It’s raining outside while I write this. Our whole house smells like punkin pie, cinnamon sticks and apple cider (thank you, Illuminations) and I’m listening to The Astrud Gilberto Album from Verve (I give it a thousand stars and fifteen thumbs up) while I write my next two columns for Dungeon.
Yesterday afternon, I recorded a ton of lines for a video game that is so super secret, it hasn’t even been announced yet! It was really fun, and I can’t wait to tell WWdN readers about it.
Last night, I saw a poster for Ghost Recon 2 in a local game store, and I asked the clerk when it would come out.
“Ghost Recon Two is going to be the best game EVER!” He said, and he said it with such unabashed enthusiasm, I blurted out, totally in spite of myself, “Dude! I know! I’m totally in that game! It’s going to be so cool!”
It was so cool to hear someone being so excited about a project I was in, without knowing I was in it . . . I just wanted to geek out with him, but I immediately felt like I was showing off, you know? Like, “Hey! Pay attention to me!” Before I could explain that I wasn’t trying to be a dick, he said, “I thought I recognized you. Can I shake your hand?”
I’ve never had someone ask me that before, that I can remember, so I nodded and shook his hand. I still felt like a dick, though, and I was so embarassed I left pretty quickly.
When I got home, I tried to stay up and watch Las Vegas, but I guess I’m still wiped out from the weekend, because I fell asleep before it was over. When I woke up, Anne was snuggled into my shoulder, my cat Sketch was snuggled into my side, and Ferris was snuggled into my feet. Yes, it was Snugglefest 2004 on my bed, and I had to disturb everyone to turn off the lights and blow out the candles.
Later this afternoon, I have an audition over at Disney for a new cartoon. It’s SUPER cool, because the casting people specifically requested me from my agents! When I haven’t been working on Dungeon today, I’ve been working on my “feisty, spunky and fun male 16-20” voice.
This is shaping up to be a really good day, and I just remembered something I told Anne about a month ago: “You know what’s cool? I feel like I’m exactly where I am supposed to be in my life. I feel content, but not complacent. That’s awesome.”
I’m making notes about Linucon right now, and I’ll try my best to get a trip report together soon.
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you mentioned in your blog that you had to shift everyone around to turn out the lights and blow out the candles. if this is implying that you fell asleep with candles burning, please refrain from doing this in the future as i enjoy your site immensely and do not want to read about your untimely death due to careless use of fire.
that is all.
Gregory, google up thermocouples.
Everythings coming up roses. 😉
w00t!
Speaking of voice acting. I was cleaning my house and stopped to put on some shoes and the credits for the Secret of Nihm was on. I saw your name fly by and I was like WOAH! So thanks to DVR I rewinded back until your little mouse talks… I couldn’t even make out a lick of your voice as I remember it. It was funny and I wanted to tell someone besides my dog, who didn’t give a shit.
Kudos on all of the V.A., Wil. Even more on the satisfied-but-not-complacent zone. That would be, for me, the ultimate form of Zen.
I’m neither a first time, or long time reader, but I am becoming a fan. I thinks this means I have to buy your books…It’s a law or something.
I’m still spazing out over you being in GR2! That’s like totally cool in a strangely impossible to define way. What’s cooler is that WIL WHEATON IS AUQALAD!!! O_O
Yes, I am a Dork. Proud of it, too.
Wil, I can’t think of another author or actor that I admire as much as you and would like to shake their hand as much as yours.
Growing up in L.A. I’ve had the opportunity to meet many “celebs,” and I know not to fawn over them, but telling them you enjoy their work and shaking their hand is cool, but not as cool if I get to shake the hand of Wil Wheaton! I guess it’s because I know what you stand for, and I respect your integrity, honesty and insights, as well as your logical political ideology. Plus, your writing is a superb treatise on growing up in LA in the midst of this “Industry” we all have to deal with here.
Wil, you rock, and I don’t mean just your music, although I’ve heard your DJ work before, and you rock in that as well!
Live long and …..
Congrats on the new projects and I now have another reason to pick up Ghost Recon 2.
You’ve come a long way, baby! Now, come on. You gotta get on that endorsement bandwagon and put a Presidential endorsement up on WWdN!
Christian in Colorado: Try Wikipedia for that, they have all sorts of info there, however, for info on Linucon, specifically, you can go to http://www.linucon.org
Wil: Can’t wait for your take on Linucon. I hope it’s as positive and glowing as everyone else’s. So far the general consensus is that Linucon is where geeks go to have all sorts of geeky fun. This is good, as it’s what we wanted. 🙂
Hey Wil,
Pet therapy is the best kind. Glad you got a snugglefest….it’s the best kind.
Does Wil actually read the comments made?
Probably he reads the first couple of dozen posts… but I’ll bet it’s difficult to read all of them.
Yeah, I read all the comments, and I reply as often as I can. The dialogue here is one of the things I really like about WWdN.
I know how you feel about the bragging. When I worked at SCEA I got to do voices for a few games (I got picked a lot because I was one of the only girls there) and even motion capture for a really popular game. I want to jump up and down everytime someone mentiones the game “I was in that!!!” but I don’t want to sound like a dick. I can’t prove it anyway, they didn’t credit me =(
AH! How frickin’ cool! I wanna play the video game. Snugglefest ’04…heehee, that’s cute. You snuggling on a bed *drools and has to wipe off keyboard* er, never mind that bit *sweatdrop* Disney? Rockin’, you knock ’em dead, Wheaton.
P.S. Please come to Tampa…I told you I’d pester you. I will. Pinky swear (couldn’t resist *smile*)
What can I do to be as geeky as wil?
hey wil!
i think it is really cool you are so excited about GR2!!! that’s great! you didn’t sound like a jerk at all. i can’t wait until you can actually see how awesome the game is.
Sarah,
You have to get a role on Star Trek. Good Luck.
space nerd, you’re still boring.
151.203.50.149
Whats with that “LOL” person?
Please keep your comments related to the current post. Inflammatory comments will be deleted, and the offending poster’s IP and e-mail addresses will be displayed. Don’t be a jerk, okay?
Maybe they have nothing better to do then be a jerk? OR..Maybe they cant READ??
Illuminations is such a great store! I especially love the smell of all the “fall” candles, too…
BTW, I think it’s okay to brag every now and again 🙂 Especially when you are working on a project as cool as Ghost Recon!
There’s an interesting discussion going on on alt.fan.pratchett (usenet) at the moment, on the topic of the “Mary-Sue”. A “Mary-Sue” is a character in a story that is obviously an idealized perfect version of the author. In SF, Heinlein was guilty of it at times, putting his wives in his stories too, never mind what Ayn Rand got up to, and Clarke less so (e.g. the “White Hart” stories). Anne Of Green Gables, and Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy’s books, could also by mild versions of “Mary-Sue”-ism.
But the most interesting one to be mentioned so far was the character of a young starship ensign, created by Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. If that’s true, then Wesley Crusher was a “Mary Sue”!
One a.f.p’er has even suggested that the resemblence to Gene become even more pronounced after Gene was no longer involved, and other writers were on the job…
brian t
stereoroid.com
You’re in Ghost Recon?? Wow man that’s awesome!!! Congrats and good luck in all your projects 🙂
Congrats on the continuing voice work; you may (or may not) be amused by the notion that several like-minded friends and I decided that, should anyone ever do a feature-length animated film based on Jeff Smith’s comic series, “Bone”, you should be the voice of the lead character, Fone Bone.
🙂
Hmm… That “lol” person is registered under this information::
“Record Type: IP Address
IP Location: United States – Massachusetts – Jamaica Plain – Verizon Internet Services ”
Know anyone Wil?
I am so happy for you, Will. You are positively glowing these days. With so much love flowing in, around, and through you, how could it be otherwise?
Stay cool. Stay focussed. The world is yours, my friend. Namaste 🙂
stereoroid: Interesting conversation! Thanks for posting. That’s the first line of defense I bring out when in a “Wesley vs non-Wesley” debate. You can not *like* the character but, like Gene did with James Kirk, Gene *did* create Wesley as an version of himself at the age. So my logic dictates that if you badmouth Wesley Crusher you’re badmouthing the Great Bird of the Galaxy, and that’s completely lame. You can say “I think the writer’s messed up the character by not giving him the best dialog or situations.” or “They really botched up a very interesting idea: having a teenage genius (and they do exist in the real world, though unfortunately I don’t get to be one of them) cope with an adult world.” But I never like to hear “I *hate* Wesley.” as hate was never an idea Gene supported and Wesley was a complete Mary-Sue.
Now I have to finally figure out how to get myself on usenet. Been putting that off…