Celebrate with Mid

My friend the beautiful, creative and always busy Midnattsdotter Fride (Mid or Fride, to those of us who love her) is celebrating her rezday today and invites us all to join in.

Teleportation service to the Legolas Beach (SLurl)

Happy rezday, dearest Mid! I am already getting excited to listen to strum Diesel at your beach again, the very same place where I heard him the first time:

Tableaux Vivants, Lag & Sim Crashes

"Lag is a state of mind" a wise, semi-old but still extremely hot and sexy avatar once said, who´s name escapes me at the moment.

That is of course very true but sometimes SecondLife tries it´s very best to destroy a good party. Terrible lag, a sim crash and a sim restart almost succeeded at Kandinsky Beaumont´s and Apmel Goosson´s party at Solace Island yesterday. Luckily most of us who were there were old troopers at dealing with such misfortunes and we came back as soon as it was possible every time.

Tableaux vivants means "living pictures". The term describes a group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move. The approach thus marries the art forms of the stage with those of painting/photography. (Wikipedia).

"The Extraordinary Adventures of Kikas and Marmaduke" give SecondLife a humorous and modern day interpretation of this 19th century art form. No show is ever the same because of the interaction with the audience at each performance.

Due to the delay caused by the misfortunes I unfortunately could not stay through the whole show and the party afterwards but had to log off at midnight, but as long as I was there I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Without further ado, here are some pictures from the show. Please note that I am only showing a few of the pictures and not in the order the tableaux were presented.

Enthralled audience; Bock, Emarald, Mid, Ziga, Blanche, Kandi & Apmel

Besides myself, the sim was full of all the avantgarde art elite in SecondLife. Here are a few more shots of the audience.

SaveMe Oh trying to catch the eye of some rough trade

DJ Eifach

SEMA 2011 - Oh What A Party

Finally the long awaited evening arrived. As an old hand in SecondLife I arrived early at the venue, The Fallen Gods Club at Yadkin. I have missed to many events before by not getting my ass on the sim in time.

The laird resting before the party stasrts

Once I was safely there I could take a smoke, eat a little and prepare for the party to start.

Oh what a great party it was! All the men were stunningly beautiful and the women looked reasonably OK too, even if some of them were showing a lot of their legs and boo.. uhmmm lets say chests.

Apollon Allen, DJ and one of the organizers

Emarald Harvey (in the background) with his partner Zigadena Gabardini 

Iendi Laville

Svessa Hax

My Sergeant at Arms sirhc DeSantis-McMillan

Vira Broome, one of the organizers

Blanche Argus, cbreak, Apmel Ibbetson and Kandinsky Beaumont

Chaplin Early and his partner Stella Guardian, Aake Roffo in the background

Some cute stranger

NE0 Timeless, one of the organizers

I had a wonderful evening and an unexpectedly great time, most people actually spoke with me. It was good to be able to in some little way show my appreciation of the hard work the event makers do for us. All in all I had a splendid time with no bad lag surprisingly because avatars were crashing left and right.

I would like to finish by once again thanking Apollon Allen, Vira Broome and NE0 Timeless for giving me this opportunity to extend my thanks to the event makers. I know I didn´t get all of them on my camera, for which I especially apologize to Vampi Twine-DeSantis-McMillan-McMillan (honorary and through handfasting), Midnattsdotter Fride and Gittrika Mint. All three of you looked wonderful, but my pictures of you were ugly and not publishable,

I just noticed that my bosom buddy Apmel Goosson has also been working hard and has already published his great pictures from the event here (url).

Even more pictures from the event at Blanche Argus blog now (url) and on Ewa Aska´s blog.

UPDATE:
Oh, I forgot, the evening actually ended very well when Blanche Argus finally found the humongous and  enormous tip jar for the event makers.

I understand her completely because I have been there myself countless times! Sometimes tip jars are just too big to notice, one cams above, around, behind and under them... I cannot remember all the times that Guyke, Ars or some other friendly soul has had to drag me in front of them for me to see them.

We Owe Them Gratitude - SEMA 2011

Day in and day out, week after week and all year long they work tirelessly to give the rest of us in the Swedish community in SecondLife, and our International friends, a possibility to meet, chat, dance, listen to music, meditate and have a good time together.

We owe these avatars loads of gratitude and love for doing that!

Apollon Allen, Vira Broome and NE0 Timeless got together and created "The Swedish Event Makers Award" (SEMA). The purpose of the SEMA is to celebrate the creative and committed avatars for their efforts during the past year.

"The only thing wrong with the SEMA", said the Much Honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls in an interview to CNN today, "is that I didn't come up with the damn excellent idea myself. Of course I will be there - and in full colors - to give back a little to all these these wonderful people!"

Ms Gittrika Mint : Proprietor of Måndagsbörsen (The Monday Exchange) where she has a theme party every Monday evening. She also runs Greenroom on Wednesdays for formal dances.
The Monday Exchange (SLurl)

Ms Iendi Laville: Proprietor of La Grenouille Inn where she throws parties with live music and also proprietor of the inworld radio channel "The Swedish Transistor".
YADKIN VALLEY (SLurl)

Mrs Vampi Twine-DeSantis-McMillan (honorary) and Sergeant at Arms sirhc DeSantis-McMillan (adopted) owners of Club OrmDricka (by the laird and his clan lovingly referred to as OD) where they throw parties - with or without themes - every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
ORMDRICKA (SLurl)

The Connemara Hills collective: (Mrs. Rultan Zeppelin, Mrs Blanche Argus, Mr. Peppe & Mrs Trulte Firecaster who own and operate Connemara Hills together) The collective has a Celtic evening every month and arranges meditation sessions every Friday.
CONNEMARA HILLS (SLurl)

Princess Midnattsdotter Fride, lovingly referred to as Mid or Fride: owner and operator of the Frides Club & Lounge, where she has events once a week with International DJ:s and Fride Live with International Live Musicians once a month (this was the venue where the laird heard the awesome Strum Diesel the very first time)

LEGOLAS SIM (SLurl)

Mrs Ewa Aska: Proprietor of Viking land of Birka where the theme is mostly viking, but she also arranges Bollywood parties once in awhile. (Earlier venues have been Vadstena Castle and The Ice Hotel - ahhhh all the great memories I have of that beautiful venue)
VIKING LAND (SLurl)

Ms Kicki Spingflower : Proprietor of "Club Kicki´s Jetty" where she has tea dances in the mornings and nude parties on Fridays.
KICKI´S JETTY (SLurl)

Ms Fia Wycliffe: Proprietor of Fia´s Porch Club where she - usually on Fridays - throws parties that are called "Friday cozy ups"
FIA´S PORCH (SLurl)

Mr Alfdeejay Cooper: Proprietor of the Avalon Club & Garden Beach and Xanadu Club. At Xanadu Club the theme is usually ´80s or Disco. He also owns and operates the radio channel Alfdeejay Radio around the clock.

AVALON (SLurl) and XANADU (SLurl)

Mr Ix Heron: Proprietor of Euroclub, where he DJ´s himself on the theme Eurovision. .
EUROCLUB (SLurl)

Ms Jini Shearer: Co-proprietor of the September Rainforest which is a sim filled with romance, beautiful waterfalls and a dance floor in the middle of the jungle (great for dating and marriages)
SEPTEMBER RAIN (SLurl)

Be there or be square!
...and for the love of everything that is important to you lets show them all our love and gratitude by having FUN!

What: The SEMA 2011
When Saturday February 4, 2012, 1 PM - 3 PM SLT
Where: Fallen Gods Club (SLurl) (Reopening of the club)
Who: Everyone who wants to see Swedes go crazy is invited
Clothing: Gala/Formal (which means tartan for me)
Host/DJ: Apollon Allen

My Busy Saturday

In hindsight it was a great Saturday evening and Sunday morning, even with all my crashes and the strange weekend shit happening. So what was it I did, lets see if I can recall it all...?

First I went to look at some new hair to party in. My brother in-law D R E Y (a.k.a BIL) had dropped a landmark on me last we spoke. It was a beautiful shop with some great hair, I will look up the name when I get back in SecondLife and add it here. B-something that rhymes with barley if I remember correctly...Aah got it! Burley (SLurl) was the name! (No picture yet!)

With my new hair down I went back home to pack a gift for Eddi Haskell for his fifth rezday. What does one give to a man who has been around forever and probably has everything he ever wanted to have? 

Well I think I finally found a good gift when I decided to give him one of the beautiful jars made by Second Renoir, the Swedish first and second life artist. I love those jars, and have almost all of them myself.

While I was gift wrapping the jar I talked a little with my in-house (or on-sim) brother in-law Dejerrity. It is always good to check in with him. he makes me feel warm, safe and happy.

Happy with having the gift decided and packed I dropped in at Mid´s Super Fride Party with DJ Gwenni. The set looked really true to the original, but after a while it got to be a bit too overwhelming and it was quite difficult to make out the other avatars among everything that was going on there.

Super Fride

While i was listening to the great selection of music played for us by the amazing DJ Gwenni, who was a new acquaintance for me, I got a surprise call from my darling brother Martial.Eisenhart, who had been missing for awhile. It was so good talking with him again! As always we talked about everything between heaven and earth and all at the same time. His mind works nearly as mine, but he is a sweeter, kinder and much less judgmental version of myself. 

When Martial had dozed off I got the call that Eddi´s party at Tadd's Cabaret had started, so I quickly changed into something stylish to fit in with the crowd at one of Eddi´s parties. (Black suit with a black t-shirt showing off my chest hair.) The place was full when I got there and filled up even more while I was there. 

Somewhere in between this I got the chance to stand up for my dear friend Zigadena Gabardini, who was - for no rational reason at all - being clobbered at by the extraterrestrial hag from InWorldz in the comments on another blog.

I found a safe spot close to the hunky host Scott and started flirting wildly with him, although I don´t think he noticed much. The only man that ever understood when I was flirting was my Ars. He told me once, that I should drop all the subtleties because people are so busy with everything else going on. To which I answered, "Do you  suggest I tell them in local chat that we should leave and go fuck?". He laughed when I promptly sent him an IM saying exactly that. But what the hell, all my flirting is only for fun still, I have no intentions whatsoever of following up on them, perhaps the guys sense that somehow.

While I was busy with that, lo and behold, I suddenly saw my name called in local chat. It was my buddy, the studly Ziggy Starsmith that had arrived to the party. He looked grey, sultry and sexy as all the others at the party, except for the hunky Scott. 

I tried all my tricks to get the world to rez, pulling down draw distance and changing the group tag, but nothing worked. And then SecondLife kicked me out.

When I tried to log back in I almost made it three times but was kicked out again with the message "The system has logged you out because you are trying to log in from another location"? Interesting message and it was the first time ever I got it - after five years in SecondLife. I don´t understand what it means though.

Finally I gave up going back to the party and went back home instead, which worked fine. Soon after I got back on I got an IM from Ziggy asking if he could come over for a visit and take a look at Southern Charm. I was absolutely delighted to invite him over.

Ziggy came over and looked excellent this time. I gave him the grand tour of the sim - both the house and the grounds - and we had a good time talking about ourselves and our lives (both of them). After about an hour Ziggy´s new man, Holter, logged in when he got home from work in first life and was called over. At that point my darn computer and SecondLife started screwing with me again and kicked me out and started giving me the same strange messages when I attempted to log in again.

When I at last succeeded to get inworld again it was 7 am in my first life and I was starting to fall asleep over my key board so I had to make my excuses soon afterwards to go to bed and catch some sleep..

We Crashed the Sim

Photo courtesy of my buddy Apmel Goosson

Yesterday was a messy day in SecondLife, partly I guess due to the usual overpopulation during weekends but Linden Lab seems to be doing some major overhaul of their servers also. I crashed two times the same evening, which actually hasn't happened for a very long time.

Anyway, as I promised in my post yesterday, I could be found at the Fride Club & Lounge´s fourth jubilee most of the evening.

My friend and the club owner Midnattsdotter "Mid" Fride gave us a great line-up of amazing live artists this evening, among which could be found my buddy Strum Diesel. Zelator Bahomet, Mid´s business partner, had built an wonderful set befitting the theme of the party, "Super Mario Characters".

All of Mid´s patrons came teleporting in to celebrate Mid and the club, which eventually led to the sim crashing on us. I have always maintained, "Every great party needs at least one sim-crash!" 

The sim-crash occurred during The Rails set, and after that I unfortunately had some troubles with getting the sound to work properly. This meant I had to raise my volume way high to hear Hazideon Zarco and Strum Diesel sing, but still had difficulty hearing them talk between the songs. The sound problem seemed to have solved itself by the time the last artist, AM Quar, started his set but by then I was too tired to stay.

Overall I had a wonderful time and saw many friends and others.

Saturday Fun

Among all the other events going on in SecondLife on a Saturday evening I would especially like to recommend the following two.

My friend Midnattsdotter "Mid" Fride and her crew are celebrating the 4th anniversary of Fride Club & Lounge with an impressive line up of great SecondLife entertainers for four hours, featuring among others my buddy Strum Diesel. This event starts at 12 PM SLT with a new artist/group every hour. Theme for the party is "Super Mario characters".

This is the event I will try to squeeze in to. The line starts behind me, don´t use your elbows but any other body part is OK, with the exception of boobs!

SLurl to the party

The second event I would like to recommend is arranged by the great LGBT news blog Gay World News and starts at 8 PM SLT (which is 5 AM for me so I will most likely miss it).

This party takes place at the BLU club at Boystown and the theme is "Super Villains". The event will be covered by GWN in-world.

SLurl to the BLU Club

Planet Earth Party

My friend Midnattsdotter Fride is having a Planet Earth Party this evening at Fride´s Club & Lounge (SLurl).

The party starts at 12 PM SLT and DJ Lola will be supplying the music.
Contest : Planet Earth Creation Winners - come as a flower, an animal, an environmentalist, all green .....let your fantasy flow! 

3 winners will be announced after the party!

Midsummer Party

The inhabitants of SecondLife Sweden are now preparing for the Midsummer celebrations coming up this weekend.

I have already told you about Vadstena Castle and Ewa Aska´s party on Friday the 24th.

Now Midnattsdotter Fride steps up to the bat and announces this great line up of live SecondLife artists for Saturday 25th.

This will be a wonderful weekend in SecondLife!

Happy Rezday, Fride!

Today is the rezday of one of the really positive, strong and vibrant forces of nature in Swedish SecondLife, my friend and Lucia-DJ the lovely and charming Midnattsdotter "Mid" Fride.

 
As many of you already know Mid has her own club called "Frides" where she and her crew hosts great parties and live music events. It was actually at a live music event at Frides that I first got acquainted with the music of awesome strum Diesel.

Mid will be celebrating her rezday with a swim wear party at her beach, please see the poster below for more information.

T

Take me to Fride´s beach party!

Elvis Resurrected - Again

Tomorrow Saturday 29 January, 2011,"The King" is resurrected for the umpteenth time at Mid´s Club.

12 PM - 1PM SLT  

The party start with 50's and early 60's rock with DJ Mid.

1 PM - 2 PM SLT  

Second Lifes Elvis - BubbaC John and his Bubbette's - a fun live music show with a salute to The King of Rock and Roll! BubbaC sings from the heart as a tribute to Elvis Presley (The King). What you hear is all natural no echo,reverb or voice enhancment just a mic.

2 PM SLT til the cows come home

DJ Mid continues with 50's and early 60's rock ...

Don´t Forget Our Date Tomorrow

Tomorrow Sunday December 12th, 2010, at 11 am and 1 pm SLT I hope to see you all at the Swedish Embassy in SecondLife for the Celebration of Saint Lucia.

junivers Stockholm, Medora and The Imaginals with a lightshow by firemasters extraordinaire Jannne Janus and Ambrooshia DeCuir at about 11:30 AM SLT

Bara Jonson sings LIVE at about 12:10 PM SLT

Big party afterwards with amazing DJ Midnattsdotter Fride.

Come and see Bock McMillan in his first leading role as Starboy #3 (...or was it #4?).

We are doing this just for fun and for the fifth consecutive year in SecondLife. No competition with other pageants is intended.

Taxi to Swedish Orientation

Produced by: The Bock McMillan Entertainment Group Inc (part of the BMcM Corporation) Swedish People in SL
Funded by The Swedish Institute.

Ma Che Bella Serata

Ohhhhhhhhh what a wonderful evening anf night I had yesterday...

It started off with the 200th anniversary of "The Coffee & Pajamas Jazz Show with Elfay Pinkdot" at the beautiful "Circe´s Sunset Jazz Club". Elfay was inspired, the guests were intoxicated by her charming chat and the awesome music. If you missed it you really need to revise your priorities!

We actually started planning for the 300th show celebration in 2012, when someone said that that was the year the world would end according to some prophecy. Let me tell you now - if that propecy should be true - I know no better place to meet that end it than in the company of my darling Millimina, Elfay, Circe and listening to jazz!

After a brief nap - I am a bit tired these days, not really sure why - I loged in to a swimsuit party at Fride´s Beach. The music there was funkilicious and supplied by a great DJ melqt (pronounced Mel-Cutie I learned) Tennenbaum. As always at Mid´s parties, people were pleasant and all possibilities of drama dealt with in a charming way. Alas I was too tired to remember to take any pictures, but let me tell you two of the Apmels where there!

The youngest one is starting to look great - he may have started to work out - give him a few years and hearts will be broken left and right...

Picture stolen from Apmels blog "Min avatar heter Apmel"

From there I moved along to the party at Club Erotes - The Den the wonderful aussie club and one of the friendliest clubs in Second Life. DJ Butch Diavalo entranced us all. I had managed to drag the sweet Adrina Welders out of her shoe-shop and after some convincing hauled Millimina over there too. The guys were all so funny and chatty I forgot to take pictures again..

My great evening ended at "The Week-End Club" where my darling BIL ("brother-in-law") DJ Andrey Messmer entertained some of the hunkiest guys in SL, with the help of his friend and host Ciroc.

This time I remembered to take pictures again, would you believe it... Look at my BIL after his recent makeover, isn´t he a perfect specimen of an edible hunk?

Nakna avatarer i SL 104

I have been promissed these pictures for at least four months, perhaps more ... but I always knew they would come eventually.

Although I do not know the dazzling and sublime Midnattsdotter "Mid" Fride too well, I trusted her word. I also know she has a busy life both in RL and in Second Life. Here in SL she is - among very many other things I am sure - the owner of a well run club and an awesome DJ.

As you all can see Mid came up with - yet another - inventive and elegant solution to the problem "How to be totally naked, but still not bare it all!" (Note-to-self. Next time you come up with a bright idea like this prohibit any flora or vegetation from the start.)

Now enjoy Mid in all her splendor as she takes her morning bath in the waterfall.

Jadå, ni är fortfarande välkomna att skicka era bidrag till mig antingen inworld eller till min mejl lundamats@gmail.com

Yes, you are still welcome to send your contributions to me either inworld or to my mail lundamats@gmail.com 

Bock partar hos Fride

Jag fick reda på att Midnattsdotter "Mid" Fride skulle ha beach party på "Sky High" med framträdanden av Hazideon Zarco och The Rails. Då kunde jag naturligtvis inte hålla mig därifrån!

Jag hade jättetrevligt hela kvällen. Tack Mid!

P.S. Nä, jag vet inte vem den okände beundraren är, jag såg honom inte innan jag skulle beskära bilden.

En dag med toppar och dalar

Idag hände det mycket i mitt SL liv, men mycket av känns för nära och privat att berätta om just nu - det kommer antagligen fram senare när jag har lite mer distans, men dagen fick i varje fall en underbar början och ett härligt slut.

Som vanligt på¨lördagsförmiddagen hade Ars sitt set på australiensiska "The Den". Det var tämligen välbesökt med bl a två jättekändisar inom gay-SL, Boots Mission och Eddi Haskell.

Boots Mission var en gång ägare till en sim som hette "Mission Beach" men mest kallades "Boots Gay Beach". Den stranden blev mitt första hem i SL efter att den inledande sexgalna fasen hade gått över då jag startade och lämnade SL inifrån toalettbås, under trappor eller någon annan skyddad plats. Stranden fungerade som en fristad och ett lärosäte.

Boots och hans adjutanter hade tagit till sin uppgift att med stor vänlighet och en beskyddande inställning berätta för alla vilsna bögar som var nybörjare i SL om hur denna mystiska och spännande världen fungerade. Vad man kunde göra här, var man i så fall gjorde det och var man kunde få tag på saker man tyckte sig behöva för att göra det. De ledde oss med mild och varsam hand rätt, lärde oss vilka inställningar man skulle ha på sin viewer för att ens värld skulle bli riktigt vacker, hur man rensade caches efter crashar, hur man byggde olika saker om man ville det och såg till att vi delade med oss av erfarenheter till varandra under långa stunder av trevligt samspråk. Allt som oftast utbröt spontanfester när någon bara satt igång att spela sin musik medan vi övriga dansade och pratade. Jag minns den tiden med stor värme och tacksamhet! Jag åker fortfarande dit ibland för att titta till det hela och lämna ett ekonomiskt bidrag för den fortsatta verksamheten.

Eddi Haskell är nog mest känd för att ha varit inblandad i många "dramas". Om det har varit med eller utan hans egen förskyllan har jag aldrig kunnat bedöma eftersom jag inte umgicks med honom annat än när vi råkade vara på samma fester. Antagligen berodde skitsnacket mest på att han har en färgstark personlighet och därför lätt får fiender, några av dem var publicister för den mest lästa blaskan och bloggen inom gay-SL på den tiden. De vildaste rykten spreds om honom genom antydningar och halvkvädna visor. Han har aldrig varit annat än vänlig och trevlig mot mig.

Efter festen på "the Den" var vi som vanligt på Elfay Pinkdots "Coffee and Pajamas". En alltid lika trevlig tillställning där Elfay spelar musik med roligt mellansnack och samspråk med en aktiv och deltagande publik, många av oss ständigt återkommande gäster. Eftersom detta var en förövning till den kommande "Valentines day" hade jag klätt upp mig därefter medan Ars som vanligt var lite mer nedtonad.

Efter det partyr var den en del kalabalik som jag nu hoppar över. Kvällen avslutades dock på ett underbart sätt med invigningen av Midnattsdotter Frides "Fride Live".

Där tvingade jag upp den stackars Vesper på min vilda dans-HUD. Blanche var där och sade vänliga saker om min avatar. Även aake, Qween, Bejita och Chaplin kom dit. Mot slutet av kvällen fick jag nöjet att uppleva Strum Diesel sjunga egna sånger och covers. Jag föll som en fura för hans charm och talang. Jag hade så roligt och njöt så mycket av hela evenemanget och samspråket med Guyke och hans man Janttu att jag helt glömde bort att ta bilder.

*Note to self: "Remember you have a blog now, f f s always take pictures!"*

För bilder från det sista eventet tvingas jag nu hänvisa er till Blanche´s arena och Mer eller mindre KRANFEL.