mario voice prediction
With the morning's news that Charles Martinet is retiring / being retired from the voice of Mario, I can't shake a sense of deja vu with James Earl Jones selling the rights to his Vader voice so it can be created via AI. Prediction: because Nintendo has 30 years worth of Martinet's voice recordings, the next Mario will be an AI Martinet.
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Words (more than these) are coming, Jawan Koo's soundtrack to THE VILLAINESS (such a great film) is in my ears and, other than my tool bag falling on my toe which made me scream and nearly cry, I'm ok, a new week, etc etc etc, devoid – so far at least – of large construction projects necessitating another person being around. Unrelated yet pondering: given that it's been almost ten years since THE GOLDFINCH, aren't we due for a new Donna Tartt novel?
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The 131st MacroParentheticals dispatch, in which my good friend Uziel Colón subjects himself to being my first guest on THE GROUND LOOP, my newsletter-exclusive Proust-meets-Lipton-meets-me five-question grilling of friends, inspirations, and other assorted humans, will be arriving in subscribers' inboxes in +/- 45 minutes. Also: THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE is a delight.
