Month: March 2005
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Part Five: Dan Runs Out Of Words
The appetizer: L merrily prepares to sing a duet with Sara M’s robot alter ego, “Vox.” And, the main meal: A pirate named Salty Pete. And yes, before you ask: he only sings songs that begin with the letter “Rrrrr!”
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Part 4: The Ascendancy of “L”
I feel like we were in the middle of something. What on earth was it? Oh, yes. I was singing “Shock the Monkey,” apparently about myself and my newly-installed monkey face. People singing karaoke is some ugly hoodoo, is what it is.
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quarter chicken white with three sides…
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pamie interrupts to totally agree
Okay, I just have to add a few stories to the songs, in case Dan’s too modest and/or actually working to include them. Burn: This is the song we give newbies when we want to be mean. Careless Whisper: When Dan takes the microphone, it’s like George Michael comes and visits our house.
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Part 3b: MORE SONGS MORE SONGS MORE SONGS!
First, by specific request, this picture: And now…more songs! Hold On After discovering that this was not the Wilson Phillips song or any musical derivation therein, we pretty much decided we had no use for it. “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips is an untouchable classic! Don’t name another song “Hold On!” It would be like…
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I honestly thought it’d be
I honestly thought it’d be fun/funny to have Mariah Carey’s Glitter soundtrack on my iPod. It has proven to be neither.
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Just When Your Credit Card Thought It Was Safe…
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Part Three: Choose A Song (A-F)
Wait…where were we? Oh, yeah. You may be asking: Yes, Dan, but…how does the game know if I’m awesome? Well, from the product description: …it’s a game that utilizes a system to measure and compare how closely you can match your tone of voice to the ideal tone for the song. On the screen, you…
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Part Two: Choose A Character
This one is photo intensive. More words later. What were we talking about yesterday? Oh, yeah. This: The thing I worried about most — and oh, but did I WORRY — was that a karaoke game you play in your living room would lack the most important element of the karaoke experience: that of shamed,…
