Rish here. Yet another HorrorAddicts episode has dropped (how do they do it?). I got to play the lead in "Beyond the Ensuite," but it's not like a movie or TV show, where I'm onscreen the whole time. In a production like this, I'm only described until I speak, halfway through.
I get to play ("play?") a backward, stammering single man, nervously uncomfortable with the discovery of a naked woman in a secret indoor bathhouse. Hijinks ensue. Check it out HERE.
Rish here. For some reason, Shawn over at Pseudopod asked me to perform "Nymph of Darkness" by C.L. Moore and Forrest J. Ackerman, a pulpy story from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, about Northwest Smith and his encounter with a fugitive girl who happens to be invisible.
Forry Ackerman was the godfather of fandom, and I regret that I didn't get to meet him (or go on his famous house tour) before he died in 2008. But I didn't know he was an oft-published writer (I did know he was the literary agent for a bunch of famous writers, and I guess that makes a bit of sense), and the co-author of this story from 1935.
I decided to give the Venusians a different accent than the humans, and being a lazy--if brilliant--audiobook narrator, I just gave them a different Earth accent. I imagine there are narrators out there that would've developed an entirely original accent for their alien characters . . . but sadly, those narrators are now dead.
This was just one story in the Northwest Smith series, and it would be good work to do all the stories (kind of like we had permission to do all the Catastrophe Baker stories on the Dunesteef*), though there's a stark difference between Mike Reznick's stories and this. Check it out HERE.
*Do we still?
Or is it just the end of the season? Listen to one of us rant on the "Star Wars: Delusions of Grandeur" podcast.
Rish here. Here's THE LINK to the latest episode, where Marshal and I do what we do, when we do what we're doin to you.
Note: I feel like this episode is about a month late, but I just kept finding priorities to put ahead of it. In fact, I still had two priorities I should have finished before it, but I felt too guilty. But now I feel guilty for missing another deadline.
The very FIRST Broken Mirror Story Event between Rish Outfield and Big Anklevich is on its way.
For better or worse.
Rish here. This HorrorAddicts dialogue job was a fun assignment. My voice can be heard in "The Living Room" by Amanda Leslie. In it, I voice a paranormal investigator, one with a reality show ("Ghosts: Believe It"), and a Catholic priest, performing some kind of cleansing.* But . . . Emerian Rich only sent me the bit of the story with my lines in it (so if you want to go to THIS LINK, we can find out what the story's about together).
*Both this and the next episode have Latin in them, and I never know how to pronounce Latin. But whenever I hear it in movies, it sounds so much like Italian, that I tend to deliver it the exact same way (except, since it's a dead language, there are fewer people noticing when I mispronounce something than if I did it in Spanish or Italian . . . or French, where I mispronounce everything).
Over on Big's Anklecast, he's presenting Part Too of his story "Sepia Tone Prison," followed by discussion with Rish. It features voices by Bria Burton, Marshal Latham, and Rish. Check it out HERE.
Four buddies are on a hunting trip to Canada when something mysterious and/or terrible happens. What happened to John and his girlfriend out in the woods? And what is out there now?
Every story or character or audiobook presents its own challenges. This one was quite long, with lots of shouting. Check it out HERE . . . if you dare.
