# Wolfe filk from Wolfe folk *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 26 Feb 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *26 Feb 2002, 19:00* >> Blattid, he quoted Nutria and wrote: >> 2. I wrote Wolfe a decade ago a list of questions, including what kinds >> of music he likes best ... He replied that he favors filk, and that was >> his hobby music. So, SF all the way when it comes to old Gene! > Now, that may be the single scariest thing about GW I have ever heard. > Is he also a Sherman-Yankovic fan, we must wonder? I hardly need to mention it, but gee. And we have such proven talent around here--alga's paean to Cordwainer Smith "Miyameefla" (sung to tune of "Mona Lisa") springs to mind. I bet the filk would brew, bubble, and flow. =mantis= --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *26 Feb 2002, 19:08 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* My dear Mantis, Actually, Wolfe's work doesn't in general seem all that amenable to filkification, but really that should be perceived as a challenge. If nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using the obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's "this here Anakin guy") "the dawning of the Age of Severian." But I don't think I will. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *26 Feb 2002, 21:50 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > Blattid wrote: > If nothing else, I'm amazed that nobody has yet written anything using > the obvious natural pun (like unto Yankovic's "this here Anakin guy") > "the dawning of the Age of Severian." But I don't think I will. My thoughts were more toward using old folk songs. Turning "Greensleeves" into something like: "Alas, Thecla, you do me slight Your final friend, your last boy-slave When I have loved you from first sight And will love you beyond your grave. Chatelaine of Matachin Chatelaine of my heart bright Chatelaine of traitor kin Escape with my shiny knife." =mantis= ---