Come out for a Good Cause
flyer for a fundraising event in Secondlife
This Friday through Sunday there is going to be a fundraising event for the national Alliance on Mental Illness. A friend of mine has been working very hard for the past couple of months to get a sim and schedule of DJs and events together to raise money for this organization. It’s a retro-themed sim and weekend with all sorts of fun events to raise money such as a car wash, kissing booth, burlesque show, photo contest and date auction.
Not only will I be the OPENING DJ, but I am also participating in the car wash, kissing booth and date auction events. So come donate to a great grassroots organization to give me a smooch or see me all wet in a bikini 
Or if you are really looking to have a good time, come buy me for a date! Hahaha.
A schedule of the DJs:
Friday, July 10th:
11am-1pm Gwendolyn Weston
1pm-3pm Xiomara Mendes
3pm-5pm Hodgy Decosta
5pm-7pm Izzy Bereznyak
7pm-9pm Rance Alva
9pm-11pm Clark Bowenford
11pm-1am Chua Gunawan
Saturday July 11th:
1am-3am Deatoris Toll
3am-5am Mzdeedee Dagger
5am-7am Ransom Burckhardt
7am-9am Sean Bernheim
9am-11am Niko Lyle
11am-1pm Therese Slade
1pm-3pm Serotonin Raymaker
3pm-5pm SLag performance (xSaraho Mornington)
5pm-7pm Darn Darwin
7pm-9pm Woodrow Stapleton
9pm-11pm Johnny Barbeque
11pm-1am Solange Simondsen
Sunday July 12th:
1am-3am Katherine Ivory
3am-5am Loonia Loon
5am-7am Kookie Hax
7am-9am Alicia Falworth
9am-11am Astrud Sands
11am-1pm Windsor Lorefield
1pm-3pm Irie Campese
3pm-5pm Date Auction (Samara Cioc )
5pm-7pm OMGWTF Barbeque
7pm-9pm Dance Marathon! (Jasper Haifisch)
9pm-11pm Colleen Lilliehook
11pm-1pm Katelynn Dastardly
Oh yeah – my DJ set is themed – “Surf’s Up!” and will be a lot of fun old surf classics from groups such as the Beach Boys, Dan & Jean and the Surfaris. So come ready to dance and have fun in your best retro surf wear! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Angora/42/141/21 I’m thinking I’ll have the set at the beach location 
To enter the date auction we had to fill out an intimidating notecard. I’ll post what I wrote for your amusement.
Inworld name: Gwendolyn Weston
Attach a photo here:
sitting on a bubble in a club in SL
Gender: [ x ] Female [ ] Male
Offers (x marks the spot):
[ x ] 2 hours
[ ] 4 hours
[ ] spread over 7 calendar days
Plans to offer when auctioned: Bidder’s Choice! Anything your little heart desires. Examples include but are not limited to: a “traditional” SL date, me doing a DJ set for you, exploring sims, discussing politics/education/religion, reading aloud from the dictionary…
Describe yourself in 5 keywords: Sassy, loyal, sensitive, witty, opinionated
In-world famous for: Having orange hair?
What should your bidder know about you: I speak my mind and have a sarcastic and dry sense of humor (how’s that new for SL, right?). I am from the eastern US, I dig indie music and occasionally DJ. I’m not really famous that I know of – though I might be infamous – and I like to hang out and be a dork!
What time are you usually in-world? (SLT please):
6am – 9pm until July 25th, after that it’s up in the air, so schedule a date soon!
I expect to see everyone there and I expect the word to be spread to others as well!
I won’t be seeing you for a long while
Hah, I’ve totally forgotten about this thing, haven’t I? I suppose it’s time to retire it. I don’t plan on DJing much anymore, nor of being on enough to have anything exciting happen. I have some commitments in-world coming up, but after that it’s really a toss up.
A pending move back into the parents’ house (with an increase in RL responsibilities) and another butchered SLove makes me think twice about my SL habits. I’ll try to get back into movies and television – maybe try to actually get into playing my PS3.
See ya around the block, folks. It’s been swell.
Well maybe a landslide will bring you down
Been a while, done a few sets in the time between posts, but not going to post them. Graduated and stuff but there might be something weird happening with my degree audit, so that sucks. Starting the process of packing up my apartment to move back home. Going home Sunday for a couple weeks to visit California with the family then it’ll be back here until July 26th to pack it all up and make the big move once again.
When you are young, 25 seems ancient – like you will have everything all figured out and be settled and happy by then. Then you get here and realize that few things have gone as planned and it’s likely to remain that way for the rest of your life. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be unsettling to think about – especially if you are used to being a naive optimist.
Some days even the most die-hard “chin-uppers” trip over their own feet and are forced to look at the hard ground rushing up to meet them. And sometimes it’s actually a welcome feeling to have the earth securely under and around you, even if it hurts.
Everything else is up in the air for me right now (or everything I’ve ever planned or dreamed has come to a brutal truth), so it somehow feels right and comfortable to be utterly depressed. It will be hard to sleep tonight, and hard to get up in the morning, but I’m sure I’ll do it. What else is there to do when you are stuck hating your life and the alternative, too?
Now some song lyrics.
Hold On ~ Razorlight
Well now you’re here you are in your life
And now you’re finding out why
You’ve got to learn how to fight
Before you learn how to fly
So stick your fist up, prove them wrong,
Don’t lose the words to the song
‘Cause it’s a long way down
I guess you know that by now
But if you hold on
Well, I will hold on too
And if you reach up,
Yeah, I will reach up too
Well now you’re here in your life
It’s such a long way down
Somehow you figure it out
So now you turn it around
But I know
But if you hold on,
Well, I will hold on too
And if you reach up,
Yeah, I will reach up too
Too…too.. too.
And one thing before you go
Just let everyone know
You refuse to regret it
Just like everyone said you would
Just like everyone knew you would
Just say that you can
Sleep at night
Just say that you get nervous
With the struggle you fight
You can’t believe what you’re told and you can’t be alone and you can’t let it go
And you can’t lose control and you know you are not just anyone
No you’re not just anyone
And if you hold on
Well, I will hold on too
And if you reach up… then I will reach up too
And if you hold on… and I will hold on too
And if you reach up…
Country Mile ~ Camera Obscura
Silver Birch against a Swedish sky
The singer in the band made me want to cry
We’re all inside our own heads now
We are leaving new friends
We are leaving this town
I wish you could be here with me
I would show you off like a trophy
The road it winds, it twists, it turns, now my stomach burns
Once again I’ll be the foolish one
Thinking a blink of these lashes would make you come
Don’t you worry, don’t get in a state
I don’t believe in true love anyway
Who’s being pessimistic now
I could document this as our first and our last row
The more you look forlorn, the more to you I warm
I won’t be seeing you for a long while
I hope it’s not as long as a country mile
I feel lost
Milk eyes, what a surprise
Crow’s Foot set from Monday night! It was good, ran over by about 40 minutes because there were still people there and they wanted me to keep going. So I did. It was grand.
Knife Grizzly Bear
War On Machines Blitzen Trapper
Old Old Fashioned Frightened Rabbit
The Book Of Right-On Joanna Newsom
little monsters Charlotte Gainsbourg
The Fall Ane Brun
Take The 227th Exit Papercuts
Sleep Alone Bat For Lashes
Part Like Waves PSAPP
my love the bird and the bee
Loose Ends Imogen Heap
The Sweetest Thing Camera Obscura
Fresh Born Deerhoof
Subotnick Caribou
Back To Black Amy Winehouse
Window Blues Lykke Li
Radio’s Hot Sun, The Handsome Furs
Cedric’s War The Besnard Lakes
Leviathan, Bound Shearwater
Your Rocky Spine Great Lake Swimmers
1940 The Submarines
The Russian The Bees
God? the dodos
Singer Songwriter Okkervil River
Rebel Prince Rufus Wainwright
New Romantic Laura Marling
River Akron Family
Sunrise Yeasayer
Parentheses The Blow
All the Things that Go to Make Heaven and Earth The New Pornographers
Talking With Fireworks/Here, It Never Snowed The Twilight Sad
Shampoo Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Untitled Basia Bulat
Postcards From Italy Beirut
Creature Fear Bon Iver
Amie Damien Rice
A Good Man Is Easy To Kill Beulah
the blues are still blue Belle & Sebastian
send me the pillow that you dream on Charlie Feathers
Grapevine Fires Death Cab For Cutie
And in other news… I am finally having a shindig at my place! Wewt! This Saturday I am having a graduation/housewarming party. Yes, I wanted it to celebrate my new partnership, but he is introverted and does not want to be the center of attention, so I guess I will shoulder the burden of being showered with praise and well-wishes 
invitation to Gwen's party 5-8PM SLT Saturday May 23rd
I can’t see further than my own nose at this moment
OK, yes, I have been terrible about posting in this thing. I just haven’t felt like sitting down and concentrating enough to write. Also, there was the little fact that I was in my last week of classes last week so my job responsibilities were high as well as all my final projects and stuff to do before graduation.
I never walked for undergrad because I was studying abroad, so my mother insisted I did for this one. Which also meant cleaning or her arrival! Ugh. It wasn’t too bad though and we ended up eating out both nights on her money, so yay! Also, the apartment is uberclean now and I basically have a whole lot of NOTHING to do for about a month.
Well, I suppose I could pack, but… yeah right! Anyway, managed to throw a set together for last Monday night at the Crow’s Foot. I hardly remember it at this point, aside that it had a theme where all the artists’ names had animals in them and that I think I didn;t actually play all of them…
One Three Dog Night
Fitz and the Dizzy Spells Andrew Bird
Old Old Fashioned Frightened Rabbit
Cigarettes, Wedding Bands Band of Horses
Bad Woman Arctic Monkeys
I Was Born (A Unicorn) The Unicorns
Back Stabbin’ Betty Cage The Elephant
Fan New Young Pony Club
Pearl’s Dream Bat For Lashes
whats in the middle the bird and the bee
Hourglass The Bees
Bees Caribou
Born To Be Your Man Birdmonster
Dark Horse Bowerbirds
No One Does It Like You (album version) Department Of Eagles
Ragged Wood Fleet Foxes
Strange Lights Deerhunter
Feel Good Inc. gorillaz
Winter the dodos
The Old Days Dr. Dog
The Magic Position Patrick Wolf
It’s A Shame Elefant
A Bit Of Wind The Fruit Bats
Buck And Judy Deerhoof
Knife Grizzly Bear
Fresh Feeling Eels
This Tornado Loves You Neko Case
I’m a Believer The Monkees
2 Atoms In A Molecule Noah & The Whale
January Ravens & Chimes
Paper Lace Swan Lake
Jermyn Girls Yeti
Navy Wives White Rabbits
Happy Together The Turtles
Love is out there waiting somewhere
Oh, this is shaping up to be the best spring in a very long time. On the ride of my life
In other news – watching a documentary about the Dixie Chicks after their “fall from grace” in 2003. It’s painful to watch this because they are the only “country” group I’ve adored. People in the US were so damn stupid for so damn long. >:(
I never even knew exactly what she said and I was apparently “I am ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.” OMFG, I can’t believe they were banned from the radios for years over that stupid comment. GRAH… makes me so mad.
Oh yeah, it’s called “Shut Up & Sing” if you are interested
Keep on rockin’ me, baby
So Monday was May 4th and on that day 39 years ago 4 students were shot and killed by state troopers during an Anti-War demonstration on campus. In semi-honor of that, I decided my Crow’s Foot set would be all classic rock-type stuff. The music roughly spanned the years from 1966-1975 and it was a kick-ass fun set to play!
In other news, not much else to say – the end of the semester is swiftly approaching and I have about a bajillion things to do. My store idea for SL still hasn’t taken off and it seems like a combo of no interest from the public (since shapes seem to be the new fad creation right now), less money being spent on SL, and the summer slump of people beginning early.
There is an already noticeable decrease of attendance at certain venues and times and people are online much more sporadically than they used to be. Happens every summer and it’s interesting to see who sticks it out and returns in the fall.
Crow’s Foot Set May 4, 2009
The Draft Dodger Rag Pete Seeger
Stop, Hey What’s That Sound Buffalo Springfield
Ohio Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) Sly & The Family Stone
Cecilia Simon & Garfunkel
Come Together The Beatles
Born to be wild Steppenwolf
Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Can’t Get Next To You The Temptations
Hooked On A Feeling B.J. Thomas
That’s The Way Love Is Marvin Gaye
One Three Dog Night
In The Year 2525 Zager & Evans
Ramblin’ Man Allman Brothers Band
Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan
Good Morning Starshine Oliver
ABC Jackson 5
Horse With No Name America
Don’t Fear The Reaper Blue Oyster Cult
Sunshine of your Love Cream
My Generation The Who
Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
You Can’t Always Get What You Want Rolling Stones
Rhiannon Fleetwood Mac
American Pie Don Maclean
Jeremiah was a Bullfrog Three Dog Night
Love the One You’re With Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy Blood Sweat & Tears
Hot Child In The City Nick Gilder
Mexicali Blues Grateful Dead
Reelin’ in the Years Steely Dan
Take it Easy Eagles
Back in black
Back from a weekend whirlwind! Went to be in BFFs wedding and it was beautiful and fun and I am soooo happy for her. I am also happy for me because that is the last wedding in the foreseeable future that I will be in. \o/
Also back to the grind at school, though 
I have a so much to do and so little time to do it in. Le sigh. That’s how I like it though because I bring it on myself, hehehe.
Under pressure
Real Life totally sucks and is kicking my ass right now I didn’t do my set at Crow last night thanks to having a big projecty thing due today plus a help session for the students I tutor.
I’m in a wedding this weekend that I have to leave on Thursday to get to and I have a paper due Sunday… sucks major donkey balls.
No jobs, either – so it looks like I will be moving home this summer. *cries* I am so depressed. -_-
Our lips are sealed…
Actually, not anymore because this is a coming out party! No, not in that way, I still enjoy my menfolk – but now I even have gone as far as to start creating pixel men shapes. That’s right! I have just started a business creating male avatar shapes.
No, they aren’t the big, V-shaped, sexy model hunks. Well, not most of them. I try to make them unique and somewhat realistic so that a person with the shape stands out as a unique individual. I have some skinny ones and some chubby ones, some BIG ones and some athletic ones. I even have one that looks like a teenager.
I think the best thing about it is that I get to be creative – I’ve found something else to do with my SL time aside from wander from club to club and moping and chatting. I doubt I will ever make much of anything off the endeavor – newbs don’t want realistic shapes and oldbeesusually have made their own, to which they are attached. However, I hope that with an XStreet presence and a small store in-world I might be able to make enough to recoup the expense of renting the in-world store and maybe pay rent for my SL land.
The store is called .:{OddBallz}:. due to the unique nature of the shapes I am really excited about it right now, but I am sure as the lack of sales starts to wear on me I will eventually not be as excited about it, haha. Oh yes, I also create and sell these things under an alt named Loren LittleBoots. Boy, it’s fun top mess with people as a guy avatar…!
Anyway, the address for the XStreetSL listings is: https://uncensored.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=277114
XStreet automatically tags shapes as having adult content, which I really despise, but oh well…
