Yet another HorrorAddicts episode has dropped (how do they do it?). I got to play the lead in "Beyond the Ensuite," but it's not like a movie or TV show, where I'm onscreen the whole time. In a production like this, I'm only described until I speak, halfway through.
I get to play ("play?") a backward, stammering single man, nervously uncomfortable with the discovery of a naked woman in a secret indoor bathhouse. Hijinks ensue. Check it out HERE.
Note: I told Emerian Rich I didn't know what an ensuite was when I did the lines. Then I looked it up, so I could be less ignorant. But now, I'm writing this blog post . . . and I've forgotten what the devil an ensuite is.
Once again, Emerian Rich has lost her mind, and had me do lines for a story on the HorrorAddicts podcast. "The Desiccated Heart" by Sumiko Saulson is about a group of young English Punk rockers who go to a haunted location to record and find inspiration (we've all been there) . . . with unexpected results.
I voice two of the characters, and Emerian voices the rest, and she does a good job making them sound different from one another (something I strive for in my own readings). But the big creative leap we both took was trying to sing the lyrics to the "song" the band is working on, including a passage in cryptic Latin.
This was quite a challenge, trying to sing in Latin (with an English accent), but it's even worse than that, as the band is supposed to be singing along, and Emz had to try and match it with her dialogue. But hey, madness takes its toll. Check it out HERE.
So, the year is half over, and unless I'm related to Gandalf, my life is way more than half over. I had set a goal for exercise in 2023 of 200 days, and you know, that's very achievable. That means that if I exercised every day from the start of the year, I could take August through December off, and still make my goal.
So, here's where I am so far:
But I'm not in a contest with you (look at you, though, how well you're doing . . . it's inspiring, really), I'm just doing it for me, and one hundred and twelve days between January and July is something to be proud of.
Full disclosure: I'm posting this in July, and I have already fallen way behind (I'm currently sick with a summer cold, so my desire to exercise is somewhere lower than that of Jabba the Hutt).
In the most rambly episode ever, I present various topics, recorded separately, such as a Tale of eBay Horror rerun*, contemplating paying someone to edit my audiobooks, talking about a book called "Curse of the Reaper," the results of a writing contest, Grimace, the second Spider-verse movie, a presentation of "Mystery of the Semi-Detached" by E. Nesbit, self-doubt in my own abilities, and hey, why not more Grimace talk?
To download the episode, just Right-Click HERE.
*Originally, this was "Four Topics In Search..." but when I realized the eBay Horror was a repeat, I added the Nesbit story to make up for it. Look, Damien, it's all for you!
