I Am on BZT
Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. (DEU 4:12 NIV)
Jeff Archer Black (who has commented here as “JAB” and/or “Buzzcat”) dug the O’Reilly poem from the other day and asked me to read it for his radio show. I agreed, and that reading is featured in the Poet’s Corner section of this week’s show (#117).
This gives you two excellent opportunities. First of all, you get to hear my voice. I’m sure some of you will get a kick out of that. However, this also gives you a good reason to listen to The BZT Weekly if you haven’t already. Before I found BZT, I hadn’t listened to radio in years. It was the same crap over and over again, and 90% of it was bad. Now I look forward to the new 80 minute BZT every week. If you can’t find something you like in that show, you don’t like music. Plus, Jeff and Jenny are vocal atheists and just plain nice folks. Go check it out.
~I AM~
December 17th, 2005 at at 3:00 am
HAHA! I heard your voice! Great reading! For those who want to skip to the reading, it starts ~40:00 and ends around 42:00.
December 17th, 2005 at at 3:01 am
Whoa. You sound absolutely NOTHING at all like what I’d…envisioned?
Anyway, Yammy’s recital starts at 39:43 for those with absolutely no attention span.
December 17th, 2005 at at 3:23 am
Very interesting. Given ~I Am’s~ penchant for anonymity, it’s a little like auditory voyeurism.
December 17th, 2005 at at 10:14 am
I wish I could get it to work, but I keep getting errors when I try.
December 17th, 2005 at at 12:28 pm
Whoa. You sound absolutely NOTHING at all like what I’d…envisioned?
Anyway, Yammy’s recital starts at 39:43 for those with absolutely no attention span.
What were you imagining? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
Very interesting. Given ~I Am’s~ penchant for anonymity, it’s a little like auditory voyeurism.
“Oyerism” perhaps?
That was terrible. I’m sorry.
December 18th, 2005 at at 1:27 am
Very interesting. Given ~I Am’s~ penchant for anonymity, it’s a little like auditory voyeurism.
“Oyerism” perhaps?
That was terrible. I’m sorry.
Oy, that was bad. But, if you just add an st you’d get “Oysterism” and we could eat it on toast or with cocktail sauce.
Hmm, yeah, that might have been worse. Now I’m sorry.
December 18th, 2005 at at 2:12 am
Well, Yam…now that my mental picture of you has been forever shattered, I can no longer catch a glimpse of it to recollect the particulars of your manifestation.
But I can say that you have a voice that is QUITE a bit deeper than I’d expected, and which forms a visual of a larger, more uh…”bearish” individual than I’d perceived.
Not that I’m saying I now envision you as Neanderthalic, or even that I’d had a more effeminate personification in mind.
See, I’m now digging myself into a hole. I suppose you could be 5′3″, 97 lbs. and still have THAT voice. It would seem I have an internalized stereotype of an intellectual conceptualized here. Not nerdy and pitifully atrophied in the physical, but definitely not “lumberjackish”. Not saying I now picture you on Hungry Jack or Brawny packaging.
Which further unveils yet another preconceived notion I’ve apparently developed regarding men of a larger stature - not larger as in obesity; larger as in enforcer - bordering on the mindless oaf stigma.
Perhaps I just projected a reflection of self onto you (not at all as slick and pimpish, of course
), since many of your thoughts were so internally familiar.
Bottom line - I didn’t expect you to sound like a Trekkie (yes, I am indeed quite the stereotyper), or an Oxford-educated Brit, but your voice presents imagery of a much more PRESENT individual.
December 19th, 2005 at at 6:51 am
You sound like the guy that does the pronuciations for answers.com.
Seriously. Go look up a word on answers.com, and click on the little speaker next to the word, and Yam will tell you how to say it. That’s a great gig.
I’ve discovered your secret, and am now one step closer to revealing your true identity.
December 19th, 2005 at at 10:16 am
I know some of you had some problems with BZT #117, and for awhile there the show was not available at all. I had a corrupt file. It has been fixed and sounds just fine now all the way through, although by the sound of it, no one did that in the first place. Glad you enjoyed hearing I AM. I know I sure did.
December 19th, 2005 at at 10:28 am
sounds just fine now all the way through, although by the sound of it, no one did that in the first place.
Hey, I tried. I didn’t say where it was, but the readers circumvented my underhanded attempt to trick them into listening to the show.
If anyone did listen to the whole show, leave a comment about how it changed your life in unimaginable ways… or at least say if you liked it.
December 20th, 2005 at at 9:46 am
I didn’t mean you I AM.
I know it’s scary to listen to something new. Actually, the show now sounds better audio-wise than it ever has. I finally broke down and bought a cd-rw drive for the old pc. This is a good thing being the show comes directly from the master cd instead of having to go through 25 feet of audio cable first.
I’ve never tried to scan forward on a .wma file before. I take it you can do that, prior to the file downloading? I know you can do that with Real Player, but I didn’t think you could do that with Windows Media Player.
December 20th, 2005 at at 12:04 pm
Furthermore, #117 was not a typical show. Jenny and I don’t usually have guest hosts. And the one we had on this show was quite intoxicated by the time showtime came. If’n anyone like the music, you may want to go back a show or two to get the gist of what we’re normally like.
December 23rd, 2005 at at 9:36 am
Thanks Lou. You made our month. Welcome.