A while back I wrote a blog of my favorite sounds. I think it all started with a question on Inside The Actors Studio. I think James Lipton's survey at the end of the show asks the actor what their favorite sound might be. SO I asked myself and I realized that I have several favorite sounds........... Now I am updating that list and adding a couple of new sounds. ................ Here are my top 5 favorite sounds. Please reply with your favorites.
5. The train down the street from my parent's house in the middle of the night. The junction where they changed rails as well as the GA Port Authority where they load stuff onto the trains from the cargo ships (for those that don't know my hometown is St. Simons Island/Brunswick, GA) was just far enough from my bedroom window that I could here the sound of the metal as they would shift the tracks as well as the bracks on the train as they would line up the cars with the cranes that unloaded the boats.
4. The motor on a Harley Davidson. All I need to say........ potato, potato, potato
3. Raindrops hitting the top of the Elephant Ear plants in my mom's backyard.
(A great example of this sound is in Saving Private Ryan, just before they get to the town where Vin Diesel buys the farm, when it starts raining and you can barely distinguish that sound from the sound of the Thompson machine guns firing in the background)
2. Roxanne barking. This is the new addition. My dog Roxanne is a fairly quiet pup. She makes whimpering type noises when she wants to go out, but that is about it. However, if you have any kind of food and you eat it or prepare it in the kitchen, it drives her nuts and she barks. She has two barks, a high pitched one and a very low pitched one. I like them both. The first time I heard it, it was like hearing Opera for the very first time.
1. The sound of a 95+ mile an hour fastball hitting a catcher's mit. Nothing like that pop. When I think of that sound I can literaly smell the fresh cut grass, the hotdogs cooking on the grill and I can taste that first ice cold 7 dollar stadium beer. Most of the time I get to hear all that on Opening day, but this year I am going to Spring Training in Kissimmee, FL. Baseball in March, now that is America! PLAY BALL!
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