Just a sucker for a pretty voice~
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dawnebethI've always been attracted by accents and interesting voices--maybe it harks back to having lived in another country and being exposed to accents at an early age. Don't know.
The first voice I could have listened to my whole life was James Burke who used to host a series called The Day the Universe Changed. Loved that show (and its cousin, Connections) Burke was a balding Brit with big glasses, but oh, I wanted to hear him speak. I worked at a bookstore at the time, and we got his book in, so I pointed him out to a newer employee. She screwed up her nose, not a traditionally handsome man. But his voice...with the added attraction of a British accent.
David Tennant's voice, either in the Doctor's cockney or his own natural Scottish, is pretty darned good, but not my current fave.
That's Kai Ryssdal, a reporter on NPR. I actually listen to Marketplace, a program about economics and stocks, for gosh sakes. I happened to stumble across his show a year or so ago after depositing Demelza at her bowling alley. I certainly don't listen regularly (for one thing, when I am working, it plays at 6:30 pm, when I am very busy feeding babies) but today, I did have to go pick D up from a friends', and listened to the entire program. Really, I need an intervention from Kai Ryssdal's voice, lol.
In other news, day 13 of 30 radiation treatments. Nearly halfway there and so far, few of the dire predictions of side effects I was told about. The most egregious is extreme fatigue and very dulled taste buds. Luckily, a friend made me pots of curry soup which I can taste, but even chocolate isn't as fantastic as it once was. This will improve when the treatments end. I did lose some weight the doctors don't want me to lose but as long as I don't lose much more, it's all good.
Been binge-watching Masters of Sex, but my fave Betty hasn't been on much lately.
Also watching the awesomeness of Orphan Black, Grantchester and Broadchurch.
Reading a Jeffrey Deavers book, the latest in the Lincoln Rhyme series and I do think I am done with this series. The last two books have not satisfied the way it did ten books ago.
The first voice I could have listened to my whole life was James Burke who used to host a series called The Day the Universe Changed. Loved that show (and its cousin, Connections) Burke was a balding Brit with big glasses, but oh, I wanted to hear him speak. I worked at a bookstore at the time, and we got his book in, so I pointed him out to a newer employee. She screwed up her nose, not a traditionally handsome man. But his voice...with the added attraction of a British accent.
David Tennant's voice, either in the Doctor's cockney or his own natural Scottish, is pretty darned good, but not my current fave.
That's Kai Ryssdal, a reporter on NPR. I actually listen to Marketplace, a program about economics and stocks, for gosh sakes. I happened to stumble across his show a year or so ago after depositing Demelza at her bowling alley. I certainly don't listen regularly (for one thing, when I am working, it plays at 6:30 pm, when I am very busy feeding babies) but today, I did have to go pick D up from a friends', and listened to the entire program. Really, I need an intervention from Kai Ryssdal's voice, lol.
In other news, day 13 of 30 radiation treatments. Nearly halfway there and so far, few of the dire predictions of side effects I was told about. The most egregious is extreme fatigue and very dulled taste buds. Luckily, a friend made me pots of curry soup which I can taste, but even chocolate isn't as fantastic as it once was. This will improve when the treatments end. I did lose some weight the doctors don't want me to lose but as long as I don't lose much more, it's all good.
Been binge-watching Masters of Sex, but my fave Betty hasn't been on much lately.
Also watching the awesomeness of Orphan Black, Grantchester and Broadchurch.
Reading a Jeffrey Deavers book, the latest in the Lincoln Rhyme series and I do think I am done with this series. The last two books have not satisfied the way it did ten books ago.
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Date: 2017-07-11 01:34 pm (UTC)Yay for few side effects! Long may that continue. Boo for the dulled taste buds, though. Not even chocolate? But, hey, curry soup sounds wonderful. *Hugs*
Do you have Netflix? I would highly recommend The Supervet. (Only season 2 available now, but it's good.) He's a wonderful character, and the show makes you laugh and cry, but in a good way. (Some sad things, though.)
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Date: 2017-07-11 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-07-11 06:18 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about Kai Ryssdal's voice. Very sexy. To my ear, many of the NPR voices are spectacular in various (not sexy) ways. I could listen to Robert Siegel all day, such a calming, friendly sound to his voice. And I love all stories about Italy and the Vatican so much more when Sylvia Poggioli is speaking them. Also, I don't know what it is about Elizabeth Arnold's voice from many years ago that appeals to me...OK, I'll stop :)
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Date: 2017-07-12 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-07-12 01:26 am (UTC)I'm with you on the voices. I remember listening to Marketplace years ago just to hear David Brancaccio.
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Date: 2017-07-12 01:37 am (UTC)