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Blake Hodgetts IF
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Blake Hodgetts has been a willful filker since falling in with Los Angeles Filkers Anonymous towards the end of 2000. Now living in Eugene, Oregon, he has written nearly forty songs since then and has found audiences at numerous conventions. His appearances have been mostly along the West Coast, although he has made it out to GAFilk and was honored to be the InterFilk guest at OVFF in 2003. He's an unusually well-credentialled filker, holding a Master's degree in music composition from the University of Oregon. When not engineering computer software for a living or making music, Blake enjoys flummoxing people with languages, dabbling in computer graphics, wasting time on LiveJournal (mrlogic), and occasionally acting in musical theatre productions. Blake's songs are eclectic, painstakingly crafted, and highly individual; the majority include original music as well as lyrics. With serious and humorous songs on many topics, he considers nothing off-limits. His arrangements often make the most of his skills at the keyboard, and unusual modulations and chord progressions lend many of his songs a unique sound. Blake began learning the guitar this year and hopes to use this facility to further broaden his palette, as well as to make it easier to room-hop during open filking. In 2003 Blake released his first album, Blindsight, containing 15 songs in a wide range of styles and moods. (Samples from Blindsight can be heard at his web page for the album: http://www.efn.org/~bch/blindsight.html; longer samples are also available at his page at cdbaby.com) Plans for a second album are in the early stages. Blake has also appeared as a guest artist on Echo's Children's fourth album, From the Hazel Tree, and on Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff's parody album, Aliens Ate My Homework. 2004 also marked Blake's first airplay on the Dr. Demento show, with his twisted love song "Hot Point, Warm Heart". |
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(Note: this song is NOT a Pegasus nominated song- it is a representative work for Best Performer and/or Best Writer/Composer categories): Boundless?Music and lyrics copyright ©2002 by Blake Hodgetts Soft in the corridors, light as a cat, [Chorus:] I am in school and it's here with my class [Chorus] Uncounted times I have heard it explained: [Chorus] I am a seeker by nature, it seems... [Chorus] Why this discovery shook my foundations, [Chorus] Here is my struggle: how can I continue [Chorus]
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