My brother David called me up this past weekend by cell phone-- he got a really cheap deal for international calls, so he decided to take advantage of it.
We talked for a bit, and then David said he could send an audio message to Mom and Dad from his phone by email. I've heard of this feature plenty of times; it's been a commonplace in Korea for a while. So I decided to send the parents my Turkey Day wishes. David set his phone up to record. What follows is a transcript of the audio. After the transcript is a link to the actual message I sent-- the Hairy Chasms's first-ever audioblog.
TRANSCRIPT:
DAVID (my little brother): Go ahead, baby.
ME: Hi, guys, this is Kevin. Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and that I love you and miss you and hope you all are doing well. If you have a chance, send me an email! (pause)
DAVID: Eeeee? (This is a standard Davidism. I can have entire conversations with David in which not a single English word is uttered.)
ME: EEEEE. (My helium-voiced reply.)
DAVID: That it?
ME: Was that recorded, too? (The "EEEEE," I mean.)
DAVID: Yey-hey-hey. (A sort of tremolo version of "yeah.")
DAVID: Still recordin', baby.
ME: [belch #1] (I love the way my belch was distorted on the cell phone. I had no idea it sounded like that when I first made the recording. Sounds a bit like the last stages of a toilet flushing, doesn't it?)
ME: Did you get that?
DAVID: Yey-hey-hey-hey-hey.
ME: [belches #2-14*] (Intermittent chuckle from David during the belching. One of us starts laughing at the tail end.)
To hear the audio, click below and enjoy.
*Depending on how you count a particular pair of belches toward the end.
_
No comments:
Post a Comment
READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!
All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.