100 Challenge 2 - Random things about me - #1 Does anyone else do this?

[orangerful]

So I was riding in my car today, listening to a book on CD (Hold Me Closer Necromancer) and I found myself...mouthing the words. Does anyone else do this?

I have always done this. I used to listen to the Star Wars Radio Drama on the bus while riding to school and I would put my head down and mouth the words along with the tape, acting out scenes in my head. I had a whole collection of tapes I did this with regularly - the audiobook of The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, a recording of the pilot episode and "E.B.E." of X Files, a similar recording of the audio from the miniseries of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...and maybe the musical episode of Buffy too, since for awhile I had that recorded from the TV when the thought of them actually putting out a CD seemed laughable.

Im not sure why I do it...its not the same as singing along, Im not making any sounds, though I can feel my face changing to act out the scene so Im in to it...

so yeah any else do random things like that?

(also I just noticed this keyboard for my iPad is lacking in an apostrophe key WTF)

(oh wait, I found out, it's just not int he proper QWERTY location so I keep hitting backspace instead of apostrophe)

(and I'm too lazy to go back and fix things right now...maybe later)

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Comments

[juliet-demarcus.livejournal.com]

Go you! Two 100 Things challenges!

You know, I do a lot of random things... However I haven't done this (to my knowledge). The main reason for that may be that I haven't really listened to any books on CD or anything like that in AGES. Now if I were listening to the musical episode of Buffy...I could see myself doing this. I think I have. I just don't really listen to audiobooks. I always mean to try it. Whenever I check them out from the library though, I never get very far for some reason. Which is very odd considering that I think of myself as an audio learner more than anything else (like in college I found I got more from instructors who lectured a lot).

I think sometimes the voices or music puts me off. I'm very weird and sensitive to voices. It's hard to explain. Have any spectacular audiobooks to recommend? Maybe I just haven't picked the best ones in the past.

I'm looking forward to more of these "Does anyone else do this" posts!

[bittertwee.livejournal.com]

I think I may do this every now and then while actually reading! (audio books don't work for me.. I drift off too easily)

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Hm, I wonder if that is why I start to lip-sync, to keep myself engaged?

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

the reader can make or break a book, believe me! I've put many disc 1s into my CD player only to yank them out again before they get into the next chapter. The book I'm listening to now does have an awesome narrator though, which I think has really sucked me in. In fact, I'm convinced the book I listened to before this one (Dead to You) was actually improved by the narrator. I doubt I could have read it in my mind as well as the actor did.

I tend to do a book or two, then flip back to my iPod. :)