Can't believe we did it again, oops!!! What a successful show!!!
I actually completely messed up "Just a Friend." The entire first part slipped my mind! The kids know how many times I practiced from Friday afternoon to Saturday afternoon. Again and again, I thought I had the lyrics memorized to the bone, and I've never spent so much time memorizing song lyrics before.
The truth is, I got a little too high at the beginning of the show. We have this tradition of taking one tiny shot before the show to relax our nerves. Oleg, Maylene, Lola, Chris, Robert, and Homam - a few of us core bandmates who've been together for the past few seasons - we continuously did that. This summer season, only Oleg, Maylene, and I stayed in the band, and Oleg brought along his Jameson anyway! Oleg is this huge Jewish Ukrainian who migrated to US in 1992. For the past seasons, Robert poured us drink, Robert is not as big as Oleg in size and he is more sensitive a man. Oleg literally filled the little cup up and I also just chugged in, what a pair of big nerves...
Only after we cheered and I poured it in my mouth did I realize that it was a little too much. Then we waited on the side of the stage for the teenage kids to finish their groove metal - no idea what that was, a lot of hoarse shouting. After a delay of about 20 minutes, it was finally our time. When we were sound-testing, I was literally floating in the air.
My mind went, "Oh crap! Imma mess up my Eminem 'One Shot' moment, hard." Even though my mind kept going over the lyrics before the performance, I did have moments when I went blank, due to the influence of the Jameson.
But hey, nothing was gonna happen; I'd survive and have fun. So I went ahead with poise and calm. Luckily, I had practiced enough; even with the missing of whole verse, I kept my cool and completed the second and third verses correctly. I also performed all those dramatic movements on stage. Hayden filmed it and will make a super rad video for me. Maybe I will only post from the second verse, well, we'll see, maybe it will still be super cool with whatever I did.
A Chinese woman with tongue-twisting English swagging songs she had never heard of in her entire existence, dang, I outdid myself again! 😎
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