YaY for Toxic Waste and Les Crevettes

The event I had anxiously been waiting for is already over for more than a week ... 
but it was awesome ...
My fav band Toxic Waste had one of their tour-gigs in a town close to my home ... and to top the evening, Les Crevettes, another fav band of mine agreed to be supporting act ...
how cool is that ;-)))
I wish the evening could have lasted much longer ... but I must admit that, after it was time to say bye-bye the next day, I felt kinda dead  ... 
Guess at my age I need more than 2 hours of sleep ... *grins*
But I'm pretty sure that I will see both bands again ... sooner or later ... and I'm already looking forward to it !!!
Till then ... and as a thank you to those rocking guys ...
here's my very personal Loony's Toxic Waste - Les Crevettes - Mix
Enjoy

Why ... damn it, WHY ... do I BLOG ?!?

 o.o ... Strawberry Singh is curious again ... ;-)
 

1. How long have you been blogging? Since Oktober 2008
    
2. Why did you start blogging? In the beginning I wanted to show the creations I did for my store 'LoonAtic Wear' .... but as I didn't want it to be a pure 'Shop-Blog', I added pics and thoughts from/about my daily SL-Life and my mood in general ...
    
3. How many times a week do you post an entry? It depends ... there have been times when I did several posts a week ... at the moment I hardly do one post  ... tho I want to post more again, if my RL releases me now and then ;-)
    
4. How many different blogs do you read on a regular basis? There are maybe 10 blogs I really read ... and maybe 20 other blogs that I look at least at the pics ;-) ... I use Google Reader and I'm already afraid of the time when it closes down in July ... I haven't found a satisfying replacement yet ...
    
5. Do you comment on other people’s blogs? I often comment in my head, but then I'm sometimes too shy to really write the comment. So I usually comment only on blogs of friends.
    
6. Do you keep track of how many visitors you have? I use statcounter, but as I don't look at it as often as I used to (it's too depressing to see several days with a ZERO in a row, lol).
    
7. Did you ever regret a post that you wrote? Well ... to be honest ... I once wrote a post when I was very sad and hurt by something that happened in my SL-Life ... but after a few hours  I edited the post to be less personal ... cause it's no use in hurting someone, just because you've been hurt yourself.
    
8. Do you think your readers have a true sense of who you are based on your blog? I don't try to be someone else than I am (apart from the fact that Mayala-me is a pixel character) ... and as I write about my RL sometimes, a reader can get a slight idea of who I am.   
   
   
    
9. Do you blog under your real name? Nope, I blog as Mayala/LoonAtic/Loony ... tho I think I might have mentioned my real first name now and then (at least in some video-clips) ... *grins* 
   
   
    
10. Are there topics that you would never blog about? I usually don't blog about other people (SL/RL) without their permission. I don't blog heavy/too serious stuff ... and I don't blog about fashion ;-p
     
11. What is the theme/topic of your blog? ... well ... I guess I do not really have a theme, it's more a bit of a mess ... I like to post pics I do for challenges like the Colour Challenge, Single Frame Stories, these memes or stuff I see in SL (tho somehow my time gets less there) ... I love to post my silly machinimas (btw. watch out ... another mad machinima coming soon with a mad hellish race ... *grins* ... ) pictures I do with my RL camera and of course I love to post clips from the concerts I've been too in RL like this clip from last weekend, when my absolute favs, the french PunkRock-Band TOXIC WASTE came over for a visit during their tour (I just LOVE them)   
     
12. Do you have more than one blog? If so, why? I actually have 2 more blogs, but both totally neglected ... my pure shop-blog LoonAtic Wear Pure  (but my shop is on hiatus ... and so is that blog) and my RL Photo Blog LoonYpix (I have tons of pics for it, but I'm too lazy to upload them)
     
13. What have you found to be the benefits of blogging? I use the blog as a kind of scrap-book ... and love to look at old blog-entries now and then ;-)
     
14. So, why do you continue to blog? It's fun ... and I like to share pics and clips and nonsense with people I don't even know (well and of course with friends too ;-p ... )

SL Names and a Rocking Week

YaY ... another meme from Strawberry Singh ... a slightly bit easier than last time ;-)

1. What’s your SL name? Mayala Loon

2. What made you choose this name? 'Mayala' sounds close to my RL name (now you can try and guess ;-p ) and 'Loon', well,  prolly because I've always been a bit of a loonatic, so it just fitted.

3. What’s your SL nickname, or what do most people call you? Loony

4. What’s your SL display name? Why do you choose to have one? I don't like display names, so I don't have one ... I like my name ;-)

5. Do you like your SL name? erm ... Yes! (took me ages to choose it ... lol)

6.  If you could change your SL name, what would it be? I wouldn't want any other name

7. What’s the craziest/funniest SL name you’ve ever seen? As a host I get to see a lot of strange and funny names  lie 'TickleMiPickle Sideways', 'Districtanticarnapping' and 'wickramasinghekosala' ... but as a pea brain I unfortunatele forgot most of them ;-(

8. What’s the coolest (your favorite) SL name you’ve ever seen? see above (I'm a very small pea brain)

and as I just don't find enough time for blogging more at the moment, I squeeze in my reason for RL-Happiness into this post ... cause this week just gets ready to become my top week of the year ;-))
2 of my absolut fav bands playing in the same week ... and I'll be there to see them ;-))
Starting tomorrow with 'Les Crevettes' , a local band that I wish had more gigs around here ...
and Friday my absolute favs, the french punkrock group 'Toxic Waste' stopping by on their lil eastern tour. I'm sure we'll have a pretty cool evening and I'm very glad to welcome them as dear guests ;-))

My 10 SL Firsts

kk ... I left out the last 2 memes suggested by Strawberry Singh ... 
- cause I'm not much into social networks (maybe I'm anti-social ... hehe) tho I have a Facebook-Account that I use rather to stay in contact with bands I like and I use Flickr rather to store pics than to interact ...
- cause I think I don't have any peeves (neither pet nor any other) ... I'm a very patient and optimistic person ;-)

but today's theme sent me on a nice memory trip thru a collection of old SL-Snapshots on my extern hd ... and even tho I won't answer all, I'll give it a try ...

not even 30 days old ;-) ...'Camping' on Bali Hai ... hard earned Lindens ... but at least with my selfmade bass

1. First SL Friend: I'm not sure who exactly my first SL-friend was ... I think I met Boss (a nice dutch guy) and Bry (a nice english guy) at almost the same time ... and as far as I remember on the same sim, Bali Hai. Bry unfortunately left SL long ago, Boss is still there and we say hello now and then or meet in RL during a vacation in the Netherlands ... always a pleasure :-))  
2. First SL Kiss: erm ...  no comment /  ... or if you insist ... here's a pic of an SL kiss with Max (my RL hubby) *sniggerz* 
   
        
3. First SLex time/place/partner: OMG good ol' wild days (drools away) ... erm ... no comment ... *grins*
4. First SL Partner/Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Wife/Husband: erm ... no comment / I felt quite close to some people ... most of them left SL quite long ago tho ... I never partnered in SL and I'm pretty sure I never will ;-)
5. First SL Job: dancer at Sanctuary Rock ... I send an application to the club sometime in October 2007 with this pic ;-)
   
   ... and a while after that I started my own shop 'LoonAtic Wear' with renting this cart ;-)

   

   The beginning of LoonAtic Wear ... and Troy,  a very close friend, who supported me a lot :-)

   I had lots of fun creating clothes and nonsense ... but it's on hiatus since more than a year now, exists only on the marketplace with my old stuff and as sponsor at Sanctuary Rock  ... I just don't find the time for it anymore ;-(
6. First SL Creation: I think I started to create within the first week ... spent a lot of time in 'Dreams' a very cool and big public sandbox ... but I don't remember what exactly my first creation was (beside the wooden cube) ... but among my first creations was my hair, nose and belly piercing ... and little devil horns for Bry and me as seen in this pic taken at a club called Little Britain (omg ... look at those textures ... and my amazing photo-shooting skills ... hehe)
   
   ... or one of my first dresses ... I was darn proud of the glimmering and shimmering effect it had when dancing ... too bad you cannot see it in the pic ;-p
   
   
   
7. First Encounter with a Linden: I never talked to a Linden, but I saw some at Sanctuary Rock ... guess they were checking how much lag an average club visitor can bear ;-) ... I even took a pic of the first Linden I saw ... a 'grid-gardener' ... but I think I deleted it as it wasn't that spectecular ;-P
8. First Encounter with a SLebrity: I don't care much about celebrities in any life ... I prolly wouldn't even know if someone is a 'celebrity' in SL. Whatever ...
9. First SL Sim you fell in love with: I don't know if I ever 'fell in love' with a sim (prolly not) ... but the first sims that were important to me were 'Bali Hai' cause it was kinda home for 'homeless me' for quite a long time ... and 'Dreams', the sandbox where I spent so much time creating nonsense ... and I think I let it crash several times with my 'skirt-generator' ... hehe
10. First SL Blog Post: Totally unspectecular ... lol: Welcome on Oct. 15, 2008

Darn Sh.......... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why, damnit, why do they close the services I like ?

I'm not very demanding ... 
when I have something working well for me, I don't need changes, updates, new stuff and whatever shit every few weeks ...
Updating, reinstalling, readjusting ... it's all a PITA

But the worst is taking my beloved stuff, which I got so used to, away from me ...
MSN will close in April ... Scheisse !!!
They say ... use Skype .... so I tried Skype and I think it's crap, well ... at least I don't like it ...
And now I get told that Google Reader closes in July ... Scheisse !!!!
Find something else, they say ... so I looked around for something new ... most of what I found, I didn't like ... and now I tried 'The Old Reader' exported my abos from Google Reader ... imported to 'The Old Reader' and got the message:
 'Thank you for uploading your OPML file. We will soon start importing your subscriptions, which might take up to several hours depending on the amount of feeds you have.

There are 25696 users in the import queue ahead of you.' 
Great !!!
OK, maybe I should have waited some days till the first run is over ... but what I've seen so far doesn't make me happy anyway ....

So  right now I need something to brighten me up, cause I don't want to spend my precious weekend with bad mood ...

Always a nice idea is trying silly stuff ... 

Rudh had found, tried and posted another SquareFace-Icon-Generator ...

I couldn't resist messing with it myself ... 

So here's another SquareFace Loony ;-)

and now I'm kinda blind, cause I looked too long at that page with all it's super bright colours ... got dots dancing in front of my eyes ... 

Guess I better shut down the pc for a while and have dinner ;-)

... and tasty food kinda helps with the mood too ;-p

My 7 SL Facts ... kinda

well ... I saw this on several blogs, like Rudh's, Dondo Dollinger's, Alicia Chenaux's, Deoridhe's, Tymmerie Thorne's ...
but it was started by Strawberry Singh ...

You're supposed 'to share seven facts about your SL avatar or your SLife that may or may not be obvious to all your readers'

O... K ... ........ tho I don't have many readers, I thought 'Let's be a Lemming and try this'

Fact #1
I'm stuck with my first avatar since March 2007 now ... darn ... that's 6 years now ... I'm kinda OLD ..............

Fact #2
There have been several times where I was very close to quitting SL, due to some collisions with RL or rather some RL problems that extended into SL ... or maybe I was just fed up in general, but I guess that's pretty normal
I'm still here .. erm ... there ... erm ... whatever

Fact #3
I don't like shopping ... I'm not even into fashion ... in neither life actually ;-)
I wear the same outfit almost every time I log in ... same skin, same shape, same hair (with changing colour and punky version tho)
So I only shop when I don't have the time or the ability to create stuff for my events at SR or my pics and machinimas.

Fact #4
Even after 6 years in SL I still cannot walk, run fly or drive properly ... I walk into walls, fall from cliffs, run over ppl with all kinds of vehicles, crash planes, hang glider and flying carpets ........ but I swear, I'm not drunk ;-p

Fact #5
I love planning stuff for the place I've rented, but so far I've never completed any of my plans ... ;-)
a few weeks ago I moved to a new place (1024 m2) and a few days ago, I was able to rent the 2 neighbour parcels as well (512 + 1344 m2) ... so I'm proud to have 2880 m2 and 658 prims , beach and water for my silly ideas (YaY ... mirrors of SL, here I come) ... *grins*

Fact #6
I'm not very social ... usually I just stand on my parcel, messing with terraforming (desaster), stuff for pix and clips ... or preparing for my events at SR ... or worse, I just stand around while fighting with blender, gimp or power director or try to do a blog-post ;-)
I'm not into that family / relationship stuff ... and I usually just scratch my head about some dramas that I hear/read of ;-)
Funny enough, I love to host at SR, which includes some talking ...
But beware, when I'm in the right mood, it can be hard to stop my talking nonsense ;-)

Fact #7
Except for my appearance and my ability to fly,dance and teleport ... there's hardly any difference between SL-me and RL-me, I think.
So I see my SL just as a creative add-on to my RL ;-)

(extra fact: ... I'm a bad writer ... or rather no writer at all, please forgive me)

Looooony! Did you oversleep?

that was a message from Than on my facebook account ...

yep ... that's how I prolly looked in RL too this morning ... lol

what a way to start a day after a super short night ... lol
I had set my alarm to 6:03 ... 
and when I woke up and looked at the clock it showed 6:52 ... 
only 8 minutes left till the start of my shift !!!!! DAMN !!!!!!
and I sure didn't want to miss a shift where Sundevildaddy was my DJ ...
so I gotta send big 'THANK YOU's and *HUGS*s to  Micheal Veriander who was already ready hit the stage and cover for me (actually a second time already that day, but that's another story ... hehe), but let me have my event ...
and to Than, who sorted it all out for me ;-))
to my DJ SDD and my dancer Violette, who helped me get into a party I was so not prepared for ...
and to the great crowd at Sanctuary Rock, who rocked with us in a fun party ;-))

And now I'm off to have a serious talk with my alarm clock ... cause tomorrow I sure don't want to oversleep on the first day in my new RL job !!!!!

Single Frame Stories - Block

I think, therefore I am ...
but what am I, who am I, why am I ...
darn ... thinking hurts ............

Check out all those other prompts and cool pics for the Single Frame Stories (blog and flickr) !


The last days I was forced to think about something, to make a decision which quite affects my future (RL) life ...
and tho it was the choice between 2 rather positive possibilities, the  'thinking' made my pea-brain (and my belly) ache ...
Finally, after discussions with friends and family and rather bad sleep, I kicked my butt, pushed away the darn grey block of self-doubt and lack of confidence and made a decision ... maybe for the easier way, but I think it's a good one.

Single Frame Stories - Almost

Almost there ........... aaaahhh noooo ... waiiiiiit ............. !!!!!!

guess that comes  with the age ... tho it started really early with me  ... 
first you forget a lot of more or less important stuff ...
and then you remember it in kinda the wrong moment ;-)
at least I didn't forget the Single Frame Stories this week, tho I'm almost late ...

Talking of age ...
Today Linden Lab reminded me of something I haven't thought of in almost all of the recent years ...
REZDAY ... the 6th !!! ... darn ... now I feel really old ... THANK YOU, LL ... lol
Anyways, I won't let pass by a chance to eat some tasty cake ... nom nom nom ...
So do I have to get ready for the seven-year itch now?

Single Frame Stories - Edge

I should rather be dancing on it ...

I know, I know ... not much of a story ... rather a description of my mood sometimes ...

Besides that ... the preparation of the pic involved lots of edges ... so a whole story in itself, including fight, despair, hope and even a kind of happy end ... 
I messed around in Blender and finally, after several setbacks and quite an amount of time, I managed to create a mesh knife and it's matching textures ... YaY

It's far from perfect, but I think it won't be my last mesh-object.
I'm very grateful for the tutorials I could find on youtube ... and especially on the Machinimatrix-Blog.
Creating the pose was rather edgeless tho ;-)
 
And darn ... now I have even more silly ideas in my pea-brain, not just pics and machinimas ...
Can someone hand me some extra hours every day?

One more Erika & Imdy Reel

 'and now it's tiiiiiime ... for torture' ......

My harddisk is full of snippets and clips of singing DJs ... 
of UC, for example, who is famous for his serenading ;-)
But this time I thought it's time again to do a 
'Best of DJ Erika and DJ Imdy singing' ... 
once more ;-)

captured during several events at Sanctuary Rock in 2012 / 2013
It's always so much fun to have both of them around ... and even more precious, as they aren't my reg DJs anymore, but jump in now and then to cover.

THANK YOU girls! 

... ERIKA and IMDY ... 

you

ROCK

!!!

Enjoy ;-)

Single Frame Stories - Switch

Do not even think of touching it .......

Well ... I'm actually glad there are ppl who still dare to switch me back into good mood when my own natural reset fails ;-)
I just wish I had a better ability to find that switch in some persons too ...

Hey ... I'm early for this weeks prompt 'Switch' for the Single Frame Stories ;-)

Single Frame Stories - Anonymus

Dear Anonyma ... my anonymus love ... bla bla bla ... your everloving Ano Name ........................ !! Shite !!

Writing a letter can be a darn  hard task, anonymus or not ...
and sometimes doing a pic for the Single Frame Stories can be tough too, cause often the story, that formed in my lil brain, just doesn't hop onto the canvas as easy as intended ...
Sorry ...

erm ... when will I find your SFS-pic?

Single Frame Stories - Service

Yep ... this service station must have been from the times, when I was young and they did 'full service' still ... 
says ol' Loony with broken voice, shakes her head as she puts the pic down with a slightly trembling hand ... grabs her rollator and turns to walks off ... 

.............darn ... I should have released the brake ...... 
................ could someone help me up, please .............

Out of Service here, I guess ... 

Good thing with getting old is ... you can still do pics for the Single Frame Stories ... ;-) 
So ...  where is your entry?

Single Frame Stories - Flight

I can assure you, Sir, we always come down ......

well ... she didn't mention how some planes come down, did she? ...........

My last flight was ca. 18 years ago ... it was quite nice, but I prefer to stay on the ground actually ...
On the other hand, I'd really would like to do a flight into space ;-))

Check out all those cool Single Frame Stories on blog or flickr !!! 
or even better ... JOIN the FUN ;-)

Single Frame Stories - Time

I should stop chasing time ... the finish line will wait anyway ....

nope ... it wasn't intended ... but yep ... it kinda matches my relationship with TIME ...
I'm a time management disaster ... I'm usually late with everything ... and therefore often miss a lot ...
This (or rather last) week's prompt for the Single Frame Stories was TIME ... and tho we even had two weeks instead of one ... I didn't make it before the deadline ...
I could blame it on the holidays ... or on extra rehearsals for the 3KS-concert next week ... or on doing a movie-clip instead ... or on not feeling well the last days ... or on the weather ... 
But I actually simply forgot ...
the foggy parts in my brain seem to grow more and more and I forget more and more ...
and along with that I start to stop bothering about time and being in/on time ... 
............ spank me ........ ;-)

552WOCC - Gold

Well ... sometimes I'm just in that kind of mood, you know ....

But after that, I can be just so relaxed ;-)

and check out the other entries to Luna's 52 Weeks Of Colour Challenge ... ;-)

Hallo Winter ;-)

In the late afternoon today I rode my bicycle to the supermarket, which was a tiny bit risky, cause we had winter coming to our part of the country yesterday ... bringing ca. 10-15cm of wonderful fresh snow.
We already had a wonderful sunrise which I enjoyed during my shift, while Imdy played a wonderful slightly mellow set, the day couldn't have started better.
And now there was an amazing sunset ... with a sky something between light blue and kitschig pink, fog raising above the snowcovered fields ... stunning and breathtaking ...
Unfortunately I had only my mobile with me, which only does quite poor pics, but still I had to shoot some.

 

Later I returned home ... frozen feet and fingers, but totally happy ... 
Sometimes I just love to live on the countryside ;-)

Single Frame Stories - Easy

 The way might be not easy , but the goal is ... DIY-Learning a new language ... as fast as possible ... ;-)

YaY ... Easy ... that should be EASY ;-)
erm ... or maybe not ... 
well ... right now my lil pea brain tries to fill up and cope with a new language ... french ... 
cause I would love to talk to my french LoonAtic in french easily, I want to understand the songs of my fav french band 'Toxic Waste'  ... 
and I want to learn it fast, cause if all works out fine, Toxic Waste will stop by for a gig in Koblenz in April 2013 during their short tour thru Belgium, Czech Republic and Germany ...I can hardly wait to meet them guys again and it would be cool to talk to them in FRENCH  ;-)

Here's Toxic Waste playing their song Bricolage Circus at the Hauptquartier in Aachen last year, sorry that my cam totally ruined the sound.


So I got me a soft to learn french on my own ... and I'm glad that nobody can hear me yet, when I try to repeat the exercises ;-)

 While I go back to my lessons now, so I can do a blogpost in french one day;-) ... you can check out all the cool SingleFrameStories entries on blog or flickr!

A bientôt

Single Frame Stories - Humility

Does it really make a difference on the whole ... I mean ... in the END ? ......
erm ... at least in the darn f.... huge number of steps to the light ....................

Weeeellll ... humility ... not an easy one for me, cause I admire and hate humility.
...... and I'm far too lazy to explain why ... spank me ;-)
And because I'm such a lazy butt, I'm glad that my way to the top of my grave will prolly be a lot shorter than the climb of this poor pharao ... and I sure would love to watch the stars, sitting on my tombstone ;-)

But before that, I will watch the other entries for the Single Frame Stories on the blog and on flickr ... and I'm already curious for next week's prompt ....