Saturday's Filk

All praise Carol and John for hosting this month’s Milwaukee filk. It rained like crazy, but the crazy Chicagoans showed up anyway, anach, Alyse, and Sue. Barisha and Richard, Art, and Emory made it. I had the chance to sing A.J.'s song for A.J. and her dad.

anach did display his guitar technique for The Lady, indeed, twice, since Emory wrote (yet another!) song to the tune that very night. (Did Jodi have any idea what she was starting when she wrote that?) I managed a reasonably nice rendition of aryana_filker’s The Willow, which people do seem to like. Plus it’s a chance for me to sing something serious and sad, and not just my usual silly and goofy.

John and Carol did a very, very funny White Bird parody they wrote, White Bread. anach did his usual death and sadness songs, but kept explaining that they are really Disney songs. Every Disney movie has a hero who goes off to fight, a tale of fractured love, so on and so forth he’d explain, thus transforming ose death, death, death songs into comedy routines. It was...amazing.

I hadn’t seen Alyse in ages and it was very nice to hear her sing again. Watching her while...hmmm, his name has completely leaked out of my brain, sorry...played the Moosebutter Star Wars song was really fun.

Carol played her piano a bit. I played my Official Flute Show-Off Piece, Bach’s Fugue in G minor (one voice thereof, actually). I don’t think I’ve ever played that without screwing something up somewhere, but it is getting pretty close, even with an audience.

Next weekend: Windycon in Chicago. Then a Tom Smith house concert at Alyse’s the next weekend that I hope to get to.