Amplificathon 2008

amplificathon 2008 has been finishing up this week in a veritable smorgasbord of audio-visual delights! Some of which I shall list here for your Friday pleasure.

The idea behind the 'thon was to increase the number and variety of stories in the podfic archive: as a result six hundred stories have been added, from one hundred and five new fandoms. Wow. There is surely something there you'd enjoy listening to, so go and find it and listen to it and tell the people involved how smashing they are, since they are all so smashing.

Onto the goodies.

( My awesome Seventies-style participation banner )

( Mighty participants crown )

( Important crown-related POLL )

( Small fandoms anthology )

( Tolkien fics )

Music meme

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

forodwaith gave me "N for Numenor". When I got to four songs by Fairport Convention, I decided to rein myself in, and then I thought I'd find songs that appeared in some way or form on You Tube.

Name of the Game
Abba
Because it's all about the Seventies flashbacks on this journal.

Nothing is Good Enough
Aimee Mann
Right, this song appears on the album Bachelor No. 2 with lyrics, but on the Magnolia soundtrack album it's an instrumental. And there are a couple of videos on YouTube of people singing along to the instrumental - which I do too - but then I found this one, and remembered that the other thing about this song is that it's in 3/4 time...

Night Vision
Suzanne Vega
Actually, once you've got over the delight of Suzanne's hair and make-up, this video is immensely dull, being as it is merely a still photo. BUT HOW GLAMOROUS! The only other version up there was some guy singing out of tune, so this is the one you're getting. Gorgeous song.

Never Be Mine
Kate Bush
God only knows what's going on in this video but it's the only one up there. Anyway, I played this song all the time when I was seventeen: the object of my unrequited love was smitten with my best friend. An old story, and one of the saddest. Don't worry, though, it all turns out OK. That's another story but, as the video says: "Thank you, Exorcist."

Now Be Thankful
Fairport Convention
From a festival in Maidstone in 1970. Richard Thompson looks about sixteen. Bless.