Small city boy, big city dreams
Archive for July, 2009
Hadley’s getting married
My best friend is getting married soon. This is itself if a big thing and all the usual guys things are running through my brain – “Man Down!” “Another One Bites the Dust” & of course “I should get him a name tag for his chain.”
The other unexpected complication in this whole shebang is that he had the bad sense to nominate me as his best man. This means that I get to plan the stag. And of course, the rehearsal stag, just to make sure that we get it right.
I’ve also been having a few other ideas for the big guy’s big day. So I’m thinking that at the church we can do something like this:
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And at the reception maybe a little something along these lines:
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Whatever we wind up getting up to (or down to) I can guarandamtee that this is going to be one for the photo albums.
What do you think I should get them to do?
I’ve been fooling around
A while back I purchased the Defected Acapellas packs to have some fun with when I spin a house set. While I was checking out the “Preachers” sample pack I got the idea that some of the vocals would fit nicely to a new groove I’ve been playing with.
What I wound up with is a funky new groove using some of the classic acapellas. Classic house heads will recognize quite a few of the samples dropped in to this track (DJ Gregory, The Matrix, Gil Scott Heron)
So far, the track is called “7 Minutes” cos that’s how long it took to lay down the bassline. Have a listen and let me know what you think.
South African gardener pioneers green Nissan 350z
When I removed my headphones about an hour and the sounds of the real world came flooding in, I was welcomed by the sound of a lawnmower. Now lawnmowers as a whole don’t have a particularly pleasing tone, but what made this one worse was that I new my car was standing close to the grass. A quick glance through the window confirmed what I suspected – the gardener was in the process of converting my car to an Eco-Friendly model was blasting it with grass from the lawnmower.
Here’s what I saw:
What you can see here is a small taste of what happened after I took the picture and went back inside. My car now looks like a badly disguised G.I. Joe doing recon in the jungle.
And now it’s started raining. Dammit
Politicians are taking us for a ride
In light of the recent furor over Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda spending a reported R2.3 Million on luxury rides for himself, I’ve received an interesting email which outlines Cape Town Premier Helen Zille’s response to the rampant spending.
If you’re not up to speed on the Communications Minister’s splurge, here’s an excerpt from an article on MyBroadband: More >
