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[personal profile] simont Wed 2006-06-28 11:09
A meme? Moi?

You might be thinking of the time I searched my diary archives for sentences in iambic pentameter and managed to find just enough rhyming ones to turn into a rather disjointed not-quite-sonnet, but that certainly wasn't my collection of filk-seeds.

My filk-seed collection includes, off the top of my head:

In short, in matters vegetable, mineral and animal
He is the very model of a modern David [livejournal.com profile] damerell

I'm the dandy webmaster who you're too scared to mention
I spend my cash on writing Flash and grabbing your attention

Quick reflexes are a must for the habitual player of what is known as (Half-Life)

He works with a mouse, a very big mouse, he's a compsci

For the last of those I have about three quarters of the rest of the song, if I can still remember it, including a triple rhyme that would have made Tom Lehrer blush (maybe). Oh, and there was one where it occurred to me to start off "Eleanor Rigby" with "Eleanor Ripley" and turn it into an Aliens filk, but I never came up with any actual lines for it, although [livejournal.com profile] drswirly provided "Wearing a face that she found in an egg on the floor", and clearly "only way to be sure" should appear in there at some point.

Generally, though, my attitude to filk is that once you've come up with the one outstandingly well crafted line that sparks the whole thing off, coming up with enough filler to pad out the rest of the song is not really motivating and you might just as well leave it at that.

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