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This guy has me on block for some reason (never interacted with him, so I dunno why) but I will answer his question anyway by retelling my Bill Murray karaoke story for your amusement 1/ https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1247682332292718596
I'm over visiting my girlfriend (now Mrsoteric) in 2007, and we actually get in a bit of a tiff over some dumb nonsense. She lives in Wicker Park (Chicago), so I walk out of the house for a cigarette and decide to go to a bar and get a drink.
Walk into a place on Division and hey, it's karaoke night! (I remember it as a Wednesday.) Well, I'm a sucker for karaoke, and now I've had a couple shots, so I plunk down my $6 and request Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse Of The Heart." Yup, that's right. I flippin' love that song.
I get called up to the 'stage' at the back of the bar with my song announced in advance to the miniscule crowd by the DJ, and as its begins (you know, those piano notes), all of a sudden, I look to my left and Bill Murray is striding purposefully toward the stage to join me.
I just start right in singing the "Turn around..." bit and he goes right to "every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never comin' 'round" on the mic with me. We duet our way through the entire song. By this point everyone in the bar is paying attention.
It's f***ing hilarious. Bill can't really carry the tune that well but nobody cares, least of all me. By the end of the song, we're both singing the falsetto "turn around bright eyes..turn around bright eyes" and the place bursts into applause.
We're done, i step off the stage, and he hands me a $20 bill and says "sorry for blowing up your spot, man." And then leaves, with a friend of his, without a further word.
It's the greatest AND weirdest celebrity encounter of my entire life.
It's the greatest AND weirdest celebrity encounter of my entire life.
