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Monday, October 26th, 2009
9:08 pm	OVFF Home safe as of about an hour or so ago... Unfortunately, the convention is over. :( Lots of fun, great concerts and wonderful music. I only was able to sit in on a few things here and there due to running around the whole convention. What I did hear, was good. The circles went late most nights and the dead dog even split in two. Pegasus concert was fun and challenging. (The usual mic wranging and good songs.) Mew's concert was a sound tech challenge... 14 people on stage at one time. Fuzzyvanman (head of sound @ OVFF) and the sound crew were able to get everyone mic'ed and they did 11 songs that really rocked the place. The jam was good too, but the drum song with Sooj and Deb (I think it was Deb) of Wild Mercy was really good and I am glad I was in the area and got to hear that one. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
2:03 pm	OVFF I am in Ohio for OVFF 25. http://www.ovff.org I just have an hour wait for the person I am carpooling with and am taking advantage of the time to - Grab lunch check my email Look up their flight Find out the OVFF hotel info (that I forgot to print) and Read LJ. (Just not in that order.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
6:17 pm	I-CON 29 (NY) Date/location change (from previously announced) I just got home from the I-CON (NY) annual meeting. Its heading home to Stony Brook in 2010 and the dates changed to March 26-28,2010 from the previously announced date that was 2 weeks later in the future. More info on the convention at http://www.iconsf.org I am running filk again. A filk guest to be announced once I get a confirmation on the changed date and get any paperwork required submitted to the convention. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
12:57 am	floatingfilk.com I just updated the web page for the first time since January... (Ok... I have been a bit busy this year...) Cover art for 3 more CDs went online (2 out of print, 1 in print.) Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
2:28 am	Worldcon - home safe... Home Safely. (As of about 1 1/2 hours ago). Post convention report to occur when I write one... (130gb of audio recordings captured in the filk rooms.) Current Music: Jordin Kare Concert - Worldcon 2009 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
11:06 am	Worldcon (Montreal) I leave as soon as the directions are printed, the computer is shut down and the car is loaded. A few extra stops enroute (returning stuff at Microcenter which hopefully will not take too long). Its going to be an fun trip. At least this time, when driving to Canada, we have more than 2 CDs of music to listen to. (Last time, car that was rented had problems and we only had a CD to cassette adaptor and the original car had cassette. This time, mp3 capabile car WITH a port for the ipod and a lot of filk CDs, including the Duckon fund raiser CDs from 2009. I am agenting the CDs at Worldcon for them. If you ordered this year's CDs, I don't have your disc.) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 27th, 2009
1:47 pm	Confluence con report I am home (kinda, I am at work today and have not been home yet) from Confluence. It was my first trip out to Confluence after many years of hearing about it and hearing recordings from Filkferengi. mrgoodwraith puts together a great concert track and the convention is in a central location too, so it draws filkers from both the mid west and the east coast. Concerts were anywhere from good to WOW and the biggest disappointment (to me) about the concerts were that Tom Smith and Judith Hayman canceled. There were a number of people performing whom I have only seen before in open circle or only heard on recordings (both tape and CD). While most of the concerts were regulars for concerts at conventions, there was one concert from a neo to the filk community that everyone has been raving about. Rin Barton (I don't know her LJ names, but I did see them posted in a con review). She did a concert and was a lot of fun to listen to in circle. I look forward to hearing her perform again. Getting to meet Clif Flynt and Pete Grubbs was nice after all of the years of hearing them as recordings only. Toyboat did a great rock concert and I enjoyed hearing their version of Banned from Argo. I look forward to their CD releasing hopefully at OVFF. The reason I even considered attending the convention was the filk Guests - More Difficulties. They were my main reason for purchasing a membership to the con and going. Everything else was a bonus in my opinion. More Diff. did a 1 1/2 hour long concert covering some of the many of the songs that appeared on the Technical Difficulties and Musical Chairs tapes along with 1-2 songs that have never been performed before. At least one song that was performed that only appeared on a con tape that is long since out of print. What was also interesting (and I wish I had a better seat to see it) was Linda Melnick signing a couple of songs. They unintentionally started the show off with a bang when one member tripped getting on stage (they were fine and so was the instrument.) I did some spot checking on my recording and while its good, its not the same as seeing them live. One bit of good news. They had CDs (digitalized, not remastered) of the two Technical Difficulties tapes and the Musical Chairs tape available. (They ran out of them before I got to them. I have to order a set from them.) The open filks were very good and a bit of fun. I got to hear a few voices that rarely sing. It was unexpected and nice to hear Judifilksign singing vs signing someone else's singing. Saturday night was great too. We had all of the members of More Difficulties in the room for a while and they did a couple of songs and starmalachite played the Technical Difficulties parody that she was responsible for in open filk. Next year, the Filk Guest is Peter Beagle, which is making me consider attending the convention again. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 24th, 2009
11:22 am	Confluence - Pittsburg, PA I went out to Confluence for the weekend and am in safely at the hotel. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 17th, 2009
8:45 pm	...... Engagement Update - While attempting to plan the wedding with my fiancee we decided to go our separate ways before we ended up being bitter with each other and each others families. We figured out that we have both changed more than expected over the past few years and we are no longer as compatible as we used to be. We will remain friends and on good terms vs going forward and having a bitter breakup. We still plan to dance at each others wedding. (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
12:44 am	New CD release- One Filk Two Filk Old Filk New Filk Last weekend at Shore Leave, Roberta Rogow released her 3rd CD. 'One Filk Two Filk Old Filk New Filk'. Its a collection of her newest songs, some with original tunes and some of her older ones that for whatever reason never made it onto her tapes. The songs are from either live performances (concerts, Song Sequeter panels and in one case, the song writing contest for ConCertino 2009) or the open recording studio sessions I have offered at various east coast conventions that I have attended. New Filk 1. All Is Well With Harry Potter 2. The Grantville Ram 3. Goblin Gold 4. Fire In The Hole Backing Vocals by Marc Grossman 5. The Woman In The Snow 6. The Quest: The Road Goes ever on. 7. One Mile Closer To The Stars 8. The Wild Mars Rovers 9. DragonCon Report 10. Take It Back! 11. Trolls Old Filk 12. Ewok Victory Song 13. Indy Jones, The Engineer Backing Vocals by Marc Glasser and Kathy Sands 14. Lullabye For A Chieri 15. The Fannish Orchestra Roberta Rogow with Gary McGath, Sue Len, Jacob Sommer, Mabel Liang, Masha Sten-Clanton, Jeanne Wardwell 16. Singles And Silver 17. The Dandelion Filkers Backing Vocals by Marc Grossman 18. At The WorldCon Contributor copies will be getting out in the mail hopefully this weekend. (I have to finish assembling them.) Cover art (with the back cover of the CD) is available on my web page - http://www.floatingfilk.com/1filk.pdf I will be putting up 1-2 songs from the CD when I update the web page, (whenever that actually happens, maybe before worldcon 2009) I will put up the cover art for the ConCertino 2009 CD at the same time. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
9:32 pm	Concertino 2009 - Home Safe I am home safely from ConCertino. It was a lot of fun and the concom ran a great event. Thank you to them for making my first time as a guest anywhere a wonderful experience. It was a nice drive and took a little longer than planned (traffic on Long Island (rush hour), delivering a songbook to my co-author on the one song in it that I actually assisted in writing and putting the recording studio back into its storage location (my parents house). More about the con, when I have a moment or two. I might even go thru the concerts and see what everyone did sing. (Time to get started on the transfer of the con recordings to a 2nd hard drive and THEN dinner.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
10:43 pm	ConCertino 2009 Writing from the dead dog at ConCertino where I was Techno-Guest. Its been a fun weekend of lots of excellent concerts and open filk music. The concom were great and deserve a lot of credit for the wonderful job they have done running the convention. Thank you to madfilkentist and the rest of the ConCertino 2009 concom for inviting me as a guest. Once I heard the other guests of the convention, I would have been here anyhow. They did try to keep me out from behind the soundboard. They were somewhat successful. I ended up playing insta mic wrangler a few times. I didn't touch the sound board all weekend. I just was constantly swapping and downloading recordings from the Zoom H2 recordings. I produced a CD for the members of the con who paid for a premium membership and it turns out I did a LOT more than madfilkentist expected. Originally, it was supposed to have been a couple of songs from each guest. (Its grew as the audio was located.) :) 76 minutes of audio later, the convention has a CD. ONLY 50 copies exist (they ARE numbered) and I won't be printing more. 2 more copies will appear at interfilk auctions (including OVFF). Unknown on the other location to get it from the convention. In opening ceremonies, instead of performing, I contributed a recording that had been made of John Caspell, who was missed. I also ran a session on recording and editing audio. The recordings will need to be permission granted to be shared, but people did get to see what I see on the other side of the screen and a few features of what I know about in Audacity and Adobe Audition. Kathleen's concert was great. She called up Kathy Mar to assist on Dr. Anne Prather's Spiral Dance which the audience appeared to like. (Anne really needs to get some of her songs back into print.) Bill and Gretchen did a great concert with a number of their duets that don't have live versions in print. Apology was fun and they did cover a song that Bill posted in his LJ a couple of months ago, Cruising. (Thank you Katie for a line to start a good song.) Brooke's concert was a lot of fun and extremely good. John's presence was missed. Brooke did cover two songs that John had written. I look forward to finding more recordings of John to give her for John's family. (I know they exist, but not where they are located in the recordings.) The concom printed John's badge and provided that to Brooke (along with his copy of the Premium CD for his family.) She also as a new CD out with her and John on it. I know there was a memorial circle for both John Caspell and Lois Mangan, but I unfortunately was not able to attend it. A small number of shorter concerts occurred during the weekend from Kathy Mar, Judith Hayman, and Sassafrass. Kathy's concert was also for her CD/DVD release that officially happened this weekend. Sassafras had 5 of their 13? 14? members present and their concert showcased a few songs that will be on their next CD. They released a CD for the Con with some of the songs from the new CD and some reprints from their earlier CDs. Judith's concert was a nice introduction to her music. (I have not seen her concert before.) There also was a childrens' concert with Paul Estin, half next year's (Conterpoint) GOH Mary Ellen Wessels and Lady Bear. I was waking up at that time, but I did get to hear Lady Bear in open filk and she is fun to listen to. I did ask the performers how their concert went and they said it was good. I will have to see what turns up on the recordings. There were a lot of people who normally I only see at Worldcon or GaFilk attending the convention, including the other Guests of the convention. Kathleen, the Ropers and Brooke were wonderful in concert and in circle. I look forward to the next convention with any of them at it because I know its going to be a lot of fun and great music. Thank you to everyone for making my first time as a guest of a convention a great time! (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
7:55 pm	ConCertino... I am leaving as soon as this is posted. See everything there after midnight. 200 mile drive in wet weather... (Its easier than taking the ferry.) http://www.concertino.net (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
4:02 pm	Concertino 2009 CD 'Come Filking' song list As I have mentioned in the past (June last year), I am attending ConCertino 2009 as TechnoGuest. The convention is NEXT weekend. The convention web page is at http://www.concertino.net. As part of my contribution, since I am not a performer, but a tech, I put together a limited edition CD that will be given to the members of the convention who purchased a premium membership, but you can purchase an attending membership at the door. There are only 50 copies that exist and NO, I am not publishing any more. Here is the song list (and liner notes) that will be on the CD. 76 minutes of audio. --- Come Filking ConCertino 2009 Premium CD Guests of Honor - Bill and Gretchen Roper 01 Cruising Bill Roper (Bill & Gretchen Roper)7 02 Just Play Bill & Gretchen Roper (Bill Roper)1 03 Library Song Bill & Gretchen Roper 1 04 Sinister Walk Bill & Gretchen Roper (Bill Roper)1 05 Apology Bill & Gretchen Roper1 Interfilk Guests - Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell 06 Worm Herder Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville2 07 In a Histaminor Key Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 08 It's Just So Nice When Someone Knows Your Name Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 09 The Space Lasers May Already Have Penetrated My Tinfoil Helmet (Despite My Extensive Field Research) Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 10 The Giant Squid Has Not Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 11 Burn It Down John Caspell (Michelle Dockrey/Tony Fabris)3 Ghost of Honor - Lois Mangan 12 Ballad of Lois Mangan Judith Hayman/Lois Mangan (Mark Mandel/Percy Montrose)4 13 Come, Filking, Filking Lois Mangan/Kathleen Sloan/Heather Borean (Lois Mangan)4 14 The Phoenix Lois Mangan (Julia Ecklar)3 15 The Woad Ode Lois Mangan (William Hope-Jones/Traditional)4 16 The Hand of God Lois Mangan/J. Spencer Love/Gary McGath (Julia Ecklar)3 17 Carmen Miranda's Ghost Lois Mangan/Gary McGath (Leslie Fish)5 Toastmistress - Kathleen Sloan 18 Magic To Me Kathleen Sloan6 19 Catalog Queen Kathleen Sloan6 20 Discipline Queen Kathleen Sloan (Paul Kwinn)6 21 Spiral Dance Kathleen Sloan (Dr. Anne Prather)6 22 Meat Kathleen Sloan/Paul Estin (Kathleen Sloan)2 23 Take It Back Kathleen Sloan2 Performer (Composer, if different from performer) Thank you to Bill Roper, Brooke Lunderville, Paul Mangan, Ken Lalonde, and Gerry Tyra for contributing recordings for this CD. Thank you to everyone for permission to record your concerts and to use your songs. Kathleen's song “Meat” is based on Terry Bisson's short story “Meat”. More of Leslie’s songs are available at www.lesliefish.com Recording locations - 1 GaFilk 2009 / 2 Denvention 3 (Worldcon 2008) / 3 Practice session / 4 FKO 16 / 5 ConCertino '95 / 6 Fencon 2007 / 7 Recorded specially for this album Bill and Gretchen Roper's web page - http://www.filker.com Brooke Lunderville's web page - http://catfish.dhs.org/~happyfish/filk/ Engineered and published by Harold Stein for ConCertino 2009. Cover art by Jane Sibley MASSFILC logo by Virginia Taylor http://www.concertino.net http://www.nefilk.us Floating Filk Studios FFS-008 http://www.floatingfilk.com ---- Unfortunately, you can no longer get a premium membership for the convention. (Sorry, they will not be selling those at the door.) There WILL be copies donated to interfilk, so you will get a chance to get a copy at a filk convention some point in the future. I have uploaded a different take of "Take It Back" to the filk archive. The version of 'Meat' that is used on here is the same one that is on Paul Estin's 'Mind the Stopgap' CD. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
11:55 am	Concertino 2009 - Take It Back I just uploaded a copy of the Toastmistress's song "Take It Back" onto the filk archive. 'Take It Back' is the theme of their song contest. http://www.filkarchive.org.uk/cgi-bin/song.cgi?FileID=449 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
10:11 pm	Hall of Fame Inducties 2009 No, I am not at FilkOntario, I am at I-CON (NY) where I am running filk. (Maybe I will attend it next year.) I just wanted to say congratulations to the 2009 inductees to the Filk Hall of Fame - Frank Hayes and Erica Neely (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:25 pm	web page... Its actually updated... I finally updated my web page tonight. (I was planning on doing it last summer after Concertino announced me being a guest.) I added the cover and song list for Dr. Seti's new CD, 'Sing More Songs of SETI', which was officially released this weekend at Boskone, along with the cover and song list of Paul Estin's CD 'Mind the Stopgap'. These are the latest 3 CDs I have done audio engineering on. In addition, the Contata 2008 housefilk CD song list is now on my web page. 'Flying Stone - Doo-wop Version', which is on that CD has been on the filk archive since August 2008. I will see about more permissions to put songs from there on the filk archive. (Cover art is coming soon. Along with a couple of more songs to be uploaded onto the filk archive.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
2:02 pm	Filk song publishing - permissions question - opinions wanted A song I recorded for Roberta Rogow is a retelling of an urban legend. She mentioned that she had gotten the story from a book of Urban legends and did a retelling of that story as a filk song. What I am wondering is.... Should I be contacting the author of the urban legend book for permission to use the song on a CD or for posting to filk archive. Mostly the permissions I am wanting to get (and wondering if I need their permission) are permission to post the song to the filk archive (eventually) and for putting it on a filk CD. (Roberta's next CD being the main one planned for, but potentially a convention/compilation CD, too.) A copy of the CD(s) would be sent to the author as a standard thank you for permission and their archives if their permission is required. I do have the author's name and book name so I can try to contact them via their publisher (or the fanish community if a contact exists.) The song in question is 'The Woman in the Snow' which Roberta has performed at a few conventions including Worldcon 2008. Crossposted to FILK. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
1:02 am	OVFF 24 Home from OVFF. Good visit to Ohio. I am going back again next year. I ended up with a lot of CDs (most being relayed to a filk dealer @ Philcon.) My collection has a number of new CDs (and 5 cassette tapes including a couple I only previously had mp3s.) I ended up assisting all weekend with the sound crew. Fuzzyvanman was great to work with again. I am glad I was able to assist him out by mic wrangling. (yes, I am back next year to do the same over all 4 days.) Pegasus awards were wonderful. Congratulations to all of the winners. It was nice to put faces to the names I have been talking to on here for a while. Concerts (and one/two shots were wonderful.) A CD I put together for Contata 18 (2008) was donated to interfilk since I can't sell them and raised over $300. (I think the number was $325.) my jaw dropped when it cracked $200. I still have a few copies I owe for thank you copies (many were delivered over the weekend, so I am happy. The remaining to be delivered copies is down to 3 copies. (2 for replacement/problems with disc (one had an empty case!) and one more contributor copy.)) CDs released @ OVFF (or fairly new (aka since Worldcon in Denver)) - Jeff & Maya Bohnoff - Mobius Strip Graham Leathers - Bears All (this was out pre-worldcon, but I am not sure when in 2008 it released) Randy Hoffman (featuring Kira Heston) - More Vocals in the MOnitors OVFF GOHs - Tim and Anne Walker/Wilderwood - Dancing Through The Past Juliana McCorison - Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth Paul Estin - Mind the Stopgap (CD-R released @ ConChord when he was an interfilk guest). He numbers his CDs and #42 was donated to interfilk. Reprinted - BOTH Duras Sisters CDs with 2 extra tracks on each CD. (4 new songs - Live recordings.) And a fundraiser for Duckon - DVD video (not audio) - Live from Duckon 16 - In Concert Murray Porath, Frank Hayes and Michael Longcor. (2007 Duckon) DVD Video (not an audio CD) - Acoustic Vs Electric (parody of the apple Mac/PC commercials) About an hour in length, from Duckon 2008. (I don't have the details off hand, but I believe its Rand and Adam English from Ookla the Mok.) Time for me to head to bed. I have to work in the morning. Current Music: Tim and Anne Walker - GOH concert from OVFF 24 (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
4:19 pm	2008 Pegasus Awards Ballot is Live! I just found on the pegasus awards site that the 2008 Ballot is Live! Congratulations to those nominated!!! http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2008finalballot.html (2 Comments |Comment on this)