Pages Tagged “Filk”
Writing
- One Jump Ahead to Light Speed
- Without the Process Dr. Jekyll tries to learn a musical theater song.
- I Know Them So Well Sometimes you hear a song waaaay too many times.
- Trial of the Palate
Blog Posts
- Supercameratelephotolensisoutoffocus
Super camera telephoto lens is out of focus. Even though the tripod’s set, the blur is really bogus…
- Hello chkdsk, my old friend…
Hello chkdsk, my old friend I’ve got to run you once again Cause my Windows box is acting weird And the disk drive must need something cleared And the error that was printed on my screen Made me scream And put aside my work For chkdsk
- Rambling On
On the subject of filk, and trying to define it, there’s a whole subset of songs by professional musicians that just rides the edge. (Half of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s repertoire, for instance.) Twice in the last week I’ve heard Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On,” which is apparently about Aragorn and Arwen from Lord of the Rings. […]
- Filker Tom Smith Needs Help
Musician Tom Smith (author of the Talk Like a Pirate Day theme song and Girl Genius’ Transylvania Polygnostic University Fight Song, and a.k.a. filkertom on LiveJournal) is in the hospital after a nasty injury, facing expensive surgery and months of hospital bills…without insurance. And of course he can’t work while he’s in the hospital. A […]
- There Wolf
Fedora 8 has just been released, code-named “Werewolf.” As is tradition for this particular Linux distribution, the official release announcement is accompanied by an alternative, humorous announcement playing off the code name. This time, the joke announcement is a song parody of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” And unlike a lot of really bad filk I’ve seen […]
- Snow More!
Oh the crowds outside are frightful, But the music’s so delightful… ’Cept for ev’ry darn place we go, It’s “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” Seriously. It seems like this song has somehow become the most popular Christmas song this year. I normally don’t mind it, but come on! It doesn’t help […]