I Suck At Blue-22

yesterday, a bunch of us celebrated my friend's (kelley) birthday.

we ended up celebrating kelley's birthday at blue-22. my friend (hot amy) would have been proud. too bad i suck at blue-22

anyway, blue-22 subscribes to the nfl sunday ticket. so, any football game can be broadcast within the bar. in addition, they usually have specials on certain things on sundays... like wings... which incidentally are one of my friend's (garv) favorite food items. garv also happens to be a part owner of blue-22, so it only seems fitting about the wings.

in addition to the food specials, blue-22 had wbcn and crash clark there yesterday. crash is a big miami fan, evident from his reggie roby punter jersey. i'm not exactly sure how garv got wbcn to come, but it made for an entertaining birthday celebration for kelley.

naturally, because wbcn was giving away free schwag, i attempted to do what i could to score kelley some items. it was, after all, her birthday celebration. the main item that wbcn was giving away... bret michael's tickets! for anyone curious, bret michaels was the lead singer in the band, poison. he has since had a reality tv show called "rock of love" where he tries to find his soul mate. truth be told, i did not even know he was touring.

crash would have given us the tickets because... well... really, who wants bret michaels tickets? i didn't even want the tickets, but i thought it would have been funny to get them for kelley. unfortunately, there was one woman (jane) at the bar who wanted the tickets. not to give up without a fight, i told crash i wanted the tickets too. or more appropriately, everyone at the table (marc, karen, garv, leeann, kelley, de, and carol) told crash that i wanted the tickets.

so crash concocted a competition for the bret michael's tickets. that competition... karaoke. the song... "every rose has its thorn". the winner is decided by the patrons of blue-22.

first up... me. as the song started playing, i started to hum. i had no idea what the words were. while humming, i started to sway like axl rose... in hopes that i could remember the lyrics. and then... "every rose has its thorn... just like every night... has its dawn... just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song... every rose has its thorn... yeah it does..."

next up... jane. if you thought i didn't know the lyrics, jane knew considerably less lyrics than i did about the song. she was even a little off key when she did attempt to sing.

when all was said and done... the patrons voted and the winner was... jane.

not that i am a sore loser or anything, but i was totally robbed. i don't think anyone in the bar would argue that my rendition of "every rose has its thorn" was much better than jane's. jane, unfortunately, happens to be better shaped than i am... subsequently, she is much more easier on the eyes than me. hell, i even voted for jane.

truth be told, had i really won the competition, i probably would have given jane the tickets anyway. after all, what am i going to do with bret michaels tickets? kelley didn't even want them. so the tickets might as well be put to good use. hm... perhaps my friend (hot amy) and i should have a karaoke competition at blue-22. she'd actually have a better chance of winning against me. we could even wager apple crisp!

as a consolation prize, i received for my efforts the speed racer dvd. exciting i know. kelley didn't want that dvd either. she did, however, get a free wbcn t-shirt. so at least kelley got some schwag yesterday.

anyway, i hope kelley had a good time yesterday. happy birthday again!