Re: Voice into Song

Dan Pfleging (PhishHed@prodigy.net)
Sat, 06 Nov 1999 12:41:36 -0500 

I play the guitar and the tenor saxophone, does that count?  Oh, and I like
to sing in the shower.

> Yes Bruce, I often wonder what would emerge if we all exited (or were
> forced from) the cloaks of darkness behind which we hide in cyberspace.
> It's all rather like a very enjoyable masquerade party, isn't it? I
> remember seeing the 1993 movie of `Much Ado About Nothing' (four times at
> the cinema (: ) and thinking how utterly wonderful it would be to go to
> such a party where in one sense you could hide, and in another be
> gloriously and remorselessly exposed. I loved doing mask work in acting
> class for the same reason. A mask is both restraining and liberating. May
> we all hide behind our nom-de-plumes, our painted on expressions, our
> voices coming through the greasepaint!
>
> I wonder, out of the blue, if any bananafishers have a musical bone in
> their body? I only ask because I would rate singing as number two as a
> purgative activity, with writing as number one. I like to sing long and
> loud in my very resonant voice (gained from six years of acting and being
> taught to project across whole outdoor ampitheatres rather than stoop to
> using microphones). Ethel Merman is my specialty, though Doris Day and
Judy
> Garland often make an appearance too.
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@hotpop.com
>
> citycabn wrote:
> > "Excluding family members, whose voices have never failed to charm me,
to
> be
> > sure, the only singer I am utterly prepared to say I love his singing
> voice,
> > without fear of lying or quite intelligently deceiving myself, is my
> > incomparable friend Mr. Bubbles, of Buck & Bubbles, merely singing
softly
> to
> > himself in his dressing room next to yours in Cleveland."
> >
> >                                                    -- Seymour, to his
> > parents, in "Hapworth"
> >
> >
> > [Here, around this imaginary fire at Camp Bananafish, how odd actually
to
> > know the audible voices of some fish (Camille, will, Tim, Rick and Paul,
> > courtesy of The Holden Show), and even two faces (Camille and will,
> courtesy
> > of their websites).]
> >