{"id":8510,"date":"2016-01-07T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2016-01-07T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:30:20","slug":"the-obligatory-awards-eligibility-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/the-obligatory-awards-eligibility-post\/","title":{"rendered":"the obligatory awards eligibility post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never made one of these before, but there is a FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING, so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/bone-walker\"><i>Bone Walker<\/i><\/a> was officially released on January 30, 2015, at Conflikt. We had a big release show there with <eM>most<\/eM> of the album performers &#8211; Alexander James Adams, Leannan Sidhe, Angela Korra&#8217;ti (filling in on flute, too), Sarah Kellington, <em>plus<\/em> bonus SJ Tucker on bass and and Jeri Lynn Cornish on cello and Paul Campbell on hammer dulcimer and Betsy Tinney on bodhran (YES BODHRAN) which means I had <em>all of Tricky Pixie<\/eM> in my backup band.<\/p>\n<p>Having read the rules carefully, I think it&#8217;s clear that as an official companion\/soundtrack to a fantasy novel series, this album <em>is<\/eM> eligible for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehugoawards.org\/hugo-categories\/\">Hugo Award for Best Related Work<\/a>. They may be thinking mostly about books, but we fit the requirements, just as much as the artbooks they describe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=915171139\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/bone-walker\">Bone Walker by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hugonoms2015.wikia.com\/wiki\/Category:Best_Related_Work\">Here&#8217;s our entry on a Hugo Nominees 2015 Wikia<\/a>, which I&#8217;m pretty sure is not official, but is there nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, any award that includes music and has January 30, 2015 in its date range would apply to this album &#8211; and to the individual tracks, as our Grammy Award adventures this year reminded me!<\/p>\n<p>I admit to a little nervousness about bringing up Hugo Related Work eligibility, because of the traditional social rules against campaigning, and all the horribleness of last year. But there&#8217;s a problem I want to address here, to wit: the usual thought on music is that it shouldn&#8217;t be considered for <em>any<\/eM> Hugo; it should instead be covered by the Pegasus filk awards given at OVFF.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I think the Pegasus awards are great and I&#8217;d absolutely be honoured if considered. But the people I know in the filk community <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> see <i>Bone Walker<\/i> as filk, and I think they&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s not. &#8220;Thirteen,&#8221; which will be released on January 31st of this year &#8211; that&#8217;s <em>absolutely<\/em> me doing filk. (Metal filk is still filk!) &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/collection-the-free-tracks\/\">The Diesel-Driven Eight Dimensional Jet Car Blues<\/a>&#8221; (Rock filk is still filk!) and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/the-s-100-bus-live-in-studio-web-only-bonus-track\">The S-100 Bus<\/a>&#8220;? Filk is filk is filk.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bone Walker<\/i>, though&#8230; not filk. But pretty clearly an <em>F&#038;SF Related Work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So there you are. If you&#8217;re the award-nominating sort, and feel like throwing something our way, this is it for 2015. And thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never made one of these before, but there is a FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING, so: Bone Walker was officially released on January 30, 2015, at Conflikt. We had a big release show there with most of the album performers &#8211; Alexander James Adams, Leannan Sidhe, Angela Korra&#8217;ti (filling in on flute, too), Sarah Kellington, plus [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}