Post-Ory, Pre-Windy

[filkertom]

OryCon was a blast. Literally, the only thing I would wish different would be a longer concert slot, because we got it goin'. The Whose Line session was fun, if a darn sight more physical than I'm really up to these days, the open sing on Saturday was very good, the Opening Ceremonies were fun (and I got to sing "Crystal Gayle..." and a few more songs for GOHs Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, and several other great folks), sales were good, the Sunday jam was a lot of fun, everybody was nice, the lovely ixias made me a wonderful bracelet out of crocheted metal and hematite, I got to hear more of vixyish and her cohorts in Escape Key....

The hotel's in-room pizza was good. That's how good a con it was. (Pepperoni, huge chunks of fresh-cut pineapple, and, because I asked 'em nicely, minced garlic. The sauce was a little spicier than I normally like it, but not unduly so, and full of flavor, and the crust was great.)

(Along the way, a lovely chorus of singers finally sold me on Kanef's "Six Transit Genitalia Centauri", which I have heard on two occasions previous and which I really didn't know what I thought about [which is why, Kanef, I've never mentioned it, because I honestly didn't know what I'd say]. Both those times, the song was sung solo by... well, I don't want to say a smarmy guy, but both times someone who seemed a little too obviously delighted by the song's cleverness. Yeah. That's a safe way to put it. But those sweet female harmonies [I remember admnaismith being in there, but his fine voice was not the most prominent for that song] and gentle shtick actually made it work for me and didn't make me feel dirty. So, thank you, ladies, and thank you, Kanef.)

Many, many, many thanks are in order to Cecelia Eng, Andrew Nesbit, Andrew's father, John C. Bunnell, Frank Hayes, Teri Lee, everyone mentioned above, and a whole bunch of other people whose names I'll be sorting out over the next week. You were all aces, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for an excellent time.

The train trip was fun, too. Not being a big fan of either planes or airports lately, I decided to give AmTrak a shot. Except for them not telling me where the frickin' handicapped restroom is until the second day of the trip (and this is important, because I was used to AmTrak's Ann Arbor-Chicago run, which only has large restrooms, and on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland they've got airplane-spec johns that I literally hurt myself squeezing into), the trip was relaxing and comfortable and very pleasant, with some particularly gorgeous scenery Friday morning as the train paralleled the Columbia River along the border of Washington and Oregon. Lovely mountains, cute little towns, beautiful.

The only other real problem with the train trip was the high price of food -- the only meal or snack that seemed worth it was breakfast yesterday, which was really good (two fresh-made eggs, good hash browns, good biscuit, milk, juice, peppery sausage patties on the side, nine bucks -- more than a diner, obviously, but not out of line with a good hotel and only a couple bucks more than Bob Evans).

So. Today is a somewhat-rest day, even though I've got a bunch of stuff to do. Tomorrow, I'm off for a house concert in Columbus, and from there Friday I head to WindyCon in Chicago. Should be fun, billroper and daisy_knotwise and janmagic and Nate Bucklin is Filk GOH and jrittenhouse is Fan GOH and Mark Osier will be there and who knows who all else, and if I actually do get the chance to meet the luminous Erin Gray perhaps I won't humiliate myself too badly with deeply held fanboy worship.

So, how's stuff on your end...?

Comments

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[illusionmajik.livejournal.com]

Democrats won Here in VA
Democrat Govenor and lt govenor

Re: he

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Election returns actually indicate that the Democrat won the governor's race while the Republican won the Lt. governor's race -- and the third statewide race (Attorney General) is too close to call and headed for a recount.

Re: he

[illusionmajik.livejournal.com]

Hmm
WTOP said the dems got LT gov.
Checking... Checking...

FUck!
Youre right
*sighs*
Well it aint all that bad

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

Gettin' ready for Consonance and 1812Tone (yes, I plan this far in advance, for everything);

Making arrangements to buy white vinyl pants and a white corset for Comicon in July, where I will be representing Emma Frost for a group of X-telepaths (and by which time, I should be roughly a size 6);

Working on the usual insane assortment of projects, including a new romantic comedy that I really didn't need to be writing just now, damn it all;

Planning to cook a turkey this weekend.

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

life in louisville is mostly calm, other than a tornado across the river on sunday morning, and talking a friend down monday night. it was so quiet at work sunday that i shelved all the dr. seuss books in the kids section in the order the titles are mentioned in "500 hats." i was a bored, bored little fangirl. what's sad is i felt SO accomplished when i was done.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ohhh... so many hugs, sweetie.

[hms42]

Quoting Tom... Kanef's "Six Transit Genitalia Centauri"....


So... Are you going to record it? He does have a tendency to get the original artist to record his parodies. :)

As for stuff on my end. Just been busy with real life. Finally clearing the desk a little on personal projects. (Its fun to find out that you have a 8 month backlog of CDs to put away.)

Harold

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Not I. I actually think that an all-female recording of that would be cute as heck.

[hms42]

ok... Now the next question...

Did anyone happen to record your concert (or will they at Windycon) for a download album?

Since you are making a living at the filk, I figured I might try to keep my adiction happy. :)

Harold

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Dunno, and dunno. I'm actually thinking of getting that silly Irish set I've always wanted to do ready for 'Fusion, for release in February. We'll see.

[hms42]

Good luck on that Irish set. That would be a good time to have the CD release. (A few weeks before St. Patricks' day.)

Harold

Sic Transit Genitalia Centauri

[patoadam]

One year (probably 2002) at OVFF, I heard Kanef's first performance of "Sic Transit Genitalia Centauri". After Kanef's song, I wandered into another filk room, where Bill Sutton was singing "The Ballad of Stan Long". As the latter song is longer, the two songs both started at about the same time. It seems to me to be a mind-boggling coincidence that two songs about men with multiple organs would be sung at the same time completely independently of each other. Perhaps there is meaning and purpose in the universe, after all.

[djonn]

Many, many, many thanks are in order to Cecilia Eng, Andrew Nisbet, Andrew's father, John C. Bunnell, Frank Hayes, Teri Lee, everyone mentioned above,

Glad to be of service (said John, on behalf of the OryConian Horde[tm]), and I'd agree with you about needing a longer concert slot. Next time....! I will also add for the record that the lead vocal on "Six Transit" was the vibrant cflute.

Everyone here reports having had a great time as well(and I must remember to add that note about the Marriott pizza to the discussions about next year's hotel).

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Excellent! And, I dunno about next year, but, thanks to this trip, I know it is not only not impossible, but not even all that expensive to shlep out to the Northwest. (Thank God for being self-employed, and not having to be back to the frickin' office on Monday.) So you might see me up there a lot sooner than you think.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I remember cflute and shaddyr being the instigators of that lovely chorus. (Those two could make a song about chainsaws sound sweet and noble, mind you.)

It was so nice to meet you! I feel lucky to have connected with your return to orycon...

- brooke the bald banjoist

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And it was very nice to meet you! You had some good stuff going. Better watch out -- you'll be Celtic jammin' afore ye know it. ;)

[jenrose]

We were delighted to have you, Tom. I was looking over cflute's shoulder during that song... I think it's the first time I heard it to pay attention myself.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Delighted to be had. I was worried that I wasn't gonna be up for much open filking on Saturday after the Whose Line?, but sheer chutzpah and caffiene can work wonders. ;)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Lovely lovely lovely to see you again! So much fun! I wish your concert had been longer, too. :)

tfabris and I will be at GAFilk next. One of us will be dragging the other. Gotta start making plans.

Currently trying to catch up with life and work, trying to get a little more exercise than I normally do (normal being "none"), considering having Shadowbeast pressed so I can quit making kinko's runs. And spending far too much time doing puzzles and reading livejournal. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Lotsa hugs, sweetie! And I'll have to see what is going on at that point, but the more I think about it the more that GAFilk seems like A Good Thing To Do This Year.

Thanks for coming!

[mphopcroft.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for coming to Orycon! It was really nice of you to do "Desert Storm" for me even though you were obviously tired. (By the way, I've been meaning to ask your opinion of Loonatics Unleashed -- try not to be profane, please....)

I didn't write my usual one-song-per-con -- mainly because the idea I had didn't quite gravitate into good form. I did get a c ouple of fragments that might turn into songs, albiet you probably don't want to hear about "JESUS! -- The Book by Anne Rice!" 8^)

Re: Thanks for coming!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No problemo. Listen, getting going on a raucous song like that usually at least gives me the adrenaline hit to... well, to finish a raucous song like that. ;)

Loonatics? Haven't watched it. Could've, but the preview did nothing for me, and I realized after it premiered that I had no interest in seeking it out. I don't watch Looney Tunes for superheroics and neon paint jobs, so why should I watch a third-generation photocopy of Looney Tunes for...?

I've been thinking about Ms. Rice's soppy fanfic myself. Haven't done anything with it yet....

[kengr]

Oh, went to a con, ran into a filk GOH while sitting with a friend near the lobby, mentioned a song of his to my friend and had him treat us to a performance of it.

something about a "Telly-taley heart..." :-)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Really! Was he as devilishly handsome as I've heard? ;)

[kengr]

That would be telling. :-)

But he was an extremely nice person.

[ixias.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful to get a chance to hear you live. There was a woman sitting in front of me at the 3:00 concert who had never heard your stuff. I was able to relive the delighted surprise of hearing some of your puns for the first time.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Well, since we're sharing a hotel room, I'm gonna be there too. *grin* I don't get to leave champaign until 5.30, so I'll miss some stuff tomorrow, but...I get to see you soon! I win!