Sorry to report, that according to Collussus linden who was representing LL today at this presentation...well..between Paisley Beebe, who was present in SL and RL, myself, and the host on the SL end, Grace McDonnough...folks....he was given no quater.
What I believe was determined is that LL is still holding to their line that "yes we find SL live music so valuable and it certainly has a presence and we are definitely interested, however, lots of other things are more important and live music is not new user friendly, (what???) and we are on our own for the rest of 2009 and no promises for 2010. OK. Got it.
but Grace and Paisely and also Apple McKay had great suggestions. We all gave solid input. Let's hope they listened. But for now and the forseeable future we are on our own.
More later.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Oh my!
Musicians, wow..lots happened. Thursday night we were just blown away by the folks... matching names to faces at the open mic at the Sellers Markets. Great white pizza too. But I was fried from travel and needed recovery time.
Friday, I managed to get to one music track...had to check out Gwampa as part of the expert panel on creating the best venues. I learned some things but I think that for the novice it would have not been that useful. There was a high level of tech know-how in the room. Saturday night I found the jam that was supposed to happen in room 1121, but was forced to leave due to sound level complaints. They found a home in the domed lobby. Really interesting acoustics. Cool sim to jam. I sang a bit along with Pato, Rosedrop, Juel, and even Cyl stuck her head in on her PR rounds to sing a chorus or two. I noticed when we started to grow in number quite quickly and alot were singing, the hotel security came closer and looked a little anxious, we were in front of the hotel bar entrance, but they let us play without hassle. Some locals that heard the music came in from the street and enjoyed it. Interesting night!
Pepe is here now and we are planning to go to the big Musician party. Tickets can be bought at the door, we understand, for $20. That's about 5 thousand Lindon, ya'll. Just saying!
So off we go to the musician's ball as soon as my hair dries. :D Will i get to harmonize some more tonight? Please o please yes! No sleeping tonight dammit!
Friday, I managed to get to one music track...had to check out Gwampa as part of the expert panel on creating the best venues. I learned some things but I think that for the novice it would have not been that useful. There was a high level of tech know-how in the room. Saturday night I found the jam that was supposed to happen in room 1121, but was forced to leave due to sound level complaints. They found a home in the domed lobby. Really interesting acoustics. Cool sim to jam. I sang a bit along with Pato, Rosedrop, Juel, and even Cyl stuck her head in on her PR rounds to sing a chorus or two. I noticed when we started to grow in number quite quickly and alot were singing, the hotel security came closer and looked a little anxious, we were in front of the hotel bar entrance, but they let us play without hassle. Some locals that heard the music came in from the street and enjoyed it. Interesting night!
Pepe is here now and we are planning to go to the big Musician party. Tickets can be bought at the door, we understand, for $20. That's about 5 thousand Lindon, ya'll. Just saying!
So off we go to the musician's ball as soon as my hair dries. :D Will i get to harmonize some more tonight? Please o please yes! No sleeping tonight dammit!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Roominating
So after a lovely repast communing with the Gods of the Volcano, Pepe, Kwai and I talked about where to eat after we came to realize we were pigging out on airport snacks of potato chips and trail mix, high quality both, but destined to make us regret it at some point. Pepe says he feels "full" but does not elaborate. We may go out to eat. I have directions to an open mic going on at a Dublin-style pub with SLers. Cylindrian, who I ran into in the hotel lobby when carrying up my Temperpedic mattress topper gave me directions after a hug and "who are you?" I can tease her about that indefinitely I think. :D
Oh and a wonderful thing about our hotel room which seems reasonably clean and comfortable, is that it has double doors that open to a small private patio. Nothing in site unless you look up and see the neighboring tall buildings, some of which are pretty awesome, architecturally speaking. Granted there is nothing I want to even give the name "architecture" where I live, more like very functional boxes. OK...the food brigade says it's time to head out, to the open mic, I think, in hopes of discovering both music and food there. :D Yay!
Oh and a wonderful thing about our hotel room which seems reasonably clean and comfortable, is that it has double doors that open to a small private patio. Nothing in site unless you look up and see the neighboring tall buildings, some of which are pretty awesome, architecturally speaking. Granted there is nothing I want to even give the name "architecture" where I live, more like very functional boxes. OK...the food brigade says it's time to head out, to the open mic, I think, in hopes of discovering both music and food there. :D Yay!
SLCC - Arrival
Here we are, Kwai and I at the SLCC in San Francisco, at the Westin St. Francis. First time for either of us to...well all of it. The plane right was long, but we had first class tickets so was not bad. They fed us constantly.
I decided to go ahead and blog about things right here, my whole experience as it unfolds, assuming I have the energy and time to write but there is always time to blog right? yeah...anyway... This is where it happens folks!
Our friends Pepe and Carol, natives to the area, are going to meet us soon. We shipped my tempurpedic mattress to them and a few other things we wanted to have but not travel with us. After the conference we will go spend some time with them at their home and seeing the sights of northern CA.
But first, dear friends, first coffee! Off to explore the lobby and see what coffee can be found. We have already summarily rejected the $7 Snickers bar from the room. eeegads Internet connection for 3 days cost $40. Oh the price of convenience!
I decided to go ahead and blog about things right here, my whole experience as it unfolds, assuming I have the energy and time to write but there is always time to blog right? yeah...anyway... This is where it happens folks!
Our friends Pepe and Carol, natives to the area, are going to meet us soon. We shipped my tempurpedic mattress to them and a few other things we wanted to have but not travel with us. After the conference we will go spend some time with them at their home and seeing the sights of northern CA.
But first, dear friends, first coffee! Off to explore the lobby and see what coffee can be found. We have already summarily rejected the $7 Snickers bar from the room. eeegads Internet connection for 3 days cost $40. Oh the price of convenience!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Slowly I Turn.....
OK.....about a thousand times in the past 2 years I have thought, "That's IT! I am SO gonna blog about this!" And then I think, "Naw...expressing my opinions will just result in more drama and a lot of freaking nutjobs unloading their sickness on me."
Well, I've decided that I don't care. I need a forum to express what I think about what is going on in the SL music community, something I have devoted about 12 hours a day for over 2 years of my life to. I figure that does at least entitle me to an opinion. Will I risk my current popular status? *falls over laughing* Yeah...right. However much I may have cared what people thought of me in SL in the past...well...I have lost the desire to please I suppose. About time, right?
For the past week I have been limiting my typing due to continued neck and wrist pain from overuse, presumabley, or I would get started today. Will have to wait. But I promise... I will be shooting from the hip going forward. Possibly using a speech recognition software I have purchased recently called "Dragon, Naturally Speaking." Hopefully it will work for blogging. Check in soon. From now on my rants and opinions go here, not to a million random people in-world. (Maybe all that in world ranting is why I have overuse injuries?) I'll say it once...then feel free to talk amongst yourselves. You will anyway.
Respect! Freestar
Well, I've decided that I don't care. I need a forum to express what I think about what is going on in the SL music community, something I have devoted about 12 hours a day for over 2 years of my life to. I figure that does at least entitle me to an opinion. Will I risk my current popular status? *falls over laughing* Yeah...right. However much I may have cared what people thought of me in SL in the past...well...I have lost the desire to please I suppose. About time, right?
For the past week I have been limiting my typing due to continued neck and wrist pain from overuse, presumabley, or I would get started today. Will have to wait. But I promise... I will be shooting from the hip going forward. Possibly using a speech recognition software I have purchased recently called "Dragon, Naturally Speaking." Hopefully it will work for blogging. Check in soon. From now on my rants and opinions go here, not to a million random people in-world. (Maybe all that in world ranting is why I have overuse injuries?) I'll say it once...then feel free to talk amongst yourselves. You will anyway.
Respect! Freestar
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Lost my friend
Lost
the beast uncoiled
my friend
Lost
I took back my things
my friend
Lost
My heart stayed captive
never asked to wait, it waited
asked to leave, it stayed
my friend
Lost
I didn't understand
my friend
Lost
Pain is not conveyed easily in text
My own pain eclipsed the words I read
I wasn't playing
I opened fully
and fully hurt now
I couldn't wait more
I wasn't understanding
my friend
Lost
my friend
the beast uncoiled
my friend
Lost
I took back my things
my friend
Lost
My heart stayed captive
never asked to wait, it waited
asked to leave, it stayed
my friend
Lost
I didn't understand
my friend
Lost
Pain is not conveyed easily in text
My own pain eclipsed the words I read
I wasn't playing
I opened fully
and fully hurt now
I couldn't wait more
I wasn't understanding
my friend
Lost
my friend
Thursday, August 9, 2007
This or That and Also This
So I've been looking around at other blogs by other SL musicians and thinking...wow...I'm putting up a lot of personal stuff here and others are mainly just talking about Second Life and using their blog as an informational resource, like about where they are playing and so on. And here I am putting every deep and not so deep thought I have up. Hmmmmmmm.......
Also I am wondering, do I put photos of stuff (as in results of silly photo shoots and do and pics of stuff going on at Freestar Bay) or do I put them in my myspace?
Also I am wondering, should I put links to my lyrics here (and how would I do that) or do I keep them on my SLprofiles.com account? Hmmmmmm......
Coordinating all these various information portals is a bit daunting...I am once again a noob. Ugh. I'm trying to figure it all out..where to put pics, where to put information, where to put thoughts, where to put links, where to put what part of me, how much to reveal, how much to conceal, how fake or how real? Will I one day apppear slick and spit-polished? Part of me says yes, that's inevitable if you keep working on it and part of me rebels and says..Nooooooooo....I refuse! Which part shall I submit to? Hmmmm......
Wellllll...at least I'll try to get more organized about it. :D
Free!
Also I am wondering, do I put photos of stuff (as in results of silly photo shoots and do and pics of stuff going on at Freestar Bay) or do I put them in my myspace?
Also I am wondering, should I put links to my lyrics here (and how would I do that) or do I keep them on my SLprofiles.com account? Hmmmmmm......
Coordinating all these various information portals is a bit daunting...I am once again a noob. Ugh. I'm trying to figure it all out..where to put pics, where to put information, where to put thoughts, where to put links, where to put what part of me, how much to reveal, how much to conceal, how fake or how real? Will I one day apppear slick and spit-polished? Part of me says yes, that's inevitable if you keep working on it and part of me rebels and says..Nooooooooo....I refuse! Which part shall I submit to? Hmmmm......
Wellllll...at least I'll try to get more organized about it. :D
Free!
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