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April 07, 2003
I, wanna rock 'n' roll all night
Girl-E is starting to get figity to resume a certain hobby. She's lasted these 8 months without complaining too much, but we can see the glazed look in her eyes as she watches our newly-acquired MTV that she has reached a certain dangerous level of agitation. We fear it might soon blow her cover; only a very select few know she is a karaoke whore.
She has her standards, though. She's not about to go to the Istanbul Hilton on Wednesdays and pull out her best Pat Benatar for a bunch of fly-by-night foreign businessmen, oh no. Nor is she going to flock to the first karaoke night she finds upon returning to Boston, the kind of place that is populated by all the people you hated in high school, where the most requested faves are meatheads singing Garth or AC/DC and packs of girls wearing glitter shrieking Papa Don't Preach. Not that she's above wearing glitter, but true karaoke whores go solo, and think outside the box for their repertoire. She's not afraid to skip right over the GoGo's and take on Chrissie Hynde or Hall and Oates. Even David Byrne is not outside her comfort zone. At her particular favorite karaoke night (every Tuesday), everyone knows each other, and the ecclectic is celebrated. There's a white girl who would make Mike D proud, and a short dumpy guy with long dreadlocks and a broken arm whose Marvin Gaye could make you swoon. His arm probably isn't still broken, but she likes to hold that image of him in her memory.
Of course, Girl-E also does some legitimate singing back home, with a real band and in real recording studios, and that withdrawal has been fierce in itself. But there's something about the stability of karaoke, the knowledge of reliable, consistent stardom where the sound guy cares more about you than the guitarist (there being no guitarist to care about), that gives it a long-term warm fuzzy quality that can't be found in the real music business.
Anyway, the countdown to Bastille Day is on, that being the first Tuesday night she will be in Boston. Please feel free to write in your requests for her homecoming number.
Posted by The Twins at April 7, 2003 10:38 AM
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