RE: Orycon 19 Filking

Hello again, oh fearless leader!! I think either the shorter sets or the one-shots (or maybe 2 or 3 shots) would work. I don't think interrupting the filk to have a concert would go over real well. If you are having trouble fitting everything together I am not one who will be offended by lack of a concert slot. I will be perfectly content to see everyone at the open filking or to participate in the one shots. I honestly don't mind. I haven't seen most of my Portland friends in about two years so listening to the others won't hurt my feelings a bit!

Thank-you
Steven E. Dixon

Why break somebody's kneecaps
when you can mess with their mind.

> ----------
> From: j.bunnell at genie.com[SMTP:j.bunnell at genie.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 1997 10:29 PM
> To: filk at dragoncat.net
> Subject: Orycon 19 Filking
>
> <clears throat>
>
> <taps mike>
>
> All right, I am somewhat belatedly getting my act together. Herewith
> the
> scoop:
>
> As a few of you know, I'm the Filk Liaison for Orycon 19 coming up
> this
> November. I have, as of today, been handed an actual schedule which
> indicates the whens and wheres of my/our available space. This means
> a
> couple of things.
>
> One, we know that we *will* have two filk rooms again this year, once
> again the Klamath (big room) and Santiam (smaller room across the
> hall)
> rooms. This means two circles; I anticipate following last year
> for precedent and running Bardic in one room and Chaos in the other,
> most
> likely trading off the formats so that Bardic gets the big room one
> night
> and Chaos gets it the other.
>
> Two, I know when the Golden Bough concert is (Saturday, ca. 9-11 pm).
> At this point, we formally have *one* of the filk rooms during that
> time;
> although the other isn't yet formally scheduled, I've been advised
> that
> we should not assume that it's available at this point. [If the group
> wants both rooms opposite GB, feel free to clamor, and I shall pass
> the
> clamoring up the chain of command. <g>]
>
> Three, I also therefore have some idea of available concert slots, and
> a partial--emphasis, partial--list of those expressing advance
> interest
> in same.
>
> This last is possibly the most useful of the three points; I am very
> definitely interested in hearing from persons who expect to be in
> attendance and would be interested in a concert slot; I know for a
> fact
> that there are people on this list that I'd like to hear whose names
> are
> not on the list I have been handed. [Before anyone asks, Heather has
> been
> scheduled for Sunday in front of the art auction again.]
>
> The down side is that I can *also* virtually guarantee that there will
> be
> more people interested in concerts than I have space for in the
> schedule.
> More, I am pretty sure that I will barely have enough slots to manage
> to fit in people that I know I *want* to schedule.
>
> Thus while I ask for interested concerteers, I am also interested in
> picking the group's brain for ideas on how to deal with this problem
> (nice problem that it is <g>). Some thoughts that have occurred to
> me:
>
> # scheduling some concerts in the Santiam room
>
> (it's smallish, it gets hot quick, but we have more
> hours in it than we do in the Klamath)
>
> # shortening concert blocks (say, setting start times at
> 20-minute rather than 30-minute intervals)
>
> # scheduling an hour somewhere devoted to "one-shot"
> numbers, with advance sign-up
>
> # scheduling fewer concert slots earlier in the evening,
> and then reserving a half-hour block for a "midnight
> concert" which would interrupt the open filking
>
> All of these clearly have down sides as well as ups, which is why I'd
> like input from the groupmind as to what might be most happily
> adaptable
> to our time and space needs. Some may not come to pass. Or I may
> have
> missed an obvious and brilliant scheme.
>
> ////
>
> One final item. While I have every intention of staying here on Genie
> till they turn out the lights, I also have "real" Internet access and
> E-mail these days, and my preferred E-mail address is now:
> JCBunnell at sff.net
>
> (Don't hesitate to post replies to the list, but use that one to get
> to
> me personally--and if Our Fearless Leader can switch my list access
> over
> to the sff.net address, I'd be grateful.)
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts folks have on all this. I'd like
> to
> do well by filkers again this year at Orycon, and the more help I get,
> the happier I'll be....
>
> == John C. Bunnell
> == JCBunnell at sff.net
>
Received on 09/22/97