Guitar Zane / Timothy Eightay CD Release Party Last Night

Great show at GZ's party last night with the C.A.S.T Burlesque dancers and the usual Inzane fans.  Here are some pics from the event...

Guitar Zane and the C.AS.T. Burlesque Dancers complete with costume changes and synchronized choreography.

Rae Hazelnut

Tricky Ohh

Ophion & Liz

shahayla Tearfall & Merlin Edwardstone

Biggles Magic in a "I Survived Guitar Zane's CD Release Party" t-shirt.

Lyric Serendipity doing the Cupid Shuffle.

Guitar Zane dancing to LMFAO.

Fedora Jones

Cellandra Zon & KerryRing

Links:
http://guitarzane.com/
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2012/08/guitar-zane-timothy-eightay-is-having.html
https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent/snapshots

Guitar Zane (Timothy Eightay) is having a CD release party.

Artist:  Guitar Zane / Timothy Eightay
CD:  Heard in Thoughts
When:  Saturday, August 18, 2012, 9:00pm - 11:00pm SLT
Where:  Ed & Gia's Little Bit of Ireland

Links:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Finse/136/74/53
http://guitarzane.com/
http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/watchandlisten/play/b574da2c4
http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/member/8thnotechill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJDzFfBWZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFAVPS5Tstc

Guitar Zane & Windllight

Another satisfying Guitar Zane concert at Key West Resort & Marina.  This time with InZane dancers and me playing with the windlight settings.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Key%20West%20Island/71/66/24
https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent/snapshots
http://guitarzane.com/

Brainz Torment & Speed Bump in Second Life

I'm a fan of Guitar Zane so when he told me he had begun a new venture in Second Life games, I had to check it out.  The game I tried was Speed Bump.  It's similar to Password.  You're given a clue, like a saying, actor, movie, food item, etc. and you have to get your team to say the clue.  There is a timer and the game throws "speed bumps" your way to slow you down.  GZ wanted me to get the full experience, so he assembled a party in Nic and Molly's house and we played with a group of about 8-10 for hours.  It's addictive.

There is a 20-minute demo copy at the store site.  secondlife:///app/worldmap/Finse/101.766/247.703/48.4889

You can play in your own chairs or rez the tire seats that come with the game for a thematic feel.  That pic above is the demo outside the Brainz Torment store.    The three below are from Nic and Molly's game room at their home.

We played in both voice and text for our game.  I admit to hopping out of my RL and SL seats trying to convey a word or phrase to my teammates while watching the clock tick down, keeping an eye on local chat and listening to my teammates in voice and trying to unlock my brain and mouth to get something useful out.

At one point I got the category of "Food" and the clue was "Roquefort."  I'm not proud of how we got there, but my team did figure it out before the clock ran out.  I started them with a song you sing in rounds and ended with something kids make out of furniture and sheets (Row, row, row your boat and living room forts.)  Oh sure.  You judge me now, but if you had 90 seconds to get someone to say "Roquefort" what would you say?  Un hunh.

Ima and I had so much fun we decided we needed a Speed Bump for the CAC Clubhouse.  I bought one that very night and set it up on the beach.  You may want to turn your volume down if you happen to be flying by one night and see a bunch of CACers sitting in tires on the beach.

Thanks to Guitar Zane, Balley Bernard, Lyric Serendipity, Merlin Edwardstone, Shahayla Tearfall,  Biggles Magic, Nic Kelberry, Molly Medier, Samantha Bosch, Leri Miles and Ima and Sylvia for a great time last night.  Thanks to Nic and Molly for hosting.


Brainz Torment Speed Bump store here:  Ed & Gia's Little Bit of Ireland, Finse (101.766,247.703,48.4889)  secondlife:///app/worldmap/Finse/101.766/247.703/48.4889

More Brainz Torment links:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brainz-Torment-Inc/219389388141523 & https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/102683

More Brainz Torment Speed Bump pics here:  http://s602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/MissLee_photos/Brainz%20Torment%20SpeedBump/


p.s.
If you decide to play, which I hope you do, then take this.  You'll need it.

"in of is are and a an for to it be or at as the if on so but"



Speed Bump v2.2: It is Blue team's turn.
Leri Miles, you're up. Click 'Play' to get your word and start the timer.
Biggles Magic: out
Speed Bump v2.2: The category is ENTERTAINMENT
Lyric Serendipity: in of is are and a an for to it be or at as the if on so but
Speed Bump v2.2: ____ AND THE ____
Lee (leehere.absent): in of is are and a an for to it be or at as the if on so but
Speed Bump v2.2: ____ AND THE ____
Lyric Serendipity: beauty
Lee (leehere.absent): cat
Lyric Serendipity: kitten
Lee (leehere.absent): feline
Lyric Serendipity: pussy
Lee (leehere.absent): pussy
Nic Kelberry: Pussy
Lyric Serendipity: cat
Lyric Serendipity: puss
Lee (leehere.absent): pussycat
Lyric Serendipity: pussycat
Lee (leehere.absent): boots
Lee (leehere.absent): dolls
Nic Kelberry: Puss
Lyric Serendipity: josie
Speed Bump v2.2: JOSIE AND THE ____
Lee (leehere.absent): joise
Lyric Serendipity: pussycats
Speed Bump v2.2: JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS
Speed Bump v2.2: Lyric Serendipity guessed the phrase. Blue team gets 68 points.

REVERBNATION, Brainz Torment & SpeedBump

I'm listening to Second Life artists on  http://www.reverbnation.com.

Balley Bernard:  http://www.reverbnation.com/balleybernard

Guitar Zane:  http://www.reverbnation.com/guitarzane

Lyric Serendipity:  http://www.reverbnation.com/lyricserendipity

Here's the "About":

ABOUT REVERBNATION

ReverbNation.com is the leading online music-marketing platform used by over 1,970,000 artists — plus managers, record labels, and venues — to grow their reach, influence, and business across the internet. ReverbNation.com provides free and affordable solutions to individual artists and the music industry professionals that support them in the areas of web promotion, fan-relationship management, digital distribution, social-media marketing, direct-to-fan e-commerce, fan-behavior measurement, sentiment tracking, web-site hosting, and concert booking and promotion.

ReverbNation.com's innovation is in developing technologies that integrate the wide array of distribution, marketing, and promotional functions used by the music industry into one comprehensive and easy-to-use business application — helping virtually any artist grow their revenues, and providing insight into how each marketing input contributes to overall outcomes. For more information, please visit ReverbNation and follow ReverbNation.com on Twitter. 

http://www.reverbnation.com/main/about

I played a boisterous game of Speed Bump by Brainz Torment last night in Second Life with Balley, Guitar Zane and Lyric and with Merlin, Molly, Nic, Sam, Shahayla and Biggles Magic too.

Lyric's speaking voice is pure honey and she is a brilliant game partner.  Balley sounds exactly like Keith Carradine (FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy on Dexter).

I'm a big fan of Guitar Zane and enjoy attending his concerts.  You can hear and see him at his website:  http://www.guitarzane.com/.

Now it seems he has branched out into game development with his musical friends.

Brainz Torment Inc. Mainstore

Ed & Gia's Little Bit of Ireland, Finse (101.766,247.703,48.4889)

Home of SL's newest gaming craze "SPEEDBUMP" !!

BT was founded by Guitar Zane in June of 2011, the company is comprised of 6 individuals, all with a common goal in mind. This goal is creating new, unique, and ground breaking entertainment products within SL!

WE ARE BRAINZ TORMENT INC!

Guitar Zane
Lyric Serendipity
Merlin Edwardstone
Shahayla Tearfall
Biggles Magic
Balley Bernard

SpeedBump

Ed & Gia's Little Bit of Ireland, Finse (101.766,247.703,48.4889)

SL's BEST NEW Game!!
If you haven't played... you're missing out!!

Speed Bump is a fun, interactive voice game, (can be played in text, but, it's not as fun ;P ) SpeedBump was designed to be played in groups of 4 or more!! Your goal is to be the first team to reach either 750 points (short game) or 1500 points (regular game)!

Team members each take turns giving clues to their team mates, trying to get them to guess words or phrases given by the game board. The game includes several different categories, making it fun for everyone!!

...WATCH OUT FOR SPEED BUMPS!

If you get a Speed Bump...you will lose valuable points and possibly your entire turn!

Curious yet???

Grab your friends and come try out the demo at our Mainstore!

PS** Don't forget to grab some freebies from the Mainstore while your there!

Life 2.0

Yes, I watched it.  I felt it focused exclusively on the problems of Second Life and did little-to-nothing to celebrate the positives.  I would have liked more balance and more substance.  I would like to have seen the inclusion of a live music artist like Guitar Zane or Senjata Witt, an artistic sim like ChouChou or Caffe Freud and truly helpful residents and sims like Vitolo Rossini and his Dogland and Professor Merryman and his Cypris Chat Village.  I would have liked experts, beyond Philip Rosedale, talking about the impact of virtual worlds on individuals and societies.

Variety review...

"While some may fault Spingarn-Koff (who often appears in the form of his own camera-wielding avatar) for focusing on the freakiest cases he could find, every thread here raises a provocative question about the ethics of online interactivity, and serves to demonstrate the Web's ability to both facilitate and destroy human relationships. And while it's not too hard to guess what the helmer thinks of his subjects and their quandaries, he maintains a scrupulously measured tone throughout, well aware that human eccentricity requires no embellishment."

The New York Times review...

"That doesn’t lessen the poignancy of the individual stories in Jason Spingarn-Koff’s film, but it does tend to make it feel as if you’re watching a judgmental reality show devoted to addiction, abuse, infidelity, financial woes and lack of exercise. Whether you’re predisposed to seeing Second Life as liberating or creepy, “Life 2.0” would have been more interesting and original if it, like its subjects, had dwelled more in the virtual world, and if it had told us more about that world’s mechanics and folkways."

It was still an interesting watch.  I did enjoy the part that focused on the virtual world lawyer working on the copyright case.  I would have liked a little more about that.

Variety review...

"For Detroit shut-in Asri Falcone, who spends almost every waking hour at her computer and uses Second Life to design and sell her own virtual fashion line, the world offers a genuine creative outlet and a steady source of income. Yet Falcone learns the pitfalls of e-commerce the hard way when her products are copied and stolen, igniting a fascinating discussion (with Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, among others) about copyright ownership and economic viability in cyberspace."

I also had one moment of wanting to reach into the screen and shake someone when the woman going through the divorce so she can have a real-life relationship with her Second Life boyfriend was so surprised that her young daughter had a negative reaction to that.

Variety review...

"Yet "Life 2.0's" most disturbing narrative involves a man and a woman whose avatars ("Bluntly" and "Amie") fall in love, and who decide to make their relationship a nonvirtual reality -- even though both are already married and live several thousand miles apart (she's in Westchester, N.Y., he's from Calgary). Scenes of Bluntly and Amie having pathetic-looking cybersex and wandering Second Life's beautifully artificial landscapes -- alternating with cringe-inducing footage of their real-life counterparts, who don't seem to be much more "there" than their avatars -- amount to a peerless study of how the Internet can foster seriously unhealthy levels of selfishness, infatuation and delusion."

Variety review...

"Early on, the handful of Second Lifers interviewed describe this interactive realm as so inviting, so time-consuming, a skeptical viewer might worry that the filmmakers are only giving it free publicity. To Spingarn-Koff's credit, such suspicions are almost entirely dispelled by the end of "Life 2.0," a stealth horror film that's all the more unsettling for giving its subject's surface appeal its proper due."

It's 88% fresh on "Rotten Tomatoes."


Links:
http://www.life2movie.com/
http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2011/08/life-20-on-oprah-winfrey-network.html
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942201?refcatid=31
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/movies/life-2-0-review.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.tvguide.com/News/OWNs-Life-Documentary-1036747.aspx
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/life_2_0/
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/01/second-life-at-sundance.html
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/156015156.html
http://asrifalcone.blogspot.com/
http://chouchouholic.blogspot.com/
http://vitolo.wordpress.com/
http://cyprischat.org/
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/other-web-sites/53958-cypris-chat-village.html
http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?2969-The-Second-Life-Wow-Factor
http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?2996-Senjata-Witt-Second-Life-Singer-Celtic-amp-Folk-Roots-Blues
http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?3053-Guitar-Zane-Live-Music-in-Second-Life
http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?3075-Artistic-amp-Musical-Performances-in-Second-Life
http://www.rletc.com/showthread.php?3124-Memento-mori...Remember-your-mortality...in-ChouChou

Blog & Forum Snapshot (August 8, 2011)

Real Travels in a Virtual World has a post by S0phia Inkpen about golf courses in Second Life called "Golf Aruba." I'm a golfer, so that particular post caught my eye.

S0phia Inkpen said:

"Golf courses in sl! Virtual worlds are the only place where I have no objections to the game (actually I have no objections to the game per se, I have objections to the golf courses themselves)."

She doesn't explain why she has objections to the golf courses in real life, possibly because she wanted to keep the post short, light and mostly about the pictures and Second Life, but left to my own assumptions, I'm guessing her objections are based on environmental grounds, a not uncommon objection to golf courses.

From a Wikipedia article:

"Environmental concerns over the use of land for golf courses have grown over the past fifty years. Specific issues include the amount of water and chemical pesticides and fertilizers used for maintenance, as well as the destruction of wetlands and other environmentally important areas during construction."

Pep has entitled his latest provocative and pithy post "Official: The Global Recession is all the fault of the LWLs."  Is there anyone here among us who does not yet know what he means by "LWL"?  No?  Good.


Speaking of provocative (but not pithy), Ishtara never fails to deliver in that respect.  Consider this latest blog post title:  "Of Psychoactive Sperm, Gushing Women, and Men Who Picture Their Wives in Horseshoes."  Better yet, read, comment and let us know what you think.  Be forewarned, however...Ishtara sympathetically addresses a topic that is guaranteed to dramatically offend the vast majority of readers out there.  No, it's not pedophilia, but it is a very close second.  Proceed with caution or bypass completely.  Just don't say I didn't warn you.


My posting is often considered provocative too... wait... that makes it sound much better than what the actual commentary has been, the actual commentary being more along the lines of "instigating, shit-stirring, trouble-making troll."  My motives were recently questioned here and here.  This post may well be considered an act of instigation, so perhaps I should reflect on my motivation for it.  In the meantime, perhaps you will enjoy some of the responses I got when I put the question back out there to the rest of the forum.  I received some in PMs that were totally post-worthy, but probably inappropriate to post here given the medium (private channel) so you will just be left to wonder about those.  (Now what was my motivation for saying that?)

Lee said:

"Alright everybody. What's your forum posting motivation? "

Pig said:

"I just like watching the idiots rant and tossing in few rants back. Too busy for real threads so right now just come and watch some people trying to feel important is fun~"

Lain (is Bams) said:

"What motivates my posting is generally lack of better judgement."

Bunnie said:

"I am a glutton for punishment.  "

Mitch said:

"Me?..... I like to cause drama.....   "

Kick Frenzy said:

"Hmmm... *Scratches chin*


I'd say my main motivation is fun.
It's like hanging out with a bunch of people, many who I'd call friend, and just shootin the shit.
There's drama here and there and whatever and I get involved with that usually.
But for the most part, I'm here for the laughs and good times... and all the information on a huge variety of shit that I get to learn about.


So, basically... fun, fun, drama, fun, learning about shit... and more fun.
(Oh yeah, and getting my name known for that mythical day when Bang Rumpus actually gets finished.  )"

Mary said:

"I have this character flaw where I am compelled to argue with idiots. I know it's a waste of time and that it's like teaching a pig to sing. But I do it anyways.


I should probably seek counseling about that or something. I've been trying to break the habit for awhile now."

Orfeu, as you probably already know, said:

"My Motivation is simple.
I am a fuckwit, and dont know any better.


As for Lee...I should think it is obvious to any impartial observer.


She is Evil.
Pure Concentrated Evil.
She pulls our strings like an Evil Puppet-Master.


So if any of you have a beef with me...just remember, it wasnt my fault.
Lee made me do it."

Prokofy Neva covers an extremely popular topic with his post "Second Life Needs a Live Music Blog."  I would direct him to some SL live music sites, blogs, blog posts and even forums, but my observation is that Neva prefers to find such things on his own, if at all.  I don't mean to be dismissive of Neva or Neva's post.  I'm thrilled that Neva is again taking an interest in the rich live music scene in Second Life and I agree that most of the live music blog content out there is more of the "here is a live musician in SL and his genre is the blues and I really enjoyed his show" variety rather than actual musical criticism.  As much as people write about live music in SL, and there is a lot of writing about live music in SL  (right behind fashion, destinations and SL operations and politics), there really isn't a whole lot of informed critical analysis or Rolling Stone journalistic style review.  Maybe we could get Envoy or Orfeu on that.  I used to write a kind of basic SL live music blog myself, but I kept it in a social group on a forum and it, and all the content save the pictures, were deleted...and I don't have the musical background of an Envoy or Orfeu.  Seicher Rae got into SL Live Music blogging at one time, but her content has also been deleted.  At any rate, I'm glad Neva brought it up.  It's a ceaselessly interesting topic to me and many others and it also gives me a chance to tell you that Guitar Zane and Senjata Witt are two of my favorite live music artists in Second Life. (I gushed profusely and prolifically about Guitar Zane in forum threads and the social group blog and my SL pic albums over on RLetc.  I wear my Senjata Witt SL t-shirt a lot.  Good thing clothes don't wear out in SL.)


Speaking of live music, though not in SL...

Kita said:

"It's that time again! Another Phish show, Mulch and I will be streaming LIVE intermittently throughout the day!

http://mulched.blogspot.com/2011/08/phish-8811-hollywood-bowl.html

Keep checking the stream today and stay tuned for awesome hippie action! "

You might need this.

Which leads me to this:  It would appear that not only is Mulch blogging again, but he has started a new forum or at least is participating in the development of a new forum.  It's called "Feted Inner Hangout" and it's on fetedinnerhorde.com.

Mulch said:

"also, this forum is now in beta testing. It would be a great honor to me if you sign up for this forum/site, use it, test it, post to it, upload photos, send messages, edit friend list, add buddies, and help me work out the bugs and help me beta test it (long term involvement beyond beta not discouraged). we should be going live within 2-4 weeks once all bugs, features, mods, and hacks are worked out"

"Are you

• a normal adult who likes to play WoW?
• someone with real life responsibilities like a job, significant other, hobby, social life?
• looking to play WoW with friendly, likeminded people who are adults who have real lives outside of WoW, and who like to PvP and sometimes PvE, without DKP, militant GMs or Raid Leaders or drama?
• on or considering Lightninghoof server in the US, horde faction?*

Then consider apllying to join us in Feted Inner Horde. We are all adults, majority female. We have a small active user base and a larger pool who comes through every now and then. We are casual, have a teamspeak 3 server, and prefer to...
Read more: http://fetedinnerhorde.com/forums/index.php/topic,6.0.html#ixzz1USqXqjyc"

Cristiano has posted a list of the top 25 laugh-getting posts on SLU.




Wasted wants to view my blog but is having a great deal of difficult because of the "mature content" warning. I suppose it's good to know the net nanny content-control software works.

"leehere, why don´t you remove that warning about the mature content? I never can read your blog, it doesn´t work on firefox for me."

"many views and still cant read the leehere´s blog because of the mature content warning   "

Lastly, check out this fun find Magnus Brody blogged about in his post "Spock Is Not Impressed."


p.s.
I think it would be fun if Neva got in on the forum and blog critiquing biz on a regular, formal, structured kind of basis (as opposed to the drive-by shooting basis).  We could even give him a head start.

Links:
http://realtravels.blogspot.com/2011/08/golf-aruba.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course
http://geographyfieldwork.com/golf.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/golf/index.htm
http://www.golfturf.rutgers.edu/golf-courses-and-the-environment.asp
http://slmc.myfastforum.org/
http://quickmusiclexxi.blogspot.com/
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/06/virtual-world-theme-sites-blogs-forums.html
http://www.wastedlife.com.ar/index.php/forum?func=view&catid=4&id=71
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/08/wasted-sees-me-too-or-wasted-channels.html
http://gotvirtual.net/community/threads/leehere-i-see-you.858/page-60
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/07/criteria-for-forum-ranking-ratings_29.html
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/07/criteria-for-forum-ranking-ratings.html
http://leeherevw.blogspot.com/2011/07/forum-ranking-ratings-reviews.html
http://mulched.blogspot.com/2011/08/phish-8811-hollywood-bowl.html
http://fetedinnerhorde.com/forums/index.php/topic,16.new.html
http://www.ustream.tv/user/mulchvideo
http://fetedinnerhorde.com/forums/
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/slu-announcements/62941-top-25-most-laughs.html

Fine print:  LWL = Ladies Who Lunch (and is not gender specific)
Fine print 2:  The author of this blog does not necessarily support or condone the content of the blogs referenced here.
Fine print 3:  @ Seicher Rae:  If you still have that SL live music content and would like to pass it on to me for a blog post attributed to you (natch), then I would be delighted to post it.  Food for thought.  Thanks.
Fine print 4:  Yes, I do know that Prokofy Neva's operator is a female human and that most people refer to Prokofy Neva as Prok.