My people are Frederick the Great salon, and our song is two 18th century covers of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" that we put together!
Mine was inspired by
this medieval/Renaissance cover that came out a year and a half ago, which is great and a total earworm and you should listen to it, too!
But meanwhile, here's mine:
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selenak's lyrics were inspired by the original, and thus this one goes in chronological order, unlike mine.
Shout-out to
cahn, who obtained the music and sang the songs for us! She was absolutely indispensible, seeing as I'm as tone-deaf and musically untalented as they come. We put her through the wringer: it's a very fast-tempoed song, with tons of unfamiliar names in foreign languages, and almost no chance for anything to roll off your tongue before you have to switch to a different foreign name! Another challenging aspect: trying not to break out laughing while singing. If you're familiar with canon, and especially with our interpretations of canon, a lot of these lines are hilarious. Even my wife, who's unfamiliar with canon, laughed at "Bleeding counts as medicine."
I'm very proud of us, and I look forward to never, ever doing anything like this again. I was in charge of video editing, and syncing the subtitles, the audio, and the images to my standards of perfectionism took me 30+ hours. I suspect I could do it faster now, having learned what I've learned, but I don't want to find out!
All in all, putting these together took us a year and a half, because one person would do their part, and then we'd have to wait several months for the next person to have time to do theirs, rinse and repeat as we went through two rounds. If we did a third round, we've identified places where we could make it even better, but it would take another year and we're hitting diminishing returns, so enjoy it as it is!
Someday I'll find time to write up all the millions of other things I've been up to, and you'll see why you never hear from me any more. Short answer: full-time job, volunteering at the university to a degree that could be called an unpaid part-time job, trying to get an 18th century history article published, trying to get an 18th century history book published, a sudden social life since moving to a city where I know people, still trying to find time to study all the things I'm interested in. It's probably for the best that I'm too injured to take up running or serious hiking or caving! But I'm also trying to get that fixed, so that I can have more projects on my to-do list!
