The Promise of Karaoke - Ploughshares
there are clear advantages I have had in terms of my education even if I squandered the chance to attend college, and in terms of the financial safety net under me. But most of all there’s the advantage of believing there would be a place in the world for my music. Because I was a shy, freaky goth weirdo as a teen, it took me years to cop to the en
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Some October, in the future
I'll run out of trash TV
And I'll be feeling lonely
So I'll walk to karaoke
Sing the song you wrote about me
Never once checking the words
I hope that no one sings along
I hope that I am not a regular
We’re In Love, Song by boygenius
In one short evening, I taught myself to play “Creep” by Radiohead, looking up the chords on the Internet. Instead of playing on the nightclub stage, I hopped up onto the bar, and then hopped down to weave through the crowd, playing my ukulele—truth be told—pretty badly. I thought my affair with the instrument would end there, but during that five-
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“people ask how club chess came to be. The real answer is just that they wanted to play drunken chess in a bar. Um, I have this obsession with something called café culture, which I've coined to mean hanging out at a bar or café. But not like this. I'm interested in this long thread of the avant-garde, the cabaret, the do-it-yourself ethos, and Par
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