ellen5e.com » sing http://ellen5e.com Blogging about my 5 E's Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WIBC Interview for June 30th http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-for-june-30th/ http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-for-june-30th/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:27 +0000 ellen5e http://ellen5e.com/?p=364 Today’s interview with Terri Stacey and Big Joe Stayzniak on WIBC 93.1 FM can be heard at the following link. Radio Waves imagesHowever, before you listen let me explain one thing. Earlier in the morning show, Joe and Terri were talking about a bit of a mystery that is happening at the radio station. Newsman Joe Ullery noted having found two french fries lying there at the station. Previously, there were found two fingernails (of the press-on variety) that had a FRENCH manicure. I found it funny that Joe Ullery has almost made a shrine of the fingernails because they make him feel happy. Why does Joe keep “noticing these things but not disturb the scene”?  So it was my bright idea to mention a possible solution to the mystery. LOL

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Summary:  refer jokingly to the French Connection mystery at the radio station, excited to see neurologist tomorrow for EEG results, singing is fine but speaking is accented, different parts of the brain?  Speech therapy scheduled to start in two weeks. When  you dream do you speak with your accented voice? Working on words to make it better. Is the accent getting better or not? One step at a time. Happy July 4th everyone!  Have a “Bangin’ Time”!

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]]> http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-for-june-30th/feed/ 0 WIBC interview June 23rd http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-june-23rd/ http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-june-23rd/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:04:41 +0000 ellen5e http://ellen5e.com/?p=352 Here is the audio for the interview with WIBC 93.1 FM’s Big Joe and Terri Stacey for this week.  Radio Waves images

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Briefly: talk about whether they think my foreign accent is getting better? What is an EEG? What happened during the EEG? And the benefits of friending on FaceBook.

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]]> http://ellen5e.com/p/wibc-interview-june-23rd/feed/ 0 Making Waves with an EEG http://ellen5e.com/p/making-waves-with-an-eeg/ http://ellen5e.com/p/making-waves-with-an-eeg/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:15:45 +0000 ellen5e http://ellen5e.com/?p=322 EEG Strip Clip JI recently underwent another medical test known as an electroencephalogram (EEG) which is a noninvasive test used to evaluate brain function or disorders.

Electrodes were attached to my scalp with a special gel or paste. This made for a VERY BAD HAIR DAY… it took forever to get that goop out of my hair. These electrodes recorded my brain’s electrical activity and transmitted impulses to an electroencephalograph, which magnified them and recorded them as brain waves on moving strips of paper. I was asked to close my eyes and be still for most of the test, so it was a semi-rest period for me. However, it was hard to keep my eyes closed when I wanted to open them up to see what was going on.  A strobe light was used for a portion of the test, and it created interesting colors or spinning patterns while my eyes were closed.  Although most of the test was routine. Something of great note to me happened.

The young lady who was administering my EEG interviewed me about what kind of problems I have been having. When she asked me the inevitable “Where are you from” question, I let her try to guess and then asked her if she’d heard of Foreign Accent Syndrome. No, she had not heard of it. I further confounded her when I showed her that I could sing with my “real” voice.

When the test was almost done, this young lady who had so painstakingly wired me up to all these electrodes all over my scalp did something unique. She asked me to go ahead and sing a verse of “You Are My Sunshine” (the song I had sung to her before the test began) AND THEN to just speak the same words to that verse. As I heard myself singing and then saying the words my emotions got the better of me. Just as I said “please don’t take my sunshine away,” I began to bawl like a baby!!

I think part of the reason I was so emotional is that I really heard how drastic a difference there is between my real voice singing and then the foreign accented saying of the exact same words. However, I believe the biggest reason I cried was because I realized something.  This technician had really “heard” me. She noticed how much I believed that something could record the difference between the two modes and that I believed concretely that the singing and the speech are coming from two different places in my brain! I believe this may be the first time such a thing is recorded scientifically, in black and white, ink and paper, proven. Maybe history is being made.

This technician not only listened to what I had to say, but DID something about it. She recorded with the EEG the exact thing I had been talking about.  When I asked the lady if this was a normal part of the test she answered, “No, I just decided to do that because of what you had told and shown me.”  History — history was made.  Not only have I demonstrated via audio, or video, NOW they have EEG waves recorded of this interesting phenomena.

I can hardly wait to see my neurologist on July 1st to get the results. There is surely something recorded on that tape of brain waves to help us understand exactly what is going on in the brain. Now, we are getting somewhere, “making waves,”  and it feels good!

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]]> http://ellen5e.com/p/making-waves-with-an-eeg/feed/ 0 Birthday with friend Henry Lee Summers http://ellen5e.com/p/birthday-with-friend-henry-lee-summers/ http://ellen5e.com/p/birthday-with-friend-henry-lee-summers/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:15:00 +0000 ellen5e http://ellen5e.com/p/birthday-with-friend-henry-lee-summers/ Henry Lee Summers poses with me on my birthday Friday, Feb. 20th). Steve and I went to Gallagher’s 2 on Indy’s southside for pizza and listening to their band play!

Henry Lee Summers and I became friends in Spring 2007 when in some classes together. I didn’t know who he was until AFTER he helped me with some guitar chords. THEN, we joked around, sang/played a lot between classes… guitar, keyboards, singing…good times.

It was my birthday, so we went to Gallagher’s 2 on Indy’s southside for pizza and listening to their Henry Lee Summers and the Alligator Brothers play.

When not playing with Henry Lee, on their own, the band is known as SoulShine – Brian Baker (Far Left.:former national touring guitarist), Henry Lee Summer (middle front) and Charlie Bushor (middle back, former drummer for The Why Store, MCA Records) Rhonda Baker (lead singer/keyboards) and Greg Baker (Bass, far Right).

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