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Last night, Kim and I went to the wedding of our friends Janie and Bill here in Alma. It was a simple ceremony, with some neat readings and lots of grinning by both of them. (The line "You may kiss your groom" was a nice touch at the end.) The reception featured a live band fronted by one of the couple's good friends who does a fantastic Axl Rose impression (the groom sang with them a fair bit, too). It also featured karaoke, and with a bunch of their other friends Kim and I had contributed some songs to the available collection.
I haven't done karaoke much and I'm not nearly good enough to want to sing more than my share, so I only went up to the mike three times. I started with Code Monkey, and I must have done a halfway decent job of it because at the end of the night someone tracked me down and asked me about the original. (As a fairly recent fan myself I was happy to introduce someone new to Jonathan Coulton.) A bit later, I sang New York City by They Might Be Giants. That was tricky to arrange: there isn't a karaoke version of that available commercially so I had to make my own, which wasn't trivial. (Thank you so much for Audacity,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minorninth! And also to the makers of TunePrompter.)
Finally, once it got late enough that most of the little kids had gone away (or at least gotten less attentive), Kim and I went up together and sang First of May. The response was surprisingly minimal: JoCo says on his website, "don’t blame me if you get punched in the mouth for singing First of May", but I think it was late enough that people didn't entirely tune in to what sounded like a laid-back folk song. So much for scandalizing a bunch of our co-workers.
All in all, it was a fun night. I should probably agree to do that sort of thing more often. (It really helped that I had music choices that I knew and liked, of course.)
I haven't done karaoke much and I'm not nearly good enough to want to sing more than my share, so I only went up to the mike three times. I started with Code Monkey, and I must have done a halfway decent job of it because at the end of the night someone tracked me down and asked me about the original. (As a fairly recent fan myself I was happy to introduce someone new to Jonathan Coulton.) A bit later, I sang New York City by They Might Be Giants. That was tricky to arrange: there isn't a karaoke version of that available commercially so I had to make my own, which wasn't trivial. (Thank you so much for Audacity,
minorninth! And also to the makers of TunePrompter.)Finally, once it got late enough that most of the little kids had gone away (or at least gotten less attentive), Kim and I went up together and sang First of May. The response was surprisingly minimal: JoCo says on his website, "don’t blame me if you get punched in the mouth for singing First of May", but I think it was late enough that people didn't entirely tune in to what sounded like a laid-back folk song. So much for scandalizing a bunch of our co-workers.
All in all, it was a fun night. I should probably agree to do that sort of thing more often. (It really helped that I had music choices that I knew and liked, of course.)