Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Furry Fashion Clubs


Club Cutlass


WED: Queens and Kings ---- Jenni
FRI: Really Red -------------
SAT: 70's Night/RFL Club Crawl -------------6-8PM
Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

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The Happy Vixen

Tuesday
4-6PM
"Silver and Gold"

DJ Geerkil, 250L on the board
Party starts at 4 pm SLT and ends at 6 pm SLT with voting at 5:45 pm SLT.
"Ooooooo ... shiny!"

6-8PM
"Heroes and Villains"

DJ Snowbuns,  250L on board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"The good, the bad, but no ugly."

Thursday
6-8 pm SLT
"Fashion Diva"

DJ Serenity, 250 L on the board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"The Devil may wear Prada, but the angels have Brandi's Panties."

8-10 pm
"Fandoms".
A tribute to fandoms involving costumes, from Trekkies, to Renfaire enthusiasts, to historical battle reenactors.
DJ Snowbuns, $250 L on the board
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and ends at 10 pm SLT with voting at 9:45 pm SLT.
"Why do the red shirts always come with burn marks?

Saturday - Special Event
4-6PM
RFL Club Crawl
DJ Snowbuns - no contest

Sunday - Special Event
4-6PM
RFL Club Crawl
DJ Snowbuns - no contest

Monday
8pm SLT to ???
"Spinnin the best EDM tracks ever recorded. So come on down and join in the party!!!!!!! there may be a few hidden gems mixed in  the set as well but you wont know unless you are here!!!!!!!"
DJ Khyra "The Dazzlecat DJ"

Theme: Come As You Are
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and goes on to 9PM or longer.
250 L on board

Purrfection Estates (236, 219, 24)  

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 Xanadu Classic Rock Club

 IM Perri Prinz or RECoyote Mindes for details on upcoming events.

Sunday, 7-9PM, DJ Christine

Wednesday, 8-10PM:DJ Snowbuns

HV Community (67/207/4051)

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Furry Fashion

Monday - No Planned Events

Tuesday - Hip-Hop - DJ Char, 6-8PM

Wednesday - Leather, Latex, and Lace - DJ Alexi, 6-8PM

Thursday - Scalies - DJ Alexiel, 6-8PM

Friday - Robots - DJ Klo, 3-5PM

Hats and Headgear - DJ Klo, 6-8PM

Saturday - Hippies vs Hipsters - DJ Moff, 3-5PM

Nocturnal - DJ Scratch, 6-8PM

Sunday - Cyber - DJ Cyfir, 3-5PM

Wings/Flightc - DJ Fort, 6-8PM

Furry (159, 200, 113)

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The Gathering Oak

Time and DJ: TBA

Sunny Beach, (173, 135, 24)


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Sunweaver Hangouts

The Goblin Cave

The Cave has no regular events, yet, but has a number of games, including SLopoly, Greedy, and Cards Against Humanity, and broadcasts Farshore Radio 24/7. IM Cynthia Farshore for details.

Pacific Waters (185, 178, 31)

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Furry Fashion Clubs


Club Cutlass


WED: Best In 'P' ------- Jenni
FRI: Gone Green -----
SAT: Fantasy Night --
6-8PM
Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

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The Happy Vixen

Tuesday
4-6PM
"Easter Redux"

DJ Geerkil, 250L on the board
Party starts at 4 pm SLT and ends at 6 pm SLT with voting at 5:45 pm SLT.
"Last one in is a rotten egg"

6-8PM
"Badass in Black"

DJ Tantari ("Badass in Black" track),  250L on board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"Why badass? It sounded better than goodhorse."

Thursday
6-8 pm SLT
"Hospital Hijinks"

DJ Serenity, 250 L on the board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"The doctor will do you now."

8-10 pm
"Horse and Pony".

DJ Snowbuns, $250 L on the board
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and ends at 10 pm SLT with voting at 9:45 pm SLT.
"Don't be a neigh-sayer."

Monday
7pm SLT to ???
"Spinnin the best EDM tracks ever recorded. So come on down and join in the party!!!!!!! there may be a few hidden gems mixed in  the set as well but you wont know unless you are here!!!!!!!"
DJ Khyra "The Dazzlecat DJ"

Theme: Come As You Are
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and goes on to 9PM or longer.
250 L on board

Purrfection Estates (236, 219, 24)  

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 Xanadu Classic Rock Club

 IM Perri Prinz or RECoyote Mindes for details on upcoming events.

Sunday, 7-9PM, DJ Christine

Wednesday, 8-10PM:DJ Snowbuns

HV Community (67/207/4051)

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Furry Fashion

Monday - No Planned Events

Tuesday - Science Fiction - DJ Char, 6-8PM

Wednesday - Tinies and Chibis - DJ Becky N, 6-8PM

Thursday - Monsters - DJ Alexiel, 6-8PM

Friday - Hybrids - DJ Klo, 3-5PM

Blue and Yellow - DJ Klo, 6-8PM

Saturday - Felines (Cave Lion release party) - DJ Moff, 3-5PM

Disco - DJ Scratch, 6-8PM

Sunday - Zombies vs Survivors - DJ Cyfir, 3-5PM

Green/Celtic - DJ Fort, 6-8PM

Furry (159, 200, 113)

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The Gathering Oak

Monday 6-8PM
DJ Perri

Sunny Beach, (173, 135, 24)


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Sunweaver Hangouts

The Goblin Cave

The Cave has no regular events, yet, but has a number of games, including SLopoly, Greedy, and Cards Against Humanity, and broadcasts Farshore Radio 24/7. IM Cynthia Farshore for details.

Pacific Waters (185, 178, 31)

Friday, April 14, 2017

Reader Submitted: Xanadu's "Fallout" Party


By Perri Prinz

I didn't take any pictures at (Sunday) night's show at Xanadu, because I was too involved in it to be doing anything else but running it, but I thought I ought to write something about it, because it was actually a somewhat unusual thing to do in a Second Life club, and some people might wonder why I'd want to do it, given my known disdain for violent video games. So I imagine it probably drew more than a few double takes when I announced I was thinking of doing a Fallout event.

Actually, I know very little about the game, except that RECoyote was playing it in his every spare moment last year while he was staying at my house for convention season. And it was at that point that I experienced this strange sensation of playing old records, as I tend to do, and having someone exclaim excitedly, “I know that song from Fallout.”

As it happened, last week after my show at Gathering Oak, a friend stopped by and started talking about old artists she'd become interested in because of Fallout, and I pretty much spent the rest of the night playing records for her by those artists.

And I thought, this is a pretty wonderful thing, because the majority of the recordings used in Fallout come from a somewhat lost period in music history, between the Swing and Rock and Roll eras – the transitional era, you might say, which has never before experienced any kind of major revival. So previously this era was only known to aficionados of Jazz and Blues. But a lot of my favorite music comes from this era, and if it's now enjoying something of a revival because of this game, it's something I should take an interest in.

As a DJ, over the last couple of decades, I've been rather shy about playing this music publicly, because I had no reason to think anyone would know it or have any interest in it. Let's face it. It's all pretty far removed from any kind of music that's currently popular today. And the idea that I could get away with doing an entire event of this kind of music at Sunweavers didn't seem plausible. A Classic Rock show would fly. Even a 50's Rock and Roll event would be a possibility. But to reach back further than that would be getting beyond the life experience of the audience.

So, what I normally do is incorporate one or two especially interesting or funny songs from this period into a mixed program. But the idea of actually focusing on the era just didn't seem like it would be any kind of draw. But Fallout, as far as I know, is a pretty popular game that has reached a massive audience. And in doing so has rekindled interest in groups like The Ink Spots. On my most adventurous day I would never have thought of including an Ink Spots tune into one of my sets.

So I was curious to find out just what kind of impact this game is having on young people and their perception of music. Are they really hearing something in this old music they like? And, most importantly, is this altering the situation as to what is acceptable to play in public in modern times?

So I did a bit of research into just what music was in Fallout and how it was used. And it turned out, with only a few exceptions, this was music I already had in my collection. The main thing I needed to acquire was recordings of the DJ who plays the music in the game. Then I had to think of other tunes from that era that would fit into the theme of Post Apocalyptic Swing, or Violent Video Game Bop. And there were several that came to mind right away. And I was able to put this all together into an extended presentation of the “Diamond City Radio” station in the game.

Then I needed to adjust the décor of the club, getting rid of all the Classic Rock decorations and keeping everything to that early 50's art-deco look, which my club was built in anyway. The only problem was getting the post apocalyptic feel of the game. RECoyote thought we should litter the floor with dead bodies. And if he'd wanted to take a hand in it I'd have let him do that, because he knows the game. I don't. But in the end the best I could do was throw some Fallout posters on the walls and sprinkle a layer of dirt over the dance floor.

All in all I worked harder on this experimental event than I have on any other event. And it did draw a respectable crowd, none of whom complained about the music not being up to date. Though they didn't say anything positive about it, either. I got no input at all on how effective my presentation was, at least not as far as the audio program went. Though I did get some compliments on the décor, as it is not very often a club in SL will refit it's entire décor scheme for a single event. But that is one of the things I want folks to find remarkable about Xanadu, the fact that we will go those extra 9 yards to make and event a show, rather than just an excuse to hang out.

But honestly I can understand why other clubs don't go as far as I do. It is a hell of a lot of work for very little reward. So if I was looking to be rewarded I wouldn't do it either, but as an experiment to see what flies and what doesn't, it's worth it just for the experience.

So, I guess after all that you might wonder if I learned anything from all this. And I guess what I learned is that I probably owe this video game that I don't play a good deal for my success as an SL DJ. If not for Fallout I expect I would get a lot more comments to the effect of “What the heck are you playing?”

Of course, what would really make the experience for me would be to have a lot of young people asking me about the artists and their histories. It would be great if video games were to generate a general nostalgia craze like we had in the 70's where there were always four kids in any class who could recite a Marx Brothers routine from memory. Indeed, it would be great if the Fallout series was to grow beyond the obligatory violence of a modern video game and put an even heavier focus on retro culture.

Because, let's face it, culturally, we might as well be living in a post apocalyptic world. We're just sifting around in the ruins of the good stuff that used to be, looking for pieces of something retro to make something good out of, resulting in things like Electro Swing, which I like, but not enough to get really excited about it.

There's just something vibrant and alive about the original stuff that you don't get from anything new, even when the old stuff is coming at you off a scratchy 78. Also, it has a sense of history to it. It all comes from another time that very few people are left alive to tell you about. Essentially a different world. Thus it's more fascinating to the upcoming generation, unlike to my generation who saw it as their parents' music, and therefore something to be rebelled against.

Anyway, it just pleases me no end to hear a young person say they're going to download anything they can find by the likes of Phil Harris or Danny Kaye. How long can it be before they discover what those people did in movies and radio, and they become aware of comedy that doesn't need to be shocking to be funny. If I knew stuff like that was going to happen, I'd have reason to look forward to the future.

I have to say, the event left me on a high I haven't come down off of yet, because I've always loved that music. And it was a real thrill to have an excuse to throw a spotlight on it.

Pictures by Bixyl Shuftan

Perri Prinz

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Furry Fashion Clubs


Club Cutlass


WED: Best In 'O' ------- Jenni
FRI: Gettin' Silly -------
SAT: Easter -------------

6-8PM
Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

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The Happy Vixen

Tuesday
4-6PM
"Topless Tuesday"

Today at the Happy Vixen, it's a day to feel the breeze as we have out "Topless Tuesday." So you ladies are free to go shirtless, and watch the guys make complete boobs out of themselves. So come on over and "let it all hang out."

DJ Geerkil, 250L on the board
Party starts at 4 pm SLT and ends at 6 pm SLT with voting at 5:45 pm SLT.
"There's something I need to get off my chest"

6-8PM
"Spies and Secret Agents"

 At the Happy Vixen, it's our tribute to James Bond, Maxwell Smart, and other secret agents, as we hold our "spies and secret agents" event. Dress up as your favorite agent/spy, favorite mastermind or henchman, just wear a tuxedo and say you are one, or just go as one of the "bikini babes" that such films are full of. It's no secret we'll have a great time. So head on over before this message self destru-

DJ Tantari ("Spies Like Us" track),  250L on board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"Shaken, not stirred."

Thursday
6-8 pm SLT
"Sharknado!"

The weather forcasts calls for a freak storm at the Happy Vixen. But this isn't just any storm, it's a "Sharknado!" But don't panic *too* much as the two-legged variety came to dance, not chow down on "long pig." Dress up in a shark avatar, a raincoat, some other sea gear, have a wearable pet fish, or have a weapon handy (but on your belt or back) in case any run-of-the-mill hungry shark shows up. So come on out of the water, and be careful about what you borrow money from.

DJ Serenity, 250 L on the board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"We're gonna need a bigger club."

8-10 pm
"Naked Night"

 Tonight is when we at the Happy Vixen have nothing to hide as we hold our "Naked Night." Show up with what Mother Nature (or the avatar designer) gave you. Please no sharp objects and refrain from any paintball or dodgeball matches. Getting hit in a sensitive place would be just un"bare"able.

DJ Snowbuns, $250 L on the board
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and ends at 10 pm SLT with voting at 9:45 pm SLT.
"Bare essentials."

Monday
7pm SLT to ???
"Spinnin the best EDM tracks ever recorded. So come on down and join in the party!!!!!!! there may be a few hidden gems mixed in  the set as well but you wont know unless you are here!!!!!!!"
DJ Khyra "The Dazzlecat DJ"

Theme: Come As You Are
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and goes on to 9PM or longer.
250 L on board

Purrfection Estates (236, 219, 24)  

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 Xanadu Classic Rock Club

The Vinyl will soon have a regular schedule.  IM Perri Prinz or RECoyote Mindes for details.

Sunday, 7-9PM, DJ Christine

Wednesday, 8-10PM:DJ Snowbuns

HV Community (67/207/4051)

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Furry Fashion

Monday - No Planned Events

Tuesday - Nightwear - DJ Char, 6-8PM

Wednesday - Ferals (Wolf Avatar Update) - DJ Moni, 6-8PM

Thursday - RPGs - DJ Alexiel, 6-8PM

Friday - Domestic Animals - DJ Klo, 3-5PM

Under the Sea - DJ Klo, 6-8PM

Saturday - 80s and 90s - DJ Bengt, 3-5PM

Disco - DJ Scratch, 6-8PM

Sunday - Fantasy- DJ Cyfir, 3-5PM

Small Animals - DJ Fort, 6-8PM

Furry (159, 200, 113)

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The Gathering Oak

Monday 6-8PM
DJ Perri

Sunny Beach, (173, 135, 24)


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Sunweaver Hangouts

The Goblin Cave

The Cave has no regular events, yet, but has a number of games, including SLopoly, Greedy, and Cards Against Humanity, and broadcasts Farshore Radio 24/7. IM Cynthia Farshore for details.

Pacific Waters (185, 178, 31)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Furry Fashion Clubs


Club Cutlass


WED: Best In 'N' ------- Jenni
FRI: Leather and Lace --
SAT: Red and White ------
6-8PM
Sunweaver Bay (114/117/757).

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The Happy Vixen

Tuesday
4-6PM
"Wizard of Oz"
DJ Geerkil, 250L on the board
Party starts at 4 pm SLT and ends at 6 pm SLT with voting at 5:45 pm SLT.
"Off to see the Wizard ..."

6-8PM
"Blue"
DJ Tantari ("Wolf" track),  250L on board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"Feelin' the blues."

Thursday
6-8 pm SLT
"Rave"
DJ Serenity, 250 L on the board
Party starts at 6 pm SLT and ends at 8 pm SLT with voting at 7:45 pm SLT.
"Quoth the ravin'"

8-10 pm
"Alice in Wonderland"
DJ Snowbuns, $250 L on the board
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and ends at 10 pm SLT with voting at 9:45 pm SLT.
"Down the rabbit hole."

Monday
7pm SLT to ???
"Spinnin the best EDM tracks ever recorded. So come on down and join in the party!!!!!!! there may be a few hidden gems mixed in  the set as well but you wont know unless you are here!!!!!!!"
DJ Khyra "The Dazzlecat DJ"

Theme: Come As You Are
Party starts at 8 pm SLT and goes on to 9PM or longer.
250 L on board

Purrfection Estates (236, 219, 24)  

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 Xanadu Classic Rock Club

The Vinyl will soon have a regular schedule.  IM Perri Prinz or RECoyote Mindes for details.

Sunday, 7-9PM, DJ Christine

Wednesday, 8-10PM:DJ Snowbuns

HV Community (67/207/4051)

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Furry Fashion

Monday - No Planned Events

Tuesday - Rave - DJ Char, 6-8PM

Wednesday - Steampunk - DJ Becky N, 6-8PM

Thursday - Barely There - DJ Alexiel, 6-8PM

Friday - Hawaiian Luau - DJ Neox, 3-5PM

Music - DJ Klo, 6-8PM

Saturday - Safari(Gorillaz) - DJ Bengt, 3-5PM

Food Fight - DJ Scratch, 6-8PM

Sunday - Goth- DJ Cyfir, 3-5PM

Alice in Wonderland - DJ Fort, 6-8PM

Furry (159, 200, 113)

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The Gathering Oak

Monday 6-8PM
DJ Perri

Sunny Beach, (173, 135, 24)


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Sunweaver Hangouts

The Goblin Cave

The Cave has no regular events, yet, but has a number of games, including SLopoly, Greedy, and Cards Against Humanity, and broadcasts Farshore Radio 24/7. IM Cynthia Farshore for details.

Pacific Waters (185, 178, 31)