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Interfilk did OVFF attendees a wonderful service by bringing Blake Hodgetts to us. He is a most skillful keyboard player and singer and writes amazing songs. After hearing him at OVFF I bought his CD Blindsight from him. I highly recommend the CD, available directly from him or from finer filk dealers. He has lyrics and MP3 samples on the CD page plus more lyrics and a few scores, chords, and MIDI files on the songs page.

Blake’s songs often have a bit of scientific or technical content inserted where you least expect it. He has some very interesting ideas. “Hot Point, Warm Heart” is a love song—from your refrigerator. “A Habitrail Named Klein” explores the hazards of twisted hypertoric subspace-crossing hamster housing. “The Little Blue Man” is just special, even compared to those. He’s not all silliness. “Boundless?” is downright haunting.

I do hope we see Blake out here in the Midwest again. And Chicago is in the Midwest. The East Coast is at least a thousand kilometers, er, to the east. A thousand km here, a thousand there, next thing you know, you’re all the way across the continent. Atlanta I’m willing to call East Coast, but not Chicago.