For space is wide and good friends are too few.
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
We didn’t have a donation system before, but your question prompted me to set one up! If you want to help us keep filkyeahfilk.com hosted, you can now donate at http://ko-fi.com/filkyeahfilk.
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Keeping the site online costs me about $100 per year, so if folks wanted to help offset that, I would be incredibly grateful. Thanks for asking! <3
-The brain mod
Hey everyone, we hopefully won’t be going anywhere, but with Tumblr currently hurtling towards its LiveJournal-style doom, this is a good time to remind you that we have this entire blog cross-posted at filkyeahfilk.com.
I own and independently host the site, so even if Tumblr goes, we’ll be around as long as I can keep paying the hosting fees. This weekend I also made sure that we have our own backups of any files that were originally hosted at Tumblr, so the music and images we’ve gathered should stick around regardless of what happens.
With love,
The brain mod
GAFilk announced their super-secret guests! And some great guests they are.
“Culture Shock” by Wreck the System, capturing that First Convention Experience.
In the early 80s, one of the big bands on the Swedish music scene was Adolphson & Falk. A lot of their early stuff covered space, technology, radios, and astronomy (they met during their military service at the Swedish agency for signals intelligence). This is their breakthrough song “Blinkar blå” in English translation.
As far as I know they have never been a part of or encountered sf fandom, but this is true found filk.
“Black Eye, Yellow Eye,” by Annwn, a filk-rock band that I recently discovered. This song is a description of the lyricist’s journey through the American Southwest and a Native American reservation, told through fantastical imagery. I had no idea this song existed until it was on the brainstorming poll for the Pegasus Awards. I’m so glad I checked it out.
Have you heard the ghosts of stone
Speaking in the dust you raise,
Whispering to you alone
As you thread the maze?
Back in March, I was at the world premiere of Gethenian Suite, a one-hour fusion of chamber orchestra, jazz, and space music, based on Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. A video can of course not do this piece of music justice, but I have some small hope that it can be performed at the Worldcon in Dublin 2019.
Yes!! It’s a terrific album, and we love it.
You can listen to the whole thing on YouTube
