[Wolves] Loograaaahdeo

[Matthew Revell]

Cool, cheers for that. I suppose the Filk that I'd come across in the
past wasn't quite as you've described. The stuff I'd seen seemed to take
itself far too seriously.

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 17:11, AlexG wrote:
> > Actually, has anyone come across that rather pretentious area of human
> > endeavour, filk? It's cyberspace folk music, from what I remember.
> 
> For a better definition, try the Filk FAQ.
> http://home.earthlink.net/~kayshapero/filkfaq.htm
> It initialy claims to be folk of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, but I know that a
> lot of live-roleplay groups write songs about charachters, events or even
> thier tabletop charachters if the story is silly enough to create a song
> that can be sung, while drunk, around a camp fire.  Re-enactment and living
> history societies also include some of thier songs in the Filk tradition.
> 
> A lot of the songs use in jokes, or refer to specific people in the society
> who have gained fame/infamy for something.
> 
> You can tell what I spent my university years doing cant you? ;-)
> 
> Alex G
> "It is better to have wasted your childhood, than done nothing with it at
> all"
> 
> 
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