The Doctor is in

The night before a Super Bowl which included none of the top four teams in the league and the team that played worse won, one Dr. Ken Lewis gave a free concert at the Otani sushi restaurant/karaoke bar. Dr. Lew put on a show.

By now, I hope anyone reading this knows what Kenny's penalty is and why he had to do it. There were a few funny things that happened during the night. First, Kenny purposefully didn't tell Jeff, a friend of Kenny's and a guy who backed out of the bet at the last minute for fear of being in Kenny's shoes. He mentioned more than once that he was happy that my dad and Jeff didn't know this was going on even though Tom, Glenn and I all knew that both of them knew and both were coming. A bunch of Kenny's family showed up as well. One of Kenny's cousins ordered about $100 worth of sushi which I found humorous.

The DJ also announced to everyone that Kenny was doing this because he lost a bet which changed things by letting the audience know that he didn't actually like the songs he was singing. That made it significantly less painful for Kenny which didn't necessarily make it any less funny. This was made up for by the fact that Kenny had no idea what songs were coming when he was up there so keep that in mind.

Picking songs for this guy was difficult. This was supposed to be a punishment, and yet, we had a hard time figuring out a way to humiliate old Ken Lewis. As Tom (his roommate) put it, "This is a guy who sang 'I Touch Myself' with a mustache." By the way, the fact that he had a mustache was because he lost another football related bet with Tom. Let's just get to the song list.

Song #1: "It's Rainin' Men"
Artist: The Weather Girls
Requested by: Clark

You kinda knew he was going to have to sing this one. Clark was the one guy that wasn't there early to coordinate songs so it was sort of in a different vein than Tom's, Glenn's and mine. "It's Rainin' Men" isn't really thinking outside the box, but it certainly is not an enjoyable song to sing, especially when the front row table include about 15 middle aged black women. Unknown to Kenny, the rest of us, even Clark, that terrible song is almost six minutes long. During an instrumental portion of this classic, Kenny even mentioned "this is a long song."

Song #2: "Your Body is a Wonderland"
Artist: John Mayer
Requested by: Glenn

The face Kenny made after hearing the first three notes of this song was priceless. You see, Kenny is what you might call a showman. He can make just about any song a crowd-pleaser but the genius of the John Mayer pick is that some people actually like John Mayer. It's also just a super lame song that is painful for any self respecting man to sing in public or otherwise. In the pre-show meeting, this served as the "lame white guy song." Success.

Song #3: "We Go Together"
Artist: Musical-Grease
Requested by: Buddies

When I was making my pick, it was between this and this. If you don't know already, this is the song. This was the song that was supposed to maybe make Kenny want to kill us. At this point in the night, having already had a solid amount of sake', this was pretty funny to me. If you're listening to the song right now, you're probably at the part in the middle where they don't say any real words for a good minute. Kenny actually did a pretty good job with all this bullshit, you gotta hand it to him.

Song #4: "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Requested by: Tom

This was a very controversial pick because it's a good song and a good karaoke song at that. (I'm listening to "That Don't Impress Me Much" right now and I had to link it, and I have to say it's pretty distracting.) I actually didn't have a problem with it. By that time, the crowd already loved Kenny and one more horrible song wasn't going to finally do him in. Tom and I talked about it and we decided we liked the idea of a normally enjoyable song for Kenny to sing where the lyrics could be construed as an attempt to teach Kenny a lesson or something. Kenny definitely got what he needed that night.