there is a new documentary on cassettes coming out in the future. yay! it’s BACK!
someone from kickstarter is raising money for it and, as i was watching it, it took me back to the time when my brother and i would record hilarious “episodes” of courtroom dramas. i don’t know if he remembers any of this, but once i found this elusive tape and listened to it again sometime during high school. our voices were sOOoo cute and so childish, i think we were between the ages of 7 and 9? 10? and, apparently, totally into tv court dramas. judge wapner…. yes, the same one referred to in Rain Man the movie. we would go back and forth being judge wapner and use different voices for the defendant and the plaintiff roles. and the most funny part? we added commercials breaks! — one being the Crest toothpaste commercial, creating siren sound effects shouting into the recorder, mimicking the Cavity Creeps, “We make holes in teeth! We make holes in teeth!”
ahhh…. those were the days.
kids are pretty ingenious. it only takes a lazy summer afternoon (unsupervised minors — our mom wasn’t too big on daycare or babysitters, im guessing), a tape recorder, and a cassette tape (blank tape, optional). limitlessness possibilities, i tell you!! kids are the most creative people i know…. UH-mazing.
i don’t know where that cassette tape is now, but i’m sure if i dig around long enough among our mom’s collection of classical music, im sure to find it sooner or later. hopefully, she didn’t throw it out. i know it’s in one of her classical ones because, she casually played it one day and mid-way through the symphonic chorus our voices blared from the speakers! oops…. oh thaaaaat’s where that went. hee_hee
although worth nothing to anyone else in the world, it’s worth more than gold to me.
