paraka

I actually recorded this last month that weekend when worked on 6 different podfics but the author wanted to clean up the fic a bit first (it wasn't betaed) and then forgot to get back to me and I got distracted from asking again what with being so busy.

I really do like this story. I've never read the book or watched the movie for the Time Travler's Wife but I'm kind of tempted now. It's just so sweet and heart breaking and porny all in one. And it's not even that long of a fic!

Title: Unstruck by xbeyondinsanex
Reader: paraka
Fandom: American Idol Season 8 RPF
Pairing: Kris/Adam, Kris/Katy, Kris/Adam/Kris
Length: 22:01
Links: MP3 ||| M4B

Summary: Kris Allen is a man unstuck in time. If you've read the Time Traveler's Wife, you'll get this immediately but for those who have not - Kris occasionally drifts away, revisiting moments in the past or future. Sometimes his own past, sometimes the past of the one he loves. Just go with it.

Note: And, you know, while I'm talking podfic, let me take the moment to remind everyone that you can buy my podficing services over at help_pakistan.

So this is podfic #3 from the weekend:

Title: Sam by jerakeen
Fandom: American Idol S8 RPF
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Length: 15:28
Link: MP3 | M4B

Summary: When Kris calls from his latest humanitarian trip and tells Adam that he has kind of sort of maybe possibly accidentally adopted a baby girl, Adam laughs for ten minutes straight.

I have been so productive this weekend with regards to podfic. I worked on (this is) not a statement, I managed to complete 3 shorter podfics and I'm working on a 4th. amproof was the first author to get back to me with permission though, so here's podfic #1:

Title: Many Colors, Not Just One by amproof
Fandom: American Idol S8
Pairing: Kris, Adam friendship (as preslashy as you can get with 4 year olds)
Length: 8:25
Link: MP3 | M4B

Summary: Kristopher loves preschool. Mostly.

I almost died of the cute after reading this one. It's pretty awesome :)

Last week I had an amazingly productive podficing week. I managed to get chapter 3 of (this is) not a statement edited. I recorded and posted Four PM. I also managed to get two other podfics recorded and one partially edited.

That was last week.

I had these grand plans to finish editing at least one of the podfics I recorded last week this weekend but then totally didn't and I haven't done any editing or recording this week at all. :(

Instead I spent last night reading bad fic (OMG, it was *painful*) before finding the completely awesome You've Got Music by buffyx (now I'm totally in the mood for Kradam AUs but instead am listening to J2 AUs because I've listened to all the AI podfic a million times each).

*sigh* It was really fun being all productive last week. I really need to get back to that. AI fandom needs more podfic. Seriously.

So, as promised, a post about my weekend. Or really, just a post about the concert. It was at the Molson Amphitheter. I've never actually gone to a concert in Toronto so didn't actually know what the Amphitheter was. I actually had it confused with the Staples Centre so when we got there, I realized, oh shit, this is pretty much outside, not at a hockey stadium maybe I should have worn sunscreen. I have really pale skin, my family jokes that when I wear shorts you can see my legs from space. I was wearing a tank top on Saturday... I'm still kind of crispy :-/

Probably the most interesting part of Saturday was the people watching. Even though there were quite a few big names performing (some with better radio play that Adam) it was pretty clear that everyone was there for Adam.

Actually, as we were walking in there was a middle aged couple in front of us (early 50s) and the man was harassing the ticket handler and told us we shouldn't come in. Turns out he didn't really pay attention when he was buying his tickets, or else he thought Adam was putting on a 7 hour show because he didn't realize that Adam was only going to be on at the end of the night and he felt cheated. The woman was trying to calm him down and get him to move on. Maybe I'm stereotyping here, but I just did not expect a 50 year old man to get that upset about not seeing Adam Lambert right away.

I had glamed myself up a bit before going to the concert and I certainly wasn't the only one. There were so many people in glitter and studs, leather and lace. There was, of course, a lot of teenie boppers but there was also a lot of diversity in the crowd. There was a group of little old ladies all in glitter and shiny clothes. And this one mother (in her 60s)/daughter (in her late 20s/early 30s) that showed up in matching leather and lace outfits complete with spikey shoes.

It was just so fun to see people outside of their normal zone, making themselves up, however awkwardly, especially the awkward ones actually, in this ideal of what beautiful. It was awesome and amazing, and yeah, really beautiful. I loved it.

I was really sad when they announced that this was going to be Adam's only Canadian stop on his Glam Nation Tour (especially since I don't think it should count, since it was a Wham Bam concert and there was no Allison :S). I would really like to see another one. Actually I just found out that he's going to be performing at the International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and I think I'm going to go see him then too (any of my Ottawa peeps want to join me? Tickets are only $20, I'll drive).

So after your advice, I went and emailed that author that never got back to me about letting me record her fic. It turns out that LJ ate the comment email so she hadn't even seen my request. So here's that podfic I mentioned!

Title: A Chance Meeting by jeyhawk
Reader: paraka
Fandom: American Idol (season 8) RPF
Pairing: Adam Lambert/Kris Allen
Length: 10:14
Link: MP3 | M4B
Archive links: Mp3 ||| M4B

Summary: Adam is a figure skater, Kris is a snowboarder. The Olympics are on. (Just go with the flow, this is too silly to have a summary anyway.)

In other news, I really, really want there to be a Terminator/American Idol crossover fic. Why does this not exist? I'm tempted to try writing it myself, this is never a good sign :S

So, to cement my new love for AI fandom, I've now done podfic for it. I actually have a 2 hour podfic too that should be posted any day now, I just need to get it back from beta. In the mean time:

Title: One am by seperis
Reader: paraka
Fandom: American Idol (season 8) RPF
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Length: 6:59
Link: MP3 | M4B
Archive links: MP3 ||| M4B

Summary: But then there's this; the ER at one in the morning with a blank faced doctor asking a series of escalatingly pointed questions while examining Kris' black eye and sprained wrist, which Kris meets with more and more bewildered answers ("There's a loose step to the basement and I fell. Didn't I just say that?") while Adam imagines the headlines tomorrow will speculate IS THE AMERICAN IDOL THE VICTIM OF ABUSE? and IDOL SCANDAL: LAMBERT'S ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES REVEALED. Cue interviews with ex-PAs and it's like Christmas came early to the paparazzi.

This was written as an homage to rageprufrock's Bang which is a favourite of mine :) I love that seperis did an AI version :D