Phone posts!

[cleolinda]

Going through some old phone posts I made when I was in New Orleans (this past July, because I am a moron), and I realized I actually have the proper pronunciation of "OMG" recorded within them, for those of you who may have wondered. They're all brief--I think the longest is less than three minutes--and I'm only reposting the better ones.


"I've think I've been on zoo trains faster than this"

"We're here on the Lovely Car of Snacking"

"It was ooh--ooh--not--ooh"

"Whaaaat? You don't have change? You don't have TWO DOLLARS? WHAT. EVER."

"I can't even imagine what it must be like for Yankees to come down here and just be like, 'OMG the heat is soooo oppressive, ahhh!' "



I think I must be the only person ever who isn't freaked out by the sound of her own voice. I'm always kind of fascinated by how different it sounds, rather than horrified. It's me! Yet it's totally not! WEIRD. So if I suddenly start making a lot of phone posts, humor me, okay?

(If it makes you feel any better, I'm totally averse to photographs.)

Comments

[caffienerain.livejournal.com]

Ya'll! OMG. I love you.

[ararejul.livejournal.com]

the funnies part "i'm not saying i DRANK four hurricanes but that four hurricanes were handed to me at various times" lol. that sounds like an excuse that i would use ;)

[priestessoya.livejournal.com]

you crack me up!

And believe me, you can tease us Yanks about how we can't handle the heat, but I don't mind cuz I can tease you when you think 50 degrees is rediculously cold ;)

[exiledprincess.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha, i live in the Southwest, and go to school in Mass. i can handle any weather! except humidity. hate humidity.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_waterlilies/]

Your recorded voice sounds very similar the way my unrecorded voice sounds to me. My recorded voice sounds gross. I sound all... nasal. And for some reason, I'm always freezing or exhausted when I phonepost, so either my teeth are chattering or my voice is really like, deep. Hatehatehate my recorded voice.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I like your icon.

[steel-lace.livejournal.com]

(Here via m15m)

What struck me most about your post (apart from reflections about hating my recorded voice) was the fact that you mentioned Romancing the Stone in "the lovely car of snacking"

Awesome.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY the same thought I had... I was like ~joy~

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

Not fair! You live way down there **points** and I live way up here **points** and your accent is nowhere near as bad as mine.
Seriously, I live in Kentucky, but in such a place, that at this very moment where I sit, I have two miles and the Ohio river seperating me from Illinois, the midwest!
And yet I get this creepy southern drawl. My accent is worse than that of every other member of my family. Where did it come from?!

You poor little heatstroked person. It gets sooo muggy here. My city is trapped between four rivers (the Ohio, the Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland), with 2 sizable lakes. And it's hot, and it rains. So it's always muggy and humid, and insane.
Thank god for central air.

[lilychick.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm almost disappointed that you properly pronounce "OMG", because I personally have decided that it's a word of its own and have (only within the past few weeks) therefore been sprinking my spoken conversation with "Ummigah!"

Of course, I am a dork.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Is that not how I say it in the post? (Seriously, I don't know.) I think of it as "omigah" myself.

[maverickgirl.livejournal.com]

*Is cracking up* I think all phone posts are like that - I love leaving them. And I always laugh when I hear what people sound like.

By the way, yeah, N'awleans it like 10 feet below sea level and is deathly until about November. Sometimes longer.

But when it sinks into the ocean, it won't be so hot anymore.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Heeeee.
I listened to the "What???" entry - and I swear I spit out my tortilla chips when you said, "It tastes like burning."
I don't know if you've seen that episode of the Simpsons or it was just incidental, but that was a Ralph Wiggum line that one of my friends used to quote all the time (as in - "How's the caf food, Pam?" "It tastes like.....buuuuuurning.")
*So it brought back memories*

Also, at one point I was freaked by your voice - b/c you sounded exactly like my sister! (Who is not from the South a'tall.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was intentional--that's probably my favorite line from the show ever. I like to say it in the tiny little voice, too.

Also, at one point I was freaked by your voice - b/c you sounded exactly like my sister! (Who is not from the South a'tall.

Weeeeird.

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Oooh, blisters between the toes. >.< I hate that. Ouchie.

[girlfrom10thave.livejournal.com]

Okay, being random here, but you win the Best Ever Recorded Voice Award.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Somehow I doubt it, but thanks. : )

[darthtall.livejournal.com]

Dude. DUDE. You sound exactly like commieprincess. *freaks out*

Ahem. That said, you both have absolutely lovely voices. :)

I'm not freaked out by my own voice, either. Whenever I hear it recorded it mostly amuses me how it sounds exactly like my sister's voice. In addition to looking enough alike to be mistaken for twins All The Freaking Time, people calling the house never know which of us is on the phone.

*contemplates posting recordings of her own voice*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Awww, man--I don't know what commieprincess sounds like, and I didn't see any phone posts when I looked at her journal. I'm really curious now!

[edda.livejournal.com]

Funny stuff! You don't sound how I thought you'd sound, but I don't know exactly how I did think you'd sound now, since I've heard you. If that makes any sense.

It's odd, because for me most of my LJ friends kind of exist as media phenomena (as in, the media of LJ and the internet, not like, flashy-camera-pictures-on-MTV-Usher-style media), and it's always kind of a mental stretch to look at a picture or hear a voice and realize, These are three-dimensional people.

This makes me sound like some kind of egocentric sociopathic freak, and I don't mean it that way at all. It's just that, with nothing but words and icons, I have to create a little mental squiggle to represent my LJ friends in my head. And then after said squiggles have gotten familiar, I see or hear a part of their actual selves that walk and talk and live wherever they actually are, and I have to kind of tweak the squiggles (tell me that doesn't sound like an obscenity from some obscure British New Wave band's album lyrics from like, 1983 or something) to adjust to this new information.

OK, maybe I am a total freak, come to think of it.

But you have a nice voice, is what I mean to say.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, I totally understand. Hell, when I speak, the voice in my ears sounds lower, but the voice in my head when I think is higher. In a way, I think we all imagine ourselves as something we aren't necessarily, and imagining other people we can't see isn't too far away from that.

And that's why I'm not too into posting pictures of myself at the moment--I don't feel like I could live up to the awesome-neato Cleo who looks like Galadriel, or cartoon sketches (see default icon). I kind of don't want to take that away from people.

Oddly enough, I don't mind taking whatever voice they imagine away from them. I do wonder what people *thought* I would sound like, though.

[levi.livejournal.com]

I sound like I'm 12 on the phone. Of course, I don't look much older in person so I guess it kinda balances out.

[goddess-raven.livejournal.com]

You have a great voice! I sound like a country hick - I'm from WV and I have that accent, lol.

I stayed in New Orleans after I graduated high school... in the summer... in the humidity... omg it was just... I thought I was going to die. lol I would go outside at like 2am for a smoke and the humidity would knock me down.

[jai-eu-froid.livejournal.com]

haha that was enjoyable

[p-tripp.livejournal.com]

I remember reading your phone posts back in July and thinking, "she should do this more often!"

I hate hearing the sound of my own voice. Especially on video. I have to do a running narrative for every. little. thing. that's going on.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

I recently changed the outgoing message on my answering machine to the factory default because I realized I sound like a total cheeseball on it. Like a 12 year old trying to be clever.

I remember you going to N'awlins this summer and me being mmmjellus... Must.Go. But upon your recommendation, I think I'll wait until fall-winter-spring. It can get muggy in Oklahoma, but I can't imagine it 24/7, where you can practically see the nasty.

[lizzyrose89.livejournal.com]

Oh mah gawd! lol.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Your voice isn't anywhere near as accented as I thought it would be. :) Of course, I've got the Bostonian-I-Could-Never-Be-A-Pirate accent myself.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeeeee. "Ahhhhhhhhh, mateys!"

The Birmingham accent is actually pretty subtle. We can always tell when someone at school (who is from Alabama) is from out of town--the further you get from town, the accent gets way thick way fast.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

It's a very cute voice!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

I hate the way my voice sounds. HATE.

Ooh, I've been a victim of the blisters between the toes thing. Flip flops will do that to you. Eh.

Whenever I go to Michigan and Ohio to visit family, I die from the heat. And the mugginess! I'm a spoiled little Seattle girl, I guess... if the temperature goes above, like, 85 or so I bitch and whine.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

AAAAHHH! *squees, fallsover, and DIES* You have such a lovely voice. Really. I want to have your voice.

And, just for the record, "OMG the heat is soooo oppressive, ahhh!" had me giggling hysterically. XD

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I seriously don't know how I did the little "ahhh!"--it cracked me up when I heard it again.

[queen-hermione.livejournal.com]

We used to visit New Orleans the first weekend in August every year. The highlight was the day the temperature was about 102 and the heat index was near 115. I'm from Texas, so heat is nothing new to me, but New Orleans heat is insanity. I can do Texas heat, I can't do New Orleans.

I have a fascination with the sound of my own voice, too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

Love the "Whatever"!! took me back to "clueless" (no offence)

L.