M is for Myg

Lean in a little closer, Sable wants to tell you something:

DJ keTchUp’s (n)eXt new music hour(s) and DJ Esteban’s Anti-Monday funk at Clockwork have moved to Friday nights! Friday, 6-9 pm SL time, to be specific. That means tonight is the kickoff for their party all fucking weekend extravaganza! And they can’t really call it the Anti-Monday funk, so there’s a contest to come up with a new name. Post your suggestions here in the comments if you want, but if you don’t show up and tell it to either keTchUp or Esteban in person, it won’t be in the running. If yours is picked (and there’s no guarantee they’ll take anyone’s) you will win one of the following fantastic prizes: a new car, a tour of Asia, some L$ more than L$1 and less than L$501, a date with Sable, a kitchen appliance of Professional Quality(tm), or something else entirely. Make sure you come out–you may already have won!

-=Clockwork=-
Schedule as of 1.25.08

Sunday, 6-8 pm
The Mandelbrot Set with dj Xaxoqual
IDM, ambient dance tracks, hooky breakbeats

Tuesday, 6-8 pm
TMI Tuesdays with JellyBean and HawksRock
Rock music laced with conversation you won’t believe

Wednesday, 6-8 pm
This Ain’t No Trainwreck
dj Garrett gets it in the groove and works it

Thursday, 6-8 pm
Danceteria w/dj Gorgeous Guen
a club mix to start your weekend on the right day

Friday, 6-8 pm
(n)eXt w/ dj keTchUp
two hours of mostly new music–indie rock and club tracks

Friday, 8-9 pm
[your contest-winning name could be here]
dj Esteban digs deep into funklore and unearths the mothership connection, shake your rump!

This has been an official Burgess Advertisement for Clockwork.

Well, it seems like about time for me to post another mix! This one is from this Sunday, and its very much an ambient-ish set, but not beatless (hence the title). Well..I don’t have much to say about it really…aside from the fact that I’m quite happy with the turnout and I hope you all will enjoy it!

The Mandelbrot Set - Jan 20/08 - Click to Play or Right Click/Save Link As To Download

Tracklisting:

Al Usher - Here Today
Closer Musik - One Two Three No Gravity (Ewan Pearson’s 2004 Remix)
christ. - Breathe Between Sleep
Slowdive - Missing You
Autechre - Basscadubmx
The Field - The Deal
Bola - Squib (Nuclear)
Dropshadow Disease - Fototienda (Plaid Remix)
The Knife - Marble House (Booka Shade Remix)
Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe
Lawrence - Pond

Alex started his semester today. It’s his final semester of classes. WooT!

I’ve been sick so I’ve got nothing for posts. Sorry gang. I must have got it from Gorgeous Guen!

I have been playing around with this Flock web browser. It lets me do some cool blogging tricks like blog from the browser (as opposed to the Wordpress dashboard) and drop/drag images or text in from anywhere. Flock calls itself a social web browser. What the hell does that mean? Whatever, I am not terribly web 2.0 social these days but I do like the flickr feature that displays new media from my contacts in a media bar over the browser window. It’s a little cluttered but fun.

Anyways, we had fun at ye olde Clockwork last night. dj kEtcHup spun a mix of old and new rock gems, and then EsteHulk turned the funk up to 11 in honor of MLK day.

It was all fun and games until somebody broke out the suitcase nuke. Then it was fun, games, slagging on the Monte Cristo and gagging on virtual toxic flames.

Does Monday get any better than this?

Stay tuned for another Mandelbrot Set podcast, stat.

Blogged with Flock

Last night was the first of the newly minted TMI Tuesdays at Clockwork with Jelly and Hawks. The music was, as always, bangin’ and that’s not the only thing.

Luckily it was a rather intimate evening, because the shit that went down was truly not for public consumption. Let’s just say Alex and I got a lively education regarding the latest poseballs for lovers.

Jellybean and Hawks said that they noticed Alex and I acting a lot more, er, lovey dovey and stuff, I guess since he popped the question and all. Alex took the above pic unprompted by me, so maybe there’s something to that.

There has been some real RL stuff going down between us. Not bad stuff, but not easy stuff. So I think maybe we are a little more on each others’ minds. And I’m glad. He makes me feel all sorts of tingly, like a girl with a crush again.

Now for poseball shopping…

Hulk make diary again for friends.

Hulk not do much this week. Hulk dance at Clockwork, like DJ friends puny human Garrett and nice lady bird person Xax!. Also, Hulk party with Morriseys! Hulk shop for new purple shorts, but not find any. Hulk mad. Hulk work to get skin color just right, but is hard. Hulk need friend make skin for Hulk. Hulk not sleep one night, hang out with friend cranach in Hulk apartment.

Hulk happy. Hulk find new funk at old record shop. Hulk clean with special Hulk mix of water, alcohol, and dishwashing soap. Hulk not have time to make mp3’s yet, though. Hard to use puny human turntable with big hulk hands.

All Hulk friends come to Clockwork tonight to hear funk music play Hulk! Also, Hulk friends hear loud music play Hulk friend DJ keTchUp. Hulk say time is 6 to 9 SLT! Hulk say w00t w00t! Hulk play all kinds funky music. Hulk play latest hits and old school! Hulk play funk from whole world, even play German funk tonight.

Hulk angry. Who give Hulk wound? Hulk find. Hulk smash! Why not regenerate? Hulk not go to doctor! Hulk not like doctor!

It was a Thursday night at Clockwork, like any other. Gorgeous Guenevere was spinning. The regulars were bullshitting. All was well.

But then trouble showed up. Or should I say, Sable.

I don’t know if it was the skin, the hair, the eyes. Odds are high it was that red dress. Or maybe it was simply the way she sauntered into the bar, quietly, and just started to animate those fine pixels of hers.

But after nearly a year of admiring her from afar, coveting her skin and hair and clothes, building with her, and being her girl pal, I was inspired.

“Sable, let’s make out!”

“Okay!”

“OMG” said Alex.

“Dude take pictures…” said Wrath.

All it takes is a little girl to girl spit swap to make the boys lose their shit. Not moments later, Burgess was brandishing not one but two Glocks, and Wrath was laying in a pool of blood.

It all happened so fast, all I could think to myself was,

“Did Second Life make me gay?”

Maybe it was Sable? Or was it a combination of things?

We danced.

Then I heard his voice. “Myg?”

“You still need me…” he said. “I can take out the garbage.”

“I can do that,” Sable said.

“I’ll clean the cat box.” Now he was talking. “I’ll clean the gutters.”

“I don’t like heights,” Sable said. “Maybe we do need him.”

This is a two hour set and I probably should have broken it up into a couple of sections, but oh well. It should stream fine, and if you’re downloading, I hope your connection is fast and smooth. Some weeks, there is just so much I want to get out because there is that much great new music—and I know there’s a terabyte of even fresher sounds coming down the tubes.

If you like what you hear, please buy some music to help support the artists. I think our entire system of “support” for the arts is fucked, but until some unlikely sweeping changes occur, I am a staunch centrist on the music downloading issue. What this means—and this is by no means a legal argument–is that I think the record companies and artists should stfu and not prosecute people who download music even though they have legal standing. It’s just smart business in the long run. In return, people who listen to music should realize that they are participating in a cultural community and whether or not they also make music themselves, they need to do things to support that community. Really support it. This means if you download even one song for free, I believe you should be putting a lot more than the $0.99 iTunes or $0.33 eMusic value back into the community. How do you do that?

1. Buy some music. Duh. Get an eMusic subscription. Support Bleep. Support CD Baby and AmpCamp. Support your local mom and pop store—those people are music geeks just like the rest of us and they run those places because of love and obsession, not to maximize profits for shareholders.

2. Go see live music, especially small venues. Buy music and t-shirts directly from the bands, even if they were mediocre. Doing this keeps them in peanut butter and socks.

3. Tell all your friends about the great bands you discover.

4. Lather, rinse, repeat.

If you download more than one song, you should think about supporting the music and arts community in the following ways: Booking bands to play local venues (your party at your mom’s house, rent the American Legion Hall, help bring good bands to the local dive bar); when small touring acts come through town, make sure they have a place to sleep (your apartment floor is way better than the van, and partying with the band rules); or start an indie label, a promotions company, or write a music blog—do anything that churns the butter and gets people excited. If you do these things, you’re putting back just a bit of what you owe.

What does this mean for Second Life? Same thing. Do it all in both places. No slacking, we’re all in this together and life is better with art.

Here’s Monday’s set. Click the arrow to stream or right click and “save link as” to download:

(n)eXt podcast from 7 January 2008 (Please pardon the glitch in the first few seconds, argh!)

This week we rocked out to:

Aidan John Moffat – Nothing in Common/Hopelessly Devoted
Caribou – Irene
Maps – Stay Another Day
Rogue Wave – Chicago X 12
Illinois – One on One
Artiste Inconnu – Piste 9
The Bell – Do You Know How to Feel
Shout Out Louds – You are Dreaming
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Bishop Allen – Rain
Tall Firs – Hairdo
Modest Mouse – Dashboard
The Editors – The Racing Rats
Maybe Smith – Open War
British Sea Power – Waving Flags
The New Pornographers – All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth
Charlotte Hatherly – Very Young
The Wombats – Backfire at the Disco
The Fiery Furnaces – Ex-Guru
The Who – Baba O’Riley (RAC Edit)
Calvin Harris – Acceptable in the 80s
Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
Siobhan Donaghy – Ghosts
Burial – Ghost Hardware
Studio – West Side
Block Party vs. The Cure – A Forest Prayer
One Republic vs. Bronski Beat – Small Town Apology
Sally Shapiro – He Keeps Me Alive
Ween – Your Party
Simian Mobile Disco – 3 Pin Dip
Kutiman – Bango Fields

Have you heard the ladybird sing? Xaxoqual Mandelbrot spins the best electronic brain dance music in all of SL. You can hear her Sunday nights at Clockwork. She’s graciously agreed to occasionally post some sets here, so keep a watch and when you see it, treat yourself to a nice long listen!