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
Lament	A Cappella	Mar 5, 2006	830	4.96
Smooth As Silk	Jazz	Mar 13, 2006	1285	5.00
Breath	Folk	Mar 4, 2006	555	4.89
Bird	Jazz	May 4, 2006	844	5.00
The Silly Things I Didn't Do Today	Childrens	Sep 9, 2007	304	5.00
Free of Pain	Folk	Apr 10, 2008	158	5.00
I've Been Working on the Railroad	Folk	Apr 1, 2008	232	5.00
The Ballad of Billy and Lily	Childrens	Mar 11, 2006	558	5.00
The Nightingale	Folk	Sep 10, 2006	552	5.00
24/7	A Cappella	Apr 20, 2008	137	5.00
When Monsters Want to Dance	Childrens	Nov 13, 2006	807	5.00
Condemning Me Just to See	Folk	Mar 15, 2008	122	5.00
Nellie G.	Jazz	Apr 28, 2007	282	5.00
Time	Folk	Sep 9, 2006	581	5.00
Never Satisfied	Jazz	Jul 22, 2006	732	5.00
Sleep, My Baby	Childrens	Dec 9, 2007	191	5.00
I've Been Working on the Railroad with Dadai!	Folk	Apr 2, 2008	248	5.00
Hardest Stone	Other	Dec 16, 2007	139	5.00
Beat the Devil	Blues	Sep 10, 2007	226	5.00
I Can't Play the Ukulele	Folk	May 5, 2006	435	5.00
Lullaby For Grown-Ups	Comedy	Mar 17, 2006	976	5.00
I Cut My Flocking Finger With a Knife	Comedy	Jul 9, 2006	522	5.00
The Captain	Folk	Apr 29, 2006	411	4.94
Isolation	Other	Jan 8, 2008	123	4.80
Damsel In Distress	Folk	Feb 3, 2007	298	5.00
At First Sight	Pop	May 6, 2006	405	5.00
The Raven	Other	Mar 7, 2006	460	4.90
Over the Rainbow	A Cappella	Mar 11, 2007	423	5.00
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way	Jazz	Mar 1, 2006	987	4.94
Home on the Range	Folk	Apr 23, 2008	174	5.00
The Greatest Show	Folk	Sep 14, 2006	286	5.00
Aliens Are Dancing on the Milky Way (the music video)	Music Videos	Apr 13, 2006	706	4.92
I Got a Water Pistol Named Betsy	Blues	Mar 16, 2006	624	4.92
The Fool Who Sails	Folk	Mar 8, 2006	819	4.97
Never Feel Alone	Folk	Mar 12, 2006	415	4.75
A Penny For Your Thoughts	Jazz	Mar 6, 2006	1688	4.97
Stand Up	Jazz	Sep 5, 2006	507	5.00
Kumbayana	A Cappella	Jan 7, 2008	182	5.00
Banana Man	Blues	Mar 9, 2006	537	4.92
Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey	Folk	Mar 31, 2008	125	5.00
Tyler O'Toole (remix of One Bad Dude)	Other	Mar 20, 2006	478	4.80
When He Met She	Jazz	Mar 3, 2006	911	4.98
The Mayfly	Folk	Sep 12, 2006	321	5.00
Hot	Jazz	Mar 23, 2006	493	5.00
The Gopher's Lament	Folk	Sep 10, 2006	325	5.00
Rosin the Bow	Folk	Jun 8, 2006	654	4.86
Being Poor	Rock	Jul 7, 2006	476	5.00
I Have a Voice	Inspirational	Mar 30, 2006	465	5.00
These Tears	Folk	May 15, 2006	609	4.84
Love In a Petrie Dish	Jazz	Mar 2, 2006	611	4.92
Seven Men	Folk	Feb 4, 2007	553	5.00
It Ain't Fair 45 RPM	Blues	Mar 10, 2006	772	4.97
Concerto for Kazoo in A Flat Miinor	Comedy	May 18, 2006	448	5.00

Title	Genre	Released	Plays	Rating
Whiskey Neat, Water Back	Rock	Apr 22, 2006	2648	4.93
co/Baby It's Cold Outside	Jazz	Feb 25, 2007	1612
Wine Into Water	Folk	Nov 5, 2006	1324	5.00
These Tears (Remix)	World	Jun 18, 2006	1210	4.99
Rainy Day	Jazz	Apr 22, 2007	1156	4.98
Bees and Birds	Jazz	Dec 6, 2005	1142	4.99
When Tears Rain Down (a collaboration)	Alternative	Feb 8, 2005	515	5.00
co/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	Holiday	Dec 20, 2007	542
Ain't No Way	Other	Dec 15, 2005	688	4.96
Invisible Dyad #1	Other	Jan 28, 2007	1362	4.99
Another Gin & Tonic	Folk	Apr 7, 2006	1690	5.00

Title	Artist	Genre	Plays	Rating
Dance New York Away	JodyG	Jazz	666	5.00
What a Friend We Have In Jesus	TheTiler	Inspirational	2096	5.00
Sea Chanty (Ship and the Sea Revisited)	Baboon	Folk	1947	5.00
Home Town, song for a warrior	bama	Folk	196
Strange Fruit	mbehar	Jazz	1005	5.00
Jazz on Altair	Lafayette	Jazz	877	4.90
Yodel	lincolnthompson	Folk	735	5.00
Misty (cover)	JodyG	Jazz	323	5.00
Christ and Pilate - Jesus Christ Superstar	icanzilb	Rock	330	5.00