Xeno #61, Filker Up #5 -- are out
Lee Gold
The E-Mail of the Specious -- by Tom Holt 1226
Heard from the Dressing Room -- by Mara Brener 1226
Lucky the Cat -- the Spam -- by Lynn Gold 1227
Fifteen Bugs -- by Joel Polowin 1228
Mr. Raptor -- Mr. Rex -- by David T. Okamura 1230
The Leaders of the Banned -- by Ken Hughes 1231
Thinking-Brain Dog -- by Mark A. Mandel 1232
The Teddy Bears' Dane Geld -- by Rich Brown 1233
Babble On Five -- by Amanda Marlowe 1234
Little Green Man -- by H. Paul Shuch 1235
The Mouse -- by Howard L. Kaplan 1236
Rounds -- by Rennie L. Levine 1238
Words in a Scrabbler's Head -- by Michael Turniansk 1239
A Redhead's Tale -- by Andrew Ross 1240
Trade Warriors -- by Patricia Mathews 1241
Percy's Song -- by Lee Gold 1241
Technobabble World -- by Robert T. Balder 1242
We're All Aglow at Worldcon -- by Dawn Pillsbury 1243
The Dark Side of Mars -- by Bob Kanefsky 1244
Intermission -- by Tom Digby 1245
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There's a link to the index for FILKER UP 1-4.
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Contributors get that issue free and the next issue postage only.
(This is intended to create an addiction to contributing.) But
I reserve the right to pick and choose what songs I want on the
basis of merit and whim. And to request that certain songs be
rewritten to a somewhat higher standard of scansion and rhyme
before they see print. And to fix up punctuation and spelling.
All 61 issues of Xeno are still in print. It is my intention
to keep ALL issues of Xenofilkia in print permanently.
Deadline for Xeno #62 is November 7th
Also available:
FILKER UP #1-5,. each with 44 pages of filksongs: what I consider
my best songs and those by some friends that meet the same standard.
$3 each -- plus postage. These songbooks weigh 5 ounces each, and
are cheapest mailed Book Rate: $1.24 (1 pound) for three of them,
$1.74 for all five -- US. (Yeah, Book Rate is a lot cheaper than First
Class. All 61 Xenos by Book Rate in the US is less than $6.50 postage.)
FILKER UP #5 is rated as for MATURE audiences of all ages and includes
All the Twisted People (about Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY
COMES)
archie the cockroach (obvious source)
Blues on Your Knife (a Picasso song)
Bonnie Variations
Briar Roses (a contrary take on Sleeping Beauty)
Castle in the Air (about MUDs)
Crossroad in the Middle of the Air (about Vlad Taltos)
The Cutty Snark (sic)
Dayenu! (an English version singable to the standard tune)
Dominatrix's Song (aka I Beat Bottoms) -- by Leslie Fish
Drill, Ye Lunatics, Drill (about Heinlein's THE MOON IS A HARSH
MISTRESS)
Eat the House Down
The F Word
Freedom
Gyrate (PG)
Hamlet by Disney
I Am the Pen (a sort of answer to Leslie Fish's "I Am the Sword)
I Can Tell Your Future (another song about Vlad Taltos)
I'm Tracing Back "The Bastard King of England" (written for the Tacky
Revue)
If I Were a Mousse (also written for the Tacky Revue)
The Long Watch (about Heinlein's story of the same name)
Loot (about a Compulsive Obsessive Clutterer Dragon)
Lord of the Dance: rev 1:1 - by Lee Gold & Kay Shapero (the Abrahamic
version)
Marching On ("Glory, glory -- kill the rabbit!")
Marquis De Sade - by Jan Kelson (PG)
Mil Specs
No Need to Pretend (about Miles Vorkosigan)
No More Need to Pray (about an Asimov character)
The Old Ones (Babylon 5 -- season 4 spoiler)
Once We Could See the Stars (light pollution)
Our Lady of the Snows - by Roberta Rogow (a Darkover song)
Out on the Edge (about Friedman's BLACK SUN RISING)
Picture Screen
Saint Vitus' Dance (Balkan History Lesson)
Schindler's List
The Scorpion and the Turtle
Starry, Starry Flag
Vorloupulous' Cooks (about an incident in Barrayarn History)
When Johnny's in His Last Home
Or you can get all five FILKER UPs for $12 plus postage for 2 pounds
($1.74 US Book Rate, for example).
TOM DIGBY ALONG FANTASY WAY: over 50 pages of Digby's poetry and
songs, illustrations by Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio, Teddy Harvia,
and Brad Foster. Published for the San Francisco Worldcon where
Tom was one of the Honored Guests. $5 including postage.
Make checks out to Lee Gold. Send them to:
Lee Gold
3965 Alla Road
Los Angeles, CA 90066
United States
Maureen S. O'Brien
>The Leaders of the Banned -- by Ken Hughes 1231
Is this the same Ken Hughes who used to come to Detroit conventions?
I hope so; I haven't seen/heard hide nor hair of him for _years_!
Maureen, who will forever be grateful to Ken Hughes; he was the first
filker she met at the first convention filk she ever went to.
Amanda Marlowe
I must be watching waaaay too much news. I first read this
as "www.starreport.com"....
Anyway, under the "get this on paper and out of my mind, please"
category (and as long as it *is* allowed in song):
Impeachment
Lyrics: Amanda Marlowe
To the Tune of: I'm a Believer by Neil Diamond(IIRC),Monkees version
I thought my affairs were just a private thing
Maybe for someone else, but not for me.
Ah, Starr was out to get me
That's the way it seems
Depositions haunted all my dreams....
(chorus)
And now they say I lied
And it means Impeachment
Can't keep up my fly:
I'd go outta my mind
I need girls (oh yeah!)
Though they mean impeachment
Wouldn't know what discreet meant*
If I tried...
I thought sex was more or less a give and take
It wasn't sex if she gave it to me
It's just like that time
I did not inhale
They say my logic's worthy of Dan Quayle...
(chorus)
*Yeah, I know it doesn't quite scan... just squeeze that
"wouldn't" in there.
Amanda
PS. I've just moved to Chicago. Any regular or semi-regular filk
get-togethers out here?
Mary Creasey
>
> Lee Gold decreed that:
> > The full Xeno indexes can be found at
> > http://www.starport.com/xeno/
>
> I must be watching waaaay too much news. I first read this
> as "www.starreport.com"....
>
> Anyway, under the "get this on paper and out of my mind, please"
> category (and as long as it *is* allowed in song):
>
> Impeachment
> Lyrics: Amanda Marlowe
> To the Tune of: I'm a Believer by Neil Diamond(IIRC),Monkees version
Oh, brother...8-)
In song is about the only way I can stand to hear about this mess!
<applause>
Mary