I have a dream job or you might say dream jobs. I could find myself on any particular day writing a couple of radio commercials, performing the voice of a maniacal zombie and then ending it off by working on a viral video.
I also love the fact that so many of my clients and fellow creatives have become my friends. Not all of the work is a “dream job”. Lost files and temperamental clients of clients, who change their minds halfway through production are a few of the pitfalls. Then there’s the folks who love what you do, but want it at half the price of what you want to charge. And there’s lots of other pitfalls and quicksand traps that one must maneuver around, to the point where one feels a little like the guy who sweeps up after the elephants at the circus. “Hey, I’m in Showbiz.”
Every now and again you get lucky. I have a bit of a fan out there named Tony. He’s founded a few million dollar businesses over the years and he’s on his way to another. I worked for him quite a bit back in the old dot com days when he had a little site called egreetings.com. Smart thing about Tony is that he knows when to hold em, knows when to fold em and knows when to walk away. I produced a bunch of talking greeting card promos for him and also worked as the voice talent on quite a few. An afternoon might have me going from the voice of Santa to a rabbi to the voice of a devil to Uncle Sam. Those were fun days when I often thought I get paid to do silly voices. How lucky am I?
Well it’s a few years later and Tony is at it with www.Lexy.com, a very cool site which is currently going through a face-lift so it may not look like much. They have a deal with www.4info.com and it’s all about putting audio content out into the netosphere. Lots of interesting content, from ongoing baseball score updates to breaking news and you can access some of it through your regular old reliable computer or get it served up to you on your cell phone. Any good old cell phone works. There’s lots of options and lots of cool things to pick from. Some of it you can get both on your computer or cell phone.
Somewhere in that cacophony of choices is me, better known as my alter ego, the Governator Guy. Governator Guy was born from me doing one too many impersonations of celebrities over the phone for Tony. One day I gave him my Schwarzeneger impersonation doing some crazy kind of riff about boxers vs. briefs.
A short while later, Tony asked me if I would record one of these rants of me playing the Governator Guy. Tony played them for the folks back at the office and he said that one person passed a can of Coke throgh his nose that he laughed so hard. I only hope that others will enjoy listening to these as much as I do making them. They are officially called Lexy Casts and they range from about 90 seconds in length to almost 3 minutes.
My job is to get 5 episodes written, recorded, edited and uploaded per week. I’m not sure exactly what to say they are. They can be silly, sarcastic, parody, simple storytelling, topical, irreverant, sensitive or insensitive. You be the judge. Go sign on to www.Lexy.com or 4info.com and you can listen to the first several up there and then Monday through Friday, each day there will be a new episode. Today I posted an episode entitled “Bullwinkle saves the Day”.
Or you can listen to episode 1 here and if you like it, head on down to Lexy or 4info, because that’s the only way you’ll be able to hear future episodes. We’ll see how it goes, maybe we’ll have some real celbrities do some v.o. on it. Maybe we’ll have a contest to let other folks do some impersonations or even contribute by writing a script.
Governator_Guy- BuyaBobblehead episode 1
And the Governator Guy has lots of friends.In the coming weeks he gets visited by Tattoo, Richard Nixon, The Ghost of Chef and many others.
If you shoose to listen to them via your phone, you can press 2 afterwards to leave a comment for me or the folks in charge of Lexy. If you have ideas for characters you’d like to hear or topics or any feedback at all, we’d love to get it.
