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mneme"The Multiple Intelligences Test" thing seems to be more a "multiple activities confidence test" thing.
I'm apparently not all that confident (except in music -- (Li9,Lo-M:8,S:3,BK6,M12,Inter:7,Intra:2).
In other news, I've sorta caught up on A&E commenting, have read the new Mckillip (really good, though not, I think, as good as _Serre_), and the latest Hobb (does a nice job of wrapping up the 6 book novel about FitzChivalry).
On a filkish nature, I've noticed that my preferred repetoire seems to shift faster than I can either memorize songs or write new ones, which leaves me with less to sing at a filksing than I'd like. So, frex, I've mostly stopped doing a lot of my Tom Smith repetoire, for one reason or another, and don't do a lot of the Heather Alexander stuff as much either.
Which does mean I need to find (or write, but I've never learned to write them) some more pretty fantasy ballads that fit my dramatic/vocal range.
I'm apparently not all that confident (except in music -- (Li9,Lo-M:8,S:3,BK6,M12,Inter:7,Intra:2).
In other news, I've sorta caught up on A&E commenting, have read the new Mckillip (really good, though not, I think, as good as _Serre_), and the latest Hobb (does a nice job of wrapping up the 6 book novel about FitzChivalry).
On a filkish nature, I've noticed that my preferred repetoire seems to shift faster than I can either memorize songs or write new ones, which leaves me with less to sing at a filksing than I'd like. So, frex, I've mostly stopped doing a lot of my Tom Smith repetoire, for one reason or another, and don't do a lot of the Heather Alexander stuff as much either.
Which does mean I need to find (or write, but I've never learned to write them) some more pretty fantasy ballads that fit my dramatic/vocal range.
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Date: 2004-02-20 01:58 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-20 02:10 pm (UTC)As far as what I like...well, here's a decent subsection of my repetoire:
The Lady (no, I never do it; this is mostly because it's overplayed)
Lammas Night (Lackey/Fish)
PQR (Smith)
Song of the Men's Side (KippleFish)
Horsetamer's Daughter (if only 'twer shorter , Fish:)
The Dark is Rising (TJ)
Basically, while I do plenty of other things, I -favor- SF or fantasy songs (preference: fantasy) which tell a story, and have at least a little bit of darkness to them (not necessary, but it doesn't hurt).
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:57 am (UTC)I mostly don't know ACat's stuff, though I'd love to hear more of it. :)
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:40 pm (UTC)No Quarter (Echos Children)
Fair Was the Blossom (ditto)
The Lady (Jodi Krangle)
(Falling Free, PQR and Hellraiser may be some of the Tom Smith you've given up on)
(Starsoul by Jodi Krangle is science fiction oriented rather than fantasy, but otherwise seems to fit your tastes)
That's just a very quick flip through my songbook, but it's something at least. ACat (with minor help from me) recently wrote a Return of the King filk that's still untitled but to the tune of Least of My Kind.
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:47 pm (UTC)The Lady and PQR were actually on my list. :)
You're basically right about Falling Free and Hellraiser -- they're both songs I know cold and have rehersed to death, but I don't do them as often as I'd like, and for more than one reason.
Fair was the Blossom I should really take another look at; the same for Starsoul -- Thanks!
(of course, my song TTTO Least of My Kind is more of a "reply" -- which does beg the question of when to do it).
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:50 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-23 07:36 pm (UTC)mnemex@livejournal.com will work, if nothing else. :)
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Date: 2004-02-23 08:25 pm (UTC)http://www.autographedcat.com/songs/aragornsong.txt
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Date: 2004-02-20 06:22 pm (UTC)Btw, you have a lovely voice. You need to bring it to California more often. ;-)
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Date: 2004-02-21 09:56 am (UTC)But my repetoire of over 100 songs still doesn't have enough I want to sing at any given time.
And thanks! I'd like to, but it's a bit of a hike -- I'll be at the 2006 Worldcon, in all likelyhood, though.
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Date: 2004-02-21 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-20 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-21 02:59 pm (UTC)I can write a bit about it in a cut-tagged entry if you like. :)
Have you read In the Forests of Sere? It is also quite good (and not as easy to spoil).
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Date: 2004-02-21 08:37 pm (UTC)Is it in open publication or did your TOR contacts get you an ARC?
I think that I've read Sere, but I don't remember. I read a whole bunch of her stuff at one time, and they all ran together. I'm working on sorting them out, mostly by acquiring them in paperback when I can get my hands on them.
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Date: 2004-02-22 12:10 am (UTC)It's an Ace book, and is -entirely- in open distribution -- I noticed it had come out in hardback when I searched scifan for interesting new books, so we snatched it up at Collosium books.
Sere is the one with the Baba Yaga analogue; if you've read the book, you -will- remember that much. :)
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Date: 2004-02-22 07:34 am (UTC)OK, not gettting anything from the Baba Yaga reference, so I'm guessing that I missed that one...I'll order some of it, too.
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Date: 2004-02-23 07:13 pm (UTC)