paraka

Fic: The Road Less Travelled by jeyhawk (text link)
Fandom: AI8 RPF
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Length: 2:46:14
Links: MP3 ||| M4B

Summary: Future fic. Sometimes the road to happiness is brightly lit, easily navigated, and smooth. Sometimes it isn't.

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Notes:Cover by aethel
So, this is my 100th work posted to AO3 and I wanted it to be something special. I had recorded this podfic back in February of 2012 after the excitement of hearing the new music Kris performed during his show at the Mint. And, in fact, the opening music is from that performance.
It seemed appropriate that this podfic be my 100th here.

It was kind of trippy working on it, I've made a lot of changes to my recording set up, so there were background noises I'm not used to working with anymore. I've also changed the style in which I read, I catch more of my mistakes and leave pauses before breathing so it's easier to cut them out.

It's taken a lot of work to get this out for my 100th, I hope people enjoy it. :)

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So, I used welovepodfic as an excuse to finally tell rhea314 how much I love her podfic. And now I'm posting it here, so I can tell you guys too.

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Fic: Scribbles by Shakespeares_Girl (text link)
Fandom: American Idol S8
Pairing: Kris/Adam preslash
Length: 0:05:43
Summary: Kris has a habit of writing things down on whatever happens to be available.

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Notes: This was recorded at the request of rockxxxjunkie. It also fits my podfic_bingo square of <10 minutes.

Fic: Kissing Games by samanthahirr
Fandom: American Idol S8
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Length: 14:19
Links: MP3 ||| M4B

Summary: "For once, I want a guy to just walk up and sweep me off my feet."


Notes: This was recorded for silsecri. :)

This time from Allison! Who has actually put out quite a few new songs at live shows in the past year, but I think this is the first studio recorded one to come out since her album.

The video (which appears to be for a fashion line or something?) calls it California Exccentric.

Mp3 Download

California Eccentric from Skaist Taylor on Vimeo.

So much music excitement for me lately! :D :D :D :D

Someone really loves me. :D :D :D :D
Today I was linked to new Leaks/Demos from Kris Allen!

I spent a stupid amount of time today trying to download and convert these from the original Chinese site these were on. But voilà!

Forget About You (mp3)

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Parachute (mp3)

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These a just demos, so the vocals are a little rough, especially for Parachute, but the songs are seriously amazing. I really, really hope they make the album, I can so imagine them doing well on the radio.

Note: There's some talking over the start of both songs about "this is number 1" which I'm assuming isn't actually part of the song, and there's some weird laughing in Parachute that was added in later too.


*Disclaimer: This is just what I've been able to get from obsessively listening to it over and over again, suggested corrections are welcome.

So, I have an unpopular fannish opinion, and unlike the last one I had, I don't think I can keep this one private.

( For those that don't already know, Adam Lambert was arrested last night... )

And with that, I'm gonna go back to podficcing.

ETA: Adam just tweeted "Violence is not to be taken lightly. Embarrassed by drunkenness. No punches thrown, no injuries and no charges. Media always exaggerates." So I'll take him at his word and assume the media did exaggerate what happened greatly. But I still stand by my comments and that I dislike the silencing/shaming of voices I saw occurring when the information we had said otherwise.

Fic: Baby, There's No Other Superstar by yekoc
Reader: paraka
Fandom: American Idol S8 RPF
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Summary: "Are you actually joking around about this? Is this a joke to you? There are pictures of your dick in the National Enquirer!"
Length: 1:25:23

Download: MP3 (60 MBs) ||| M4B (74 MBs)



Notes: This was recorded for Day 6 of pod_aware on repodding:
Repodding is when a podfic is made of a fic that has already been podficced. Podfic is awesome, therefore two podfics is even more awesome, right? Every podficcer brings something different to the table and it's fun to see how different podficcers approach the same thing. To find out more about repodding, check out pod_aware on LJ or DW.

This was also made (mostly) in a single weekend in September, which I dubbed 3 Day Novel Podfic (based on the 3 Day Novel Contest where people are challenged to write a novel in 3 day, kinda like NaNo but on speed!)

The awesome cover was made by bessyboo, if you'd like to hear the story of how she made it, it's here.

OMG guys, new music from Kris leaked! It was a beautiful thing to wake up to this morning :D I've been listening to it on repeat whenever I have a chance. If you want to listen it's here (download in the comments). SO GOOD!

True story, I was in the public computer/study area between classes today writing an email to about a job (!! OMG good new there too!) when someone's computer started playing really loud music. I sat there glaring at the guy across from me because he wasn't doing anything to turn in off or turn it down when suddenly Kris' voice came on and I realized it was me. OMG, so embarrassing (stupid Windows had restarted and when I opened my browser all my tabs reloaded and the new song was up).

On the good job news front, I got the job offer today where they didn't say my hours, but they did say how much I'd get paid an hour, which I was shocked to find out would be the same hourly rate as when I was working full time! A good $8/hr more than I was expecting! :O I had been kind of worried that I wouldn't get enough hours going back to my old job part-time but at more than double what I'd get working elsewhere I really can't say no. I'm going in tomorrow to sign the paperwork.

Cover art by lc2l

Title: (Intro to) Crash Into Me by lc2l
Readers: paraka
Fandom: American Idol S8
Pairing: Kris/Adam
Length: 0:29:48
Links: MP3

Summary: If Kris ever thought of bonding, he thought of Katy. Not the American Idol, an aloof, self-proclaimed rock star in too much eyeliner and leather. He thought of marriage and love, not a last minute desperate attempt from a stranger to save his life.



Notes: This was recorded for kradambigbang. I knew when I signed up to be an artist for kradambigbang that I likely wouldn't be able to podfic for it and then it turned out that the fic I got was almost 75K! o_O But lc2l was totally awesome when we talked about it and we decided to just record parts of the story. Because I've been crazy busy with pod_together, multipodicity and leaving my job, "parts" turned out to be the the first few opening scenes. However I do plan to record more of this in the future and post it as an abridged story (for podfic_bingo).

For now though, go HERE to finish reading this story.