makin' pasta, makin' pasta

Just got back from a great night of Music Trivioke, which means we played music trivia for about 2 hours and then did karaoke for about 4 hours. Here's the play-by-play:

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" - Temptations

Yeah, I pretty much owned this one.

"Mr Brightside" - The Killers

I only did this because they didn't have "Change Your Mind". It was either this or "Somebody Told Me", which I've never really liked. This was my warm-up so it was just kind of ok.

"Cecilia" - Simon and Garfunkel

Ben and I tried to do this together. I knew that I had the harmony part down cold from many road trip singalongs, and I was confident coming off the Temptations number. So I thought we had this one in the bag - well ... we got up there, and the song starts, and it's way high. I mean, at least a third higher than the studio track. Which meant I couldn't sing the harmonies I wanted. So I went back and forth between some harmony and some melody, which was ok because Ben pretty much switched when I did. Overall, it was pretty terrible. I'd put it on par with last week's failed attempt at "Under Pressure", which almost certainly means that duets are not the way to go.

(For those of you keeping score at home, Ben did a fine version of "Baba O'Riley" and something else, and Van did something else and "American Girl" and it was cool. Abbie wailed a version of "If It Makes You Happy" that really just put the rest of us in our place. She also did a killer "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with Ben as the other dude. Or is it a girl? I can't remember. And yes, I am making pasta. Singing and dancing in a small bar with no A/C makes me hungry!)