Filk: In the Na'vi
Kevin van Houten
Tune: In The Navy (The Village People)
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The fauna and the flora
Native to Pandora
Glowing with a ghostly gleam;
Mountains floating up high
Man, I'm thinking that I've
Fallen right into a dream.
Where I can learn to fly,
Loop-the-loop and sky-dive,
Quatra-winged flying things.
Or, if I prefer land
Ride off with a big band
Hexapedal horsey kings!
As a Na'vi
Yes, you can grow to higher heights!
As a Na'vi
Because the gravity is light
As a Na'vi
Combined with human DNA
As a Na'vi, Be a Na'vi
Come join your Avatar today!
As a Na'vi
You'll help us get them on the run
As a Na'vi
Obtain some Unobtainimum!
As a Na'vi
Let's make a real Pandorium!
As a Na'vi, In the Na'vi, In the Na'vi, I'm a Na'vi!
(You'll go far, you'll go far)
(You'll go far as an Avatar)
Yes, I like adventure
And, here at the center,
The Soul Tree I have found at last.
But I hesitate
I hope it isn't too late
To rectify my actions of the past
All the Na'vi, old, young
Join up with us today
We have to stop the human kind.
All now on Pandora
Na'vi, Fauna, Flora,
Join now with your common mind!
Join the Na'vi!
From those who live down by the sea!
Join the Na'vi!
To the deserts and the trees!
Join the Na'vi!
Come on, we'll clear them from the skies!
Join the Na'vi! Join the Na'vi!
Come join our common, global mind!
Join the Na'vi!
Come on, protect the motherland!
Join the Na'vi!
Come on, Pandora, make a stand!
Join the Na'vi!
Let's make the know and understand
In the Na'vi! In the Na'vi! Join the Na'vi! In the Na'vi!
(Hoo-hoo-rah! Hoo-hoo-rah!)
(Push them off of Pandora!)
(Hoo-hoo-rah! Hoo-hoo-rah!)
(Push them off of Pandora!)
(Hoo-hoo-rah! Hoo-hoo-rah!)
(Push them off of Pandora!)
<repeat chorus>
Daniel R. Reitman
wrote:
>As requested recently by Rich Brown...
>
>Tune: In The Navy (The Village People)
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>The fauna and the flora
>Native to Pandora
>Glowing with a ghostly gleam;
>Mountains floating up high
>Man, I'm thinking that I've
>Fallen right into a dream.
>Where I can learn to fly,
I'm not sure this line scans
>Loop-the-loop and sky-dive,
>Quatra-winged flying things.
>Or, if I prefer land
>Ride off with a big band
>Hexapedal horsey kings!
>
>. . . .
>
>(You'll go far, you'll go far)
>(You'll go far as an Avatar)
>
>Yes, I like adventure
>And, here at the center,
>The Soul Tree I have found at last.
>But I hesitate
>I hope it isn't too late
>To rectify my actions of the past
>All the Na'vi, old, young
>Join up with us today
I'm not sure about scansion here either.
>We have to stop the human kind.
>All now on Pandora
>Na'vi, Fauna, Flora,
>Join now with your common mind!
>
>. . . .
Dan, ad nauseam
Sean Cleary
Movie is great, filk song is good.
(but you did not get even $1M to develop the filk, so..)
'Otter/Sean
Joe Kesselman
Likewise, likewise, likewise.
The movie is a mass of well-worn SF tropes -- which the writers admit
right up front with the name of the mineral -- but as others have said,
it's an honest SF film, well-acted, and the visuals are spectacular. The
interaction between live-action and animation is pretty darned seamless.
Imax 3D highly recommended if you can get it; 3D on the largest screen
you can find if you can't. It does add to the experience and it's
tastefully handled rather than the traditional in-your-face
3D-for-its-own-sake effects. I will warn you that you may experience a
bit of eyestrain from the 3D glasses.
--
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Glen
>As requested recently by Rich Brown...
>Tune: In The Navy (The Village People)
>-------------------------------------------
>The fauna and the flora
>Native to Pandora
>Glowing with a ghostly gleam;
>Mountains floating up high
>Man, I'm thinking that I've
>Fallen right into a dream.
Good stuff! I actually wrote a version of _In The Na'vi_, recorded it,
remixed the trailer, and put the video up on youtube. Mine is short
and silly. Video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/glenra#p/a/u/1/vJcAoBAfLFY
(I gave a "channel" link rather than the direct link because filkers
might also enjoy "Army of Robots" and "Global Heartwarming" on that
same page.)
Lyrics to the Glen Raphael version of _In the Na'vi_:
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We see you, we see you
We see you as a new recruit!
We see you, we see you
We see you as a new recruit!
If you're weak or small
We'll make you blue and tall
Enough to fight a giant mech
Fighting for your life
He's got a giant knife, we'll
See who's got the greener tech
We! See! we see you!
In the Na'vi,
...You get to climb enchanted trees
...You can dragon-fly with ease
...Come and save your fellow clan
...You've got four fingers on each hand!
...Where you won't even need a boat
...Cause we've got giant rocks that float!
...We'll defend our sacred turf
..You'll get to boff a giant smurf!
We see you, we see you
We see you as a new recruit!
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Joe Kesselman wrote:
> The movie is a mass of well-worn SF tropes -- which the writers admit
> right up front with the name of the mineral -- but as others have said,
> it's an honest SF film, well-acted, and the visuals are spectacular. The
> interaction between live-action and animation is pretty darned seamless.
I heard a clever interpretation - I think on Brad Templeton's blog -
that Pandora is a post-singularity world, designed to be pleasing and
convenient to the "natives" who chose to live there. Certainly
explains all the critters having USB cables hanging off of them and
the "planet" helping to repel the interlopers!
So: I live in Manhattan and have found myself writing a lot of filkish
stuff lately. Are there active filk gatherings in or near Manhattan? I
found the nycfilk mailing list but it seems dead...
-Glen Raphael
grap...@gmail.com
http://youtube.com/glenra
Joe Kesselman
> So: I live in Manhattan and have found myself writing a lot of filkish
> stuff lately. Are there active filk gatherings in or near Manhattan? I
> found the nycfilk mailing list but it seems dead...
I don't know enough about that community, but I can tell you that
Lunacon generally has good filk circles in the evening, and the Author
GOH (Tanya Huff) has become a filker herself.
Kay Shapero
26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, grap...@gmail.com says...
>
> I heard a clever interpretation - I think on Brad Templeton's blog -
> that Pandora is a post-singularity world, designed to be pleasing and
> convenient to the "natives" who chose to live there. Certainly
> explains all the critters having USB cables hanging off of them and
> the "planet" helping to repel the interlopers!
>
I see the planet as a sort of group mind critter with the 'trees' as the
hard drive and the lifeforms as the peripherals. Explains why things
too so long to come to a head - we're talking about something that makes
plans over centuries, and probably had no IDEA anybody else was out
there. Just figuring out that the humans operate independantly must
have been difficult.
--
Kay Shapero
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D.J.
wrote:
>In article <2c8a7503-ad9f-41d4-9bed-8ec503293351@
>26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, grap...@gmail.com says...
>
>>
>> I heard a clever interpretation - I think on Brad Templeton's blog -
>> that Pandora is a post-singularity world, designed to be pleasing and
>> convenient to the "natives" who chose to live there. Certainly
>> explains all the critters having USB cables hanging off of them and
>> the "planet" helping to repel the interlopers!
>>
>
>I see the planet as a sort of group mind critter with the 'trees' as the
>hard drive and the lifeforms as the peripherals. Explains why things
>too so long to come to a head - we're talking about something that makes
>plans over centuries, and probably had no IDEA anybody else was out
>there. Just figuring out that the humans operate independantly must
>have been difficult.
In one of Keith Laumer's Retief stories, the main character encounters
a thinking planet. They wind up working together against the bad guys.
I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
years, but not the authors nor titles. It wasn't a common story line,
but I remember reading around 5 of them with different takes on how
such a planet would deal with new arrivals.
One, a short short, had the planet swallowing the ship and the crew.
Then throwing them all up as unfit to eat.
JimP.
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Rafe Culpin
(D.J.) wrote:
> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
> years, but not the authors nor titles.
James White had one in the Sector General stories. Alan Dean Foster has a world
where the plants and animals form a group mind, in the Flinx series. James H.
Schmitz has a world-mind forest in the Telzey/Trigger series. Stanislaw Lem's
Solaris.
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D.J.
Culpin) wrote:
>In article <0be3l51v9kaqk2mms...@4ax.com>, jollyc...@cableone.net
>(D.J.) wrote:
>
>> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
>> years, but not the authors nor titles.
>
>James White had one in the Sector General stories. Alan Dean Foster has a world
>where the plants and animals form a group mind, in the Flinx series. James H.
>Schmitz has a world-mind forest in the Telzey/Trigger series. Stanislaw Lem's
>Solaris.
I think I remeber the Telzey story, but most of the ones I read were
pre-1960.
P.F. Bruns
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:46 +0000 (Eur), nos...@see.sig.to.reply (Rafe
> Culpin) wrote:
>> In article<0be3l51v9kaqk2mms...@4ax.com>, jollyc...@cableone.net
>> (D.J.) wrote:
>>
>>> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
>>> years, but not the authors nor titles.
>>
>> James White had one in the Sector General stories. Alan Dean Foster has a world
>> where the plants and animals form a group mind, in the Flinx series. James H.
>> Schmitz has a world-mind forest in the Telzey/Trigger series. Stanislaw Lem's
>> Solaris.
>
> I think I remeber the Telzey story, but most of the ones I read were
> pre-1960.
There's also Mogo, the Green Lantern planet, in the Green Lantern
stories. It's an entire planet that wields the power of the Green
Lanterns (as opposed to Oa, the home planet, which is not sentient, and
just happens to be where the Central Power Battery is located).
Best,
Perry
Kip Williams
...
>>> (D.J.) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
>>>> years, but not the authors nor titles.
...
> There's also Mogo, the Green Lantern planet, in the Green Lantern
> stories. It's an entire planet that wields the power of the Green
> Lanterns (as opposed to Oa, the home planet, which is not sentient, and
> just happens to be where the Central Power Battery is located).
Kirby had one called, I believe, EGO, THE LIVING PLANET back in the
Fantastic Four days. I seem to recall he/it had a beard.
Kip W
Rafe Culpin
> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
> years, but not the authors nor titles.
When the World Screamed - Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel R. Reitman
Culpin) wrote:
>In article <0be3l51v9kaqk2mms...@4ax.com>, jollyc...@cableone.net
>(D.J.) wrote:
>
>> I remember reading several other stories of thinking planets over the
>> years, but not the authors nor titles.
>
>When the World Screamed - Arthur Conan Doyle
I didn't know the world had a mouth. :-)
Dan, ad nauseam
Kevin van Houten
> Kevin van Houten wrote:
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> Good stuff!
tyvm
> I actually wrote a version of _In The Na'vi_, recorded it,
> remixed the trailer, and put the video up on youtube. Mine is short and
> silly. Video is here:
Hey, very cool. :)