Once more, with feeling!

COMPSONS FTW

FTW!!!!!

Also, that first voice better be heard by everyone. I'd like to see how many people in the near vicinity commit suicide before I take a knife to my own throat.

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HEY! I may be the only person left in the world who does so, but I call them CHECK BOXES!

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Also, my alternate narrator-for-life would be Richard Roma, as portrayed by Al Pacino. Who narrates half my life, as it is.

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As someone who builds forms, I can put in my professional opinion and say that we call them forms too at ApplyWeb.

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I'd say the voice being heard by people nearby sounds reasonable, yes.

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I MEAN WE CALL THEM CHECKBOXES TOO

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YES

You stupid fucking cunt.

Williamson I'm talkin to you shithead!

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Mary Alice Young would so rock.

But oh god... the people who never just shut up... they make me want to beat their heads against a wall.

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I don't think I've ever heard the term "Italian bread"... I do like the bread I ate in Italy, but presumably that's not what's meant, so I left that checkbox blank. I've yet to meet a form of bread I did not find delicious, though. BREAD!

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Awwwwwwwwww yeah. >:D THAT is what I'm talkin' about.

It'd make every day so much HAPPIER.

Maybe even better still if the rest of the cast could get involved just once in a while, throw in a "wait, what are we--" "I just told you, we're--" "Just shut the FUCK up, shut you're fucking--" "Oh, and who the fuck're you, telling us to--Big MAAAAN, is that what you are? Do you--?" "Oh, FUCK you."

Makes my brain happy, just thinking about it.

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Ex-cellent... >:D

If that first is EVER like forced and comes back to bite me in the ass, SO MANY PEOPLE are going to die. And the cause of death will be Gilbert Gottfried. Which is a fact almost amusing enough to make it all worthwhile...

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Good call on Yeats for the voiceover, btw! I take it you've heard the recording of him reading "Lake Isle of Innisfree"? Have you heard Edison's recording of Tennyson reading "Charge of the Light Brigade"? Complete with what appears to be Tennyson making horsie clop-clop sound effects to accompany the recitation...

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Have, indeed. :D He DOES have a helluva voice... Difficult to get out of the head even after one or two listen-throughs. >.> Not sure if he can quite compare with Dylan Thomas, but really, who the fuck can?

And I think I've heard part of the Tennyson recording, though not all, and thinking I'll need to amend that oversight, there. Because Tennyson + clip-clop nosies sounds like a good time, hands down.

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Maybe Alec Baldwin can narrate some days.

YOU PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. I DROVE HERE IN A BMW YOU DROVE HERE IN A HYUNDAI

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But oh god... the people who never just shut up... they make me want to beat their heads against a wall.

Yes plz.

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I wasn't trying to be cheeky by picking every single answer on the theme restaurant question. They all sound awesome. Props to Anders.

I don't think I've ever actually been to a theme restaurant, but as you can perhaps tell, I would like to. XD

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Wikipedia has embedded the most complete version of the Tennyson thing that I've heard, here (pretty much all the way on the bottom). The sound quality is still highly crappy, as one might expect, but you can hear the voice and the horsie noises :D

I actually had never heard Dylan Thomas reading, so of course I had to go and find some audio clips, and now that I have, I have to say I'd probably still take Yeats, but Thomas is also awesome.

Since we've drifted all kinds of afield from the original question, have you ever heard Philip Larkin reading his poems? It is AWESOME. I can't resist linking to this YouTube video, which is basically the audio of him reading "This Be The Verse" over a still image, but the audio is all you need. (Warning: profanity. Not that I expect that to bother you, but, you know, it could be kind of unexpected.)

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Oh, well I will point out that while the *question* was by Anders, I came up with more than half of the themes. :P

(Anders would never have added a livejournal-themed restaurant or one featuring second breakfasts and a seventy-seven course meal, c'mon now)

Edited Date: 2008-11-26 06:52 am (UTC)

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Also, rofl @ so many people picking Holden for their favorite narrator!

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So like a Lannister to demand credit where credit is due! Well, you guys make a good team.

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A good *Lannister* team, indeed. ;)

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Haha, well...he's damn great, you know. All the women want him cause he's so mature. :P

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Oh hey, you're a Robin Hobb fan, I see! Cool! :)

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It's the bread you usually get before your meal at an Italian restaurant? Aka, this (http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/italianbread). :)

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Oooh, good call on the voiceover narrator for your life! (Besides getting to listen to Neil all day, I have a feeling one's life would sound a lot more interesting when narrated by him. :D)

Edited Date: 2008-11-26 06:59 am (UTC)

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Ooo, excellent. >:D Shall be taking a listen to both of those as soon as in the land of faster net-connection, as I currently lack the patience to wait. >.> But W00T. have not heard Larkin, so that should be fun. Mwah.

I think what got me most with Thomas was "Fern Hill." Which was what made me go particularly O_o about his poetry (or some of it) in the first place. Because good damn, it's a helluva shot.

To his credit, though, Yeats has that certain wavering something. Intensity. Whatever. And now I'm going to be thinking about this... Which isn't a bad thing. XD Mmm, the voices.

Less of an mm to Eliot's voice, which is rather sad, given the fuck YES of his poetry. Not so much a fan of the reading. But this is heading even more in the not-direction... ahhh well. XD BUT YES. Danke for the linkage; shall be a-savin' and later a-lookin', fweh.

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Yes, go Robin Hobb fans! She is made of win of every level, for sure.

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I am sure he would make even drinking coffee very amusing and/or disturbing. And he'd have such perfect deadpan delivery!

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Huh. I've never heard it called anything special... I wonder if it's a regional thing? But in that case, I like it, too :)

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I hate paratha. It's fun to make but cheap and gross to eat. It's blagh.

Naan >>>>>>>> paratha. So hard. Not even funny.

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Eliot's voice is rather disappointing, considering. He's the equivalent of a "radio face" for voices ... and poetry ...

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Uni lectures (where I have to make notes) have given me an undying hatred for people who talk too fast.

I like all kinds of bread. But not soggy British bread (only decent for the toaster) and those sourdough bricks. I also really like Middle Eastern (Turkish) bread.

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Yeah, Eliot's voice, sadly, doesn't contribute much to his poetry, probably the reverse. Which is really too bad.

The links to Thomas audio I found didn't include "Fern Hill", but I will keep an eye out for that.

I love the trembling... intensity, yeah, in Yeats's voice. It kind of stays with you, doesn't it?

Have fun with the links! :) (I do have to say that the Larkin voice thing is awesome in quite an unexpected way. Not, like, powerful and commanding or lyrical, but... well, you'll see :)

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