Gyros Lounge Karaoke: Return.

Karaoke at the gyros lounge is now twice a month, I found out! Me and my one (white) friend from Mississippi went the last Fri. in February...

Hadn't been there in a while, Patrice hugged both of us and said it was great to see us back.

Anyhow, the place has the best book, and there were oddly few people singing that night, so I ended up singing over the course of the night:

1) Carole King's "Beautiful" ("oh, i love carole king!", a drunk [white] woman near me said. "i sang 'Smackwater Jack' last month!"... "you gotta love Tapestry," i said at her, and winked, and she started clapping her hands together and stamping her feet and doing a squeal of joy, and was like, "you do!"... the song was on MIDI, though, and the lyrics were off and the tempo was way slow, so I kind of bit it on it).

2) The Hollies's "Air that I Breathe" (did it okay, need to learn to do a better slow build, though I really worked the line about how after making love you feel peaceful warm and tired).

3) MIA's "Paper Planes" (i sang it fine and some [white] hipster girl danced drunkenly the entire time of the song, right from the opening chords, but i don't have the attitude to pull it off, or even to do the requisite gun-firing and cashdrawer-pulling-open motions -- though, Lady Red would, I'm sure).

4) MGMT's "Kids" (oddly, i couldn't get the melody for the chorus! - opening verse was great, but the song is too repetitive and the words mean nothing).

I also had Akon's "Lonely" in at the end of the night, but time ran out.

My friend I went with sang some blues shit, don't know the name of it.

He also said that a while ago on Facebook Lady Red had a comment about fat black people raising fat black children, and that it had over a 100 comments after it and more every minute, but he didn't send it to me because he wasn't sure I'd like it.

He couldn't remember her exact wording, either, but he remembered more or less one of the comments, which went something like, "GO RED YOU TELL IT LIKE IT IS".