[interactionfilk-discuss] Re: [interactionfilk-discuss] Re: Filk Liaison

[<katy@xxxxxxx>]

Rafe Culpin <rafe@filk.co.uk> schrieb am 08.06.2004, 14:33:00:

> I've had no queries or other people volunteering, so this is to confirm 
> that Bill Sutton will be running the filk programme at Interaction.
> 
> Miki Dennis will be handling anything that needs to be done in the UK. We 
> may be adding more people later, hopefully including someone from Germany.

Hi Rafe, hi all, 

Sorry for chiming in late here. 
Actually ... I have to admit that at the moment I am not at all sure who
of the German filkers / if anyone at all will be there. 
I have read in several mails (mostly from Rafe) that in 1995 there had
been "so many filkers from Germany" present. Now ... I'm kinda
flattered that we seem to have made such an impression back then, but
also very stumped - because in fact the participants from Germany back
in 1995 were only Yooh, Kirstin, her then-boyfriend Cevin, and me. That
was *it*. Noone else. 
German filk fandom and the German fandom group that attends Worldcon
have never overlapped very much - a large group of the German filkers
have their roots in fantasy / LARP / SCA fandom and not in general SF
fandom. 
So - basically, it has always been just Kirstin, my ex Robert (who used
to be our first "filk dealer") and then Yooh and me who really mostly
came along for the filk. 

It still is like that to me. Worldcon per se isn't THAT interesting to
me (and I honestly have to say that I hated the Glasgow location, the
having to drive around late at night with the shuttle busses and the
guitar since the con locations aren't in walking distance to each other
...), the filk track bit of it and the people *are* (which is why I
spent ALL my worldcon time in 1995 with the filkers) - but right now,
money is the reason why I cannot definitely say yet that I will be
there even though it is not only Worldcon but also Eurocon. Largest
reason is the still-unknown hotel prices (which unfortunately tend to
be much higher in the UK than in the US), the fact that a flight to
Glasgow from my home airport Hamburg is much more expensive than one to
London ... i.e. overall I could possibly almost attend a US worldcon
for the same money. It will depend on other plans that year, how many
trips I can do etc.pp. 

Would I *like* to be there? Yes. I'd love to spend time with the filkers
at Worldcon, and IF I make it there you can definitely grab me and make
me run around and work for the filk track, also spontaneously, I can
say that right here and now. BUT I cannot promise anything yet. 

This mostly hasn't anything to do with FilkCONtinental being only very
shortly after that, since most of our FC work will be done before
Worldcon, and then it starts only up in September anyway. Otoh ... I
could recommend everyone to come to FC in 2005 ... it *will* be worth
it ... but I digress. 
Nope, it's a personal matter. Of course, those can change, too, life is
full of changes :) 

All this blurb --> a definite "only maybe" from my side. Sorry!

Hugs, 
Katy


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