there’s a plan afoot to go out for karaoke friday — a good friend’s last day working on campus, boo hiss. (yeah, yeah, i’m happy she’s found something that sucks less than her current job, but still, sad to lose a friend at work.)

so i’m thinking about songs i know well enough i could probably not butcher them too badly. i mean, i know pretty much all of michael jackson’s “beat it.” but no one wants to hear soprano-niqui belt that one out, and i can’t do the tee-hees justice, anyways, so that’s out.

trouble is, everything i know very well is either obscure or introspective or outright depressing and therefore unlikely to appear on a karaoke menu. i mean, i think the perkiest thing in my repertoire is, like, “ripple” by the grateful dead. which is not so much karaoke music. i could probably do a decent “hallelujah,” as i do it in the shower every so often and finally know all four verses correctly, but i’d have to do it a capella (not happening, no matter how many drinks are had) and who wants to sing depressing shit in a bar anyways?

so. suggest me some songs, people. stuff i can memorize in a day and a half, that would be on a karaoke menu, and would not be either sad or difficult (i’m thinking BNL, “one week” when i say that, or that one blues traveler song that was so popular in, like, 1995.). get to work!

(oh, and if you’re willing to do a duet of “The Internet Is For Porn,” totally let me know.)