the two met online in 2003 and married in 2005 both physically and in a lavish Second Life ceremony. According to Ms. Taylor they spent as much of their time together in the virtual world as they did in the physical one. When she suspected her husband’s Second Life avatar of cheating she hired a virtual private detective to catch him in the act.

The virtual private detective was a type of service in SL I didn’t realize existed and it even has its own name, cyber spying:

Last month, a 43-year-old Japanese woman killed her virtual husband after he broke off their relationship on the popular game MapleStory, where the two met. Spouses neglected by their partners’ constant video-game or Internet use have banded together, calling themselves “cyber widowers” or “gamer widows.” Cyber spying is also common.

Darius wrote about Maple Story back in October 2007 and it seemed a little too cartoonish to interest me at the time. Seems like there is more virtual to reality stuff going on there than I imagined.

Killed, seriously? I’m all for living your virtual life to the fullest and even taking some aspects of it out of the virtual world, but killing somebody for what was done inside a virtual world? That’s crazy. And if there are too many stories like this, it will just make real world courts clamp down and make the virtual world increasingly restrictive. Where is the fun in that?

A two world machinima by Gary Hazlitt exploring the themes of a cross-world quest for love, mixed-reality and online game relationships.

Machinima which explores love crossing the boundaries of two different virtual worlds: Second Life and World of Warcraft. I was intrigued by the title and theme and felt the 7:20 was time well spent. Thanks Gary.

Hat tip to Gary’s love Laurel Papworth who shared this in a blog post writing:

It might make more sense if you know that Gary works a bit in Second Life whereas I am a World of Warcraft addict. If we want to talk to each other, we have to boot up the other virtual world – or turn around and tap the other one on the shoulder.

Interesting.

Bonus points for the nonsensical “I got laid on laid” part which is probably some sort of automated spam. There wasn’t any link with the comment, but maybe that comes later, pardon the pun.

Will existing dating sites add virtual worlds?
After chuckling I started to think about people who seriously use MMO environments as the 2008 version of dating sites. I started to wonder why established dating sites like match.com don’t have virtual worlds? Or do some of them? Looking around match.com and eharmony.com I didn’t see any sort of virtual world option.

There are a few dating-oriented adult MMOs like Naughty America that I wrote about a year ago, but to date I’m unaware of any mainstream popular dating site adding a virtual world feature. Have you heard of any?

In January 2007 I wrote about “The Girlfriend experience” and “The Girlfriend Experience Revisited” about the Liminal Institute

The Liminal Institute is an international performance unit. It was brought to existence by a group of artists who share the belief that performance work can – and should – cross the boundaries and definitions between dance, theatre, live art, visual design, music, pop culture and lifestyle.

Today I received an email from Martian Butler, one of the founders of The Liminal Institute, telling me “The Girlfriend experience it returning.

The Players

The Girlfriend Experience, Back Online

Internet game with 4 flesh and blood avatars at Picnic 0726Sept 07 12:00>28Sept 07 19:00
Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek
Pazzanistraat 41 | Amsterdam
organised by: Mediamatic | T +31 (0)20 6389901
organised by: Liminal Institute

Mediamatic and the Liminal Institute will present Martin Butler’s project
‘The Girlfriend Experience’ at Picnic 07. On September 26, 27 & 28 Butler
presents four human avatars to play with again on your computer. This time
you can log in from home as well as at Picnic on Mounir Noah Valentijn
(actor in the Dutch film Het Schnitzelparadijs), Marjolijn Vogels, Aimar
Pérez Galí (Spain) and Helga Wretman (Sweden). Choose an avatar, direct
them via Skype and discover what you can do with him or her.

Join The Girlfriend Experience at Picnic 07, in the Zuiveringshal Oost at
the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Register on Picnicnetwork.org.

At the Zuiveringshal Oost you can play the game and watch the piece live.
Or play from your home.

Use

http://girlfriend.mediamatic.net

to contact the avatars.

The rampant growth of online avatar communities such as Second Life and
World of Warcraft has enabled the creation of a personal online social and
economic existence. Simultaneously this triggers inherent questions about
this existence, as it questions what the consequences will be for first
life, or reality.

When you use virtual avatars you can do as you please. In The Girlfriend
Experience you will have to get to know each other first. Player and
avatar explore what they can do for each other and how far the avatar
wants to go in performing specific desires. Who is really controlling the
situation remains ambiguous. You have 10 minutes to figure out what you
can do with your avatar after that, your time is up and another players
can take your place.

The title of the project, The Girlfriend Experience, denotes the
paradoxical character that online social interaction has. On one hand, the
safe anonymity by using the avatar, on the other the intimate releases and
projections that can spread easily. For Martin Butler is this the merging
of two apparent extremes, anonymity and intimacy, which characterizes an
important part of contemporary social traffic.

The Girlfriend Experience attracted worldwide attention when it was
presented for the first time at Mediamatic from January to March 2007.

www.mediamatic.net
www.liminalinstitute.nl
www.picnicnetwork.org.

–
Martin Butler

The Liminal Institute
de Ruyterkade 149
1011 AC Amsterdam

Thank you Martin for the advance notice.

There is a definite blurring of the edges in SL that doesn’t take place in real life, however, and of course a man who wouldn’t dream of dressing up in women’s clothes in real life and passing himself off as a woman, with a view to encountering a lesbian experience as a “woman”, may well consider just that when in SL.  It’s so common that lesbian groups in SL have rules about it.

One of the most important things for anyone to do in their first few weeks of SL, is to realise that culture shock afflicts many people. Lots of normally mature and sane people become very talkative in the first few weeks of SL. Most adult people in real life have a well-developed sense of what is appropriate to different social situations, and generally abide by those unspoken rules. Thus they do not confide to their child’s teacher that they believe they have contracted an STD, don’t regale a dinner party with the intracacies of anal pile cauterization, and they do not tell a carriage full of strangers on the way to work that they like to make love to sheep cocooned in bubblewrap and sellotape.

In SL, new arrivals often seem to have lost their sense of what is appropriate, all their psychological defences are down, and they will divulge the most personal and intimate details on the very least encouragement. They have the feeling that talking to other people is giving them direct access to the thoughts and feelings of the other person.  They are direct and honest and believe that everyone else is too.  Of course, this leads onto the second difficulty with SL: you never know whether people are telling the truth, or whether they are what they say they are. This may be superificial, in the case of people who develop goth/vampyre/furry/trekkie characters, knock 10, 20 or 30 years off their age or role play a gorean slave or furry.  On the other hand it may be more serious, for example, men playing women or women playing men. In my experience, a lot of men play as women, but few women play as men.

Some people in SL regard it as a game, and will take on whatever character, sex, age, sexual preference appeals to them this week. Some people think nothing of deliberately setting out to split up couples, or of briefly playing with someone’s affections and then moving on to the next target. They may employ a whole host of avatars and alts (alternate avatars) to this end.

Other people quickly get immersed in relationships which seem deep and meaningful to them, and treat everything in SL as though it is RL. Serious problems ensue if someone who takes nothing seriously gets involved with someone who takes everything seriously.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there is anything intrinsically wrong in playing with your age/sex/personality. I do think it is wrong to play with people’s affections, and most especially to deliberately set out to trap or deceive someone. Many people have discovered that what they thought was just a laugh, just a game, becomes suddenly more serious. I remember a woman coming into SL, and being convinced that the “woman” was actually a man. A few days after first coming into SL, “she” had an encounter with another woman in SL, who turned out to be just as male in RL. Up to that point, I think the sex change she had given herself seemed trivial and fun, and she couldn’t envisage any problems. Once she realised that her lesbian encounter was actually with a hairy trucker from Paris or similar, she/he was forced to confront a lot of issues about self and identity, honesty and deception. He decided to make a male character.

Once again, I am not saying it is wrong for males to play as females or for them to have a relationship.  It’s just that you need to know what you feel about it if that eligible mister turns out to be a miss, or vice versa.

Many people have the feeling that they have met their other half, their twin soul, when they meet in Second Life. Maybe Second Life is the medium whereby a lot of people are finding their true soul mate. On the other hand, it is very easy to take another person and to construct from the things you know about them and the things you hope about them, a mostly fictional person, who seems so perfect only because you have filled in the blanks with your own ideal.

Just as in RL, the safest way is to try to get to know the person before you make any commitments, and to talk! I have to say I recommend Skype over voice chat in SL, any day.

Taking stock of your own attitudes to relationships in SL, consciously, will overcome many of the problems that you might encounter.  Knowing whether friendships in SL will be SL only, or move to real life.  Knowing whether you are going to make and maintain a character of your own sex or the opposite one, knowing whether you plan to divulge your real sex/age/waistline to your potential partners … all those things help to straighten it out.

Making sure that you don’t divulge vastly more than the other people you are mixing with, trying to establish that any potential partner is aware of your limitations, and has the same attitude to SL relationships, and the same aims, will also help.

If things go wrong, try to avoid the temptation to delete builds and sulk in your tent.  Avoid sending hurtful IMs and emails if possible – always try to sleep on any email or IM which may hurt the other person.

Most importantly, try to enjoy the experience of meeting and getting to know other people in SL.  It can be the most marvellous thing to share experiences in SL, whatever the nature of your relationship.

The Liminal Institute is an international performance unit. It was brought to existence by a group of artists who share the belief that performance work can – and should – cross the boundaries and definitions between dance, theatre, live art, visual design, music, pop culture and lifestyle.

The ‘liminals’ also share a passion for using just anything that comes across their path at a given moment. Movement, sound and text, fashion and action, pictures and video, low-fi electronic objects and other gadgets are mixed into hybrid performances. The performance space is playfully re-shaped, creating sensible environments for the body in performance. An appreciation of standstill and pose is cultivated as much as a genuine desire to move.

Any space can become liminal for a certain amount of time. The Liminal Institute was founded in 1998 in Amsterdam by Eva Meyer-Keller, Erik Pold, Martin Butler, Tomas Fredrikson, Adelaide Bentzon, Nicole Beutler, Lito Walkey and Paul Derksen.

According to Mediamatic.net, which is an Amsterdam company. The Girlfriend Experience is only available every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00 pm until 11:00 pm, Amsterdam time, and will conclude on March the ninth 2007.

There are only four people available to become avatars, and they will be able to be observed live at the Analog Villa, which is the Mediamatic Exhibition space in Amsterdam.

The rampant growth of online avatar communities such as Second Life and World of Warcraft has enabled the creation of a personal online social and economic existence. Simultaneously this triggers inherent questions about this existence, as it questions what the consequences will be for first life, or reality.

The title of the project, The Girlfriend Experience, denotes the paradoxical character that online social interaction has. On one hand, the safe anonymity by using the avatar, on the other the intimate releases and projections that can spread easily. For Martin Butler is this the merging of two apparent extremes, anonymity and intimacy, which characterizes an important part of contemporary social traffic. The best paid prostitutes are the ones with whom the client feels as though he is with his girlfriend, or with whom he has a Girlfriend Experience.(quotes form Mediamatic)

I am not certian I will ever be able to make the connection with The Girlfriend Experience, but Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 1:00 pm my time (central time zone) I will make efforts to establish contact with a living avatar, and will let you know the out come.

[addendum] I was able to reach The Girlfriend experience today February 01, 2007. My connection through Skype to Amsterdam was horrible, but I encourage you not to let my connection be a guide for you as my computer is not always performing up to acceptable standards when it come to voice communication. I would hope others would attempt to make a connection with The Girl Friend Experience, and leave a comment about your experience.

I think it was agreed that the young lady I choose will leave a comment on this blog… I say I think because I was barely able to hear her. I did see her writing down, over the web cam, the url for VTOReality.com. (I think)

I would truly like to hear from others who reach The Girl Friend experience and it appears things have slowed down there and it is not so difficult to get through to them.

We all hear of scams taking place online, and I would like to bring to light one I recently have begin encountering. On Jan. 5, 2007, I received an email from some one claiming to be a 27 year old redhead living in Nigeria. Said she was born in Nebraska, but was moved by her mother to Nigeria when her father died… she claimed to be a Dentist there. But she had a deep attraction to me and really wanted to start a conversation to get to know each other better.

Well as previously stated on this blog, I am a sucker for redheads, and started communicating with her. The very first statement to her was, “find it unusual for a 27 year old to have an interest in someone so much older than you. Believe me I am only hoping that you would have an interest, but I really figure I am simply adding an email to a list and will recieve a ton of spam to this account, but decided it was worth taking the risk.” I gave an old yahoo email address.

I hope you can see I was already suspecting something “evil”. She quickly added me to her yahoo messenger, and we had a nice conversation that night… although there was a lot of broken English involved.

Then on the 8th I received “Happy Sunday am looking forward to talk with you …soon” I wasn’t online… nor was I on the 9th, 10th I did leave a message saying I am sorry I missed her. Missed each other again from the 11th through the 15th… each day I left a message saying sorry I missed her. She sent me an email on the 15th. Now remember every message she had left me on IM was in very broken English. here is the email.

Dear Harold,

I don’t know what happened to me whether I was crazy or just lonely, all I know is I was sick of being deceived, mistreated, and unloved. Then you came along… I don’t know why. All I know is that I felt a connection on our first chat, something I had never felt before which at first made me feel uneasy, stupid and even a bit childish, which made me go through all kinds of emotions as we chatted and began finding we had a lot in common. I felt like we had known each other from an unknown past.

At first I was scared and a part of me wanted to ignore and just believe that you were just someone who was playing a game being that we were both behind the screen. I was thinking I was crazy to have the feelings I was beginning to have for you. I was really upset with myself and became very angry with the way I was feeling. I didn’t want to admit to you or anyone else that I was falling for someone I had never actually met. I thought I was becoming insane myself – damn it – I tried to fight these feelings off but they were just too powerful for me to ignore! I tried to convince myself that this can’t be for real; that you couldn’t REALLY be feeling the same as I was… I was going insane!!! No matter how hard I tried – I just could not fight the feelings I was having for you.

I was scared of being disappointed the first time we met, but the magnetism that I was feeling was so strong that I could no longer fight it. Our chats became an good thing and the feelings just would not go away no matter how hard i tried.

when we finally first met I knew then there was no way I could stop from loving you. I thought that if we met, these feelings would just go away, but they didn’t. I tried so hard to convince myself that there is no such thing as true love… but you have made me believe differently.

You have become a part of me that I will always cherish. I love you with all my heart always and forever, You have brought me so much happiness.

Love always,

Anita

attached were these pictures.

Again she left me IMs on Yahoo the 17th, 18th, and 19th. Finally on the 20th we made another connection… shown here.

Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:34:54 PM): i miss you so much am sorry i was not able to come online this morning to day hello to you but am sorry i won’t be able to come online tonight mylove
Harold (1/20/2007 1:35:13 PM): how about now?
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:35:38 PM): am fine am online now it just alittle hard for me to come online tonight co i have little time now that why
Harold (1/20/2007 1:36:03 PM): ok I understand
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:37:54 PM): thanks
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:37:57 PM): so how was your work
Harold (1/20/2007 1:38:33 PM): tis fine, although I do little in the way of work
Harold (1/20/2007 1:38:46 PM): one of the benefits of being an old man
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:39:11 PM): ohh oksy
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:39:14 PM): i wish am there
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:39:19 PM): cos am so lonely now
Harold (1/20/2007 1:39:49 PM): I can not imagine a girl with your beauty ever being lonely
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:40:10 PM): ohh wow well am lonely and never want to move around with any men
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:40:17 PM): so am waiting for the right person
Harold (1/20/2007 1:40:32 PM): do tell me more
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:40:50 PM): ho
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:40:51 PM): how
Harold (1/20/2007 1:41:45 PM): your a dentist…. it takes intellect to become a dentist, I am certain you are capable of understanding the question
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:42:34 PM): thansk harold
Harold (1/20/2007 1:53:09 PM): yes
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:54:24 PM): what you doing now
Harold (1/20/2007 1:54:42 PM): writing an article for a blog
Harold (1/20/2007 1:54:53 PM): what are you doing?
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:55:27 PM): noting
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:55:32 PM): just checking my e-mail
Harold (1/20/2007 1:56:21 PM): I see, so tell me more about why you feel so lonly
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:56:33 PM): hon am so lonely
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:56:44 PM): and i will not be able to come online for about 3 week
Harold (1/20/2007 1:57:10 PM): I see, and why would that be?
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:57:29 PM): but you know i said it cost me to come online to talk wit you hon
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:57:41 PM): and am using my last time to talk with you online now
Harold (1/20/2007 1:58:03 PM): oh, I see
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:58:13 PM): yes hon
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:58:19 PM): and i never want to loss talking to you
Harold (1/20/2007 1:58:27 PM): Well I guess I won’t see you online for a while
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:59:20 PM): yes but hon can you help me alittle
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 1:59:33 PM): so i can be able to pay the cafe man cos i never like to miss talking to you
Harold (1/20/2007 2:00:02 PM): LMAO do you really think I was born yesterday?
Harold (1/20/2007 2:00:17 PM): I knew early on this was a hustle…
Harold (1/20/2007 2:00:32 PM): you are probably not even a female
Harold (1/20/2007 2:00:54 PM): I allowed this to have another article to write on my blog
Harold (1/20/2007 2:01:00 PM): get real!
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 2:02:31 PM): ohh okay
Anita Larry (1/20/2007 2:02:34 PM): anything you say
Harold (1/20/2007 2:02:38 PM): you are trying to take advantage of people’s loneliness… gullibility’s, and desire to find the good in people! You will be exposed! Better find you another name to use, which I know you will do… cause this one will not be of much use to you in the near future

I have given this some thought and wonder how many old fat guys this person has hit up for 20, 50, or 100 Dollars to buy time for her/him to talk online. When would be the time to ask for hospital bills for her/his mother? Maybe finance a trip to the US to meet.

Fraud comes in many forms on the internet, but somehow this person feeding on the lonely, gullible, desperate older men and women, I guess there are plenty younger ones also, particularly disgusting.

I just had to get it off my chest!

We, most of the authors here at VTOR, came into Second Life with the idea MONEY could be made. At that time money could be made by simply camping in camping chairs… not much money nor very fast, but most of us have extra computers sitting around doing nothing, so parking an avatar into a chair and running a script which would keep Linden Lab from logging us out for inactivity would make us a small sum of money each months.

From the original meeting of VTOR (actually VTOR wasn’t started yet, but makes it easier for me to identify the group) we all went in separate directions inside Second Life. My direction was to begin exploring Second Life’s social scene… well simply just to see what I could see. One of the first things I explored was a “nightclub” called The Skydeck” (now exist as the Virgo Nightclub [slurl]) where I met a group of friendly people dancing to music which I liked to listen. Being as I can only make a fool out of myself trying to dance in real life, I enjoyed dancing and meeting people at the club. Enough that every night at the time the club had it event I stopped what ever I was doing and found my way there.

I explored and looked around Second Life with my mouth hanging open… amazed at the builds and ingenuity of the creators and their creativity… and not a clue how they actually did what they did. As I traveled the “world” and looked it over, I came up with an idea I couldn’t find anywhere in Second Life… I was convinced I would get rich not only in Second Life, but also off Second Life in the real world! I would be the next Anche Chung, but alas the platform was not capable of supporting my idea yet… I would have to just get by.

During one of those dances at what is now the Virgo Nightclub I met…OH, what was her name… a redhead that took my virtual breath away! I spoke to her that first meeting, thought she came with a date, but didn’t really attempt to charm her in any way. (actually as I think about it… that was my first time at that club and she was the reason I kept showing up for a while… until I got to know some of the regulars at the club) Later she invited me to see her beach side home, and before I left I had managed to tick her off by generalizing some of the redhead traits. (I truly have a thing about redheads real life/second life doesn’t matter) She thought she would never have much to do with me again. I was totally intoxicated with her perceived charms, and was soon engaged to be partnered in Second Life.

Unlike most of the VTOR group I soon found myself pouring in US dollars into the Second Life economy. I had one of the best “jewelers” build us a custom engagement/wedding ring set, I purchased property to adjoin to her assets in a new sim, and rented the use of a sim and wedding planner for the wedding. I am certain there were other expenses I am not remembering; believe me a marriage in Second Life is an expensive proposition. This marriage lasted less than a month. The grieving period of the very real hurt I experienced lasted longer. In fact she was remarried before my month of grief was over.

I must admit she taught me a lot of “secrets” about Second Life. She showed me where to buy my skin to get rid of the newbie look, took me to the xcite store to purchase my…umm…personal parts, taught me how to map friends, taught me how to fly, and taught me the hard lesson about jealousy in Second Life amongst other things.

To help me with my grief (honest), I went back to the club where I had been so comfortable. The interaction with others at the club kept me in Second Life where I went through a period of mourning. I mourned until meeting a newbie named Rain, who returned the next night as a redhead in a new skin (I didn’t tell her) and a friend arranged for me to meet a friend of hers. That is how I met rosie, a submissive, who was only in Second Life for her friends wedding. I met rosie (notice the small r in the spelling? That shows she is submissive) at a country line dance at the club. She wasn’t wearing a cowboy hat so I gave her one, and ended the evening by inviting her to see where I lived. Before the night was over we had taken a shower together (she was fascinated that I had a shower with running water) and made love. She was such a sexual woman, I was fascinated. Rain, rosie, and I became a threesome and a whole different side of Second Life opened up to me.

Both were sexual and sensual with very liberal thought about behavior in Second Life. I began looking around for some Erotic art, but only found real pictures downloaded from the web. I didn’t want real life porn… I wanted Second Life erotic works, and they weren’t available. I began photographing Rain and rosie, and Rain and rosie (how do I show it was the two in the same pictures and them individually) which was nice but still not what I really wanted. I then downloaded the SL pictures of them and opened photoshop (which I really didn’t know how to use) and began experimenting with filters and such and slowly but surely produced what many consider works of art.

I opened a business selling my images, but it was not very successful. Seems the average people could not understand why I was charging so much when they could get “real pictures” so much cheaper. Despite the fact I spent literally hours and hours on each of my works they expected to get them for 25 to 50 lindens. I was asking for about a US dollar for them, which at the time was around 350 lindens. Do not think I didn’t sell any of them, because I sold maybe a couple hundred over the next eight months, but I still haven’t recovered all my Second Life expenses. I got a lot of traffic people coming to look, but it took a special person to purchase. I heard many visitors praise the work, amazed by the work, send their friends to view the work, but the sales were not covering the tier expenses so I recently shut the doors. (I must remember to change my profile the next time I enter Second Life.)

I had a period of several months where I had some health issues and was unable to sit in a chair. Therefore, I didn’t spend much time inside second life for three or four months. Rain and rosie both have gone on with their lives. Rain is now DJing inside Second Life, and rosie moved in real life and discovered she actually could have an enjoyable real life and is now getting out meeting real people and enjoying a satisfying life out side what she calls “chat”. We still stay in touch.

I have recently began trying to cover live music events which I throughly enjoy, and look around for interesting things to blog about. Hoping to entertain and draw new readers to this blog.

I guess I did a lot over that first year, but I certainly didn’t get rich!

Keiko Takamura

On her myspace site(link) Keiko states she sounds like the unwanted lovechild of Elliott Smith and Lisa Loeb that grew up in a black neighborhood… this should give you some indication of the sense of humor she brings to the stage. If not maybe you should check out keikotakamura.com (link) and the tale of Keiko Takamura, which should bring a smile to the most hardened face, and get a short introduction to Amy Te… Keiko in RL. I truly enjoyed what she has to say about her music.

It’s not about talent or what’s marketable or what could place me in the charts. It’s about expressing myself in the only way I really know how. Otherwise no one would ever know what it is I keep inside. My songs are written when I’m burning to say something, to shout something, to tell somebody something that I couldn’t somehow. Whatever it is, it needs to escape from my lungs.

Her voice was soothing and sensual, a pleasure to listen to as she sang honest emotions which can reach the soul as she strums the acoustic guitar. Keiko seemed to enjoy the crowd and honored their requests, making an enjoyable time for all in attendance.

My next stop on my tour of live performances was Dublin and the Blarney Stone Irish Bar where I arrived just in time to hear Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door. Frogg Marlowe (link) aka Jeremy Works and Jaycatt Nico (link) aka Marc LePine were both supposed to be appearing. I have to admit I didn’t stay very long in that extremely crowded area, but I never saw or heard Jaycatt. I don’t know if he had technical problems or was simply taking a break during the time I was there, but Frogg kept the crowd entertained and hoppin with his blend of Jazz, Folk, and Blues. I regret missing Jaycatt on the piano, yet found Frogg’s guitar, harmonica, and vocals considerably more than adequate and the crowd appeared to love it!

It was about this time I begin trying to teleport over to catch Louis Volare (link) at “Someplace Else” but I couldn’t get into the sim… I kept getting the message the sim is full. Congratulations go out to Louis on totally filling up a sim for his performance. I have seen Louis perform before, on a night the grid went down and the performance started extremely late, over an hour late, and still people were continually showing up for that performance. Sometime it seem as if all the elements line up against me seeing a great performance, but after the performance I sent Louis an IM congratulating him and asking for a personal interview. I will be publishing information about the time I spent with him in the near future.

Kim Seifert at the LILY PAD

When I couldn’t get to “Someplace Else” I popped over to the Lily Pad to give a listen to Kim Seifert. The area I teleported into had a non- functional teleport down to the Lily Pad… I am thinking that would be one of the reasons the crowd was sparse for Kim’s performance of country sounds. Kim has a nice voice which she used to sing over Karaoke style background music. There wasn’t a large crowd, but Kim interacted with those in attendance leaving me scratching my head wondering where all the country music fans were on that Tuesday night.

Bill and Pam Havercamp at THE CAFE

At “The Café” I was able to catch the duo of Bill and Pam Havercamp. This duo works from the stage as if they are live in a small club. The interaction between themselves and the crowd is a talent within itself. I would love to have the words to describe their entertainment value, but I am not gifted with that immense a vocabulary. Suffice it to say their performance goes well beyond the 60’s and 70’s hits they perform.

Greg Colossus on stage at his amphitheatre

When I thought I had reached an end of the Live Music in Second Life that Tuesday night, I stumbled upon Greg Colossus aka Greg Colburn Jr. at the Greg Colossus Amphitheatre an area set up for acoustical music at peak performance.Greg’s performance on this night was superbly relaxing and mellow acoustical music presented in a relaxed professional manner. If you enjoy a laid back mellow time, I highly recommend your finding the time to enjoy his talent!

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It was easy to hear the crowd at the Red Lion having a party good time, sounded much better than that being had in Secondlife.

I was somewhat disappointed in the sound of the simulcast, which could have been better engineered, but I have no Idea just what kind of equipment they had to work with. Despite all of my bitching here… I did enjoy the music and appreciated the effort the band went through to simulcast a live Real life event into Secondlife, and hope more follow the example and bring more outside live performances to Secondlife.

Over all I am very pleased with the performance of the band which was entertaining and pleasurable experience.

Thank you Jack Crowne (Ronnie Carr in SL) and the rest of the band for bring this fest of oldies and goodies to us in Secondlife.

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