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My kids love the Chipmunks CD now. If I yell “Alvin!” in a loud voice, they will both yell, “o KAY!”, in response as Alvin does. It got me curious as to how they did the voices. Obviously it’s a speed up job, but I was surprised to learn that Seville/Bagdasarian did it all on his own with a variable speed tape recorder that was different in that it allowed more freedom than other models.
So here you have a small technological advantage that this Entrep/Artist takes advantage of and turns into the Chipmunks.
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Also came across a movie that I loved as a kid in the 1970′s. Emperor of the North with Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. It was about Hobo’s riding trains in the depression. You Tube now makes it a snap to pull up a clip and I pulled up this one. Watching it, I realized just how breathtakingly bad was the script and dialog in this movie. I thought about how I loved this movie as an impressionable kid and what absolute trash it truly was. The older I get, the more I think that almost everything on TV and out of Hollywood is just outright rubbish. Not worth your time. Watch Curling instead. Don’t let your kids watch too much of it either.
