what do you get when you cross a mild mannered NoDa wine bar, a couple of good drink specials, a handful of out going people, and platinum J in all his karaoke splendor?  one hell of a time at dolce vita on thursday, that’s what.

we kicked off around eight or eight thirty after getting all the equipment set up.  and from there, it just took off.  platinum is the ideal guy for running a karaoke night.  not afraid to call people out at all.  and he has a great set up with a decent list of tunes for you to belt out if you are willing.  and sometimes, even if you aren’t willing.  i know i got called out once or twice for “platinum’s picks” a couple of times.  if there was nobody signed up to sing, J would keep things rolling by picking a song of his choice followed by a singer of his choice.  good times.

and it was nice to catch up with my buddy graham.  he moved to NYC last year and we lost touch for the most part since then.  but i slapped him with an email last week and he just happened to be breezing through the CLT for business.

scott and melissa…

scotty belting out another tune.  more than likely, “okie from muskogee”…

 platinum J standing by in amazement as i sound exactly like scott weiland for “interstate love song”…

alexis with the scarf around the mic for what turned out to be a spoken word version of “sweet child o mine”… 

molly kate with bryan…

alexis on a duet with polly… 

bryan and mark belting one out…

great googily moogily.  molly and irma. 

straight cheese from alexis…

hanging…

don’t remember her name, but she took it pretty seriously…

so, it was a good night at DV.  talk was going around at the end of the night to crank up some more karaoke sometime in january, so stay tuned.  you don’t want to miss out twice.