Clubs and Events

Today I went back to Apfelland Nachtleben to do some more research on how it works and to ask some people why they come here and what they like. I know why I like it, I can actually get on there with no problems and I like the music played. This club has two rooms and is fairly big, one room plays always techno and dance, trance etc all day and night, the other one is more commercial and plays a lot more chart songs. When I went in there today I could hear Pink singing ‘Dear Mr President’, a song I liked so I stayed to listen to it and have a little boogie while I was trying and find events. I was not able to find any before, as the option for some reason was not available. Whenever before I tried to find and search for events it didn’t come up with any. But now I can actually see what is going on in Second Life. Which makes me happy. I had to stop what I was doing as I was logged out again, so I just logged back in and continued my search. I found a few events which sounded like fun but sadly I knew I couldn’t visit them, as I would not be able to be online at the time they were on. So I looked for ones which I could attend, there were a few and I set a reminder for them, so I would know when they started and that I then could teleport myself there. Well hopefully that would work.
After I set a reminder to a small gig, I found was on in 20min time, I kept looking around a bit more, wandering around, the club. I found tip jars all around the club, for the DJ, for the owner and so forth. As this nightclub was free I guessed that at least this way they would make some sort of money. One jar had around 200 Linden dollars in it, the other ones were not as full but all in all there must have been about 500 till 700 linden dollars in all of them together. I thought that this was not really that much, but then I didn’t know when they would be emptied and how often.
The guy I asked about them, said he didn’t know and walked off, probably thinking I was a bit odd asking these questions.
I went to two other clubs to see what they were like. Both of them were free to enter. One of them was playing country music( the one I had been before) which looked like an old barn, and the other one was a mirror of the one in Apfelland, only smaller.
As I don’t really have any money I am only able to get myself to clubs which are free, which is a shame but then there are quiet a few. Although they are hard to find if you don’t know where to go, and no one tells you where you should go. As a newbie you would not be able to just find them.
After all this I was reminded of the event I wanted to see. I didn’t have a clue what to expect to be honest and when I got to the island, there weren’t that many people there. There was a small stage with a mic, but as it was not time yet there was nothing on.
I found myself a spot in the back and waited for something to happen. Someone did come up on the stage and started something. I pressed play to be able to hear what was happening but there was no sound whatsoever. I logged myself in and out again, maybe it was a technical error again and I thought that I might be able to hear what was going on, but no such luck even the second time around. I could hear nothing and didn’t know what was going on. So I decided to play a kind of fruitmachine in the corner instead. It was for free during the gig which was good. I didn’t really understand the game which was a sort of bingo/fruitmaching, it didn’t make sense but I played it anyway.
After I got bored of that I wanted to go to another event I had a reminder for but I wasn’t able to teleport myself to that spot, which I was not very happy about.
I did then got an IM from one of my friends, he asked me how I was and what I was doing. I told him where I was and what I was doing and asked him how he was, and what he was doing. He was looking at some sort of Japanese swords one could buy, and he wanted one. Well not my thing but if it makes him happy I thought.
He as well could not teleport at the moment, neither could I so we just kept talking on IM without actually being in the same place, which has fascinated me before. Its like your making a long distance free phone call.

We talked for a while about this and that, I was running out of time so I said my goodbyes and promised him to meet him again tomorrow, for a chat.
Tomorrow, P will be online again as well, to show me more clubs and places, so I am looking forward to that.