B5:TMoS Contest!

[filkertom]

Okay! For those of you who weren't checking out the LJ the past couple of days -- see what you miss!? We're having a contest.

Here's the drill: Next Saturday, J. Michael Strazcynski is making some kind of major announcement about a new Babylon 5 project. The noise has been along the lines of a theatrical motion picture, and the initials of the beastie are TMoS. Many people think this is something like "the movement of Shadows".

'Round here, of course, we have just a touch more fun.

Several people suggested all kinds of possibilities for what those letters might actually stand for, very few having anything to do with B5. Those are listed below. What you need to do is pick your three favorites, in order. First choice gets 3 points, second gets 2, third gets 1. Also, pick one musical style from the ones suggested. On Monday morning, I'll add up all the points, and write the appropriate song, and have it up on the Free Stuff section of TSO before Saturday's announcement.

Whoever came up with the winning song idea will get some free downloads, and maybe a bit of other swag. So will one voter I'll pick at random.

Have at it!

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janet_coburn:

The Month of Sundays
The Master of Sinanju
The Martyr of Space
Tom (Multi-obsession) Smith
Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed
Tell Mongo "Oh, Shit!"
Tiny Missiles Osama Sent
Techie Men Ostracize Sunbathers
10,000 Maniacs: Obsolete Singers
Tiramisu Means Obesity Scare
Transcendental Meditation or Scream
Tentacles Make Obscene Signals
Tech Mavens Order Sushi
Time Machine's Offspring Surprise
Totally Magnificent Olfactory Sensation
Try Modern Onanism Suggestions
Tragedy Makes Ophelia Smile
Teacher Misses Orthograhic Slip-up
Tigger Meets Owl's Sister
Toddlers Murder Old-fashioned Sensei
The Meaning of Slime
The Mother of Sasquatch
The Multitude of SMOFs
The Massacre of Smurfs
The Microbes of Saskatchewan
The Miracle of Somnambulism
The March of Slugs
The Menace of Spongebob
Totaled My Own Studebaker
Tom's Mail Order Songfest
Too Many Old Senators
Try Merging on Saturn
Taste Mustard on Spumoni
Ten Minutes on Survivor
Two Mouthfuls of Spoo

wormquartet:

Tickle My Ovulating Snail
Terribly Moist Otter Salesman
Taste My Orangutan Syrup
Trained Marmasets Orbit Saturn
Turkeys Make Obnoxious Suppositories
Turtle Mucas Often Smells
Tacos Make Orifices Splatter
Titillating Mistresses Offer Sodomy
Tom Molests Obstinent Scaffolding
Texaco Makes Oily Seals

jss1113:

Tom May Obviously Spew

trdsf:

There's More; On, Straczynski!
True, Morden Obeys Shadows
There's Mollari, On the Sauce

dbcooper:

This Means Ose Stuff
They're Mismanaging Our Satellite!
Two Months of SciFi
Take My Orifices, Squid
Try My Octopus Sushi
Too Many Obvious Spies

Musical Styles:

rock and roll
swing
lullaby
folk
10,000 Maniacs
blues
new age
heavy metal
soft jazz
TV theme song
Broadway
Unaccompanied (a cappella)
Renaissance-ish
Schoolhouse Rock
children's song
ballad
Gospel
Native American
sing-along
patriotic ditty
Gilbert & Sullivan
march
doo-wop
country
protest song
romantic ballad
Weird Al
reggae
commercial jingle
ose
Strident Les Miserables-style military ballad/march
spooky electronica
J-pop
diatonic jazz
spy-jazz

Comments

[jss]

First choice gets 3 points, second gets 2, third gets 3.

Um, you might want to correct that; I'll assume you meant "third gets 1," since that'd make more sense.

No vote from me yet, though, I want to think about my choices.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Right-o. Missed that somehow. Thanks!

[eleri.livejournal.com]

I only have one vote, cause it lept out at me and beat me over the head with it's filky goodness.

There's More; On, Straczynski! Sung as a college fight song.

My friggin' vote

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

My favorites:
1. Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed
2. The Meaning of Slime
3. Two Mouthfuls of Spoo

Style:
commercial jingle

Honorable mentions:
Techie Men Ostracize Sunbathers
Tentacles Make Obscene Signals
Toddlers Murder Old-fashioned Sensei
The Meaning of Slime
The Massacre of Smurfs (Dammit, Janet, I shoulda thought of this one. :))
Take My Orifices, Squid
Tom May Obviously Spew

I refuse to vote for my own ideas cuz it makes me feel dirty. Dirty dirty Shoebox. DIRTY!!!!

-=ShoEboX=-

Re: My friggin' vote

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

So. Dirty, then?

Re: My friggin' vote

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

Maybe a tad.

[jkb.livejournal.com]

1. The Meaning of Slime (It just has that dramatic B5 ring to it -- you know, The Coming of Shadows, The Fall of Night, and The Meaning of Slime)
2. There's More; On, Straczynski!
3. They're Mismanaging Our Satellite!

But my goddess, I love "Take My Orifices, Squid!" too. :)

Style: Heck, I dunno. Rock. Or Folk. I think your songs are especially funny and catchy when they're somewhat fast, like "I Want My Music On Napster," whatever style you'd file that under.

A request, and a vote

[kshandra]

Tom, could you please put the list(s) behind a cut tag? It's currently doubling the length of my friends page....

1. Too Many Obvious Spies
   
2. Time Machine's Offspring Surprise
   
3. The Multitude of SMOFs

G&S seems obvious for at least two of those.

Re: A request, and a vote

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Good God, I didn't know you could do that, and I was trying to find a way not to have those last two posts go ballistic. Thank you!!!

Re: A request, and a vote

[kshandra]

You're quite welcome, m'dear. It does make things more manageable, doesn't it?

[(Anonymous)]

My vote goes to:
1. Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed
2. The Massacre of Smurfs
3. The Meaning of Slime

Style: heavy metal

-Marianna (aka Lady Omniscience)

[djonn]

In order:

Toddlers Murder Old-fashioned Sensei
Trained Marmosets Orbit Saturn
Tigger Meets Owl's Sister

Musical style: Schoolhouse Rock

[djonn]

And as a bonus, one additional matching phrase:

Triple Mutagenic Origami Shogun

Decisions, decisions

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Time Machine's Offspring Surprise
Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed
There's Mollari, On the Sauce

In the style of a patriotic ditty.

[ladymer.livejournal.com]

Favorites
1: Terribly Moist Otter Salesman
2: Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed
3: Take My Orifices, Squid


Style: Strident Les Miserables-style military ballad/march

[sdavido.livejournal.com]

1) The Menace of Spongebob
2) The Master of Sinanju
3) The Meaning of Slime

and

Schoolhouse Rock, 'cause knowledge is power

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I shan't vote for my own, but I shall for the following...

1. They're Mismanaging Our Satellite! as a protest song (because it makes me think of MST3K)
2. Tentacles Make Obscene Signals as a lull-a-bye (is that a hentai filk waiting to happen or what?), and
3. Tigger Meets Owl's Sister as the blues (because there are so many ways that could go horribly awry).

Abstention

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to vote; I just wanted to say that I forgot one that I meant to post (I was asleep at 1:37 am, ya see).

The Mistress of Sheepdom (aka Olga's Song)

Re: Abstention

[jkb.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Olga is, but I love the idea of a song called The Mistress of Sheepdom, and wish it existed. *BG*

Re: Abstention

[(Anonymous)]

Olga is Fenton's girlfriend, and if you have to ask who Fenton is... *eg*

Re: Abstention

[jkb.livejournal.com]

Mm, no, if I had to ask who Fenton was, that would clearly show a lack of proper respect for the future Ruler of the World, and even my own small-but-powerful warriorsheep would be insufficient to save me from the Death Sheep's wrath. :)

Voting

[(Anonymous)]

In order of preference:

They're Mismanaging Our Satellite
There's Mollari, On the Sauce
Tom's Mail-Order Songfest

Style: Gilbert and Sullivan


Honorable Mention: Tigger Meets Owl's Sister (since the Hundred-Acre Wood's been previously massacred in these precincts)

[hms42]

1 - They're Mismanaging Our Satellite! to G&S.
2 -
3 -

Nothing really goes good as a 2nd or 3rd choice....

Harold

[jss]

My votes:

1. They're Mismanaging Our Satellite!
2. There's More; On, Straczynski!
3. Two Mouthfuls of Spoo

19. Gilbert & Sullivan

We've Got A Winner!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Good morning, gang! I tallied all the votes, and the clear winner was "They're Mismanaging My Satellite!" The winning style was Gilbert & Sullivan, and I'll be getting that up on the Free Stuff (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff.htm) page by Saturday morning. (It's possible at least one other song will come out of this; the second-place vote-getters, "Transylvanian Monkeys on Speed" and "Schoolhouse Rock" are just too delightful.)

dbcooper made the winning suggestion, and djonn got the "voter who was picked randomly" award. I'll get back to you two in a day or so as to what you win.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Re: We've Got A Winner!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Argh. As pointed out, that's "They're Mismanaging OUR Satellite!" Sorry.