Long ago, and so far away.... (mix tape for a dead kid)

[totalvirility]

I got back a few days ago, and am sitting half-asleep at this shit temp job they keep sending me back to at a law firm located in the Met Life Building whose name I probably shouldn't say, but whose initials are Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. I suspect this an evil law firm, but there's nothing really to back this up except for the fact that it only

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it's amazing...

[joerandazzo]

what a walk down memory lane will provide, isnt it?

where do you reside now?
for some reason im thinking chicago and..
i may be there to visit some friends soon.

im looking through my connections to see
if i can find some dirt on said asshole boss.

Re: it's amazing...

[totalvirility]

Brooklyn, actually. My parents live in Madison, Wisconsin, and we used to go down to Chicago a lot, but I'm out east nowadays.

I need to get to Chicago again sometime; I think the last time I was there was when some friends and I in college randomly decided at midnight to just get in the car and drive out there to try out for the "MTV I Wanna Be A VJ 2" contest; we stood in line for 13 hours and went through 3 bottles of SoCo, and by the end of it were so drunk and exhausted that we couldn't think of shit to say during the actual try-outs. I think my segment actually made it into the "Bad" audition part.
They asked me to introduce my favorite video and I sat there saying "Um.....um....my favorite video... um... um..." for about 5 minutes before they told me I could go.

[klingrap]

I will seduce him for you. I will make vigorous love to him atop his office chair as you surreptitiously snap photos through the little glass square on his office door. Then all will be well again.

I had no idea you were from Wisconsin. I'm sorry, dude.

[totalvirility]

Madison's OK; it was a fine place to grow up. I mean, I had sort of a tortured adolescence, but that was about 1/3 my particular high school, and 2/3s me being really, really weird. I seriously don't think I normalized till I discovered drugs and cigarettes.

Come to the Met Life building! Right now! Sleep with my boss! Keep him distracted! I'll call his wife when you're doin' the dirty and intercom his office! I really, really want to fuck up his life.

Re: accent puzzlement

[lifenxcess]

Yeah, I'm from St. Louis too. Strangely everyone seems to think I have a Canadian. Weird, Ah?

Re: accent puzzlement

[totalvirility]

See, I ASSUMED I didn't have a drawl. But what the fuck? Apparently I had something-- I heard the damn tape to prove it. I feel like Nixon.

I wonder if it sometimes is still there; when I hear myself say "arm", do other people hear me say "arhm"?

Zelig

[nuncstans]

Of course, I am the queen of accents, considering that anthrochica and I were first introduced because she hated my fake accent; growing up(state), people made fun of my fake accent, and now I still get the occasional "where the hell is that fake accent from?" And I never figured out what the hell they were talking about. Hell, anthrochica still thinks I have a fucking accent. The cruel results of moving around a lot as a child are that you don't have that cred that comes from being localizable the second you say, "oh Gahd". You don't belong, and that sucks.

Re: Zelig

[totalvirility]

Yeah, I get the 'fake accent' comment a lot. The thing is, I can't tell any accent at all in my voice and, moreover, can't tell any in yours, either. Anthrochica suggests that "All Children of Mark have an accent".

Re: Zelig

[lapsedmodernist]

yes, but i love your zelig self now very much, accent or not. and we've discussed how in your case it's almost like over-enunciation rather than "accent" per se.
fake accent is such a weird category. what does it imply about the essence of "accent"? why must it be so lococentric, rather than logocentric? heh.

and yes, after totalvirility called from Wisconsin having an identity crisis on account of recovering the aforementioned tape with the accent, I did propose a premise that all Children of Mark have accents (or at least us, the Founding Children, as opposed to the Founding Fathers)
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[pharm1215]

Cracked me up reading about your temp job.