january 8th - karaoke madness

to celebrate Ariele Gonzalez's sweet, sweet birthday... At Planet Rose, on Ave A btw, 13th and 14th st. It was a surprise party. Marley made a photo scrapbook for her. She's a talent, that chestnut. Matt, Marley's brother, was there too. So I know two people at the place...but as the night progressed, I met mostly everyone else. i really dug one of Ariele's friends, who I am forgetting his name, but is tall, and wasnt afraid to dance. I kept thinking in my head, I wonder if Danny Katz would like him...probably...

Ariele was super-surprised, which was so awesome :) And then we got her to party, which was even awesomer. She and Marley did this one song right before I left, which I'm totally forgetting what the song was, but they stood on top of the seats at the place like that movie with the girls who dance on the top of the bar..what was it? Coyote Sweetheart? Fox Good-Looking? I can't remember.

I also do have to mention one of Ariele's friends, who I didn't introduce myself to (i'm sorry), but the two songs that he requested were Guns N Roses songs, which was super awesome. Not so much the Guns N Roses songs, but that he picked them. Like he loves them so much, he picked those two songs to sing, out of the thousands in karoake lists..that's fu*@ing devotion.

I sang Take On Me,and I Want It That Way with a bunch of cool new people I met (like Kristine, who I found out from the Facebook that she's a HUGE Backstreet Boys fan.) And holy fuzz, you can say that I Rocked The Casbah. Not sing in on the mic...but rocked it. I think I hurt my foot again though, while jumping and flailing and dancing . Damn it, I don't think I can run for another couple days now. Ugh.

But seriously: What's up with that friggin' annoying song from Grease the Movie (Paradise on the something something) polluting the karaoke airwaves? it feels like Sweet 16 Summer Mania all over again. Although that Frenchie from the movie..she moves through my dreams like a beautiful ghost from...Grease the Movie.

Oh, and before I went to Planet Rose, I went to Barnes and Nobles to get a present and card for Ariele (which I forgot to label the present and sign when I was at PR. Weak. Hopefully they still have it). As I was about to leave the building, I see freaking Maryann Leone just standing bout 10 feet away from me. I don't think she saw me. I said out loud "Maryann Leone", and she looked right at me, mouth agape, and gave me a hug. Then we chatted for 10 minutes or so. She is going to this super hippie/meditation yoga trip in April, which is pretty dope. And she's been liking all my facebook comments and whatnot, which I thought was odd that she brought it up, but it's all good. And it's only all good because she HAS a nose ring.


Holy cow I am going to collapse. I only had two hours of sleep the night before, which sucked cow tittie. no I am about to get 4 and a half hours. Whoo hooo!!!! LIFE!!

- jf