GKN Weekly Update 10/23/12 – I Got My Faff On At FaffCon!
Good morning, my fellow Traveling Wilbury’s! I hope your day is starting off with a bang, and not a bad one, like a car backfire bang…
So, I’m back from FaffCon 5 in beautiful Charlotte, NC.
Words cannot accurately describe what a tremendous experience it was to be a part of such an incredible gathering with such amazing, talented colleagues and to spend quality time with some of my closest friends, so I won’t even try. Instead, I give you this…!
After FaffCon 3 back in March, my buddy Trish Basanyi and I came up with the “Top 5 FaffCon Pickup Lines”, and here they are:
5. Wanna Faff?
4. That’s quite a shotgun mic you got there.
3. Nice signal chain!
2. Wanna go back to my room to see my mobile gear?
1. Is that a Golden Nugget in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
So this time we came up with the “Top 5 FaffCon Sniglets”. If you’re under the age of 35, click on the Sniglet link to know what I’m talking about. Basically it’s a word that should be in the dictionary, but isn’t. Enjoy!
1) Faffaholic: someone who shows up to FaffCon a day early and leaves a day late.
“Is Tom STILL here? Why doesn’t he go home? What a Faffaholic.” “Yeah, he needs a Fafftervention.”
2) Fafflinquent: an attendee who doesn’t participate in FaffCon events as fervently as one should.
“Did you see Trish, Terry, and Jeff at the NASCAR tour? They weren’t even trying to win the scavenger hunt. What a bunch of Fafflinquents. I’m telling Amy.”
3) InFafftuation: a temporary condition in which a FaffCon attendee is over-inspired by a seminar.
“Don’t tell my husband but I am so inFafftuated with Doug Turkel right now. His branding seminar was AWESOME!”
4) Accountabitterbuddy: what your Accountabilibuddy turns into when you book a bunch of voiceover gigs while at FaffCon without even trying.
“Holy cow, Mel! You booked that one, too?!” (rolls eyes while sipping coffee)
(Melissa Exelberth came up with that one!)
5) Faffalanche: what happens when you get home after returning from FaffCon.
“Dude, I opened my Outlook Inbox and got Faffalanched. I am so screwed.”
(that one was inspired by Bob Souer’s “Share The Avalanche” seminar)
TIP OF THE WEEK: If you an aspiring voice talent, or even a tenured one but you feel that you’re having trouble getting to the next level, you need to network. I don’t mean just show up at some Meetup event and cram your business card into as many hands as you can (BTW that doesn’t work). I mean take the time to establish meaningful connections with other people in the industry and CONTRIBUTE. Read to the visually impaired. Offer to proof-read an audiobook project for a fellow talent. Do something, anything to give and I guarantee that you shall receive!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Today is the tomorrow I was so worried about yesterday. Anthony Hopkins
STUFF!: I want thank Amy Snively, Lauren McCullough, the Souer clan, and the entire staff of FaffCon for making it the best one ever. You guys rock!
From Tom Dheere’s apartment, this is Tom Dheere: GKN News…
Nice Tom! I love these phrases.
Dan
Ok….I admit I was more than a little inFafftuated with Tom Dheere.
If only he would have been ‘more silent’…like the ‘h’, I would have been fine.
I knew I should have stayed clear of his session!
sigh.
…still got my Faff On — AND…lovin’ it!!
Awesome Tom! I’d like to add a few the FaffStaff have heard bandied about from the first FaffCon through this one:
FaffFog – Full brain overload that hits somewhere around midday the first full day of sessions when you realize there’s more info to assimilate than you can possibly absorb.
Fafftastic – anything that’s been a really positive expression of the FaffCon experience.
Faffterglow – That amazing feeling of being re-energized, having your head so full of knowledge and your heart so full of companionship after the event that it takes a while to come back down to earth.
I’m sure there’s more that I can’t remember at the moment, FaffCon attendees seem to be slowly developing our own lexicon!
~Nat
What? Nobody’s mentioned all of the Faffter parties? I know you were there!
Wise words, Tom… but don’t forget the simple, “I’m totally Faffed”… usually mumbled while slumped over a bar-stool, sometime after two in the morning. Usually followed by, “… and I’m leading a session at nine.”
Bish
Love this list!
It was all kinds of awesome when Melissa coined Accountabitterbuddy during your session.
Priceless.