Postcards from the Bleeding Edge
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Some pics and music from the Heinlein Centennial
So, yea, I should be writing about the Centennial. Instead, I'm editing down music and getting permission to publish it, as well as getting some talks transcribed... as well as doing some paying work, and seeing the wonders of Kansas City. The blogging backlog keeps getting bigger and I'm at 99.5% disk full...
I've uploaded some new pictures from Nicaragua and the Heinlein Centennial to my flickr site.Evan mixed down his new song - in which he channels Adam Selene. It's a heart tugger called "Home" (mp3), especially touching if you've read Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Evan also mixed down the second performance of "Rhysling and me" (mp3). When Evan kicked in with his harmonies on the second chorus I had chills run down my spine and stopped dead. I'm glad that song is shorter now than the original epic and we can get on with the happy stuff quicker.
I have HOURS of the first night of filking that is currently too big to download to edit from my website, and a bunch of mixed down recordings I need permission to publish.... yo, filkers, you want yer songs up? Get ahold of me....
Labels: filk, filkers, Heinlein Centennial
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
CALL TO FILK at the Heinlein Centennial Celebration
Margaret Middleton, who I've only met via email, has put out a CALL TO FILK at the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Celebration, on friday, July 6, 2007.She and I had volunteered to be on a "panel" Friday evening titled "Rhysling: the Blind Singer of the Spaceways".
We agree that this time slot should be filled with a filk jam session, not an academic discussion.
We figure the space program [be it NASA, SpaceShipOne, or any other hopeful contenders or wild-eyed dreamers, not to mention hard-nosed bloody bastards] is as suitable a topic for this session as RAH's actual writings.
So far, the only other active filkers that we know of who will be at the Centennial by that time Friday evening are Jordin Kare, Clifford McMurray, and Claire McMurray.
That makes 5 of us, which is pretty thin for a filk session.
So come join us, and let's see if we can jangle a few chandeliers.
The session will be held from 20:00 hours to 22:00 hours (8 til 10 p.m. civvie-time)
Evan Hunt will also be sitting in. ¶ 4:30 PM 1 comments
