"Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
news:0001HW.C3E8CFFF0336BFFCF0182648{at}news.verizon.net...
> >> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:30:58 -0500, Bruce Goatly wrote
> (in article ):
>
> > Amy Guskin wrote:
> >
> > [Snip]
> >
> >> Billy West was talking.
> >> Someone asked him about a recent CGI Popeye thing he'd done, and he was
> >> describing how every voice guy has their own take on how to 'do'
Popeye.
> >> He
> >> said that he based his version on the practice of throat singing.
Then,
> >> he
> >> must have realized that few people would know what he was talking
about,
> >> so
> >> he broke out of the story for a moment to ask the audience --
"you know
> >> what
> >> I mean?  Anyone ever heard those Tuvan throat singers?" 
Now, this was
a
> >> _big ballroom.  Every seat filled.  And a sole hand went up.  Mine.  So
> >> Billy turned to me, kind of astonished, and said, "How do you know
about
> >> Tuvan throat singers?"  And I answered, "I'm into a
lot of weird shit."
> >
> > Respect, Amy. Tuvan throat singing is simply amazing.<<
>
> Oh, no disrespect meant at all.  It's just that there I was, in front of
more
> than a thousand people, and I had to give a thumbnail version of why I
> happened to know about Tuvan throat singers.  I briefly debated explaining
> that I was a shamanic practitioner and a musician who is keenly interested
in
> the trance-inducing qualities of certain music, but that just seemed to
long
> and complicated and so what came out was..."I'm into a lot of
weird shit."
> :-)

I just figured shit was an idiom for "stuff" and not an indicator
as to what
you thought of it. :-)
After all, I'd guess that if you thought negatively of it, you'd not be into
it.
I recall seeing something about it on Discovery Times or the Discovery
Science (or something like that).




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