Season's End

I have blown off the season-ending Cubs game at Wrigley Field in favor of doing all the things I needed to do at home today. This was probably a good choice overall. :)

Update: And since I've now gotten everything off to quadrivium for the GAFilk songbook and continued to debug my procedures for recording directly to Cubase without requiring help in the studio, I'd say that makes it a productive afternoon.

It also meant that I could get a nice lunch at Red Robin with daisy_knotwise, Katie, and Julie (any place that will give them balloons is always good) and got a couple of new pairs of jeans and a new shirt before heading off to ConClave next weekend.

Season's End

I have blown off the season-ending Cubs game at Wrigley Field in favor of doing all the things I needed to do at home today. This was probably a good choice overall. :)

Update: And since I've now gotten everything off to quadrivium for the GAFilk songbook and continued to debug my procedures for recording directly to Cubase without requiring help in the studio, I'd say that makes it a productive afternoon.

It also meant that I could get a nice lunch at Red Robin with daisy_knotwise, Katie, and Julie (any place that will give them balloons is always good) and got a couple of new pairs of jeans and a new shirt before heading off to ConClave next weekend.

Michelson-Morley

After I finished recording, I discovered that I still needed to put the filk book back together after the concert at FenCon. And then I decided that -- as long as Julie was asleep and Katie was watching Tarzan -- it might be a good time to type up some of the things that were stuffed in the front flap of my book.

So here's a song I wrote with my good buddy, Clif Flynt, back in 1981. We were asked to write a song about mad scientists. Instead, we ended up writing a song about scientists who were certainly annoyed. It was a wonderfully designed experiment. It just didn't measure what it set out to measure.
( Lyrics inside... )

Michelson-Morley

After I finished recording, I discovered that I still needed to put the filk book back together after the concert at FenCon. And then I decided that -- as long as Julie was asleep and Katie was watching Tarzan -- it might be a good time to type up some of the things that were stuffed in the front flap of my book.

So here's a song I wrote with my good buddy, Clif Flynt, back in 1981. We were asked to write a song about mad scientists. Instead, we ended up writing a song about scientists who were certainly annoyed. It was a wonderfully designed experiment. It just didn't measure what it set out to measure.
( Lyrics inside... )

Entropy

And here's another song that Clif and I wrote back in 1981. If memory serves, it actually got into the second volume of the Westerfilk Collection. Can you tell that we were both trained as chemists?
( Lyrics inside... )

Entropy

And here's another song that Clif and I wrote back in 1981. If memory serves, it actually got into the second volume of the Westerfilk Collection. Can you tell that we were both trained as chemists?
( Lyrics inside... )

Albuquerque

So when my good buddy, Clif, got married to Carol, they put little notes on the tables at the reception that said that they would not kiss when people clinked glasses. They would have to get up and sing a little song that included the word "love". And if that was too hard for us to do, we could do a song that contained "Albuquerque".

Needless to say, there were a lot of songs that contained "Albuquerque" that were sung, although many of them simply substituted that city for, say, Kansas City.

I think I wrote the words for this by myself. I know that MEW and Steve Simmons sang it with me, because everything's better with harmony.

So, with apologies to Clif, Carol, Billy Joel, and the Capitol Steps:
( Lyrics inside... )

Albuquerque

So when my good buddy, Clif, got married to Carol, they put little notes on the tables at the reception that said that they would not kiss when people clinked glasses. They would have to get up and sing a little song that included the word "love". And if that was too hard for us to do, we could do a song that contained "Albuquerque".

Needless to say, there were a lot of songs that contained "Albuquerque" that were sung, although many of them simply substituted that city for, say, Kansas City.

I think I wrote the words for this by myself. I know that MEW and Steve Simmons sang it with me, because everything's better with harmony.

So, with apologies to Clif, Carol, Billy Joel, and the Capitol Steps:
( Lyrics inside... )

Deep Dark Chocolate

As Operation: Total Recall continues, we find this little ditty, which daisy_knotwise and I wrote while sitting on the runway out in California waiting to fly back to Chicago. We'd just spent several days with Teri Lee in her studio, where she explained to us some of the entertainment involved in recording with an 8-track reel-to-reel machine. Although we bought a used machine out there (and took it back on the plane with us), we never actually did any recording on the machine. We did use it to transcribe a number of old projects to ADAT some years later.

We probably made the lady in front of us crazy as I tapped out the rhythm for the song on the tray table. Fortunately, we finished before the plane took off, so she didn't have to kill us.
( Lyrics inside... )

Deep Dark Chocolate

As Operation: Total Recall continues, we find this little ditty, which daisy_knotwise and I wrote while sitting on the runway out in California waiting to fly back to Chicago. We'd just spent several days with Teri Lee in her studio, where she explained to us some of the entertainment involved in recording with an 8-track reel-to-reel machine. Although we bought a used machine out there (and took it back on the plane with us), we never actually did any recording on the machine. We did use it to transcribe a number of old projects to ADAT some years later.

We probably made the lady in front of us crazy as I tapped out the rhythm for the song on the tray table. Fortunately, we finished before the plane took off, so she didn't have to kill us.
( Lyrics inside... )

Godzilla Stomp

This is written on a flyer for Congenial, which was in March of 1989, so I'm guessing that I wrote this in 1988. I'm not sure what caused me to write it, but it comes in handy occasionally when min0taur is leading a jam and running the changes on "Johnny B. Goode".

I don't think I've ever actually seen all of a Godzilla movie. I suppose I should...
( Lyrics inside... )

Godzilla Stomp

This is written on a flyer for Congenial, which was in March of 1989, so I'm guessing that I wrote this in 1988. I'm not sure what caused me to write it, but it comes in handy occasionally when min0taur is leading a jam and running the changes on "Johnny B. Goode".

I don't think I've ever actually seen all of a Godzilla movie. I suppose I should...
( Lyrics inside... )

Kinda Mediocre Actually

It's getting to be time for dinner, so this should be the last song that I type up today. (Is that cheering I hear in the distance?) But I actually had someone ask for this one, so for your filk historical pleasure, I bring you this -- God help us all! -- Pegasus-winning ditty from 1983.
( Lyrics inside... )

Kinda Mediocre Actually

It's getting to be time for dinner, so this should be the last song that I type up today. (Is that cheering I hear in the distance?) But I actually had someone ask for this one, so for your filk historical pleasure, I bring you this -- God help us all! -- Pegasus-winning ditty from 1983.
( Lyrics inside... )

You Can Dance, You Can Jive

We went out to lunch at Red Robin earlier today, then proceeded home. While doing this, we were listening to the new Phineas and Ferb CD. Did we mention that Katie really likes Phineas and Ferb? And since jeff_duntemann mentioned that he and Carol would really like to see some new pictures of the girls...
( Photos inside... )

You Can Dance, You Can Jive

We went out to lunch at Red Robin earlier today, then proceeded home. While doing this, we were listening to the new Phineas and Ferb CD. Did we mention that Katie really likes Phineas and Ferb? And since jeff_duntemann mentioned that he and Carol would really like to see some new pictures of the girls...
( Photos inside... )