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Since I hadn't thought I was going to Conterpoint until a relatively short time ago, I hadn't paid too much attention to the fact they had a song contest. Once my intentions changed, however, I started working on a song. I almost gave up on it because of a lack of time but then thought, "Come on, Phil, you're the person who promotes FAWM and 50/ ( Read more... )

We're home from Conterpoint now and it was a good weekend ( Read more... )

First, Conterpoint was this far future event that I might or might not be going to. Now, it's imminent. I'm not sure how that happened; I have very little memory of there being time between those states...certainly not enough to fill the gap ( Read more... )

Maybe I've been asleep for a week but I've just noticed that the Pegasus nomination ballot is available on-line.

Looking down the performer list, it came to me that an act I currently enjoy very much isn't there...possibly for the completely valid reason that it didn't exist during most of the brainstorming period. :-) Some of you got a glimpse ( Read more... )

Immense thanks to the person on Google+ who mentioned the existence of this video:

'The "In Memory" video by John E. Hudgens that debuted at the 2013 Phoenix ComicCon during the Babylon 5 20th Anniversary Reunion panel.'

(Have tissues at hand if you're a B5 fan and even a little sentimental by nature.)

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I have a project that's aimed at producing an album -- probably digital -- of songs written since the release of "Rain on the Sand". (Usually I only spam people about it via my other LJ account but this time it's leakinng over into real-life stuff.) After three weeks of doing nothing on it, I had a rush of musical energy yesterday that caused me ( Read more... )

I tripped over this on Twitter when I discovered it posted by someone I follow because of her software development messages.

But, apparently she has other interests too.

As I've mentioned a couple of other places, I got Warren Zevon's "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" stuck in my head yesterday. This is not at all bad and it made me think that the song would work fine as found filk. (Soldier gets killed through treachery and his headless body roams a continent looking for revenge...kind of, "With her head ( Read more... )