on stuff

Rereading some of these posts, I have noticed that I have been emphasizing Stuff a lot lately. Meaning that with the holiday gifting and getting and losing and replacing I think I have been overly focused on material things. This concerns me. On the other hand, I feel that the reason I'm focused on them is that I hardly ever have new things, and I am genuinely delighted to have some nice new stuff. Also I really like to make lists, and to be complete about things I don't want to forget. In the reviewing of my Christmastime I didn't want to leave them out. I don't want to be a braggart or a materialist though, so I'm sorry if it came across that way.

In any case I should try to focus on more important things, like finding songs besides Son of a Preacher Man to sing at karaoke bars. It's embarrassing because while I felt rock-solid crooning those 40's tunes in front of a band at the zoo, I always feel like I can't find anything good in the karaoke lists. There are too many songs I don't know at all, or not well enough, or I can't remember the bridge, or what if it's not in my range, or what if I don't sound as awesome on THIS song as I could sound on another song.... I suppose that's just pride. I gotta give a lot of credit to the folks who can't carry the tune as strongly and don't even think about range or verses or anything, who just know they like to sing along to that one part of the chorus, so they get up on stage and do it. Good job, that guy. You're on stage having fun while I'm trying to plug one ear thinking, "How the hell does the middle part of One Way Or Another go??"