Why, you ask, would I be excited to attend an evening with Paul and Storm and Wil Wheaton? Because I am a geek, that’s why.

Paul and Storm, if you’re not familiar, are a singer-songwriter-guitar-playing comedy duo who compose and perform songs generally geek-related in some way. My first exposure to them was during their opening set before a Jonathan Coulton concert (who is by the way is also a brilliant singer-songwriter who writes humorous songs about things such as mad scientists, zombies, and writing computer code). Paul and Storm came out on stage that night and the first song they did is called “Opening Band” with its lyrics “We are the opening band … We are here to do five or six or seven songs, don’t go too long, and get the hell off the stage … We are the opening band … We’re probably not the band you came to see tonight … but it’s alright, ’cause soon we’ll go away!” Anyone sitting in the audience that night who wasn’t familiar with their work (such as myself) was instantly won over.

Fittingly, the first song of w00tstock was Paul and Storm’s “Opening Band” — which, by the way, is available for the video game Rock Band. Geek power, yo! (more…)