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beige_alertI had a fantastic time at OVFF.
My weekend, of course, began with a lengthy drive to Dublin, Ohio from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For comparison, I drove my car 1010 miles between the start of August and the beginning of my trip to OVFF on October 21st. (I rode my bicycle 1755 km = 1090 miles in the same interval.) I drove 956 miles between the 21st and 23rd. (For the quantitative, the round trip burned 32.6 gallons of gasoline costing $81 to cover 956 miles at 29.3 miles per gallon. 483 miles to get there in 10 hours on the clock, 8.8 hours of engine run time. 470 miles to return, 10.5 total hours, 8.9 engine run hours. Yes, I have a Hobbs hour meter in my car. I’m a geek.)
I arrived in time for the Pegasus concerts, always nice. I had never heard The Girl That’s Never Been, or anything else by Michelle Dockrey. She’s fantastic, and I may have to learn some of those songs on her web site. She did a great concert on Saturday.
Judi the sign language interpreter is a joy to watch, particularly during the more energetic songs. Or the auction.
There were some great two-fers and one-shots. Or just interesting ones. Blind Lemming Chiffon (who gets referred to also as Blond Lemming Chiffon, or Blind Lemon Chiffon, or Blond Lemon Chiffon...) performed two pieces so weird that even I don’t want to learn them, Dead People Got No Reason To Live and Always Set The Cat On Fire.
I ended up discovering Rob Balder. I knew about Partially Clips, but I didn’t know he was a filker.
It was great to see Frank Hayes. I had never seen him before.
I’ve played Universal Follower by Phillip Mills on occasion, and Phillip played it for a one-shot. It was fun to watch the audience react. It was fun watching while Bob Kanefsky sang Six Transit Genitalia Centauri at the Friday night filk in the big room. That’s another I’ve sprung in people myself. I think this is the first time I’ve watched as the creators (or anyone) sprung upon unsuspecting audiences songs that I’ve previously sprung upon other unsuspecting audiences myself. I know where the punchlines are, of course, and can just enjoy the spectacle without being distracted by having to actually perform the thing. (But it’s still more fun to perform.) I told Phillip that I liked the song and had gotten some use out of it myself.
Bill Gawne was present. I first saw him at a KittenCon a few years ago, where he and I, then a very novice performer, took turns entertaining everyone. That was a very interesting experience because with just two of us singing I went through everything I knew and after the fourth or fifth song the stage fright started to dissipate and I started to feel sort-of comfortable singing for the first time.
There was lots of wonderfully funny stuff at the Friday night filk in the big room. I got to play my own A.J.‘s Song. For some reason I was more nervous than I’ve been in a long time, but I got through it. I sang The Boogie Knights’ Odyssey late Saturday night (really Sunday morning) in the hall where the piano is and had a lot of fun with that. I wasn’t nervous at all and got a most gratifying audience reaction.
Kanef and a stunt singer (was that Michelle?) did a matching pair of songs. If you can set one song’s story to another song’s tune, you can do it the other way ‘round, after all.
For me the weekend was a really excellent social experience. I had a nice chat with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chirosinger and Kathy Mar. Becca was her usual energetic self. almeda showed me her mother’s frog book. I joined some conversations in the hallways. I joined in a conversation in the con suite with Rand, Kanef, Joe Giacoio, Bret Glass, and a few others. Joe is a very...special...individual. I had the chance later to see him displaying his unique guitar style from up close. Ever see someone play two guitars at once? As Tom Smith suggested, he really ought to sell videos.
I will get some photos up on Flickr eventually.
My weekend, of course, began with a lengthy drive to Dublin, Ohio from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For comparison, I drove my car 1010 miles between the start of August and the beginning of my trip to OVFF on October 21st. (I rode my bicycle 1755 km = 1090 miles in the same interval.) I drove 956 miles between the 21st and 23rd. (For the quantitative, the round trip burned 32.6 gallons of gasoline costing $81 to cover 956 miles at 29.3 miles per gallon. 483 miles to get there in 10 hours on the clock, 8.8 hours of engine run time. 470 miles to return, 10.5 total hours, 8.9 engine run hours. Yes, I have a Hobbs hour meter in my car. I’m a geek.)
I arrived in time for the Pegasus concerts, always nice. I had never heard The Girl That’s Never Been, or anything else by Michelle Dockrey. She’s fantastic, and I may have to learn some of those songs on her web site. She did a great concert on Saturday.
Judi the sign language interpreter is a joy to watch, particularly during the more energetic songs. Or the auction.
There were some great two-fers and one-shots. Or just interesting ones. Blind Lemming Chiffon (who gets referred to also as Blond Lemming Chiffon, or Blind Lemon Chiffon, or Blond Lemon Chiffon...) performed two pieces so weird that even I don’t want to learn them, Dead People Got No Reason To Live and Always Set The Cat On Fire.
I ended up discovering Rob Balder. I knew about Partially Clips, but I didn’t know he was a filker.
It was great to see Frank Hayes. I had never seen him before.
I’ve played Universal Follower by Phillip Mills on occasion, and Phillip played it for a one-shot. It was fun to watch the audience react. It was fun watching while Bob Kanefsky sang Six Transit Genitalia Centauri at the Friday night filk in the big room. That’s another I’ve sprung in people myself. I think this is the first time I’ve watched as the creators (or anyone) sprung upon unsuspecting audiences songs that I’ve previously sprung upon other unsuspecting audiences myself. I know where the punchlines are, of course, and can just enjoy the spectacle without being distracted by having to actually perform the thing. (But it’s still more fun to perform.) I told Phillip that I liked the song and had gotten some use out of it myself.
Bill Gawne was present. I first saw him at a KittenCon a few years ago, where he and I, then a very novice performer, took turns entertaining everyone. That was a very interesting experience because with just two of us singing I went through everything I knew and after the fourth or fifth song the stage fright started to dissipate and I started to feel sort-of comfortable singing for the first time.
There was lots of wonderfully funny stuff at the Friday night filk in the big room. I got to play my own A.J.‘s Song. For some reason I was more nervous than I’ve been in a long time, but I got through it. I sang The Boogie Knights’ Odyssey late Saturday night (really Sunday morning) in the hall where the piano is and had a lot of fun with that. I wasn’t nervous at all and got a most gratifying audience reaction.
Kanef and a stunt singer (was that Michelle?) did a matching pair of songs. If you can set one song’s story to another song’s tune, you can do it the other way ‘round, after all.
For me the weekend was a really excellent social experience. I had a nice chat with
chirosinger and Kathy Mar. Becca was her usual energetic self. almeda showed me her mother’s frog book. I joined some conversations in the hallways. I joined in a conversation in the con suite with Rand, Kanef, Joe Giacoio, Bret Glass, and a few others. Joe is a very...special...individual. I had the chance later to see him displaying his unique guitar style from up close. Ever see someone play two guitars at once? As Tom Smith suggested, he really ought to sell videos. I will get some photos up on Flickr eventually.
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Date: 2005-10-27 04:58 am (UTC)Ah! That was you! I was still shaking too much to focus properly. :-) Thanks for the kind words.
I'm just beginning to accept that it's a truly funny song. My house filk group keeps telling me, but they're friends and supporters so.... I'm curious whether you found it in Xenofilkia or from another source.
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Date: 2005-10-27 07:45 am (UTC)I know that feeling.
I found out about it from
It was lots of fun looking around the room thinking "the 'lisp' line is coming up...yup, that one sure works."
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Date: 2005-10-27 08:07 am (UTC)Oh, right, I'd forgotten about that. (...speaking of wonderfully supportive people.) She was working on having UT do a cover of the song at FilkContinental. I haven't heard whether it happened or, if so, how it went over. I'm definitely curious.