short takes

[cellio]

Holiday amnesty season (link from browngirl).

siderea on consideration, and a followup posted since I started to compile this entry.

Lou Berryman likes the additions On the Mark has made to "A Chat With Your Mother". She says they might start doing them. Neat! (We haven't made lyrics changes -- more like "commentary".) I'm tickled when authors (1) hear our treatments of their material and (2) like what they hear.

Our D&D campaign has entered the free-form, characters-might-do-anything final arc. This is causing our GM to have to work extra hard to anticipate us. I hope we can all get onto the same wavelength so that we do the things he's prepared for us to do without anyone feeling railroaded. (Personally, I don't mind railroading in pursuit of a good story, but I don't think that's true of everyone in the game.)

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[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

Our D&D campaign has entered the free-form, characters-might-do-anything final arc.

Very true. Mind you, I said that was what I wanted...

[jducoeur]

Lou Berryman likes the additions On the Mark has made to "A Chat With Your Mother".

How cool! That's my very favorite of Lou and Peter's songs. What are the additions? I've heard partial SCA filks of the song once or twice, but I don't think I've heard any new verses...

[cellio]

No new verses -- but we have people other than the lead singer doing "commentary" of sorts. (Some of this is physical and doesn't come through on a recording.) So in the pirates verse we get an "arr!" and mimed guns ("blam!"), in the "militant survivalists" verse we get mimed walkie-talkies ("over!"), a burp during the football-players verse, and so on. And then there's the "unsavory musicians" verse, where we stole a trick from another local singer (Ann Feeney IIRC): the backup singers break into a completely different song, which varies a lot, until the lead singer glares them down with an "ahem". :-)

Our studio recording of the song doesn't reflect any of this; we have trouble making it work without an audience. We will eventually do a live CD assembled from various recordings, though, and this will be on it.

[cellio]

During a certain past presidential term I once heard a verse that began "there are cowboys in the white house", but I can't remember any more of it. That's the only new verse, as opposed to filked replacement song, that I think I've heard.