I don't have much background in music. I took piano lessons in the second grade and played the saxophone in the school band. Garageband has allowed me to indulge my love for singing beyond concerts in the shower. I love the loops because they let non-musicians like me write songs. I just slap a few loops up and start singing. It's so freeing.

My favorite part of songwriting is writing the lyrics. This makes sense, of course, because writing is what I do for a living. Recently, I've been writing books, and teaching an online class in comedy writing, but in the past I've written for television and even wrote a couple of comic books. I'm a former voice actress (talking, not singing), and even spent a few years as a technical illustrator in aerospace. Go NASA!

Without any real training in music or music theory, I approach songwrititing from an instinctual place. If something sounds good to my ears, I go with it. The kind of music I love to listen to is jazz. I love the old school female torch singers of days gone by -- people like Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, Julie London, Laverne Baker, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Billie Holliday, and the Andrews Sisters.

If you want to know more about me, check out my website, my personal blog and my "comic books revisited" blog.

Other songs on iComp

March 13, 2006

Title	Genre	Released	Plays	Rating
Lullaby For Grown-Ups	Comedy	Mar 17, 2006	896	5.00
When He Met She	Jazz	Mar 3, 2006	856	4.98
Smooth As Silk	Jazz	Mar 13, 2006	1235	5.00
Being Poor	Rock	Jul 7, 2006	460	5.00
Time	Folk	Sep 9, 2006	560	5.00
I Can't Play the Ukulele	Folk	May 5, 2006	415	5.00
Over the Rainbow	A Cappella	Mar 11, 2007	402	5.00
A Penny For Your Thoughts	Jazz	Mar 6, 2006	1648	4.97
Condemning Me Just to See	Folk	Mar 15, 2008	103	5.00
I Cut My Flocking Finger With a Knife	Comedy	Jul 9, 2006	504	5.00
Seven Men	Folk	Feb 4, 2007	536	5.00
Lament	A Cappella	Mar 5, 2006	784	4.96
The Silly Things I Didn't Do Today	Childrens	Sep 9, 2007	264	5.00
Sleep, My Baby	Childrens	Dec 9, 2007	164	5.00
Breath	Folk	Mar 4, 2006	531	4.89
I've Been Working on the Railroad with Dadai!	Folk	Apr 2, 2008	204	5.00
When Monsters Want to Dance	Childrens	Nov 13, 2006	764	5.00
Nellie G.	Jazz	Apr 28, 2007	263	5.00
The Captain	Folk	Apr 29, 2006	397	4.94
Never Satisfied	Jazz	Jul 22, 2006	705	5.00
Damsel In Distress	Folk	Feb 3, 2007	282	5.00
I've Been Working on the Railroad	Folk	Apr 1, 2008	188	5.00
The Mayfly	Folk	Sep 12, 2006	300	5.00
Hardest Stone	Other	Dec 16, 2007	118	5.00
The Fool Who Sails	Folk	Mar 8, 2006	765	4.96
Never Feel Alone	Folk	Mar 12, 2006	401	4.75
Stand Up	Jazz	Sep 5, 2006	490	5.00
These Tears	Folk	May 15, 2006	593	4.84
It Ain't Fair 45 RPM	Blues	Mar 10, 2006	732	4.97
At First Sight	Pop	May 6, 2006	390	5.00
Bird	Jazz	May 4, 2006	784	5.00
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way	Jazz	Mar 1, 2006	954	4.94
Home on the Range	Folk	Apr 23, 2008	151	5.00
The Nightingale	Folk	Sep 10, 2006	531	5.00
I Got a Water Pistol Named Betsy	Blues	Mar 16, 2006	598	4.92
Beat the Devil	Blues	Sep 10, 2007	211	5.00
24/7	A Cappella	Apr 20, 2008	114	5.00
Banana Man	Blues	Mar 9, 2006	514	4.92
Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey	Folk	Mar 31, 2008	105	5.00
Tyler O'Toole (remix of One Bad Dude)	Other	Mar 20, 2006	459	4.80
Isolation	Other	Jan 8, 2008	111	4.80
The Gopher's Lament	Folk	Sep 10, 2006	313	5.00
The Ballad of Billy and Lily	Childrens	Mar 11, 2006	537	5.00
Rosin the Bow	Folk	Jun 8, 2006	630	4.86
The Raven	Other	Mar 7, 2006	440	4.90
The Greatest Show	Folk	Sep 14, 2006	266	5.00
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way (the music video)	Music Videos	Apr 13, 2006	678	4.90
I Have a Voice	Inspirational	Mar 30, 2006	437	5.00
Kumbayana	A Cappella	Jan 7, 2008	151	5.00
Love In a Petrie Dish	Jazz	Mar 2, 2006	593	4.92
Concerto for Kazoo in A Flat Miinor	Comedy	May 18, 2006	435	5.00
Hot	Jazz	Mar 23, 2006	469	5.00
Free of Pain	Folk	Apr 10, 2008	117	5.00

Title	Genre	Released	Plays	Rating
Whiskey Neat, Water Back	Rock	Apr 22, 2006	2564	4.93
Wine Into Water	Folk	Nov 5, 2006	1272	5.00
Another Gin & Tonic	Folk	Apr 7, 2006	1625	5.00
co/Baby It's Cold Outside	Jazz	Feb 25, 2007	1519
Rainy Day	Jazz	Apr 22, 2007	1114	4.98
Invisible Dyad #1	Other	Jan 28, 2007	1343	4.99
These Tears (Remix)	World	Jun 18, 2006	1177	4.99
Bees and Birds	Jazz	Dec 6, 2005	1121	4.99
When Tears Rain Down (a collaboration)	Alternative	Feb 8, 2005	498	5.00
co/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	Holiday	Dec 20, 2007	497
Ain't No Way	Other	Dec 15, 2005	659	4.95
New Years Eve Interviews - iCR	Spoken Word	Jan 9, 2008	331	5.00

Title	Artist	Genre	Plays	Rating
Sea Chanty (Ship and the Sea Revisited)	Baboon	Folk	1881	5.00
Strange Fruit	mbehar	Jazz	950	5.00
Jazz on Altair	Lafayette	Jazz	848	4.90
What a Friend We Have In Jesus	TheTiler	Inspirational	2033	5.00
Yodel	lincolnthompson	Folk	711	5.00
Christ and Pilate - Jesus Christ Superstar	icanzilb	Rock	308	5.00
Misty (cover)	JodyG	Jazz	279	5.00
Dance New York Away	JodyG	Jazz	613	5.00