Thursday, March 08, 2007 Y
Woked up really early just to attend a story-reading/qustion-answering session on SL with my friend Diana Allandale, who is a real life author named Diana Hunter. She specialised in Errotic romance stories. Some who read my previous post may have already know this. She's my story motivator, idol and mentor(sorta). I was my first time to hear her over the stream reading excerpts and talking more abt herself in RL.Anyway, she read 3 excerpts from her latest book Cabin Fever. It was hot, the way she describes the human anatomy from another's point of view(bth male and female main characters in the story), and how the story began to unfold. She's really good at that. I'm still trying to figure out what she means by "let the characters talk to u"... She did not deliberately keep the suspense up, but it was there, it allows readers or in this case, listeners to want to explore deeper into the story, delve deeper into the writings an descriptions and all...And she doesn't like to plan her story, but write as she goes along. She said it was pointless to write if you already knew what would happen next and what would happen in the end. I absolutely agree with that point. So my current story was from scratch. Zilch drafting of plot and conflict and climax. Nada! One word of this listening experience: INCREDIBLE! ;)After that I attended Paisley Beebe's live concert in, you guessed it, SL. She's a jazz singer in RL, known as Leonie Smith... And I joined her SL Fan club(duh, expected). Lolz...Her voice was sexy and sensual. The 1st time I heard her was in Nantucket in SL. It was also where I metand heard Louis Volare for the first time in SL. Anyway, her 1st performance which I caught, she was doing it with her husband on the guitar. She's an Australian. :)After her concert, I went for Louis Volare(Louis Landon) one in SL... He sang and played something off-hand to test the stream and making sure we heard him. It was good.... Hahas... At first he was suppose to be performing as Luigi Volare(jazz singer. It's the same person, just that Luigi sings and play the piano and Louis plays solo piano only). But he changed last min and presented us with one whole hour of non-stop solo piano pieces and alot of improvs(made off-hand w/o scoresheets or anything planned). The improvs were amazing, so were his solo pieces off his music CD, unwind.I was playing GO(Ghost Online) as I listened to him, making sure i only hear his music and not the game music. Probably cos of this, I got a serious lag in SL. My character couldn't move, couldn't see the chats, couldn't tip Louis for his breath-taking, heart-warming and soul-relieving music... Then he mentioned we could get an autgraphed cd of Unwind if we ordered online from bostonpete.com Lol, I WAN THAT CD FOR SURE! I think I'm gonna convinced my mother, it wasn't hard to so I hope. She listened to his music on the phone and loved his music and recognized him as a talented solo pianist, just like me.If you guys wanna have a taste of Louis' music, just go to CDbaby.com and search for Louis Landon and select the cd Unwind. There's this test-listening, which was abt 30secs to 1min for every song...To hae a taste of what his music is and how inspiring they are. SL is great place to hang out with Diana, Louis, Luigi, Paisley, Heath and other performers on it too. Heath is another real-life performer...known as Heath Vercher in RL. His SL last name was really complicated, so I din really take note. Lol...Even with the stupid lag, I would still play SL and attend every concert as much as I can and as long as I can. Because of them, my holidays at home aren't bored. They fill my vacation and rotting days at home with colours and music and their voices. Great company! :D
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