Being Recognized

While at School last week trying to surmise why exactly College Books can cost as much as half the tuition of the class they are for, I found myself having a discussion with the woman who runs the Book Store. Our conversation didn’t have any real purpose, but when you’re from the south, sometimes you just like to talk. While I was talking to the woman, around the corner comes a man, who just stands and looks at me with a look of amazement on his face. When I was done talking the man walked up and said he wanted to ask me a question. His question was: “Are you the Weather Man from the Radio?” I have to admit, this caught me off guard, because while I am indeed the Weather Man from the radio, I didn’t expect someone to recognize me.

I told the man I was indeed the man from the Radio, and of course I should have anticipated his next phrase: “Well. I thought you’d be bigger.” In this moment of Road House Zen, all I could say was, “Yea. I get that a lot..” While it is of course easy to identify my voice, it is also easy to identify when I am running the sound board at the station. Rather than listening to songs by Little Peggy March, you hear Boston, Styx, Aerosmith, and Bob Seger. Long story short, listen on Sunday morning, you won’t be disappointed.

Who am I?

Hello random individual currently reading this blog post! I’m not quite sure how you came across this, most likely you are my mother whom I just sent a link to. But on the off chance that you’re not, please stay for a moment wont you?

My name is Blake, I’m twenty years old and live in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas. I’m writing this blog for a number of reasons, primarily because I forgot the password to the first one I started several years ago.. But mainly as an outlet as to my struggle to become a Voice Over Actor.

For those who don’t know what Voice Over is, basically its anytime you hear an ad on the radio, or you hear the guy at the end of a TV commercial say ‘But wait! There’s more!’ I currently do that part now, working for a local Radio Group, but I’m an ambitious little bugger and want to do more. I want to do voice over acting. Voice Over Acting is when the voice of a person is used to bring a non human being to life, basically cartoons or video games. I have always been fascinated by voices, I love listening to the timber and pitch of different people, listening to people who imitate voices and people who have unique tone of their own.

For a twenty year old I have a deep voice. I have had this deep voice since I was about sixteen or seventeen years old. Before that point however, my voice was an auto-tune away from being the voice of Alvin in the Chipmunk movies. My voice actually got me picked on in school quite often. So when my voice finally changed and I began to get paid for it, you can be sure I saw my name being the definition of Irony, being ridiculed for my voice, and now being paid  for it.

As I said, I’m ambitious, I hope to post weekly updates about working for my station, recording commercials, attending college, because that’s a ting at my age, and eating more ramen than should be considered humanly possible. I hope you’ll come along for the ride, I’ll try not to bore you.