I’m DJ-ing Tonight
I’ll be DJ-ing at Soul Mods tonight, 1pm Second Life Time (9pm UK). If you like The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, Motown, and ska come join us. Visit Inworld: Soul Mods
R.I.P. Ray Manzarek
Founding keyboardist of the Doors Ray Manzarek has passed away today in Germany. The cause according to his publicist was bile duct cancer. He was 74. This is sad news. Our prayers go out to Ray’s family, friends, and fans.
Summertime (and the livin’ is easy)
OK it’s not really summer yet, and the livin’ isn’t actually THAT easy EVER, but the weather this weekend has been splendid here and I even got to enjoy a kick-about in the park with my bandmates without freezing to death. Surprisingly even the London air tasted better this weekend, like the blanket of traffic dioxins and [...]
Linus Makes a Comeback
Linus Radford, aka Randal Prater, was one of my first friends in Second Life (and the only person I knew in first life before second life). Yesterday he invited me to hear him play, and though I don’t usually go to concerts in SL anymore I was pleased to see Linus back at it — [...]
Do You Know Who I Am?!?!
Most of the people I hang out with in SL are easy going individuals who just want to socialise, hear a few good tunes and have a laugh. I think once you’ve been a Second Life resident for a few years you tend to recognise the drama llamas, griefers and trolls early on and do [...]
Punk Rock Still Offends People
I was nearly deleted from someone’s Facebook friend list last night because I posted God Save The Queen by the Sex Pistols. They said that they were about to delete me for it but God told them not to because He (God) loves me. Thumbs up, God. Thanks for sticking up for me! (Maybe tell [...]
Taking Care of Business
Years ago, long before SL was launched, there was a real web industry buzz about virtual worlds. I remember a meeting I had in the city with a web startup company who were looking for a programmer for their latest project. The fresh faced, wacky haired “creative” was enthusiastically telling me all about how the [...]
Would you be my friend?
It’s a weird concept this whole “Friend” malarkey isn’t it? In real life your friends have traditionally been those people you spend time socialising with, sharing gigs, beers, chats, bongs, whatever floats your boat with. Then along comes the internet and all of a sudden the whole idea of friendship gets thrown up in the [...]
On The Road
Thought I’d check in. My “out of town” trip has taken longer than we expected, and at the moment I’m in a motel just outside of San Diego. I’ve been through several areas of California over the last couple of days and most of my time has been in the car. At one unknown location [...]
Nostalgia (Part 2)
“Listen mate, life has surface noise” – John Peel, Radio DJ This week I finally beat the flu virus into submission and you know how it is when you’ve beaten a nasty bug, you get a burst of endorphins and feel top of the world. But as with most good things it was all too [...]
What I’ve Been Up To
I still have the remodelling bug so started on a house for myself in Moonletters Town. It’s funny to realize I have a whole town and a private platform in the sky for working on clothes, but no actual house. I used to have one and shared it with friends Dugi, Aston, Pay, Seren, Jellie, [...]
Nostalgia (Part 1)
How are you? Did the rash clear up? Good! Me? Oh I’ve had a pretty rotten week. Despite me taking the precaution of having a flu jab late last year some mutant strain still managed to overrun me. I’ve been working on a project recently which involved recording lots of different actors, and most of them have come in [...]
I Miss The Penny Lanes
The Penny Lanes Circa 2007 (yes that’s me in the red!) In my first couple of years in Second Life the friends I spent the most time with were Marianne Shan and Magdalena Bing. We three clicked together having a deep love for music and all being friends with the SL Beatles. We had similar [...]
I’m DJ-ing Tonight
I’ll be DJ-ing Soul Mods tonight at 9pm UK time. If you like 1960′s, mod, the Who, The Kinks, Small Faces, Motown, soul, and ska come on out for some fun and banter. Visit Inworld: Soul Mods
You Have Mail
Well it’s Monday again and I had hoped to publish something I’ve been working on for the last few weeks. But I’ve decided I need to give it some more thought. It’s easy to write about the fluffy side of SL, stuff like shopping, clothes and music, they’re all good fun; but there are some [...]
Hear No Evil
So last week was a busy week for me in SL, with three (yes THREE) new DJs starting at AAI. On Thursday from 1pm SLT we have the excellent Hezzy Veeper and Wraith Unsung with four hours of punk, garage, indie, remixes, mashups and Nik Kershaw (yes you read that right!). And on Friday 1-3pm [...]
DJ Focus – Slate McLeod
One of my favourite places to listen to music in Second Life is Dugi Rubble and Aston Mindes “Soul Mods” club. The name tells you pretty much all you need to know about the kind of music you’ll hear played there, and their DJs are real specialists in the different genres that come under the umbrella ”Mod”. [...]
Four Play
Last week saw me turn the ripe old age of four in SL years. I’d forgotten my rez day was in February but Linden Lab kindly sent me an email to remind me. Well I never expected to last four weeks when I first signed up so I’m amazed four years have passed and I’m [...]
“I Did Not Attend The Bieber Gig” Says Slate
This will probably be the last I ever say the name Justin Bieber on Moonletters, but we’ve been teasing Slate McLeod for going to the concert with a family member. Last night Slate was back on deck DJ’ing at Soul Mods only to arrive and find several pictures of Justin Bieber rezzed around his DJ [...]
Soul Mods Tonight
I’ll be DJ’ing at Soul Mods tonight, 1pm Second Life time (9pm UK time). If you like 60′s mod, ska, motown, and soul, swing by for some fun and banter. As usual I’ll have lots of The Kinks, The Who, and of course the Small Faces. Visit Inworld: Dugi’s Soul Mods
Bieber Fever
It’s seems Graz and I have both been experiencing the “I have no inspiration from Second Life so will have to write about first life” syndrome. Ok, that’s not entirely true. I do have some inspiration from Second Life. DJ Slate Mcleod recently took a family member to see — are you ready for this? [...]
DJ Focus
So it was Valentine’s day and I was minding my own business when… [15:57] Sapphire Dungfunnel: happy valentines sweety <3 [15:57] Me: Er, thanks.. same to you :) [15:57] Sapphire Dungfunnel: do you know you have the cutest avatar ever! [15:57] Me: No but you hum it and I’ll play it! [15:58] Sapphire Dungfunnel: OH [...]
Mighty Boosh
Hi gang. Someone has posted all the episodes of The Mighty Boosh on youtube. If you’ve never seen this show it’s British and full of total nonsense — I love it. (That “Nooooooooooooooooooooo” gesture you may have heard a few of us do in SL was taken from this series.) So if you’re up for [...]
Horseplay, Fairydust and a Nice Pair of Tips
It’s been an interesting week for news in the UK, apparently we’ve all been eating horse meat thinking that beef actually came from a cow. How wrong we were! Now I’m sure you’ve all heard a plethora of horse jokes in the aftermath, but my favourite came from my mate Jellie who quipped “I like [...]
DJ’ing Soul Mods Tonight
I’ll be DJ’ing at Dugi’s Soul Mods tonight, 1pm Second Life time, 9pm UK time. Will be playing stuff like the Kinks, Small Faces, The Who, ska, motown, and soul. Join us for some fun and banter! Visit Inworld: Dugi’s Soul Mods
Biscuits, Milk and Otis Redding
Well despite my best efforts Shauna discovered my recent break in at Moonletters HQ. After she’d finished wagging her finger at me she claimed my dusty fingerprints on the typewriter gave me away, although I suspect she counts the biscuits and that’s how she knew. Anyway, after promising to fix the locks and top the [...]
The Rubbles New Year Special
My friend Slate McLeod comes up with the funniest stuff ever. Here’s his latest Rubbles film!
The “Other” Box
I discovered in my Facebook mail section that, in addition to the messages in my inbox, there’s this thing called “other.” I never noticed it until now, and when I clicked on it I found loads of messages I’ve missed. Some went back three years, so if you’ve tried to contact me and I didn’t [...]
Rubbles Night
It’s Rubbles night at Soul Mods. This means fans of The Rubbles: Dugi, Slate, Lupo, and the Delivery Man, can show up screaming, fainting, scratching, and fighting (over the Delivery Man). Basically so much noise you can’t even hear the band play — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. SL John Lennon’s surprise performance [...]
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