This year I resolve to...

[attractivegeekery]

- Go to Costa Rica for a week in March
- Travel to San Diego for Nerd Mecca yet again
- Record a VA Demo Reel
- Learn an accent not my own
- Learn to control the one accent I do own
- Release said reel into the marketplace
- Sail on the Charles River
- Run a 5k
- Make pasta from scratch
- Learn how to use my sewing machine
- Kick my PTSD in the shins really damn hard
- Play hookie from work for mid-week fun
- Destinations for the above include: Six Flags, Hampton Beach, P-Town, The City Museum, The Mutter Museum
- Get "Foxes in the Hen House" off the ground
- Finally produce Tumblr project

If you, or someone you love, would like in on any of these fine activities...please to be letting me know.

Comments

[attractivegeekery]

I would totally be down for picking up such an accent.
Any good media suggestions?

[agonistes]

Here is a scene that illustrates how to hear the differences between two accents: HE LIVES ON SESAME STREET, DUMBASS For more of that, here's this post that was floating around Tumblr.

For media, I'd honestly recommend bypassing TV and movies and going to documentaries. The best example I can think of right now is this episode of This American Life. I haven't started listening yet, but the SFA podcasts are likely to have good accents. And then there are the videos by the Southern Documentary Project.

What is selling these days is redneck everything, so you probably want to concentrate on rhotic accents -- not the Savannah accent that Ed Helms does (he and Brian Baumgartner are both from Atlanta, which makes that scene delightful for me), but something closer to what Jenna Fischer is doing, where the speaker leans into their R's rather than elide over them.

[attractivegeekery]

Wait wait wait...words even have Rs in them?
When did this start? And why wasn't I told?

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