Comments on: Monster truck guy. http://www.loneprairie.net/2009/12/monster-truck-guy/ Life in Full Color Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Bates http://www.loneprairie.net/2009/12/monster-truck-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-32529 Michael Bates Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:49:20 +0000 http://www.loneprairie.net/?p=4099#comment-32529 This is a new and surprising piece of information: "my three-year stint as a basketball cheerleader." It needs to be validated with photographic evidence or, at the very least, illustrated with the "Hall of Shame" portrait for the appropriate year. Fisherman's Friend lozenges are my throat-soother of choice -- especially good at taming tickles. But stores here are inconsistent about carrying them. This is a new and surprising piece of information: “my three-year stint as a basketball cheerleader.” It needs to be validated with photographic evidence or, at the very least, illustrated with the “Hall of Shame” portrait for the appropriate year.

Fisherman’s Friend lozenges are my throat-soother of choice — especially good at taming tickles. But stores here are inconsistent about carrying them.

]]> By: Bennie http://www.loneprairie.net/2009/12/monster-truck-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-32343 Bennie Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:30:28 +0000 http://www.loneprairie.net/?p=4099#comment-32343 Funny. Well I've heard anything from drinking a cold Coke before a performance (attributed to an opera singer), to using a warm honey-lemon-ginger-tea mixture called Gollum juice (attested by LOTR's Andy Serkis), to using electronic post-production effects (witnessed at an professional voice production studio back in the early 90's) can help accentuate and prolong a person's voice. Of course today there are all kinds of voice synthesis options also available. --I still think one of the best pieces of voice work was in the movie, "The Fifth Element" (1997) with character DJ Ruby Rhod: "What was that honey? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green." The big question in MY mind is, those people who voice the very lengthy disclaimers on TV and radio ads. How do they do that? They'll squeeze a 50 word paragraph in just over five seconds. Amazing. Funny. Well I’ve heard anything from drinking a cold Coke before a performance (attributed to an opera singer), to using a warm honey-lemon-ginger-tea mixture called Gollum juice (attested by LOTR’s Andy Serkis), to using electronic post-production effects (witnessed at an professional voice production studio back in the early 90′s) can help accentuate and prolong a person’s voice. Of course today there are all kinds of voice synthesis options also available.

–I still think one of the best pieces of voice work was in the movie, “The Fifth Element” (1997) with character DJ Ruby Rhod: “What was that honey? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green.”

The big question in MY mind is, those people who voice the very lengthy disclaimers on TV and radio ads. How do they do that? They’ll squeeze a 50 word paragraph in just over five seconds. Amazing.

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