Back in April, a producer from WBUR, one of Boston's many NPR stations contacted MASSFILC because he wanted to do a piece on filk as one of a number of pieces he was going to do on the sounds of science fiction for a new show about sound, Stylus. "Sounds of Science" fiction is the theme for the month of April and they kicked things off with the ( Read more... )

Both the original cast album for Fiddler on the Roof and A Shoggoth on the Roof are on my I-Pod. In shuffle mode, it is regularly giving me back-to-back pairings of one track from each soundtrack.

I've been home from ConCertino for a couple of hours. The cats have settled down and stopped bothering me about being away. The car is mostly unpacked. (We won't say anything about large piles of stuff in the kitchen, maybe my housemates won't notice.) I had a great time! Thank you to every for coming. Thank you to everyone on the concomm and ( Read more... )

As usual, I had a great time at FKO. This is my favorite con of the year ( Read more... )

The last weekend has been something of a roller coaster ---

( Contata report, other stuff )

So, since I've been getting encouragement to start posting my own stuff rather than just responding in other people's LJs, I'm going to try and comply.

FKO was wonderful as usual, and it was a very welcome change from an intense week at work.

All I can do is echo all the nice things that everyone else said about the concerts by Heather Dale, Urban ( Read more... )

I'm moderating the memorial filk for Greg McMullan at Boskone Friday night.  I'd like to have some idea of who is interested in performing what songs in advance. If you think you'd like to perform something, let me know at ccrazy@panix.com. This is not a firm commitment, if you change your mind, that is fine. Also, I fully expect there will be ( Read more... )