Weekend update, upcoming events

Sunday night was the BBBB party at Ethereal, but strangely enough we were all in a very mellow mood and no one felt like dropping trou. There's a first! So we chilled and I played a set of 80's themed cover tunes - several standouts included Tom Tom Club's version of "You Sexy Thing", Nouvelle Vague's "Dancing with Myself", and Foo Fighter's "Darling Nikki".

Tonight's gig is my first at playMATES -still no clue what I'll be playing. Stay tuned...pfffft!

Oh, and updated posters from Ethereal above. Treasure Hunt event on Tuesday - I missed the last one, everyone said it was a blast.

play-MATES club Grand Opening

Attended the grand opening of the play-MATES club last night, site of my future Monday gigs. Interesting concept - typical club layout plus playable games around the perimeter. The games are a nice touch, but the bad news is they're more than 20 away from the stage/dance area - which means if there's gen chat convos the staff will be unable to hear it.

Note to all current and future club owners - if your floorspace is over 40 in any direction, your staff will be unable to greet - unless they are SHOUTING (rude rude rude) and might miss pertinent chat - as in someone asking where the tips jars are. Just sayin'.

There's really no need for megaclubs...think intimate. The guests want an inclusive experience, not someone shouting at them from across the vast expanse.

Ok, on to the positive - looks like the genre selection will be wide open; I'll be able to play pretty much as my mood dictates - which is a big yay. I'll prolly stick to the more popular stuff - light industrial, EBM, some alty rock nights, rock faves mixed in - and the ability to throw in new stuffs to gauge how it works.

It was a well-attended opening - lots of the old Exposed crowd came out. Time will tell if they stick; shelf life of clubs in SL is typically minuscule. Come out on Mondays, 6-8 SLT and play with me. Cheers!

Ethereal Posters

DJ Schedule, Month of September

Nothing is certain except change. And in SL, change is faster than lightspeed. So, I'm gonna to change the direction of the blog JUST a bit and highlight things of a more musical interest. I've been DJing in SL for about 3 years. I've done the whole gamut really - clubs, parties and even radio for a while. Currently I've accepted a few steady gigs and am DJing and Emceeing for the Opium Fashion Agency. I'm also assisting in the development of entertainment for the Ethereal Sim, putting together event nights. We're looking for qualified DJ's and dancers - if you're interested, please find me in world or send me an LM.

Sundays - Bare Back Booty Blast, 7-9 PM SLT Ethereal Sim (Industrial, Alt, Rock)
Mondays - playMATES, 6-8 PM SLT, Insilico (Rock, Alt Rock, EBM, Industrial, Dance, House)
Wednesdays - Dark Haven, 7-9 PM SLT - Dark Haven (Jazz and classic standards)

Thursdays - Twisted Thursdays at Sharky's with DJ Dex, 7-9 PM, Ethereal Sim (Rock mix)
Saturdays - Dark Desires at the Loft with DJ Dracien, 7-9, Ethereal Sim (Industrial)

Thursday, Sept. 24th 6 PM SLT - Opium Fall Flavors Fashion Show, ALB Fashions, Opium Runway

Hope to see you out on the grid. Cheers!

Tempura

I need to go back and grab more shots of this amazing place...the entire sim is full of lovely secrety places to explore, and every view is a jewel. There's dancing in the main ballroom if that suits you, many tender cuddle spots and some excellent places for solo navel gazing. It gets crowded and laggy at prime times tho, so not as good for private reflection as it once was...

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Book meme

Yes, I know it isn't travel related, other than I tend to do a great deal of reading when I travel IRl (reaching..reaching...). It's the book meme, and I'm posting it to remind myself what to buy next time I'm at the book shop.

Rules: Look at the list and bold those we have read. Italicize those we intend to read. Underline the books we LOVE. I don't know how to underline, so I'll do an asterik after instead.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien*
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte*
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare*
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis*
34 Emma - Jane Austen*
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis*
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood*
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen*
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon*
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom8
9 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams*
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (abriged)


Hmm, is it me, or does "Complete Works of Shakespeare" suddenly not include Hamet? Odd, that. One would assume. Your turn!

L’Arbre Monde, 199, 219, 33

Game? Mystery? Really good place to lose 3-4 hours of your time? Check!
Mysterious build with much to explore, uncover and delight. It's a no-fly zone so you'll have to do it the old fashioned way, which is all the more fun. Take a friend; there are a few lovely snuggle spots.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arbre%20Monde2/199/219/33/