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Created on 2007-06-14 22:10:33 (#13164035), last updated 2009-06-25
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Basic Info| Name: | mofilker |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1953-02-12 |
| Location: | Saint Charles, Missouri, United States |
| Website: | MoFilker |
BioThis journal is an effort to keep reasonably current in the filk community, futile an effort as that may be. Later, I'll make it fancy with suitable HTML renderings, but for now, text is as text does.
I've been playing music since I was five. Started on the accordion, which turns out to be a great way to learn guitar but really sucks when you try and pick up on the piano. Great right hand but your left is a paper weight.
Over twenty years ago (ye gods--twenty?), before Archon 11 (my sixth Archon by that time -- first attended #5, skipped #6, and have been going ever since, with the exception of Archon 30, where I had things to do involving my children), I discovered filking. For a couple years after that, I hung around at the periphery, enjoying the gift of being able to follow along with many of the filkers while not actually knowing any filk per se.
By Archon 11, I had become sufficiently enamored of the genre to have written my first filk song, which is now entitled "The Farmer". For a long while, I would introduce it as "a medley of my hit". But over the years, I've managed to write more (songs, not hits), to the point that now I have two CDs. If anyone is interested, they are Weekend Filker, a CD of originals, and Delusions of Adequacy, a CD of parodies.
I've been the Filk GoH at NameThatCon - Conzilla, in St Louis - and at M.O.O.N. Con, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. I've also been a regular 'guest' at ShowMeCon in St Louis for the last few years, I've more or less anchored the filking at Archon for the last decade or so, and I was supposed to have been invited as Filk GoH at Daranacon in Kansas City in October, 2007--but it got cancelled. (...sigh...). I also attended my very first Duckon in Chicago and had a great time, so we'll be going back.
Update complete. Until next time...
MoFilker
I've been playing music since I was five. Started on the accordion, which turns out to be a great way to learn guitar but really sucks when you try and pick up on the piano. Great right hand but your left is a paper weight.
Over twenty years ago (ye gods--twenty?), before Archon 11 (my sixth Archon by that time -- first attended #5, skipped #6, and have been going ever since, with the exception of Archon 30, where I had things to do involving my children), I discovered filking. For a couple years after that, I hung around at the periphery, enjoying the gift of being able to follow along with many of the filkers while not actually knowing any filk per se.
By Archon 11, I had become sufficiently enamored of the genre to have written my first filk song, which is now entitled "The Farmer". For a long while, I would introduce it as "a medley of my hit". But over the years, I've managed to write more (songs, not hits), to the point that now I have two CDs. If anyone is interested, they are Weekend Filker, a CD of originals, and Delusions of Adequacy, a CD of parodies.
I've been the Filk GoH at NameThatCon - Conzilla, in St Louis - and at M.O.O.N. Con, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. I've also been a regular 'guest' at ShowMeCon in St Louis for the last few years, I've more or less anchored the filking at Archon for the last decade or so, and I was supposed to have been invited as Filk GoH at Daranacon in Kansas City in October, 2007--but it got cancelled. (...sigh...). I also attended my very first Duckon in Chicago and had a great time, so we'll be going back.
Update complete. Until next time...
MoFilker
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accordion, archon, astronomy, cd, cds, composer, composing, conventions, duckon, electronics, filk, filkhaven, filking, filknews, guitar, m.o.o.n.con, mooncon, music, musician, performer, physics, piano, programming, science, science fiction, showmecon, singing, song writing, technology, windycon
External Services:
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Schools:
Crooked Oak High School - Oklahoma City, OK (1969 - 1971)Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO (1971 - 1975)
University of Missouri - St. Louis - St. Louis, MO (2000 - 2005)
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