![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Time's up, sorry I kept you.
Apr. 25th, 2006 11:07 pmFriends from out of town here, me leaving town to see friends, and in between, the negative overlapping space of being unable to stop time, I want to do it all and can't, no matter how many times I touch my fingers together and try to stop time or do my impression of a Carolina accent to say "I wish there were two lives apportioned to every man".
Today at lunch there was a discussion of Southern accents and I did my best to explain a sound of Atlanta and I think I maybe did alright. My friend is an actor and is learning a new monologue and was looking for any additional advice. I told her under no circumstances was she to add any Rs to any words, such as "warsh" or "idear". She asked if I ever had an accent and I honestly didn't know if I lost it or if it was there to be lost. I learned that even though I don't shape my vowels and consonants in the stereotypically southern way, I tell my stories in the same cadence, of fast then slow, of pausing and going up, of beginning every sentence with "and" except it's more like a tag from the sentence before. She said, it's similar to Irish, and I believed it, because that is it's origin.
I did karaoke last Friday, a little more of it on Sunday night, and might be doing it again tomorrow. It might seem excessive if it wasn't so hilarious to me.
Today at lunch there was a discussion of Southern accents and I did my best to explain a sound of Atlanta and I think I maybe did alright. My friend is an actor and is learning a new monologue and was looking for any additional advice. I told her under no circumstances was she to add any Rs to any words, such as "warsh" or "idear". She asked if I ever had an accent and I honestly didn't know if I lost it or if it was there to be lost. I learned that even though I don't shape my vowels and consonants in the stereotypically southern way, I tell my stories in the same cadence, of fast then slow, of pausing and going up, of beginning every sentence with "and" except it's more like a tag from the sentence before. She said, it's similar to Irish, and I believed it, because that is it's origin.
I did karaoke last Friday, a little more of it on Sunday night, and might be doing it again tomorrow. It might seem excessive if it wasn't so hilarious to me.
