Essays | Stories | Filks | Poetry
Filks
|
Title |
Genre |
Original Artist |
Original Title |
Comments |
| Broadway Goes to Hollywood - The Musical | Gargoyles | Various | Various | My second attempt at a musical. |
| The Day the "Gargoyles" Died - 2000 | Gargoyles | Don Maclean | "American Pie" | |
| Day-O | Gargoyles | Harri Belafonte | "Day-O" | |
| Fairlane to Wyvern | Gargoyles | Led Zeppelin | "Stairway to Heaven" | |
| Gin I Were a Human Man | Gargoyles | Traditional | "O Gin I Were a Baron's Heir" | |
| Goliath Guards the Night | Gargoyles | The Tokens | "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" | |
| Katharine | Gargoyles | The Grateful Dead | "Rosemary" | |
| Mac and Demona | Gargoyles | John Cougar Mellancamp | "Jack and Diane" | |
| Midsummer Night | Gargoyles | Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta | "Summer Nights" | |
| Oberon's Land | Gargoyles | The Grateful Dead | "Uncle John's Band" | |
| The Redemption | Gargoyles | Peter Gabriel | "Solsbury Hill" | |
| We Don't Want Another Hero | Gargoyles | Tina Turner | "We Don't Need Another Hero" | |
| When I Was a Fay | Gargoyles | Dar Williams | "When I Was a Boy" | |
| Why, Demona? | Gargoyles | The Knack | "My Sharona" | |
| Dancin' | TGS | The Grateful Dead | "Truckin'" | |
| Son of the Devil | TGS | The Grateful Dead | "Friend of the Devil" | |
| Jose Chung | X-Files | Helen Reddy | "Delta Dawn" | With Nicole Mason |
| Little Agent Mulder | X-Files | Traditional | "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" | With Nicole Mason |
| Mulder Went Down to Georgia | X-Files | Charlie Daniels Band | "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" | With Nicole Mason |
| The Stalk | Buffy:TVS | Dire Straits | "Walk of Life" | |
| When I've Been Possessed | Buffy:TVS | The Beatles | "When I'm Sixty-Four" | Okay, more a generic vampire song, but Spike's singing it in my head. |
| The Baby Sister's Here | TNG | Dar Williams | "The Babysitter's Here" | Subtitled: An Ode to Mary Sue |
| The Baby Sister's Here | Multi | Dar Williams | "The Babysitter's Here" |
With Batya The Toon" Wittenberg. More incestuous filking. Batya read the original and said, "I can improve on this." And she did. |
| Hogsmeade | Harry Potter | Sixpence None the Richer | "Kiss Me" | |
| Dark and Hollow | Justice League | Rufus Wainwright | "Hallelujah" | "A Better World" filk |
| Arrakeen Rhapsody | Dune | Queen | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | |
| Going to Eternos | MOTU | Led Zeppelin | "Going to California" | |
| Tomorrow | Shakespeare | Eileen Quinn, from "Annie" | "Tomorrow" | |
| Closer to Scratchnsniff | Animaniacs | The Indigo Girls | "Closer to Fine" | An example of incestuous filking. I ran across Batya's "Closer to Fen," and have had the punchline of this in my head ever since. |
| Brian Henson's Therapy | Farscape | Original | Original | As with the Hogwarts theme song, pick your favorite tune and go for it. |
| Brother Wolf | Discworld | John Pole | "Mister Fox" / "Mr. Fox's Garden" | Spoilers for "The Fifth Elephant" |
| Somebody's Igor | Discworld | Rick Moranis, from "Little Shop of Horrors" | "Suddenly Seymour" | Best sung with a slight lisp. |
| Little Blue Smurfette | Eighties | Prince | "Little Red Corvette" | |
| Tiny Household Spirits | Misc | REM | Shiny Happy People Laughing | Inspired by a filk of the same name by Branna. |
| New York - The Musical | Fandom | Various | Various | My first attempt at a musical. |
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Old Faces or, Hey, Haven't I Seen You Here Before? |
Fandom | Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson | "The Highwayman" | Is it Gargoyles? Or is it '80's? |
| Fannish All These Years | Fandom | Tori Amos | "Silent All These Years" | Autobiographical. |
| Romance | Fandom | Garth Brooks | "The Dance" | |
| The Tone-Deaf Filker | Fandom | Billy Joel | "The Entertainer" |
My Favorite Filkers Who Aren't Me:
There's something about sitting home rewatching old cartoons on a Saturday night, and getting a call that begins: "Okay, so I filked 'Be Our Guest' to the Marquis de Sade." I'm not exactly sure what that something is, but I'm pretty sure that normal people would be horrified.
Constance Cochran
Merav Hoffman
Jordan Mann
Tom Smith
Patrick Toman
Alison Wilgus
Batya Wittenberg
And of course, Darn Near All the Filk on the Web