People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
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I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
Maybe someday, I'll just make, like, a complete on-demand record that everybody wants to hear. But that would be impossible and, also, I just changed my mind. I don't think I'll ever do that.
The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.
I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.
In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.
I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
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