Driving to Silicon Valley, route 101, Howard Stern is fading in and out on the radio. I think there is something wrong with the wiring in the truck or something, no amount of kicking the dashboard is solving the problem. Toss, the faceplate into a stash of mix tapes. I am so 90's, I am my own All American girl dream. I squint in the southerly direction and as the heavy traffic begins, I exit. San Mateo, Fashion Island Blvd. It's a hideous commercial island inhabited by four story pre.com buildings, complete with strange art and fountain. Suite 525 Five Russians and a German woman, she’s the only other woman I see in the building all day. I'm introduced to Vladimir, Alex, Igor, they greet me seeted. Vladimir, or Vlad is my man in charge, he's the one I impressed with my Green Curry Chicken voice over rehearsal friday. It was between bites of lunch which I read my lines over the phone, no one seemed to notice, but I am positive these men would have picked any woman who had an American accent to read their lines. Alex was the kid, the shoe dragging, messy hair, messy desk lackey who knew way more than Vlad, but could never prove it because he's was so busy keeping up with Vlad's way of doing things. Okay Vlad. Yes Vlad. I like Alex. he's way patient too. We talk about St. Petersburg and I feel sorry for him, he doesn't want to go back to Russia, but he doesn't really like San Mateo either. Now that I think about it I wonder if he knows what is choice and what isn't. Between our many breaks, I record 182 prompts.
hello
I'm sorry
Welcome
Thank you
Anything with three syllables or more and Alex is busy editing my inabilities.
subscriber
administrator
voice mailbox
Anything more than one sentence and I'm adding or taking out words.
Then Alex starts giggling
I don't know, I think he realized this is way retarded long before I do.
I was reading numbers
1..2..3..4..5....13..14..fif [snicker. bah-hahaha] Stop it Alex, teehee hee hee
first second, third, this wasn't going to go too far either, more laughing.
five hours past, interpreting tone variations within Russian accents. "Say, like deis. press wahn." Five hours of listening closely to the sound of every word, the pauses, and pitch, it was quite fascinating, and exhausting. I'll be getting some sound clips soon, but the company is buzme.com
I'm tired more later.