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May. 7th, 2015 02:15 pmToday, I have a cold. Which is unacceptable. I have plans this weekend! I do not want to be sick!
But instead of whining about that, I am going to talk about old time radio. You know what I really love about old time radio? (Well, one of the things I really love.) Everyone's accent. I love that weird, fake, Mid-Atlantic accent that no one actually had but all the players are doing. It's fun in movies, but I really love it on the radio, where all you get is the voice and so you end up really paying attention to it. I love 1940's Radio Announcer Voice, too. It sounds so wonderfully East Coast in a way that doesn't seem to exist anymore but you can still tell that's where they're from. (Even before they start doing the ads for Pennsylvania's finest anthracite.)
Also! I realized yesterday that I could find huge chunks of The Adventures of Superman online, which is amazing. The episodes are only about 15 minutes long which coincidentally, is almost exactly the length of my commute every day. It is a little weird for a modern comics fan (Superman came to earth as a grown man, what?) and so very set-in-the-40's (the first arc involves people trying to paralyze America's commerce by threatening the railway!), but they're honestly really fun to listen to. And there's so much of it! It's my first time listening to an old time radio serial - most of my listening has been to things that have stand-alone episodes. I'm really enjoying the continuing format.
But instead of whining about that, I am going to talk about old time radio. You know what I really love about old time radio? (Well, one of the things I really love.) Everyone's accent. I love that weird, fake, Mid-Atlantic accent that no one actually had but all the players are doing. It's fun in movies, but I really love it on the radio, where all you get is the voice and so you end up really paying attention to it. I love 1940's Radio Announcer Voice, too. It sounds so wonderfully East Coast in a way that doesn't seem to exist anymore but you can still tell that's where they're from. (Even before they start doing the ads for Pennsylvania's finest anthracite.)
Also! I realized yesterday that I could find huge chunks of The Adventures of Superman online, which is amazing. The episodes are only about 15 minutes long which coincidentally, is almost exactly the length of my commute every day. It is a little weird for a modern comics fan (Superman came to earth as a grown man, what?) and so very set-in-the-40's (the first arc involves people trying to paralyze America's commerce by threatening the railway!), but they're honestly really fun to listen to. And there's so much of it! It's my first time listening to an old time radio serial - most of my listening has been to things that have stand-alone episodes. I'm really enjoying the continuing format.
