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AK Video of the Week: Barbarah

Barbarah started coming to AK back in the days of Sidecar and has never missed a show unless she was ill or out of town. She is one of those people who lives and breathes to perform.

Whenever I see people like Barbarah onstage, it reminds me of an important moment in my life:

When I was [...]

October 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: AK Video of the Week, America, Anti-Karaoke, Dreams, Gender wars, Life, Showbiz, Theater | 5 comments

AK Video of the Week: Dani Metal

Today I inaugurate a new section in this blog, “Anti-Karaoke Video of the Week”. Once a week, I will post one of my favorite videos from AK, and the story behind it.

The reason: Many times I’ve wanted to comment on something interesting or weird that happened in the show. Yes, Dyk Tornado does a great [...]

October 17th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: AK Video of the Week, Anti-Karaoke, Barcelona, Catalonia, Showbiz, Spain | 3 comments

Best Effort

Last Monday at Anti-Karaoke there was this new guy who got onstage to sing a song.

He started the song, and it became clear that this was not going to go well.

No rhythm. No tonality. No musicality. The poor guy just couldn’t hear the music — perhaps due to nerves? He just stayed glued to the [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Barcelona, Human Nature, Showbiz | 2 comments