When I started bowling with a cricket ball, I was quite nippy, because I was already used to exerting more energy with the tape ball. So by the time I made the switch, I had already strengthened my shoulders.
I literally remember when I made my audition tape for ‘Buffy’. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for ‘Buffy’, and they were so excited.
I knew every one of my father’s lines in ‘Glory’ – I broke the VHS tape – but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that’s when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.
Everybody wants to say that Kentucky fans are vicious or obnoxious. They’re not. They’re crazy in that they watch the tape of our games more than I do. But they’re passionate and smart.
I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.
I did the first ‘Oxygene’ on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
I’ve woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I’m listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
I saw ‘Fargo,’ not when it came out, but probably a few years later, and went through multiple viewings – I’m sure my tape has been worn out.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
I don’t even watch my own show: I tape it, I’m out.
I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20’s. Then you’ll find out what your weight should be.
Right around 11 or 12, when I saw Eddie Murphy’s standup special ‘Delirious,’ and I taped it on a VHS tape – I think I watched it every single day. I lived and breathed Eddie Murphy for that whole year.
I’ve been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I’ll look at a tape of something I’ve done, and I won’t even remember having done it.
Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it’s smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it’s business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.
I’ve been doing yoga since 1980 or ’81, and I’ve kind of developed my own routine. It’s challenging and thorough, but I’m not holy about it. Sometimes I’ll watch a tape of Jon Stewart’s show while exercising.
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.
I don’t think I’m better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
I wear football socks and I actually tape my shoelaces to my socks. I don’t like anything to be putting me off. I don’t have an excuse of the shoelaces coming off.
In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard ‘General Hospital’ fan from when I was nine to 25.
I’d say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.
I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it’s getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.
Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
I just sat down and thought, I’m going to write a song today, I’m going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.
As a 13, – 14-year-old kid, I’d sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.
My first tape was ‘Hey, I can do what y’all do.’ It’s new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I’m here with big bro Drake; I’m his little gunner.
When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
As an actor, you have to try to put it in your mind that you audition for a role, and then once you send that tape off, its not yours.
My mom did this really cool thing: when ‘Pulp Fiction’ came out on video, she made, like, a ‘mommy edit.’ She took two VCRs and dubbed ‘Pulp Fiction’ from one tape to the next and edited out all the parts she thought were unsuitable for a kid. It was basically, like, the opening and ending credits.
In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for ‘FishbowlNY,’ a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
My mom was working through my childhood, so I would be running around Mumbai from one dance class to another with my mom carrying the tape recorder with me. I would sit on the sidelines and watch her teach dance.
When you’re recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can’t necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
It’s such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
I don’t even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months… I just can’t imagine having to do that.
When I put out my first mixtape, ’50 Cent is the Future,’ it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
A strong concept is the most important thing in creating a record. When you can listen to it and see a whole movie in your head, that’s what separates an instrumental album from a beat tape.
If you’re famous and supposedly wise, it’s always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.
I’d always envisioned ‘The Big Beat’ leading off ‘The Tale of the Tape’ with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.
My come-out record, ’10 Day,’ was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out ‘he’s good’ or ‘he’s not good.’ ‘Acid Rap’ is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, ‘Is he good at rapping?’
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you’re longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it’s a little often. You don’t always need to be reminded that he isn’t here anymore.
As a member of the oldest slice of the Millennial generation, my teenage years spanned the late 1990s through the start of the new millennium. I spent that time watching a lot of MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’, ‘Dawson’s Creek’, and wearing out a dual VHS tape of ‘Titanic’.
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
All the time that I’m acting with an animated character, I’m looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There’s no real environment, just this electric green that’s blaring into your brain.
I’ll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, ‘Don’t be a tape player hater,’ in ‘Country Man,’ I don’t think I ever laughed harder. We didn’t know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
During the whole ‘Jeopardy’ experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. ‘Jeopardy’ tries very hard to keep their secrets.
