More from yester-year

Every second is an hour... every hour is forever

Time became less, now time is more

Time is different and so the difference

With so few in my corner what did i imagine

With walls like skyscrapers, i had no strength to climb

With bruised ego and descending belief

The look I wore resembled forfeit

But what could it be if not that

If we are what we are...

A shadow of a bright light that faded 

Jeremy Loops eve in JBay

I don't tend to drive through the night for concerts (I totally should though), but when I heard that Jeremy Loops was going to be here, and that it was down the road, it wasn't really a question anymore, but rather a given. Got there shortly after 7pm on Friday night only to be told that he would be on at 11pm and that the Lucas Reunion band would be on at 10pm. 4 Hours to kill.... um... ok let's get food. So, off to a little restaurant nearby, as you can see below, it had decadent cheesecake, which was preceded by Chicken and Bacon nachos unlike any other I've had. So an all round winner place to kill the time. IT was around 9:30pm that we all headed up to Jolly Dolphin and the band was playing already and loads of people around. Very cool, had fun and too many laughs at what seemed like super strange people. It's cool when you're with someone who laughs and judges in that same like-minded way, haha, yes Hayley, you did a great rendition of a gay american guy pleading for his blue jersey with the stars, because there literally was a typical boy jock with perfect blonde wavy hair, teeth and height with a blue jersey and stars. You probably had to be there... Jeremy Loops was awesome. Left around 12pm - waaaay past my bedtime hahaha. Worth the effort for sure. Except I remember how annoying drunk kids are and the lines they say:  #Digyourteeth 

Writing.. kinda my thing..

Not to say I'm any good really.... but I've always enjoyed the bursts of pen to paper when the words start formulating in my mind....... written a bunch over the years.. not necessarily any reflection of my experience so much as witnessed experience of others in general.. and all that life is, and will be, the feelings that people go through and endure..... I guess.

In the dark of night I sit and wonder

The minutes pass by, still no hint of light

The depth of the dream destructs within

And all that’s left is a weeping soul

The rest are shattered shards of what was

Silence prevails and the whisper of the wind is all around

No more is the vision grey...

No more is there a vision

Don't stop listening to music...

This vid probably seems a bit odd to most....but I get it.. mostly the song is flippen cool..... stumbled across it whilst imagining blonde hair during youtube sessions, haha.... Turns out the artist's been on the Ellen show recently, the vid's had over 53 million views.... So yeah. Mad chick, nutcase really if you watch her older stuff... but yeah, awesome video.............. cool song, cool wig haha :)

Older songs, very cool... sure she's high mostly though... all her vids and acts she uses sign as well....

Project MU

Slowly but surely all the pieces come in and get done............ Stoked I got the ones I wanted though. They're probably the best suited street pad for the S2000. The colour was in NO way influential... haha :) But yeah. happy they came, they're on and doing their job... after all, we all have a job to do....... haha

These guys had it going on

Dig old photos and looking back at how they were............ dig their vibes back then...... but the coolest of all is that they weren't even trying... they were just flippen cool................

Paul Newman - 1963

Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger - 1967

Sean Connery

 

Madonna, Sting and 2PAC

Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein

 Steely Dan

Sunday beats

All music should be listened to through headphones...................................... the end.

Cars......... it's a process

A lot of people (myself included) like to blog about the upgrades and cool things that we add to our cars. But unfortunately it's not always peaches and cream... things break, go wrong, make noises, and baffle my (mechanically ignorant or.... inexperienced rather) mind. It was 2 days before I was set to head to Knysna for the 2014 Hill Climb. And I could NOT get my car into gear.... I couldn't reverse... I couldn't do anything. Eventually rolled the car back a bit and whilst it was moving tried to wangle a gear somewhere then getting to work was fine, hairy and dodge... but manageable. Reading forums frantically and just like googling "Why is there a pain in my arm" - a whole bunch of potential problems came up.. Eventually took it to someone to diagnose ... and it seemed it just needed brake fluid.. the slave cylinder was effed and probably had been leaking since I've had the car and finally just ran dry. Brake fluid in.. car's going into gear. Nice. :)

Some people don't care about what the problems are that their cars experience, they just want it fixed... I, (like with anything in life) want to understand why and how it happened and what the fix is... understanding in anything .. is everything.. to me anyway. Creates comfort in that thing so to say.

Well the fun and games didn't end there... just a month later my key decides that it's not fond of the ignition or the ignition of the key anymore, whichever way - they weren't allowing me to get home from work. I was stuck - as I have found myself a few times .. others due to locked keys in the car hahaha. Yes I learned very quickly that my car automatically locks itself when the key is on the seat and doors are closed. Anyway................. I was rescued by our trusty go-to-people in life - my parents. :) For two days my car slept away from home and Joe Davis completely removed my ignition and fixed it yesterday - thank the POPE (or whoever was responsible) that replacement wasn't necessary.

Anyway all in all... it's a bittersweet feeling when something goes wrong, because for me it's still a learning curve...... and improving on my own roadside assistance if I can call it that.. is part of the story.......... :) That said - the next blog post for cvws2k should be a cooler one...

Pleats and Treats

I created this page for my sister to showcase her designs and ever since.. the response has been aymayzing.... :) Of course there are more pleats than there are treats haha, (that being my department) but it was more of a gimmick to get people to see her stuff. Though I did receive one or two requests for my lemon meringue haha. Anyway we've made a good online team where she makes what she does and I take photos, make them cool for the page and market it. In turn she makes me stuff. Win Win, who wouldn't love that. Today she left something for me at her house that she had made, as well as one for my mom. It's a new thing that she's going to be doing for functions and gifting etc. She actually made the bracelets herself, created the card and then gave a personalized message to my mom and made a personalized one for me....................... was nice timing....... when things are hectic, to get something that makes you smile inside despite what's happening outside.

Tea and toast

When I make a decision to do something or not to do something.... It's because I know how I react to or deal with consequence.... When I go back on that decision... I only punish myself... It's Futile.... 

                                       

Coz there's truth in some........ time and again

Different view.. different hill..

Shot Stefan.... You didn't have to do this.... but I'm so glad you did..............

 

Pillow talk..

Is love actually enough... And I don't mean in order to be happy... I mean to decide that the other person is the one forever and ever.. Is love the only variable? Or is it just the main one... But perhaps not the biggest one? Can u be completely and utterly in love with someone you're not compatible with? What if the love is so intense that you are blinded by the mere fact that your visions for the future or how you want to live it aren't the same? How does one truly Ever know? Until they're in the position (usually married) where those things come up and the passion dwindles a little with every disagreement.... To a point where there are more disagreements than passion.... And then they are forced to face a reality where they aren't in each other's lives going forward because each person has become a shadow self of who they once were before they fell into the deepest and craziest place in one's life.................... "In love"

Waking up to black and white reruns..

May 18th... Good Friday... nothing good about it.......... but at least it was the start of all the holidays bla bla... lot of cool stuff with family and going away.. but yeah....a month has gone.... and there is nothing left now but black and white reruns....

 

 

New Coffee shop in Cape Town where you can buy brand new records as well............. So happy about this revival.... Seems they're popping up everywhere......Will have to go check it out for myself. 

Smile......

I was really bleak with the weather on Friday coz I thought for sure that come 5:45 am on Saturday morning it was either going to be blowing gales or raining buckets (neither of which would have been conducive to a good time for the race or health afterwards) But I woke up opened the door and........... it was perfect! If you consider perfect to be 8 degrees hahahhah. But temp means nothing, resistance - everything.

We got down there, registered and whatnot, and as he was counting down to the bang, I looked at my watch and the battery was dead!! It was fine when I arrived, so who knows what was up...In a nutshell I ran blind..... the whole way. Also, I don't remember there being so many effing hills! But flip, I thought I have to just push so that whatever I finish with I know I "couldn't" have done any better. That being the theory on paper I guess. Anyway finished and asked the guy in front of me what we did and he said 56:20 and I still counted the seconds it took me to get to start banner so I knew (mild OCD haha) But to be fair when you're trying to beat a time, the seconds do count :) Anyway it was 10 secs. So although I'm not breaking world records.... I did break mine... by half a minute, so I was quite happy with that. It's not a lot, but more than that it's just cool I guess... coz first time you do well you always think distance was maybe wrong, or it was a fluke, haha. Anyway... enough about that. 

Mother's day and mom's bday was tied in one on Sunday (even though her birthday is only tomorrow) - she just figured with all the fam together - it made sense. She got a lot of chocolate and messages................................. chilled Sunday vibes.........
Charlie Chaplin said it best....