I made some idle gestures about maybe doing a short filk set at Worldcon but a few things got in the way. First, I’m flying there and back; I don’t want to subject my personal guitar to that risk.
And also there’s my neck, which is variable these days. Maybe my shoulders will be nice and loose, so I can do some shredding. Or maybe they’ll be hard as cement and I’ll be propped against something with my teeth clenched, waiting for my ibuprofen time slot to open up. It all depends on the mercurial whim of the Cervical Deterioration Fairy, and she is rather unpredictable. As well as bitchy and unpleasant. Hope you never meet her.
I did have an awesome Carl filk going, set to the tune of Hotel California. The chorus goes like:
Good day crawlers, welcome to the next floor
Time to choose your class, hope you picked a good race
Get leveling up and you might survive to the stairwell
Time to grind some skill
Now get out there and kill kill kill!
I signed up for a few panels and intend to do Disney stuff in between them.
I’m in the most excellent mood right now. This month I got to see BTS a total of three times, got to hang out with old and new friends, then when I came home my other favorite K-Pop group, SHINee, gave me two days of livestream concerts. The dopamine is flowing freely and I’m waiting for the bubble to pop before diving back into that last review. And rewarding myself, with my well-deserved rewards.
I have wide-ranging musical tastes and I’ve never really given a rat’s ass for gender purists, most of them are more about the outfits than the music. A lot of people only relate to music as denoting which subculture you belonged to in high school. I didn’t go to high school, so I listen to everything. After my K-Pop holiday, my next show will be Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. After that I’m seeing Widespread Panic. Other upcoming shows include Billy Strings, Monsta X, and Art Garfunkel. And I’m thinking about Patti Smith and/or Bruno Mars.
I like harmonies. Multilayered production. Sheer musical-ness, like when Billy Strings goes into an extended solo, or when harmony groups blend together for chords. Rhythmic entrainment, with dancers and bass players and vocalists playing with the meter. I like live music for the way performers’ fashions and aesthetics supporting the audio, and also for the way they raise energy. Korean musicians know lots about raising energy but some western acts are good at it too.
I like it when large groups of people get together while some of them decorate time, and the rest respond. Most of the time I go around being vaguely dissatisfied with humanity, but concerts remind me that people are awesome and lots of them have excellent musical taste.
Conventions … tend to make me feel the other way. BTS does a song called Whalien, about the whale that speaks in a frequency no other whales use, and there are lots of us whaliens responding to that. One of my favorite freebies I got at the concerts is a little bracelet with a whale charm honoring that song.
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