A New Voice

Ohmigawd !!!  I'm now officially a professional voice talent !!!

I've actually done voice over for a few corporate AVP's but there is nothing like affirmation from real industry professionals, namely, the guys at Creative Voices Productions (www.creativoices.com)

You see, a friend of mine has been telling me I have a good voice, and since I have done a fair
share of interviews of artists and musicians, the same friend tapped me to co-host the
podcasts for his website.  The site?  www.titikpilipino.com.  The friend is the erstwhile
webmaster Jay de Jesus, more fondly known as JayDJ.

So, we went to the studios of Creative Voices.  While waiting for our featured guest, Christian
Bautista, the guys were showing off their equipment and portfolio.  As time went on, we started
 goofing off with each other.  Soon enough, we were doing our fair share of voices.  Then, their 
CEO, Pocholo Gonzales, said, "You know what?  Maganda naman ang boses mo a.  
I-record natin yung voice profile mo mamaya ha."  And before the night was over, I officially 
became a part of their pool of voice talents.

The guys are all over the place.  They do ads, dub anime and do voice for just about anything
a voice can used for.  Part of the voice profile I made was a recorded message for a phone
system.  They also showed us stuff they themselves did voice for, and man are they talented!

I have to admit that it was intimidating.  I have never done voice acting in my entire life (except
maybe for my daughter's bedtime stories).  Now I am wondering if I really can do voice acting.
 I imagine it should be fun.  Those guys certainly love it.  It's hard not to be excited about it
when I was around them like that.

Anyway, to check out the fruits of my labor -- though I have grave reservations as to the
quality of the program right now (I promise to make it better) -- please tune in to
http://www.titikpilipino.com/podcast/.  And please, leave me a comment.  I could really use
feedback.

Thanks!

=)K

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Marie Antoinette

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Other

It's been a year since the movie was released and I finally got around to watching it. I remember being intrigued by all the fuss about the historicity of the film and fresh approach that Sofia Coppola used in portraying the tragic queen.

Well, the historicity is a bit off. There were incongruencies with what really happened. For instance, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had four children, not three. The second child, Louis Joseph died of tuberculosis at age 7, while the baby Marie Sophie died as an infant. Of the survivors, the eldest, Marie Therese, was the only one to reach adulthood. Louis Charles died in prison at the tender age of 14 as he was proclaimed Louis XVII by the royalists when his father was beheaded.

Also, the portrayal of Marie Antoinette herself was a little off. Historical accounts all point to her mellowing down and being very committed as a mother to her children.

In her early years at the French court though, well, that was more to the point of the story, I guess. She was portrayed as an innocent royalty thrust into a position of power without much preparation for it, being a teen-ager and all that. Still, one wonders, didn't she get the same education her other royal counterparts got?

I also find it a bit remiss when it came to the question of her unpopularity among the French masses. There was no mention of the Affair of the Necklace which was pivotal regarding her "descent from grace" among the nobility and the masses alike. There was also no mention of any kind of politics that she did get into to support the French monarchy.

In this movie, we see a young woman pampered all too much by courtesans and politicians. She was in a dreamy world of luxury and lofty leisures, and nothing more.

It's the nothing more that bothers me, since further reading indicates that she was not so. She was more than the air-headed princess. While there was more she could have done in her position, she certainly didn't remain unperturbed by what was happening outside the palace.

Having read about the era, especially Les Miserables, one could not see how such suffering cannot reach the queen. Too bad, the production showed promise.

Living in a Bubble

This is living in a bubble -- always looking out from within through this shield that makes me invisible.  

I am suspended in time living life through the people around me and the things I see.  I watch them and live their lives.  In that cop on TV cussing left and right and not finding the right man.  In that girl finding it difficult to answer her homework.  In that boy who is different yet confused on who he is.  In that old man who cannot remember what he had done wrong.  In that freak who remains hidden from others.  In that writer who longs to fit in.

Yet I am aloft and away from it all.  I am not them.  They do not even know me nor know of me.  I am in stasis, an essay waiting for the 30.  Yet I'd been through the 30.  I'd died and gone back to this bubble.  This drifting solitary illusion.

Joke time with Sibika

It's really tough for my English-speaking daughter to study in the vernacular.  Honestly, her Waterloo comes in the form of two subjects -- Filipino and Sibika.

Today, we were studying for a quiz in Sibika and I would translate terms for her so that she can understand her lessons.  Today's lesson was about the pre-Hispanic Filipinos, the Indones.  We ended up on the floor laughing our hearts out when we got to this Q&A:

Mama:
The Indones lived in tree houses.  What is "tree-house" in tagalog, honey?

Kimi:
Tatlong bahay?

Mama:
(laughed really hard... gained composure and said)
No honey.  No "H".

Kimi:
Ba-ay?

Sigh...  And she was serious !!!  Wah !!!

=)K