It was pretty awesome actually.
It was quiet tonight. Just Cindy at the bar. Dana and Paul were there at first. Just chillin and reading the paper. That was around 7:20. I was talking to him about the iPhone coming out the end of the month. He said he’ll probably wait until the hype fades.
Norman was going off, over and over and over on saying the owner of the airport said a few years ago it hit 130 degrees, 3 days in a row, in Watsonville. Because the conversation started out saying, “Fuck it’s hot right now.”
I said bullshit. There’s no way it would hit 130 in Watsonville. I mean, shit. If it was 130, then it would be 150 in San Jose. Deserts don’t even hit 130 degrees. But Norman is Norman. And he said the dude who owns the airport records the temperature every day and that he never lied to him before.
So haha ya, I’ll agree with Norman just because.
Anyway, Chris was all set up for karaoke.
Thing was, Lisa, that one old chick who flashed her tits that one night, who looks like an orc; always cussing and complaining about some shit.. borrowed Chris’ entire Karaoke CD collection… and hasn’t showed up.
First of all, why the fuck would he do that?
Anyway, almost the entire night was with no music with no words coming out the screen.
It was a bit sad at first. Chris is all stressing out. Announcing to the crowd, all dissing Lisa since he didn’t have shit. It was pretty hilarious at some points. Almost like stand up comedy with him venting.
Everyone around the bar was joking around. Saying it’s accapella night or Impromptu karaoke.
“If you know the words to the songs in your head and can sing without music, come up!”
Haha it sucked for that dude. How can you run a Karaoke night, with no pay, only working on with tips, and have no songs? That’s pretty fucked up.
So fuck it, I had my phone on me. And I brought my music player. I’ll just look up the lyrics on my phone and hook up my player to his music system and at least the regulars who never sing but just enjoy the atmosphere can enjoy the Friday Night Karaoke at Cabrillo Lanes they are used to (you know who I’m talking about. The relatives to Chris who are always sitting at the first table). Just want them to have a good time.
At first.. Chris was trying to do what he could, with what he he had. He hooked up his iPod to the system and at least played some tunes he had at the moment.. eventually singing along to the songs he knew by heart.
Anyway, I said “Hey Chris, I’ll sing.” With no music. With no words. I walked up with my mp3 player in one hand, and in the other hand, my phone, with a web browser showing a googled web site, with the lyrics to the song I was about to sing. Haha.
Aw ya, Roy Orbison. “In Dreams”
After that, some random old dude came up to me later blurbing some drunken shit giving me props. Haha.
One cool thing about plugging in my music player was, I could sing the songs that were never on the list. At times, I let whatever song was left on the next track play, just because there wasn’t much music around. The whole sound system was plugged into my music player. Was DJ for a bit.
Johan brought CD’s and sang crap. Then Sandy, the one with the hat, who sings the old school classics, brought her own CD’s and sang along having a good time.
Haha, I probably sang like 5 songs though Basically monopolized the mic. Nobody else had access to lyrics, or their own tunes haha. That’s fucked up.
So then later that night, someone calls and it ends up, that chick Lisa who borrowed all the CD’s from Chris, was arrested. Hahaha. Damn ghetto ass. So her sister is suppose to cruise by the bowling alley later that night to drop off the Karaoke CD’s. That was a huge relief.
Before that, we were all joking around and checking the Register Pajaronian saying in a phony voice, “hey there’s an ad here.. Someone is selling Karaoke CD’s.”
It was toward the end of the night, around last call, when jailbait’s sister arrived.
Everyone in the bar gave a sympathy clap But it was festive. Almost like a standing ovation, only too lazy to stand up. It was too funny. I felt sorry for the sister since she really felt bad about the situation
But with what the crowd had to deal with tonight and taking it in stride, it was like the icing on the cake. We get another consecutive week of the chicken on the train song sang live. Hahahaha. And it felt good singing along to that horrible song. Just because of all that crap that happened.
So hell ya. You should have been there. It was awesome.
