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Tale a listen. Seven tracks in all. Just Tumi and I during Lockdown. We spent two weeks together before my family went to CT to scatter my father’s ashes. It’s what we could do given where we were and what we were dealing with. Tumi is a lovely human being.m and he made me laugh […]
2020 has not been good to musicians. A few days into the new year and I am not even sure when or if I can plan a performance. As if things were not hard enough in South Africa without a pandemic before. A friend joked last night and said, ‘You wont leave without your Mother’s […]
I have these moments where I just wanna smack everyone a few times! Then maybe drive over them just to ensure they know how displeased I am. That is the real problem with the peace, love and happiness approach. People think they can be the biggest assholes and I am just gonna smile and wave. […]
This isn’t a lyric from a bad breakup song or some weird artsy movie or worse still, a chick flick. I am…dammit…happy. And always astounded by just how I got there. Wait, there was… Death. Deprivation. Depression and….then all the good stuff! Good stuff like…friends, family, ginger beer, cheap smokes, Ben Harper’s new album, the […]
It’s like hearing the first few notes of a song and knowing you will love it. There is a big difference between belief and knowing. Words and people and food have the same effect. So the term I heard and fell madly in love with was this: the frequency of your belief. Seriously. What is […]
I love this man’s music. He was the soundtrack to my happy first marriage. Besides, this entire album is magic, even if my marriage wasn’t! Haha. Dammit. At some point in tim I have to learn to behave…. This song is great though! He has a new song out called The Captain is drunk. Check […]
Perhaps everything isn’t as complicated as we make it. Until 2019 and 2020 happened, I was a mess my people! And convinced I had to look at my past as the only reference point that mattered. To fix, to heal, to understand. Until I realized that by rehashing the past I was making it more […]
Here’s the real reason Scorpios drive their friends and family crazy! We investigate ourselves and others obsessively! ‘Can you just stop it already…’ is a common refrain. Why man? Don’t you want to understand yourself and the world around you better eh? It comes down to the following for me: the core belief or idea […]
I don’t follow the advice I give. I prefer the company of my own pain, my own bullshit. In a perverse way it makes bad days palatable. In my head the following thoughts run amok. I was alone on the worse of days, fuck you. I don’t need anyone….so fuck all of you! Just who […]
Since I was a teenager I journalled. Only last year I destroyed those teen memoirs filled with love letters and silly thoughts. Why, do you ask? Well, that person is one I no longer recognize. Writing helped clear my thoughts, especially when I am troubled. Writing music and dancing has the same effect. Imagine my […]