4 posts tagged “karaoke”

my name is ally, and i'm addicted to karaoke nights. i love 'em. i can't help it. i don't even wanna help it. this is a week that will see me singin' my pants off three different nights at three different venues.

i'll get a record contract soon enough.

here's something that i came clean to one of my favorite co-workers about today. i think i should share with my faithful followers as well. i have this weird thing that happens sometimes when i see someone wearing an outfit that gets my brain moving. it could be an ugly outfit, a cool outfit, a bland outfit, an outfit i've seen the person wear dozens of times, a brand new outfit, there's really no specific type of outfit that sparks these thoughts i'm about to blog of. i'll imagine the person shopping and choosing the items they're wearing. this all started when i was a kid and went school clothes shopping with mom. i only got things that we agreed on. i guess sometimes in middle school and junior high i was jealous of kids with really hip clothes because i didn't think mom was ever hip enough to agree with me to buy them. i doubt that was the case.

i also sometimes imagine the person getting ready to leave their home in the morning and checking their fine bod out in the mirror. i wonder what they think of their outfit. do they feel sexy? do they feel fat? do they even look in a full-length mirror before stepping into the Real World?

there's nothing too synchronous about any of this.

i'm grasping at straws. i'm in love with carl jung. somebody stop me.

also this totally perfect woman sang a Berlin song at karaoke last night. and a song by Garbage. and a Don Henley song and a Fiona Apple song.

i was most impressed by the berlin (duh!). i considered singing "the metro" but i think i have to practice that one first.

reading old posts just now reminds me of an earlier state of mind. a happier place.

a place i may have returned to this evening. thank you, karaoke. thank you, jess. thank you, long-haired dude.

i'm up way too late and work will be here way too early, but i had an enjoyable evening and i'm not sorry for any of it.

except maybe that peanut butter i just ate. sigh. i guess we all make mistakes.

nothing incredibly synchronous to report. i awoke from a dream this morning and remembered that it involved a dude (i might have loved him, i might not have. i'm always falling in love in dreams, it's awful) who worked for The Baltimore Sun. i told my boss this morning that if she receives a resume from someone from the baltimore area to hire him based on the fact that i dreamt of him (and i was making hyperlinks in my dream) and she said okay. then i remembered that i had been listening to <3 stephen malkmus' <3 latest album and there's a song about baltimore and that's probably why.

if stephen malkmus applies for my job i'll just kidnap him.

i want to get into the habit of writing every day. it was my new year's resolution and i had been doing alright. my moleskine that i had purchased for this purpose is a page or two away from being filled right up to the brim.

anyway, it was an eventful weekend full of thoughts and actions and inactions. synchronous occasions abounded as well.

last night, as a friend drove me home around 3 or so, i asked him if he wanted to go to wal-mart (even though it is anxiety inducing, among other negative qualities). i didn't really want to go there and we didn't i just thought i was being funny (drunk) or something. today, i received an e-mail from a different friend asking for suggestions for fun activities to partake in today. i was going to respond with "wal-mart fashion show," but suggested finding karaoke instead (mostly joking, though i wouldn't have been disappointed if i had stumbled upon some karaoke today). i ventured out into the springtimey wonderment of the day and wandered around town for a few hours. i ran into a friend who i haven't seen in a while and we grabbed a refreshment and chatted about dirty politicians and star wars. as i was walking home, a car honked at me and it was the second friend i mentioned in this paragraph (can you keep up? i don't want to name names. it's more fun to just call everyone 'friend.' and it's great that they're all of the same gender). i squealed and hopped in his car. he was on his way to wal-mart. so i ended up at wal-mart with him.

so synchronous. he made me walk around by myself in search of a ginger ale for him. so scary. and fruitless. he had to settle for a sierra mist. then i totally denied him my company over a dinner of home-cooked lamb. 

stay tuned. my posts will improve.