SATURDAY 16:15

Interfilk Auction
 The Beautiful Interfilk Wenches include Eloise Mason (nee
Beltz-Decker; in a slinky black dress that certainly gets my
attention) and Kathleen Sloane. Nick Smith is an excellent auctioneer.

(There are many bids of $33-1/3 and $45 through the auction, and at
least one of $78.)

 - A service, actually two identically specified items: translation of
a song of your choice from English into German by the German filker
Frank Gunkelmann, known to filking fandom as Franklin, whose
translation of "Sam's Song" is bloody perfect! The Wenches shuttle
between Alan Thiesen & Joey Shoji as other bidders drop out. Alan gets
both for $80 apiece.
 - Pillow covers by Margaret Middleton. [Harold Groot adds: "If I
recall correctly, she took them from Arkansas (her home state) to
Georgia (GAFILK) to be sent here.  So they traveled quite a ways.  As
I recall, they were embroidered with Sun and Moon designs."]
 - Blackcurrant throat soothers $25, won by Arthur Rubin
 - Harold Groot's videotape of Consonance 2002 concerts: Kathy Sloane
bidding vs (Alex??) ... & wenching him to get him to up his bid. For
$285 to Alex
 - A bottle of custom-brewed Temptation Honey Mead, $45 to "the guy
with the bare knees"
 - A vial of durian essence donated by Lynn Gold. The durian is a
fruit, and the proper word is "vile". As Lynn explains, it's banned in
some places (Hong Kong?), because "it looks, smells, and tastes like a
cross between butterscotch pudding and rotting garbage", and the odor
is powerfully penetrating; you can catch a hint of it through the
sealed vial. Blars bids for Lynn to take it back; she bids for *him*
to have it. Somebody bids $15 to have me take it back east "because
the East Coast deserves it", and I bid $16, "for the honor of the East
Coast", to be allowed to leave it here. For $20 Alex wins it to give
to Kathleen Sloane, who is the Interfilk rep. I don't know what
actually became of it, and I don't think I want to. [Harold: "Kathleen
set it down on the interfilk table, and many hours later it
disappeared (much to her relief, I understand)." Lynn Gold: "I believe
Mud took it to a friend of hers who *likes* the stuff."]
 - 3 bars of Green & Black's English organic chocolate: milk, white, &
70% dark. Silent auction bid up to $20. $40
 - wooden necklace soprano panpipe from S. America. Opens at $6 and
goes for $21
 - An unmixed CD of the new Ookla the Mok album, to be released in
2months. Volunteer wenches of both sexes are piling on Joey Shoji to
get him to up his bid. $105 to Blars (another name that now has a face
for me)
 - box maple candy from me. $25 
 - CD When Pigs Fly: Song performances you never thought you'd
hear. $55 to Gary Ehrlich & Sheryl Gere; Gary adds: "Sheryl and I took
this one home.  Mostly because we were intrigued (or horrified?  or
both?) with the idea of Jackie Chan singing 'Unforgettable'.  No, we
haven't been brave enough to listen to it yet.  8-)"
 - unique CD of Carla Ulbrich's 2001 Consonance concert. $60, Blars
 - CD of 12 unreleased Talis Kimberley tracks. Nick is bidding on it,
& Talis is wenching. "$250 to the gentleman with the Guest of Honor on
his lap!" (Blars)
 - German chocolate with hazelnuts, 300-gram bar. I bid on this but
drop out early. $25
 - 3 packs of a weird Wrigley blackcurrant-menthol sugarless chewing
gum, which IIRC came to the donor as a betatest. "When you put it in
your mouth you'll think it's one of the weirdest things you've ever
tasted. Then you'll take another one." I get this at $8. (I've been
oddly enjoying them since then.)
 - DVD of Carla's concert from earlier today, donated by Harold Groot
IIRC. $60
 - Out of print Talis tape "Mythical beasts undubbed" $35. (Snicker;
I've got my copy! [and I'm listening to it Wednesday night as I edit
this report])
 - Pegasus package: the songbook, the tape, & a copy of the pre-2002
version of the award. $35

17:37
 Jane Mailander, Toastmistress, inaugurates the evening's music. There
are still some items to auction; they will be fitted in between the
concerts.

Simon Fairbourn's concert, with various people joining him on stage
throughout it.
  an Arrogant Worms song (a real man-- about male puberty), with Rika
accompanying
  (though she may be the hunter, tonight she's the prey), Mich(sp?)
Samson. Simon recorded his own backing track, which is great once they
get past some problems with starting it up.
  a cheeriose song by Dan Bennett (Talis on guitar) (about a spacer
lost from his ship & drifting away w/o hope of rescue) (every 12
seconds I get to see the sun) [The Stars Wait For Me]
  a cappella [The Sweetness of Roses]
  with his "stunt choir" (Joey, Rika, Talis), the Latin coronation
music they wrote for Teddy, King of the Far Isles (an SCA-ish group in
the UK)
  [Gentlemen's Mythic Fraternity], Zander Nyrond's filk of Talis's
Archetype Cafe
  Simon bravely (that's their adverb) takes up the guitar for Talis
singing. ("sunlight wakes me") [All The Kinds Of Light]
  sewing machine parody of Julia Ecklar' Silver Metal Lover; his 1st
parody
  about being a dad [Baby Poo]
  Chris Malme's A Mind Such As Mine, about Hannibal Lecter
  Gytha North's Grey Camel Line, ttto Grey Funnel Line by Cyril Tawney
  Flanders & Swann's The Slow Train, with Simon's own overdubbed self
as background chorus
  a pickup boy band (Joey Shoji, Alan Thiesen, Scott Snyder) A
Meaningful Look To The Camera, with backup track
  encore: [I'm Tone-Deaf] with Talis on capo
  
19:17
 For dinner I hook up with Bill and Carole again, along with Steven
Joel Zeve (a familiar face from East Coast cons), Taper Larry (that's
what his badge says), Joey Shoji, Jules, Shirl Roth, and Bruce
Krawetz. They lead us to Penang Garden, where we enjoy another fine
meal at a reasonable price.

20:34
 back for the concerts
 Alex (last name? big guy with a ginger beard) sez I should publish a
songbook.
 
Concert: Songs of Don Simpson (so the names here are those of the
performers)
 (Harold Groot is video-recording this, as he has been recording other
events.)
 To start, a song for & about Don, for his recent birthday "Now You're
Sixty-Four" (sung by his wife, I think -- sorry to be so vague on
identities!)
 Steve Savitzky: Ship of Stone
 Leslie Fish: (sooner or later all lovers are lost / say your
farewells ... you must live without love or live with the cost / so
pay the price gladly, for great is the gain)
 Jordan Mann: Get To Know Your Unicorn [funny & bawdy]
 Leslie: Serpent's Reach
 Don himself, a poem about "the writer"
 
21:06
Rika "the Bardling" Koerte's concert:
  Windwalker, Dave Weingart
  her own setting of (the people of the town say she's crazy)
  [Junge Fischer] (refrain: aia, aia ho; she weeps pearls on the
beach)
  Tolkien's "I sang of leaves", with Seanan McGuire, tune by friends
of Seanan's; Seanan sings lead, Rika harmony
  Shades of Shadow (you shape living, I shape lives), an Elfquest filk
by Mercedes Lackey and Leslie Fish, the first she encountered. From
Winnowill's POV. On the CD A Wolfrider's Reflections.
  Silver Dragon, by (??), with Talis
  Talis's Still Catch the Tide
  
The bag of buttons goes to Eloise Mason for $35, and a copy of
Asimov's Robots game for $25 to A. Rubin.
  
21:43
 Talis & Mythical Beasts (Simon on electric guitar, Rika on hand
drums, Luís García [of Ookla the Mok] on percussion, Scott Snyder on
guitar stick, Talis on guitar. I don't know if it was worth jotting
down all this who-played-what, but it didn't bother me and some of you
may like seeing it.)

    Uffington Hill -- good old Uffie!
    Archetype Cafe (Simon on bassoon)
    Paper Worlds (Simon on electric bass, Rika on bodhran)
    (Talis on bouzouki for the next two songs)
    [Appleby Fair] (come to me my dear) -- chorus in a driving
5/4. Talis says, "We once worked out that my songs are about sex,
violence, horses, & chocolate".
   March Wood (think again)
   Ancient Sky (circles standing on holy ground)
   "This is my gloomy space song. ... Did I have a space song?
Buffalo!" [Ice & Fire] {Dr. Whom thinks: "Buffalo!"??!}
   (pick over his bones & take the meat for carrion)
   Your Crimson Bride (solo a cappella)
   {Dr. Whom notes Talis's pronunciation of "capo" with the vowel of
"cap" -- /'k ae po/ -- where US English uses the vowel of "cape". --
Valerie Housden, another UK filker, comments: Talis' pronunciation of
capo is her pronunciation. I've always pronounced it cape-o. :-) Chris
"Keris" Croughton says many UK guitarists, including him about half the
time, say "cap-oh".}
   Death Danced at My Party, Talis guitar, Simon bassoon... & a
startling guest vocal by Luís
   Cirromancy /'kIro,m ae nsI/ (which I guess is for 'cloud magic' or
'divination by clouds')
   "my piece of Homeric filk": Ten Years {Penelope's song}
   Talis calls (a prepared crowd of) redheaded women from the audience
onto the stage for Henna Soup ttto Rebel Queen
   Jack Hare (Talis bouzouki, Simon soprano recorder; Muses, but that
man is versatile!)
   Tattercoat (based on the book _Black Rose, White Thorn_)

   ENCORE!:
   Velvet
   [Bacchanal]

23:20
 I'm moderating a bawdy theme circle. These normally begin at midnight
or later, but in deference to my East Coast body clock (bawdy clock?), 
3 hours ahead, they scheduled it for ten. But damned if I was going 
to miss any of Talis's concert! Nor, I think, was anyone else.

  me, My Girlfriend is a Pagan, Steven Brust
  Gary Ehrlich (another familiar face from the East), [Artificial
Means], Christine Lavin
  Melissa Pinol, Two Maidens a-Milking Did Go, trad
  (oops, who?): Stranger Than a Knight, ttto Strangers in the Night
  Eloise, "Threes: The Jolly Butcher"
  Jordan Mann, Be Undressed (Ttto Be Our Guest)
  Karen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Apartment 302
  me, Supersadomasochisticsexualrelations. (This was Ailsa Ek (then
Murphy)'s first filk, posted to rec.music.filk in 1999. A whole bunch
of us piled onto her electronically, determined not to let her get
away, and as Arisia's filkczar I threatened to drag her to the filking
at Arisia if I had to... a threat which generated more fun and
jollity. She is now firmly in MASSFILC's clutches. -- You can find the
lyrics by googling for the title in the newsgroup.)
  Alan Thiesen, I'm Your Mailman
  Eloise, Ride My Monster
  me, The Scotsman's Kilt, Martin DeMello & Therblig J. Anonymous,
ttto The Policeman's Song from The Pirates of Penzance
  (?), Scotland's Depraved, anon, ttto Scotland the Brave
  me, Clone Me a Sheep (same tune)
  (?), The Drunken Scotsman
  Alan, limericks (Dan Quayle; A lady from South Carolina)
  me, Ballad of Dan Homer, anon, ttto Sweet Betsy From Pike (aka
Villikins and His Dinah), trad.
  Dr. Jane, Jam-Packed Crosstown Bus
  Gary, Susan B: The Final Vengeance (ttto: Susan B, Leslie Fish)
  Eloise, X Libris (Talis)
  me, filk of My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music (Marian
Greenleaf [Marion Kee] & Magnus, and me)
  (?), Moth Love (poem)
  Rebecca Neuman, I Never Do Anything Twice, by Steven Sondheim. [Gary
recommends Clam Chowder's rendition on the Conterpoint III CD "The
Filk Was Great...".]
  Blake Hodgetts, Smut (Lehrer)
  me, The Masturbation Tango (Dave Weingart), ttto The Masochistic
Tango (Lehrer). This won the Do It Yourself theme contest at
Concertino '99. Thanks to Blake for keyboard accompaniment.
  (?), H-A-R-D-A-G-A-I-N, ttto "Harrigan"
  Lynn Gold, John Valby's "Eat Bite" (Aw, f*ck!)
  me, V.'s Delta, Robert B. Cooke, ttto Ball of Ballinour
  Melissa, Blow the Candles Out, trad.
  Lynn, The Old Virginia Chicken Song (give me a lay for my Christmas Day)
  Tom Digby, The Sea Anemone (poem)
  Blake, Hot Point, Warm Heart (a refrigerator's love song to its owner)
  Dr. Jane, Sexy Rexy. (During this I gave a roar, causing her to stop
briefly and stare at me. Later she pointed out the inadvisability of 
attracting the attention of an amorous female tyrannosaur if one isn't
prepared to follow through.)
  Lynn, (Columbia U Marching Band parodies)
  Bob Kanefsky, parody of Tom Smith's Bujold filk Falling Free
[Centauri Men Have Six]
  me, The Hedgehog Song
  Jane Mailander, Bedford Insurance Claim #38254
  (?), filk of Johnny I Hardly Knew You (transporter malfunction)
  me, Idiot! What Were You Thinking!, Dave Weingart (about the great
Disclave flood), ttto The Titanic
  me, Little Furry Animals (with Great Big Tits), Harold Feld, ttto
Frank Hayes's Little Fuzzy Animals
  Jane Mailander, Pretty Fuzzy Animals (with Great Big Tits), ditto
  me, Since the Pusher Met My Cousin (by Rhysling), Sharon Ann
Burnston, ttto The Pig and the Inebriate
  Jane Mailander, Coed Naked Quidditch
  Lynn, Another Marvelous Toy (Terri Wells), ttto Tom Paxton's The
Marvelous Toy, at my request
  Lynn, Grandma's Training Bra
  Jane M & al., My Grandfather's Clock, by Henry Clay Work IIRC. This
song gains a whole new dimension of meaning, even sung straight, if
you assume that the "l" in "Clock" is a later editorial insertion.
  me, .he .issing .etter, ttto Drunken Sailor, trad. I point to my
MASSFILC ribbon, with the letters running from top to bottom of
course, and with a dandelion at the bottom, and explain: Gary McGath
informed the MASSFILC list that this year's printing of them would
have the dandelion at the top to avoid the possible unfortunate
effects of accidentally covering up the "M" in attaching the ribbon to
one's badge...
  Lynn, In the Key of D (big-busted woman)
  Blake, When I Was a Young Man (Duane Elms)
  Jane M., Boy of Steel
  me, Dobson's Pagan, Anthony Hilbert, ttto Dawson's Christian
  me, Hallways of BucCONeer (we were past the hour and opening up
beyond bawdy by this point, but I don't remember what prompted this
one), ttto Streets of Laredo
  Blake, Proteins (which could also have gone in the linguistics circle;
the chorus includes an absolutely glorious string of phones not to be
found in combination in any human language. He wrote it down for me
later in the International Phonetic Alphabet.)
  
(At unspecified points during the bawdy circle, 
 - Blake's daughters Angelica & Athrylis sang their Invader Zim song
 - Rick Weiss sang a "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" filk by Janet Wilson
Anderson )

03:10
 To room. Blake parks his stuff with me overnight to save lugging it
to his car, etc.
  
03:54
To bed
  

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