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.
It all ended with a sunset like this. Good weekend.
So you guys know the MayanGuysright? They’re the fellas who tasted my hair. A few times. Tonight and tomorrow they will be making their final appearances in our decade and country, before they head back to their own time and place (4 000 years ago, South America). But as a CTG reader you have the chance to meet them at the J&B stand at the FNB Whisky Live festival, and have them taste YOUR hair (it’s the highest honour for Mayans) before they go back to the past.
To win these double tickets just drop me a mail editor@capetowngirl.comtelling me what you think the Mayan’s Guys’ names are. One set will be announced on twitter at 4.30pm today, and tomorrow’s double tickets will be given away on twitter at lunch time.
We sit down with Ryan, bass player for Captain Stu, and talk about dinosaur suits, what it’s like being the only girl in a 5-man band, her personal style cues, kissing chicks on stage, how she deals with excessive male attention, shopping and of course, the launch of their latest EP.
We have a lot of time for this band here at CTG. Captain Stu make super happy, feel-good music, and that is why we love them! We are all about happy and feel-good. Their latest single off their new EP is called The Day, and they made a super-happy, feel-good video for it, which we also love. We love so much about it… the dinosaur suits, the darting behind the trees in the forest, the you-you-you part, the pink bear thing guy getting tackled by a small child…
Guys Captain Stu will be launching their EP on Friday at Zula Bar and EVERYONE WHO GOES GETS A FREE COPY OF THE EP. Yes – you heard right. Plus you get to see these gorgeous sweet boys singing and dancing like it’s nobody’s business. 3 words people: Can’t Hardly Wait. See you there! PS CTG has an exclusive interview with Captain Stu bassist Ryan coming up tomorrow. We’ll be talking about the new music, and what it’s like to be a girl in Cape Town. Watch this space! Click here to find out more about Friday.
CTG’s favourite men’s magazine has officially launched online. Go check outGQ.co.za for all the GQ goodness you’re used to and more. CTG is doing a regular feature on it called What She Wants, where I go shopping and scout out items with which you can spoil the woman in your life. Simple, yet useful, yes? By the way, have you read about 2oceansvibe’s Seth Rotherham being namedGQ’s Best Dressed Man of 2010? I don’t know why everyone’s so surprised – Seth is always well-turned out. He’s got thestylish, but not-too-gay thing down perfectly. Many ‘well-dressed’ men end up looking like they tried a little too hard – none of that with the Rotherham. Probably because his personal stylist also happens to be CTG’s favourite fashion blogger. Ah. And now it all makes sense ;)
So Steri Stumpie Coffee was launched yesterday, by a Keynote Address given by Paul Snodgrass dressed as Steve Jobs at the Labia Theatre on Orange. Managed to get the whole thing on video – will upload later.
Give me Steri not drugs. Kids of today... tsk tsk
A flasher - there were 2 of these guys walking around offering out Steris
Camping outside the Labia ;)
Strong words! And before you girls mail me complaining about this photo, it's a perfect character shot. It's great. Okay, it's not great, but it's the only one I got of you two. Please don't be angwy? :)
Where I like to chill on summery mornings with some coffee and a rusk.
Just wanted to show you one of my houses. This one is called the Wide Open Villa and it’s designed by Klab Architects in Greece. They did a good job, yes?
Very inspiring site to come home to after a hectic afternoon of lingerie fittings.
This is where me & my family like to chill. That's why it's totally casual and low-key.
Nice and white. We like our neutrals. Just call it iFlat (lols). Sometimes we play basketball off that top wall.
My indoor pool - where I like to just 'float around on the pool noodle and think about life'.
Pretty nice hey? Yeah it’s just a little summin we keep around for summer. I was thinking we should maybe get some kind of brightly coloured ’statement art piece’ for the lounge. Maybe a nice print of Warhol’s Marilyn, or something else classy like that.
So MEJ intro’ed me to this terriffic app called Virtual DJ. It allows you to make a mix from your itunes with a mixer and everything, making you feel all pro and stuff. MEJ made like 20 mixes while I took my time trying to get the actual mixing right on one track right, but then again, MEJ didn’t have to google the principles behind being a DJ, read 20 pages of wikipedia and then apply this new knowledge. MEJ knew it all already (mysterious).
From my limited experience, DJs gotta have a lot of time to just listen to their tracks so they know them really well. That might bore the cr*p out of me, so I won’t be ‘quitting my day blog just yet’. But I will make some running mixes under my new DJ name, DJPROMRUNNER. Yeah. First one is below.
It’s a chilled 38-minute running mix that includes Bloc Party, MGMT, Peter Bjorn & John, No Doubt, Mark Ronson, Whitest Boy Alive, Feist & Noiseboyz. For some reason, there is no sound in my right speaker on the Ronson track. Why? Is it because I didn’t push a knob I should have? Please bear with me while I ‘find my DJ feet’. Thanks. Click here to download Virtual DJ free.
