Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Aid From An Alternate Tumble
Our big audio-book recording day lumbers ever closer with legs of anticipation and feet of palpable nervous tension. Tumble has currently taken over the living room, hard at work on his costume for his role as the on-board computer R.A.S.P.U.T.I.N. in 2023.

After having Chestnut and our landlord Phil read for the multiple women's roles and fail miserably at sounding the least bit authentic, I phoned Tumble's sister Imogene in Ambridge, PA and she agreed to perform our lady characters for us, provided the three of us come see her in a regional theater performance of Tony and Tina's Wedding. After finding out about said bargain, Tumble vowed to poison me in my sleep, but not before acknowledging that his sister sounded a lot better than Phil's unsettling Betty Boop-like falsetto.
posted @ 04:08 PM est [link]

Thursday, November 9, 2006

Present Futures Past

Chestnut and I are up late going over the cues for the audio book version of Hello Future Me... ...Hi There while Tumble sleeps off the knock-down, drag-out conference call he'd had with the publisher that afternoon in which he'd fought tooth and nail for a six-figure budget. (Tumble ultimately settled for four hours of studio time and a Frito-Lay variety pack.)

The studio time has been booked and I couldn't be more excited to watch my prose come alive in the capable lungs of my cohorts. Chestnut is to star as our protagonist, both in March 1997 and the summer of 2023. Tumble will play Officer Daniels as well as the orbiting space station's mainframe computer.
posted @ 02:29 PM est [link]