So... in order to keep our minds sane and the people around us with working hearing sense, some of my friends and I have a reoccurrent karaoke night.
On wedenesdays, after practising all week (obviously), we go to this thai karaoke place. They hate us, at least that is my belief, but we go every week and order tea, without missing it or caring much for the terrible service.
In this place it is certain that you will get at least two songs. I must say that it is almost empty most of the times but it is a popular place in munich and there is always at least one table.. so, not so bad for an everyday karaoke place.
The fun part is that sometimes we go by themes: cheesy and bad (britney spears), or maybe just cheesey (backstreet boys), sometimes we go by oldies like madonna and (yes, someone tried) queen. There are also the signature songs like losing my religion, mr roboto, i will survive and so on. Sometimes we like to sing in group, as most of us are karoake loving cowards that love to go up there but not by ourselves, so we go for a group ensemble like... barbie girl and so on.
I must say I love this karaoke evenings. There is the hard core group that (almost) never fails to attend, and the +1's, the extra guests and so on.. we are always trying to get new people in the this addiction for the sake of our fellow city habitants.. cuz then, what happens if we don't let ourselves go every wednesday??? we go around town singing deafly to the tunes of the shuffle in our ipods, and that is not good for anybody.
There is the project of having one week of pure karaoke, between the thai place and the multiple irish and australian pubs... but... well... for now, that is only a dream; it has to be carefully planned with strict strategy to work out everybody's life and commitments to the vocal intensity this requires.
The funnest part of these karaoke nights, is that, for the scarce 4 or 5 min on that tiny-badlighted-with-terrible-sound-stage, we are stars and give it all, to high and low, difficult, creepy or simply bad lyrics, to the terrible background videos of women or couples walking around strange cities no one has ever seen..WE GIVE IT ALL!!!
Then, the thai waitress gets a hold of the mic and starts singing from the shadowy shady corners of the kitchen, in thai, 2 or 3 songs in a row (once it went to 7), to the delight (sarcasm noted) of the whole restaurant... oooohhh.. this place is awesome.
