Bock Wins Again - Almost...

The laird celebrates the added funds

Today Swedish blogger Sven Idyll announced the winner of the contest that he has been running on his blog Sven´s(k) Idyll the last week.

The contest was to pick out the common denominator for ten videos presented one at a time.

Video 1 Fool´s Gold med Thin Lizzy. (The singer in the band was Phil (Philip) Lynnot, so we get PHILIP)
Video 2 Walk of Life med Dire Starits. (The singers name is Mark Knopfler, so we get MARK)
Video 3 Thats´s all You Need – The Faces. (Rod Stewart was part of the group during this time and he is the singer in the song. Rod´s real name is Roderish, so we get RODERICK)
Video 4 Online Venting – Rosedale. (Easy, we keep ROSEDALE)
Video 5 Dave Gahan – Kingdom. (Another easy one, we keep KINGDOM)
Video 6 Norah Jones – Humble me. (We keep HUMBLE)
Video 7 Outkast – B.O.B. (We keep BOB)
Video 8 Ulf Lundel – Kom in, Kom in. (We get KOMIN)
Video 9 Riverside – Second Life syndrome.( We keep SECOND LIFE)
Video 10 Ledtråd CEO – White magic. (CEO is the lead here)

We now have Philip, Mark, Roderick, Rosedale, Kingdom, Humble, Bob, Komin, Second Life and CEO, what do they have in common? Mix around a bit and you have four of the CEO´s in a company. The company's product is Second life.

LINDEN LAB is the common denominator and the correct answer.

Sven tells us no one managed to get the correct answer but that Bock McMillan (that's me!) after only six clues had been presented guessed on "Second Life" and is therefore awarded a consolation prize - or as he so kindly calls it encouragement prize - of 250 Lindens.

Music Awareness 2011

I have been having some problems with this post, because I firmly believe that any cultural manifestation in itself - and by necessity - is a comment upon the prevailing norms, ideas and beliefs in the social context where it is preformed.

In my mind the song "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" is truly a statement on it´s time and therefore political. A political song can of course embrace the norms, ideas and beliefs of it´s time and location as-well as it can be an apparent protest against them or an allegory or a cover-up. '

To me the theme of this event contains a self contradiction, but what the hell I´ll plug it anyway. Live music is after all one of the best things about SecondLife.

Thanks to Diana for the information!

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On Easter weekend of 2008 MUSIC NOT POLITICS, with the assistance of Money Island and JSP Island, set out to raise awareness of live music in SL.  A 48 hour live event was held on the Money Island Sims.  The general music groups, musicians and venues were invited to participate in the event which ran 52 hours and brought over 1,100 new fans to the music scene.  On Easter Weekend 2009, the now annual Music Awareness event, carried on for over 100 hours.   Easter weekend 2010 saw over 100 hours of live music and tons of new members to the music community! 

JOIN US AS WE LAUNCH with the assistance of Sicly Live Venue and Mall and Money Island OUR 4th ANNUAL MUSIC AWARENESS EVENT April 22, 2011 at 12pm.  This event is anticipated to run longer than 100 hours.  

MUSICIANS WISHING TO PARTICIPATE

CALENDAR WILL BE UP ON THE WEB FROM JANUARY 16th FORWARD.

Musicians wishing to participate in this event are required to contact Throughthesewalls Moody directly and ONLY through EMAIL at annualmusicawareness@gmail.com.

Check calendar and updates at http://musicnotpolitics.com  and go to the Music Awareness tab scroll ahead to April 22nd and beyond and pick your date and time and email me at annualmusicawareness@gmail.com . I check the email once a day so get on the list.

This event will be staffed by MUSIC NOT POLITICS staff and volunteers.  If you are interested in volunteering your time to help with the event please contact Moody at annualmusicawareness@gmail.com

Any Venues wishing to participate and/or help with promotion please send an email to Throughthesewalls Moody at annualmusicawareness@gmail.com

Thank you

Throughthesewalls Moody

MUSIC NOT POLITICS, Inc.

EMAIL FOR THIS EVENT ONLY

annualmusicawareness@gmail.com  

Musical Memories - Swedish Bloggers Relay

Cobra Starship - I Kissed a Boy (Music Video) from Max Welch on Vimeo.

This is a song I remember from the summer of 2008 (Yeah I know I rezzed in March 2007 but my memory is lousy about those first months - I dont think I actually found the music button until I met Ars...) This song was really huge on the SL gay scene! Ahh those were the days...

I remember them well, they were all about Ars, Ars, Ars, Ars and well Ars again and a bit of Guyke and Andrey too. I thought of Ars by day and dreamt of him by night. I hurried home from work to be with him, I stayed up too late to be with him.

Those were happy days! We worked on our house, we worked on our parcels at "Southern Charm", we hung out at "Ninth Wave Island" with Andrey, sarco, Yannis, Harley, Guyke and Orchid and the rest of the gang and their fans. We listened to all the "Sarco Sound" DJ´s as they trying out their music and sets.