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Before too much time passes, I should post something of a FilKONtario conrep, or at least my highlights. And there were many highlights, because FKO was, as is customary, fabulous; big kudos to the concom.
FKO remains something of a home convention to me -- as I told a few people over the weekend, "for those values of 'home' that involve driving four hours" -- for more reasons than just the geographical: It was at FKO, back in 2003, that I kinda fell in love with filk and began to consider it as something that I could actively participate in rather than just enjoy as a listener (though that's fine, too) as I had the past decade hanging out at the occasional Philcon or Eeriecon with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrgoodwraith and Ookla. It's also the con with which I associate many of the people who have come to strongly represent filk to me: Urban Tapestry, of course; janeg and phillip2637, who were always encouraging in my more timid days; Barry and Sally, whose speeches as the 2003 HOF induction struck a chord and presented filk as not just a fun hobby but something of a cultural paradigm shift, and have informed how I look at creative pursuits in general ever sense. And various people I first met or became aware of at an FKO, like peteralway, braider or musicmutt. So yup, a hotel in the middle of miles of nondescript suburbia, for one weekend a year, is home.
( Musings past; the conrep follows: )
FKO remains something of a home convention to me -- as I told a few people over the weekend, "for those values of 'home' that involve driving four hours" -- for more reasons than just the geographical: It was at FKO, back in 2003, that I kinda fell in love with filk and began to consider it as something that I could actively participate in rather than just enjoy as a listener (though that's fine, too) as I had the past decade hanging out at the occasional Philcon or Eeriecon with
mrgoodwraith and Ookla. It's also the con with which I associate many of the people who have come to strongly represent filk to me: Urban Tapestry, of course; janeg and phillip2637, who were always encouraging in my more timid days; Barry and Sally, whose speeches as the 2003 HOF induction struck a chord and presented filk as not just a fun hobby but something of a cultural paradigm shift, and have informed how I look at creative pursuits in general ever sense. And various people I first met or became aware of at an FKO, like peteralway, braider or musicmutt. So yup, a hotel in the middle of miles of nondescript suburbia, for one weekend a year, is home. ( Musings past; the conrep follows: )
