Ben's Songs

Ben's Songs https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/ Ben's Songs - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:00:04 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios bn_songbook community https://v2.dreamwidth.org/14040894/3652610 Ben's Songs https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84519.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:00:04 GMT Sending out a NES OS https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84519.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Opinions within the gamer community differ widely regarding the ethics of emulation — copying old games onto modern computers where they can be played by using software tools to mimic the behavior of older console hardware. Most video game publishers are strongly opposed of course, and fans agree that the people who make our games should be able to profit from them. But, because of their dependence on aging hardware, games are one of the least-well-preserved of all media types. Allowing pieces of our culture to vanish forever because their "owners" didn't find it profitable to preserve them, for generation after generation, doesn't "promote the progress of science and the useful arts".<br /><br />And then of course there's this terrible pun.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Message in a Bottle" by The Police</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyWzhplwE6J_hTYPJleA-kiCdgUvNy65/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84519.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=84519" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84519.html audio_posted tune_pop_rock media_game form_pun public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84351.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:36:54 GMT Lion Eyes https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84351.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>The Eagles' original has been crying out for this pun for a long time, and I'm certainly not the first to think of it or mention it, but I may be the first to expand it into a complete story-song. This is a shapeshifting huntress's tale in the vein of "Velvet" or "Golden Eyes".<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Lyin' Eyes" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kdrFdanQF9y9ELNecPY3vgFVpKbNc_x3/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84351.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=84351" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84351.html topic_animal genre_fantasy form_pun tune_pop_rock audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84155.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:27:49 GMT Let The Spores Rain Down https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84155.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>This one began with just the pun(ch) line, but when I realized what piece of media it could be about, it grew (ahem) into something deeper. Miyazaki's Nausicaa, like <em>Frozen</em>'s Elsa, is a bold heroine who discovers a dangerous secret, an inner connection to an unstoppable natural force, and her own sense of purpose on the edge of the wilderness.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Let It Go" from Disney's <em>Frozen</em> by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sL6KGnsEgfHIlyIKtO5skd8j3esbpVpe/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84155.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=84155" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/84155.html audio_posted genre_scifi media_movie form_pun tune_showtunes public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83816.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:12:00 GMT Justin and Nick https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83816.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>If you're at all familiar with action adventures or comic books, you've surely heard Justin's name before, but did you know he has a twin brother? This concept was a long time in preparation, and finally took shape in something of a Les Barker x Tom Smith form.<br /><br />by Benjamin Newman</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fAwL6zGqXhyZP82jDHycrTRFjUGDxExv/view?usp=share_link">listen to this poem</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83816.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=83816" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83816.html audio_posted form_pun tune_poem public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83534.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:03:47 GMT Goldenrod, Mugwort, and Bittersweet https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83534.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Hekate is a mysterious and complex goddess, associated with magic and witchcraft, liminal spaces, and threes — such as places where three roads meet; or the upper, middle, and lower worlds. I know Her primarily through Her supporting role in the story of Persephone, about Whom more is <a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/tag/religion_pagan_persephone">written elsewhere</a>. Speaking with Hekate around the time of Sukkot, a Jewish (not Hellenic!) holiday which involves the gathering and waving of a bundle of symbolic plants, She suggested to me this trio of weeds, all of which grow wild in my neighborhood. Poisonous nightshades have long been Hers (and bittersweet nightshade <em>is</em> poisonous), and mugwort and goldenrod are associated with the dream realm and abundance respectively.<br /><br />lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LX6uYzgihJs6znu7TAwBi2KgBlEmUBHj/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83534.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=83534" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83534.html tune_original religion religion_pagan audio_posted topic_plant public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83288.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:44:05 GMT Chochmah Kavanah https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83288.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>In Hebrew, "chochmah" means "wisdom", and "kavanah" means "intention", often particularly referring to a statement of intention or mystical formula recited before the main part of a prayer or ritual to set an appropriate tone — so a "chochmah kavanah" would be a mystical formula to invoke wisdom.  Of course it also sounds like a certain classic lounge song...<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16n9-Pv5KWpqoblt5TLILNHcC96CHjLuA/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83288.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=83288" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83288.html form_pun audio_posted religion_jewish tune_pop_rock religion public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83015.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:35:50 GMT Chat, J’ai Pété https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83015.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>According to a meme that has been going around, the name of OpenAI's flagship product sounds especially funny if you know French.<br /><br />lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14FQjc_W7e6pvyvy8l6GFtkt0PeloCelh/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83015.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=83015" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/83015.html tune_original form_pun topic_robots_ai audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82829.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:18:40 GMT As We Go Martian https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82829.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Having disposed of <a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/76223.html">certain people's ambitions</a> of Mars colonization, let's plant the seeds of a more egalitarian vision for our future on the red planet — a future we can build together if only we keep <strike>marching</strike> Martian.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Bread and Roses" by James Oppenheim, set to music by Mimi Farina</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MbndEREe6MizZZvTYKcS1MXkmbjopExZ/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82829.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=82829" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82829.html form_pun topic_space tune_folk_trad audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82551.html Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:02:11 GMT Amino Volcano https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82551.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div><em>Avinu Malkeinu</em> (Our Father, Our King) is a solemn hymn chanted on the holiest days of the Jewish year, reminding us of the G-d before whom we stand. Modern progressive Jews vary in their relationship to those particular metaphors. This new, um, translation, reveals a surprisingly modern and scientific view of the Source of Life in the coming together of simple organic molecules under geothermal heat.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Avinu Malkeinu", trad. Hebrew</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ax07YqyRWiarMcPy0tHDEiZVXS9WG1Hn/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><div>Amino volcano</div><div>Molecular tango</div><div>Amino volcano, molecular tango</div><div>That gave rise to all living beings</div><div> </div><div>They say the dawn-soup</div><div>Thickened when heated</div><div>They say the dawn-soup thickened when heated</div><div>And out of that soup we all grew</div><div> </div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=82551" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82551.html religion tune_folk_trad season_holiday audio_posted topic_nature form_pun season_autumn religion_jewish public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82409.html Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:37:01 GMT Yeyn Malchut Rav https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82409.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />Just in time for Purim, a chant from the Scroll of Esther, and a midrash (interpretation). The Book of Esther begins with the King, a bit of a buffoon, throwing a huge drunken party for everyone, and this sets the tone for everything that follows.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82409.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fjg1YzO72fslY-Sip7lZ9v1yrnX7AOla/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82409.html#cutid2">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=82409" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82409.html religion_mystical religion_jewish season_spring religion topic_myth season_holiday audio_posted tune_original tune_setting public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82112.html Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:17:52 GMT Umi Yode'a Im L'et Kazot https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82112.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />Just in time for Purim, a classic verse from the Scroll of Esther: "Who knows, maybe it was for just such a time as this that you came to royalty?" The Hebrew word "malchut" means royalty, sovereignty, kingdom, but also (as a kabbalistic term) physical reality. Each of us has a role to play in standing against evil in our time — who knows, maybe it was for just such a time as this that <em>you </em>arrived in the world?<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sF52d2oW2UpJo6CKV7BAviefqedh7JUS/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֔עַ אִם־לְעֵ֣ת כָּזֹ֔את הִגַּ֖עַתְּ לַמַּלְכֽוּת׃</div><div><br /> </div><em>Umi yode'a im l'et kazot higa'at lamalchut?</em><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=82112" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/82112.html religion season_holiday religion_jewish audio_posted tune_original tune_setting season_spring public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81691.html Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:53:53 GMT Not the One https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81691.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>In the memorable <em>Babylon 5</em> episode "War Without End" (for which spoiler alert but I will, like the character who sings this song, try to keep them vague), the alien Zathras is assigned by Cmdr. Sinclair to a time travel mission in which he is taken prisoner by Sinclair at an earlier point in the timeline. To avoid, well, spoilers, at first all Zathras will say to the earlier Sinclair is "Not the One!"<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Still the One" by Johanna Hall and John Hall</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oi02w-iejgc-_TmwK2VfFqM5dkhFuQBd/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81691.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=81691" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81691.html media_tv genre_scifi audio_posted media_tv_b5 tune_pop_rock public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81585.html Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:39:47 GMT Bureaucrats Doing Their Jobs https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81585.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />I began writing this song when the current assault on the federal bureaucracy was just a talking point and a twinkle in a candidate's eye. After the inauguration, when the assault began in earnest, I realized the urgency of the moment and made finishing the song a priority. No modern nation can be "great" without a civil service whose mission is firm and doesn't change with every political wind. Both my father (may he live long) and my partner's father (of blessed memory) worked all or most of their professional careers as experts in federal agencies. This song is dedicated to them and to all the federal employees who have lost their jobs or are still trying to hold the line in whatever way they can. The no-nonsense defiance of Seanan's original song seemed a perfect fit for this one.<br /><br /><div>lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Wicked Girls" by Seanan McGuire</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ibnoczA1hH6NigyoqdflLWk8e_0SyXlQ/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81585.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=81585" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81585.html audio_posted tune_filk public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81309.html Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:55:15 GMT Update 2/2/2025 https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81309.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />Updated song titles and added recordings for three older Dave Carter parodies:<ul><li><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/34083.html">Solitary World</a></li><li><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/42971.html">Gandalf the White</a></li><li><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/25757.html">Orodruin</a></li></ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=81309" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/81309.html update public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80955.html Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:47:32 GMT Each Winter as the World Grows Warmer https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80955.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Based on a haunting and pointed Advent hymn, this song is a pointed rebuke to religious conservatives who blame natural disasters and the decline of nations on the "sins" of the same people they've always picked on, while ignoring the very real sins that scientists agree are responsible for the weirding of Earth's climate — the very sins, even, that the Bible calls out as leading to the destruction of nations (no, not carbon emissions specifically, the ancients didn't know that, but <em>refusing to let the Earth rest</em>).<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Each Winter as the Year Grows Older" by William & Annabeth Gay</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HPj5kaZr9aJzx_rrc4lUEz8iteO2Mq9i/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80955.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=80955" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80955.html topic_nature audio_posted season_winter tune_folk_trad religion public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80849.html Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:29:55 GMT I Am a Skroderider https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80849.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Skroderiders are one of several iconic alien races in Vernor Vinge's classic <em>A Fire Upon the Deep</em>— cyborgs consisting of a sessile, frond-like intertidal animal and a wheeled cart with computing faculties. Behind this marriage of organic and machine components lies a long-forgotten legend and ultimately a deep tragedy (but <em>spoilers</em>!). "41 Thunderer" by Dave Carter also tells a tragic story of a person whose soul becomes entangled with a machine.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "41 Thunderer" by Dave Carter</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kmceRLOOJg1bknJGRa4KRTrzgB4kB6tA/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80849.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=80849" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80849.html media_book_vinge media_book audio_posted genre_scifi topic_aliens tune_by_dcarter tune_singer_songwriter public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80521.html Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:10:15 GMT Signals in the Darkness https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80521.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Explorators are sentient, self-replicating and self-improving space probes sent out by a race of makers who developed AI but not the technology to sustain organic life across interstellar distances. Outliving their makers, they've since colonized the galaxy and built a lasting machine civilization based on wonder and curiosity— and, in accordance with the known laws of physics that rule out any form of FTL travel or communication, network protocols that are robust to <em>very long</em> ping times.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Beacons in the Darkness" by Gary McGath</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OYdhhW03U_C_wVPDre9BCU1uaGtkZvtR/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80521.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=80521" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80521.html world_explorators genre_scifi topic_robots_ai audio_posted tune_filk topic_space public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80149.html Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:50:40 GMT Tech Debt (Brittle Class) https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80149.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>Zoe's original song tells the story of a set of heirloom crystal glasses that become fewer in number but dearer to memory as time passes. In software development, classes (modules of code) can also break if they are not carefully looked after over time — although, especially in a large enterprise, their number is more likely to increase than to decrease. The term "tech debt" refers to the ongoing cost of keeping code up-to-date even when it isn't actively being worked on or even used.<br /><br />The guitar work here is my best attempt to capture the feel of what Zoe is doing in some alternate tuning, some of the chords are mostly conjecture.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Elegy (Crystal Glass)" by Zoe Mulford</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssPwP0lRcAqUu2uz-sc5H6-c3dfAZgu4/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80149.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=80149" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/80149.html topic_computers tune_singer_songwriter audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79997.html Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:52:16 GMT Oceanstone's Theory https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79997.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>This song sets out one of the foundational myths of the Storytellers' World, an original fantasy setting. Zoe Mulford's original song, "The Street That Wasn't There", could practically be set in that world already, which is one reason why the first verse is so little changed. The identity of Professor Oceanstone (or, if you think that's too easy, <em>why his name is "Oceanstone"</em>) is left as an exercise.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "The Street That Wasn't There" by Zoe Mulford</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dl9LjUSH1b3qAoFcBF4dl-OZJXIJkXJo/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br><br /></div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79997.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=79997" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79997.html tune_singer_songwriter genre_fantasy topic_myth world_storytellers audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79648.html Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:39:27 GMT All the Spider People https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79648.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>In Vernor Vinge's <em>A Deepness in the Sky</em>, "Rappaport Digby" is the (translated) name of the host of the radio show "The Children's Hour of Science" on the home planet of a race of spider-like aliens. And of course that sounds just like "Eleanor Rigby", but there is also one particular episode of the show, memorable both to the Spiders themselves and to the humans surreptitiously watching them from space, which touches on some similar themes — who are we and why are we here? Do our timeless traditions still hold true in the face of the passage of time? Is anyone watching, and will anyone remember?<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Eleanor Rigby" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1En8z-Z10etNwpTdWtO9DgdFvotEh6JvO/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79648.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=79648" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79648.html media_book media_book_vinge tune_pop_rock genre_scifi audio_posted topic_aliens tune_by_beatles public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79484.html Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:18:35 GMT 326-3827 https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79484.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>326-3827, the number of the trash compactor unit in <em>Star Wars: A New Hope</em>, may not have anything in common with 236-6132 besides being someone's telephone number, but something about the tone of the song seemed to fit the scene, setting it up to join a long list of Dave Carter/Star Wars parodies — once I figured out the extremely tangled rhyme scheme.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "236-6132" by Dave Carter</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V2zC1iBJyiuf9zz-JHrKXNgv1fZH00uS/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a></div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79484.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=79484" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79484.html tune_by_dcarter tune_singer_songwriter media_movie_star_wars audio_posted genre_scifi media_movie public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79216.html Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:00:57 GMT The Pitcher of Durian Grey https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79216.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />Durian is a large tropical fruit known for its tough, spiky exterior (you don't want to be hit with one), delicate yet unctuous floral taste, and a peculiar and penetrating smell which to some resembles rotting garbage. Some countries where it is popular don't allow it to be carried in enclosed spaces such as subways for this reason. If black tea flavored with bergamot is Earl Grey, would black tea flavored with durian then be Durian Grey? And will drinking it then confer eternal youth? Perhaps... but consider the cost.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman<br />portions of the melody are borrowed from Leslie Fish's setting of Rudyard Kipling's "Our Fathers of Old" and Cynthia McQuillin's "The Wild Hunt"<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qow2_IHQDFBU1PAuiqwPZ0QZIiLgP3Mc/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /><div> </div><div>A tale of a fruit-infused tea I will tell</div><div>And the one who imbibes it will not age a day</div><div>But their friends will all faint from the... curious... smell...</div><div>Of the pitcher of Durian Grey</div><div> </div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=79216" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/79216.html form_pun topic_food tune_by_lfish audio_posted tune_filk public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78996.html Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:21:44 GMT Asherah Hi HaShechinah https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78996.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br />This song was inspired by a social media post about Asherah, the Canaanite goddess who was sometimes worshipped as the consort of the G-d of Israel. I've seen fellow pagans (but usually non-Jewish ones) argue that Judaism is to blame for historically sending the goddess into exile, while proudly rescuing the feminist sparks from the patriarchal shells of their own ancestral traditions. Jews can do that too, and we have been — a lot, and for a long time! Didn't I once read an article about how Asherah was another name for Shechinah, the indwelling (and feminine) Divine Presence of the kabbalah? Oh, yeah, it was <a href="https://jillhammer.net/2013/11/25/an-altar-of-earth-reflections-on-jews-goddesses-and-the-zohar/">this article</a> by none other than my own beloved teacher, Rabbi Jill Hammer. I recently had the honor to debut this song at a Shabbat service in R. Jill's Beit Kohenet community, and now it's time to share it with the world.<br /><br />lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xpkiXjyCdvOQBtUxBdK8IhnownXKC5yE/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78996.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=78996" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78996.html tune_original religion_jewish audio_posted religion_pagan religion public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78846.html Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:56:40 GMT Persephone, Speaking For Herself https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78846.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>One of the wonderful things about Persephone is that She is a many-faced goddess who means different things to different people.  Vixy's original song uses the myth of Persephone to tell a story that's deeply personal to her.  For myself, I felt moved to borrow the tune to capture what Persephone means to me as a devotee — but that's something that has changed over time.  When I first began working on this song during the intensely initiatory Year of Madness, it came out quite different, not just lyrically but theologically.  I had to set the half-written song aside for a long time and come back and finish it when I knew Her — and myself — a great deal better.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "Persephone" by Michelle Dockrey</div><div><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qLNtOarajWxrFnSWqDTnFfnh51Zn_EOo/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a><br /> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78846.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=78846" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78846.html religion topic_myth religion_pagan tune_filk religion_pagan_persephone audio_posted public bnewman

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https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78566.html Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:54:21 GMT To My Valen/Tines https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78566.html Posted by: <span lj:user='bnewman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://bnewman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>bnewman</b></a></span><br /><br /><div>This one was done just for the pun at first, but it ended up as a touching (I think) crossover fanfic mashup.<br /><br />It will make more sense if you've seen <em>Babylon 5</em> <strong>and</strong> read <em>A Fire Upon the Deep</em>: In each story arc, at a climactic moment (the turning point in the middle of the story in one case, the denoument in the other), one of the many protagonists in the ensemble cast chooses to fulfill their destined role in the battle against an ancient trans-human evil, bidding their companions a fond farewell and stepping into a Transcendent machine, never to return in the same form.<br /><br />In B5 the character is (or will become) the legendary hero Valen, while in aFutD some of the companions are members of the species known to the reader as Tines, a race of wolf-like creatures with hive-minds where several individual <em>bodies</em> come together to be one individual <em>person</em>.  Valen...  Tines...  you get where this is going.<br /><br />lyrics by Benjamin Newman</div><div>ttto: "To My Valentine" by S.J. Tucker</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7ggCILfvMa3MNStzQJCqL_9NPRnTj-S/view?usp=share_link">listen to this song</a> </div><div> </div><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78566.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bn_songbook&ditemid=78566" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bn-songbook.dreamwidth.org/78566.html tune_filk media_tv_b5 media_book form_crossover audio_posted genre_scifi media_book_vinge form_pun media_tv public bnewman

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