Girl can rock a pantsuit

No show from me; just so you know,
I'm at a convention tonight!
My slot will be filled by Yoyo
(I know that doesn't sound quite right).
Oh, so be it. I guess. YOLO!
Make sure you tip the club, a'ight?

Fractures - Twisted

This song is oddly addictive and perfect in its injuriously gentle, haunting impact.

Blacker than Black at nine

It's really hard to find movie clips from the movie "2010" on Youtube, now that it's a year that stuff actually happened.

This is an Aeolian harp.

I griped about it last week
But that old complaint is back.
This time, the cat got hairs of white
On all my clothes of black.

The Velvet Darkness: Goth Day celebration all day tomorrow!

"The way is not easy, I know, but I will take you by the hand and lead you through the cruel light into the velvet darkness" Vincent Price in the "Masque of the Red Death"

Tomorrow, Wednesday May 22nd is World Goth Day, a day to celebrate all things dark, dangerous, eerie, melancholy and wicked. Leather and lace and corsets and kohl and tall shiny boots. Come to the Velvet that day and enter the Cruel Garden of Dark Delights where aural roses with many thorns will prick your brain as grown by DJs/goth gardeners Enthropy Panache, Lucretia, Chrisodd, Paradox Messmer and Mallory Cerise from 11am-9pm SLT. Let us seduce you with our schedule for that day's macabre happenings:

11am-1pm: Enthropy Panache
1-3pm: Lucretia1995 (Lucy)
3-5pm: Chirsodd
5-7pm: Paradox Messmer
7-9pm: Mallory Cerise

''..Did I mention I was in love... with you ? / Did I mention you were too ..with me ?''

  Texan duo of  VULGAR FASHION,  recently released their first proper 10 '' e.p. of the same title .
''Krystal Tearz''  is a high class '' sentimental bleeding'' electro pop with the proper tearful lyrics. Bites like a snake and it's extremely painful .. Still one of the best tracks of this year...Keep listening it for days and mostly ..nights. Also at THE VELVET club in SL today between 3 - 5 pm slt among new releases....

Whiter than White at nine

I've got a lot of complaints
But my special one this night
Is how my sweet tuxedo cat
Gets black hairs on my whites.

Filling for YoYo at Seven

Filling in for Yoyo once again;
He promised to come back next week.
These pick-ups, every now and then,
Help keep things fresh, so to speak.

Kanga Roo..

You can blame the '70's music for anything you like. But you can't take out the big true feelings that certain tunes evoke. Being in love,break ups,next morning blackness, painful truths and more. You can't ignore the fact that they offer the ultimate hug of comforting or a pillow to cry on.
I guess that happened to me these days. Feeling comfortable and pretty well balanced,bleeding inside with the songs I'll present you tomorrow at the Velvet. 
This particular BIG STAR song was covered successfully by THIS MORTAL COIL at the '80's.That band was responsible for making me looking more carefully to the '70's side I was ignoring. 
All these and many more will be exposed in my tomorrow Monday set ,3-5 pm slt ,partly confessional,partly suggestive for faster heartbreak healing, set.
I hope you 'll be there to listen some very carefully selected tunes from that era.There will be some '60's and '80's leaks but we are mostly '70's tomorrow.A side of my music taste that you rarely listen there but so significant for me in painful periods of my life....I will be proud to share it with you and be happy to see a lot of you there tomorrow.

Giant Rasta Eyeballs at nine.

They look at you through everywhere
They peer through form and screen.
What do we know about these eyes?
Well, that's yet to be seen....

Rock Drama !

Yes it will be a quite different set. Chrisodd dives through the '70's rock pool,picking some powerful songs about love,desparation,memories,heartaches,sorrow etc. Songs from JOURNEY,BLUE OYSTER CULT,FLEETWOOD MAC, HEART,BRYAN FERRY,LOVE, THE BAND etc..
Mostly classic rock then, with some spicy exceptions. Come down at THE VELVET this Monday ,May 13th from 3-5 pm slt...
Extremely sentimental,be prepared for  wet  eyes and heavy breaths...
 

Covering for Yoyo tonight. We start at seven!

Did you have a good weekend?
This week has just begun.
I had a nice brunch yesterday
And got way too much sun.
(But only on my right arm. Very annoying.)

Freakshow of dreams...

Today comes to Velvet.From 3 to 5 pm slt. A music freakshow that might be painful for the sensitive souls and not at all amusement.But they exist and we honor them through songs and concept works. Go in worlds this Monday and ''live'' with them  for two hours.

O CIRCO

A machinima by Falcao Real of the Circus of Dreams.

Circus of Dreams - Clowns

When I was a kid, I always used to mix up the songs "Be a Clown" with Make Em Laugh. I don't know why, because I never thought clowns were all that funny.

As I've come to discover, I share that sentiment with a great number of people. From Bart Simpson's "Can't sleep. Clown will eat me" to Stephen King's It, clowns are just one of those things that people DON'T LIKE. They're creepy.

And so are spiders.

So, with that in mind, I'd dedicating my hour of our Circus of Dreams to clowns. People hate spiders; people hate clowns. I can live with that.

Oderint dum metuant, I always say. And you will. Oh, yes. You will...

It's all based on a manifesto

If you want to make music, anything is an instrument. You're an instrument yourself: you can clap your hands, slap your belly, whistle, hum, or sing. I'm of the thought that a true musician can find the music in anything.

I know the above video is more a "sourced sound"  video than anything; it's the kind of thing The Art of Noise used to do with their fancy (for the time) Farlight computer.

With that in mind, I've got some tunes\videos here of things that are not usually considered instruments, but being played as such. I also have music made of found sounds.

Or, should I say, I've got some music to share.

Circus of Dreams! May 4th, starting 11 AM (SL)

Roll up to the Big Top at the Velvet on May 4th from 11am SLT when eleven DJs (see schedule, lower right) will play circus-themed songs and clown around in celebration of the "Greatest Show on Virtual Earth".

This is no ordinary circus though, the emphasis is on the surreal, the bizarre and the dreamlike, evoking the origins of the circus as tribute to the sun god Helios by Circe the enchantress.

Join us in the circle as we welcome the summer in Velvet fashion, with great music and spectacle guaranteed!