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« Reply #7170 on: April 01, 2010, 02:00:36 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 01, 2010, 04:27:19 am

Something about my voice is... distinctive? I need to listen more to say exactly what it is.


You sound a lot like my best childhood friend's husband, as I mentioned when you called on my birthday. It is distinctive, but not quite a one-in-a-million voice like Casey Kasem or Sterling Holloway. It's more like, one in a hundred thousand. There's something in the tambre that has, I think, a little more vibration than most. It's not a deep baritone like Thurl Ravenscroft, but it has a similarly rich quality at a higher pitch. (Higher than Thurl; still slightly deeper than average.)

Pedro has a deeper-than-average voice, but it is very soft and has very little resonance. If it were a can of paint, it would be a matte finish, whereas inev's would be satin and Ravenscroft's would be glossy. Pedro's carries like a motherfucker, though; when he calls the kids inside you can hear him across the whole neighborhood.

I hate the way I sound in recordings or over the phone. I deliberately drop my voice when making a business call because otherwise I think I sound too young. (Like, prepubescent young.) Inside my head, I have a beautiful husky contralto with soft vowels and sharp consonants. It's so disappointing when I actually open my mouth.

These are the things I think about. Perhaps I have Issues.

OH ALSO: Today I'm gonna live my dream of walking into a bookstore and buying my own work.
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« Reply #7171 on: April 01, 2010, 02:14:50 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on April 01, 2010, 02:00:36 pm
OH ALSO: Today I'm gonna live my dream of walking into a bookstore and buying my own work.

Nice.
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« Reply #7172 on: April 01, 2010, 02:25:50 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on April 01, 2010, 02:00:36 pm
Thurl Ravenscroft,

1 can for Thurl Ravenscroft and the Grinchy goodness associated therewith.
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« Reply #7173 on: April 01, 2010, 02:48:09 pm »
research HDDs for my laptop.  i want to get more room for BS.  Adobe CS and 3DS Max need between 7-10gb of space and i only have 2-3gb available, after getting rid of some things.

37.x gb total?! wtf?! pain in the ay-uss, much?
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« Reply #7174 on: April 01, 2010, 03:25:20 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on April 01, 2010, 02:00:36 pm
If it were a can of paint, it would be a matte finish, whereas inev's would be satin and Ravenscroft's would be glossy.

www.ifyourvoicewaspaint.com
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« Reply #7175 on: April 02, 2010, 02:33:34 am »
Did you really just say my voice is like "satin?" Wow.

Is this an april fool's day thing? No wonder I get all the ladies.
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« Reply #7176 on: April 02, 2010, 02:41:31 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 02, 2010, 02:33:34 am
Did you really just say my voice is like "satin?" Wow.

Is this an april fool's day thing? No wonder I get all the ladies.

haha!  i bet you blushed.
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« Reply #7177 on: April 02, 2010, 03:19:01 am »
this is such a RADRADRAD article!  sexual ladies FTW!
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« Reply #7178 on: April 02, 2010, 03:22:27 am »
Today, my GF's parents got into town. I offered several times to give her directions to good restaurants, and she kept saying that that was silly, her parents would look up directions on their car GPS. Eventually I gave up.
I say hi to them when they show up, her mom gives me a weird hug that I didn't know how to respond to, they leave to walk to her dorm. 3 minutes later I get a call-- the GPS is broken, could I please tell them how to get to X restaurant?

for some reason this makes me feel like Asherdan.

(secret: the one place she wanted to go was the one place I couldn't remember how to get to, but I did an iPhone-TV-ad worthy trick where I looked it up on google maps while still on the phone with her. Would have been able to drive there, but forgot the name of the street.)
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« Reply #7179 on: April 02, 2010, 03:38:56 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 02, 2010, 03:22:27 am
for some reason this makes me feel like Asherdan.


Better get used to it.
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« Reply #7180 on: April 02, 2010, 04:21:07 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 02, 2010, 03:22:27 am
her mom gives me a weird hug that I didn't know how to respond to

She grabby?
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« Reply #7181 on: April 02, 2010, 04:32:47 am »
They were on the other side of a fence. Before we figured out where the gate was, my girlfriend gave her mom a hug through the fence. And then her mom gestured that she wanted to hug me through the fence. I had never hugged her before. It just caught me off guard. I guess this means they like me?
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« Reply #7182 on: April 02, 2010, 12:44:37 pm »
Today I'm gonna clean out the mother fuck*ng basement with the husband.  It's been two years of build up down there.  We are starting to look like mini hoarders.  Holy shit.

We have a lot of sale worthy stuff, so I'm thinking witty ads with photos on the local used stuff for sale sites are in order.  Fun!
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« Reply #7183 on: April 02, 2010, 01:10:32 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on April 02, 2010, 02:33:34 am
Did you really just say my voice is like "satin?" Wow.

Is this an april fool's day thing? No wonder I get all the ladies.

Specifically, I said your voice is comparable to satin finish interior latex paint. Take that however you like. ;)

I think I've been spending too much time in Home Depot lately.
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« Reply #7184 on: April 02, 2010, 04:34:08 pm »
You're not going to want him to talk in the kitchen.  With that finish it won't really be scrub-able.
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