Divinyls Fan

[oodivinylsoofanoo]

Hello,
I'm Divinyls Fan from the main sims2 site. I have a legacy called Lateral Legacy.
My real name is Bobbie. I have a daughter who turned 18 last week. She says I should convert to the sims3 but no matter what the gameplay is like, I don't like how they look and besides, all my expansions and stuff packs would go to waste and all the work I put into my neighbourhoods. No thanks mate.
I once became pretty well known by the staff at the front desk of EA Games headquarters in California, from calling them almost every day for about a year to get permission to use the music video I made with sims2 for my song. People make sims2 music videos all the time, but my song is my own original song which I would collect performance royalties from if the video ever got popular on youtube, and so I legally have to have permission for it by EA .. which I eventually got, in a document and everything, but after a lot of fuss and bother that went on for about a year.
So I dabble in songwriting and get involved with the music industry in various events.
Right now though I'm doing a correspondence course in business administration so I can get a regular paying job, now that my young'in has grown and flown the coop. She is a beauty therapist.
I like to give lectures but I do try to restrain myself and I promise I will, for fear of being branded a retard as my daughter would put it.
Thanks for having me,
Bobbie xxx.

[rehayler619]

Hey, Bobbie!

It's Rae. Welcome to the site! Glad to see you made it over here!

[◦BB◦]

Hi Bobbie, I'm BB. Nice to meet you ;D!
If you wouldn't mind sharing the link, I'd love to see your music video . It's so cool that you write songs !

[DEVOTEDSHEPERD]

:)hello and welcome ;D

[oodivinylsoofanoo]

Here is the link to my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/OrangeBaskets
The sims2 video is called Silver Wings, you'll see it on there, amongst my other songs. I'm not the best singer, but the actual writing has been recognised in the australian songwriter's annual contest a few times. My composer sings in Silver Wings.
You'll notice in the Silver Wings video that it has the clause at the beginning 'electronic arts (etc) USED WITH PERMISSION', which is what I was required to put there according to the permission document.

[DEVOTEDSHEPERD]

A Bit personal don't Ya! think but I loved the song

[oodivinylsoofanoo]

perhaps you're talking about the featured video, Stay Awake? The Silver Wings one with the Sims2 animation is the one I got permission for. I wrote Silver Wings as a song for a guy to sing and was my first song with my composer Tom. I hear lots of guys complain about girls who dump them for someone richer, which is what the song is about. I applied it to the situation of a Sim leaving the snowman for another Sim.
Stay Awake I made that video to make any video so it could go on youtube because my friends didn't want to go to myspace to hear it. At the time I only had the means to video a 'day in the life of' type of thing, which ended up matching part of the double meaning in the song, like a sleepy life.
See Be Free yes was personal as it was my message I learnt from surviving an abusive relationship.
I don't know if you're meaning any of the others.
Stay Awake got in the top 30 of the national songwriting contest last year in two categories, rock/indie and open. See Be Free and Sparkled Dreams got in the top 30, 2 years before that, both in the Open category.

[◦BB◦]

Wow! That's amazing ! Congratulations!
Sorry if I made you share anything personal you didn't want to .

[oodivinylsoofanoo]

Thanks! Sorry I thought you said 'bit personal' after I gave you the link, meaning the song was personal, I need glasses maybe. It's not personal in my case, I'm a grown woman with grown children so I don't have as much need to hide so much of my life as a teen would .. I guess. Certainly not my music .. it was created to be public. I have links to my youtube and myspace songs in many of my Lateral Legacy chapters.
I haven't written anything song-wise in over a year, but I still get invited to the songwriter's parties. All my songs are registered with the performance royalty collection agency people, in Australia that's called APRA/AMCOS in America it's called ASCAP, there's one for the UK but I don't know the name of it. They have a Christmas party every year which I'm automatically invited to because of my registration. The one just gone, locally, The Hoodoo Guru's were there, among others. The guys in the Hoodoo Guru's are usually. It was the fourth one I'd been to, so they knew me which was cool.

[◦BB◦]

That's awesome !