so here’s the first half of the pictures from my karaoke party back on my birthday. thanks to mike’s really expensive lens we got sort-of-okay pictures. which, with dimness and drunkenness and limited equipment, well, what do you want.
some test pictures with mike, gretchen and alan
laura dreams of the cocktails she will soon make herself
i totally forgot what alan was singing. i just had to look it up (alanis morissette’s “ironic”, a birthday request from me)
janie just looks like a rocker. god. i might have to go through and re-level some of these, they look awful.
i can’t stop taking pictures of gretchen, apparently.
everybody ended up using this mic stand as an emotional crutch. you’ll see, in other pictures. it’s so odd.
gretch ponders her next song choice…
haha, we made mike sing “sweet child o’ mine”!
alan decides he’s slash
ken looks thrilled to be singing!
laura looks thrilled at the prospect of another drink!
i just look like a freaking weirdo. taken by laura
taken by laura
in these pictures janie was always in motion while her friend stood still. always.
here i am looking like john lennon. but i’m singing bryan adams’ “everything i do, i do it for you”
hah. the party reaction is less ecstatic and more “is she done yet?”
my american idol big finish!
alan ponders the big mistake of saying he’ll sing nin’s “closer”
but he bravely carries on anyway!
james is about to pick a godawful song. you can see it in his eyes.
yup, it’s cotton eye joe.
…
i love the dynamic here.
alan is so drunk right about now.
so then evan sings hot chocolate’s “you sexy thing” and he’s surprisingly really good at it.
SO GOOD IT HURTS.
my favorite one of janie.
ALAN DILL SAYS WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE (the guys got up to sing frank sinatra’s “my way.”)
for some reason ken takes a break in the middle of singing this to talk to laura. unfortunately when he talks to other women his hands explode. it’s a gypsy curse thing.
big finish
this is about when Drunken Hyper Mario begins to emerge. he’s a good singer.
“a song? why not? in fact, why not…”
“nin’s ‘head like a hole’?”
“no, you can’t take that away from m– ok, well i guess you can if you really try hard enough.”
i photoshopped this because i liked ken’s total nonchalance to mario’s emotional musical breakdown. that really did happen, but now the picture reflects that wonderful moment all the more.
taken by laura, i believe
also taken by laura. had no idea someone was giving me moose horns.
taken by laura
taken by laura. alan and i sang radiohead’s “high and dry” and everyone sang along with the chorus 😀
james took a picture of us. (also taken by laura)
says it all.
this too. actually.
he’s not falling, he’s dancing.
mike seemed bored over in the corner.
so i gave him a guinea pig. at first he was ambivalent…
but soon he warmed up to stark.
taken by laura. at some point we decided, “ok, ‘bohemian rhapsody.'” i think this is when freddie mercury is wailing that he doesn’t want to die. the only way you can truly tell i’m drunk from this picture is that i took my drink with me. singing from the floor during an epic moment is ALWAYS a good idea.
james’ jazz hands.
oh, and i realized i never posted this, but mario is totally john simm.
stay tuned for part 2! only about 100 pictures left to sort through!
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