Status of Women.

Sheep|Wolf

Everyday im Hustlin'

The Boys that be (my) Hip Hop!

Tumi and the Volume

Talib Kweli

B.O.B

Lupe Fiasco

Jay Z

Kanye

Khuli Chana

The Roots

Mos Def




Little Brother

and i promise never to stop...

Why i Love Blogs.

I have 'met' an amazing community of people who just like me are into words, into clothes, into Love, into This, into That, into music, into art, into curiosity, into food, into sunshine, into chocolate, who are wanderers, travelers, seekers, adventures, appreciaters of beauty, who are into Life as I know it.

to forgive myself

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

All That You Have Is Your Soul

....don't be tempted by the shiny apple


Don't you eat of a bitter fruit


Hunger only for a taste of justice


Hunger only for a world of truth


'Cause all that you have is your soul

Music is Life.

FASHION!

Live Curious

If you are, you breathe. If you breathe, you talk.
If you talk, if you ask. If you ask, you think.
If you think, you search. If you search you experience.
If you experience, you learn. If you learn, you grow.
If you grow, you wish. If you wish, you find.
And if you find, you doubt. If you doubt, you question.
If you question, you understand and if you understand, you know.
If you know, you want to know more. If you want to know more, you are alive.

...till we raise a generation...

"Not all those who wander are lost.”

On my ear (Music of South Africa)

Simphiwe Dana
---kulture noir---

Stimela

---A Life Time--

Zakes Bantwini

---Love, Light and Music---

Finest Moments.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

70 Juta Street

I had the great pleasure of being at the opening of 70 Juta Street, an amazing creative space in Braamfontein, downtown Johannesburg.

The city of Jo’burg is an incredible place, with vibrant energy and life in every form and story.

Its been a great year for the creative spaces in the city.

Check them out: http://70jutastreet.wordpress.com/

Lunch is at: Vovo Telo 44 Stanley Ave, Milpark, JHB

As usual, I scrawl the city looking for creative places and souls. And here, there are plenty.
I really enjoy the ambiance at 44 Stanley. They have a great selection of restaurants, design studios and furnishings. The environment is refreshing, step in and have Lunch at one of my favorite spots Vovo Telo!

Check their site: http://www.44stanley.co.za/food.asp

I will not fall in Love with anything but....

KING Of COOL!

Arts On Main.

This has to be my favourite place in Johannesburg.

It is everything I like; Good Food, Art, a bit of Fashion, Books and Sun worshiping!

Jaded.

"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." —

Life and Purpose.

"Without a purpose, life is a motion without meaning,

activity without direction, and events without reason.

Without a purpose life is trivial, petty and pointless.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without a purpose, life has no meaning.

Without meaning life has no significance or hope.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without a purpose."

'Trust me

It's Paradise

This is where the hungry come to feed

For mine is a generation that circles the globe

in search of something we haven't tried before

so never refuse an invitation

never resist the unfamiliar

never fail to be polite

and never outstay your welcome

just keep your mind open and

suck in the experience

and if it hurts

you know what... it's probably worth it

you hope, and you dream

but you never believe that

something is going to happen for you

not like it does in the movies

and when it actually does

you expect it to feel different

more visirale

more real

i was waiting for it to hit me

i still believe in paradise

but now at least i know it's not some place you can look for

cause it's not where you go

it's how you feel for a moment in your life

and if you find that moment it lasts forever

it lasts forever

lasts forever'

Can i take a pic?

Africa Day 25 May 2010

Africa

I Love sunshine,

our music, her humility, its people,

the ocean, the majestic mountains,

the stars, the magic, its mystic,

she is unspoiled, the way rhythm is in our hips,

her food with flavour fit for queens and kings,

our names that hold our histories and lineage close,

the songs we sing when we happy and like a lullaby when we are sad, the drum that echoes our dream to the world,

I Love our cities her walls built from oppression but are now homes of our dreams,

I Love our villages rooted, a reminder of our sophisticated simplicity,

I Love how her magnitude stretches from here to there.

her endless prospects,

when you see her you are struck by her obvious beauty, its inexplicably true, it is LOVE.

The Activist.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom.

The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love.


The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony

Hello Africa! Tell me how you are doing.

MUSIC.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Butterflies !

There are these butterflies in Central America.

They're blue and orange and yellow and have poison in their wings.

Just enough poison to stop a bird heart.

But the birds know this somehow,so they don't eat them.

But there are other ones, butterflies......they're orange, blue and yellow too,but no poison wings.

They're just flying around, looking dangerous, getting by on their looks.

The Informant!
Mark played by Matt Damon

Say Something

I just felt like writing, nothing comes to mind painted red but I have say something even if it’s only to indulge my talkative nature.

Maybe Love, it’s always my favourite theme… so here goes: love consumedly, convincingly, deeply and always, always kiss.

Death by Chocolate.

Now I have munched many a chocolate cake but this took the cake.

Pretty things should be shown off.