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#128522 - 06/08/05 02:54 PM
Re: What woman of Legend or Fiction do you ident
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Regular
Registered: 03/09/04
Loc: Washington state
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From the song:
Captain Signy Mallory has no soul, they say.
The captain of the Norway has a heart of frozen clay.
When, on the bridge of the Norway, she throws men's lives like dice,
Captain Signy Mallory, her eyes are fire and ice.
That's a filk song, I assume, Lynnette- I've never run across it before. Not that I know a lot of filk songs anyway; from what I can tell you have to be more involved in SF conventions and things to build up a repetoire.
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#128524 - 06/08/05 09:25 PM
Re: What woman of Legend or Fiction do you ident
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Registered: 09/10/04
Loc: England
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Quote:
Quote:
From the song:
Captain Signy Mallory has no soul, they say.
The captain of the Norway has a heart of frozen clay.
When, on the bridge of the Norway, she throws men's lives like dice,
Captain Signy Mallory, her eyes are fire and ice.
That's a filk song, I assume, Lynnette- I've never run across it before. Not that I know a lot of filk songs anyway; from what I can tell you have to be more involved in SF conventions and things to build up a repetoire.
It is SO a filk song!
I've never been involved in Fandom, but I was in the SCA for years and years. The two cultures overlap, and the culture of filk is a huge part of the overlap. (Not that a stuffy purist like me would have listened to filk songs back then!) And you don't have to be involved to listen to the music. You just have to have old cassettes (!) recorded for you by your friends back in 1991 ...
I quite like Leslie Fish's stuff (voice like a rusty saw, guts and great lyrics). You might check out this source of online filk. They have some of Julia Ecklar's stuff too, and she's very good.
Cec, "filk" is a subspecies of folk music that exists around Science Fiction fandom, the SCA, furry culture and other, similar groups. At its crudest, filk is making up new subculture-specific words to old tunes. At a more sophisticated level, it can involve good music, good lyrics and good performers, but related to subculture-specific themes.
The legend is that the words "folk singing" were mis-spelled "filk singing" on a poster at a science fiction convention.
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#128527 - 06/26/05 07:55 AM
Re: What woman of Legend or Fiction do you ident
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New Girl
Registered: 06/23/05
Loc: Colorado
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I just went through them all, and of course they are all me, and I am all of them, as sisters eternally are sisters.
However, from many who just went through my memory, I still have to say...the one which, in summer of 2001, I got put permanently on my body.
My ex was insisting I get a tattoo. I told him, I would choose it or none at all...
And here it is, on my left breast...no, don't worry, no Janet Jackson moments here; I'm more careful than that.
As I am...as she is...surrender followed by victory...Phoenix.
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