Space Junky played to a packed house Saturday night at the Ginsberg Art Gallery.  The show was a benefit for the gallery and concluded with an art auction and fireworks display.

This was my first opportunity to see the band perform a full live show.  I'd been a fan since catching their last song at a neighbor's wedding a few weeks back.  I liked the catchy pop rock tunes that I heard on the Space Junky MySpace page.  But it wasn't until I went to their website at spacejunky.com and heard their song "I Am What I Am" that I fell in love with the band.

"I Am What I Am" is dedicated to those of us who live out our lives in SL.  Like Space Junky's other tunes, it is skillfully executed and slickly produced.  In addition, the poignant lyrics touch a sensitive spot and evoke those familiar feelings one feels when meeting new souls in SL and the internal debate over whether to offer your friendship… and the question of whether that offer will be accepted.

I want to take you to a perfect world
Where you could be you and I could be me
To a galaxy where no lies are told
And you could be and I could be
What I am

Shakti Cianci is the frontwoman of the band and its driving force.  She writes and sings the songs, sometimes while playing keyboards.  She is backed by Zaphod Rahja on guitar and Zavier Corleone on drums.

I talked with Shakti a couple of days before the show.  We met through an interesting synchronicity.  My land is named "Temple of Love" -- after the temple I built there.  Space Junky does a song entitled "Temple of Love" and their video by that name uses footage of Shakti's own RL trip to Tibet.  The video shows scenes of Tibetan monks and their own Temple of Love.

We met for the first time when I TP'd Shakti to my "Temple of Love":

You: do you announce your shows to your group?

Shakti Cianci: yes

You: good

You: i will come

Shakti Cianci: we have one tomorrow

You: oh great

Shakti Cianci: its a birthday party

Shakti Cianci: but we did her wedding shes really cool

You: is not private?

Shakti Cianci: owns a goth sim

Shakti Cianci: no

Shakti Cianci: but there is another show

Shakti Cianci: on Sat

Shakti Cianci: on the roof

You: i like goths, tho i prefer the light

Shakti Cianci: of a really cool art gallery

Shakti Cianci: yes me too

Shakti Cianci: :-)

You: i'm a lightworker

Shakti Cianci: but we take it with us wherever we go

Shakti Cianci: and spread it

Shakti Cianci: Cosmic Love is what we do

Shakti Cianci: yes SpaceJunky is too

You: i loved the tibet video [Temple of Love]

Shakti Cianci: through sound codes

Shakti Cianci: ty

You: very spiritual

Shakti Cianci: we have 16 hours of footage

Shakti Cianci: from that trip

You: wowee

Shakti Cianci: it was so amazing

Shakti Cianci: shangrila

You: and the monks gave you a skull?

Shakti Cianci: no

Shakti Cianci: but i had inititations there

You: relic?

You: of the previous monk?

Shakti Cianci: i was given sacred objects

Shakti Cianci: and an empowerment

Shakti Cianci: yes

Shakti Cianci: yes

You: what is empowerment?

Shakti Cianci: it is an energy transmission

You: kewl

Shakti Cianci: of spiritual energy

You: i feel some rubbing off on me

Shakti Cianci: yes i experienced many past lives there

Shakti Cianci: :-)

Shakti Cianci: this place has beautiful energy

You: were you a boy or a girl in previous lives?

Shakti Cianci: i have been both

You: ah yes

Shakti Cianci: I have a indian yogi master who is a teacher

Shakti Cianci: and then initiated into Peruvian lineage of shamans

Shakti Cianci: Tibetan empowerments

Shakti Cianci: and a connection to Isis

You: peruvian and isis

You: interesting

Shakti Cianci: i work with crystals

Shakti Cianci: and Machu Pichu is the crystal city

Shakti Cianci: my Egyptain connection is Isis

You: how so?

Shakti Cianci: and then back to Atlantis

You: crystal?

Shakti Cianci: quartz crystals

Shakti Cianci: my Egyptian connection goes way back past the Old Kingdom to Atlantis

You: your past life?

You: or the tradition?

Shakti Cianci: well yes but connects to this life too

Shakti Cianci: not the tradition

Shakti Cianci: I dont follow any one in this life

Shakti Cianci: this life for me is about taking the wisdom from all my past lineages and traditions and using them together to hold light

Shakti Cianci: a lot of it is channelled

You: the dalai lama is a very wise man

Shakti Cianci: and a lot is to do with sound codes

Shakti Cianci: ie music

Shakti Cianci: yes the dalai lama is very wise

You: his secret i think is humility

Shakti Cianci: absolutely

Shakti Cianci: but it's there

Shakti Cianci: sometimes difficult to find in this world we live in

You: which world? lol

You: sl?

Shakti Cianci: both

Shakti Cianci: lol

You: yes

Shakti Cianci: although SL is all about what you project

You: sl is so real to me

Shakti Cianci: pure consciousness

Shakti Cianci: waiting for intention

Shakti Cianci: yes

You: you are so real

You: i love you shakti

Shakti Cianci: ty Wizzy

Shakti Cianci: Cosmic Love to you Wizzy

You: i'm glad you are my friend

Shakti Cianci: the feeling is mutal

Shakti Cianci: we are connected through the temple of love

Shakti Cianci: :-)

You: was meant to be that we would meet this way at this time

You: don't know why yet

Shakti Cianci: yes

You: so i will come to your show for sure

Shakti Cianci: the magic of SL

Shakti Cianci: thanks

You: you say i can come to the one tomorrow?

Shakti Cianci: it will be great to see you there

Shakti Cianci: yes please do

Shakti Cianci: you will get an invitation

You: kewl

Shakti Cianci: i think you will have fun

You: and i did a blog about your song

Shakti Cianci: our crew is great

You: dedicated to those of us who live in sl

Shakti Cianci: we call our friends the alpha crew

Shakti Cianci: great!

Shakti Cianci: thank you

Shakti Cianci: where can i see it

You: on my myspace page

Shakti Cianci: ok

I recognized some of the songs performed at their show from their MySpace page.  "Gravitational Pull" is a rocking love song.  "Out There" is an attempt to make contact with those friendly aliens out there who helped us kick-start our civilization thousands of years ago.  "Are you out there?"

I especially liked a new one, "Killer Coat," about a girl like me out on a shopping spree.

Space Junky will be performing regularly on the Ginsberg Art Gallery roof every Saturday night at 11:00 pm Linden Time (PDT).  Come and Space Out with me and Shakti and the boys!