I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

Because the "Where is Everybody" thread got bumpin' busy today. That was hilarious, by the way, when you guys made the reply column so darn skinny. I'm still laughing.
Anyway, I just had to tell you about Pirate Master - it's on CBS (i think, yeah, pretty sure), a new summer reality show to lead into Big Brother. A bunch of people pretend to be pirates and sail around the south seas looking for treasure. One of the contestants, Jo Don , works with my husband. And let me tell you, reality television is just that much better when you're watching someone you know make a fool of himself and feeling oh, so glad, that it isn't you.
So, I'm a hundred percent with you on the Netflix thing. I pretty much only watch tv shows if they come in the mail in a little red sleeve, well, other than the reality fluff I admit to being addicted to from time to time. Ooooo, Vito just got whacked. That was tough. I almost thought he'd make it.
Anyway, thanks for keeping up the conversation with me.
Theresa
PS You should come to Alaska. There are lots of librarian jobs here.
PPS I'm ready for my next Html lesson. Didja notice? Didja?

replynobody tell me either
Submitted by mavis j on June 8, 2007 - 12:13am.
I'm still watching last season on DVD. (I'd much rather have Netflix than cable.) I'm just trying to get as much as I can before it is inevitably spoiled for me. Where I'm at they just whacked Vito. It was pretty hard to watch.
So, what exactly is Pirate Master anyway? Is this some kind of Alaska thing? And, ummm, which pirate do you know?

Thanks, Mavis, I'm glad the universe put you on track for making a submission to this Talent Quest. I enjoyed it!

Your biography, too, hit me on a lot of levels, reminding me of when some friends and I were singing late-80s Indie music to cows on an Oklahoma farm.

Good luck!

-Robert

Thanks for making this Talent Quest work.

Maybe its because I read your bio and learned that you've thrash danced in a corn field, but you seem like somebody that I should know better. Keep it rural.

Wow, a standout voice and mind. At first I thought I was listening to a super young kid then I heard all the gravely ground and wise reality of the real dirt...

thanks.
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a dry and rough edit was all I could muster for the deadline:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1477

Mavis! Do you know me? You chant the sacred scrolls from my youth so well . . . I love your voice. Really. And thank you for your kind remarks regarding my entry (that I would withdraw if I could after listening to yours). I know I sound like a sputtering motorboat plowing through a swamp filled with pudding as I try to beat the 1:54 minute deadline. (I kept getting fooled by making my recordings 2 full minutes and then finding out they were rejected.) Enough of me. Back to you . . . very funny stuff Mavis. You are a natural. I wish you luck in all things, especially this contest.

So I can say that I once ground the toenail clippings from a group of hippie cuticle devotees and, snorting them, founded The Divine Order OF The Holy Toe. I am proud that included in its membership are Prince Charles, Oprah, the guy who played Vern on those commercials (Jim Varny)the mumiefied body of Charirman Mao, Elenor Roosevelt (who is not quite dead....well almost), and Henry Kissenger. These toenails are almost as good as snorting Bisquick!! Yet I am a simple man. I enjoy staring, using lugurious in a sentence; and, dancing naked down at the VFW.
So remember, forest fires prevent bears; and, you can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to turn over and float on his back, you've really got something.

long ago a professor shared a quote with me... i am paraphrasing and have no idea who said it, but it went something like

"the woods would be very silent if only the birds that sang best sang"

personally, i liked your scratchy voice! :) hope to hear it more on the r-waves....

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

How about yourself...I did it by accident once well making tea in what turned out to be a highly flammable robe - who knew teri cloth would go up so fast ...well actually now i and my neighbors do as they saw me thru the bay window rip off my robe and beat it repeatably on the floor.

bonding experience for everyone involved.
Fortunately the only injury sustained was to my teri cloth companion (RIP).

i think your voice is totally unique. (and i love unique in all things - in case you were now questioning how to take that statement.)..great clip i think you have the makings of a stellar NPR host...

~m

http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/1676

What a talker! Not to mention a good asker of questions. Here are my answers.

"You wouldn't even don a costume for your Spiderman interview?" No way! I would feel like he could see right through my get up. I mean, he has SuperPowers.

"Did you dress up for Halloween when you were a kid?" Only in the plastic, store bought costumes we kept in a brown shopping bag for the occasion. My sisters and I used to fight over the Casper suit.

Thanks for letting me talk about MYSELF! Way to go, hosty girl.
Theresa

You had me at Waiting for Guffman (one of my all time favorite movies), but I listened to the end and I am convinced ... NPR DOES need more squeaky-voiced white girls, when they can write this well! Jill

You've convinced me. Radio needs new voices, figuratively and literally. You've got both.

Good luck!

Courtenay

You've got a hit submission... how about switching on your contact option?

Steve

It falls to the enlightened, and the intelligent and the sane to take responsibility for the deluded or doltish or insane.

The world will always have a place for the scratchy-voiced, as long as they are very clever. That's you! A terrific piece of aural jiu-jitsu. I'd give you six stars if I could.

I think you have an engaging voice and great energy. You're no fool! You're fab!

-Will, http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/5723

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” - Arundhati Roy

I take back the popcorn subliminal message because apparently many people are popcorn intolerant, according to CTLiotta's entry. So just Junior Mints!

... just a bit. (after all, this is the new millenium.) and there's a squeeky little voice in the back of my head that tells me public radio NEEDS you. you got maximum stars from me--and i'm not just giving my stars away to anybody, i'll have you know.

http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/3785

First of all thanks for clicking on over to my entry for a listen and leaving that nice comment! I did leave a subliminal message in that title. It was "ra heQua ith!" which in ancient Atlantean means popcorn and Junior Mints. Yay, it worked!

Secondly, I may have brainwashed you, but your entry lays my life story out like a twister pad. I once set fire to a small field at the back of a dike with a friend, when I was about 8 or so (true story). And more recently I was in a relationship with a woman who would just sit there and listen to me talk for hours and hours. Eventually, though, I realized that I was not actually talking and that the woman was a ventriloquist and impersonator and that she had been the one talking as me the whole time. (not true story)

Anyway, your entry is great and if you need another band member let me know... well, not really since I'm in Oregon... But I would love to give you moral support on that!

And very smart too.

Rich Meitin
www.richmeitin.com
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1038
Please stop by!

Mavis J., you're audio really got me. Your voice is totally distinctive and captivating, and I think it makes for really interesting listening. Your writing is top notch too!

..public radio really, really needs you. If you don't win, I'm gonna start a collection to buy you your own dang radio tower.

I'm absolutely loving all the wonderful analogies about this contest - I loved the turtle, too! excellent submission.

Welcome to HipHop U!
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/8590

Wow. Your entry is way inviting, much more so than the reductive phrase, "squeaky-voiced white girl" implies. But as a serial reducer myself, I can relate.

Great writing. Great "aura." Great "vibes," to use more quotation marks.

I'd have said, "raspy-voiced girl;"
LouieB

Why not give a listen?
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/305

I've heard entries from people with voices who could read the phone book and I would listen and I've heard entries from people who alternately had me in stitches or hanging my head about competing against them.

But yours is the first entry where I'm just waiting to hear when we're going to get together and talk away. At first I was suspicious, yeah yeah, good listener, then I was completely hooked and wondering how soon we could meet.

Well done. Well done indeed. While I hope you do well in the quest, I think your personality makes it all but irrelevant. I'm picturing you frolicing through life.