Tom Smith, the World’s Fastest Filker, tore his left quad tendon the other day, and as I understand it, doesn’t have much in the way of insurance. He has a Virtual Guitar Case that’s been set up on his site for a while: if you can, go over and drop something in. Even better, order his CDs. I especially recommend the downloads for Homecoming: Marcon 2005 and Live at GAFilk: those may have been the best $9.98 I ever spent.
Tom Smith has been releasing a new song every week or so over on Blogspot, with decent-quality download for free, and high-quality for $0.99. His latest, “Dervish“, is an amazing piece inspired by Guild Wars, which I may need to check out now on the strength of the song.
I strongly recommend “Take Your Hands Off the Bear“, a magical story about a breakup, “A Pirate Christmas” (”We three kings of Orient ARRRR!”), and “Hey, It’s Can(n)on“, the (un)fortunate result of noticing that Hermione Granger’s birthday happens to fall on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
I’ve mentioned Tom Smith’s Jim Henson tribute song, “A Boy and His Frog”, before. The other day, I was searching YouTube for Sesame Street videos, as Erin read the lyrics in Sesame Street Unpaved, when I came across a video that did a wonderful job of matching the song.
I think the part that hit hardest was as Tom sang, “And though not quite in your voice, I’ll say…” as a scene from The Muppet Christmas Carol played. :-(
And once again, Tom Smith hits one out of the park…
Tom Smith was feeling depressed because he felt like no more than a court jester.
Then he got this letter from a fan.
Happy sailing, guy. :-)
This poor comedian had the misfortune of playing cello when his school orchestra played Pachelbel’s Canon in D, which has no connection whatsoever to Tom Smith’s Hey, It’s Can(n)on — I think.
Thanks to Elf for the link. :-)
Tom Smith reminds us that just because some people have been trying to tear the country apart for the past 6 years doesn’t mean that we should return the favor…
Thanks-I-think to Ted Roche and Ed Leafe, who triggered this one over on ProFox. :-)
Imagine there’s no spreadsheets,
It’s easy if you try.
No .DOCs or templates.
To edit, just vi.
Imagine presentations
Given manually,
Ooh ooh, ooooh.
You may say I’m a zealot,
but there’s more than one or two.
I hope some day you’ll reformat
And start to run Ubuntu!
(For sufficiently small values of filk, that is)
If you hear the sale’s on
You gotta get there before it’s gone
You will walk a hundred aisles to find a deal…
A hundred aisles, a hundred aisles,
A hundred aisles, a hundred aisles
I–you will walk a hundred aisles to find a deal.
He’s just a Bill,
And not a law at all,
You’d see him on the Hill
And never notice him.
More to come later. Or not.
