For this track I was feeling incredibly dysphoric and I wanted folks in Song Fight! to try treating me in a feminine manner. So I came up with the <3 alter-ego.

Unfortunately people figured out it was me pretty quickly and thought I was just trolling them.

Lyrics: Lyrics: Safety in Numbers (2006)

See the little ants walking down the path They don’t know how to do anything, they’re bad at math But a little tiny queen can make some more One and one make two, two and two make four

And then what happens next is the worlds collide When a little tiny ant finds the world inside And the little worker ants can all pass the test They all work together to bring everything back to the nest

And when someone finds out it doesn’t matter The little tiny ants have made the queen get fatter So she can lay her eggs all day So it doesn’t matter when the people get the spray

There are so many ants that they cannot die For every ant that’s in the house there’s two outside All that we can do is let them be Learn to love each other for the world to see

I feel safe without you (without you) I feel safe when I’m with you (when I’m with you) I feel safe when I’m near you (when I’m near you) But I don’t think that I need you (that I need you)

You know what it is like when you are alone Walking in the dark, trying to get home Every little thing that can make a sound Scares you half to death and you look around

YOu cannot help but fear for your life What if somebody is there who has a knife But you know that in your heart you will be okay And that everything will let you live another day

When you get inside you look around Thousands of little black dots are on the ground They go on with life without a care Eating all the food that they find lying there

It is no matter what you do or say Nothing will make the ants ever go away The lesson that we learn is when the day is done The little tiny ants are the ones who have won

I feel safe without you (without you) I feel safe when I’m with you (when I’m with you) I feel safe when I’m near you (when I’m near you) But I don’t think that I need you (that I need you) (I need you) (I need you) (I need you) (I need you) (I need you) (I need you) (I need you)

Originally for Song Fight!, 2024

Song Fight! has been running for a long time; it started in 2000, making it an extremely old website by today’s standards, and it’s probably one of the first and is almost certainly now the longest-running songwriting communities on the Internet.

In 2024, the 1000th title was posted, “A Grand Parade,” and for this we all decided to dig up as many past participants as possible to try to get to 100 songs. We succeeded at this!

At one point I was entering under an alter-ego, <3, a vessel through which I was trying to express some gender-related stuff, and she was pretty popular. So for A Grand Parade I opted to bring her back for another song.

Lyrics: A Grand Parade

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see It’s going to overwhelm and how You will not be very happy

The giant duck is gonna quack And the dogs are gonna bark in back And the Marshall of the big parade Doesn’t care if you feel safe

And the TV man is gonna say It is such a lovely sunny day And I know you want to go out and play But I want you to say inside

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see Why not stay inside and meow? I just want you to be happy

The clowns will juggle and the bands will play And the noise will scare you far away So let’s stay cozy all the day Inside where we are safe

I do not think you will want to be Outside out there away from me So let’s just drink a cup of tea In the morning we will play

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see I am feeling overwhelmed and I just want to be happy

Sometimes I compose music just for the heck of it. This is one of those songs that just kinda popped into my head and I had to make it.

Caroline’s character theme from Full Course.

Caroline was to have an interesting story arc, and was going to have two character theme songs because of one of her traits. This particular song is for her extrovert mode (“Candy”), and was inspired by modern anime music. Its working title was “Every Anime Themesong.”

She also had an introvert mode, “Strawberry,” although I never started work on that theme before the game was canceled.

Used in the game SHADOW PUNKS (https://potentialproductions.itch.io/shadowpunks)

Game: Shadow Punks

Used in the game SHADOW PUNKS (https://potentialproductions.itch.io/shadowpunks)

Game: Shadow Punks

Used in the game SHADOW PUNKS (https://potentialproductions.itch.io/shadowpunks)

Game: Shadow Punks

Written when the election results came in :D

Lyrics: Don’t Let The Door Hit You

Don’t let the door hit you on your way out We all know you are going to just scream and shout Take it back to Twitter with your remaining clout, don’t let the door hit you on your way out

At least half of the nation is so sick of you You are so much worse than the “just a flu” Nobody cares what you’re going to do, don’t let the door hit you on your way out

The past four years have been a tragedy And we have a long way to go we can all see To get a better world for you and me Well maybe not for you

Don’t let the door hit you on your way out We’re better off without you without a doubt Twitter says they’ll ban you so just quietly pout, and let the door hit you on your way out

like something from a vidya game

It all goes downhill from here

Game: Wet Rave

At this point I was just completely falling apart, due to basically going through menopause and feeling worthless, useless, and futureless.

I had been without hormones for a week and a half and my emotions were all over the place. Everything would set me off and I would cry and I was not in a good spot. So I wrote this thing to capture my feelings.

I started composing a tango song but it just wasn’t coming out very well. So I scrapped it and worked on a second take for the day.

I was spending way, way too much time reading Twitter instead of doing anything productive. The senseless repetitive noise of everything around me was more than I could take.

I was feeling aimless from my recent health issues, and felt like nothing was going anywhere and nothing was worth doing anymore.

Shout out to the Cupcake Royale in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, and the restroom cooling fan that was making this really cool grinding noise.

(It has since been fixed.)

I decided to make some disorganized fun.