The Filking season is open!
Richard D Magrath
and wittiest filks, and thou shalt perhaps gain entry to the hallowed halls of
the Letters from Outside humour section!
Richard D. Magrath
Letters from Outside editor
LtRi...@aol.com
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the
government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and
transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are
uptight" -Danny, WITHNAIL & I
Gregory L. Hansen
Richard D Magrath <ltri...@aol.com> wrote:
>'Tis the time to be merry, fellows! Perchance to let volley with your vilest
>and wittiest filks, and thou shalt perhaps gain entry to the hallowed halls of
>the Letters from Outside humour section!
Filking? Is that anything like filching, felching, bilking, or belching?
--
"In any case, don't stress too much--cortisol inhibits muscular
hypertrophy. " -- Eric Dodd
Dizzeey
Just so long as there are no fava beans involved....
Dizz
::eyes warily::
Richard D Magrath
(Dizzeey) writes:
>>Filking? Is that anything like filching, felching, bilking, or belching?
>
>Just so long as there are no fava beans involved....
>
Come on people!
Terence Chua
> 'Tis the time to be merry, fellows! Perchance to let volley with your
> vilest
> and wittiest filks, and thou shalt perhaps gain entry to the hallowed
> halls of
> the Letters from Outside humour section!
>
> Richard D. Magrath
> Letters from Outside editor
> LtRi...@aol.com
http://www.khaosworks.org/filk -
Take your pick from:
"Do You Hear The Pipes, Cthulhu?"
"Banned From Arkham"
"Walk Like A Deep One"
"The Ghoul Song"
"Ia Ia (You Will Never Let Me Go)"
"Wendigoes"
"The Song That Cannot Be Named"
--
----------
Terence Chua kh...@tim.org
WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440
"Love ain't a dying art as far as I can see..."
Arthur Levesque
RDM>'Tis the time to be merry, fellows! Perchance to let volley with
RDM>your vilest and wittiest filks, and thou shalt perhaps gain entry
RDM>to the hallowed halls of the Letters from Outside humour section!
http://users.erols.com/backslash/writings.html#CTHULHU
Cthulhu Fhtagn ("Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King)
Cthulhu-Maniacs ("Animaniacs!" theme song)
Glimpse of Cthulhu ("Spoonful of Sugar" - Richard and Robert Sherman)
Let Me Out Before You Go Mad ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham!)
REM-Animator ("Stand" - REM)
The Stars Are Right ("The Age of Aquarius" from Hair)
'Twas the Call of Cthulhu ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas")
Walk Like A Deep One ("Walk Like An Eqyptian" - The Bangles)
--
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Richard D Magrath
a filk for Jingle Bells, or Yes We Have No Bananas?
Richard D. Magrath
Letters from Outside editor
LtRi...@aol.com
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the
James Russell
wrote:
>Though the problem with filks is that I never seem to know the songs. How about
>a filk for Jingle Bells, or Yes We Have No Bananas?
A filk for "YWHNB" would be appropriate since it was apparently one of
Lovecraft's favourite tunes. But does anyone else here know it (other
than Richard)?
--
James
(Celluloid Dreams 2SER 107.3FM, Monday nights 7-7.30pm)
Remove "spam-be-damned" to reply by email.
"Save the whales. Collect the whole set."
Terence Chua
---------
Cthulhu Christmas Chorale
Lyrics (C) 2000 by Terence Chua
(to the tune of "White Christmas")
I'm dreaming of a dead city
Where Deep Ones swim in depths of night
Where Cthulhu's sleeping
And stars go creeping
Until the time when they are right
I'm dreaming of a dark future
Ruled by that Three-Lobed Burning Eye
When the Old Ones' returning is nigh
And the universe will go bye-bye
(to the tune of "Here Comes Santa Claus")
Here comes Yog-Sothoth
Here comes Yog-Sothoth
Everyone try to hide
God, he's huge! - Those iridescent
Globes are six miles wide!
He'sjust turned Dunwich into goo
And had it for a snack
He's gonna visit your home town
So run and don't look back!
(to the tune of "Jingle Bells")
Wendigoes Wendigoes walking in the waste
They will soon be wooshing by to find out how you taste - oh!
Wendigoes Wendigoes hear the North Wind moan
Quicker than the frost will melt they'll strip you to the bone
Santa's sleigh went by - jolly as can be
Snatched him from his seat - impaled him on a tree
Elves were hung on hooks - Reindeers barbecued
It was such a Christmas treat when Rudolph's nose was stewed!
Wendigoes Wendigoes walking in the waste
They will soon be wooshing by the find out how you taste - oh!
Wendigoes Wendigoes - running's a lost cause
Might as well start bathing in a tub of Worcester sauce!
Skrybe
news:khaos-CD208F....@news.singa.pore.net...
> http://www.khaosworks.org/filk -
>
> Take your pick from:
>
> "Do You Hear The Pipes, Cthulhu?"
> "Banned From Arkham"
> "Ia Ia (You Will Never Let Me Go)"
> "Wendigoes"
> "The Song That Cannot Be Named"
>
> ----------
> Terence Chua kh...@tim.org
> WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
> KhaOS@TinyTIM: telnet://yay.tim.org:5440
> "Love ain't a dying art as far as I can see..."
I want to hear "R'lyehan(?) Pie" Done of course to the tune of American
Pie...
Ken aka Skrybe
moderan
It's Skrybe's fault, he cries!
R'Lyehan Pie
A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
I could make those shoggoths dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every doom that I deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried when I heard about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside the day
That Innsmouth died
Buy, buy some R'Lyehan pie
Drove my Plymouth out to Innsmouth but the county was dry
Them Great Old Ones was drinkin' hemoglobin wine
Singin this'll be the day that they die
This'll be the day that they die
Did you write forbidden tomes and do you have time to gnaw the
bones
Everybody tells me so
Now do you believe in Zoth-Ommog
Can ghouls really bark just like a dog
And can you teach me how to dance real slow
Well I know that you've been callin down
Some lesser ones to paint the town
They ripped out all the trees
And drove us to our knees
I was a lonely teenage 'prentice mage
With a annotated open page
But I knew that I was out of sage the day
That Innsmouth died
I started chanting
Buy, buy some R'Lyehan pie
Drove my Plymouth out to Innsmouth but the county was dry
Them Great Old Ones was drinkin' hemoglobin wine
Singin this'll be the day that they die
This'll be the day that they die
I met a girl who played the flute
And I asked her for some happy news
She just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Marshes, Waite and all the ghosts
They caught the last boat from the coast
The day
That Innsmouth died
I started chanting
Buy, buy some R'Lyehan pie
Drove my Plymouth out to Innsmouth but the county was dry
Them Great Old Ones was drinkin' hemoglobin wine
Singin this'll be the day that they die
This'll be the day that they die
Now for fifty years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the pipers played for the king and queen
In coats they borrowed from Dylath-Leen
And a voice that it came from undersea
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The Old Ones stole his thorny crown
The dark mass was adjourned
No one was returned
And while Arkham wrote the book on dark
Innsmouth was no walk in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day
That Innsmouth died
So
Buy, buy some R'Lyehan pie
Drove my Plymouth out to Innsmouth but the county was dry
Them Great Old Ones was drinkin' hemoglobin wine
Singin this'll be the day that they die
This'll be the day that they die
moderan
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khaos
In article <20000520132610...@nso-fo.aol.com>,>In article <khaos-EF48CC....@news.singa.pore.net>,
Terence Chua
><kh...@tim.org> writes:
>>Wendigoes Wendigoes walking in the waste
>>They will soon be wooshing by the find out how you taste - oh!
>>Wendigoes Wendigoes - running's a lost cause
>>Might as well start bathing in a tub of Worcester sauce!
>
to print, Terry?
>
Oh, be my guest. Just credit accordingly. :-)
Terence "KhaOS" Chua
Email: kh...@tim.org
WWW: http://www.khaosworks.org
"Love ain't a dyin' art as far as I can see..."
Dizzeey
>It's Skrybe's fault, he cries!
>
<song>
>moderan
>LfO editor, editor-Open Directory Project, pmoSS
>http://www.planetmoderan.com
::dizz bursts into wild applause, grabs her lighter, holds it aloft while
cheering "more! more!!::
moderan
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Before you buy.
Skrybe
news:07f9ac01...@usw-ex0104-031.remarq.com...
> You asked for it-you got it!
> It's Skrybe's fault, he cries!
>
>
> A long long time ago
> I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
> And I knew if I had my chance
> I could make those shoggoths dance
> And maybe they'd be happy for a while
<snip>
Brilliant!
But it needed a Tekeli Li somewhere in the rhyme ;)
Ken aka Skrybe
moderan
for, and another stab on another thread by someone else.
I'll have to score it for pan flute and drum anyhow (laughs).
CyberAngel
sort of ammo do you recommend?
moderan
of other animals, and sport new traits of their own. They generally
speak in verse, play strange instruments, and do not have lives of
their own.
They cannot be killed, but are doomed to spend the rest of their
useless existences saying "I coulda woulda shoulda been a contendah."
However they are excellent game, for they just sit right out in the
open where one can take random potshots at the unnaturally twisted
creatures. Any weapon or ammo will do.
Arthur Levesque
CA>So Filking season is open. What kind of animal is "filk" and what
CA>sort of ammo do you recommend?
"Rabbit season!" "Duck season!" "Rabbit season!" "Duck season!"
"Rabbit season!" "Duck season!" "Filker season?!?"
Duane Pesice (mod...@aol.com) wrote:
DP>Filk are strange critters... However they are excellent game, for
DP>they just sit right out in the open where one can take random
DP>potshots at the unnaturally twisted creatures.
Really? I would have thought you'd have to track them to their lairs
at conventions, basement performances, Rocky Horror... How many filkers
perform right out in the light of day surrounded by normals?
DP>Any weapon or ammo will do.
Although hecklers and metre sticklers are the most deadly...
"I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow
Two game players, seven filkers, and a critic with low brow"
moderan
b...@boog.orgy (Arthur Levesque) wrote:
> CyberAngel (pjonesN...@cs.sc.edu.invalid) asked:
> CA>So Filking season is open. What kind of animal is "filk" and what
> CA>sort of ammo do you recommend?
>
> "Rabbit season!" "Duck season!" "Rabbit season!" "Duck
season!"
> "Rabbit season!" "Duck season!" "Filker season?!?"
>
> Duane Pesice (mod...@aol.com) wrote:
> DP>Filk are strange critters... However they are excellent game, for
> DP>they just sit right out in the open where one can take random
> DP>potshots at the unnaturally twisted creatures.
>
> Really? I would have thought you'd have to track them to their
lairs
> at conventions, basement performances, Rocky Horror... How many
filkers
> perform right out in the light of day surrounded by normals?
actually referring to the work "filk" as opposed to the
artist "filker", but your point is well-taken. I did the R'Lyehan Pie
filk at a train station during my lunch break. Nobody threw things.
Most stayed, at least until the train came through.
>
> DP>Any weapon or ammo will do.
>
> Although hecklers and metre sticklers are the most deadly...
>
> "I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow
> Two game players, seven filkers, and a critic with low brow"
> --
> /\ Arthur M Levesque 2A4W <*> b...@boog.orgy =/\= http://boog.org
__
> \B\ack King of the Potato People <fnord> "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!"
(oO)
> \S\lash Member of a vast right-wing conspiracy (-O-) Urban
Spaceman /||\
> \/ I was a lesbian before it was fashionable "I hate
rainbows!"-EC
>
>
Arthur Levesque
BS>...I would have thought you'd have to track them [filkers] to their
BS>lairs at conventions, basement performances, Rocky Horror... How
BS>many filkers perform right out in the light of day surrounded by
BS>normals?
Duane Pesice (mod...@aol.com) wrote:
DP>Me for one. At least if you consider the folk of ahc "normals". Was
DP>actually referring to the work "filk" as opposed to the artist
DP>"filker", but your point is well-taken. I did the R'Lyehan Pie
DP>filk at a train station during my lunch break. Nobody threw things.
DP>Most stayed, at least until the train came through.
If I try singing in public, I get chased by large crowds of peasant
villagers with torches and pitchforks. I sometimes perform my songs for
my friends, whom I am reasonably certain won't hurt me too much; or more
often allow other people to perform them (most often before Rocky
Horror). In fact, I'm currently working on a short Rocky Horror/Mary
Poppins crossover show (under 10 minutes) for six performers, with
parodies of several MP songs. If I'm in it, it will most likely be as
Brad, who only sings a couple of verses (which aren't fit for quoting
in this newsgroup)...
moderan
bench with one of my guitars and do whatever comes to mind. Most of
it's made up on the spot.
I try to make up in enthusiasm what I lack in vocal quality. Hecklers I
work into the songs.
Tony Maniscalco
"moderan" <mod...@aol.com> wrote in message
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OK, so anyone who goes to the Chicago Blues Festival should look for the guy
in the tie dye shirt singing about the Mythos to Blues tunes...
I can hear it now...
"Hey! Hey! Cthuhlu's Alright!" (_The Blues is alright_)
or...
"R'yleh is gone.
R'yleh is gone away from here.
I ain't gonna call it back,
cuz the stars aren't right, Jack" (_The Thrill is Gone_)
or everybody's favorite...
"Sweet Home on the Plateau (of Leng)" (_Sweet Home Chicago_)
--
Tony
"Don't move. You'd better be prepared for the jump to hyperspace. It's
unpleasently like being drunk"
"What's so unpleasent about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent
_The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
Adam R. Goss
Filk Season!
Wabbit Season!
Filk Season!
Wabbit Season!
Wabbit Season!
Filk Season!
Wabbit Season!
I say it's FILK season and I say, FIRE!
Richard D Magrath
>So Filking season is open.
Indeed it is.
What kind of animal is "filk" and what
>sort of ammo do you recommend?
Not quite a fish, not quite an elk, but bloody fast nonetheless. I suggest a
twelve-bore.
moderan
with my amp propped by the copy of the Nec that I pilfered from the
basement of the Field Museum and am using for source material:-)
For the final act, I shall say "Hastur", not once, not twice, but
thrice.
--
Gene Wirchenko
>In article <22f7163c...@usw-ex0104-028.remarq.com>, CyberAngel
><pjonesN...@cs.sc.edu.invalid> writes:
>
>>So Filking season is open.
>
>Indeed it is.
>
> What kind of animal is "filk" and what
>>sort of ammo do you recommend?
>
>Not quite a fish, not quite an elk, but bloody fast nonetheless. I suggest a
>twelve-bore.
How many filkers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.
keith lim
Arthur Levesque <b...@boog.orgy> wrote:
> In fact, I'm currently working on a short Rocky Horror/Mary
> Poppins crossover show (under 10 minutes) for six performers, with
> parodies of several MP songs.
A Rocky Horror/Mary Poppins crossover. It's as twisted as Cthulhu-ABBA
filk. I like it.
Instafilk:
(tune: "Science Fiction, Double Feature" chorus, from Rocky Horror)
Mary Poppins, flying nanny
Her magic powers are quite uncanny
See Jane and Michael float to the ceiling
Spoonfuls of sugar make meds appealing.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Mary Poppins, magic nanny, steals the show.
Super-cali
Fragi-listic, expi-ali do-o-cious.
--
keith lim keit...@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~keithlim/
Cave ab homine unius libri. (Be wary of the man of one book.)
--Anonymous. Quoted by Isaac d'Israeli in Curiosities of Literature.
The Loremaster
>In article <22f7163c...@usw-ex0104-028.remarq.com>, CyberAngel
><pjonesN...@cs.sc.edu.invalid> writes:
>
>>So Filking season is open.
>
>Indeed it is.
Then take a shot at this one:
"Mythos No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)"
by Dan Adamski ("Vengeance" <dan...@gte.net>)
with all apologies to Lou Bega
posted without permission (he'll probably kill me when he finds out!)
Ladies and gentlemen
This is Mythos No. 5
One, two, three four five,
Everybody look up here, it's the Yellow Sign and there's
An ancient book around the corner
The boys say they want to read it now but I really don't wanna.
Feel weird, like I'm gonna heave,
They read out loud, I start to leave,
They spout Arabic, Sanskrit, Latin, some Hebrew,
And as they continue, you know we're gonna get screwed.
So what can I do, I take off in the car,
I drive screaming 'til I'm good and far
Anywhere else is all good let me
Just find a way to escape it.
A little bit of Yithian in my mind,
A little bit of spells that Summon/Bind;
A little bit of Nightgaunts from the sky,
A little bit of time until I die;
A little bit of Rat-Things in the Walls,
A little bit of phobia comes to call;
A little bit of Al-Azif causes pain,
A little bit of whoops, I've gone insane.
Take salt by the pound, and spread it all around,
Grab the chalk that you found, start to draw on the ground,
Draw one line left, and one line right,
One to the front, and one to the side;
Draw an eye once, and double-check it twice,
'Cause if it looks like an Elder SIgn, you're doin' it right!
A little bit of Tindalos in my life,
A little bit of Mi-Go by my side;
A little bit of ordnance's all I need,
A little bit of Dagon's what I see;
A little bit of Ithaqua makes it fun,
A little bit of Sanity all but gone;
A little bit of Azathoth fills the night,
A little bit of deant - the stars are right!
I sit in my cell,
And watch the world go to hell;
You can't run, you can't hide
You are dead, 'cause the stars are right.
Mark A. Mandel
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Adam R. Goss <arg...@hamp.hampshire.edu> wrote in message
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Fire WHAT? Are you using the proper ammunition for your game?
Be warned--many of us fire back...8-)
Mary
>
Arthur Levesque
>"Mythos No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)"
>by Dan Adamski ("Vengeance" <dan...@gte.net>)
>with all apologies to Lou Bega
>posted without permission (he'll probably kill me when he finds out!)
I like!
You should have cross-posted this to rec.music.filk as well; half of
this thread is also going there...
Michael Liebmann
> > I say it's FILK season and I say, FIRE!
>
> Fire WHAT? Are you using the proper ammunition for your game?
> Be warned--many of us fire back...8-)
>
Especially Leslie. Speaking of which, MARY!, where was Leslie this weekend?
Daniel R. Reitman
<arg...@hamp.hampshire.edu> wrote:
>Wabbit Season!
>Filk Season!
>Wabbit Season!
>Filk Season!
>Wabbit Season!
>Wabbit Season!
>Filk Season!
>Wabbit Season!
>I say it's FILK season and I say, FIRE!
<Robin Williams>
I'm dwiving in my caw
I tuwn on the wadio
</Robin Williams>
(Well, you did say Fiwe.)
Dan, ad nauseam
Mary Creasey
Michael Liebmann <fi...@mciworld.com> wrote in message
news:PKGY4.128$9N2....@pm01news.wcom.com...
> > >
> > > I say it's FILK season and I say, FIRE!
> >
> > Be warned--many of us fire back...8-)
> >
> And we do it well!!!
>
> Especially Leslie. Speaking of which, MARY!, where was Leslie this
weekend?
At the International Space Development Conference in Tucson, AZ; she was
their filk guest.
Mary
Michael Liebmann
> At the International Space Development Conference in Tucson, AZ; she was
> their filk guest.
>
> Mary
>
Mary Creasey
Well enough, considering that it was a techie show with a lot of folks
who had no idea what filk was...but they tried out at least a sample,
and Leslie was busy handing out cards like mad. I know that Claire
Stephens of Norman, OK and Kip MacMurray were there; don't know
offhand who else was.
Mary
>
>
* Unknown *
Yours, ignorantly:
Olav
>
> Adam R. Goss <arg...@hamp.hampshire.edu> wrote in message
> news:392EF41F...@hamp.hampshire.edu...
> > Wabbit Season!
> >
> > Filk Season!
> >
> > Wabbit Season!
> >
> > Filk Season!
> >
> > Wabbit Season!
> >
> > Wabbit Season!
> >
> > Filk Season!
> >
> > Wabbit Season!
> >
>
> Fire WHAT? Are you using the proper ammunition for your game?
> Be warned--many of us fire back...8-)
>
> >
Lee Gold
>
> I'm probably gonna regret asking this, but what is a filk???
> Yours, ignorantly:
> Olav
Filksongs started in science fiction fandom and are still largely
sung by SF fans (many of whom still read SF). Some are to
original music; some are to other people's tunes (including
folksongs). Some are about science fiction, SF fannish
history, spaceflight, science, and other fannish interests
like roleplaying games and cats and computers; others
are Kipling or Yeats set to music; still others are about
other topics like dinosaurs and the Loch Ness Monster and
CPR and....
You can find filksongs at most SF fan conventions and also at
filk conventions. You can also find them on cassettes and CDS
and in filkzines. If you go to the rec.music.filk FAQ, you'll
find a list of dealers, conventions, etc. Or you could just
set a browser to search for "filk."
--Lee Gold
editor XENOFILKIA (bimonthly songzine)
PS I tried sending this to you privately but it bounced.