weekend in pictures

08 Nov 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Parties, cape town, lifestyle, weekend in pictures, 0 Comments

Spent some time in surburbia for my gran’s 97th birthday. 97. It’s quite a vibe to behold a living breathing human that is 97 years old. When I asked her, “What does it feel like to be 97, granny?” she said, “Oh. It’s terrible! I can’t see anything. I have to keep saying what?? what??? I think I irritate everyone. To sum it up, it’s not much fun.”

Bless.

In addition to 97-year old humans, met a 200-year old fig tree (above). It is a national heritage site.

Went to the 2oceansvibe radio party at Assembly on Saturday night. It was great – perfect size crowd, champagne in the annex which was a ’safe room’ for the evening, and the maniacs that are the Wedding DJs belting out pop hits through the decades. They even danced so hard on stage they unplugged their own cords a few times.

It seems there are some new bathroom philosophers in town since last I hit up Assembly, too. When looking at the above piece, entitled (presumably) ‘F*ck Love’, the transcient and fragile nature of the modern relationship becomes apparent to me, evoked by the simplicity of those words, which came forth no doubt in a moment of clarity or deep presence, possibly after the philosopher witnessed the object of her affections giving affection to another object. What would we do without art, people?

Drank a fine white wine, a birthday gift from way back in July, in fact. The 2007 Saskia is all sorts of fruity goodness. We thought of Harry while we consumed it. We wondered how CTG’s Official Wine Expert was doing, since we have not actually seen him since he arrived back from overseas and ‘caved to the pressures of society’ and accepted a ‘real job’ in the wine industries.