ignore this sorry I can't make dw work
Jan. 17th, 2019 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
0denseI'll make this work somehow so help me
<site-embed id="72"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AvAnfi8WpVE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>ISS - Is Someone Singing<br />Thank you, Snowflake mods, for not making this a timed challenge! My jan has been pretty busy up until recently, so I'll just keep filling them in. Also, I've spent most of this time trying to pick exactly what songs to talk about for a favorite bit of original canon. Or a few bits, I can't restrict myself!<br />Filk, at large, is one of the most fun genres out there. I see a good handful of suggestions for what should define filk - subject matter of fantasy or sci fi? folk roots? fandom elements? But it all seems to me to come together under the umbrella of celebration. <br />Also, it feels to me like we're starting out this year on something of a dire note. this government situation tho, not a fan. I feel like that headline from Hawkeye - Everything Awful (Oh God Someone Do Something). When I wanted to live in interesting times as a kid, I should've thought twice. Ah well. <br /><br />Anyway, something's got me on a space race kick! The Final Frontier and all; music for fun about the great unknown:<br />First, another about our own spaceflight: <br />Surprise! Written by Leslie Fish, sung by Gunnar Madsen<br /><site-embed id="73"><audio src="http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/surprise.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/surprise.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed></audio></site-embed>That's how it started, all those years ago<br />The push that got us climbing into space<br />Cynic beginnings, greed for big winnings<br />But look at all we've gotten from that race!<br /><br />Two joyful ones:<br /><br />My Planet's Child, by Echo's Children: <br /><site-embed id="74"><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2350171022/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=3402529147/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://echoschildren.bandcamp.com/album/a-dancing-world">A Dancing World by Echo's Children</a></iframe><br />Oh, I come by it honestly if I am star-beguiled, <br />For if I am a rover, well, I am my planet's child<br />The very iron in my blood has wandered wide and far-- <br />Forged and flung from the fire's heart that fueled a foreign star.<br /><br />The Light-Ship, by Julia Ecklar, from the 1983 tape Minus Ten and Counting:<br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nik75zMcba1rqknxpo1_r1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nik75zMcba1rqknxpo1_r1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio><br />The opal world like a clouded pearl <br />Strung on a thread of light<br />(<a href="http://http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Julia_Ecklar:The_Light-Ship">lyrics.wikia</a>)(when I look out at the fog over the bay on my morning commute, this is a beautiful image)<br /><br />Second, two ballads, both of which end up being by Leslie Fish, from Carmen Miranda's Ghost (1989): <br /><br />Guardians <br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nee5sgzVzp1u2y9qzo1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nee5sgzVzp1u2y9qzo1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio><br />(What happens when you think you're going to die alone in space? Well, thank goodness, you're not alone, for one.)<br />“Come on, tovarisch!” this one urged, “you’ll make it, I don’t doubt. Show me some of those Yankee guts I’ve heard so much about.”<br />(<a href="http://https://genius.com/Leslie-fish-guardians-lyrics">genius lyrics</a>)<br /><br />Some Kind of Hero<br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nl0ozlOpw91u2y9qzo1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nl0ozlOpw91u2y9qzo1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio>(Do I cry? Yes, in fact, I do.) (It's hard to pick out a single passage from a story without giving too much away, but today my favorite stanza is:)<br />“Break out the suits,” said the captain to them, “For it’s dark and it’s airless and cold <br />But I swear I can get you all out of here safe Packed in to the Antelope’s hold.”<br />(<a href="https://genius.com/Leslie-fish-some-kind-of-hero-lyrics">genius lyrics</a>)<br /></lj-embed></lj-embed></lj-embed></site-embed></site-embed>
<site-embed id="72"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AvAnfi8WpVE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>ISS - Is Someone Singing<br />Thank you, Snowflake mods, for not making this a timed challenge! My jan has been pretty busy up until recently, so I'll just keep filling them in. Also, I've spent most of this time trying to pick exactly what songs to talk about for a favorite bit of original canon. Or a few bits, I can't restrict myself!<br />Filk, at large, is one of the most fun genres out there. I see a good handful of suggestions for what should define filk - subject matter of fantasy or sci fi? folk roots? fandom elements? But it all seems to me to come together under the umbrella of celebration. <br />Also, it feels to me like we're starting out this year on something of a dire note. this government situation tho, not a fan. I feel like that headline from Hawkeye - Everything Awful (Oh God Someone Do Something). When I wanted to live in interesting times as a kid, I should've thought twice. Ah well. <br /><br />Anyway, something's got me on a space race kick! The Final Frontier and all; music for fun about the great unknown:<br />First, another about our own spaceflight: <br />Surprise! Written by Leslie Fish, sung by Gunnar Madsen<br /><site-embed id="73"><audio src="http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/surprise.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/surprise.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed></audio></site-embed>That's how it started, all those years ago<br />The push that got us climbing into space<br />Cynic beginnings, greed for big winnings<br />But look at all we've gotten from that race!<br /><br />Two joyful ones:<br /><br />My Planet's Child, by Echo's Children: <br /><site-embed id="74"><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2350171022/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/track=3402529147/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://echoschildren.bandcamp.com/album/a-dancing-world">A Dancing World by Echo's Children</a></iframe><br />Oh, I come by it honestly if I am star-beguiled, <br />For if I am a rover, well, I am my planet's child<br />The very iron in my blood has wandered wide and far-- <br />Forged and flung from the fire's heart that fueled a foreign star.<br /><br />The Light-Ship, by Julia Ecklar, from the 1983 tape Minus Ten and Counting:<br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nik75zMcba1rqknxpo1_r1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nik75zMcba1rqknxpo1_r1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio><br />The opal world like a clouded pearl <br />Strung on a thread of light<br />(<a href="http://http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Julia_Ecklar:The_Light-Ship">lyrics.wikia</a>)(when I look out at the fog over the bay on my morning commute, this is a beautiful image)<br /><br />Second, two ballads, both of which end up being by Leslie Fish, from Carmen Miranda's Ghost (1989): <br /><br />Guardians <br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nee5sgzVzp1u2y9qzo1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nee5sgzVzp1u2y9qzo1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio><br />(What happens when you think you're going to die alone in space? Well, thank goodness, you're not alone, for one.)<br />“Come on, tovarisch!” this one urged, “you’ll make it, I don’t doubt. Show me some of those Yankee guts I’ve heard so much about.”<br />(<a href="http://https://genius.com/Leslie-fish-guardians-lyrics">genius lyrics</a>)<br /><br />Some Kind of Hero<br /><lj-embed id=""><audio src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nl0ozlOpw91u2y9qzo1.mp3" controls=""> <embed src="https://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_nl0ozlOpw91u2y9qzo1.mp3" autoplay="false" width="450" height="35" name="MusicPlayer"></embed> </audio>(Do I cry? Yes, in fact, I do.) (It's hard to pick out a single passage from a story without giving too much away, but today my favorite stanza is:)<br />“Break out the suits,” said the captain to them, “For it’s dark and it’s airless and cold <br />But I swear I can get you all out of here safe Packed in to the Antelope’s hold.”<br />(<a href="https://genius.com/Leslie-fish-some-kind-of-hero-lyrics">genius lyrics</a>)<br /></lj-embed></lj-embed></lj-embed></site-embed></site-embed>
