Bouncer's Blog

I thought the days of living out of a suitcase or duffle bag where long behind me when I got out of the military. Evendently not!
I recently sold my house, and part of the agreement was that I replace the carpet and paint two rooms. No biggie, hired a crew to do it, and its in the works now. With the move came looking for a new place to live. I'm procrastinated a bit trying to find a place to live, so when it came crunch time to actually move, I started calling realtors, and apartment managers. Two blocks from my work are some very nice apartments, pool, gym, walking trail, very nice. I called to set up an appointment, the first thing i asked was "Do you have immediate openings? I need a place ASAP" I got told yes over the phone. The next day i show up for my appointment, and come to find out, I got blatantly lied to. The first available opening is July 6th. Needless to say, i was pissed. Luckily, these are so nice, and walking distance to work, I went ahead and put down my deposit for the first available 2 bedroom.
Now, until the 6th, i'm stuck in a damn hotel, living out of a suitcase again, crappy internet connection, cant DJ, losing linden..ha.
Life goes on, I cant wait to have a place. Im thinking of selling all my old furniture, and starting from scratch. Going for the minimalistic look, clean and classy.

This has been one helluva week, most with my real life, but SL is included.
To start, in real life I've had my house on the market for sale for a while. I bought my house right before getting out of the military, thinking I'd be married. Real life took a twist, the marriage never happened, and here I sat with a 3 bedroom house, with a bonus room upstairs, and just me and my two dogs. Needless to say its way to much house for 1 person, add to that the hours I work in real life, it was a waist of money. Yesterday I get a call from my realtor that someone made an offer, contingent on two things. One the carpet had to be replaced, and two of the rooms had to be repainted. On my part it was a no brainer, spend 2K to make 9K on the sale. The shitty part is, they want to close at the end of the month, and that means I've got to hire someone to get the carpet and the painting done. Bottom line, I have to be out in 5 days, house empty, so the work can be done by closing time. Ugh...I don't even have a place to stay yet, on top of hiring a moving company on short notice. The stress level is pretty high at the moment, but I'm positive I'll figure something out.

Second life has its ups and downs. One of the clubs i work at is Drama filled right now. People are leaving, quiting, and there is more to come. Most of the drama centers around one person, who is a good friend that I've known since January. I was asked this morning what my intentions are with the club. My reply was "linden before hoes" "I have no intention of leaving this club". Don't get me wrong, I value our friendship, but the drama has nothing to do with me, and I'm staying out of it.
The money I make dancing/DJ is decent, it keeps my rent paid, and lets me buy what i want.

Another bitch some of the dancers, hosts, and DJs have is tips and the amount they are making right now. Its the summer, SL and traffic is slower and I'm a firm believer you create your own income, don't rely on others to create it for you. They have become very complacent with their jobs and got lazy. I don't take shit for granted at this club, the money is decent, and I enjoy working there. One of the other clubs i work at, business is bad, they are cancelling events early, DJs, dancers, host aren't making $1L.

To top it all off, I'm moving more towards being a DJ more, and get totally away from dancing. The money in dancing has been very good to me, but I have whats probably equivalent to dancers block. Let me explain, when I get a tip from a VIP, I type everyone of their emotes on the spot, I don't have note cards saved with old emotes and cut and paste. To me its tacky and they are paying for something personal to them. To sum it up, I'm emoted out. I cant type great quality, melt their thongs off emotes anymore. I draw a blank or cant come up with anything original anymore. So I want to step away from it for a while.

Pink Kitten Productions, who i've made two SL porns with has closed its doors. The owner/producer has decided to stop making movies for whatever reason. Once I get my RL back in order after the move, I'll have to send out notes again and see if I can with another company to make movies.

With the impending move, I will probably be away from SL for about a week until I'm completely moved and can get Internet in the new place. I'll still have SLite and my SL app on my iPhone while I'm at RL work. Wish me luck!

Saturday night I DJ'd a Trailer Park Event at Black Onyx. This was one of the funniest events i've done or been to in SL. The picture of is of the staff that worked that night. I'm on the far left with my date, Sheila the Sheep.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

I got to DJ a couple nights at Black Onyx, and at Unwrapped. I have to say, I have some awesome friends. The night I DJ'd at Unwrapped was pretty fucking dead, maybe like 2 ladies showed up. I sent out a friends spam and thanks to my friends, they probably saved me from a boring ass event. Thanks RB, DS, AG, PB, SF, CM...you ladies are awesome!

I've done a couple movies in SL (i guess i could post the links on here). Yesterday, I got a invite from AW to come to Jennnaa Jameson's avi party. I still dont know why, but linden labs is making her change her name. The party was filled with some of the best producers/directors of porn in SL. I didnt get to stay to long, real life pulled me away, but seeing AW again was worth the short stay.


Hope you have a great week, its raining like mad here, so RL work is gonna be a drag.

Yesterday was the typical Tuesday, I get off work, make the drive home, walk in the door to get mauled by my two dogs. My normal routine consists of feeding the dogs, throw some food in the oven or microwave, straighten up the kitchen and vacuum the house. My two dogs are awesome, but they play fight and wrestle all the time, so when I get home, there is always pulled dog hair all over the carpet. After eating, I'll jump in the shower and then log onto SL. Dancer call went out over Black Onyx group chat, and for lack of anything better to do I volunteer to dance. I've been dancing a while on SL, and there are hosts that you prefer to work with, and those hosts you prefer not to work with. It may be their personality, it might be their events are slower than other hosts, whatever reason.

Last night RB was hosting, she is gorgeous, sexy, and one of the best hosts to work with. I throw on my 49ers jersey (the event was jerseys), a pair of black sweat pants, and head to the club.

The first 15 minutes was un-exciting, the normal "hi's", "welcomes", "good to see you agains". I was dancing for AG and happened to look up and see that her titler said "I Love Anal" on it. I made a joke about it in local, and it was like the sexual tension switch got turned on in the club. If you ever get to met AG, she is sexy, funny, and when she is around its always fun. I'm not sure what happened, but it was one of the best events i've worked. The flirting, the sexual tension, the overt IMs saying, "take me home with you tonight", I haven't experienced anything like it. The host RB and the night manager DS even IM'd me, asking if I noticed the sexual energy. You couldn't help but notice, even the DJ Eugene started playing sexually charged music.

I wish every night was like that, it would make dancing pleasurable again.

The real life Bouncer was sitting in a hotel room up in Pennsylvania bored to tears. I had recently got out of the Army and was hired by a firm that provides security to many Fortune 500 businesses. Like the military, corporate security takes the hurry up and wait approach. I had been sitting in this room, waiting for the job to kick off for about a week, tired of TV and tired of going to the hotel gym.
I have never been a gamer, thought WoW was for geeks and dorks, but I noticed my roommate on his laptop, laughing, and playing something online. I'm curious by nature and asked what he was up to. That was my introduction to Second Life, and the rest is history. I jumped on my laptop, signed up and thus was born the noob Bouncer (bald, ugly, the noob walk, noob stance), but i was totally enthralled.
My very first day on Second Life, I was in one of the many freebie stores grabbing clothes, when I was approached by a girl to dance for her friends bachlorette party. Broke and dumb, I said yes! Looking back, I'm sure they had a good chuckle at my expense, but I guess I made a good enough impression that the owner of a club that was at the party asked if I would like to come work for her. I ended up working a few nights a week, mostly as security and if the event needed props, I would run and find them. I had a blast, and met some great people. The club owners even gave me a small house on their sim to live in.
When I wasn't working, I spent much of my time on SL roaming and surfing. I would punch something into the search and just wander around the sims, amazed at the detail and love that people had put into some of the places I had visited. Surfing, skateboarding, hitting a few clubs to try and make some linden. Typical noob stuff.
During those first few months, other than hair and clothes, I stayed relatively noobish. I never had a mentor or someone close to say, "lets take you skin shopping, your ugly as fuck and need a makeover." The skins two years ago pale in comparison to what the skins of today look like (more on that later).
With about 9 months under my belt, I had to to take an extended break from SL. My real life work schedule was so chaotic (i was working about 70 hours a week), it didnt leave much time for SL, and sleep was way more important than a virtual game. This break lasted about 6 months while I was establishing myself in my new job. Once my new career had settled down a bit, I actually took a day off in real life and while sitting at home one day, pulled out my computer and jumped on SL. I pulled up my friends list, started searching out old friends only to find most of them had disappeared or as I learned, they went back to playing WoW or real life was to hectec for them. Only SJ, a friend who DJ'd at the same club I worked, was still around.
Getting re-aquainted with SL, the first things that quickly jumped out that had changed dramatically was Skins and AOs. Gone wear the goofy, awkward noob dances, and the skins that I noticed on women and men's avi's where almost life like. Gone where the oily, bad shading skins of the past. Also gone where the bad dark, unrealistic tattoos. I met a girl named JF at The Galaxy (one of longest running and largest clubs in SL), where she worked as a host. We hit it off as friends, and she took me skin shopping at Beleeza and hair shopping at some other store. Born is the Bouncer of today. She said my shape was good, just needed a new skin and some hair. She took me around, found me some decent clothes and shoes at Redgrave. I hate shopping with a passion, so the help was appreciated. We ended up hanging out for a month or so, but she got partnered to some dude who didn't like that she hung out with me, so I went on my merry way.
Today, I'm the same Bouncer as two years ago, I work for a living in SL. I dance and DJ at Black Onyx, and also DJ at Unwrapped, two of the best ladies only clubs in SL. I've done a couple Adult Movies with Pink Kitten Productions, and hope to do more (SL is fantasy, so why not live out your fantasies). Most of my free time now has been working on a new platform I rent, and spending time with the friends i've met along the way. I'm a country boy at heart in RL, and my avi reflects that in the place i'm building for myself. Its quiet, peaceful, and mine.
This blog is to chronicle my adventures in SL. If you like it, follow along. I'm not a writer, and most times have problems expressing myself in writing...so don't expect Pulitzer Prize writing from me.