For space is wide and good friends are too few.
“I’m Winning,” by The Doubleclicks
Check out this song about maybe gender and maybe video games that made me unexpectedly emotional!
Also check out the Kickstarter (30 hours left as of now) for the band’s new album! It’s fully funded, but there are stretch goals! Including an RPG livestream, since that’s all the rage right now.
She called out to the Sky Eye as she gripped the ancient stone
Tell my sister when you see her: As of now, we’re on our own
@animatedamerican says: I got to hear Ben sing this in open circle at Boskone 2019, the weekend after Opportunity was declared dead. We needed it.
Written for Opportunity’s sister rover Spirit, and as relevant now as it was then. Full lyrics and chords can be found here.
Time for a live video! “Water” is one of my favorite earlier songs by Cathy McManamon, accompanied here by Alexander James Adams. There’s just something ethereal about it that stays with me.
I say favorite earlier songs because she has written some killer recent ones as well. Some of them might even show up here, once they have been officially released. Keep an eye out!
So Cheshire Moon has had a fourth album out for a little while now. “Shadow Moon” is one of the new songs. It’s about the recent solar eclipse, and it has a chorus I just can’t get out of my head. Isn’t the album cover cute?
Shadow Moon, shadow moon
Cast your dark light upon me
Take the sunlight from my sight
Show me what I need to see
I was thinking about Lauren Cox and her wonderful filk of the Disney song “Part of Your World.” Her version is about the sense of belonging in the greater filk family. Alas, I cannot find a recording of her singing it, but I stumbled across this instead. “When We’re Together” by Summer Russell is about the same topic, and I’m so glad I found it. All the feels.
I wrote an ode to the Christmas Tree Cluster, and all the other awesome astronomical objects in it’s region. This is my present to you, Internet.
Have an awesome holiday– and may the stars shine bright tonight!
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How brightly shines
your majesty!Called NGC
two-two-six-four,But you are also so
much more.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,How brightly shines
your majesty!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,So many stars adorn
thee!Your stellar furnace
casts it’s glow,And bathes us in
it’s light below.O Christmas tree, o
Christmas tree,So many stars adorn
thee!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,Twinkling for our
jubilee!So far to fly for
Santa’s sleigh:Twenty-six-thousand
light years ‘way.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,Twinkling for our
jubilee!
O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,We greet you at our
apogee!We lift our eyes up
to the sky;Your light inspires
man to fly.O Christmas tree, O
Christmas tree,We
greet you at our apogee!
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
If submitting our own songs is kosher, I wrote and posted an ode to the Christmas Tree Nebula, which might count as astronomy and/or holiday filk.
it is ABSOLUTELY accepted and ENCOURAGED, thank you and Merry Christmas from one of the mods who’s not Jewish!
For those who celebrate, fear not! “Santa’s Got a Time Machine,” courtesy of The Moldy Filters. Catchy as can be, and seasonally appropriate.
Santa’s got a time machine
Got a flux capacitor under the seat
Of his sleigh, he’s traveling
With gallifreyan reindeer
And presents to bring
GAFilk announced their super-secret guests! And some great guests they are.
“Culture Shock” by Wreck the System, capturing that First Convention Experience.