Wittenberg Housefilk, Fawlkes, 06

[mneme]

We showed up late -- about 2:40, but only missed one song:



sdelmonte sang "Back One Week to the Future" by The Great Lukeski (ttto One Week)

We sat down, and the filk continued with happyfunpaul singing "Re: Your Brains (an office memo)", by Jonathan Coulton

mnemex, drcpunk, batyatoon, and much of the rest of the company sang Mahna Mahna (by Henson).

Then we went to bardic

ladymondegreen sang Merav Hoffman's The Door to Summer, with batyatoon

marapfhile sang his own "Windows Boxes", ttto Little Boxes

madfilkentist did his own Stolen Dreams

Eyal performed mdlbear's "World Inside the Crystal"

miriyami requested Masochism Tango, which madfilkentist sang

crazedcrusader sang Stormy Weather

drcpunk sang Hawthorn Tree, by Heather Dale

mnemex sang his (ok, my) own Kibeth (to an original tune, for a change)

bercilakslady requested Tam Lin, sung by batyatoon and ladymondegreen.

sdelmonte sang "Fannish Individual", by John Pomeranz (originally popularized by by gorgeousgary's rendition at LoneStarCon and Bucconeer)

Dov Mittleman sang Invitation, by Shel Silverstein, to his own tune

Ariel Cinii sang STS Lament, by herself ttto "I am a man of constant sorrow"

otherdeb performed her own "Fanac".

jonbaker sang: orawnzva's "Great Explorer Zero" (ttto: "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers)

castor_biber requested Kanef's "Come Ye Muppets", which I (mnemex) sang.

batyatoon sang her own "Word of Bob", ttto obvious (ie "Word of God", by catsittingstill).

mikestruffles sang most of "Bob Kanefsky"

happyfunpaul sang, um, some monstrosity about skullcrusher mountain. Called, strangely enough, "Skullcrusher Mountain", and written by Jonathan Coulton.

mikestruffles followed with the "Hockey Monkey".

Abby insta-ed, um, something appropriate.

ladymondegreen sang Merav Hoffman's "Sleep on the Ledge".

marapfhile sang his own "Don't Go Into (Interstellar) Politics", ttto "Don't Go Into Politics", by The Arrogant Worms

madfilkentist performed his own "Brain, Hands, and Heart," ttto "Mind, Hands, and Heart," by bedlamhouse

Miriam, with help from batyatoon, performed "Getting to be a Hobbit with Me"

Eyal sang mdlbear's "When I was a Lad" (ttto Hayes's original "When I Was a Boy")

miriyami sang, ttto "The Bananna Boat Song", her own, near instafilk: "Ebola!"

crazedcrusader sang her own "When the Filk Comes Rising" (ttto the obvious Eklar tune)

drcpunk read the maze scene from "Growing up Weightless", by John M. Ford

I (mnemex) sang my own "Grew it Myself" (ttto "Do it Yourself" by bedlamhouse)

ebartley sang catsittingstill's "Bin There, Dun That"

zsero sang "Ankh Morpork Shel Zahav" (or if you like, אנך מורפורק של זהב).

Ariel Cinii performed her own "When Science Fiction Shows Were Free", ttto "Miama 2017" by Billy Joel.

bercilaklsady sang her own "Precious" ttto "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," by Ben Johnson.

Mark Glasser performed Andy Brechmen's "The Ship ? Duology" (correction request: what's the name here?)

mikestruffles sang, ttto Jordin Kare's Darkness, (I haven't the faintest idea). Anybody? Bueler?) ""

sdelmonte lead "The Mongol Happy Birthday Song" for mamadeb

Dov sang "The Hobbit went down to Mordor"

Liam Brown sang his own "Banned from Pesach" about Argo Cornstarch

jonbaker sang "Rickety Tickety Piers"

We had MassFILK on a cellphone, so the company (lead by Ariel Cinii) sang "Swing Low, Sweet Double-A" to them.

They wanted to serenade us as well, so we had them call Aaron's phone, and they sang "Barett's Privateers," with us coming in on the choruses.

Judith requested Mark Glasser's "'Change at Jamaica' Farewell," which he performed.

Miram requested, and Mark Glasser performed, "Charlie and the MTA"

batyatoon sang her Mornington Cresent, ttto Uffington Hill (by Talis Kimberly)

ladymondegreen sang "A Brief Summary Of Halacha As Understood By A Goy Who Hangs Around Observant Jews A Lot.", by akawil

happyfunpaul sang his own (words and music) "Fluorine Atom."

ladymondegreen and batyatoon sang "Lilo" (by Batya Wittenberg, Merav Hoffman, and Seanan McGuire) ttto "Wendy"

marapfhile sang his own "CD Boxes", also ttto "Little Boxes".

madfilkentist sang his translation of filker0's "Close Your Eyes" into German: "Mach Die Augen Zu", followed by a group performance of the same song in English for those that hadn't heard it before.

Eyal sang orawnzva's "Thomas and the Fairie Ring"

And we ended with a nameless mashup lead by Ariel Cinii, of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole" and some part of Carmen.

Comments

Yeah, yeah!

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

This sounds like an utterly marvelous filk session, and would have been equally marvelous no matter where it had taken place. I probably don't know most of the filkers you mention, at least not by their LJ names, but to name one whose name I hadn't heard mentioned in years, I'm quite glad Marc Glasser is still around and making music. Keep on having fun -- I don't know if I'll be at the kind of filk where I could even remotely do that kind of lengthy list, in the foreseeable future, but if I do, you've informed me of the standard that needs to be met when writing about it.

Nate B.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I assume that by Skullcrusher Mountain, you mean this (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/skullcrusher-mountain) one?

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun!
Could you cut-tag, though, please, as it's an awfully long list/post?

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

The "Monkey loves the hocky stick" song is titled Hockey Monkey.

And Paul's third song of the event was "Fluorine Atom".

Lovely to see you, as always. *hugs*

[madfilkentist]

If you want to edit in my handle for "Stolen Dreams," "Brain, Hands, and Heart," and "Mach die Augen Zu," feel free. "Brain, Hands, and Heart" is TTTO bedlamhouse's "Mind, Hands, and Heart."

[sdelmonte]

It's "Back One Week to the Future."

And it's spelled miriyami.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Ankh Morpork Shel Zahav, actually. Or אנך מורפורק של זהב, if you prefer.

Re: Yeah, yeah!

[hms42]

Marc is definitely still around and being recorded... I have been working with him for Kathy Sands CDs. (He is the guitarist and primary second voice.)

Harold S.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Alas, another song I can't sing when Paul's in the room, then ;)

[hms42]

Thanks for the song list. This will be helpful when I get to the editing of the music saved. (Next month... I have 2 other projects that are ahead of the housefilk.)

For those who are interested... The computer making the saving throws had a software update last night after I got home... (Figures they would update the recording software, but I find out afterwards.)

Due to a software crash, the first few songs (and they were GOOD!) were lost. :( Recording that did get saved started mid-Tango.

Harold

[gorgeousgary]

"Fannish Individual" is actually by John Pomeranz and Mary Bentley. It was part of the libretto for "The Pirates of Fenzance".

I'm just the dude who happened to sing it in both performances (LoneStarCon '97 & Bucconneer).

[mdlbear]

Steve Savitzky (note the spelling) is mdlbear (which is much harder to misspell, though I've seen it done).

Thanks for the list -- it's always interesting to hear about other people performing my stuff.

"Bin There, Dun That" is by Cat Faber (catsittingstill)

[hms42]

I was hoping to share the recording of World Inside the Crystal with you, but it unfortunately was lost in the software crash. Audacity has gone to 1.25 non beta for the intel mac. (That's what crashed on me yesterday.)

I will definately get you a copy of "When I was a Lad" when edited.

Harold

[mdlbear]

Thanks.

I'll be doing some field recording with an Intel MacBook; think I'll dual-boot with Ubuntu. I was lucky the last time I used Audacity on it, but it doesn't look as though it's a good thing to count on.

Depending on the nature of the crash and what you did afterward, it's often possible to resurrect most of a crashed Audacity session -- it records in 1MB blocks which get left in the temp directory when it crashes.

[hms42]

I deleted the temp files since I could not locate the temp folder at the time. :( I did see that 1.3.2 BETA offers better crash recovery. (Both versions are installed (separate folders) and I have to test it in non critical environments.)

Harold

[batyatoon]

The proper title for the song you called "Don't set, on Shabat, a fire" is "A Brief Summary Of Halacha As Understood By A Goy Who Hangs Around Observant Jews A Lot."

:)

Re: Yeah, yeah!

[mneme]

Thank you! (I know a bunch of them were at San Jose, though by no means all)

The idea of documenting every song sung at a filksing is one I stole from Mark Mandel -- not only is it useful, making it possible to see what's being done, but it also helps keep -me- focused, present, and aware.

And yeah -- 'twas much fun.

[mneme]

Don't see why not -- you just need to negotiate who gets to wear the Mony.

[mneme]

Ooops. I'm usually better about this one, but I was in a "post it already" mood, so forgot -- thanks for the polite reminder!

[mneme]

Thank you! I think corrections are made. And, indeed, quite lovely to see you!

[mneme]

That's a mouthful. By whom?

[mneme]

Thanks! You've got enough blogs and journals that I wasn't confident pulling the nick out of memory and it didn't happen in my pre-post editing (mostly, theo nly thing that happened there was my turning starred nicks into propper >lj user="nick"> tags).

[mneme]

Fixed, on both -- thanks.

[mneme]

Fixed! Including adding the hebrew, which seems to have come out.

[mneme]

Gotcha

[mneme]

Don't try me--I can misspell anything! I've changed it.

I did know that Cat had (probably) written "Bin There", but I've been trying to correct my old habit of just defaulting to writing down "Cat Faber" as sole credit for any and all EC songs -- since it's not always true. So while I wrote it down as Cat originally, I changed it to EC and figured I'd look stuff up later (or get corredgium -- thanks!)

[mneme]

No problem -- twas a pleasure. It's always a balance trying to keep things accurate but also trying -not- to disrupt the flow of the circle while getting info; "what I can" plus corrections on LJ seems to do the trick nicely, though.

Minor Corrections

[marapfhile.livejournal.com]

You appear to have missed my final number, my own "CD Boxes", also ttto "Little Boxes", which came after "Lilo". (BTW, IIRC, "Lilo" is a Lady Mondegreen original, ttto "Wendy".)

Also BTW, If you're inclined to link them, lyrics to all my numbers are available on some combination of LJ and r.m.f.

[marapfhile.livejournal.com]

akawil, if I've matched LJ to RL correctly.

[mneme]

Yes, thanks. That was the most likely answer, but I didn't want to assume, and didn't remember.

Re: Minor Corrections

[marapfhile.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Abby's mashup was of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole" and some part of Carmen.

Re: Minor Corrections

[mneme]

I did -- there was a transcription gap that I tried to cover, but I apparently missed one.

Lilo isn't on the Lady Mondegreen repertoire page, which was why I asked. Or do you mean it's by ladymondegreen? Hmm. Not on her online list. What about batyatoon? Nope. I think I'll wait for something more authoratative on this one.

Re: Minor Corrections

[mneme]

Thanks!

[zsero.livejournal.com]

FWIW, Mike Brown is mikestruffles.

[mneme]

Thanks! I'd forgotten that.

author, author

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

happyfunpaul sang "Fluorine Atom" (provenance?)

That's an original; words and music both by yours truly.

Re: author, author

[mneme]

Thanks!

Re: Minor Corrections

[batyatoon]

Merav and Seanan and I co-wrote it, I believe.

[batyatoon]

Yup.

[hms42]

Spelling correction for one song...

Jamaica is the correct spelling per mta.info. (Mark Glasser's last song.)

Also, Close Your Eyes was followed by the same song in English for those who had not heard the song before. (A lot of people were performing with the song. I have not checked the audio on that one, but I really hope it came out good for madfilkentist.

Harold

[hms42]

For future reference... Where is the temp directory hidden?? (I am also recording on a intel MacBook.) Usually its been very stable.

Harold

[mdlbear]

I have no idea where it defaults to on a Mac; on the Linux version there's a tab in the Preferences dialog that not only tells you where it is, but lets you change it.

There's a good chance that it's in a subdirectory called ".Audacity" in your home directory -- I believe that's the Linux default. (I changed it to put it on the same filesystem as the track working directories.)

[mneme]

Done and done -- thanks!

Re: Minor Corrections

[mneme]

Excellent. Should it be on the LMG repetoire list?

I've fixed that (plus one place your nick was misspelled).

Re: Minor Corrections

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Actually the original of Lilo is Windy, not Wendy though that does give me an idea ...

Door to Summer has no 'the' and I just played guitar on Tam Lin, Batya did all the singing parts.