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[skygiants]

Since I've just gone through to pester everyone else: Meme!

Reply to this and I will:

1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/movie.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell my first memory of you.
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) In return, you MUST spread this disease in your lj.

With caveat that the answer to 1) is pretty much always going to be "Because you friended me hi!", due to my lack of initiative.

Am now off to comb Palo Alto for rental copies of The Emperor's New Groove, as roommate has not seen it and library does not have it, both of which make me go >:O. Will respond upon return!

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[skygiants]

1) Yo. Yes, you know the drill. *grins*
2) "Language," by Suzanne Vega. Also, "Jenny Wren." I know you know both these songs because I got them from you!
3) Any filks I have ever written are your fault, really. Because you are the filkmaster, and taught me all the skills of scansion and rhyme that I possess. *serene*

I also really kind of want to sit at your feet and beg for your music collection. Just saying.
4) The original Scorpy-group! All of us in a chatroom, and I had never talked to any of you guys before, and I totally thought your screenname was based off of 'Batman'. And then afterwards Meg and Andrew really talked for the first time, and you said "Heh, you know, he might end up with a crush on her," and I said "Hee! I think she'd think it was cute." And then we passed blithely on to other topics, oblivious to any ominous music that might have been playing in the background.
5) A blue Disney alien! (What. It's an animal.)
6) How did you first get into filking?

[batyatoon]

How did I first get into filking. Oh, that's a complicated question.

Filking in the sense of writing new lyrics to old songs ... my dad's been doing that since before I was born -- ask me about West Side Megillah someday -- and I've been doing it pretty much as long as I can remember.

Music that called itself filk, though, that wouldn't have been till my second year of college. The first filk albums I ever heard were Serious Steel, with Leslie Fish and Joe Bethancourt teaming up to sing SCA and SCA-related songs, and Frank Hayes Live. And it was shortly after that that I went to my first SF convention -- Lunacon, NY's local media con. And went into the filkroom Saturday night, and startled everybody by singing Frank Hayes's "Cosmos" without flubbing once.
(I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.)