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Saturday night, Emily and I put on our fancy duds and headed out to enjoy the only worthwhile nightlife in our town...
christmas with the fam
December 23, 2003
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You know him, you love him. Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together and give a warm welcome to Chi-Chi's Mexican Mall Strip's very own, Music Man Jo-Jo Russell! (Yo, y'all may remember Jo Jo from entries like "Thanksgiving 2002," the good news is, his long-promised website is finally up and running!)
christmas with the fam
December 23, 2003
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...Saturday night karaoke at Chi-Chi's Mexican Strip Mall restaurant. Holla!
christmas with the fam
December 23, 2003
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...totally passed the fuck out. Sarah went over to seranade her and when she didn't wake up for that, we knew there was trouble to be had.
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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So while Sarah was in the middle of singing, we all noticed that some girl sitting off to the side had...
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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The Eiffel Tower of Power!
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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Sid & Buddy go swimming!
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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The Trouble Twins strike again.
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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Tee-hee-hee!
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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Meanwhile, back on stage, here's Liz Reich about to pop her Cherryoke!
a karaoke christmas
December 22, 2003
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With a little backup help from Matt, oops, I mean Sid.
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December 22, 2003
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Sarah and Matt.
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December 22, 2003
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Candy and a friend doing a duet. See that girl in the background with her fist up in the air? Remember her! She's about to turn into the STAR of this entry!).
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December 22, 2003
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Candy rokking the mic
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December 22, 2003
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This is Liz's crazy friend Jen singing with Buddy.
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December 22, 2003
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Jaime on tha mic.
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December 22, 2003
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Colin and Shady Chiara.
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December 22, 2003
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Buddy and Sid as the White Stripes. (Buddy's Meg gets me so hard.)
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December 22, 2003
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Frank Picarazzi on the mic kicking the night off.
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December 22, 2003
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Mike B.
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December 22, 2003
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Crowd shot.
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December 22, 2003
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Right when we'd gotten to the bar, there were a few girls that came over to us because they could tell that we "weren't from around there." We chatted them up for awhile until we noticed that it was causing all of the guys in the room to give us the stinkeye. As the night pressed on and some of those guys started getting drunker and giving us the stink eye again, we decided it would probably be best to quit while we were ahead and call it a night. We snuck out right in the middle of a slow jam. Farewell, Coarse Gold!
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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Here's me repping for the home state...
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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Fatty was up first with Huey Lewis' "I Want a New Drug."
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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...and refugee groupies from the 80s! Awwww, yeah! (This lady was awesome - she was totally all over Fatty. Fatty was laughing, but at the same time he was all nervous because she was there with a bunch of scary looking dudes. Check out how Fatty's all got his arms up in the air like "I'm not touching her, see? She is the one touching me!")
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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...and giving love a bad name.
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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Complete with air guitar and leg kicks.
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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The wasabi got us all fiesty because the next thing you know, we'd driven 25 mintues to nearby Coarse Gold, CA in search of the legendary Friday night karaoke party we'd heard about from the locals. Yep, you heard me right. KARAOKE!
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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For some reason this is the only pic I have of Grant singing...see him there in the background? Look carefully, I know it's hard to see him behind the group of people who actually got up out of their seats and started doing a FUCKING KICKLINE to the end of his incredible rendition of Frank's "New York, New York." (People from California got up and kicklined to "New York, New York" sung by a Brit. Think about that.)
trip to cali part 4: the circle w ranch
December 18, 2003
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Night moves.
back to back sid & buddy karaoke
November 19, 2003
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Happy boy.
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November 19, 2003
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Hahahah. Holy hot wife, batman!
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November 19, 2003
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After a few stiff drinks, our fawn-lashed friend finally had enough liquid courage in him to get up on stage and pop his cherryoke (pronounced to rhyme with karaoke).
back to back sid & buddy karaoke
November 19, 2003
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Emily and Bevery Chase (Class Wit '95). I'm using Bev's full name here with the hopes that any time some one googles her name, the whole "Class Wit" thing will show up next to it.
back to back sid & buddy karaoke
November 19, 2003
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The Say It Ain't So Weezer duet.
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November 19, 2003
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Christina Alessi is hands down one of the best singer's I've ever heard. She literally silenced the crowd with her fucking amazing version of Skid Row's "18 & Life." (Which in trying to follow in her footsteps has since become a karaoke staple of mine).
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November 19, 2003
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Get a load of that guy popping his cherryoke!
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November 19, 2003
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Emily sang a lil' diddy...
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November 19, 2003
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...and then stayed on stage to provide some much-needed back-up dancer augmentation to this guy's weak-ass jam.
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November 19, 2003
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Miye wasn't ready to brave the karaoke stage solo, so I helped ease her on in by teaming up for a duet. She spent more time sucking down her drink than she did singing.
back to back sid & buddy karaoke
November 19, 2003
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With Leila having left the stage to get back her make out, Sid was forced to break out the big guns in order to hold the audience's attention. That's right: COSTUME TIME! He enlisted Dan to be his lil' Meg White and represented with a kick-ass version of The White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl."
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November 19, 2003
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With only a rock-inspired lip-curl Jamie managed to....
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November 19, 2003
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Deep inside I know you feel it too.
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November 19, 2003
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...summon Leila back up onstage to accompany him with some "rock slut" dancing during his amazing version of the classic Mr. Big metal ballad "To Be With You."
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November 19, 2003
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Leila took a quick break from her make out sesh to writhe and gratuitously cup her breasts next to me on stage while I sang. Thanks for that, hon. Motley Crue karaoke just isn't the same without a girl on the stage touching herself and shimmying suggestively.
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November 19, 2003
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Matt & Jesse (aka - Sid & Primetime).
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November 19, 2003
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Trouble Twins: The Duet. Actually, come to think of it, I don't even think they sang at all - mostly they just danced all drrrrrty up in each others' booties.
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November 19, 2003
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Having failed to properly woo Chiara, Ed bought the entire bar three more rounds of shots (I'm not kidding, he really did) and then tried his schtick all over again on Leila.
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November 19, 2003
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And then suddenly, the shots got the better of Leila and she started getting all fresh with Ed - tugging at his luggage and whatnot (The momentary look on confusion on Ed's face as he tried to figure out if she kidding around or not quickly turned to indifference as he realized "Hey, either way some cute chick's tugging at my carrot.") Then, just as Leila was about to give Ed some full-on mouth kissing, Chira shut things down with a strategically placed hand.
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November 19, 2003
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Jamie Kirkpatrick on the mic warming things up with his tender rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Signed Sealed & Delivered."
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November 19, 2003
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Yet again! As soon as she see's someone hold up a camera, *poof*, she hides.
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November 19, 2003
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Jesse "Primetime" Sullivan gives Emily the sneaky karaoke duet boob grab. Ta-dow!
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November 19, 2003
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Me flanked by Leila and Chiara (aka - "The Trouble Twins") I sang, um, something. (See how Chiara's hiding again?)
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November 19, 2003
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Big Ed seranading Chiara (who always does her best to hide from my camera).
back to back sid & buddy karaoke
November 19, 2003
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And then came the PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE, the asian man in a blonde wig. So choice.
the november roundup
November, 2003
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Buddy & Sid enjoying the action.
the november roundup
November, 2003
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Then his pants. Somewhere along the lines a sailor hat, a life saver and an egg beater (yep, see it stuck down the front of his pants there?) entered the mix.
the november roundup
November, 2003
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After Lit, I headed over to Nolita Tavern for some Sid & Buddy karaoke action where I bore witness to my man Kyle fall victim to one of the most outrageous girlie-attacks I've ever seen. First they stripped his shirt.
the november roundup
November, 2003
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Monday November 10th marked the official end of my two and a half years of employment at Spring Street Networks, an online dating company that I left nerve.com to help get off the ground. I had been talking to my boss about leaving for a while, but when I got back from vacation, things came to head sooner than I expected and I found myself a free agent. (Don't worry, don't worry - after five months of traveling and goofing off, I've since taken a new job).
the november roundup
November, 2003
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And then she topped it by doing the best interpretive dance I've ever seen of Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69."
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Dani & Chris.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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I'm guessing this had to be a Van Halen song? (Check out Fatty pretending to play his guitar around Grant like he's in a Poison video. Hahaha.).
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Yes, Hallelujah! It's raining men!
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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With special guest backing vocals by Dani.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Grant closed out the night with the hands-down best version of "New York, New York" I've ever heard. Holy shit.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Group shot.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Here's Fatty singing "It's Raining Men."
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Charlene.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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There really wasn't anything you could have expected me to do! It was, in fact, a total eclipse of the heart. So just turn around, bright eyes! Ok?
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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So a little after 1am we cut out of the Kingly Club and headed over to the "sushi bar." The place was closed, but the door was open. We walked in an were greated by a Japanese guy who eyed us suspiciously. I took the lead, "We're hear for the, ummm, you know" as I nodded my head knowingly in the direction of the 2nd floor. He played dumb, "I don't know what you're talking about." So I gave him the ol' reassuring "Of course you know what I'm talking about" smile with another vigorous, knowing nod towards upstairs.

He considered us for a few seconds and then turned around and looked toward another guy who'd appeared in the back of the restaurant. The man in the back gave him a single nod, and suddenly, a curtain was whisked back to reveal a stairway. The 2nd floor! We'd been granted access! Here's Grizzle kicking off the karaoke festivities with some Bowie.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Unless I can see the words on the monitor, I have no idea what anybody's singing in any of these pictures - so I'm just going to make it up. Here's Chris singing "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.
european vacation part 5: reunited with grant.
October 22, 2003
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Rachael and I doing a duet.
the day before vacation
October 16, 2003
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I'm going to guess it was either "Gloria" or "Cum On Feel Tha Noize."
the day before vacation
October 16, 2003
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By the look on my face in both of these I was singing something very high.
the day before vacation
October 16, 2003
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I think we were singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart."
the day before vacation
October 16, 2003
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"Thank you and goodnight, New York City. We'll be back in just a few weeks."
the day before vacation
October 16, 2003
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Candy's so good at Karaoke that everytime she sings I get all excited and when I get excited I just start snapping tons of pictures. So I have all these pictures of Candy looking like this, just all relaxed and singing. Yeah.
the october roundup
October, 2003
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Here's Buddy playing a guitar solo on some girl's leg. Hahahaha.
the october roundup
October, 2003
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Sarah downstairs at only her 2nd time singing karaoke!
the october roundup
October, 2003
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Hahahahahahahahaha.
karaoke blowout
September 21, 2003
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...back to Emily (where it have that little extra oomph to her "Hit Me With Your Best Shot")...
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September 21, 2003
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Here's Jamie singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" - and somewhere in the middle of the song, someone just handed me the most memorable children's toy in recent years...The Giant Hulk Fist.
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September 21, 2003
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Hahahaha. Grant wins for braining Matt (ps - what's with your lumpy nuts, dude? You should probably get that looked at.)
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September 21, 2003
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Jamie Kirkpatrick, yo.
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September 21, 2003
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...then over to Matt who proceeded to use it to get his Hulk-jerk on. After that, the line had pretty much been crossed and no one wanted to wear it anymore. Hulk-jerk? I mean, come on.
karaoke blowout
September 21, 2003
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Eighteen and life, YOU'VE got it.
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September 21, 2003
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Look! It's Laurie Choi! aka - Chitty Chitty BangChoi! (Who actually made her last diary appearance way back in October of 1999!) Welcome back!
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September 21, 2003
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What's better than one Choi? TWO CHOIS! (But please keep in mind, it's still pronounced "choy" even though it looks all French and makes you want to say "Schwa!") That's right, Laurie's little sister (and local NYU student) Jen is actually seen here earning herself bonus points in my book for busting out the robot whilst rocking the karaoke mic.
karaoke blowout
September 21, 2003
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Grant and Lo (what were you guys singing, either of you remember?)
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September 21, 2003
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M-L-E on the M-I-C!
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September 21, 2003
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Em & Lo! (Emma's really good at hiding behind the microphone).
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September 21, 2003
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Here's us kicking off the night right with a duet of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
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September 21, 2003
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Tara actually drank enough to be coerced up on stage to sing (and the hat? Well, she's from Texas, she'd probably wear that hat to church sober).
karaoke with seth
September 02, 2003
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Seth slayed the audiece with kick-ass version of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."
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September 02, 2003
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Matt Lesser and Colin.
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September 02, 2003
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Same goes for this one.
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September 02, 2003
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Yep, and this one too. (Although, now that I think about it, I think we all might have been singing the four-part back up bit to Aerosmith's "Love In An Elevator" in these last two.)
karaoke with seth
September 02, 2003
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I don't even remember what Frank sang (which again, is why I either need to start taking notes or not wait 3 months before I try to caption these pics), but take a look at his face and you'll probably agree that the song is irrelevant.
karaoke with seth
September 02, 2003
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Grant took the stage and poured some sugar all over us (don't worry, it was in the name of love).
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September 02, 2003
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It was super early, but I decided to pop in and say hi to Sid and Buddy in the basement. Buddy told me that he wanted to me to see if my new camera was fast enough the capture his new, "flaming hand" pyrotechnic toy. (Because, hey, pyrotechnics takes karaoke to a whole new level). Here he is...ready...
the september roundup part two
September, 2003