Pure Imagination

“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it”

Paradise is a musical.  The next best thing for me – I suppose – would be karaoke.

I went to karaoke last night.  I joined my new friend Gabriel and his group of friends who regularly meet at Grindhouse Burger Bar every week.  They’ve been doing this for awhile I gather as each week is a different letter of the alphabet to choose songs to sing.  Last night it was songs that start with letter ‘Q’.  I arrived late so I missed ‘Quit Playing Games with my Heart’ and then ‘Queen of the Night’ was sung.  So I decided to go with the songs I had decided I would sing before I got there: Cabaret and I wrote down Eye of the Tiger but it was so busy I only got to sing the one song.  My friend sang 2 songs.  He sang ‘Pure Imagination’ and ‘Mr. Cellophane’.  There was one other musical theatre maven amongst the singers – she sang a song from Legally Blonde the musical and then one from Glee.  She was really good.  Not sure if I’m going again next week cause my friend won’t be there and I just met his other friends it might be weird.  Plus I don’t know if I really fit in with this crowd – I mean a guy sang a Frank Sinatra song in Portuguese because he thought the english lyrics were really lame.  Am I ready to run with this crowd?  But there is a karaoke night around the corner from where I live on Wednesdays nights.  Hopefully that one won’t be so busy and I can sing more songs.

I guess if I want to sing in public karaoke is probably the only way at this point I can do it.  With no friggin starring roles or any roles for that matter it’s all a girl can do.

My friend has a list of songs he wants to sing, I’d like to do the same thing.  Here:

**Warning: This list is long and unreasonable…

1. Not for the Life of Me – Thoroughly Modern Millie
2. Gimmie Gimmie – Thoroughly Modern Millie
3. The Wizard and I – Wicked
4. For Good – Wicked
5. Dancing Through Life – Wicked
6. I Can Hear the Bells – Hairspray
7. Holding Out for a Hero – Bonnie Tyler / Footloose
8. I Got Rhythm – Crazy for You (? – is that where that songs from?)
9. I Gotcha – Fosse / Liza / whoever originally sand it
10. Son of a Preacher-man
11. River Deep, Mountain High – Tina Tuner / Glee
12. Rolling in the Deep – Adele
13. Cryin’ – Aerosmith
14. If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
15. Fallin’ – Alicia Keys
16. All Cried Out – Allure
17. Rehab – Amy Winehouse
18. Skater Boy – Avril Lavigne
19. I’m the Greatest Star – Funny Girl
20. Funny Girl
21. People
22. Don’t Rain On My Parade — I’ve actually sang this song at karaoke many times before but I’ll sing it again
23. Irreplaceable – Beyonce
24. Listen – Beyonce / Dreamgirls
25. My Only Wish (This Year) – Britney Spears
26. Officer Krupke – West Side Story
27. Nothing – Chorus Line
28. What I did for Love – Chorus Line
29. Flat on the Floor – Carrie Underwood
30. Last Night – Carrie Underwood
31. Tell Him – Celine Dion/Barbara Streisand
32. Poor Unfortunate Souls – Little Mermaid
33. Fighter – Christina Aguilera
34. Candyman – Christina Aguilera
35. Obvious – Christina Aguilera
36. What a Girl Wants – Christina Aguilera
37. And I am Telling You – Dreamgirls
38. I am Changing – Dreamgirls
39. Love You I Do – Dreamgirls
40. Tomorrow – Annie
41. Killing Me Softly – Lauren Hill /Fugees
42. Serious – Gwen Stefani
43. Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now – Hairspray
44. You Can’t Stop the Beat – Hairspray
45. I Got Nerve – Hannah Montana
46. Any Janet Jackson song
47. Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson
48. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You – Michael Jackson
49. Black Horse & A Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
50. The Fame – Lady Gaga
51. Monster – Lady Gaga
52. Speechless – Lady Gaga
53. Fireworks – Katy Perry
54. Ring Them Bells – Liza Minnelli
55. Maybe This Time – Liza
56. Anything by Madonna
57. That Mandy Moore song from A Walk to Remember
58. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) – Nancy Sinatra
59. Step By Step – New Kids of the Block
60. Step By Step – Whitney Houston
61. Sunday Morning – No Doubt
62. Tragic Kingdom – No Doubt
63. Anything from Smokey Joe’s Cafe…but Karaoke places never have these songs
64. I’m A Woman – Peggy Lee but smokey joe’s version preferrably
65. When I Grow Up – Pussycat Dolls
66. Supermodel – Rupaul
67. Shoop, Shoop – Salt n’ Pepa
68. Ready for the Good Times – Shakira
69. Saturday Night – Whigfield
70. Skid Row – Little Shop of Horrors
71. Suddenly Seymore

Well I guess that’s a start!