Destroying Lungs in the Process

[mundens]

So this morning I discovered that I have got out of the habit of drinking till 3.00am and then getting up bright and early. Oww! My head actually hurts! Comes from not drinking straight whiskey all night I reckon.

Still, the way taraxgoat was filling things up with vodka and leaving cocktails all over the place it's not bloody surprising. I suspect I'm feeling better than some though...

Needless to say, evie_fae's Cocktails and Singstar was great fun, and I really enjoyed the last few songs, including belting out Bowie's Life on Mars, with holding_pattern, Starship's Kids in America with evie_fae, and Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart with jarratt_gray. jarratt_gray also won the round of Buzz we played afterwards, though it was close!

It was great to catch up with some of those I don't see so often, and to see some new sides to those people It was also great just to be wonderfully (if alcoholically) relaxed around friends, with nice nibbles, chocolate, music and warmth.

Unfortunately that song is now stuck in my head :

I don't know what to do, I'm always in the dark,
We're livin' in a powder-keg and giving off sparks

BTW, that track is a Jim Steinman one, as could be expected from the style and the video. Jim, for those that don't know, is responsible for those huge sprawling Meat Loaf songs, and the Celene Dion hit It's All Coming Back to Me Now, which for many people is the only Celene Dion song they like. Even more interesting for some, he worked with The Sisters of Mercy on both Floodland and Vision Thing, and has also written a musical Tanz Der Vampires, which opened in Vienna in 1997.

Comments

[gialiat.livejournal.com]

he is also responsible for the boyzone song "No matter" which is from the mucial whistle down the wind

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yep, Jim has done a lot of things! Like the all girl group Pandora's Box which had Elen Foley, the woman from the early Meat Loaf tracks in it.

[seraphs-folly.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you all had a great night X D

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I think all of us except those who got a little too inebriated did!

You really are going to have to do a Singstar evening one day, it's great fun, even if you have to be drunk to sing (like Jarratt :) )

[holding-pattern.livejournal.com]

I belted? Was that the one I sang while lying sideways on the couch?

Hah. It makes so much sense that it was the Meatloaf songwriter - I was listening to y'all sing it and thinking that the musical style was an exact template of his :D.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

:) Yes, lying sideways on the couch. I think I was sitting for that one too, I was thinking of Jarratt and I doing rock god impressions when I wrote "belted".

Jim Steinman is very recognizable, and deliberately tries to create "The Great American Rock Anthem", sort of his equivalent of creating "The Great American Novel".

I'm sad they don't have Paradise By Dashboard Light on a Singstar disc, coz that would take me back to my teenage when my girlfriends and I used to "air karaoke" to it.

Yes, there were two of them, girlfriends that is, and all three of us did it together. That and Alice Cooper's Nurse Rosetta.... :)

[evie-fae.livejournal.com]

It amuses me that you, Jarratt, & I all woke up with Total Eclipse of the Heart stuck in our heads. D'you happen to know if Nick did as well? XD

Error up there, though - Kids in America is a Kim Wilde song. ^^;

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yep, you're right, I was confusing We Built This City with Kids in America.

I'll check with Nick!