This song was written for the 2015 Bio Expo. Entomophagy is the science of eating bugs. This jazzy tune explains all the amazing creepy crawly benefits of snacking on some six legged friends. 

Entomophagy!

A song written for the 2016 NWABR Bio Expo. Colony collapse disorder is a disease affecting bees worldwide. If Apis mellifera (the western honey bee) goes extinct, it could have detrimental effects to the economy, the ecosystem, and our dinner plates. 
Parlin: Voice, Uke
Bragdon Shields: Drums
Edd Key: Bass Uke

Pollination Obliteration

This song was written for the 2014 Bio Expo.

Mermaids: Back to The Sea

Mother and The Moon
Song & lyrics by Parlin Shields
Vocals/Ukulele/Piano/Viola: Parlin Shields
Production/Bass: Edd Key
2016

Mother and The Moon

half empty

My mind is dark, I dive alone.
To write in this room of my own   
A consciousness in solitary   
dreaming of the luminaries

The room has picturesque windows
But you cannot see who comes or goes
There’s no loitering or trips to Spain        
When a sugar drip’s stuck in your vein

So tell me, muse, what will I become?
Heart rhythm beating to my drum
Maslow, Woolf, Bauby, conversate
As they determine my cursed fate

She has her past to remember
Bauby says with hint of pleasure
A “tourist” in this house of sickness
Fiction’s her future I’m sure of this

Maslow laughing, says (eyes wet):
How can she write with no needs met?
Illness plagues a pyramid’s foundation
What fictions come with no food? libation?

Woolf steps forth, annoyed and amused
Gentlemen, are you not through?
This woman has my conviction
She has a room. She can write fiction.

My mind is dark, I dive alone.
To write in this room of my own
A consciousness in solitary
Footsteps of the luminaries

So tell me, muse, what will I become?
Heart rhythm beating to my drum
Maslow, Woolf, Bauby, they decided
Someday I could become a writer

Parlin

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