Bad Sign Number Six Million And Four

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Limerick Day
National Receptionists Day

 

Returning to my room after going to the bathroom to find the TV in the tail end of a car commercial and then lunging like an Olympic diver for the TiVo remote to back it up because I thought I recognized the voice of one of my One True Loves doing the voiceover and I wanted to check and see if I was right.

 

As far as cars are concerned, everything I know about the difference between models comes from the classic guide to distinguishing vehicles from each other, Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things that Go.* But I would choose this car over any others, just because the magnificent Maurice LaMarche has graced it with his voice—his default voice is like a Godiva French vanilla truffle turned into sound. He’s also one of the easiest voice actors for me to identify, although I’m getting pretty good at a number of others as well, except when I forget names. It’s an interesting exercise to try to identify them all, and it’s also fascinating to see how versatile they can be. And I think that the very small number of people who do like all the eighty million cartoons on TV deserve some credit for everything they do.

 

And some of them have awesome voices. Voices that would make you buy Hondas or squawk in recognition in the middle of, say, a PSP commercial.  Dammit, why can’t I get normal crushes on elves like everybody else?

 

I’d blame the synesthesia, but my list of Top Ten Weirdass Crushes** doesn’t bear this theory out. Though it may explain a lot about the voice actor interest.

 

 

*I think the Dude had eaten three copies of this book by the time he was two.

 

**List available upon request.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I have to admit I'm curious about the list. ;D

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

You asked for it.

Amelia’s Top Ten Weirdass Crushes

1. Maurice LaMarche’s voice
2. Kermit the Frog (my first crush. I was four.)
3. Death from the Discworld
4. Raistlin Majere, (before the Twins trilogy, when he was still an ambiguous bastard)
5. Various androids
6. Ganondorf (OoT verson, though he needs a haircut)
7. J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter
8. Chancellor Palpatine (pre-Ugly Beams, of course)
9. Beldin from the Belgariad and Mallorean series
10. Eugene Wrayburn from Our Mutual Friend

It seems I have a thing, among others, for creepy skinny guys in hoods. Obviously, they have great personalities.

[tiryn.livejournal.com]

Heh heh...I totally understand the voice actor lovin' thing. XD Hence, my love for Brent Spinner. Data and the voice of one half of my cartoon crush since elementary school? Yes please! =D

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Mmm ... Brent. He's part of #5 on the weirdass list.

[tiryn.livejournal.com]

XP It's only weirdass to people who don't understand the dorktastic weirdassery of it all.