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I’m unbearable about karaoke. In my place in London it is functionally impossible to come round and have drinks without me at some point insisting it’s karaoke time. I’m a show off cause I believe I should have been a famous singer but was prevented by a tragic lack of any actual musical ability except a nice singing voice which I am steadily destroying with cigs. My current standards are Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor and You Got It by Roy Orbison
Jul 25, 2023
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I’m coming to terms with the fact that I may never get black out drunk at Upstairs Bar and sing Careless Whisper ever again. But if you’re fully vaccinated and know other fully vaccinated people, karaoke can still happen. A version of it, anyway. I had my first small session for a friends birthday the other night using Karafun videos on Youtube (search your song + karaoke) and some shitty but functional bluetooth microphone and it was honestly better than sex.
Apr 20, 2021
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It’s probably gonna be a long time before I ever do karaoke again cause I only sang with this one person whom I adored but unfortunately that friendship ended up being a complete lie and I got caught up in an irl Se7en-esque plot twist where I was the Brad Pitt character. Eventually I’ll find the right person to sing with again.
Anyways, yeah, love Nirvana. Love that song, I’m usually overcritical of myself but I think I can carry that song pretty well, it’s less about how skilled you are vocally and how well you can carry the weight of what Kurt wrote.
Also love doing Otis by Jay-Z and Kanye West, Lord Only Knows by Beck and Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.
If I’m hammered enough with a friend, New Tank by Playboi Carti becomes a right of passage.
Feb 26, 2025
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A once- favoured first date spot which I overused and now only go to alone, either to smoke furiously in the yard if in a mood about something, or to watch Jeopardy at the bar with the bartender and other strays
Jul 25, 2023
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I’m a huge advocate of crossing a bridge every day by foot. When I’m depressed I can’t do anything much, can’t do a proper work out or cook a meal or read or write, but I can always manage to cross a bridge. In London this means walking from my place in South East into town across Waterloo Bridge to go to therapy or the library, and in New York I like going from Clinton Hill across the Manhattan Bridge, usually just to go into Lovely Day thai cafe and eat something and turn right back around. Better than nothing!!
Jul 25, 2023
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This is a debut novel by a hugely talented Irish writer about a teenage girl in 1960s New York who ends up working in Warhol’s Factory, transcribing taped conversations destined to be collated into an experimental novel. It’s weird and wild and extremely funny and sad, perfect for anyone used to wandering around a glamorous city feeling like a lumpen freak.
Jul 25, 2023