Chun's Party

Chun's Party was lots of fun. Lessons learned, as discussed on the car ride home:

1) By the end of the night, the queue is sometimes up to an hour long.
2) Due to the above, many songs end up needing to be skipped because the requests were made by people who already left.
3) Once the skipping of songs starts, it is difficult not to accidentally skip songs that people still want to sing.
4) Due to inconsistent pacing of song requests, sometimes the same person (often me) will end up singing several songs almost or literally back to back.
5) If Chess and his girlfriend have a baby, people will pay good money to come hear it cry.
6) If a group of new people you don't recognize comes into your karaoke box and immediately starts singing a song, they probably don't belong in your karaoke box.
7) I can't sing the song "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance.

Possible solutions to the first 4 problems:
1) For larger events, we might consider using our own queuing system, where a Karaoke Master (or "KM") keeps a list of songs to be sung, and has names associated with the list, so that the order can be restructured to fit the mood and songs can be skipped when people are missing.
2) For smaller events, we could adopt the strategy of non-ownership, whereby songs are not necessarily sung by the person who queued them. This allows not only for the order of singers to flow more naturally, but also for the queue to remain reasonably short, since you don't have to put songs into it to ensure you have a chance to sing.
3) Though it has its own drawbacks, karaoke at my house does not suffer from most of these problems.