Turn Around, Bright Eyes...

So we indulged in the sacred and ancient Japanese ritual of karaoke last night, and apparently I do a rather rousing rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” or at least I do after a couple of vanilla-n-gingers. Truth be told, I had no voice left about three lines into the songs, so I just shouted, but I guess people love it when you really go all out up there, and lemme tell you–I went all out, baby.

Poor Sandy. Sandy was my duet partner for the song, and I’m quite certain I wound up drowning her out. Serves her right for leaving our firm (we were there celebrating her freedom from our job). Anyways, it’s often a recipe for a train wreck when you get two people who aren’t totally familiar with the song to sing a duet that’s not really a duet. Fortunately, being the former lead singer of Lochner’s Ghost, I’m a professional, and I was able to roll with the punches.

Karaoke can be a strange, addictive thing. I found myself really wanting to do “Careless Whisper” later in the night. Fortunately, I was able to resist the urge long enough for us to call it an evening.

Work today sucked, as usual. I’ve had “The Pina Colada Song” stuck in my head all day. Maybe I’ll sing that at karaoke next week.

Then again, probably not. I still have some dignity left.

I think.