- I'm going.
- I'm driving and can take at least one other passenger. If anyone is interested in riding down and back with me (I'm planning on leaving sometime the Monday before the con and going back the Monday after), please let me know here.
- Despite my having been in-your-face about it to half the world, and despite my being on the "confirmed program participants list," because somehow Rick Weiss didn't know I was coming (even though I had asked if he'd needed help with the filk track), I don't have a concert. Yes, I am very upset about this. If anyone has a suggestion as to how I can somehow cause a concert, complete with audience, to happen, please speak up. I don't want to be disruptive, but it's really hard to establish yourself as a performer when nobody sees you doing it.
I. Am. Exhausted.
Mar. 6th, 2006 12:47 pmThere was a con this weekend. Last year I swore I wouldn't get involved. Those, of course, were famous last words. It had taken Dr. James all of about two weeks after last year's con to convince me to assist with Logistics.
I'm not going to do a detailed con report, as I'm sure lots of folks on LJ will write better reports, having seen more of the con than I did. My concert was on Sunday afternoon and I was sick, so I was mostly conserving my energy and voice for that half hour, save for the Cindy McQuillin memorial circle, where I'd planned on doing one song I knew wouldn't be in the concert (it was Cindy's favorite of my repertoire). I mostly missed the filk circles. I missed the Interfilk auction. I missed the Saturday Night Dinner Run.
I did, however, see lots of folks (way too many to mention unless I want to take up several paragraphs), catch up on lots of gossip, and learned some new dishy stuff. Obviously this stuff is Not For Publication. I don't spread info unless I've either witnessed something firsthand or have an accurate source I can reference, and while my sources were either firsthand or accurate, I don't have (or just plain didn't ask for) permission to reference.
The guests were all fantastic.
daisy_knotwise and
billroper were lots of fun. When I start talking with them I start wishing we lived closer so I could see more of them.
singlemaltsilk has a really lovely voice. I wish my phone hadn't gone off near the start of her concert, as I'd wanted to catch all of it. She's another one I at least hope to run into more often. I'd have loved to spend more time chatting with her, but our schedules and my illness kept that from happening. As for Puzzlebox, I am sooooo glad we had an excuse to bring them all together. I don't know how they all kept their energy up all weekend. We expected them to do more tag-team toastmastering than they did (they'd usually go up together or in pairs), especially with all their kids! Wow. tell me your secret, please!
unclechristo was just plain amazing. A lot of folks missed his concert because it was scheduled at 7pm (when most folks in Silicon Valley are getting off work or are just finishing dinner at home before heading to the con). I was both entertained by him and learned a lot. At the "Get a Tune Out Of The Theremin" workshop I was able to get out a credible "Do Re Mi" from "The Sound of Music." Later on during the convention when he told me most of his pro performer friends work five jobs I felt better about "only" having three. My most "off" line at the con came at his expense.
I'd been rounding up folks throughout the con for the sound crew. We were trying to get
unclechristo to fetch his guitar before it got locked away with the sound equipment. I was about to go get him when he came around the corner towards me. I led him straight to the ballroom and proclaimed, "I'm getting good at this. I made Christo come real fast." I hadn't realized what I'd said till the entire room doubled over laughing.
After he caught his breath,
it_aint_easy remarked, "And he's barely panting."
Eeep.
I avoided mushrooms this weekend mostly by not eating. This would have been unwise, but for some odd reason my blood sugar stayed level (I was checking it; even after not eating most of Saturday it was at 105 when I went to bed!). I don't know whether my hypoglycemia has levelled out or I've gone diabetic. If it's the former, cool! If the latter, uh-oh.
The folks from the crew filming (or videotaping) us were cool. They blended in amazingly well. I probably babbled like an idiot in my interview with them because they got me right after my concert when my blood sugar was in the basement.
cadhla looked amazing. She's lost a lot of weight and has clearly done it The Right Way (slowly, and with lots of exercise). Usually she does lots of costume changes during the con. This time she seemed to save most of them for her concert. I wish I had been on before her instead of after. It felt like the room had emptied out when I went on, which sucked doody. Lots of the folks leaving had to catch flights. It's also hard to be merely outrageous when you're alone on stage, sick, and lower-than-usual energy and you're on after a group of young, cute, and outrageous folks. (I was too tired to do my choreography and costume changes this time.) At least the film crew started up after the infamous "Hawaiian Windbreaker Song." I wish my stringed instruments hadn't gone out of tune while I was on stage.
The closing number of my concert had the desired surprise effect. I'd wanted to do the theremin and saw (aka "analong theremin") duet with
unclechristo at Sixteen Tones, but it turned out the U.S. authorities would likely not have let me fly with the saw. If you are wondering what I'm talking about, you'll likely have to wait till Baycon or Worldcon to experience "cutting edge filk" for yourself.
I'm not going to do a detailed con report, as I'm sure lots of folks on LJ will write better reports, having seen more of the con than I did. My concert was on Sunday afternoon and I was sick, so I was mostly conserving my energy and voice for that half hour, save for the Cindy McQuillin memorial circle, where I'd planned on doing one song I knew wouldn't be in the concert (it was Cindy's favorite of my repertoire). I mostly missed the filk circles. I missed the Interfilk auction. I missed the Saturday Night Dinner Run.
I did, however, see lots of folks (way too many to mention unless I want to take up several paragraphs), catch up on lots of gossip, and learned some new dishy stuff. Obviously this stuff is Not For Publication. I don't spread info unless I've either witnessed something firsthand or have an accurate source I can reference, and while my sources were either firsthand or accurate, I don't have (or just plain didn't ask for) permission to reference.
The guests were all fantastic.
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Eeep.
I avoided mushrooms this weekend mostly by not eating. This would have been unwise, but for some odd reason my blood sugar stayed level (I was checking it; even after not eating most of Saturday it was at 105 when I went to bed!). I don't know whether my hypoglycemia has levelled out or I've gone diabetic. If it's the former, cool! If the latter, uh-oh.
The folks from the crew filming (or videotaping) us were cool. They blended in amazingly well. I probably babbled like an idiot in my interview with them because they got me right after my concert when my blood sugar was in the basement.
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Consonance is starting to happen!
Mar. 3rd, 2006 04:29 pmMy concert, for those of you who care, is Sunday at 3:10pm.
You Want To Come.
Trust Me On This.
You also want to come tonight to catch
unclechristo's concert and Peter Beagle's concert.
Tomorrow we have
billroper and
daisy_knotwise, along with
singlemaltsilk. There's also the lovely Helga Olgegarde (I hope I got that right), and of course Puzzlebox.
I'm still at work, taking a brief break while my software is doing its thing in other windows, to tell y'all about it. The Registration Desk is open now, and programming more or less happens somewhere in the vicinity of 6pm or 7pm (I forget which - my program is in the car).
You Want To Come.
Trust Me On This.
You also want to come tonight to catch
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I'm still at work, taking a brief break while my software is doing its thing in other windows, to tell y'all about it. The Registration Desk is open now, and programming more or less happens somewhere in the vicinity of 6pm or 7pm (I forget which - my program is in the car).