Later on, Lark took me to show me the club she was building for Alo and HRS. It was pretty basic but the textures really made it unique and it evolved over the years and was a great place. Alo used to have shops just outside of the (at that time) new club and I used to rent one there as my alt, Nugget. I used to attend at least two of the events per week too. I remember all sorts of people showing up there too and needless to say, that often made for a fair amount of drama. So around that time I sort of eased on out of the place, picking up shop and moving on for a while. I did a club of my own for a while (one of 6) and that kept me plenty busy. That fell through in a rather fast fashion and I pursued making clothing and items and stuff. Lark would keep me informed as to what was going on with the place from time to time. Then I remember a 1 year anniversary. I went to that and it was a blast! I think that was the time, or was it the 2nd, that I was asked to provide my lighthouse, which at that time I had been working on, as a gift for prize winning patrons. It was a full day of blues and prizes and partying. At that time, Lark was in the habit of making themed sets for the events. She made a New Orleans street set for this one. Quite detailed and very authentic.
After that she would often build themed sets for HRS over the years. I remember helping her with a Harry Potter set one time. At that time I had never seen a Harry Potter movie nor read any of the books, so I had no idea why my texture had to state Platform 9-3/4. Why not 9.75? Stuff like that. Then I was asked to make a steam punk themed setting for one weekend of events there. That was one of the trickiest things I ever did in SL. I worked more with scripts then than I ever had. I learned just enough to be dangerous, but it got the job done. The largest relief was when I was able to come and take it back into inventory. It seems everyone enjoyed it though and that's what it's all about.
So that was all as my alt Nugget. In the past year or so, I have been trending toward being Otto because of this latest try at running a club. Must be my 6th try? Anyway, I opened a shopping mall there, a huge one, that Nugget put his stuff and his affiliate vending stuff there too. Lark made a club for me and it was impressive. I opened up and used my entire sim for an "Adult Playground" which was mostly BDSM themed. I had a cuddle forest, castle with RLV (Restrained Life Viewer), BDSM palm trees on a nude beach, an underwater ballroom, a huge shopping mall and of course the club. That went on for quite some time but less than a year. If you read way back in this blog, you will see what it was like back then. But I also was a member of my brother Kaboom's group which let me broadcast events on their rather growing and large group.
So at that time, Alobar expanded and acquired some more property and put up Crimson Nights. There was a good sized pool and party area skybox there that was not getting used. I was goaded by Lark to throw parties there and I was all about helping Alo's traffic build and of course I was all about throwing parties that didn't cost me anything so I started having Kaboom's group show up at parties I would throw on Crimson Nights. It was basically a weekly demon party. Lots and lots of Kaboom's group would show up. I'd DJ and graciously accept tips and that was about it for a while until Alo put down a castle and RLV area on the ground of Crimson Nights. So we started having the parties in the castle. There were dance poles, animations and game there so it was perfect for parties! That went on for quite a while until I started throwing parties at my Cherry Street more frequently and I lost the ability to broadcast notices on Kaboom's group. An oversight I'm sure.
Alobar and his woman sami could come and visit my Cherry Street once in a while and even threw parties there themselves a couple of times. But my club was destined to fail without regular help. Sure, I had Emi who was wonderful! But I needed regular DJs too and I just couldn't hang onto any. Any DJ that works solely for tips is going to want a good sized crowd there and quite frankly, sometimes nobody would show up and I could not do the whole thing myself. Perhaps one day I will assemble a staff and give it another go. We'll see.
About that time, Alo moved and built a new place with Lark's help. It was awesome and it's constantly evolving but basically, it's House of the Rising Sun with Crimson Nights right next door. Great place to visit and hang out too, even when they were not having events. It got so popular that even Linden Labs chose it as one of their Editor's Picks places to visit for over a week. It shows up at the very top of searches too. So when the group announced they were looking for DJs, I just had to fill out the app. After all, my club had failed and I did have a night free on my schedule. They hired me immediately and I began DJing on Friday nights at 6pm SLT. What a blast! Some nights do not produce very good tips at all but others do. I'll gladly take the bad with the good in this case. The events do not cost me anything, so long as I don't play that wicked sploder of theirs.
So their 3rd anniversary came up and went quickly and without hardly any notice. I was going through my inventory looking for photos I have taken of the various evolutions of the Rising Sun to put into a rotating picture frame or better yet, a clickable picture frame to hand out to the people who give me DJing tips. But I don't have many pictures at all. I'll have to see if anyone else has any they'd like to see in there.
So be sure to come down and visit House of the Rising Sun once in a while even if there is no event going on there. It's an exciting place to hang out and explore. Look for me there on Tuesday and Friday nights too.
