Housefilk report

[celticdragonfly]

There was a housefilk last night! It was down at the Tyras. We got there a bit latish, with much food. In addition to the Tyras, Joyslin, tmc4242 and decoy01, were all there. faxpaladin showed up a while later. The Tyras were being wonderfully kid-friendly - in addition to having a changing space set up in the bathroom, they had a big tin of tinkertoys. That was Maggie and Jamie's introduction to tinkertoys, actually, and they had a blast. Watching Karl sitting on the floor with them helping them build was fun.

Music was fun. We have to get Joyslin to sing more often, that was lovely. I sang a whole bunch of stuff, including a few things I wasn't sure I knew well enough to do, but it went okay. Rhiannon sang a filk to a Christmas carol tune, which got me onto the whole subject of Christmas carol filks - I keep wanting to have a housefilk Thanksgiving weekend and just collect all the Christmas carol filks we can find, so we'll have twisted lyrics in our mind as we have carols played at us everywhere. So I sang the vampire version of Deck the Halls, and Karl followed with the Slaver Caravan filk of Winter Wonderland, and there were more. But what really was great was faxpaladin's song "Have you caught what I caught?", TTTO the Little Drummer Boy, about illnesses passing through the family. Karl was laughing and turning brick red trying to suppress laughing and coughing. We begged for and got a copy.




Okay, I know it's a bit blurry, especially what Jamie's holding. That's faxpaladin on his guitar, singing. Jamie was fascinated by the guitar the whole evening - he's been doing a lot of "air guitar" play lately. Jamie came up and stood next to him and was pretending to play along on a tinkertoy guitar through the song. Left-handed, he generally has been air guitaring left handed.

This was, in my opinion, amazingly cute. My thanks to faxpaladin for his patience with Jamie's inquisitiveness. At one point Jamie was somewhat imperiously telling Joe "sit down!" and pointing at his chair, to try to get him to do a song on the guitar.

Sandy gave Maggie a child-sized green tunic dress with trim for dress-up. Maggie's wearing it now, declaring that she's Cinderella, and she's going to the ball, and Jamie will be the prince. Jamie's been dancing with her.

It was generally fun and we left earlier than I would have because we ran out of baby wipes. But not until Gerry'd played some Joe Bethancourt music, the point of which was listening to him get faster - then faster - then FASTER - and I was dancing reel steps around the room. Oh, yeah, I'm going to be paying for that all day today, especially dancing in socks on a loose rug. Wheee.

Comments

[joyslin.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the compliment. I'll try to sing more. It's just a lot of the filk songs I like are not in my range.

Your children are great. I see a lot of progress in Jamie.

Thanks for letting me hold/play with Alanna. I love babies, and rarely get the opportunity these days.

[ozarque.livejournal.com]

Housefilks .... wonderful. "Have You Caught What I Caught?" .... even wonderfuler.

If you don't have my Christmas filksongs, and you'd like to have them, they're at http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ozarque&keyword=carol&filter=all .

[filkferengi]

Don't forget to mention that they're available on your cd, "Christmas In Orbit," which is just lovely.

Modern Day Victorians?

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

It's kind of neat that the sciffy community is recreating the Victorian family "everyone gather 'round the piano and sing" form of social entertainment. It's a lovely, lovely way to pass the time.

I wish the mundane world had an equivalent phenomenon for non-musicians.