Thursday, September 23, 2010

THIS WEEK IN VOICEMAILS

It’s Thursday, that means it’s time for another installment of:
THIS WEEK IN VOICEMAILS
*cue theme music
ANNOUNCER: Are you ready for the hottest voicemail news and reviews around? Then pull up a chair for another thrilling installment of This Week in Voice mails! Take it away, Yumi!
Thanks, Fake Announcer that I made up, let’s start the show!
This first voicemail comes to us from none other than my own sister, Miwako. This is not Miwako’s first appearance on this show, longtime readers will remember Miwako from such voicemails as “Where are you? It’s late and you’re supposed to be here!” and “Seriously! Stop posting my voicemails on your blog!” Miwako is really in top form with her latest showing “Do I have to do everything around here?”
Miwako: “Hey, it’s me. I’m calling because you’re supposed to help me with the delivery we got in, and you’re conveniently not answering your phone. Again. Do I have to do everything around here?”
Excellent! Succinct, nuanced, spirited. Miwako is reminding us again that she is a voicemail artist to be reckoned with. Also, she sounded reaaaaaaly mad. I should maybe do something about that.
This next message comes to us from Rentaro. Rentaro is again revisiting a theme that seems to be ever-present in his voicemail oeuvre, that of urban drifting, of being a young man lost in a post modern society.
Rentaro: “Yumi!  I am lost, I think. Are you there? I got on a bus, and then I fell asleep.”
It might be too soon to tell, but if I had to guess I’d say Rentaro’s latest message will be on many top ten lists come the end of the year.
Well, that’s it for this episode of This Week in Voicemail. I hope you’ve enjoyed!
On a related note, I’m off to try to find Rentaro.

13 comments:

  1. Rentaro sounds...different.

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  2. Whoa!! I think those might be some of the hottest hits around!! I've never heard such awe inspiring acts of art! It actually brings a little tear to my eye.

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  3. “Seriously! Stop posting my voice mails on your blog!” That's hilarious!

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  4. I hope you find him, I once got off a city bus at the wrong stop. But to actually fall asleep on the bus, that's something totally new, I have seen people do it before though. Good luck finding him.

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  5. Rentaro = pure genius

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  6. STOP POSTING MY VOICE MAILS ON YOUR BLOG!

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  7. Update: Found Rentaro - and found a great noodle place not far from where I picked him up.

    @EpicSitcom, Rentaro is definitely a dork. But he's the good kind of dork. He's not very good at being on the bus though.

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  8. "Anonymous said...

    STOP POSTING MY VOICE MAILS ON YOUR BLOG!"

    Is that you, Miwako? If it is I wanted to let you know that I borrowed your red shirt, the one with the weird buttons that you like, and I sorta maybe spilled a little paint out it. I am choosing to tell you this when you are not in the same part of the city as me for obvious reasons.

    Sorry!

    Also, in case you were wondering - it is for serious ruined, but it's in a better place now.(the garbage)

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  9. Ouh emm gee Yumi!! I just remembered! I borrowed a Book from my SCHOOL Library last year on March, Which is 2009 and I haven't even return it yet! Well, I don't need to Pay cause it's a School Library.. Hmm, Might as well keep it. ;3

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  10. ohboy, that's a biggie O_o I lost a school book when I was nine. I had crazy nightmares about it for months! I think it was called "A Crooked Year at the Wrong Side Up Schoolhouse." But then I talked to the librarian and she kicked me out of school forever. (not really, she was really nice about it. She was the one who showed me my first book about fashion design actually.)

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  11. LOL, I love your blog, Yumi. :)
    Especially the voicemails. HILARIOUS!

    "... but it's in a better place now.(the garbage)" - Classic!

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  12. Yumi I think Miwako is gonna kill u oh and u know how u get Miwako not to be mad at u show up and help her

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  13. yumi i like fashion you do thier so cute!

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