Saturday night and it was time to explore a little bit of portland before its too late. Z., B. and M. went with me to one of my favorite P-town places: The Alibi. I had been there once before many years ago on a date, although we had to leave at 8:00pm due to our status as minors. This place is basically world famous due to Chuck Palahnuik's Guide to Portland.
There are always locals crooning away on the microphone over tracks in the style of whomever. Karaoke runs 7 days a week, and on Saturday (apparently) there is a free buffet at midnight.
We got an okay seat but couldn't see the singers, which was fine. Someone sang "Father of Mine" by Everclear, a band fronted by none other than lead singer, local radio DJ, and world record holder for songs with the word 'no' repeated generously, Art Aleksakis. I commented that it would be weird if it actually were Art singing the his own song, when the karaoker started doing a great impression of the famous Aleksakis 'no-oh'. It was too good. I stood up to see, and it was Art himself. In the flesh. I've seen pleenty of celebs, including Ted Nugent, Ben Stein, and Bruce Campbell. Heck, I even rolled burritos for Sheryl Crowe and Lance Armstrong. But this was pretty cool.
It just goes to show that humble beginnings are the same as beginning in any other manner: Every beginning has an end and its the end that counts the most. Who knows. Maybe some day I will be famous enough to sing karaoke in a dive bar.
-Ryan
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