Landsailor
“Landsailor” isn’t my favorite Vienna Teng song.
Musically, it’s pretty simple, especially compared to some of her other work. There’s some clever lyrical twists—actually, there’s a whole pile of metaphors and allusions, which I appreciate—but again, no more than I’d expect from her. Compared to what seemed like shocking variety on the rest of the album, her first in years, “Landsailor” felt forgettable.
"Better Than This" (Waitress fansong)
I saw Waitress for the first time last April, the hit musical about, uh, flawed relationships and unwanted pregnancy, with upbeat, poppy music by Sara Bareilles. At the time, one of my biggest…not complaints, exactly, but something…was that it was never explicitly acknowledged how crappy the men that both Jenna (the main character) and her coworker/friend Dawn have relationships with.
So I wrote this. I wrote it the next day, actually, but never got around to recording it until January, and didn’t finishing editing it together until now. Here’s a demo of “Better Than This”, to be performed by Jenna’s other coworker/friend Becky.
"In Our Eyes" (RWBY fansong)
Last year I was really into RWBY, an animated web series I’ve described as “a show about a magical girl combat college (there are boys there too)”. Part of my draw was a strong idea for a fanfiction story about the main characters’ parents, of which we’ve only gotten intriguing hints in canon. (I did end up writing this story; it’s called “Don’t Be Expecting Some Kind Of Happy Ending”.)
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- 2019-01-13 Do What U Want
- 2018-11-11 "Red Planet Nocturne" (sad piano)
- 2018-08-04 "Smoke and Guns"
- 2018-03-07 "Maybe Maybe"
- 2018-03-03 "I Don't Belong To You" (WIP)
- 2018-01-06 "Artist Anthem"
- 2017-12-24 "Once Again"
- 2017-12-09 "False Hopes" (DDLC 5)
- 2017-10-15 "Mirror Mirror"
- 2017-03-31 Dogsong Variations
- 2017-03-26 "Remember Me" (plus sketches)
- 2017-03-11 "Rescue My Heart" (WIP)
- 2017-03-10 "Future" (from Umineko: When They Cry)
- 2016-12-04 "Shining Armor"
- 2016-09-25 "Love The Way You Lie"
- 2016-09-06 "Colorless Sneer"
- 2016-04-10 "Soulless Pacifist"
- 2016-03-27 "Umi no Shita Kara"
- 2016-03-13 "Just the Same"
- 2016-02-05 "UseRoaming no"
- 2016-01-10 "Lapis Lazuli" (Steven Universe)
- 2015-09-12 That One Time
- 2015-09-08 "Let Her Cry"
- 2015-06-06 "In My Veins"
- 2015-03-29 Hell, Backpack, Pokémon
- 2015-03-27 "Motion Sickness"
- 2015-03-14 "Making Tracks"
- 2015-03-02 "Superfish"
- 2015-01-04 "Generations"
- 2014-10-12 "Shellshock"
- 2014-09-27 "Nega Jordy" (the song)
- 2014-09-21 Nothing serious
- 2014-09-15 Sweet Swift Sleep
- 2014-09-14 "I Saw You In The Shop"
- 2014-09-02 In the Abyss
- 2014-08-13 "Nothing to See Here"
- 2014-07-04 "Heartbleeder"
- 2014-05-25 "Ordinary Moment"
- 2014-03-30 NaCreSoMo "CubeQuest" & Pompeii/Daughter
- 2014-03-15 "Guard the Right"
- 2014-03-14 "goto fail"
- 2014-03-04 "Come Back Home"
- 2014-03-03 Negative Space
- 2013-12-01 "Everything's Alright"
- 2013-09-07 This Is How We Burn
- 2013-08-19 "Nothing Left of Heaven"
- 2013-07-20 "Beautiful"
- 2013-05-25 "My Rabbit Has Four Ears"
- 2013-05-12 "All for You"
- 2013-03-12 本当の大人 (Hontou no Otona)
- 2013-03-08 "Promise"
- 2013-03-02 仕方 (Shikata)
- 2013-01-26 "Twenty-Five Ways to Die"
- 2012-12-21 "Love from the Linden Tree"
- 2012-12-08 "Ugly"
- 2012-09-30 A Postcard from the Pleiades
- 2012-09-27 I Wish You Would
- 2012-09-20 Treading Water
- 2012-09-18 Gumdrops
- 2012-09-01 Blue Air, Sitting Lazily
- 2012-02-11 "City Hall"
- 2011-12-04 "Don't Cry"
- 2011-01-13 I Just Had Lunch
- 2010-12-27 Just Maximizing My Utility Function
- 2010-12-25 if i comment on this, without even bothering to read the other comments, something great will happen to me.
- 2010-12-24 Gradient-Colored Douglas Firs
- 2010-12-17 The 10-dollar tricksters
- 2010-12-10 Dotting the Eyes
- 2010-04-11 Wedding Dress
- 2010-04-11 Bad Romance
- 2008-12-13 Sleep
- 2008-02-18 One Semester