audio post

[out_there]

Okay, I caved.

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That is me, saying:

"Hi. This is Annie, from Melbourne, Australia. I refuse to read anything smutty over an international phone line, so instead, you're going to get a harmless drabble featuring Clark as a little kid. I'm timid that way. It's one of my more endearing qualities.

***

Clark liked snails. He liked their delicate shells and slow, sleepy movements. They were quiet and shy, trying to hide when he touched them. He liked their silvery trails left on the ground.

It was Clark's job to look after the snails.

If he saw snails in the garden, he'd pick them up carefully, and carry them out to the field, where they should be. Every time he put them down, he'd remind them why they weren't allowed to eat Mom's flowers, and tell them that it didn't matter if other people liked cows or chickens, because they were his favourite."

I sound a little breathless. Trust me, it's just caused by a slight fear of what that was costing me. International phone calls are not good for my budget. Let's all just pray for my phone bill, okay? (Well, I won't get it for about a month, or at least a fortnight, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. *g*)

ETA: Hmmm... just listened to it. I'd swear I don't sound like that inside my own head. *sniggers* Oh, and Wendi, normally I talk a bit faster than that, but it's a natural instinct (honed by years of Mum reminding me) to slow down when reading something aloud.

ETA the second: I'm almost convinced that deadspiders is my sartorial soulmate. I need more people who are perfectly happy to sound like a grumpy granny when describing today's fashions. *hugs deadspiders*

Comments

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

I'd swear I don't sound like that inside my own head.

:P "Everyone, come live inside my skull! I'm different in there, honest!" ;)

I'm trying to download the audblod, but my RealPlayer is being a whiny mid-ninties rocker and not cooperating. I shall persevere! (*'Braveheart' face*)

I need more people who are perfectly happy to sound like a grumpy granny when describing today's fashions. *hugs deadspiders*

(*hugs you too*) :D There should be a support network for people like us. Old beyond our years; young enough to wear hipsters without doing so. Prematurly fogey-ish. :P

[out-there.livejournal.com]

"Everyone, come live inside my skull! I'm different in there, honest!" ;)

"There's a party in my eye socket and everyone's invited!"

I tried to resist quoting that, I really did, but I was helpless in the face of Xander quotage.

Seriously, though, you know the way you sound different on a phone recording than you do when you hear your voice? It's that. I know that the reason according to physics is that I hear my voice through both soundwave vibrations in the air, and the vibrations travelling up my jawbone (hence I sounds deeper/softer to me), but it's still just a little odd when you hear yourself.

You *know* it's you, and it's how other people hear you, but it's just... strange, as well.

I'm trying to download the audblod, but my RealPlayer is being a whiny mid-ninties rocker and not cooperating.

Well, use some of that late eighties harsh selfishness, and just bitchslap it into working. Or, alternatively, you could talk to it and ask why it feels the need to act out like this, and has it thought about it's parents lately?

Old beyond our years; young enough to wear hipsters without doing so. Prematurly fogey-ish.

Heh. Of course, it also needs to include the ability to sit around watching kids cartoons (*cough*Disney*cough*) and still be thoroughly entertained.

We're just skipping the boring, trendy life ages. *g*

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

I tried to resist quoting that, I really did, but I was helpless in the face of Xander quotage.

It's like The Simpsons - there really is a Buffy quote for every occasion. Don't fight it. :D

it's still just a little odd when you hear yourself.

Oh, I know. I hate listening to answering machine messages I've recorded or something. It's weird. And you were, if you think about it, listening to something you'd said in Australia that had been sent to America, transferred into a computer and relayed back to Australia via the Internet. That's bound to warp something. ;P

Of course, it also needs to include the ability to sit around watching kids cartoons (*cough*Disney*cough*) and still be thoroughly entertained.

Naturally. We cannot live by daytime TV alone. Even Passions gets tiresome after fourteen hours. ;D

Now, I'm off to get late-80s on my RealPlayer's ass. (*macho face*)

[out-there.livejournal.com]

That's bound to warp something. ;P

Hee! It hasn't, really. I can recognise it as phone-message-Annie, it's just... odd. Like looking into a mirror, or looking at photos. You know that's you, you know that's how other's see you, but if you don't look into mirrors frequently (I do, these days), it gives you that moment of trying to reconcile your mental image of yourself, with what everyone else sees.

Now, I'm off to get late-80s on my RealPlayer's ass.

Oooh. *stands back in awe*

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

:P It's weird to think that that's what everyone else sees. I remember the first time I saw video footage of myself, it was insane. THAT is what I look like when I talk and move? Eugh. That's... interesting... :P

RealPlayer moved to Emo phase - disconnected, unresponsive moping. I will whittle his spirit down yet!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Go you! go you! Go, go, go you! *cheers*

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

:D And might I just add that I love your latest subject header? Lana: "You're what happens when models marry..." It's so poetic and truthful. :)

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*pokes you*

Go download the song from velvetglitter's LJ (a couple of entries ago) and see if it doesn't make you think of creepy S1 Lana too.

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

That is too perfect. I'm especially fond of the last line. ;D

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*nods* Isn't it just?

It's a great description of S1 Lana, sitting around in graveyards, talking to dead parents, stalked by the MFotW. I think it would work well for a vid, but I've never vidded, and I'm far too lazy to start now.

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

I love this idea so much - it was so cool to hear your voice. I hadn't really figured in the Aussie accent in my mind, so this was great.

It is a shock though, hearing yourself. I sound totally wrong on mine - I swear I sound like an adult in person, not a ten year old!

Just don't mention the phone bill!! I refuse to consider it.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

You do. You sound so adult. A little like a grown up Hermione, but just... cool.

Just don't mention the phone bill!! I refuse to consider it.

*pokes Signe* Yeah, well, I'm blaming it on you. See, I wasn't going to do it, then you did, and I figured, if you're doing it from the UK, then it can be done. All in all, so much fun to hear friends. It's strange, but you almost forget how much you pick up from the sound of people's voices.

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

A little like a grown up Hermione, but just... cool.

Hee!! It's funny, to me, you sounded grown-up and rather professional, especially in comparison with me. And it's nice, because now I can listen to you reading your emails to me, instead of hearing them in my own voice.

Yeah, well, I'm blaming it on you. See, I wasn't going to do it, then you did, and I figured, if you're doing it from the UK, then it can be done.

I didn't expect it to work - I wasn't even sure if I had the last four numbers in the phone number right, as we don't use words instead of numbers here. I was actually really surprised when I found the post had gone through. As for the cost, unless it was a premium number (which I forgot to check), it shouldn't have been too much. I have a phone contract that allows me to phone the USA for 12p a minute (think that's about AUS$0.30, but I might be wildly out)

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Yeah, it's 100 pence to a pount, so it's roughly double for Aussie cents/dollars.

I just... don't call overseas. Hence, I have absolutely no idea of the cost. Even so, I couldn't have been on longer than 4 minutes, at the max, so it won't be enough to break the bank.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Oh my god!! I love your accent, and you sound soverycute!!

I'm totally digging this audio craze... everyone sounds nothing like what I expected, and yet so cool! *g*

I might actually be bouncing around a little right now!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

I love your accent, and you sound soverycute!!

Hee! Thanks! Mine's an odd combination of the Canberra accent and the Melbourne accent, mixed in with british heritage. All the same, good to know I sound cute! *bg*

I'm totally digging this audio craze... everyone sounds nothing like what I expected, and yet so cool! *g*

I know. Although, it's also giving me such an urge to be able to visit. Damnit, I want to hear these cool accents in real life. (Yeah, affording Audblog is stretching the budget, so that overseas trip is going to happen any second now... *snerk*)

[happyminion.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeeeeee!

I love accents. No, really, I do. A perfectly ugly person can open their mouth and speak in an accent and I start crushing. But don't be afraid, Annie! *g*

You read about the snails!!!!

I've loved this forever but hearing it read again makes me think of Wob and her fascination with the snails that use our sidewalk outside as a superhighway to commute from hedges to lush undergrowth. "See the N-N-NAILS!!!! Apparently the S at the beginning is useless to her.

Anyway, this was too cute! Thank you for playing along!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

A perfectly ugly person can open their mouth and speak in an accent and I start crushing.

*nods* Oh yeah. A good voice just *does* things to me. Take Jeremy Irons, for example. It's not that he's unattractive, but the second he speaks I just turn to mush.

That's one of the piece of advice from my granddad that I agree with. When you fall in love, you have to like the person's voice. Everything else changes over time, but the voice remains.

But don't be afraid, Annie! *g*

Well, I'll try not to be disappointed either. *pouts*

"See the N-N-NAILS!!!! Apparently the S at the beginning is useless to her.

Aw, how adorable. I choose it because I like that piece, and if the thought of the phone bill made me feel naughty and a little short of breath (I mean, it's not as if Mum's about to wake up and tell me off for making an international call, the adrenaline's purely caused by my own mind), trying to read something vaguely smutty would probably just end up with my wibbling on the end of phone line, sounding like a total moron.

Which I'm not, just for the record. *g*

[kaneko.livejournal.com]

So tempted to do the audio post, but nooo, must. think. of. telstra. bill.

What story are you reading? -- It's lovely!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hence me having a minor heart attack on the phone, and thinking this will be out of breath, but I'm not redoing it. As it turn out, I would have been on there about three minutes (four at the max) so I don't think it'll be too bad.

What story are you reading? -- It's lovely!

Thanks. *g* It's one of the Wednesday 100 (SV) drabbles I wrote ages ago, but it's very tame to read over the phone line.

[ammonium.livejournal.com]

Not going to comment on accent as it sound perfectly normal to me XD

No smut?!?!? No fun...

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Well, just in case I woke mum up at 1am making an international phone call, I don't want to explain why I'm reading smut aloud. It's a bad idea all round... *g*