Funny to see talk of memorization tricks today.
I had to memorize twenty pages of wordy dialog with heavy speeches for my character for a parody I did last Sunday night.
I had to memorize it in about 48 hours.
Mostly it was just tough finding the time to fit in my memorization. Typically what I do for memorizing my lines is to just recite them over and over, and when I screw up (this requires somebody to be on book for me), I start over and keep going until I get it right in my recitation.
As each page gets memorized, I worry less and less, as the longer I work at it, the more solid I get on the beginning parts.
It's always the last few pages that are the toughest, as they get the least amount of time, but it works for me.
While I am here.
Rice-a-roni people? Naked people harvesting, delivering and preparing your Pasta-roni product does NOT make me want to buy your product. In fact, it kinda freaks me out.
Rice-a-roni people? Naked people harvesting, delivering and preparing your Pasta-roni product does NOT make me want to buy your product. In fact, it kinda freaks me out.
Because that just can't be sanitary.
I memorize things like stories, songs, and dialog by saying/singing them over and over until they wear a special groove in my neurons. All I need then is a mnemonic device to start me off. I've tried the walk-through-a-house thing and it doesn't work. I forget where all the shit is, or what I put where, and sometimes I find something I don't know what the hell it is. It's kinda like my actual house, that way.
It's kinda like my actual house, that way.
Zenkitty is me there. Anybody whose ever seen one of my apartments, or my current office, knows that a memory house would be next to useless for me.
Back when I was acting in high school, I had the hardest time learning my lines -- I spent hours and hours for each scene, becasue the only way I could learn them was to learn every line in the scene, not just mine!
I've also never had a great memory for numbers, but I've hit upon a fairly foolproof (for me) method. When I get a significant string of numbers I must retain for a while, like a telephone number that I can't write down, I draw it out in the air with my finger, or "write" it on my thigh under the table or whatever -- so long as I actually have to translate the number into a different form using my body rather that just repeating the numbers in my head. It actually seems to work -- except of course, if I don't think that a number is going to be significant, so I don't try to remember it in the first place.
I'm good at remembering pictures. Which means I should probably turn 2D images into a memory device.
But what happens is I see someone and think "Oh! That's that guy!" and can pretty much remember the photos I have of him on one of my sites...but not the tell-tale filename. But I can go home and scan thumbnails and work out who it is in pretty short order.
My memory sucks
ass
as far as useability goes. Or does weird things to me. Needed to say "menopause" in a conversation today, but could only think of "change of life" as well as the hormonal consequences of radical hysterectomies. The fuck? I had to back off conversationally and come at it from another angle, at which time the word popped right into place.
Sort of how I deal with vocab issues in foreign languages or the strange hard-c-word deficiencies I have after concussions.
My memory sucks ass as far as useability goes. Or does weird things to me. Needed to say "menopause" in a conversation today, but could only think of "change of life" as well as the hormonal consequences of radical hysterectomies. The fuck? I had to back off conversationally and come at it from another angle, at which time the word popped right into place.
ita, over in Bitches earlier today, I couldn't think of "dust pan," and had to describe it as "the thing that you sweep debris into."
I feel you.
