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me57
grant36
sid and buddy33
!strangers23
!best18
candy18
matt lesser18
!duet16
!bachelor party15
frank15
seth14
ellen s12
carol11
emily11
!105 bowery10
jamie k10
kanue10
larson10
sarah10
matt l9

karaoke — Duet time!

karaoke — ...aerial magick.

karaoke — As always, Grant treated the crowd to a little...

karaoke — Crowd shot. (Hi there, foxy girl in the grey sweatshirt! Rowr!)

karaoke — While Jake was shaving his giant, hairy nuts - Grant and I headed over to Lit for Colin's late night basement karaoke.

karaoke — Making new karaoke friends. While we were there we also managed to make friends with...

karaoke — This guy was a fucking karaoke god.

karaoke — Okay, I'll keep them at a minimum though, mmmmkay?

karaoke — The answer, of course, is yes!

karaoke — Right as we were finishing up our meal, the staff turned on a TV in the corner and started busting out Thai karaoke jams! Seth was like "Hey, karaoke! I could do a little karaoke, you?"

karaoke — Birthday boy duet.

karaoke — This guy is Mike D's friend Ethan. He's fucking awesome. (He reminded me a lot of my good friend David - except he looks even more like Jeff Bridges - so I instantly liked him).

karaoke — ...the karaoke jams were kicked. Michael and NJ (it's her name, not the state).

karaoke — ...CHINATOWN BIRTHDAY KARAOKE! Woooo! Now we're talking! We headed over to some little narrow dive right down the street and...

karaoke — No duet is complete unless I can manage to "back that thang up" a little bit.

karaoke — After she was finished, I suggested we team up for a "new roomie" duet. She was like "Sure! Do you know "Total Eclipse of the Heart?" I played it cool, "Yeah, I think I might've heard that song once or twice. Let's give it a shot, I can always just wing it." (Hahahah.)

karaoke — The vein-popping finale.

karaoke — (Grizza, you have any idea what we sang?)

karaoke — Late night (and noticably drunk at this point) Grant and I sang a duet.

karaoke

karaoke — Hahahaha.

karaoke — Frank never fails to deliver.

karaoke — "Ok, ROCK!"

karaoke — Frank Picarazzi took the stage for one of his rare karaoke appearances. "Are you all ready to rock?"

karaoke — Amy on the mic.

karaoke — ...MLE on the karaoke mic.

karaoke — Which I'm guessing I probably followed up with Laura Brannigan's Gloria.

karaoke — ...Grant took to the karaoke stage.

karaoke — But the nature of the move busted in this picture I'm going to guess he was singing Rick James' Superfreak.

karaoke — Lorelei and I doing another duet. (Girl, where you been? We're so overdue for a karaoke date).

karaoke — Emily and Kristie representing on the RHS Choir tip (Classic Sounds, lemme hear ya!).

karaoke — How about Ellen flashing her awesome pink panties while singing Led Zep at karaoke?

karaoke — What's better than Ellen singing Led Zep at karaoke?

karaoke — Leah and Sarah.

karaoke — Hahahah. Something tells me this might have been "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights."

karaoke — Lorelei and I kicked off the festivities with a duet. (By the way, I'm writing these caption in May of 2005, almost a year later so I pretty much have no idea what song anyone was singing in these pics).

karaoke — Hahaha.

karaoke — Group karaoke! Adam Mandell, Brother Lawrence and Smellsgood Gina on back-up vox with Sarah taking the part of cheerleading dancer.

karaoke — When you're following Grant on the karaoke stage, you always gotta bring out the crowd pleasers.

karaoke — The night ending with a group sing-a-long of...

karaoke — ...Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

karaoke — Meredith on the mic.

karaoke — After Red & Black, we walked over to Blu Lounge to visit Sid who was hosting karaoke in Brooklyn that night.

karaoke — So a little later on in the night, this guy got called up to sing. He took the stage, but Matt accidentally started playing the wrong song. Instead of correcting Matt this (incredibly drunk) guy ripped off his shirt and started screaming along to the song (that he clearly didn't know at all).

karaoke — On Thursday night Grant, Meredith and I went over to the basement of Remote for karaoke. Here's Ellen on the mic tearing up some Zeppelin.

karaoke — Birthday girl closing out the night with the second to last song.

karaoke — Group singalong. ("Don't Stop Believing" if I recall correctly).

karaoke — Here's Meredith, the birthday girl.

karaoke — Gavin with the fierceness.

karaoke — Striking a fancy, just stepped out of a salon birthday pose

karaoke — Gavin and I locked in a deadly karaoke battle.

karaoke — After a few (or more) drinks at Cherry Tavern, we headed right out to karaoke.

karaoke — When following an act like Grant, sometimes you gotta enlist the help of props. Fully intending to take on the master, relative karaoke newcomer Larson took the stage in full skipper regalia flanked by two pastel chicas and busted out Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart (which he actually has the gumption to call "his" song! Playa, please!)

karaoke — ...PROP EXCESS! In accordance with Buddyhead's Rules of Rock (ie: "Number 18. Drummers can take off their shirts or they can wear gloves, but not both.") the Karaoke Rules of Rock must state that you can wear a Skipper's uniform or a HULKfist, never both.

karaoke — Grant hit the stage and tried out some new moves. Like pretending that his leg and ass were a guitar so he could play along for the two-guitar solo (holy shit). After warming up the crowd with his new moves...

karaoke — He closed in for the kill with an aerial classic (bonus points awarded for the finger pointing at the ground).

karaoke — Ellen Stagg in the hizzy.

karaoke — Bladders emptly, we headed over the basement of Remote to say hi to Sid & Buddy and friends.

karaoke — Grant hitting the stage also remarked the triumphant return of Chef! Yes! He sang the Darkness' I Believe in a Thing Called Love. (Which practically demands multiple David Lee Rothesque aerial maneuvers).

karaoke — Big Daddy took the mic and kicked a little Lionel Ritchie "Celebration" (and Frank stayed on stage to back him up).

karaoke — ...down to its KNEES!

karaoke — Bringing the house down...

karaoke — Grant onstange trying to get the hang of the very unique "FrankDance."

karaoke — Which cleared the lane for his big duet with (South African model and bizarro Nicole Kidman lookalike) Kanue.

karaoke — Seth moved in during the sweeping romantic chorus, until the song finally climaxed into a loving, tender...

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karaoke — Then it was time for the Man of Honor to take the stage.

karaoke — ...ass-cupping. (Hey Seth, does your girlfriend still read my site? Hope not! Hahah).

karaoke — Followed by Grant doing a lil Gn'R.

karaoke — After the (outright boring) trip to the nudy bar, we decided to head to Remote Lounge and take over Sid and Buddy's karaoke night there. (I guess karaoke's becoming a bachelor party trend?)

karaoke — Seth "Palm-greaser" Miller, introduced Sid & Buddy to his good friend "Mr. Frankin" and instantly the karaoke stage was ours. Here's Seth kicking things off with some Stevie.

karaoke — The plan was to have Leigh pop her cherryaoke, but instead she ended up being Meredith's shy backup dancer. I was really disappointed in Leigh. Meredith however...

karaoke — Something Easy Like a Sunday Morning (ahh-ahh-ah-ahhhhhhhh.)

karaoke — After my screaming rendition of Gloria's tale of woe (that crazy whore)...Philip wanted to sing something easy.

karaoke — Gloria, how's it gonna go down? Will you meet him on the main line? Or catch him on the rebound?

karaoke — After I was finished housing the pie, Philip swung by and we hit the town looking for a drink. Believe it or not, the only bar that we found that was open was this karaoke bar. (I swear, we weren't even looking for karaoke).

karaoke — I rocked out so hard I broke the fucking mic stand.

karaoke — Chris on the mic.

karaoke — Hahahaha. Grant executes a new move.

karaoke — And your air guitar.

karaoke — Which was suprisingly empty. Sometimes you want a packed karaoke joint, but other times less-crowded is better because it means you get to monopolize the stage.

karaoke — So amazing.

karaoke — ...HAHAHAHAHA. Hooooo-leeeeeeeeee fugging shit. I almost pissed myself. What's that? You'd like a close up? Yeah, me too.

karaoke — There was this dude there who had slathered himself in that awful bronzer skin dye that makes you look tan. He kept going up to Sid and Buddy every five minutes and saying stuff like "Yo dudes, am I going to be up anytime soon? I'm going to be a famous singer someday and it might be in your best interest to treat me right." He tried that nonsense for 90 minutes and finally growing discouraged, bribed them with $40 and was instantly put on stage. Hahaha. He started singing some awful Justin Timberlake song while gyrating and air-humping. This prompted Carol to bum-rush the stage and sexily unbutton his shirt while he sang. He thought she was into him, but everytime he looked away from her, she'd pull faces like this...

karaoke — Thursday night I went to karaoke and found Carol in rare, ultra-fiesty form.

karaoke — And to practive your aerial manuevers.

karaoke — But it's ok, I just ended up playing it off like all I really wanted was an Alice Cooperesque cane to point at people with.

karaoke — Chris enlightened the lingering audience members by accompanying Grant's last somg with some "traditional" Greek dance moves.

karaoke — Goodnight Jamie! Thanks for being such a good sport! Congratulations!

karaoke — "What, you want me to drop my pants again?"

karaoke — Then Jamie and all of the guys in his wedding party hit the stage for a group sing-a-long.

karaoke — ...here he is at the peak! How fucking unbelievable is this picture? As soon as I clicked the shutter I knew I'd managed to capture something magical. Click here to download a full-size, high-resolution version. Because you know you want to set this shit as your desktop wallpaper.

karaoke — It has a crazy fast shutter and I can usually manage to capture two to four pictures per second with it. Here's Grant on the way up and...

karaoke — Ok, towards the end of the night, I switched back over to shooting with my fancy cam.

karaoke — Hahaha. Yep, that's definitely a Bon Jovi face.

karaoke — Looks like Jovi to me.

karaoke — The crowd going wild to Buddy playing "inflatible fiddle" to The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

karaoke — Buddy driving the love train.

karaoke — Neeeeple Peeench.

karaoke — This guy was awful, so Carol and Marjorie rushed the stage to try and help make his performance more entertaining.

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