Michael J. Anderson can speak backwards right?

I heard this guy on the radio claiming to do the same thing but he was just saying words as they would be written backwards e.g. Twin Peaks becomes skaep niwt but if you reversed the word Twin Peaks it wouldn't sound like that. So can little Mike speak backwards like a computer would or just how the words are spelt.

 Watching him as Samson in Carnivale has really highlighted what a great actor he is also something that you can't really tell in MD or TP where he is just acting weird, which is probably a lot easier to do.

Yes he can. He had stated that he taught himself how to do it. If memory serves me right, he did this before Twin Peaks.

Also, Al Stroebel did it for us at the festival last year.

Yes, it was something that him and his friends devised way back in the day when he was a youngun. It was a huge coincidence that Lynch wanted to have the backwards speaking in Twin Peaks. When he approached the involved cast members about having to learn their lines backwards, Mike was like "Dude. I'm SO your man" (ok, so I'm paraphrasing there...and giving it my typical California twist) And then he helped the other actors to learn how to say their lines backwards as well.

I had a friend in jr high and high school who could talk backwards. He was a great party trick to pull out at a dull kegger, let me tell you...

Sorry, I don't know why there is no thread name, I thought I named it Little Mike.

Anyway, Does anyone know whether he does it by the spelling or he actually does it properly so that if you played it backwards it would sound like the actual words?

(giospurs, i think if you open your first post for editing and put the title in the subject line, it will magically reappear.)

It's played backwards in TP, Giospurs, and you can sort of tell what he's saying, so he must be doing it as it would sound. He seems to have got the technique down a little better (or maybe the reversing technology is better) in FWWM, where it's very clear what he's saying...

It's played backwards in TP, Giospurs, and you can sort of tell what he's saying, so he must be doing it as it would sound. He seems to have got the technique down a little better (or maybe the reversing technology is better) in FWWM, where it's very clear what he's saying...

 Yeah, that's what I thought, but then I thought that they would do it the proper way for TP but when he does it on his own it may not be able to do it the proper way. I don't think doing it by the backwards spelling is very impressive at all it just seems a waste of time to me.

(giospurs, i think if you open your first post for editing and put the title in the subject line, it will magically reappear.)

 

according to one of the special features things, he breaks the words down into phonemes and then reverses them; properly. he doesn't just read the word as it would sound if the letters were reversed.

according to one of the special features things, he breaks the words down into phonemes and then reverses them; properly. he doesn't just read the word as it would sound if the letters were reversed.

 I just find that astounding. I can't even do that with one phoneme, I find myself going back to the spelling of the word.

It's easier to do by memory if you use the phonemes because you just think about how the word sounds, not how it is spelled.  So the "peaks" of twin peaks is "peeks," etc.

Skeep newt.  Sounds pretty awesome.  What's even more awesome is that Little Mike can do that in his head so quickly and for so many words in a row.  If I tried to do more than three at a time I'd forget and mess it up.

Spike Jonze and The Pharcyde had to hire a linguist for the shooting of the classic "Drop" music video (which uses the same technique or double reversal). It was too much work for them to work out the phonemes on their own. Here it is .

And before you accuse Jonze of plagiarism, the technique is older than Twin Peaks. It goes at least back to the group The United States of America's brilliant "Osamu's birthday" from 1968, and can probably be traced to even earlier tape experiments.