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Monday, May 11, 2009

Sing Karaoke for PDX Pop Now!

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM

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If you have not been to the excellent karaoke lounge that is Voicebox, go there now. It's everything good about karaoke (private rooms, plenty of songs, ample drinks to help with the bravery component), and none of the bad (creepy KJs, some stranger ruining your life with an extended version of "Hotel California").

So it's great news that Voicebox is the venue for "Pop Night," a karaoke benefit for the nonprofit folks at PDX Pop Now!. Here are the details:

With the "Make it Pop!" fundraising event successfully complete, PDX Pop Now! is proud to announce the next opportunity for Portland music fans to show their support for the non-profit group. On Thursday, May 14th at 6 PM, karaoke venue Voicebox (2112 NW Hoyt St.) will host "Pop Night", an evening of karaoke dedicated to PDX Pop Now! and the Portland music community. For an entry fee of $8 (all of which goes to funding the PDX Pop Now! effort), participants can stay and sing until the doors close at 11pm. Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the bar, and attendees can relax in the central lounge or check out any of the six party rooms, where individual karaoke stations will be set up and available for use. Most exciting of all, several local Portland musicians will be in attendance and joining in for the fun. This event is for ages 21 and over. Stay tuned to PDX Pop Now!’s website and Facebook for more info on special guests.

I'm assuming the karaoke options will not be limited to songs from "the Portland music community," but just in case, I am learning the entire JonnyX And The Groadies catalog. Get ready.

 

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Here's some to help you out:

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The Upheaval On Titan
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loaded knife cuts like ice sharpened crystal water blade permafrost
cryovolcanic ore mind from the acid cave beyond the methane sea
enemies lie in wait no heat reaches this far into space black mist
rises battle has begun frozen shards rending the sky icy moons ammonia
vapor plumes cryomagma tectonic glacier movement crushing the fortress
wall cold kingdom has been breeched

frost in the wind gathers on the sails

empire will fall when orbits decay all will melt methane seas
will blaze loaded knife cuts like ice sharpened crystal water blade
permafrost cryovolcanic ore mind from the acid cave beyond the methane
sea

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Metal Brain II
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Silent chamber in a black fortress dark technology from far beyond
cylinders and cells hydraulic cortex corroded axons iron intellect
metal brain awareness of alienation relentless solitude desolate
delusions sinister longing sudden motion desperate for victims chaotic
journey random teleportation transversing the void endless galaxies
warping through millennia searching finding seven billion brains ready
for harvest flee chase bind the minds merciless mind mechanism with
telepathic tentacles serpentine ventriloquists with wires to the sky
ingesting nerves absorbing thoughts expanding control no escape
defiling souls destroying a world absorbing thoughts defile destroy

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Upon a Throne of Teeth
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Chisel the jaw dig in the flesh extract the root your wisdom is mine
chisel the jaw dig in the flesh extract the root your wisdom is mine
high atop an icy peak is where I'll build my throne of teeth
constellation of stars we seek obscured from those beneath
constellation of stars we seek obscured from those beneath pull your
teeth inscribed incisor inscribed incisor inscribed incisor the symbol
the key open the gate cosmic eternity cosmic eternity cosmic eternity
chisel the jaw dig in the flesh extract the root your wisdom is mine
chisel the jaw dig in the flesh extract the root your wisdom is mine

===============
Zero Dimensions
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Use dark science to describe a point in space with infinite mass with
zero dimensions use the forbidden art to bring its existence no light
can penetrate no light can escape spheres of dark matter anti-proton
nucleus collapse

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Eyes into Ashes
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staring at the sun until it no longer rises eyes into ashes accept the
light directly into my brain focus the beam on the back of my skull
send it down my spine burn the inverted symbols on the bottom of my
heart tracing the nerves back ill wear my lungs on my sleeve lungs on
my sleeve lungs on my sleeve eyes into ashes eyes into ashes lungs on
my sleeve eyes into ashes lungs on sleeve ashes lungs on my sleeve

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Consorting with Loathsome Beasts
(lyrics based on the poem Throne of Deformity)
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Drawn upward, into mountains cold with rain
and forest, into narrow clefts of stone,
upward from convention, cities, pain
of loss--I sought to be alone.
And there in secret caves I found a throne
constructed for a body strangely shaped--
not manlike, not God's making. I escaped.

I wandered then into a valley, green
with life, yet sickly somehow too--
I heard the scrabbling of things unseen
Breathed alien air, saw poison in the dew.
I thought to flee, but yearned to stay there too.
And then the night took hold, and all around
the beast-things came up writhing from the ground.

They were the image of the form I'd seen
Reflected in that throne; not dead
But horridly alive, slime-blackened, lean
with hunger for my aching flesh. I bled
where pale claws scratched me. Tasting me, they led
my witless form back to that mountain cave--
before their empty throne, made me their slave.

And time has flowed, and altered me in flowing:
for as the months or centuries went darkly by,
my torment and delight each moment growing,
My man's form died. But I will never die!
My shape may not be comely to the eye,
You'd see it in the night and know despair--

But now it fits, in every vile detail, that chair.
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Posted by JonnyX and the Groadies on May 11, 2009 at 11:06 PM · Report
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Okay, now I have to do it.
Posted by ezra on May 12, 2009 at 8:55 AM · Report

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