Strange Conversations: Part Sixty-Six

We were listening to Jonathan Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime”—the Christmas letter from a family banished to an asteroid by their robot overlords. Did I say overlords? I meant protectors—when we had this conversation:

ME: If you like, you could make up a playlist for my birthday.
NICK: Yes! I will!
ME: Songs I like.
NICK: Oh.
ME: Well, good stuff—you can have some Space, and Catatonia, and so on.
NICK: Well . . .
ME: But not the Planescape Torment soundtrack, okay?
NICK: Oh, okay.

You know you’re living with a geek when his idea of appropriate party music is a video-game soundtrack.

[Actually, no, you know you’re living with a geek when you have the following follow-up conversation:

NICK: Whatcha blogging?
ME: Read it.
NICK: Ha! Hang on, I’ll just check you spelt Planescape Torment correctly.

For the record, I hadn’t.]

As always, all of Jonathan Coulton’s songs can be streamed directly here and I strongly recommend them, though the site’s been a bit buggy lately.