want? Right?"

"Ugh, no. NO."

What the fuck? TAKE SOME. It's GOOD.


-Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCKZ0uJnXo

I directed this comedy short (and did the theme song!), written by Matt Koff!

This is from May 2007. I was a guest on the awesome show COMIC BOOK CLUB. I wrote a song about comics for the occasion! This was really fun, hope ya enjoy!

Oh my god!

Me and my friend Dave were at Flagship diner tonight, when I discovered an amazing price loophole!

So check this out. Backstory: Sometimes I like to order cereal in a diner. Sometimes I like to order fruit salads. It's true, I won't deny it. End of backstory.

Cereal and Fruit salads are both ridiculously overpriced at about 4 dollars each. (Isn't an entire box of cereal around the same price as the small handful that you get at a diner?) This is the case at the Flagship Diner.

The menu, however, reads THIS (prices are from memory, not totally accurate):

Fruit salad: 4.00

Cereal. With Milk : 3.75
With fruit salad: 4.25

So I asked the waiter, "If I get the cereal with fruit salad, is the fruit salad on the side? And the cereal comes with milk?"

He said yes.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! I ordered it! I got 2 things for the price of one!! HAHAHA!!!! A whole bowl of cereal and a fruit salad!!


-Jordan