gafilk (part 2)

Chris Conway.


Second post today (here is the first)...

Here are Terence's GAfilk photos.

Here are a few more of my personal highlights from GAFilk:

- Walking into a filk room and having Mary Bertke yell "GET OUT!!!!" at me. Turns out she was doing a version of The Lady and was feeling a bit nervous about me hearing it. :-D I loved her version. (Mary's comments)

- Learning about Scotch from Mark Osier and Steve Simmons.

- Hearing Blake Hodgetts do his Star Trek title song.

- Seeing Chris Conway ("christo" on Blatherchat) again. What an absolutely wonderful, talented, funny, interesting guy. Got a kalimba lesson, thoroughly enjoyed playing the flute on "Alien Jellyfish" during his concert. Chris was an early riser like me, so we ended up having breakfast together several times.



Jodi and Chris.


- Dinner with Daniel Glasser on Thursday night; Daniel was the first person I ran into when I arrived in Atlanta. It was nice to have the chance for some quiet conversation before the convention officially began.

- Photographing Ellen Weingart.

- Chatting with Brenda Sutton in the car on the way to their house.

- Meeting Robert Aspirin (author of Myth Adventure series, co-editor of Thieves World series, otherstuff). We were recruited for the "My Filk" panel game show together; the other person on our team was David Brim. Our team sucked at the game but we had fun. My most embarrassing moment: not being able to remember the first line of "The Lady". :-D



Dave & Rika.


- Adam English's reaction when Emily Raftery and Marilisa Valtazanou performed Emily's song about distressed zebras in the open filk circle.

- Chatting with Emily in the hotel lobby near the end of the convention.

- Seeing Bill Sutton play flute.

- Finally getting to meet/hear Mich Sampson. Incredibly talented woman, love her sense of humor. Got to hang out a bit with her, Marilisa and David after at the Suttons, which was fun.



Adam and Rand.


- Lunch with Terence Chua on Sunday. He reminds me a lot of my husband in the morning in that it takes him a bit to wake up. :-) Really enjoyed our conversation.

- Mary Crowell's red dog slippers! Wonderful to see Mary again; what an incredibly talented individual. I got a kick out of seeing her teach yoga moves to Rand and Adam onstage. :-)

- Poetry from Dave Alway.

- Chatting with Bill Sutton in the car on the way to the hotel pick up Mich, Marilisa and David.



Terence wearing his "What the heck are you doing taking a picture
of me just after I woke up and do Allison and Jodi have to put up
with this too" expression.


- Being in listener mode enabled me to wander from filkroom to filkroom with feeling any pressure to perform. I opted to leave my flute in the hotel room because my arms were a bit sore.

- Brief chat with Cat Faber on Monday morning. Really want to have a longer conversation sometime.

- Small filk on Sunday night, especially sitting near the center of the room during jazz improvisation sessions.



Trace, Brenda and Howie.


- Watching Adam English do a sketch of 2-year-old Zoe Snyder.

- Wearing Gwen Knighton's hand-knit slippers that I won in the Interfilk auction.

- Seeing Dave Rood play trumpet. This guy doesn't just play the trumpet; he coaxes it, caresses it into producing the most amaaazing music. (is it getting hot in here or what?)



Gary and Sheryl.


- Massages! For the record, I don't like getting massages at cons from people I don't know or aren't very comfortable with. I have found that hand/arm massages from friends, however, help a great deal re: coping with tendinitis soreness. So many thanks to Melissa, Rand, Howie, Jan, and Rob for their help on the weekend! :-)

- Hanging out with Erica Neely for an hour or two one afternoon, just chatting in her hotel room.

- Callie Hills and her bass flute addition to "The Lady" as performed by Daniel and Melissa Glasser.

- Hanging out with Mark Osier. It's been a long while since I've seen him at a filk convention.



Rand in a suit!


- Getting a dance lesson from Mark Osier and Amanda Snyder at the banquet.

- Jodi and the GAfilk House Band. Holy cow, were they ever good! I know that Jodi enjoys working with Urban Tapestry, but I also know how much she misses doing jazzstuff. I was bursting with pride and admiration, watching her do her stuff with Blaise, Dave, Brian(?) and Mary.

- The version of "Sex and Chocolate" that the above did at the banquet and in one of the smaller open filks on Sunday night.



Mary braiding Melissa's hair.


- Candy from Maya! :-) Very cool candy-coated chocolate with different flavors of candy coating, made by the Jelly Belly people.

- Seeing my friend Rand. Don't get to see him nearly enough because of our schedules, and even though he was understandably busy with Interfilk guest duties, we did manage to hang out a bit.

- Visiting at the Suttons after the convention. Brenda's chili. Walk with Amanda and Zoe. Discovering The Wiggles.

( to be continued...)



Emily and me.

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