Back from Ohio

[sdelmonte]

Here's the thing about lousy cons: you can write them up in no time. Here's the thing about great cons: there's too much to say.

OVFF was a great con. An organized con report is going to take time. But the short form of it is that the music was great, the conversation was great, the atmosphere was great. I saw a lot of friends I wish I saw much more often, met some new friends, and got to schmooze with Tanya Huff and with Kathy Mar. Lady Mondegreen - the group, not the person (though she is part of the group), really busted some heads, in a musical sense.

I heard Ookla the Mok (met them before but never saw them in concert till now), The Fibs (missed them last year), Pete Grubbs, Michael Longcor (never heard him live before), the Bonhoffs (another new discovery for me), Three Weird Sisters/A Year and a Day, Terence Chua, Gary Ehrlich, Carla Ulbrich (never heard her live as far as I know), Bill Sutton, Bill Roper, Steve Macdonald, Rob Wynne, and Dan Glasser. Oddly, while I saw Tom Smith in the con's version of "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" I didn't hear him sing.

I heard lots of great new filk about lots of things, watched LMG (the person in this case) do evil things to poor Jordan Mann's signature song, and cringed as Pete Grubbs sang a filk to "Bad Moon on the Rise" that has been inevitable since the first time that title was turned into a mondegreen (in this case, neither the person or the group).

I had fun. I even stayed up till 3 am, old time, for the first time at a con in years. That was some con.

More thoughts if and when I get organized.

Comments

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

*smile* I know about the "it's hard to write about great cons" :) FilkCONtinental was great, too. Even though I was on the committee, I had a grand time, and that's quite something *g* ... still haven't written a word about it, and the con was four weeks ago ...:)
About Lady Mondegreen: hee, be biased all you want, I agree, they *rock* :) Wish I could have heard them.