Kitanzi's Colloquium

You can blame cadhla for this one, or so autographedcat says. Me, I'm not sure we can fairly blame anyone else for this, but a scapegoat may prove useful if Ben Wakeman has a heartattack over what we did to his lovely song. The wistfully melodic tune for The Overall Distance has turned into .... an attack of the killer zombies.

Outbreak
http://autographedcat.livejournal.com/194556.html?nc=1&style=mine

(Also going up on kitanzi.com with the others just as soon as I get around to it.)

There are two new songs up at http://www.kitanzi.com/, for those that may be interested - particularly you, nrivkis, since one of them is the challenge song for "Go fix that typo" ttto Don't Push That Button. :) Great art it's not - but it was fun. Thanks!

Not everyone who reads this is a filker, and not everyone who reads this is a City of Heroes addict player, so I've stuck this behind the cut tag. Still, it's the first song I've written in a VERY long time (with feedback and polishing help from ACat!), and I kinda like it.

( Just how many people will actually go past the cut tag, I wonder? )

A surprising number of filkers know the outstanding music of Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, mostly because spiritdance and her husband have been enthusiastic vectors for spreading that virus. I only met the folk duo once,when they performed earlier this year in New England, but they both impressed me as being wonderfully friendly, kind and interesting people, personally and professionally. They had been getting greater attention, had won considerable recognition, and as a singing partnership, they seemed poised just at the brink of everything paying off for them.
Two days ago Dave died in a hotel room of a heart attack, just shy of 50 years old from what I hear.
Any one who's heard and loved their music will know this is a tragedy. Any one who has met them will also grieve the death of someone who was just as extraordinary personally as professionally.
I used to do several of their songs pretty regularly at filks with my ex, but they've fallen out of my practice list by default over the past couple months. I need to get back to doing those, but last night Gafia listened to me stumble thruogh one of the very few filksongs I've written. In fact, I wrote it just about this time last year, and I like to think that if Dave Carter had written filk, it might be something like When We Go. Just for self indulgence, I think I'll post it. But I'll keep it behind the cut.

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Dave believed in angels. I hope he's singing with them now.