Twitney Speared — Blues format song about Madonna the Second. Influenced heavily by the blues numbers on the first Led Zeppelin album.
Busy Slowhand — Same as Twitney Speared, with lyrics rewritten for Lindsay Lohan.
Osonofa bitch Laden — Outdated song in some sort of rock format that I haven't been able to identify about Osama bin Laden. This song, needless to say, predates my turning into an extreme liberal hippie freak. (An instrumental piece called "Civilization" leads into this song.)
The Blues in General — Exactly what the title suggests it is. I fail to remember where I got the idea for it. In fact, I've essentially forgotten about this song completely since I've written it.
Talking Daily Routine Blues (Sophomore Year) — A song that I originally wrote as a protest against daily routine, but it eventually turned into a song about my high school. Format follows that of similar songs written and performed by such artists as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and Tom Paxton. (In other words, it's a folkish song.)
Hey, Put Down That Paperclip! — The Story of Lancelot and Elaine. This is the song that first propelled me to local fame when I wrote and performed it for my English class during my sophomore year of high school.
"El Sombrero" Jingle — The next performance I gave after the adventure through Camelot that was "Hey, Put Down That Paperclip!" This was for my Spanish class, and it was supposed to accompany a commercial script for a made-up Mexican restaurant. The script was in the hands of my partner and is most likely long since gone out of existence.
Where Are My Keys? — The average novelty artist meets John Mellencamp. This song is dedicated to all people of the world that suffer from an inability to find their respective sets of keys.
Dipstick — A completely meaningless song that is described in more detail on the page that this link goes to.
Talking Daily Routine Blues (Junior Year) — The sequel to "Talking Daily Routine Blues (Sophomore Year)." There never was a Freshman year song, and, as it happens, there is no Senior year song either. Oh, well.
A New Year's Song for the Central Time Zone — and for the other time zones that get ignored on New Year's. This sort of evolved into a progressive-rock piece, resembling a 3/4 time signature but being a sort of 11/4 signature in reality, with an interlude that totally fails to fit in.
Farshimmelt — The one song I wrote as part of my independent study during my senior year of high school. How many was I supposed to have written? Three? Anyhow, it's yet another song about how gosh dang busy I was. The lyrics are just slightly more cryptic than before, that's all.
The RIAA — Rock style, done on an acoustic guitar, intended for freely sharing over peer-to-peer networks.
Thankstossingontothecouch — A Thanksgiving song. The idea behind the title is that, if my guess is right, many of us don't really give thanks at all. We might be thankful, somewhere in the back of our heads, but, though we have thanks, we don't necessarily give them; we merely toss them onto the couch and turn on the game.
Campustown — After my first semester at UIUC, I reflect on my experience and the mass bureaucracy that I have encountered on the Quad and surrounding area.
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