For a very long while, I have tried to write a proper filk about the redshirt. I first had my eyes on Evert Taube's "Balladen om briggen 'Blue Bird' av Hull" in the Star Trek environment, but never could get a suitable scenario.

Then, a few days ago, the fate of Cedric Diggory and Dan Andersson's masterpiece "En spelmans jordafärd" (Youtube, and ( Read more... )

The latest issue of my Swedish-language fanzine "I stället för papper" contained an article and discography about Swedish sf fan, publisher, author, translator et c Sam J. Lundwall. I think some of you filkers would appreciate it too, so here's a translation to English.

( Sam J. Lundwall, Music, and Science Fiction )

I found out that I had written another filk song based on Princess Holy Aura, which I had managed to forget. This one is to the classic Swedish Christmas song Lusse Lelle (Youtube).

( Holy Aura, Holy Aura )

I wrote this one over two years ago, but Princess Holy Aura, the book it's based on wasn't published until last Tuesday. The song really should have several more verses if it is to cover all the main characters (despite Cecilia Eng's advice on songwriting), but I only got around to write the first three.

( Will that is eternal… )

On November 19th 1915, Joe Hill was murdered by the State of Utah for the crime of filking.

While listening through a few more of Joe Hill's songs and trying to decide on this year's Joe Hill filk, I decided to read a bit on the history of Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay, and promptly fell down a rabbit hole of high-class St. Louis bordellos, early ragtime ( Read more... )

A friend of mine fought for a long time with the new university printer system, and told of his woes of Facebook. Given my sometime experiences as a sysadmin myself, I immediately latched onto the CUPS system, resulting in "The Printer Spool", ttto Auld Lang Syne. It later turned out the issue wasn't CUPS- or driver-related, but rather about ( Read more... )

Another quick new Swedish filk, but one that isn't only an instafilk. It's based on Främling (YouTube), the #1 Swedish hit during the 80's. The LP sold more than one million copies, and is still the best-selling album ever in Sweden. As comparison, for platinum a record needs to sell 40,000 copies here.

( Alien, hur kommer du till mig… )

I've been bad about posting my filks here lately, most have been put on Facebook, if that, but this one deserves a more permanent place. NASA recently discovered the asteroid 2016 HO3 that is in a stable loop around the earth for a couple of centuries. In effect, a second tiny moon, though NASA calls it a quasi-satellite. It's not even a hundred ( Read more... )

In an association chain in the kitchen I somehow managed to cram together "Oh boy" (Youtube) by Peps Persson with the oboe. About half an hour later this was the result:

( Oboe )

My friend Mark posted a variant of the strong people don't put others down image featuring Darth Vader over on Facebook. The line "they lift them up", Darth Vader, and the song You Raise Me Up (YouTube) by Rolf Løfland and Brendan Graham meshed together and resulted in this filk.

( When I am down… )