Garramit, I filked again!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 5:55 PM

There's a line in a song by the Austin Lounge Lizards that goes: "Sometimes I wake up to find I've yodeled in my sleep!"

I feel like that.

So I was driving home from Austin last night, and this idea I had a week or two ago just started exploding in my head. It's a Class II Filk (meaning original tune and lyrics, but based on someone else's scifi). It's about Out of Gas. And it ain't funny. People mostly expect filk to be funny, but this ain't. If I did it right, it's gripping. And now I have to learn to play with a slide, because it's begging for a slide.

I don't have a slide, so I started picking up random items from around the house to try. I commented to my wife that the most successful improvised slide seemed to be a double A battery. She asked if it was wise to rub a battery on my strings. I replied, "Nah, it's probably quang sh'duh." (My attempt at the Chinese-like sounds Wash made to describe the Reavers flying without core containment.)

She said, "Are you speakin' Chinese at me, darlin'?" I denied that I was, and then I went for the sympaty plea.

"Honey, I filked again."

"Well, Babe," she said, "you'll have to clean it up."

*sigh* I guess I'll have no choice but to record it, put it in an MP3 postcard, and send it around the 'net. Gosa!

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