2 posts tagged “birthday”
What's your favorite song to sing karaoke-style? If you don't have one, why not?
I think the question is more, what don't not I don't like not to karaoke to? As a Filipino i feel that the activity is in my blood, my heritage. and with that heritage, one of my absolute favorite karaoke songs is the seminal Filipino wedding song, Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order, one of my absolute favorite bands ever.
But mostly, anything i can eek a performance out of, that's the thrill for me mostly.have the audience react to puesdo-seduction:
faux-rock destruction swagger:
lack of shame:
these were all taken at my last giant karaoke throw-down circa 2004, at my 18th birthday party, at san francisco's japantown's do-rei-mei. funny this post is containing pictures from my birthday, when today (sept 4) is also my birthday. which is also the day the majority of america found out about steve irwin's death.
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
aside from my impending 20th birthday occuring on labor day itself (the fourth) not much is planned for saturday and monday. although on sunday i'm having a small lunch with my closest friends at texas roadhouse in union city (everyone raves about that place, and i've heard from no less than four people that the entire wait staff is populated with cute college aged girls, although the standards may vary) with after that, i will be venturing into the city, braving the lack of a lower-deck of the bay bridge (not like i drive anyway) to experience debbie does dallas: the musical, a tounge in cheek intrepretation of the orignal porn (no, there's no sex) on for it's closing night show.
come to think of it, i am tempted to head down to the oakland art and soul fest, an oakland institution if you ask me. in fact, this is the first year i am not having any birthday plans there; live 105 always has a concert stage there, and there usually have some pretty big name bands show up -- last year there had pinback, the lovemakers, and hieroglypics, the year before, lyrics born (when he was still coming up), my chemical romance (right around the time they jumped the shark), and the presidents of the united states of america. unfortunately enough, this year's line up seems like an anachronistic spoof on music. reading the line up i feel like we've been transported to 2002, the year of spikey hair, warped tours, and when pop-punk bands were a dime a dozen. i mean, take a look:
| 11:30 | Honeycut |
| 12:30 | Silversun Pickups |
| 1:45 | Plain White T’s |
| 3:00 | Lostprophets |
| 4:30 | New Found Glory |
aside from the silversun pickups, whom i've heard on bagel radio, and honeycut who i haven't heard of, the rest are an absolute laugh riot. i mean, i can't front, i liked new found glory, back when i was 16, but come on, let sleeping dogs lie or whatever it is. okay, it's a marketing ploy, they're releasing a new album, blah blah blah.
enough about that. the only reason i want to go is because last year, i saw a food vendor selling deep fried twinkies. a delight i am sorry to say never to have experienced. so if i go, it would be for that, and only that today.
