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[Calathea]

I've been listening to Jamie Callums's album Twentysomething.

[Anne]

Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places such as California, and not sad places such..."

I have been to South America (Brazil and Peru) on two different occasions and neither of these countries were sad places. Social and political challenges in abundance, but lovely, smiling and friendly people, proud of their cultural heritage. A good place for writers I would think, with lot of interesting topics to research and discuss :)

[Vivian]

Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places such as California, and not ..."

I think he was being facetious.

[Feral]

Vivian wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Vivian wrote: "Josh wrote: "Just heard Kevin R. Free's first fifteen minutes on Ghost of a Chance. :-D

He's just SO good."

Didn't he also do the Moriarity and Holmes series?"

Yes ..."

Oh--yes that sounds good.

[Feral]

Vivian wrote: "Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places such as Califor..."

He explains hat research is not necessary. He writes in his garden and when he needs inspiration he looks into a rose. And then he types. That's the process.

[Vivian]

Feral wrote: "Vivian wrote: "Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places ..."

Maybe we should emulate his style... I am sure it'll do great with my graduate advisor. I can just imagine myself telling Dr. A... "But Steve Martin said I didn't need to do any research, I just need to look at a rose and write in my garden... so I just ad libbed and didn't read any refutal of Maimonidean philosophy in 14th century Castille..."

[Feral]

Hee hee you might be too young to remember Steve Martin. He was famous in my time for songs like "King Tut". Here is one of his routines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0GQfy...

[Idamus]

Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places such as California, and not ..."

Yeah, and I'm sure it was the same(ish) in Czechoslovakia, 21+ years ago when it still existed, but in 98 that place was called Czech Republic and Slovakia

[Feral]

Idamus re: "Czechoslovakia"

It's one of those things that people sometimes still use (though not so much now). I've found the my Bohemian relatives (whose parents came from places like Bratislava or Prague and were kind of on the middle ground in terms Czech or Slovak) were actually pretty bad about not saying the old country name even though they knew full well it had split. There were "Czechoslovakian-American" organizations and churches and so forth who were not about to change their names.

I don't think Steve Martin cared. Maybe he did it on purpose. He used to play a "Wild and Crazy guy" named Yortuk Festrunk Brothers on Saturday Night Live and I got the feeling he was parodying people he was familiar with in that role.

I'm still amused my library has this on audio. I'm old, let me have my old humor. :P

[Vivian]

Feral wrote: "Hee hee you might be too young to remember Steve Martin. He was famous in my time for songs like "King Tut". Here is one of his routines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0GQfy..."

I remember him by the movies he made.

[Anne]

Vivian wrote: "Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places such as Califor..."

I am sure he was :)

[Becky]

Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive, even with myself! That's it, all my listening will be in the app now. I want my badges and to get the higher levels. :D

I've apparently listened to books in the app for 10 days and nearly 10 hours. 250 hours! If only I'd always listened on my app and not on the Audible Manager on my laptop, lord knows how many hours it would be.

[Idamus]

Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive, even with my..."

Congrats, have fun :-)

[Johanna]

Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive, even with my..."

Wow! That sounds like fun!

[Calathea]

Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive, even with my..."

Is this a new feature? *runs off to check*

[Idamus]

Calathea wrote: "Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive..."

No, at least not on iPhone

[Calathea]

Found the statistics on the android app. Now I'm scratching my head because... when did I buy 52 audio books? Totally slipped my notice. ;-)

[Idamus]

Calathea wrote: "Found the statistics on the android app. Now I'm scratching my head because... when did I buy 52 audio books? Totally slipped my notice. ;-)"

I have 86, and I bought my first Audible book about 9 months ago

Oops?

About 10 are freebies though, and 6 or 8 are buy two books for one credits

[Valerie]

Calathea wrote: "Found the statistics on the android app. Now I'm scratching my head because... when did I buy 52 audio books? Totally slipped my notice. ;-)"

I should not have checked that -- I own 104 and have more than 10 in my library I haven't listened to yet.

I do have a nice collection of badges, though. ;)

[Valerie]

Idamus wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Found the statistics on the android app. Now I'm scratching my head because... when did I buy 52 audio books? Totally slipped my notice. ;-)"

I have 86, and I bought my first Audi..."

Yes, a lot of them were pretty cheap and I just bought 3 yesterday for $2.97 after a $15 credit. That's my excuse. ;-)

[Johanna]

Calathea wrote: "Found the statistics on the android app. Now I'm scratching my head because... when did I buy 52 audio books? Totally slipped my notice. ;-)"

LOL.

[Feral]

We don't need no stinking...

You are all off to collect badges aren't you? :)

@ Lou Yes, but his popularity ad what he is known for has changed. It happens.

[Idamus]

Feral wrote: "We don't need no stinking...

You are all off to collect badges aren't you?"

Not me, but I have a lot of them :p

[Susinok]

No badges on my iPod classic, and over 100 books, probably closer to 200. It's what's filled up half of my 164 GB iPod. I have very little music.

[Mtsnow13]

The Party Boy's Guide to Dating a Geek

Currently only $3.95 on Audible
http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_h...

[Mtsnow13]

Wow! I just counted 117 on my iPad! And I've only been a member for like just over a year? It's addictive. First got into them at the library, but got even more attached since I've started finding some decent M/M books on Audible.

I notice DSP seems to be cranking them out like crazy, but I'm being selective on those.

And strangely enough, don't see badges anymore since I moved away from my iPod. Hmmm...

[Calathea]

Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody - Live in Budapest (curretly shown on one of my TV channels)

[Sabine]

Calathea wrote: "Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody - Live in Budapest (curretly shown on one of my TV channels)"

Yes that is a good one, I'm looking too.

[Calathea]

Sabine wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody - Live in Budapest (curretly shown on one of my TV channels)"

Yes that is a good one, I'm looking too."

:-)

[Karen]

Don't Look Back
: )

[Mtsnow13]

Karen wrote: "
Don't Look Back
: )"

Yep. Me, too :-)

[Jordan]

And counting my audible books there are only 17. But I have 13 on cassette and CD.

Anyway, just finished A Reason To Believe by Diana Copeland and I can't speak highly enough about this audio book. I loved it. The story was great and the narration was super awesome.

I will definitely recommend this to those who enjoy a good mystery along with a fantastic love story. And who in this group wouldn't want that? Lol.

[Mtsnow13]

Jordan wrote: "And counting my audible books there are only 17. But I have 13 on cassette and CD.

Anyway, just finished A Reason To Believe by Diana Copeland and I can't speak highly enough about this audio book..."


I thought that one was really good, too, Jordan :) and worth a reread!

[Becky]

I've been listening on the radio to some short dramatisations of some of the Raffles stories. They made me go look up what the Internet thinks of Raffles and Bunny's relationship. Since the first suggestion Google gave when I typed in "Raffles Bunny" was "Raffle Bunny gay" I think that's pretty clear without even reading the results.

You don't exactly need your slash detector on high gain with these guys.

[HJ]

Becky wrote: "I've been listening on the radio to some short dramatisations of some of the Raffles stories. They made me go look up what the Internet thinks of Raffles and Bunny's relationship. ...

You don't exactly need your slash detector on high gain with these guys. "

It's not just me then!

I have a soft spot for these early twentieth century "Boy's Own" type of stories. There are some Bulldog Drummond stories by Sapper, in which they race around Europe in huge powerful cars rescuing pure fair maidens and making sure right is done, which are excellent. They remind me a little of the earlier books by John Buchan such as The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle, but they're not as good.

ETA I should warn that they're very much of their time, and reveal attitudes towards non-Englishmen which we deplore today (quite rightly).

[HJ]

I've just remembered my favourite early twentieth century adventure books involving fast cars etc.: the early Saint books by Leslie Charteris. But only the early books.

And, of course, Biggles by W.E. Johns, although he flew planes. Again, the early books are best. And again, to quote Becky, "You don't exactly need your slash detector on high gain with these guys".

[Antonella]

Something beautiful, and Icelandic. Not only for Ame ;-):
13th century Icelandic hymn goes viral

[Idamus]

I have dug up my Blue Gillespie playlist (and now I crave a Torchwood rewatch, well, series 1 & 2 anyway)

[Calathea]

Karen wrote: "
Don't Look Back
: )"

Me too! Started yesterday. About one hour to go. I love it. It's like getting re-acquainted with an old friend (I hadn't read it in some time but re-read some times after reading it for the first time)

[Josh]

Feral wrote: "Vivian wrote: "Anne wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Feral wrote: "I've started listening to Steve Martin's Pure Drivel. So far, he has explained that writing is easy and writers should live in happy places ..."

:-D :-D :-D

I need to try that!

[Josh]

Feral wrote: "Hee hee you might be too young to remember Steve Martin. He was famous in my time for songs like "King Tut". Here is one of his routines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0GQfy..."

I still find that funny. :-D

[Josh]

Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive, even with my..."

HUH?!

[Idamus]

Josh wrote: "Becky wrote: "Oh glory be, I've just discovered the "Stats" section on the Audible app. There are badges! There are "levels" to achieve! This was made for me! Yes, I'm a little tiny bit competitive..."


On the iPhone app it is found under 'me', bottom, right side

[Valerie]

I was browsing YouTube for music videos to cheer me up and thought this was cute:

Justin Timberlake - Not a Bad Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjty0...

And this is hilarious - Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Spacey's Barbershop Quartet "Ragtime Gals" singing Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty to Me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hHhE...

I want to hear them do some Pitbull, LOL.

[Johanna]

Valerie C wrote: "And this is hilarious - Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Spacey's Barbershop Quartet "Ragtime Gals" singing Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty to Me:"

Heh. That was entertaining! :-)

[Mtsnow13]

I received a nice email from Audible...guess I bought enough books valued at least $14.95, they gave me a $10 credit ;) nice surprise! And I think most we're discounted whispersync books :-)

[Idamus]

Mtsnow13 wrote: "I received a nice email from Audible...guess I bought enough books valued at least $14.95, they gave me a $10 credit ;) nice surprise! And I think most we're discounted whispersync books :-)"

I got $10 too :-)

[Mtsnow13]

Woohoo! Audible light is paying off better than the full membership ;) now for that biannual sale they usually have :-D

[Becky]

Latest audiobook for me The Talented Mr. Ripley I just read the ebook a couple of weeks ago. Love me some Tom Ripley, he's so weird.

I've never seen the movie. Anyone recommend it?

[HJ]

Becky wrote: "Latest audiobook for me The Talented Mr. Ripley I just read the ebook a couple of weeks ago. Love me some Tom Ripley, he's so weird.

I've never seen the movie. Anyone recommend it?"

This book gave me nightmares when I read it (an awfully long time ago) so I've never read another by Patricia Highsmith. It taught me not to read outside my comfort zone (which is very narrow when it comes to violence and cruelty) no matter how good the writing.

I remember that the movie had good reviews, but I'm not sure if that was from people who had read the book! I do think that it's a completely different experience, watching a movie when you know the book.