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Last February I attended a housefilk hosted by Bob Kanefsky at his condo community's clubhouse. I remember thinking how I'd been looking forward to getting back into singing. Little did I know it would be nearly year from that day that I'd feel like singing or picking up my guitar much again. Yesterday's filksing, again hosted by Kanef, I had more motivation to prepare and was happily expecting others' renditions of Cynthia McQuillin's songs, too.

Braving the Chinese New Year Parade traffic that I knew would be clogging all major highways around San Francisco, it took me almost 2 1/2 hours to get to there, so I missed the first hour, having arrived at 7pm. (Drive back home took less than an hour, but it was after 1am when I left ...)

Among those in attendance were

mdlbear,

flowercat,

chaoswolf,

debmats,

herefox,

lilacfairy,

songspinner (all the way from New Mexico! :) ), Tom Digby, Jane Mailander, Heather Stern, Jim Partridge, Carole Parker, and Bill Laubenheimer. There was chocolate, including ones with liqueur centers, chicken molé tacos, a bottle of claret from Clos Pegase (flying horse logo!) and animal crackers. I brought a little bag of plastic snakes and spread them around the food tables. No one in black lace or purple-satin-lined capes.

We didn't have a Cynthia McQuillin hour but rather did her songs and filks thereof throughout the night/morning. As an off-shoot, sort of, we also did a lot of space songs. Kanef sang a fair amount! In fact, there was a lot of singing and not so much talking, but maybe that's my hazy memory.

The Cindy songs I managed to write down while there:

Steve- "Green Passions"
(later sung/led again by Jane, whom I understand is on lj)

Jane- "One Size Fits All"

Joey- "Sweet Obsession"

Joey- "Gay Vampire Boogie"

Jane- "Dark Desire"

Joey- "Fevre Dream"

Joey- "Cross Fertilization" (Kanefilk of previous song)

Kanef- "The Chocolate Song" (a valiant attempt as we couldn't recall all the lyrics)

Jane- "Wolfling"

Joey- "Six Pack/Wolf Pack" (Kanefilk of previous song)

Jane- "Cybernetic Necromancy"

Joey- "Livin' in a Video"

Joey- "Crimson and Crystal"

Joey- "Shiny and Sharp" (Kanefilk of previous song)

Joey- "Star Fire"

Kanef- "Ain't Got No Body"

Heather & Joey- "Shadow Harper"

Kanef- "Gilda and the Dragon"

Jane- "Roots"

Joey- "Sweet Alice"

Joey- "Horses of Air"

Jane- "Bedlam Cats"

Joey- "Ruby Wine"

Joey- "Black Lace and Midnight"

Kanef- "Brown Rice and Tofu" (Kanefilk of previous song)

Jane- "Half-Blood Prince Filk #1" (filk of "Snakes")

Joey- "Sometimes After Dark"

Heather- "Child of Darkness"

Steve and Colleen

Jane

We did reminisce about Cindy, of course. It wasn't until someone talked about "Fuel to Feed the Drive" and its many sequels (which that it made me very sad. I don't think that song was ever sung, but if it was I missed it as I was in my own headspace for a little while. I got choked up while singing "Crimson and Crystal" and again during

jecklar's "The Phoenix" (which was particularly unfortunate in the latter as I really needed to focus on breathing at the right times and didn't).

As previously mentioned non-Cindy songs were sung, too, and by other singers as well, despite the appearance from above I was being a filkhog. :)

Tom let us know his "Little Teeny Eyes" turned 40 this year and he sang it for us. Fun!