AutoNeurotica

Since I haven't been able to figure out how to post old entries, I'll probably be reviving them here. Please forgive the repetition.

I love singing in my car. I love singing in general, but when I'm alone in my car (windows up or down I don't care) I'll "shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars." I have to remember that I have to turn the radio down when my kid is with me.

And dammit, I sound good when I'm in my car. Better than you shower singers by a factor of 10. I'll pull off notes and vocal control techniques I couldn't do in 4 years of choir. Something magical to me about the enclosed space and volume and solitude. If I'm with someone, forget it. Can't do it. I'm not that free yet. Occassionally I'll be with my bro-in-law and we'll jam out, but it's tenative, it's not unleashed. And if I do end up singing with someone, the volume has to be up, WAY UP. It's not that I don't want to hear them singing, it's that I don't them to hear me. As cool as I THINK I sound, I'm sure it's more like a dying elephant falling onto a flatbed full of bagpipes.

For those that don't sing in your car, you should try it. It's cathartic and it makes you feel good about yourself. And don't worry about the onlookers and the snickers, they're just jealous.