Life with Johnny!

I never cease to be amazed….this Feb 28th, John and I will have served 9 + 5 years in unwedded bliss and yet just when I think I’ve got him figured out he does something out of the ordinary to catch me off guard…good friends of ours run a night of karaoke in a quaint neighbourhood pub-type setting every Saturday.  Now if you know anything about me, public singing and I go together as well as Ray Charles and a where’s Waldo book…what? too soon!..anyhow, I hate it!…sure I can get up do stand-up in front of a 700 seat theatre, I can whip up a half-ways decent improv scene from nothing, I can travel across country putting it out there night after night to complete strangers and press…but don’t make me sing!…so when the karaoke night first started, as any friend would do, we went to support the night…buy drinks, have a good time, cheer on the participants….and then that would be that…until Johnny says the next week, hey aren’t Kim and Peter doing karaoke tonight, we should go see them!…tentative..’ OK, if that’s what you’d like to do, we’ll go’…blink…unusual…so we get there.. I get wine..I’m watching calories you know…then casual like, John fills out a form, then another.. then a few more when I’m not looking…so now we have a 4 hour commitment ahead of us…omg, you’re a closet karaoker…all these years I had no idea…I mean I often ask John to sing to me…he knows all these old army/camp songs and childhood ditties that I’ve long since forgotten about and my most favorite intimate times are when John will hold me and sing piggies or blackbird to me under warm sheets and in the pitch of night…and the man is most brillant when he’s allowed to free form songs..and I do mean brillant!!..for singing improv he’s the best and funniest I’ve ever seen!…..but karaoke!?…okay, this is going to be a hard past time to get behind…borrying…that is until John sings!!

First song, Creep by Radio Head.  Now John can’t see at the best of times, blind as a bat and let’s just say reading…or at least reading accurately..is not John’s forte (accent aigu on the e)…so I’m entertained by the repeating chorus of….I’m a widow replaced by I’m a window….OK, this night is showing promise….next comes Smoke on the Water..and the first line is ‘We all came out to montreux’….hehehe…3-2-1 he’s going to look at me and mouth..’what is that word’…hehehe…bingo..but it was sheer linguistic limbo when the line

‘But with the rolling truck stone’s thing just outside’…where the apostrophe for some reason was replaced by the 1/2 sign and John managed to sing the 1/2 sign into the song…amazing!…if I could only have 1/10th of John’s natural ability and ease at making people laugh I would be a better standup 1000 fold…and if only John had my stage presence he would be a star….well there’s always ‘the boy’…did I mention I love karaoke!