I see what you’re trying to do. Really, I do. I know that this is a mass market take on this Vivienne Westwood shoe:
But… IS IT REALLY??
Forgive me, I must sit down.
Dear Mr Price, I know some great fashion buyers if you guys are struggling. Hell, this design I did while I was on the phone earlier would probably work better than what you’ve got going on over there. You are welcome to use it. You guys can have this one for free, but next one you pay, okay?
Please enjoy these deleted scenes from Zoolander that feature Alexander Skarsgaard (CTG’s number 1, and only, perpetual celebrity crush – might be because we have the same name). Hi-LArious! Thanks to swartperd for sharing this!
So CTG, PD and LA hit up CTG HQ the other night to take part in a Jack Daniel’s Twitter Tasting. If you’re confused, don’t be: basically Jack Daniel’s sent us a bunch of whisky - their Single Barrel, their Gentleman’s Jack and good old Jack Daniel’s No. 7 - and we got to tasting it while tweeting about it.
The thing about twitter tastings is that they don’t take much effort. So we had all this whisky and CTG’s iPod, which is when we remembered that Kei$ha sings about Jack Daniel’s in her song Tik Tok:
“Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy
Grab my glasses, I’m out the door, I’m gonna hit this city
Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
‘Cause when I leave for the night, I ain’t coming back..”
So we did what any other self-respecting CTGs would do. We decided to dress up like Kei$ha and make a video!!! Uh huh! Please enjoy the ‘tasting notes’ you’ll find spread out amongst the dancing.
Thanks Jack Daniel’s, that was quite fun. Even though we felt NOTHING like P Diddy upon waking up the next morning…
CTG was invited to go out to Elgin to experience theOld Mac Daddy Luxury Trailer Park Hotel, cousin to theGrand Daddy Hotel on Long Street, prior to its opening. This was a wild experience, let me tell you. Firstly, CTG and PD took their sweet time heading out into the country, getting our makeup done at Estee Lauder first,dawdling around Vida and then, only then hitting the N2 out to Elgin. We were then informed that we were holding up the boat ride. Oh Lord! Only us. So we then spent 4 billion hours driving around trying to find the rest of the boating party, which we eventually did, which eventually made it worth it.
You can get a boatride at nearby Mofam farm for only R70 - very serene and lovely.
Sunset from the boat.
After the boat ride we then drove another 4 billion kms back to the hotel, which is designed like an enormous barn, with overturned buckets as lights, and all the staff wear Old McDonald checker shirts! Ah, it’s lovely to look at.
Barn vibes in the main dining room
But the driving left us feeling like this, I won’t lie. As did the denial of my request for a cappuccino:
Taken right after it was revealed to CTG that Old Mac Daddy does not serve cappuccinos, or any filter coffee of any kind at all. Bleak.
I mean, what kind of a hotel doesn't serve FILTER COFFEE? An unfinished one apparently. We were assured that cappuccino machines were arriving the very next day.Which we have chosen to believe.
The food was at least delicious. We were served bobotie with banana, custard, coriander, basmati, almonds, green beans and chutney, which perked us up bigtime. Compliments to Siya the chef – he really did outdo himself. I could have eaten 2 servings, to deal with the emotional trauma of being denied cappuccino.
We then retired to our room – the specially requested Dirkie Sanchez Suite, whose development I have been following over at this blog since they started building the Old Mac Daddy. And this is when our evening really started. So inspired were we by this incredible take on hotel decor – the whole room is them Mexican Luchadore with the bed being a wrestling ring! - that PD and I decided to make a video, and spent the rest of the night doing just that. Please enjoy the fruits of our ass-shaking to our get-up-and-dance track of the moment, Beyonce’s Girl Anthem Why Don’t You Love Me:
The making of this was too much fun. We even took a break at midnight, and, starving, ventured down to the hotel to see if we could get a snack. Not only did we get a snack, but owner Jody totally went completely out of his way and opened his kitchen to make up toasted sandwiches, tea, rusks, milk tart and koeksisters. Unreal! That more than made up for the cappuccino debacle. So thanks for that Jody. And thanks for having us! Guys, Elgin is beautiful, and the Dirkie Sanchez Suite has a view of the whole valley. Go spend a night there. They should have cappuccino machines by now. And take a camera.
BUT WAIT. Hidden in the back cupboard of the Dirkie Sanchez Suite is a pair of luchadore costumes. You know, Mexican Wrestler Nacho Libre vibe. We discovered these as we were leaving so took a few quick snaps but why don’t you use them in your video?
xxCTG & PD
PS video footnotes: CTG & PD wear sundresses R80,00 each by Mr Price, shades Roberto Cavalli, Ray Ban and Armani by Sunglass Hut, POA, makeup by Estee Lauder POA. Contact CTG for more specifics editor@capetowngirl.com
Been having a quiet chuckle at this rather naughty way to use your vuvuzela now that the World Cup is over. Check out Wozela – they have a whole BUNCH of innovative uses for old vuvuzelas. You can even submit your own! Maybe more fun than recycling but remember, once you’ve had your fun, recycle!
I remember my Sweet Valley High days as if they were yesterday. I was about 10 years old. Prime SVH-hooking age. I’d go to my school library, beg the librarian to let me check out 10 books at once (it took about 30 minutes to read one Sweet Valley volume), she wouldn’t let me. I would offer her my lunch, she would say ‘that’s unethical’, then we’d come to an agreement where I could check out as many Sweet Valley High books as I liked provided I read a ‘real’ book in between. So I would end up with 20 books – 10 Sweet Valley High, and 10 others. Think Suskind, Nietzsche and Dante. Ja, I reeeeeeally had to overcompensate (via fear of ‘becoming stupid’, which is what my mom said would happen if I read SVH at the same time as the wind changed direction). But this, my friends, is how I got an education. Via Sweet Valley High alternate-bribery.
Just read Pride & Prejudice so I could read this. Wish Pride & Prejudice was set in LA and all the characters drove Jeeps and were blonde, too.
Of course, it was a WHOLE OTHER STORY when it came to getting gold stars for my reading chart. My teacher was simply having none of SVH, and she would actually DEDUCT 5 points from my reading chart for every Sweet Valley High book I read. I did work out a system whereby I could double my points for reading a book published before 1950 (think F Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, Jane Freaking Austen …etc). Sheesh. When I look back things seemed awfully complicated for the simple benefit of reading a series of such simple books. Sing with me now…
“Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield were identical blonde twins who lived in a split-level house…”
Soooooooo bad. Not sure I’ll be reading SVC again. I think ‘life might be too short’. But it was nice to take this little trip down memory lane.
The Little Mermaid was one of CTG’s favourite movies from approximately 1989 – 1993. That’s a lot of begging my mom to make me a mermaid tail / forcing my friends to ‘play Little Mermaid in the pool’ / having a ‘mermaid party’ and then insist that I be the only mermaid and that everyone else dress as crabs or fish / accusing my tomboy pal of ‘being mean’ when he refused to believe what I told him about how I was ‘actually a mermaid’ and was ‘pretending to be human so my parents don’t get angry’…
One can only imagine that this movie had a huge role in shaping the CTG consciousness. This is an ‘alternative interpretation’ of the messages within The Little Mermaid, which I don’t really have a problem with. It’s good to know the timeless values of manipulating your friends, running away from your parents, talking to men like babies, hoarding and stealing, changing your appearance to ‘look prettier’.. etc are relevant and accessible even without the broadway song-and-dance production (although that’s a part we do very much enjoy).
This is fun and all, but more videos might be tedious. So here’s a handy summary of some of the classic super girlpower messages you’ll come across in the ‘mainstream storytelling media’ from the last couple of centuries (yeah we could blame Disney but they didn’t even make the stories up… think that was that Anderson bro. And those Grimm bros.) :
Guys, listen. to. me. I would never blog about an Owl unless it was ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AND IMPERATIVE TO YOUR HAPPINESS that you see it. Not that I have anything against owls, it’s just that they are a little off-topic. Not this owl! This owl is so on-topic I am at a loss as to how to describe him. Let me put it this way: 1 owl, 3 versions.
