{"id":733,"date":"2012-03-05T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=733"},"modified":"2013-02-16T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T22:29:06","slug":"new-songs-stellarcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/new-songs-stellarcon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Songs at StellarCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a year makes!<\/p>\n<p>At the time of StellarCon last year, I had written a grand total of one filk song, which I sang (a year ago today, in fact) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsc50huntsville.com\/\">DeepSouthCon 50<\/a> party: <a>&#8220;The Monster Hunter Ballad.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NG7-Jw03Bgg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to this past weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarcon.com\/\">StellarCon<\/a> 36, and my filk repertoire had grown to the point that I debuted two songs on Friday night: the <em>Firefly<\/em> tribute song &#8220;Finding Serenity,&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Cry When You Get Rejected&#8221; (to the tune of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Cry for Me, Argentina&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t enough. Saturday afternoon I finished a <em>Hobbit<\/em> song I&#8217;d been working on, so that night I debuted &#8220;Thorin Oakenshield&#8221; (to the tune of &#8220;Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer&#8221;). And even <em>that<\/em> wasn&#8217;t enough: I had started writing another new song at the con on Friday, and by Saturday night I had a couple of verses and a chorus for &#8220;Steampunk Pirates.&#8221; So the filk circle on Saturday also heard me sing my work-in-progress.<\/p>\n<p>What is this craziness?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grayrinehart.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F733&#038;t=New%20Songs%20at%20StellarCon&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grayrinehart.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F733&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=New%20Songs%20at%20StellarCon\" style=\"font-size: 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At the time of StellarCon last year, I had written a grand total of one filk song, which I sang (a year ago today, in fact) at the DeepSouthCon 50 party: &#8220;The Monster Hunter Ballad.&#8221; Fast forward to this past weekend at StellarCon 36, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/new-songs-stellarcon\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,164,277,21,388],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-filk","tag-music","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}