Ah yes,
Orphans aired tonight and it rocked!
I also realized that technically, I swore on the radio. Even my Angry Sibling hasn't done that (yet) and he's the Angry one! I just thought that was interesting. Hopefully *s*h*i*t* won't be my claim to fame (I kinda doubt it will be). I have so much more to offer besides being a bit of an Alberta red-neck girl who owns too many vehicles--I also enjoy expensive wine :)
House Spouse listened with me on the internet as
CJSR doesn't have the wattage to reach us out in the boonies (plus the antenna on my stereo sucks--it wanders on and off station while I walk around the house). He liked what he heard and he said he knows why I like
Orphans so much--because it works the same way my mind does--racing in several directions at once. He didn't
*get* a fair amount of the stuff going on during the episode though. Now I know he uses
VERY little mental power to infer things from a conversation, and I have to speak
VERY clearly and literally to get
any point across. For some reason, he doesn't believe that the listener should have to do any work at all-- the speaker should do it all for him. I think this attitude comes from watching too much TV, but I must begrudingly admit that he does have a
small point.
I remember that I had a record as a kid (yes, I said record...for a record player...get over it) that was about Wonderwoman (is this supposed to be one word?). Anyway, it came with its own full colour comic book that mirrored the story. I remember that more often than not I would listen to the record without even glancing at the comic because the narration and transitional sound effects were such that I knew exactly where the story was going. I had all the audio cues to prompt me and get my brain going in the right direction.
Orphans is a learning experience for ALL involved--
including the listeners. So clean out the earwax people, and prepare to actively listen -- I know that once you get the hang of it, as the story progresses you'll like what you hear as well as what you'll see in your minds eye.
