Lately, it happens quite often that Luke will come to me with some bizarre request that takes about 10 minutes of show and tell for me to actually grasp what the hell he's talking about and which usually ends with me saying, “Luke, I have no idea how to do that, but I bet your father does!”

So for this particular request, I was not around, but when my husband Mark told me about it I nearly peed my pants (seriously, that happens).

Luke had gotten into my cake decorating stuff and had found some little dowels, the kind you put through layers of cake to make sure they don't topple over. After a 5 minute session of Q&A, Mark finally understood that Luke wanted him to drill a hole in the bottom of the dowel so that he could plug his speaker cable into it and use it like a microphone .(His speaker being a little computer speaker Mark probably bought in the 80s and that Luke found tucked away in a drawer most likely resting beside an old mix tape and a Members Only jacket.)

So being the crafty man that Mark is, he found some bigger dowels in the garage, drilled a hole in the bottom with a whatever inch drill bit and decorated the “microphone”, with the Shure logo and all. And being the smart man that he is, he of course made 3 so Emmylou and Joseph could partake.

When Luke plugged that speaker into his microphone for the first time, his eyes lit up like the hot Louisiana sun and the tunes just started pouring out.

Emmylou immediately dropped down to the floor, putting her ear to the speaker expecting to hear Luke's voice resonating.

Without going into too much sound engineering, Mark had to explain to Emmylou that plugging a broken speaker into a wooden dowel would never, ever produce actual sound.

She was fine with that except when it came for her turn to plug in her make-shift microphone it didn't fit. Luckily my quick witted husband explained to her that she was lucky because she had a “wireless” microphone, just like the one Hannah Montana uses when she does her big concerts on stage.

Meltdown averted.

So I'm sharing a little video of Luke using his one of kind microphone/speaker set. (Scroll down for video). Party Starting Today is written and produced by Luke Falgout himself.

The verdict is still out on if he will be part of the production crew or the band.:-)