Filking

[stoutfellow]

I've written a handful of filks, from time to time; a couple of them have even made it onto convention programs. Unfortunately, my musical imagination is mostly primed with rock songs, and filks on that base (it seems to me) tend not to be actually performable, however good they may sound in my head. Also, the potential for disaster is nontrivial. (My attempt to write a filk about Mad Yuri based on "White Rabbit" was probably one of my worst ideas...)

If I were musically creative, I might try composing my own tunes, but that's not a realistic possibility.

Ideas still occasionally crop up, though. This may well have been done before, but I'm tempted to try a riff on McCartney.

"Seelie Love Songs", anyone?

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I'm picturing some poor schlub who's had one too many run-ins with La Belle Dame Sans Merci and is getting sick of it, but she won't leave him alone...

[filkferengi]

You know, I haven't called you in a while; would you like to set up a time, or are you [possibly literally] snowed under?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Friday's probably good. Also, I'm off all next week.

[filkferengi]

Woo-hoo! When is better for you?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Weekends are usually good; of weekdays, Mondays and Fridays are generally better than other days. Evenings are better than other times.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

et quien?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Er. What? (I understand the Spanish; I don't understand what you're asking.)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

I was just being my nosy self (g)! I was asking who La Belle Dame Sans Merci is. And it was supposed to be French... :)

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

It's a reference to a poem by Keats (http://www.bartleby.com/126/55.html).

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course it was supposed to be French. My bad. (Thwack!)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Held in thrall to the tight grip of his Muse??

And *heh.*