OVFF, Part 3

[filkertom]

Stopped at Dunkin Donuts for bagels before I went back to the con. (No garlic! Whassup wit dat?) Got there with a few minutes to spare for the noon panel, Promoting Your Music Online. I think s00j and I did a pretty good job, actually. We had good questions from the audience, and natural examples just led into each other, and it was fun and informative and I think we all got some new ideas.

Then I spent a little bit of time with Gundo of Toyboat and Amy McNally (and later Hope Dundas and Debbie Gates). We were doing some serious work on "Dervish" for the Tomboat concert at WindyCon. You can listen to how we did, complete with glitches -- I couldn't remember my own damn words. (The file's about 15 MB, by the way.) I don't believe Hope was playing on this cut, because there's no way to miss that lovely saxophone. :)

Then I talked to Martha about a project she's working on, and then Janet and I went off to lunch at SushiKo. Serviceable tempura with miso soup and salad, although a bit sweet (and not much umph to the ginger dressing). The sushi must've been superb, though -- Janet cleaned the plate. I sometimes wish I had the sushi gene.

Then I went back to the hotel room for a nap. Woke up around 7:10, got back to the hotel around 7:30.

I'd been told about the Dead Dog in the Con Suite; I didn't know there was an even bigger jam in the main space. Never got over there, because I never left the Con Suite. :) Mitch and TJ, the Ropers, Juanita, Stevie Mac and Katy, Ghost Of A Rose, UT, Alan Thiesen, Tom and Sue Jeffers, Dave and Judith Hayman, Will Frank, bunches of folks. We had a pretty fine time, and more people kept coming in -- Renee Alper, Vixy and Tony, Kathleen Sloan, just freakin' wonderful.

Along the way, I did a few songs I don't often do, as well as a (by request from TJ) room-blasting version of "Rocket Ride". You guys know I don't preen much, but, really, when the crowd is as hot as we all were, Pee Wee Herman could sing that song and sound like Roger Daltrey. And I played back-up for Renee on "The Ballad Of Godzilla", and when Will and a couple of his buds sang a Soviet-based political folk song that just happened to use the same melody as the Tetris theme, I started miming blocks falling from the sky, and then Tony came over with his "controller" and I started rotating and sliding from side to side, and there was schtick and silly and serious and folk and rock and hugs and just a fine, fine time.

I pulled out of there about midnight. I could've gone longer, but I really wanted some sleep before I got on the road. Which I'm just about to do. :)

There will be commissioned music worked on this week, and some concerts uploaded finally, and I hope a little downtime on Wednesday or so.

How's your week looking?

Comments

[lizziecrowe.livejournal.com]

Cannot WAIT to heart that recording!! Getting ready for WindyCon, getting Duck off the ground along with a flock of great folks, refining the 'book' all while trying to get enough sleep to be able to work every day. Why, hullo there, caffeine!

Also can't wait to see you and everybody at WindyCon. *HUGS*

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Glad you had such a good con!! I had a great time myself though I'm sorry I never got a chance to talk to, or give you/get a hug!

In reference to something you said in an earlier post - you really did look great (not that you ever don't look good :)).

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good time! I look forward to the recordings.

I'm doing a backup of my computer now. That's going to take a long time. At least I can use it during that time. Job hunt starts today but I'm going to take it easy and unwind this week. Going to do some cleaning. Maybe work on the DucKon site. The PHP book I ordered for my ex-job came yesterday (yes, Amazon used a company that delivers on a Sunday) so I'll take a look at that and maybe figure out how to send email via forms.

Tom, I assumed you looked at a lot of websites for conventions. What were some cool things they did? What would you like to see? I want to add some cool stuff to DucKon, but I can't think of anything.

[hms42]

It was great seeing you at OVFF. (I have to go pack my room).

I am sticking around columbus for the week for World Fantasy. See you at GaFilk.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Data and navagation before Style and Wow.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

The URL is http://www.duckon.org/ (http://www.duckon.org/) and the convention is in 8 months. We don't have much data but I think the navigation is good. What do you think?

[batyatoon]

I heard about the Tetris Interpretive Dance afterwards. So, so bummed I missed it.

[gorgeousgary]

I'll be spending most of the week catching up from OVFF. On top of the rest of the catching-up I need to do from the month-opening folk retreat and the Great Soul-Sucking Weekend.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

when Will and a couple of his buds sang a Soviet-based political folk song that just happened to use the same melody as the Tetris theme, I started miming blocks falling from the sky, and then Tony came over with his "controller" and I started rotating and sliding from side to side, and there was schtick and silly and serious and folk and rock and hugs and just a fine, fine time.

Aha! The link, I found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

In every year's OVFF, there's always about 30 or 40 highlights for me. But suffice it to say, the Tetris-dance is clearly in the Top Ten.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

The week is looking to be pretty good. :) Got a little bit of a bug but nothing i can't get over. I'm glad to hear OVFF went well for you.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

Okay. I've never met or heard most of these artists, and since I can only go to one or two cons a year, I probably never will. But...

You must have been really desperate to go to Dunkin Donuts to get a bagel. That's like going to McDonald's and ordering a McFilet Mignon. Maybe if this was in a really hick town there might not be any real bagelries or delis there. But you would've done substantially better going to a supermarket and getting some (gaah) commercial bakery bagels than to go to DD.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

We used to have Block's Bagels in Dublin (one town over from Worthington, where OVFF moved to), but it closed. Yeah, Dunkin' Donuts for bagels doesn't have many better alternatives here.

OVFF pictures

[kyril.livejournal.com]

As I posted on my own LJ, my OVFF photos are up on Picasaweb (http://picasaweb.google.com/kyril96/20101022OhioValleyFilkFest?authkey=Gv1sRgCNSsqavMh6PJrwE#) and a smaller subset is on my Facebook page.

And I got the other two signatures (Vixy and Tony; I got Sooj's at Penguicon 2010) on my 2009 DucKon Vixy and Tony concert CD. It's somewhat special to me since I shot the photos of the artists which were printed on the disc itself.

I'd post the link to the photos on your Thursday Pimp Your Stuff page, but it's only barely Thursday so of course there's no post yet this week.