Time's up, sorry I kept you.

[raybear]

Friends 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.

Comments

[bigfatmama.livejournal.com]

baby i just saw your text msgs today and i was so disappointed i missed a chance to hear you sing! live! you make me laugh.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

omg, what are you doing on thursday?

[bigfatmama.livejournal.com]

i have stupid school all day, why are you in LA?

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

your accent shows up a little when you're drunk.

my sense of the hotlanta accentis lots of extra y's in the middle of words.

[riotdrake.livejournal.com]

i don't know you, but i just had to laugh and comment on this b/c the same thing happens to me. i'm from atl, as well, with no discernable accent until i get drunk. heh.

[mintwaster.livejournal.com]

Also when he's making fun of people, as if the soft southern accent will somehow soften the blow.

[riotdrake.livejournal.com]

i think my great-grandmother definitely said things like "warsh" and "idear", but she also probably never actually stepped foot inside the city of atlanta. poor rural southern speak is so different. its all very interesting

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

Ha! Warsh is exactly a word my dad's parents say. Very southern Illinois. So very different from any deep south accent.

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

or perhaps it's a poor rural thing, given that my experience with deep south accents has been generally wealthy folks.

[dommeyourass.livejournal.com]

grandma says things like warsh and idear, have you noticed that? she also says turr. as in "would you like to take a turr of the countryside?" so i attribute that dialect to southern indiana/illinois as well. definitely not atlanta/alabama type south.

i haven't noticed any accent other than "gay" when you get drunk. you definitely have more of a gay accent. and way more hand gestures. i swear it was like a gay-off when you, lucyberliner and MH were drunk at brunch the other day. and MH was losing badly.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! i think it might depend on the liquor. that was a very gay drink at brunch, so it made me even gayer. when i drink bourbon whiskey, my southern gentleman comes out.

[unscrambled.livejournal.com]

gentleman is an interesting word here. ahem.

[drinkasyoupour.livejournal.com]

My southern accent tends to show up when I'm drunk and/or flirting.

Your "urban" accent shows up when you are otherwise intoxicated.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahaha. ahem.