Missouri 7

Listen to Missouri 7, a 16-year-old boy from St. Charles, near St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 16

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Charles, Missouri

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born and raised in St. Charles, Missouri.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Shawn M. Muller

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/09/2000

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Childhood memory, or, like, some’in’ funny? [Background discussion]  All right, anything?  All right, uh, during the summer I did a play called “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”  Uh, I was a fairy in it.  Yeah, I got to, like, wear really weird clothes and make-up, an’, uh, dance around really weird.  It was fun.  An’, um, I remembered they had a carpet on stage s–. Um, like the first night, we used to go around slidin’ on an’ everythin’, but the second night, they, you know, they decide to put carpet holder on it, or like some type o’, like, glue or some’in’ on the bottom of it, so it would not move for anything.  I di’n’t know that, they di’n’t tell me, so I try to make my opening entrance.  So I ran an’ I jumped on it, an’ it didn’t move at all, an’ I flipped forward an’ slammed into the set, which … it didn’t feel so good.  ’N’ it freaked out everybody downstairs, but I got up an’ tried to act like I planned it, so, ’s quite funny.  Any other funny theatre stories? Um, all right, another one I did was, uh, called “Streets o’ Jerusalem.”  I was Jesus Christ.  It was– I kinda look like Tommy Chong though, so ’s kinda funny.  (Um) I remember, like, our only performance, an’, um, I was in the tomb th– but it was only, like, maybe, um … it was about three-foot tall, tops.  An’ it was about three-foot wide, or so.  So I had to squeeze my body in there, an’ the thing was, um, my clothes I was s’posed to put on was on the other side of the gym an’ everythin’ like that.  An’ my friend, which was, uh, Pilate, which … he got done doing somethin’.  He had to go was some stuff off his hands.  An’, um, he was also my make-up person, so he was doin’ my blood, an’ I hadda, like, wash it off.  An’ I had to change my costume, an’ the thing was, um … I only had like two minutes to do it.  An’ we fin– … he came an’ he’s like, “Where’s the costume?”  I’m like, “I don’t know.”  An’ he’s like, “Oh, man.”  So, he ran across the whole gym, grabbed the costume, had to run back, an’ we got done like two seconds before my cue.  An’ but, you know, I had to throw back on my wig an’ everythin’ like that, had to fix my hair even, when I came out.  It looked kinda weird, but you know, oh well.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/07/2008

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