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Post by seafoamonster on Dec 1, 2013 20:30:25 GMT -5
Let's discuss the places we come from.
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Post by seafoamonster on Dec 1, 2013 20:36:40 GMT -5
I'm a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. It's very, very dry here. But we've got the greatest snow on Earth!
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 1, 2013 23:34:38 GMT -5
I'm a native of South Carolina. We get a measurable snow accumulation like once every 10 years on average, lol. We have horribly hot, humid summers, with lots of biting insects, and we are looooong overdue for another major hurricane AND a major earthquake. We have some excellent, but fattening, food here. My family has a garden every summer and grows a lot of our own vegetables. In the part of the state where I live, the landscape is FLAT; the closest thing we have to mountains are fire ant mounds. We have a lot of swamps, though, and I love swamps-excellent places to find snakes! Yes, we have alligators, and lots of 'em. It is not uncommon to see roadsigns warning of "alligator crossings".
Oh, and speaking of Utah, I'm going to be taking the Utah Non-Resident Concealed Weapons Permit class this month, either in Sumter or Charleston. I already have my SC CWP, but this will allow me to defend myself if I travel through Georgia or Alabama since I have relatives in Birmingham, AL.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 0:09:09 GMT -5
I'm originally from New York City (currently, however, I'm hundreds of miles upstate for college). So Steve Buscemi and I share the same hometown! Although to be fair, he's from a different borough of the city than me.
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Post by pitvipersnake on Dec 2, 2013 4:49:22 GMT -5
I've lived in or near Bristol, UK, for my entire life. I was living with my parents until Mum decided she wanted to move back to her childhood home in the Lake District. I have a voluntary job in Bristol and another in Cardiff that I wanted to keep doing so I decided to stay. So now I live in a room in a shared house for people with lerning difficulies in Weston-super-Mare.
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 2, 2013 15:21:39 GMT -5
I'm originally from New York City (currently, however, I'm hundreds of miles upstate for college). So Steve Buscemi and I share the same hometown! Although to be fair, he's from a different borough of the city than me. Yeah, people in different NYC boroughs have very different accents, don't they? It's usually fairly easy to tell where someone is from in that city. Interestingly enough, when Steve voices Randall, he doesn't use a Brooklyn accent at all, but one that's more Midwestern, and now that we can be pretty darn certain that both Monstropolis and MU are located in the Midwest, that makes sense. Where in upstate NY are you attending college? My favorite guitarist/singer is from Oneida, and speaks with almost an Ontario-sounding accent, quite different from anything from NYC. pitbulllady
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 21:13:57 GMT -5
I'm originally from New York City (currently, however, I'm hundreds of miles upstate for college). So Steve Buscemi and I share the same hometown! Although to be fair, he's from a different borough of the city than me. Yeah, people in different NYC boroughs have very different accents, don't they? It's usually fairly easy to tell where someone is from in that city. Interestingly enough, when Steve voices Randall, he doesn't use a Brooklyn accent at all, but one that's more Midwestern, and now that we can be pretty darn certain that both Monstropolis and MU are located in the Midwest, that makes sense. Where in upstate NY are you attending college? My favorite guitarist/singer is from Oneida, and speaks with almost an Ontario-sounding accent, quite different from anything from NYC. pitbulllady Yes, there's quite a few variations on the accent across the five boroughs, and sometimes even across different neighborhoods of the same borough. Some of the differences are kind of subtle, but if you know what to listen for, it can definitely help pinpoint where the speaker is from. I've long wondered why Steve voiced Randall using a different accent, and whether it was something he came up with or if it was proposed by someone on the staff. It seems like everyone else in the film pretty much used their regular voice. I'm going to college in Albany. The local accent definitely reminds me of Canadian accents, except for the fact that they don't have the out-to-oat, about-to-aboat, etc. tendency around here.
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 2, 2013 23:24:15 GMT -5
Yeah, people in different NYC boroughs have very different accents, don't they? It's usually fairly easy to tell where someone is from in that city. Interestingly enough, when Steve voices Randall, he doesn't use a Brooklyn accent at all, but one that's more Midwestern, and now that we can be pretty darn certain that both Monstropolis and MU are located in the Midwest, that makes sense. Where in upstate NY are you attending college? My favorite guitarist/singer is from Oneida, and speaks with almost an Ontario-sounding accent, quite different from anything from NYC. pitbulllady Yes, there's quite a few variations on the accent across the five boroughs, and sometimes even across different neighborhoods of the same borough. Some of the differences are kind of subtle, but if you know what to listen for, it can definitely help pinpoint where the speaker is from. I've long wondered why Steve voiced Randall using a different accent, and whether it was something he came up with or if it was proposed by someone on the staff. It seems like everyone else in the film pretty much used their regular voice. I'm going to college in Albany. The local accent definitely reminds me of Canadian accents, except for the fact that they don't have the out-to-oat, about-to-aboat, etc. tendency around here. My favorite singer/musician is Joe Bonamassa, who is from upstate NY, and he often gets asked by fans if he's Canadian, lol. I can tell the difference, but he sounds closer to Canadian than to someone from NYC. As for Steve using a Midwestern accent for Randall, your guess is as good as mine as to why. I don't know if that was his decision or if it came from Peter Docter. I do know that even a lot of die-hard Steve Buscemi fans were surprised, when MI came out, that he was the voice of Randall because the accents were so different. Randall sounds very Midwestern, very Indiana-ish actually, though his accent actually varies a tad between how he talks in MI and how he talks in MU. Both sound Midwestern, but MI Randall sounds more southeastern Indiana, like the way people from around Columbus, IN, sound, while younger Randall has a bit more of a northern Indiana/Indianapolis accent, which is more influenced by the Chicago accents. Randall's pronunciation of words ending in "er" is VERY different from how Steve normally pronounces such words, which is with that characteristic Brooklyn "ah" sound rather than an "er". Randall exaggerates the "er", which is very typical of the eastern Indiana dialects. People there joke about how they picked up all the unwanted "r's" that were dropped by the people in Boston, lol. Watching MI, it wasn't too clear what part of the Monster World's version of the US Monstropolis was based, but after seeing MU, it's pretty clear that it's a Midwestern city, possibly analogous to maybe Chicago, a large "hub" city of regional importance. That would explain how it would be a two-hour drive from the campus of MU, which is quite obviously Michigan(even the OK house is modeled after Dan Scanlon's childhood home in Clawford, MI, and several of the characters have strong Michigander accents, especially Don), but yeah, that whole thing about accents and regional dialects is something that has always fascinated me and it's amazing to hear an actor really be able to "nail" a particular accent that's not their norm, because most miss it completely, especially when they attempt a Southern accent! I've lived in the South all my life, over half a century of it, and I've never heard people talk the way that most actors sound when they're playing the role of a southerner! Steven Buscemi actually did one of the best jobs with that, too, in Big Fish , getting the coastal NC accent down pretty darn well, and for that, he actually bought a house down there in Wilmington(or Castle Hayne)and lived there for several months before the movie started filming. pitbulllady
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Post by number-1-scarer on Dec 6, 2013 5:08:30 GMT -5
I'm from Bristol in the uk just outside of the city center. Its an awesome city and i miss it when im living away at college.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2013 3:28:13 GMT -5
I live near San Francisco, California! It always 50 degrees and foggy here, no matter what time of the year :C . When people think of California they think of sunny beaches and warm ocean, but those are both horrible lies. Los Angeles is warm, but the rest of CA is cold, and all our beaches are rocky cliffs. The Pacific is also freezing cold lol. I drive by Pixar quite often too, but I never see anything special like you would in Anaheim.
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 16, 2013 12:40:23 GMT -5
I live near San Francisco, California! It always 50 degrees and foggy here, no matter what time of the year :C . When people think of California they think of sunny beaches and warm ocean, but those are both horrible lies. Los Angeles is warm, but the rest of CA is cold, and all our beaches are rocky cliffs. The Pacific is also freezing cold lol. I drive by Pixar quite often too, but I never see anything special like you would in Anaheim. LOL, I know what you mean! California is a large state and encompasses a LOT of different climate zones and habitats. There are parts of the state where there's snow, year-round, and other parts that are parched, harsh deserts. Texas is like that too; most people assume it's all hot and dry, but eastern TX is like southern Louisiana, very marshy and wet, while northern TX has some of the roughest Midwestern winters you can imagine. That's hard for people living in states like mine, where you can literally drive between the two most-distant points within three hours. pitbulllady
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 15:46:40 GMT -5
Lol I always imagine Texas and the rest of the south as just hot, flat areas full of large people. I went there a year ago to Charleston and Atlanta and it was very nice. The ocean is much cleaner and warmer there. They also do a much better job at hiding the poverty DX
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 17, 2013 18:50:52 GMT -5
Lol I always imagine Texas and the rest of the south as just hot, flat areas full of large people. I went there a year ago to Charleston and Atlanta and it was very nice. The ocean is much cleaner and warmer there. They also do a much better job at hiding the poverty DX Charleston, SC is one of my favorite places, sorta like "New Orleans Lite", lol. EXCELLENT fresh seafood, and some really interesting cultures and accents, plus tons of history. The terrain IS flat, though, but then that's typical for the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. It does get hot in summer(not sure which time of year you visited), but the sea breeze coming off the Atlantic in the afternoons and evenings does help keep things bearable. I live about 2 hours away, further to the north and west, from Charleston, but I go down there usually several times a year for gun shows. We do pride ourselves on our clean sandy beaches here in SC, and down around Charleston and the rest of the "Low Country", as we call that region, the waters are really nice. It's little wonder that city has been voted "Most Polite City in America" for many years now; I've even had obvious GANG members be nice to me and give me directions when I got lost, so when the CRIPS are even nice to you, that should tell you something! pitbulllady
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 5:38:27 GMT -5
Yeah it was pretty nice over there. It wasn't what I imagined. CA is known for being more liberal and supportive of people, but people here are less than friendly on the streets. The South, in contrast, is known for being extremely hateful to certain groups but people are more friendly approachable. I was pretty shocked to see confederate flags, but other than that I thought it was really nice. As far as gun shows go, if I wanted to see a real show I could look out my window into good ole Oakland XD
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 18, 2013 13:48:07 GMT -5
Yeah it was pretty nice over there. It wasn't what I imagined. CA is known for being more liberal and supportive of people, but people here are less than friendly on the streets. The South, in contrast, is known for being extremely hateful to certain groups but people are more friendly approachable. I was pretty shocked to see confederate flags, but other than that I thought it was really nice. As far as gun shows go, if I wanted to see a real show I could look out my window into good ole Oakland XD LOL at that last comment-sad, but very, very true! The South is not at ALL like the media and the Hollywood folks portray us. Yes, there are rednecks and "trailer trash", but those aren't limited to the South, or even the US, for that matter. That's an international phenomenon. I've traveled to several Northern cities, including NYC(Manhattan) and Philadelphia, and honestly saw more blatant racism there than I've seen down here in a long, long time...and I grew up while the Civil Rights movements was first getting underway and can recall stores having separate entrances for "Whites" and "Coloreds". We're not all KKK and Deliverance down here at all. We DO have a very strong sense of independence and pride in our country and our Constitution. pitbulllady
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