Karaoke return.

So, I went to karaoke tonight. Since karaoke hostess Jen is now doing a masters and doesn't host much anymore, her boyfriend does some of the emceeing, and when he started up the evening, he was like, "Hello, welcome to karaoke at [the bar name]. [my name, both first and last!] is here tonight. I'm [his name], and this is [his other friend who was working the karaoke machine]." It was a very nice return, as nice as the one waitress at the Chinese restaurant I used to go to bringing me a free bowl of hot-and-sour soup when I met there with my friends today.

Anyhow, the opening song was George Michael's "Faith". Usually, people suck it up on that song - that song gets sung a lot -- but the girl who did it had a nice voice, and there weren't like twenty people singing with her, so it worked.

Also at the night were -

This one karaoke regular from way back singing Beck's "Loser".

This really annoying skinny hipster kid who thought he was funny and had a high voice - he was at the table next to us, he sat down and took up the salt and pepper shakers in his hand and used them like racing car controls, he thought he was funny; the fact that his douche-y tablemate asked us to move our coats on the bench so someone else who never in the end sat down could sit there didn't help - went on to sing an absolutely inspired version of "The Humpty Dance".

(A question - why are there no black hipsters?)

This one fat white girl who was at the other table next to us and was practically hanging on me and was like, "What are you going to sing?" I found kind of annoying, but then she sang a very nice version of the Pointer Sisters's "I'm So Excited", which is a good karaoke song - upbeat, not done much, repetitious but not too much, and really nice if done with a good voice like she has.
(I should be so judgmental, both people who I found annoying did some nice stuff tonight.)

Also done for like the second or third song was this short white hipster with a deep voice during David Bowie's "Space Oddity", which was very good, but would have been better if it had been done later in the night when everyone was more hammered.

I myself did Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" - I love the song; I want the intro as my ringtone, if I ever get a cellphone that can support ringtones -- but, though the song is good, it's too low for me, as I discovered.

(Some time I should do her "Wishin' and Hopin'" as well, what a great song.)

The highlight of the night was my one friend doing Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" with a funk twist... I can imitate it, but not describe it. Every verse was done with a funk rhythm, and that's hard to do when you're bound to the original instrumentals of the song. It was almost as good as the one time like three years ago when he did a similarly funked-up version of the Beastie Boys's "Sureshot".