I don't typically wear hard hats to karaoke bars, but there was a costume wall. It was a Heart hat.
I'm glad he unearthed this video because a)singing is a really big part of my life that I haven't written about and b) I've been giving considerable thought to recording a Christmas album. Dan would play the spoons and maybe rap the dreidel song (yes, a Christmas album). I'd like to lay down a vocal track over a looped soundbite of clydesdales whinnying. Basically, instead of gifting my friends and family half-finished scarves (I call them "knit ascots") I could tool around on Garage Band and come up with enough songs for a holiday EP. I think I can at least do better than Amy Grant. Hey! That's not a bad working title: Better Than Amy Grant. I also like Gay Yuletide.
Tomorrow we leave Iowa for three weeks to spend time with our families in VA Beach, Raleigh, and St. Thomas. We're taking Karaoke with us in a posh pet carrier simply called "The Sherpa." I'm not sure what to pack, and I'm terrified of forgetting something important, like my passport or yoga pants. Nicole Kidman's powder mishap at the Nine premiere destroyed any faith I had in personal preparedness:
This haunts me, and not just because she looks like she face-planted in the chalk bowl at a gymnastics meet. I feel like this photo captures the expression of a woman who has only just now realized the herky-jerky of her make-up, and we are right there with her. Adding to her humiliation is that Platonic ideal of ringlet. I don't know. I've studied this a lot today. The "nine" looming over her head seems like a different word altogether, a portent, if you unfocus your eyes and let the letters blur. It almost reads "talc."
In merrier news, her husband Keith Urban plays the ganjo. I need a ganjo on my Christmas album.
I'll try to write and post pictures of our trip. I'm asking you guys to vote on which song you'd like me to record as an MP3 to make available for download on the blog. I've pre-picked six for you to choose from. You reserve the option of writing in additional seasonal selections as a post comment, but keep in mind I'm going with majority vote and bottom line, I won't sing the theme from Polar Express or "Happy Birthday Jesus." I refuse to fake a child's lisp.
Vote at the top of the right sidebar now!
love the nicole description. & hearing you belt. i miss pieces now. & what is the hat you are wearing?
ReplyDeleteMay I say that until now I hated everything about karaoke?
ReplyDeleteI voted for Have Yourself a Merry Little Xmas.
There but for the grace of god goes Nicole. Perhaps her makeup artist was just trying to draw attention away from that parking lot-sized forehead of hers. Whatever. She doesn't need makeup anyway.
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