Re: Orycon filking redux

On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 santa at serv.net wrote: <snip>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 j.bunnell at genie.com wrote:
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> > Chaos circles: also worked quite well, as far as I could tell. I don't
> > know that I saw a lot of the "beware" phenomenon; what there was of it
> > is likely an artifact of chaos being relatively new in the Northwest,
> > so we simply aren't as used to it. Certainly it didn't seem to get in
> > the way of people offering up material.

> I think it went well in chaos. I just didn't like people telling
> newbies that chaos filks were evil things where filk hogs ruled the room
> and woe be it unto you to get a turn in a chaos filk. We're not monsters.
I think the most egrerious "stepping on" on someone else's song when I was in the chaos room Saturday night was committed by yours truly. But I really like my words to "White collar Holler" better, especially since they fit my so-called life.

replyreplyI'm excited about the idea of an all-filking con. But, I'd miss the dancing.

Judy Kay Craft

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I get up ever' mornin' at quarter to six, Got lunches to pack, breakfast to fix.
Get my kids off to school,
Can't remember my name,
And week after week it's always the same.

(Chorus)
It's oh girl, can't you code it.
Umh! Program it right!
Nothing ever happens in this life of mine, Hauling up the data on the Unix line.

It's code in the data, give the keyboard a punch. Compile, file, delete, then break for some lunch. Correlate, tabulate, process, and screen. Debug, recode, regress to the mean

(Chorus)

It's home again, cook again, do some laundry. Fall into my bed at Eleven Fiftythree.
I dream the same dream when I'm sleeping at night... I'm soaring over hills like an eagle in flight

(Chorus)

Someday I'm going to throw out all these keyboards and screens. Going to punch out that 'larm clock so it can't ring Tear off my pantyhose and set myself free 'Cuz no one's going to fold, bend or mutilate me!

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based on words and music by Nigel Russell, new words Copyright 1994, by Judy Kay Craft, distribute freely with attribution

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>
> > Mini-concerts: best we've had in several years, I think, especially as
> > there was a good balance between people we've heard often before (Roy
> > and Joan, Cecilia) and those who haven't done them here before (Jeff,
> > Cat/Eglantine).

> I think it went great. I enjoyed myself immensely! :) I hated
> going up against a filk circle, though.

> > The delay problem was, of course, an artifact of Variety
> > Show overrun; this may be alleviated next year as I understand next
> > Orycon will return to a traditional Masquerade.

> HA HA HA HA! [Commander Claus falls to the floor in a fit of
> laughing. He picks himself up, brushes himself off, and continues.]
> Take it from a person who has done a few masquerades by now. They have
> more of a chance of overrunning than a variety show. Last Norwes, the
> masquerade was 45 late in starting, and the judges took 20 minutes longer
> than the allotted time for judging.
>
> > Concerts as program slots: it wasn't necessarily apparent from the program
> > information, but there *were* several performance-oriented daytime music
> > events--not concerts, but a "jam session", an unusual-instrument session,
> > and a filk program aimed at kids (though I doubt they'd have tossed adult
> > kids out <g>). Beyond this--yup, available space again.

> We need more jam sessions. That was a great panel! The kids panel
> was.....interesting.
>
> > Filk con: I think the Northwest is indeed close to critical mass in
> > terms of support for one of these. And I agree that OSFCI is the
> > logical parent to it, although I wonder if performer-geography might not
> > make Seattle a more logical physical venue.

> Well, it'd be easier for me to get to, that's for sure. :)

> Jeff
Received on 11/19/96