I wrote this song way back in 2001 hating living in the urban city of Toronto and craving a more simple life without the crushing burden of capitalism

Simplicity (2001)

I wrote this song way back in 2001 after a break up and love being sad sometimes and embracing bohemian self inflicted sadness so decided to call it "Irish Love song" for some reason...

Irish Love Song (2001)

Like many people that didn't get the love and attention I needed as a child, it's been a lifelong addiction to get that unrequited love.  But since we attract the same, a curse.  Another break up song of course!

Love Is A Drug I have to Quit (2001)

An old song from University reflecting falling in love with philosophy, the theory of relativity and just having fun in my room with my toys.

Vanishing Point (1997)

An old song from University about knowing the world is going to shit, not being able to do anything about it, trying to embrace it, and hope that after the storm there will be calm.  Uploading this in 2023 I'd say the storm is here.

Raging for the Storm (1997)

A song I wrote and then worked on lyrics and recorded with my friend Patrick Donovan who also produced it.  Mostly reflecting on friends slipping away into bizarre jobs and alcohol and loneliness.

Ministry of Defense (2006)

A song about recognizing we are attracted to the familiar even if it's unhealthy, learning to be self aware, self compassionate, and maybe one day being able to love one's self instead of seeking out negative relationships that repeat the pain of our childhood.  There's also an homage to the "House of the Rising Sun" and a plea to listen to children

Neurotique (2003)

A song about the tail end of a relationship where unrequited love turns into a rotting and festering piece of your body you want to cut out with a sharp knife.  I pictured a religious sacrificial ceremony on a hill in part due to reading a fabulous satire on religion called "Not Wanted on the Voyage" by Canadian author Timothy Findley.

Meet Me At the Alter (2008)

The equivalent of that song about women "if you want to be be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife" but for women.  Busy narcissistic men obsessed with their careers do not make for good dates or boyfriends.  I took off on one several times having a bad sense, and later found out I was even smarter than I thought.

Too Busy For Me (2011)

A song about another broken relationship with a not so great guy and reminding myself to walk away.

Walk Away (2010)

My pop song about having what should have been a one night stand with the celebrity Moby who picked me up in Miami when I was hired to film him.  It would have just been a good story but he wanted to keep in touch with me, make me fall in love with him despite having zero actual interest in me other than another body to use, and generally treated me like shit.  But as I learned, many celebrities are just very lonely narcissists who want more fans.  This is my friend Patrick Donovan's remix of my original song.

One Night in Miami (2008)

A song about how we keep fighting each other, are encouraged to fight each other, spend a huge portion of government budgets fighting each other, and meanwhile are the same.  I really dislike religion which causes so much suffering and death in the world, when most religions are the same only using different names.

Over Names (2005)

I wrote this in 2003 working at a big Corporation that didn't take young people and especially young women seriously.  My friend and musician Eric Andrews added a bunch of stuff to it in 2018 and here it is for you!  It feels timely and helps me stay positive in these dark times.

Persistence (2001)

Written depressed at an office, fearing for the future.  Especially another Hitler type arising, hence the radio clip.  These are all so rough of course this is just a demo, but I like my sloppy "no one is ever going to hear this" approach now.  And I feared what started happening in 2016 15 years prior since history repeats itself if we don't care enough to learn from it or actually hold governments accountable.

2001 Recordings

Smarten Up (2001)

I wrote and recorded this immediately after getting home from the Anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Quebec City in 2001.  I recorded the whole thing in stereo sound and added the background soundscape.  It was the first time in my life I realized the police could be there to protect institutions over people.  I wasn't used to that in Canada!  I had a cold and recorded it really rough but like that desperate sound.  It still saddens me how much these protests were shut down after Sept 11th since they were suddenly "terrorism."  Meanwhile who are the real terrorists out there?

Lyrics:

I got gassed by the government
For going to “America’s Summit”

I got gassed for trying to go uphill
To see what’s going on behind the wall
They call “democracy”
They say we’re all free
So long as we don’t exercise our freedom

Oh Quebec City, you are so pretty…
Sorry to see you become a warzone
But our politicians are dining with the top 500 CEOs
Making agreements that we don’t condone

If this is democracy why was there a wall
Around a private society on top of a hill?
Guarded by riot police armed with tear gas
Shooting it down the hill so no one can ask
“What’s going on?  What happened to our rights?
Why am I choking on tear gas, I didn’t come here to fight
I came here to say loud and clear that I do not want you here
I didn’t vote for this, and I didn’t vote for you dear.”  

The tears of democracy fall
The tears of democracy sting

Tears of Democracy (2001)

The instrumental version of a song I recorded for a movie called "Her Last Will" which I also prop mastered.  This excited me to record this as I haven't done anything instrumental.  I just sang vocals over this too so I didn't record the vocal one properly since I liked this one so much.  I would love to record this professionally with or without vocals and build on the arrangement.

"Heroine" Instrumental version of song for Film "Her Last Will" (2016)

Vocal version of a song I recorded for the Lifetime movie "Her Last Will" which I also prop mastered.  I started writing this song 8 years earlier when I took piano lessons and the teacher asked me to write a song in a different key.  At the time I was going through a break up and feeling the brunt of both sides of trying to let go while someone was also not wanting me to let them go.  Relationships are sad, but we can focus on the good times we had.  I'd love to record this properly as it was a home recording as usual (complete with closet vocals!).

"Heroine" from the film "Her Last Will" (2016)

I wrote this song after landing my first job at a corporation after University.  I was dying to work at the CBC and finally got what I wanted, only to be told to sit at a desk with a stapler, be given barely any work, paid no attention to, and meanwhile I had just graduated University a year earlier with my brain and ambition pumped.  We live in a mad, mad world.  And this is my sad, sad song.  Very rough like all of them of course... but happy to at least put up there in the cloud!

In The Corporation (2001)

Here are some songs I've written and recorded.  I played keyboards and sang in the bands "Light FM" and "Love Grenades" in Los Angeles as well.  One day I'll have my own performing band, but I'm also busy working in the art department on movies, painting, I made a documentary called "Democracy 4 Dummies", and I love hanging out with friends and drinking beer.  Like many, I mostly record when I'm sad and lonely and luckily have been happier as of late.  Hope you enjoy my music!

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