"The Voice"
For a large part of junior year, my communication with Jimmy (my former roommate for those completely unknowledgeable about my life) has thrived upon one solitary thing. That thing has been entitled merely "the voice". If someone had a hidden microphone in the room for the whole year (minus the month or so when Jimmy was dating Liz, and therefore only talked with her on IM and listened to his headphones), they'd predominantly hear the voice. The evolution of the voice has been a long detailed progression from merely catch phrases, to mocking conversations, to hand gestures and real, full conversations, almost to its own dialect of a language. If you're familiar with the use of the voice, then I'm pretty sure you also have an idea who the inspiration was as well...
It started off innocently enough, with a simple gesture...GONE! All you did was when something bad happened, a player got hurt, someone fell down, or anything else genuinely tragic happened, we made a sweping motion with our fingers and said "GONE!" in a gruff, staccato manner. It expanded to different sayings such as "Oh HELL no!" "You little bitch", and the classic "asshole". Now this is no normal "asshole". This is "asshole said in a low passing manner, made to sound as if the used just called people assholes routinely...which in fact...
This also brought about hand gestures. Certain commercials would get the finger wave treatment, that is, swinging of one's hand from left to right on the beat, followed by the "GONE!" upswoop at a moment's notice. It typically came at the climax of a song, and the intensity of the finger swing would rise more and more until said climax. Conversations about any topic would routinely come up in the voice, until it started to manifest itself as the main dialect of the english language in 104 Lewis. Others caught on and began using it as well, mainly Mike, Joe, and sometimes even the great John Woodcock.
As the year drew to a close, the voice became more and more prevalant in the room. You couldn't get around using it. Instead of going to bed, we "took it to the bed." Upon retuning from the bathroom, class, or any other semi-extended absence, the returner would say "I've MADE it back!" and the person already in the room would say "You did, IN-deed". We'd also speak favorably upon being an "ass-kicker", and kickin ass would routinely be the order of the day. Things somehow eventually made their way into a domestic violence theme, and there they stand today. A typical sentence in the voice would be "I'd kick his ass, and then I'd come home and throw some more punches to the face." Obviously we were joking, and obviously it's pretty shitty to joke about domestic violence, however, we were so outrageous about it that it really was funny...and come on, we're two normal college guys, not two trailer trash wifebeaters.
And here we stand today. I thought about this topic only because I was watching the Sonics-Spurs game, and saw Danny Fortson commit a flagrant foul, and exclaimed, out loud, by myself "HELL YES! ASS KICKIN!" This is when I realized that "The Voice" is something that will always remain with me, as a part of my college experience, and I really don't think there's something that can characterize my junior year relationship with my roommate any more than our constant use of the voice. It was definitely a good year, and a great time of ass-kickin.
P.S.: J.P. "butt-fucking" Losman was probably another of the most used comments of the year, for obvious reasons.
It started off innocently enough, with a simple gesture...GONE! All you did was when something bad happened, a player got hurt, someone fell down, or anything else genuinely tragic happened, we made a sweping motion with our fingers and said "GONE!" in a gruff, staccato manner. It expanded to different sayings such as "Oh HELL no!" "You little bitch", and the classic "asshole". Now this is no normal "asshole". This is "asshole said in a low passing manner, made to sound as if the used just called people assholes routinely...which in fact...
This also brought about hand gestures. Certain commercials would get the finger wave treatment, that is, swinging of one's hand from left to right on the beat, followed by the "GONE!" upswoop at a moment's notice. It typically came at the climax of a song, and the intensity of the finger swing would rise more and more until said climax. Conversations about any topic would routinely come up in the voice, until it started to manifest itself as the main dialect of the english language in 104 Lewis. Others caught on and began using it as well, mainly Mike, Joe, and sometimes even the great John Woodcock.
As the year drew to a close, the voice became more and more prevalant in the room. You couldn't get around using it. Instead of going to bed, we "took it to the bed." Upon retuning from the bathroom, class, or any other semi-extended absence, the returner would say "I've MADE it back!" and the person already in the room would say "You did, IN-deed". We'd also speak favorably upon being an "ass-kicker", and kickin ass would routinely be the order of the day. Things somehow eventually made their way into a domestic violence theme, and there they stand today. A typical sentence in the voice would be "I'd kick his ass, and then I'd come home and throw some more punches to the face." Obviously we were joking, and obviously it's pretty shitty to joke about domestic violence, however, we were so outrageous about it that it really was funny...and come on, we're two normal college guys, not two trailer trash wifebeaters.
And here we stand today. I thought about this topic only because I was watching the Sonics-Spurs game, and saw Danny Fortson commit a flagrant foul, and exclaimed, out loud, by myself "HELL YES! ASS KICKIN!" This is when I realized that "The Voice" is something that will always remain with me, as a part of my college experience, and I really don't think there's something that can characterize my junior year relationship with my roommate any more than our constant use of the voice. It was definitely a good year, and a great time of ass-kickin.
P.S.: J.P. "butt-fucking" Losman was probably another of the most used comments of the year, for obvious reasons.
posted by Nick at 6:16 PM
1 Comments:
Good job...ASSHOLE! Joel would definitely approve. But he sure as hell won't approve of drinking that "piss water: and "going like this" (hand motion of chugging beer and double fisting) a little later on in the week.
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