The horror, the horror

[unixronin]

Sometimes you wake up remembering a dream.  Sometimes you wake up with an idea or an insight.  Sometimes you wake up with nothing particular at all.

This morning, I woke up with an earworm of Vogon poetry.

Must apply brain bleach now....

Comments

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

O Pointy Birds
So pointy pointy
Anoint my head
Anointy-nointy!

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

C. J. Cherryh does music? Where? How? Is it good?

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

I was about to ask pretty much the same thing...

C. J. Cherryh :::: Finity's End :::: Signy Mallory [ddj]

Please explain!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

See reply below. :)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think he actually answered the is she any good part of the questions.

She's okay. I've heard better but the lyrics are pretty good.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think he actually answered the is she any good part of the questions.

That's because I'm not sure if anything on the tape is actually written or sung by C.J., not having an original copy with liner notes, and while I've heard her sing in the past, I don't remember. At the very least, she's not bad.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

C.J. is a long-time filker. :)

Finiti's End isn't all her work though. Fly-By-Night er, Firebird Arts & Music released one tape by various artists (Kathy Mar, among others) of a bunch of filk based (with varying degrees of fidelity) on her universe(s), most of them based on the Company Space universe. Most of it is pretty good; there's a couple of weak tracks on it, but on the whole, I'd say it has a better hit/miss ratio than the average major-label release. For my money, Signy Mallory and Mazianni are two of the strongest tracks on the tape.

"So we hear you're calling us pirates now? Then screw you all, we'll earn the motherless name!"

Unfortunately, as is true of too many Firebird releases, Firebird's mismanagement cheated or lied to many of the artists involved, leaving the thing in a legal morass of reproduction-rights disputes and questionable copyrights, so there was only ever one release, on cassette tape, and it has never been re-released or transcribed to CD. In short, like the original release of Cold Iron (Leslie Fish singing Kipling poems), it's purest unobtainium. (In the case of Cold Iron, Firebird made a second release later on, but — reputedly due to the aforementioned unsavory antics — was unable to obtain reprint permission from several artists on the original recording, including the Celtic harpist, so they had to re-record many tracks. By the time they re-recorded, Leslie's voice was shot from too much chain-smoking, and for gods alone know what reason, they replaced the Celtic harpist with some god-awful jarring synthesizer overlay.)

[unix-jedi.livejournal.com]

I hadda Google "filk".

Never heard of suchlike. Whippersnappers today...

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I dimly recall that she was associated with Cats Laughing many moons back. I know that several of the SF authors are quite good filkers, and have spent some enjoyable time at conventions in the filk room. Alas, that was many years back.

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

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