Prince – When You Were Mine

An upbeat sound with some more meloncoly lyrics, one of my favorite Prince jams — and i LOVE the Cyndi Lauper version, which is what is linked here since I couldn’t find the original Prince version on YouTube!

Adele – Someone Like You

I’m pretty uneducated when it comes to modern day music hits, i’ll admit. I only downloaded and listened to this song for the first time about an hour before heading out to Karaoke — and it being one of the most utterly heartbreaking songs I’d ever laid ears on — it was the perfect selection for the nights theme. If the lyrics to this one didn’t make anyone cry, my attempt to sing an actual ‘singerly’ song might have! ;)

Check out the 1st Vaginal Fantasy Hangout, already posted on YouTube.

My Tee Fury shirt arrived today and I am STOKED!

Waiting in my mailbox for me today was some of the books I ordered to add to my collection. READING IS COOL.

After maybe 6 years with my natural dark brown, I dyed my hair black again yesterday.

Why is it ‘the best,’? Well — to some roake lovers, this place might be a nightmare — it’s a little unconventional, with the song selection that you won’t find anywhere else — including old punk rock tracks, obscure nerdcore, and all other bits of randomness you have NEVER heard at karaoke. While the more traditional karaoke bar around the corner has a nightly performance of  “Don’t Stop Believing” — Baby Ketten’s nightly anthem has become Danzig’s “Mother”.

Since I’ve shifted my blogs focus in 2012 to being a window into my life outside of the normal day to day of CMD+Shift Design — Karaoke is a big part of that, so each month I will be posting a log of the songs I logged on the Baby Ketten stage.

Babes in Toyland – Sweet 69

Prime example of the crazy unique song selection at BKK! Just added to the catalogue I was the first person in all of Seattle (or maybe anywhere) to rock this one at karaoke.

Dokken – Dream Warriors

Uhh… Nightmare on Elm Street 3 soundtrack, duh!

Hole – Gold Dust Woman

Since most of the Hole songs in the book are off of ‘Celebrity Skin’ (gag) I went for the Fleetwood Mac cover of theirs off The Crow 2 Soundtrack.

Le Tigre – Deceptacon

My favorite Le Tigre song! Only Kathleen Hanna can work the word ‘depoliticize’ into a dance number.

Metric – Combat Baby

The Canadaian band behind the ficticious Canadian Band, Clash At Demonhead from the Scott Pilgrim movie.

Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away

Another good dance song, but if you don’t have head phones — skip listening to this one in the office. As the title would suggest, the F-bomb gets dropped (along with the word, ”titties’.)

Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam

My buddy and I closed the place out one night with this one — a total train wreck, but the bartender wanted to hear this song and we were the people left in the crowd who #1 were not too drunk to sing and #2 were OK with making complete asses of ourselves.

Got out every Thursday this month! If you live in Seattle and wanna join me and my roake crew some night, @cmdshiftdesign me on Twitter! Let’s sing!

Had a lot of fun playing kickball with so many awesome people, can’t wait till next year!

To learn more about the Reateaching Gender & Sexuality Tour, visit reteachinggenderandsexuality.org and learn how you can help out.

IT IS! This Sunday I am going to playing Kickball (for the first time since elementary school) on TEAM GOLD for the Dirty Fall Quickball 2011. It’s a Kickball tournament, complete with halftime show, concessions and all sorts of FUN to benefit the Reateaching Gender & Sexuality Tour. Check out the video below and visit the reteachinggenderandsexuality.org site to get an idea of what the awesome organization is doing to re-define gender and sexuality all over the country and help queer kids lead happier healthier lives!

So — how can YOU help? Well I am glad you asked — make a donation in my team’s honor (TEAM GOLD!) OR if you are in Seattle and want to check out the festivities on Sunday, pick up advanced tickets!

Let’s kick some BALLS!

Pagebreak is a podcast I started back in August with Niki Brown from the DesignOBlog. Niki and I spend our spare time reading a book about design, development, freelance or marketing and then at the end of each month we record a discussion on it! Throughout the month, we send out short-format shows where we read a blog post targeted to our industry and give our 2cents on it. We release something for you every Wednesday, so subscribe via RSS or on iTunes!

I am so glad we started doing the show and I have been having a lot of fun work on it. Our goals for the show in 2011 include revamping the website, having guests on Snippets from time to time, including our listeners more, and getting better at SPEAKING without saying like, ya know, kinda like or ummm… so much!