At Grenouille Inn

Blanche and I at Grenouille Inn (Photo courtesy of Blanche Argus)

Let me first of all nip the rumors in the bud before they start spreading too far.
1) No, Blanche and I did not color coordinate before meeting at the inn for the Mannen Darkstone event.
2) No, I did not change my sexual preferences overnight or "bridge the gap for an evening" so to speak. However we did make up after our most recent run-in even if we didn't make out.

Mannens voice was beautiful and he sounded as great as he does on his websites, which wasn't strange because he unfortunately didn't sing live. This made me a bit disappointed at the time (So sorry, Apollon Allen) but the choices his closest and longest fans had made of which music should be played showed the wide spectrum of this amazing singer/songwriters talents.

I have some things to say to Mannen and I really, really mean this in the best possible way; Mannen, with your God-given talents you can have a great career in both SecondLife and in real life, but this will only happen if you can muster the courage to start doing it live, at the very least as "singback". I suggest you get some coaching and start in a small way, with your closest friends and the patient Swedes.

Of course you can also chose to be a strictly recording singer, Mannen, but then please see to it that the venue you "perform at" announces the event as such.

Lastly, if at all possible, get help with your scheduling and coordinating of real life with SecondLife so you are always at the venue 15-30 minutes before your time slot. There are a chosen few rock bands and singers who get away with being late to their sets. These are usually the ones where both the performers and their audiences are high as kites all the time. (This piece of my mind may be really unfair because shit happens to us all the time, but this was the first of your events I had myself come to in time - then again I am audience, we don´t count and therefore have that privilege.)

I look forward to listening to you really sing for me in the future Mannen and wish you the best of luck with your musical career.

Planning the Weekend

When you are planning your weekend in SecondLife make sure to drop in at this event. Saturday February 12th, 01:00 PM SLT, at Grenouille Inn.

I have tried to get in at Mannen Darkstones events at Grenouille Inn before, but there was some security thing that blocked my sound. Instead I have been listening to him sing on his websites (http://www.uvumi.com/#mannen/songs and http://www.wix.com/baromhjartat/baromhjartat). I am so wishing that the same problem will not interrupt me tomorrow.

Mannen has a beautiful voice with a warm quality which touches your soul and makes you warm inside.

I was for a while contemplating telling you about the first time I remember seeing Mannen, but decided not to. Instead I will give you some leads and you can make up your own picture. The leads are

1. wedding party (cannot remember who got married to whom)
2. Selma dancing (Selma is Mannens SecondLife partner)
3. an avatar drops in on the dance floor
4. naked man
5. huge, humongous, enormous
6. erection
7. laughter
8. giggles
9. Selma and Mannen teleport away

Unfortunately I am not expecting Mannen to be naked tomorrow...

Nakna avatarer i SL 49

Mitt enda egentliga minne av Mannen Darkstone hittills var den gången när han droppade in på ett party där Selma Edman också befann sig. Han var helnaken och hade den mest gigantiska erektion jag någonsin har sett, och då kan jag försäkra att jag har sett en del! 

På några bloggar har jag nyligen läst att han skall vara en talangfull sångare också så jag ser fram emot att uppleva även den sidan någon gång i framtiden.

Nu har jag fått denna underbara bild från Selma, plötsligt blir han mycket mer levande för mig. (...och ja, jag har försäkrat mig om att Mannen har godkänt publiceringen!)