audiobook sads

I am sleepy

also quite angry 

because the audiobookbay site is nowhere to be found not even its mirror site 

I have since checked out may others and none seems to be as good as the audiobookbay one and I am angry, not least because I need several audiobooks to be in queue but also because I feel at a loss.

I am going to be editing a whole lot of pictures today and :(

stuff and things

 Victory!!

I finally have the second Mistborn book 'wall of ascension' read by Michael Kramer. Not that I didn't like the graphic audio drama format, it was great but I'd rather prefer the narrator proper spoken by a single person because somehow audio dramas have added sound effects and it distracts me.

Also downloaded 'the obelisk gate' which is the second book of the broken earth trilogy and where I needed to find a fix yesterday I suddenly have an excess which to me is always a good thing. I love having options, backups, multiples of things. 

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In other news, I'm clicking pictures for my recipe today and lo! it begins to rains and the world is a dark place. Makes me a bit mad this downour and off seasonal mood swings but how do I change that?

Just gonna wait for it to get better no. Here's hoping I can do it today.

on audio and other such

 I know it's odd and it is, but currently, as I'm editing so many pictures I am listening to 'the blade itself' for no other reason except that it's fun.

Not sure if this is what I'm going to keep listening to because I had decided for Dresden and you must be wondering what about sandman?

Yeah well, I listen to it while cooking dinner and I want to keep it that way. 

Today is all about editing pictures for the blog. 

In another day or so I will click pictures for a new recipe for the book.

Just still deciding which recipe I need to create and click.

speedy boop

 I am incensed!! at every fucking thing.

The only thing keeping me from lashing out is the fact that sandman has downloaded and I look forward to listening to it while cooking.

Yes! It's a new thing.

You know how it is. We go through different phases every now and then and currently, my phase of choice is lighting up candles around the house (I seem to be partial towards the woodsy aromatics. My favourite one is called the forest on mountains) and cooking dinner while listening to audiobooks. This is precisely how I was able to finish ancillary justice recently and before I start with the final one I look forward to listening sandman and maybe even a Dresden, though I hope to be drawing soon. 

I might go flit between acid or classical jazz or slipknot every now and then because sometimes one just needs to, but as of now, it's audiobooks.

I mean not very different from that time I was obsessing over listening to Osho!

Perhaps a bit similar even, but there's something to be said about having the speaker close to you and listening to a book.

some few

it's supposedly afternoon but I'm not buying.

Why is it so dark? so blustery?

I still have some pending tasks, the exact same ones I've been talking about and I also want/need to bake a cake because I have a couple apples that need baking and I have someone's plate that needs returning and there is a house I need visiting and the person living there loves cake.

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I think I will get into my kitchen today and give my glass and crystalware a good scrub and cleaning and have them shining back to newness because right now they've a layer of nine-month-long dust patina residing within and it gives the entire rack a rather grimy look.

I hear the washing machine inform me that clothes are done and I look at the pile of yesterdays clothes still sitting on the couch and they need to be folded.

The good thing is that I have a new audiobook (thanks doll) and that means my chores will be a little more fun, not that cleaning isn't fun..you know I love it. Just that I've been procrastinating it while trying to take it all easy but how long does one keep taking everything easy?

Yes, it's my birth week and that's the exact reason why I will treat myself to a cup of tea in a while before getting on with my chores.

Also, Can I just say how grand it feels to go back to typing on the old keyboard again after almost an entire year? I mean my laptop woes were not sacred and were if anything horror stories and how often did I wish to hurl that machine from the plague era onto the tiled surface? countless!

And now! I love clicking about on my keyboard and man I need to wipe this thing. :)

RIght then.

Towards tea then and this will be a black dip tea with milk and sugar but I am so excited to try out the new bay leaf concoction as well.

More updates soon

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PS. the new blogger has changed quite a bit. It's a bit more bright I think. 

audio stuff

Who me?
currently downloading 'a little hatred' audiobook because there are drawings to be made and I am dying to hear this book. Of course, I am. :) 

listen and pauses

My beloved audiobook site goes through phases wherein it simply refuses to open.
Currently, it needs me to disconnect the VPN in order to access it.
The list I'm offered as I log in is always mind-boggling and currently it suggests I listen to some Warhammer books and why it would think so I wouldn't know but scrolling down the list there's 'Thin Air' By Richard Morgan and there's nothing wrong in downloading it and saving for a later date, if it gets downloaded that is because I have zero peers.

paints and listens

Audiobookbay finally relented and I am now in possession of 'the outsider' audiobook, not the Albert Camus one but the Stephen King one and shall now proceed to listen while I draw.
did I mention the new acrylic painting I have begun?

Ah, acrylics.
They're such a fun medium. Somewhere between watercolours and oil paints and I'm only doing a sort of test drawing with it just to see the colours and how they fan out and the relationship they establish with canvas and water and with each other to get the first-hand experience as to how I should go about dealing with them in the future and so far they are bright, vivacious, shiny and not too fussy.
 You can layer and layer and layer and they're not finicky like watercolours and forgiving to almost every fault.
Of course, they're not the kinds to blend like watercolours nor do they but the effect they provide is also absolutely different and I think I'm going to enjoy them as much as watercolours.

audiobook shenanigans

I'm currently downloading two audiobooks.
One is Artemis Fowl so kindly recommended by thee and the other is The kingkiller chronicles read by Rupert Degas as especially emphasized by a fellow audiobook enthusiast who pestered me to download it and give it a listen.

As these two are downloading I think about the previous few recommendations and there was one which had something to do with an arena or a game or something similar which I was about to download but got distracted by Red Country instead. I cannot for the life of me remember that name and It'd looked oh so interesting right then.

Please let me know and update. :)

listen fun

"prickomo fucking cocksca"

hahaha, I think is the most I laughed the past couple days.

Nearing the end of the red country audiobook, just edging towards the climax that I know will end in a glorious fight.

audiobook jiggle

I think I had a mini heart attack today when my absolute favourite go-to website for audiobooks (audiobookbay.co) did not open. In fact, I kept getting an error message and getting redirected to some spammish page and my heart was beginning a descent into the depths of depression when a bit of frantic foraging on the internet informed me that it was now audiobookabb.com .  To say that I exhaled a sigh of relief would be an understatement because I did a bit of dance and heaved my cat up in the air and may have even kissed him.
Now looking for some recommended audiobooks, some with the voices I love and some just random listens to decide whether I'd be interested.

hell yeah

"Their resentment stings my flesh nearly as much as -oh say the pittering raindrops of a summer shower"
-Caine

burn baby burn 

moments and seeders

Riding a T-rex and waxing Jurassic Park references.. I mean come on, my heart is bursting with love.

also 'acts of caine' audiobook is stuck at 92% and I'm almost at the end of this Dresden audiobook.

joys

I'm happy to report that 'acts of caine' audiobook is downloaded to 61%. Someone started seeding, all of a sudden. 

on we go

Right, that whole ordeal of ironing, clothing, stacking laundry didn't take nearly as long as I cribbed.

So, this is a drawing phase, and more to the point a watercolouring phase and next on agenda is something of a mad experiment.
It's totally crazy I know, it might drive me insane and I'd have a couple meltdowns but it's something I think I'd want to do.

Also this won't be the most free flowing artwork. It'd involve a good bit of drawing and a couple washes which I hope don't go wrong before I start with the whole thing.

The audiobook is at its last leg. 'The haunting of hill house' was brisk, precise and a short listen. Not chilling to the bone but definitely a good listen.
Loved that it had absolutely zero sub plots and the narrative was crisp and easy and pretty too.

I had trawled through all audio books by Steven Pacey and did come across some Jack Reacher audiobooks but didn't wish to listen to them, knowing the nature of those books and still with a continuing need to listen to something full of ze drama and spectacle and spectacular madness..sigh, I do miss listening to First law series and GoT.

Of course I could listen to Malazan books, but that'd would just not do my darling. They're much too fun to read and moreover listening can hamper my reading progress.

Right, so mayhaps I'll download a Jack Reacher and get on with 'Dresden Files' as well.

This need to drink tea so random. Will start with my caffeine purge week beginning tomorrow.. Needs must stop! at once, save a few perverted ones ;)

now some more

So here I am, starting on a redemption drawing, finished with the 5th book of Dresden series and starting on with another audiobook called 'Harbor' by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
I have not the slightest idea about this book, except that this writer also wrote 'let the right one in' and the movie scared the breath out of me, so I guess this one is also horror?

It was thrown up in suggestions by the audiobook download site and I thought, well, why not?

Need a break from Dresden before I go back to it, also, in case of any other fun reccos, please do let me know.
I'm totally open to mad fantasy fiction or anything really.

part dos

Speaking of audiobooks, I'd gone looking for books exclusively read by Steven Pacey and my ears salivated at the thought of listening to him read horror and murder mysteries.

Talking of fantasy fiction audiobooks I started with GoT then on to Gentleman bastards #1 Lies of Locke Lamora, followed by First law series and then best served cold.
 And damn I enjoyed them all to smithereens. (recco'd by the best in business). Gasping and sighing and literally pausing my work to tear my hair out, sometimes re listening a couple well philosophized passages.

What I'm guessing is that listening to comedy isn't as fun as reading it.
Would I like listening to P.G. Wodehouse? who in my opinion is the penultimate funny writer and my favourite author. I guess not.

But do I enjoy listening to horror, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, mysteries. HELL TO THE YES milord.

(I'm sorry if I sounded a little harsh in my previous post. :(. I didn't intend to sound that way )

auralslacks

Small issues that tend to make life overwhelmingly difficult. Annoyances rather.

I cant's find a good audiobook version of 'Best Served Cold'.
 Can't find it on any torrents. A good version isn't available on my usual go to audiobook download site (audiobookbay) and it's not available on YouTube either.

The one file that I did find is broken , and the narrator isn't the narrator I was looking for.
I mean there isn't one like Steven Pacey, there just isn't. Dare I say, he's even better than Roy Dotrice, who did GoT.
In fact after the initial complaints of the voice change in Got audiobooks (see archives) for the fourth book, when Roy Dotrice's voice was replaced by John Lee, I kind of warmed up, nay, loved this sudden new voice narration too. No matter what others had to say, but John Lee did read AFFC like a baus, and it didn't make me miss Dotrice as much.

But hold on to this train of thought, it wanders..

UPDATE: Found the 'best served cold' audiobook version I was looking for!! Finally! this one read by Steven Pacey. Yoiks! 1GB..but no matter. It could be 5 and I'd still download it.

audiobook recco

OK, I just got and audiobook recommendation 'The Way of Kings'  by Brandon Sanderson, since I'm still contemplating which new one to start with after the last one that I finished  'The last argument of kings' , and fillings gaps with audio graphic novels (which are pretty kickass).

I'm waiting for this choice to be seconded or given other options.

Audiobook now

Currently listening to Joe Abercrombie's 'last argument of kings' audiobook, read by Steven Pacey, and I've just come to the part where Harding Grim has died. This is truly upsetting, and I am kind of bereaved :(

Also on edge are my nerves, my nails are frayed because I have been biting them, while I go about listening to the Gurkhul vs Union battle scene, which is now a medley of suspense, hand wringing anxiety, lip biting restlessness and blood curdling violent imagery which so perfectly fits the malice, intrigue, betrayal, vengeance and loyalty that is drawn in this book..and particularly in the battle chapters, where everything is confusion in a bloodied cauldron, as so common with wars.

I love how different storylines are sometime merging, sometimes deflecting and somehow still totally unaware of other character plots. 

Onwards and upwards now..