iCiNG Podcast #002
[ 7 April 2007 ]
If this doesn’t make you judge me, nothing will!
Gala Darling – iCiNG Podcast #002 (MP3)
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This is a podcast detailing one of my weird, constant, secret habits! I am such a dork. Enjoy.
(If it bores you, just count the number of times I say “like”. How embarrassing!)
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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haha, this was adorable actually. and truth be told, i’m an only child as well, and have the bad habit of talking to myself too (then and now). i always had to be creative and entertain myself and that i did. i do find your accent to be beautiful, and I am actually sick of the American accent, but maybe it’s because it’s all I ever hear. :D
It’s one of those silly things where, because I don’t often hear an American accent, to me it is REALLY exciting. Being in America was like being in paradise, I find the accent really sexy as a general rule. But of course, to an American, it just sounds like everyone else… Most people dig the NZ accent, I just think it is crass & coarse, it sounds lazy & slovenly & lacking in culture! Ouch, my own worst critic!
when i first starting listen i didn’t even notice that you were speaking in an “american accent”. i suppose, because i am american, it just sounded normal to me. i think you pulled it off well.
too me, you sound like many of my friends. people that were not born here in the states, but who have “caught” our accent. though, once in a while their original accent peaks out. most of the friends that i speak of happen to be asian (so the accent that peaks out is chinese/korean/viet accent…rather than your NZ one).....and i think it’s adorable.
actually, it’s so adorable, i kind of wish my bf peter was born in Vietnam just so he would have a slight accent!! LOL
i’m actually from the “south” (meaning Alabama) and i have a strong hatred for that southern drawl, though many find it cute. every time i go to visit i FIGHT the contagiousness off like the plague (though i always come back with a slight accent).
it’s just so strange how different we all speak (within and outside of our respective countries).
i really like your real accent, but you pull it off well! if i hadn’t known better then i wouldn’t have even guessed you weren’t from around here. :D you are very good at it.
american accents are kind ov boring around here, i suppose. (i really love new york and chicago accents, though =w=)
and i love talking to myself too. =w=
...look, i am overstating the point! heehee, i think i prove the stereotype regularly.
I’m American, and I thought that you were about to admit that you had made up your NZ accent the whole time! Then, after listening for a little more, your normal accent showed on certain words. I’m really impressed how well you’ve gotten down our accent, though!
how funny that you prefer an American accent, while most Americans prefer an Aussie or British accent. you did do a good job though, i was impressed.
i am an only child too! perhaps we should start a club. ;)
I quite like your accent!
&&I’m an only child too, and it’s silly how much I talk to myself. I was in my Textiles class one day and I didn’t realise that I was saying aloud the equipment I had to gather to start my project and a friend of mine commented on how she can tell I’m an only child the way I talk to myself. Strange.
I’m originally from Scotland but my parents moved to England when I was four years old, so I lost my accent pretty quickly. But whenever I’m with my parents or I’m particularly angry my accent comes right out!
&&I noticed a lot of swearing in this Podcast! I think that made me Lol the most, although I don’t really know why!
♥x
I like your natural accent.
I completely love your natural (New Zealand) accent.
But what I reaaally wanted to say, since this is my first comment on your blog, is that with your American accent you sound EXACTLY like my older sister. She also says “fucking” every other sentence… hahaha. It’s quite uncanny and insane and makes me miss my sister so much. She’s in a soldier training camp at the moment, and afterwards, she’s going to Iraq to fight in the war. And just for clarification, my family and I don’t support the war at all, but she’s going in to gain a job (and therefore $$$) and a free college education. I’m worried sick about her getting raped, or worse, dying…. However, she’s pretty tough via the influence of my mom and our life in general.
At any rate, I love your blog, sweets! Hope you feel better; I think the sound of someone’s voice as a result of the stuffy nose dilemma is quite endearing and humorous, though.
Haha! I swear a LOT, it is a terrible habit. I picked it up off my father, he is horrific. No excuse, but I am my father’s daughter!
Kay — That’s a pretty scary situation. I hope she’ll be okay!
i totally talk to myself all the time.
not in an accent though.
it sounds cool!
x
i actually love when people can admit that stuff about themselves.. i think i spend too much time berating myself for doing weird things & trying to not do it so much. when really, you should just say: “fuck it” & embrace the way you are.
that podcast did amuse me quite a lot, but in an endearing way. i really liked that accent you were using, probably because it wasn’t at all over the top. though i do love your normal accent as well.. people think i’m odd cause i dig kiwi accents so much. practically all our staff at work are kiwi’s & i can’t get enough of it!
as for aussie accents, i used to hate them.. then i went overseas & it was all i wanted to hear! now it just is what it is.
anyways, i think i’ve crapped on long enough.. have a good easter!
Your real accent is totally cute but you do a perfect California girl accent (I should know).
NZ and Australian accents (is there a difference??) ROCK!!! They are sssoo awesome on guys, all rugged and cool and hot, & really cute on girls. I tried to cultivate a British accent solely by watching BBC tv, some time ago. I ended up with this temporary Australian accent instead! :D
I’m with you on this one! I hate hate hate my voice/accent! When you hear a kiwi on american television it just stands out so much… so crude! UGH!
When I listen to my vlogs I just cringe at my voice! Although I often gets asked (by people in Wellington) where I’m from. I’ve been asked this question by strangers soooo many times… now I try to get them to guess so I can figure out just what mongrel accent I have created for myself over the years… they mostly say european/american. Odd.
Anna Rose — Your voice is totally cute, I wouldn’t worry about it. My friend called me yesterday from Lower Hutt, she was there visiting (she now lives up north somewhere). She said some girls walked past her & said “thank yuuuuuooooo” in that incredibly Hutt accent. So funny. She said she thought of me, because we used to swear to one another that we would never get that accent or develop a rising intonation. Haha.
I am also an only child and talk to myself far more than normal. Good to know i’m not the only one. =) You have such a lovely voice, and as an american myself i think if you like the american accent use it ! When i was a young girl in english class i would always read with an australian or british accent because i thought they sounded so beautiful and exotic. I wanted so badly to have one. Sometimes i randomly burst into the accent when no one is around or when i’m reading as a character. It’s like playing dress up to me. I always feel more sophisticated.
But people will ask me why I talk like that & what can I saaaaay?! I don’t think I have the self-confidence to pull it off!
Say because you want to. Look back at everything you’ve ever written for anyone else on here. Why should you need any reason for anyone else for anything you want to do ? When have you ever written that we should not do things because people find it “different” or maybe a little “weird” ? You never have. There’s a reason for it. =)
Aww, that was like the cutest thing ever.
Your multitude of accents are terribly inviting, im sure.
Try having a welsh accent and struggling to get shot of it.
Ha!
I stumbled across this accidentally because I was reading about accents (I’m kind of a language freak). As an American, I just wanna say that I, personally, find Australian and New Zealand accents to be the cutest things in the world. I dunno what it is about them, but every time I hear an Aussie or Kiwi (am I allowed to call people those nicknames? I don’t wanna offend anybody :S) I find it so cute I start grinning. I’ve always wondered if American accents were considered ugly, because, well, we’re a little harsh with certain letters, particularly r’s. Can’t help it, though. I guess we don’t speak as…uglily (not a word, I know :P) as I thought. Good to know.
Oh yeah, and just like Ruth said a few comments up, you do a PERFECT CA girl accent (I’m one, so I’d know what that sounds like). In fact, before you said that you were using a different accent I thought you were from around here! Nicely pulled off.
haha! i would trade you accents any day!.
Gala, at the start before you explained the different accent – I thought you sounded like Violet Blue. Not just the voice but the entire way you started the podcast, crazy crazy stuff. Then again maybe that was the idea? Anywhosit, off to stare in awe at a lavalamp – Happy Weekend x
Aw, that’s so cute! Haha, I know exactly what you mean, I’m from America and I talk to myself in a British accent. (Or Russian, depends on the day!) When my family went on vacation earlier in the summer, and I was alone in the car or the hotel room, I’d whip out my video camera and relay the events of my day or my feelings about certain things to myself in a British accent! And I got so into it that when I called my mom’s cellphone to ask where she was, I left a message on her voicemail in a British accent! So embarrassing, but luckily she never listened to it so I could delete it.
;]
(Super-late comment)
But that was adorable :) I keep a running commentary on life in my head (and often outloud)- not an only child – just very independant from my siblings.
..and i can relate to the whole nz accent thing (ew accent is one of the worst words..like “AcKsent” lol)- I feel like I sound either harsh and crude; or slurred and lazy.
I went through a phase around 12 when I would only speak in a British accent – my parents were very confused :D
I don’t really know if you are ever going to read this, probably not…I mean, I’m commenting like a year and a half after you posted this…but somehow I never listened to this before (despite having read your blog from day 1!)
I need to tell you, even if you never read it,
that I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN! it’s crazy ridiculous how much i do!
I’m from Madrid, Spain and was born and raised there. I started learning english at age 10, but ever since I first heard it I just wanted to know it so bad , I’d pretend I knew how!
Then as soon as I knew enough english I started talking to myself and writing my journals in english!
I live in the US now…I moved here when I was 18.
I think that I was meant to be here in the US. I feel kind of like a TRUE american, because I came from somewhere else, and I am here because of my PASSIONATE desire to be here and to live freely and to embrace everything that (in my mind & heart) america stands for.
Maybe you’re meant to be in america too, and you intended it before you were even born (like I think I did) so your higher self always knew, and instictively you spoke to yourself with that accent, because it is what was in most alignment with who you really are.
I had to tell you.
♥