So you know that song "La Isla Bonita" by Madonna? Well this cute red girl is singing it all serious and right in the middle of the chorus this dude shows up wearing a fake moustache and yells the last line of every chorus.
So the pretty girl sings "Tropical the island breeze / All of nature wild and free / This is where I long to be..." and then he grabs the mic each time and screams, in an uber-offensive pseudo Mexican accent "LA ISLA BO-NEEEEE-TOOOOH!" I think I almost shit myself laughing. "SAAAAAN PAY-DROE!"
Later on in the evening, Lo and I reprised our version of Meatloaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Lights" which was last heard at her birthday party last April.
After I was done, a few talentless hacks sang unmemorible crap before Grant got called up for Bowie's "Life on Mars" which he proceeded to render with such heartfelt authenthicity that it actually brought tears to our eyes.
In one of the most blantant acts of shameless sycophancy I've seen in a long while, Grant kicked off the night by singing "Lola" by The Kinks (Lola also being the name of the co-emcee of the evening).
"We're going to party Karamu, fiesta, forever! Come on and sing along!" Talk about lyrical foreshadowing, jeeeez! Colin (aka - "Big Daddy") stepped up to the stage and got the crowd feeling nice with his rendition of Lionel Ritchie's schmoking hit "All Night Long."
...bad-ass photographer Ellen Stagg's birthday party. Check out the birthday girl belting out a karaoke jam. And so yeah, that was pretty much my January. Yay.
