Diverse Auditory Amusements

[tealin]

Hey, Internet! Guess what's finally on iTunes? Betcha can't guess!

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Soundtrack!

Professional sound quality! Crystal-clear stereo! No sound effects!* Official song titles! Individually packaged tracks that you can put on repeat!**

I live in the hope that perhaps, some glorious day soon, the nerds will unite and dethrone the album that is currently #1, which appears to be some sort of 'urban music.' So I do my part by spreading awareness. Be aware.

In celebration I was going to draw 'a shiny new Australia' but FAILED. This is probably the fault of one of two things: 1. The grinding of the mental transmission as my brain tried to switch fandom gears at full speed 2. It's actually really hard.

In return, here is a visual approximation of listening to the Snicket audio books



He seems to lean further and further back from the mic through the course of reading the book, but leans in close to say 'Chapter Thirteen' in a hushed, horrified voice. Of course, listening to it on headphones (especially good headphones) is like he suddenly invades your personal space to speak right in your ear. Effective, but ... yaah.

In case anyone was debating whether to spring the extra cash on a Canson sketchbook or just get another plain old Essential Jumbo or Strathmore ... um, yeah, stick with the cheap stuff. The paper's really thin, comparatively – I don't draw very hard but there's still an impression left on the next page. It also grips the pencil less ... dunno how to describe it, it's not tooth, necessarily, because I've used practically toothless paper that picks up pencil like nobody's business, but it's slightly slippery, a little bit like drawing on newsprint. My two cents.

*Definitely cool re: such songs as 'A Man's Gotta Do...' but the second Bad Horse song kinda loses something without the whinny and the gunshot.
**Not that I would ever recommend doing such a thing. Or do so myself.

Comments

[blahblahcakes64.livejournal.com]

J'adore. Can't wait to download it! :DDDDD

[ks-claw.livejournal.com]

*cracks up at your expression in the last panel*

[followthatcab.livejournal.com]

I can't get it out of my head that Dr Horrible had a Bad Horse lunchbox as a young nerd.

Second: I am wondering, what does one do with audiobooks? Do you listen to them while jogging? While sleeping? In airplanes? Because listening to them while reading...(my ipod's usual employment) well, the mind boggles.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, no, I listen to them while drawing, usually at work (if what I'm working on doesn't take too much brainpower). It was a joyful, joyful day in my life when I realized I could draw and 'read' at the same time. It had always been either/or for my favourite pasttimes before. I can't imagine listening to anything while reading, that would totally screw up my mental movie. My iPod pretty much only gets used at work, too – drawing is great and fun but a lot of the time my left brain turns into a truculent child saying 'I'm bored! Give me something to do!' and feeding it an audiobook or radio show keeps it from poking the right brain and distracting it from its employment.

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

I listen to them while in the book-bindery at work, or while weaving. Also good for bus/metro trips, where you can even combine it with knitting. Be careful about audiobooks and driving, though.

[followthatcab.livejournal.com]

Listening to newfangled Books-on-iPods while binding oldfangled books? That is postmodern that is.

(:D and I should try this metro thing. Reading with my eyes closed! Beautiful).

[shadowmaat.livejournal.com]

I listen to them at work. No one ever talks to me (and I'm not inclined to learn how to speak Lao to talk to them) so the audiobooks help me get through the day without going binkers. Or no more so than I already am.

And I absolutely did not put the Doctor Horrible album on loop and listen to it for four hours. Nope, not I.

[moonmystique.livejournal.com]

OH audiobooks! That's an awesome idea..I think I'll have to listen to some. I heard a sample that came on my brothers mp3 player of James and the Giant Peach, and it was Jeromy Irons reading B)

Shiny new Australia

[gg-83.livejournal.com]

I am envisioning sparkly kangaroos and drop bears with shiny, deadly teeth. (What's that? Drop bears are fictional? Maybe. But perhaps not in the Dr. Horribleverse!)

Re: Shiny new Australia

[(Anonymous)]

I had a picture of the Australian PM Kevin Rudd with a fornlorn look on his face handing over a set of keys while Dr. Horrible had a death ray in the small of his back.

Re: Shiny new Australia

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You guys are all coming up with much more entertaining and clever images than what I had in mind; I was just going to do a cartoonification of what's onscreen at that line.

[shadowmaat.livejournal.com]

You know what I keep picturing for the "shiny new Australia" is a keychain in the shape of a totally blinged out Australia with some keys dangling from it. But then my thinking tends to be a little strange. Blame the drop bears.

[(Anonymous)]

YOU MEAN THE No.1 ALBUM ON iTUNES *ISN'T* BARTOK'S CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRAAAAA?!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??

[(Anonymous)]

NOOOOooooooo!

[shadowmaat.livejournal.com]

Awww, that cute little bat from Anastasia wrote some music?? Good for him!

*flounces away* ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Ahahahaha. Whenever my family goes on car trips, my dad gets ALL of the "Series of Unfortunate Events" books on tape, and we always cough along with Mr. Poe on the ones that Tim Curry reads. We've been doing this since I was around seven, and I'm now sixteen...

My mental "Shiny New Australia" is like regular Australia, except everyone sparkles in an Edward Cullen-esque sort of way, and wears hats with shiny corks dangling from them. All of the kangaroos and koalas wear sunglasses.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

THAT IS SO AWESOME. I want to go on your road trips. :D

Also, yes to sparkling Australians. With all that sunshine, they'd blind the world! (Which is, presumably, why the animals wear sunglasses.)