I couldn’t believe that Boo! were getting back together and performing at Ramfest IV. I remember reading the line-up on the event page on Last.fm. back in December 2009 and commented “Boo! ????? Are you sure?”.
So yes, the reunion of Boo! is what interested me in the festival this year and it’s the reason I had SUCH great time. We only trekked through to the festival on the Saturday afternoon, following directions from a mate in Franschhoek. “It’s quicker to come via Franschhoek” (driving from Cape Town). Bullshit! It took us at least two hours to get to the party – a whole hour behind schedule. Nekkies wasn’t on the map to do the distance checking ourselves (for the record) and we went there in geek gear and mapped the entire route.
Never again will another trance head or RAMfest party goer be lost on route to the destination.
I went all prepared and packed in my alcohol in non glass bottles…
For the record, if you throw Smirnoff Storms in to a empty 1.5L Lemon Twist bottle, guess what/. It looks like Lemon Twist. If you throw it in to a Ginger beer bottle looks like ginger beer. Only thing though, NEVER leave the 1.5L empty bottle in the car when the next day is like 30 degrees hot. That shit melted.
Got there just as the sun was setting. Nice! No one got to see my skimpy shorts and shades and I settled for my fisherman’s pants as it got kinda chilly.
So I rock up at the fest, we pay our way and get out arm bands etc. Madam refuses to walk in with her 1.5L Lemon Twist alcohol and opts to buy from the bar inside instead. Moerse big mistake. There went at least 35 minutes of waiting to be looked at. Ramfest removed the lineup so I forget who I saw and in what order… continue reading»
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Songs all sung in Afrikaans – Proper Afrikaans, but they covers of commercial hip hop tracks.
I have no idea where I got this from but found it in my collection today and just HAD to share it. . .
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The ability to pretend that nothing happened (with a straight face) and still be confused (yourself) as to whether it actually did happen.
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Few things that really made me happy today include:
- got a call from a night club owner to meet with him tomorrow (yay)
- heard from my UK mate re the parcel I delivered to Durban … he’s now the owner of a Rudimentals DVD
- also just heard from a friend in Mexico who will confirm later re his DVD, at least its in the care of his aunt’s hands now.
UPDATE: His tweet . continue reading»
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The 16th annual MTN South African Music Awards will be held on Saturday, 17 April 2010.
To qualify for entry for the award, the album must have been released between 29 November 2008 and 27 November 2009.
Nomination entries will open on Monday 2 November 2009 and interested participants will have one month in which to enter before the closing date, being Friday 27 November 2009.
New Award:
“International Achievement Award.
This Special Category award will recognise the South African recording artist who has achieved the most success with the development of their recordings outside of South Africa in the year of the award in question.”
Anxiously anticipating to see who this one goes out to!
The official Rules for the Award ceremony has not yet been uploaded to their website. Be sure to check back.
The show will be broadcasting LIVE from 20:00, on Saturday 17th April 2010… just 166 days to go!
The official MTN SAMA #16 website : http://www.samusicawards.co.za
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Twenty seven years old, business background for schooling /tech level, but accidentally got into academic administration at a tertiary institution and been stuck doing that since 2002. It wasn’t a complete waste of time as it gave me insights into many opportunities and gave me lots of experience – but the challenge is no longer and the passion just simply does not lie there any more.
For a while now, I frequented live gigs, Checking out artists perform their music live, I was taking pictures of artists, informing people of their gigs on various social networking websites, just always staying on top of happenings in the music industry. Even after the gig, I’d write up a review sometimes, upload my pictures, link it to the event that was created etc.
I even went to extent of learning bbcode to be able to update the biography’s on last.fm (wasn’t that hard).
Gradually this became my passion and people started recognising it and showing an interest in the promo type work that it is I was doing (apparently it’s called specialist marketing according to Paul).
I started looking into the possibility of actually doing this as a career and most importantly, I wanted to be able to survive and maintain myself still, if I were to resign from the admin position.
Thing that probably made me stay on in the interim, is my fear that the industry was small which meant little room for entering into it and that the artists needing the exposure wouldn’t have the money to pay me to do their promos. So I paused the resignation and just barely sticking out the stress, overload of work, and really trying hard to actually get the oomph to wake up in the morning to go to that place. continue reading»
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On Sunday I was invited to lunch at a friend’s parents’ home -It was her birthday the day before and so celebrations continued the next day.
(now for typing’s sake, I’m abbreviating the word Portuguese to read P…okay?)
Where I grew up, I never had a P friend, never had a P class mate nor did I ever eat at a P‘’s home before.
The area I now reside in used to be all be P owned. In the last five years of my staying here, I have only met one P guy from the area – and so still no real culture check, well at least until Sunday that is.
I felt comfortable and “at home” when I saw the food all laid out on the table. It reminded me of my mom’s Sunday lunch. Each portion in its own glass bowl, each bowl with its own spoon, each person dishes up their own plate of food, all exactly like it used to be for me when I was living with my mom.
The food was no stranger to me – so familiar – even in the taste of it. There was the sweetened butternut with cinnamon, the broccoli and cauliflower, for the meat eaters there was roast chicken, savoury rice but like savoury because its brown of the onions not using spice for rice, sweet potatoes, heck I can’t remember all of the nice stuffies – was just damn good food.
Whilst eating, I looked around in their back yard, noticed how familiar the gardening style was,this again reminded me of my grandmas garden. She used to have grapevines (but the grapes never grew THAT well), the apple tree, the peach/plum whatever tree, guava, banana (even though bananas never really grew) and more.
It got me thinking… continue reading»
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I really don’t know what it is with me, but I find it hard to part with my body parts after it clearly has no more purpose and has been detached from my body.
Well small body parts not limbs (yet..lol)
I do remember keeping all the following as listed below:
- extracted teeth (at least two)
- my dreadlocks that I cut off in 2001, I still have a few of these that I kept
- my first grey hair, framed in a frame and says “my first grey hair” LOLs
- my tonsils (it was in a surgical liquid – I got it like that from the doctors that operated
No, I don’t keep my toe nails, snotties, hair I clean out from my brush, eye etter, ear wax, plaque on my teeth – that’s just disgusting!
But then I ask myself, is keeping all the others bulleted above then not just as disgusting too?
This post in my opinion is disgusting but please understand, it is just me trying to gage if I’m a weirdo or not – cause now I just got a new tooth today that obviously, I brought home – (it was extracted). The thought just crossed my mind and so I just had to ask around. . .
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The world is filled with so many convincing, lying, story-telling, false people! Today was yet another reminder of how wary one should be of those who claim to be your friend, they act nice and behind your back, they talk crap about you.
Shame on my landlord’s husband for convincing her that I lost my keys and that he lent his to me. I have two sets of keys and two remote controls since the day I moved in here back in 2003.
So I rock up at their house as I was asked to go see them to check out the new lease and to swap remote controls but I just thought they needed my remote specifically as the remote has four buttons. She also mentioned in her email to me that they were short of one remote which led me to believe that they definitely needed a spare one to open and close the garage. I only use two of the buttons but the other two could possibly be linked to the garage for them to use.
Get there, and I am suddenly attacked continue reading»
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