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Are you musical? You might do well in voiceovers

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

Have you ever wondered how the actors and actresses that do voiceover work started out?

Many of them have been musicians or classically trained singers prior to becoming voice over talent. They’ve learned through their training – either by playing musical instruments or using their voice the subtle rhythms and breathing techniques, gained vocal stamina and learned how to project their voice properly through their musical training. All of this experience comes out in the form of well developed tone, inflection, diction and phrasing when they do their voiceovers. I bet you never thought of that did you?

If you have a musical background you might do well in the Voiceover industry. If you’ve ever thought of working in this field think about contacting voices.com. This company puts people seeking work in voiceovers in touch with companies such as radio and television stations that are looking for voiceover talent together and makes it easier for each to satisfy their goals.





Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Music Tagged With: acting, Art, Music, musician, sing, voice, voice over work, voiceovers, voices.com

Bad things come in three’s

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

You think you’re having a bad day? Really?

Tell me about one of your worst days – nothing tragic – more along the lines of a day where everything went wrong. A day that felt like it would never end, but one that, now that it’s over, you look back on and you can actually laugh about it because it really was kind of funny or ridiculous.

One of my funny bad day memories happened when I was about 10 years old. I had come to Toronto with my parents for my brothers wedding. On that day my sister and her boyfriend took me out shopping in downtown Toronto. My aunt was going to meet me at a bus stop and then I’d get a drive with my aunt and uncle to a suburb of the city (Richmond Hill) where my parents would be waiting in a the hotel for me. We were then going to get ready and go to the church to attend my brothers wedding.

Well the shopping trip with my sister and her boyfriend turned out ok, but it went down hill from the time I got off the bus. My sister had stayed on the bus to return to her home. I was to get off and wait for my aunt to meet me on the corner. She never came. I called my uncles house but there was no answer. Now remember I’m a 10 year old kid, standing on a street corner all by myself in a very big city that I’m unfamiliar with. I started to get scared.

I kept trying to call my sister and eventually got her but for some reason she couldn’t come back to get me. I think she had to have her hair done for the wedding since she was in the wedding party. She must have called my parents or my brother though, because about an hour and a half after I’d gotten off the bus my brothers car pulled up. He’d driven for 40 minutes or so to come and rescue me and it was his wedding day!

Ok I guess that’s not that funny a story when I look back on it – but I can laugh a bit about it now. Everything that happened was all because of miscommunications. I think it was really my aunts fault that I didn’t get picked up as I should have been, but my sister was the one that got blamed in the end.

As bad as my day was it doesn’t compare to this guys bad day:



Owwwwwwwww!!!!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Video Tagged With: bad day, car accident, car jack, car trouble

Don’t you hate stains on clothes and carpets?

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

Don’t you just hate it when someone spills red wine on your light coloured carpet? Or someone bumps into you and your wine or grape juice spills on your blouse. I get really frustrate when things spill on my clothes, furniture or carpets because I know how hard it is to remove the stains. Half the time I can’t remove it either and I’m left with a faded stain on the item that was damaged.

I just found a site that sells commercial grade stain remover. The site states “Our spot cleaners can tackle just about any job. Not only is carpet stain removal a breeze but our products will remove stains on couches, curtains, beds, you name it! Our commercial-grade stain removal products will do the job others can’t.” Ok that sounds good to me.

MetroGuardian sells a number of different products- some of which work on specific types of stains such as lipstick and ball point pen stains, or an item that removes scratch marks from hard wood floors. All of the items have fairly low prices so I’d say they’re certainly worth giving them a try. I even took a peek at their terms and conditions section and they will accept returns within 30 days of purchase, so I guess there’s nothing to lose by trying their stain removers.

Filed Under: Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Shopping Tagged With: ball point pen stain, commercial grade, couch, damage, furniture, furniture cleaner, lipstick stain, stain, stain remover, wine stain

Have you thought about investing in gold bullion?

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

There’s gold in them thar vaults!

As I’m sure many of you know people have always purchased gold in the form of bullions as a way of investing their money in the hopes of getting a better return on their money when the value of gold increases.

Having been a jeweller in the past I have a tendency to watch the gold prices as they scroll by on the screen during the nightly newscast. When I was a jeweller in the late 80’s gold prices reached the highest that they’d ever been. Business was booming and people were purchasing all forms of gold as an investment. In the last 5 years the price of gold has steadily increased reaching, I believe, an all time high earlier this year.

If you’ve ever thought of investing money into gold bullion now might be a good time. A company called BullionVault.com has created a revolutionary new way for individuals to buy and sell gold bullion online. The gold bullion being traded is held in high security Brinks Vaults in international vaults – in London, New York or Switzerland. Clients using BullionVault can check on the value of their holdings daily because the company publishes the values daily on the site using anonymous aliases that are known only to the client his or herself.

Using the live Market order board at BullionVault you can buy or sell your gold holdings at real-time gold market prices. Apparently BullionVault.com has close to 2 tonnes of gold bullion in the vaults. There is a lot of valuable information on the site if you’d like to learn more about investing in gold bullion.

Filed Under: Finance, Jeweller/Jewellery Tagged With: bullionvault.com, buy and sell gold, gold bullion, invest in gold, Jeweller Jewellery, trade gold

Early celebration dooms racer

November 23, 2006 by Tricia

Have you ever congratulated yourself or someone else just a little too early?

You know like Faith Hill did at the music awards two weeks ago? Smiling and cheering when the winner was announced and starting to move towards the stage the tiniest bit then the name that was announced sank in and she realized it wasn’t her name? Yeah, she says she was just acting or fooling around but I think she really thought she won.

Ok, so you know what kind of situation I’m talking about now.

Watch this video then- it’s very short – and see a very good example of why you shouldn’t celebrate until you win the race.



Filed Under: Humor, Recreation, Video Tagged With: bike, false winner, fool, race, Video

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