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Rosa’s Casino

Thursday, March 11th, 2010 by admin

Sitting at my desk, I found myself humming an old Country and Western tune and couldn’t get it out of my head. It was infuriating as I couldn’t remember the words but the tune kept playing over and a few words came to mind – enough to give me a Google starter…

Almost immediately I identified the song and artist and I found a lyric sheet which allowed me to happily sing the song all afternoon, much to the annoyance of my colleagues. My singing is only a small step up from the even more repetetive humming of the same few bars over and over… annoying my colleagues is a duty I try to fulfill every day and not without a generous measure of success I might add – and I’m sure my colleagues will be only to happy to concur :)

The Song? oh yeah nearly forgot

It is El Paso by Marti Robbins – an old favourite of mine and many millions more I’m sure. Click here for a YouTube video of Marti Robbins in concert – its kinda cheesy but you get to hear the tune..

Its a bit out of favour nowadays along with the whole Country and Western genre in general – unless there’s a Rap scene in C&W going on that I haven’t heard about..

Reading the lyrics gave me an idea that could work in an EVE environment so I played around and edited the lyrics until I had something that fitted the bill whilst still retaining the general tempo of the original..

The result?

Read for yourself at Rosa’s Casino and try singing along for a bit of fun :)

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Eve Comedy

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by admin

Comedy – what’s it all about eh?

There doesn’t seem to be much of it around in Eve apart from the usual banter that occurs in the chat channels or local and most of that deteriorates into smack talk and abuse.

It struck me there could be a demand for a dedicated Comedy Channel in Eve but the medium isn’t quite right for it. Being mainly text based and with a restriction on the character count, the chat rooms lend themselves to short phrases and one-liners. It would be hard to keep everyone off their keyboards until a joke of any length had been posted.

There are possibiliies though and even if only on a small scale. The player channels that you create have a voice function built in and it is fully integrated so there are no downloads or anything to worry over. When in a player created channel simply right click on the channel tab and select ‘join audio’ and similarly to leave you would select ‘leave audio’. The trouble is there is a limitation of 200 players in the channel and whilst this is quite a small audience it would be sufficient to ‘test the water’ and confirm if there was sufficient demand for something bigger – like a slot on Eve Radio perhaps?

I joined the Eve Radio channel to ask them the question and the DJ online at the time informed me they do occasional comedy sessions but he didn’t expand on this. So the result as I far as I know is that Eve Radio don’t have a specific Comedy slot in their schedule.

I can see a potential here for a text based player channel and a once a day/week/fortnight? slot on Eve Radio for an audio ‘performance’

The trouble with a performance on Eve Radio might be the lack of audience feedback – there would be no audience laughter or jeerings or whatever so the performance would appear quite ‘flat’ and it would be against my principles to listen to something that made use of canned laughter/audience reactions. So whilst the player channel only affords 200 players at least they can all speak/laugh/shout back – then again that could result in mayhem… :)

It’s perhaps just a fanciful thought but there is something in there that niggles me.

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Comedians/Performers required for late night radio show :)

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