Alphabetically arranged for your convenience after the cut. So no, I haven’t written a song on all conceivable topics, but I certainly have given it a fucking whirl, in the immortal words of Doc on Deadwood.
Advice
Back troubles
Bad boss
Bad boys
Beer making
being annoyed with a friend
Being broke
Bela Lugosi
birthdays
Breastfeeding
Buffy the Vampire Slayer song
camping
Caturday
Celebrity culture
Climate change
Compost
Contemporary mores
Cougars – 2 legged variety
Crackerbarrel philosophy
Crushing on someone
Cynicism
Deadwood (the show)
Death
Depression
Dr. Who (not a fan song, quite the opposite)
drinking songs (rather an uncomfortable number)
Drug use
Dunnett characters
Ecology
Eliot set to music
Exile
fantasy
Feeling unsociable
Filk and filking
Firefly
Freedom
Game of Thrones (tv show and books)
Gardens
Golden Rule
Gossip
Gratitude
Halloween
Harry Potter
Having a poop at work
Homage to Joss Whedon
Homage to my dead brother in law
Housework
Hymns
Immigrating
Instrumental about a common Vancouver phenomenon
instrumental about wreck beach
instrumental invoking LOTR
instrumental re Game of Thrones
instrumental triggered by a friend’s livejournal post
(and dozens of more instrumentals)
invective
Irritation with the world in general
Job hunting
Life, the universe and everything
Making beer
Marriage
Memorial for broken dreams
Memorial for my dad’s dad.
memorial for Willie P Bennett
Memorial to Canadian coal miners
Memorial tribute to John Caspell/filking
Middle age
Motherhood
My one attempt at arena rock
My response to being told I wasn’t as good a songwriter as Bob Dylan
My version of ‘it gets better’
Napping
nonsense songs
Ontario application for mental health status review set to music
Our starscape
Performance evaluations
Pirates GTD
Poem from Dunnett novel set to music
Polyamory
Protest songs
Relationship ends (many)
Relationship is going well (many)
relationship starts
relationship difficulties (many)
Religion
Rodney King
Rome (the series)
safe sex
Selkies
Sex in outer space
Sexytime (various)
song for my brother
Stargate SG1 (many)
Stay in school
Staycations
Suicide (written when a fellow congregant killed himself some years ago)
summer job
Tapioca
Teenaged incoherence
Testosterone
The end of the world
The moon
The State of the World
Theme song for a non existent show (many)
This too shall pass
Tickling
Tributes (many)
Trolls
Various attempts to sound like various other composers
Vorkosigan song
Wake up
What I sing when somebody tells me they need to pee
worklife
Wreck Beach
Yeats set to music
Zombies