karaoke awesomeness

[faceless_wonder]

last night was a really strange night out at karaoke.

first, we started at victory. i sang two songs there..."ugly" by the exies and "my heart will go on" by celine dion. i had never done "ugly" before, and it went better than i thought i did. for some reason i thought the song was in a lower register. i don't know if the song is just higher than i thought, or if the karaoke track was a few steps sharp [i suspect the latter], but either way i wasn't straining to hit the low notes, so that was good.

even though my singing went fairly well, the crowd was awful. there were only a couple people there who were even paying attention to karaoke; the vast majority of people there were just these packs of yuppies drinking beer and ignoring everything that was not going on at their tables. they didn't even do the perfunctory courtesy of clapping when people finished singing songs. if we're in a big enough group of karaoke singers, sometimes that's not a huge problem. however, last night was not such a night, since the only people who went out to sing were foofy_attorney and i. no one else came out, but we still went since i've been out of town so much and am going back out again...it was good to go out, sing some karaoke, and actually see the foof for once. we decided to cut our losses and go over to friar tuck, a karaoke bar a little over half a mile northeast of victory. we usually only do friar tuck on thursdays, but they also have karaoke on wednesdays.

on the walk, a little bit of unintentional hilarity ensued. i was on the phone with rob_t_firefly, and the first couple of minutes of that conversation involved quite a bit of relaying the foof's barbs at me and rob's responses to such barbs at me. finally, the foof and rob had come to the conclusion that they were "nameless male friend of nicky's #1" and "nameless male friend of nicky's #2." they then simultaneously posited the idea that they should start a club. talk about great minds thinking alike. both of those guys crack me up so much...there's a reason that one of them is my best friend, and one of them is my boyfriend. seriously, they need to meet face-to-face sometime, because i think they'd get along swimmingly.

friar tuck was far better. the karaoke jockey had gotten pages and pages of new songs since the last time we had been there, which was exciting. song selection has always been friar tuck's drawback...the crowd is usually good, and the karaoke jockey is amazing. but, the song selection is far smaller than victory's. it's still not quite as big, but she added a ton.

at friar tuck last night, i did "chasing cars" by snow patrol and "amish paradise" by weird al yankovic. i have sung both of those songs before, but i don't think i've done either one since at least last summer, so it was fun to do them again. still, several quite entertaining things happened at friar tuck:

1. i sang pretty soon after i got to friar tuck. then, the foof went. after he sang, i saw a rather familiar person come up to sing: specifically, the hiring partner at the law firm where i'm starting work next month. it wasn't a shock to see him out singing karaoke, since i know he likes karaoke about as much as i like karaoke. however, i had never run into a co-worker, much less a superior, when i was out with my friends before. it was okay...we said hello, exchanged pleasantries, and then went back to our relative groups of friends. it wasn't as strange or as nerve-racking as i expected it would be to run into someone from work when out...but still, a little odd.
2. out of nowhere, one of our friends showed up. it was hilarious...the foof was a little out of it, using his ipod to refresh his memory of a song he was about to sing. he had stepped outside of the bar so he could actually hear the song. as he comes back in, i see another friend of ours chasing him, trying to get his attention. it was a lot of fun, though...i hadn't seen dan in a couple weeks, so it was great to hang out with him again.
   
3. later in the evening, someone came up and sang "yoda" by weird al yankovic. i was reading along to the karaoke track, as i frequently do when someone is singing a song that i recognize but don't necessarily know all the words to. occasionally, the spelling is not the best, and this was quite possibly my favourite example of that, ever. at one point, the lyrics screen referred to "obi juan." i point this out to the foof...who, after paroxysms of laughter, musters up his best darth vader voice and starts demanding to "bring me his non-union mexican counterpart."

all in all, a fabulous night out.

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Get it? Friar Tuck's?

[squelch84.livejournal.com]

Funny story about Friar Tuck's.
Several years ago, while I was single, I met this girl who had some pretty decent taste in music, but lacked a certain amount of common sense. She was a sweet girl, had a really good sense of style, but was a few cents short of a buck.
I didn't realize this early on, because it really wasn't that apparent. She invited me out to karaoke at Friar Tuck's and honestly, until that moment, I had no idea what it was or where it was, but I'm a smart ass, so I said "Oh, you mean the drag queen bar?"
She paused for a second and said "it's a drag queen bar?"
I had inadvertently convinced her that Friar Tuck's was a drag queen bar. I didn't bother to tell her otherwise, because I assumed she'd figure it out on her own. No such luck. I think she probably still thinks it's a drag queen bar.

Re: Get it? Friar Tuck's?

[faceless-wonder.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA.

that's amazing. i approve.