The continued tribulations

so... i've had a hectic week, what with being being cellphone-less and all. Last saturday some friends and i were driving around and we were hijacked, which was probably the scariest thing thats ever happened to me. Well besides that time a very elderly woman tried to feel me up in a club. Anyways, that happened and i woke up the next morning looking like Quasimodo. So off to the dentist cause my tooth was giving me hell. Turns out i have an abscess! (gross hey?) well they packed me off with some antibiotics and told me to come back monday for a root canal! So now i'm shivering in my proverbial little boots at the prospect of having one of the most painful procedures. Says the guy whose had his nipple pierced.
Damn and i so hate antibiotics! They kinda make me feel like a greasy beef patty stuck between two buns about to be eaten. Not cool. Doctors suck. Hehehe.
At least i have some humour left in me. What with looking like an extra on the set of Star Trek.
Well the cool things is, that i got a new toy! A super sexy digital camera. Is it normal that 8 megapixels is enough to give me a hard-on? Proabably not hey, but this baby has me salivating. So i'm all biting at the bit to start producing some work again in preparation for a show I wanna have next year.
Hmmmm what else? Oh i cant wait to get my book that i ordered its a complete book on Matthew Barney's the Cremaster Cycle. A 5 film sequence emminent coolness! Its completely bizzare and i wont go into why it rocks my world - no doubt all the art talk would bore you. Hence the pic at the top. From his third film, which goes around a history of new york, myths and male desire.
Until later folks.

I've been bad...

Whoowee, so a long time since I last posted, but be assured faithful reader (faithful readers? ha!) that i'll be back in the game again.
So, what been happening with me? Well... back at Wits now so thats super-cool! I didnt realize how much i had missed it while i've been on my hiatus. It was cool to go back to my old haunts. I used to love getting a cup of coffee and sitting at the amphitheatre in the early morn with a good book and soaking up the morning sun. That and people watching (read pretty people watching ;-)) Hmmmmm damn good being back!
I wont bore you with how much the lectures are thrilling me dont worry! Unless you want to know more about Tricento Renaissance portrait painting and the social implications thereof? hmmm? Thought not! :-P But I love it, its cool getting my brain back in gear again.
Other than that, things have been pretty much the same.
Whats rocking my world at the moment? The new Beck album! this new band/group i've discovered - Lamb. Wow. Its a brother and sister team and they sound like angels. I think i'm in love. And this movie called The Shape of Things. See it! But watch out! Its a sneaky one.
Well kids, I'll catch ya'll laters.

I'm back!

So first of all apologies for my absence, but been havin trouble with my connection thanks to telkom, our superlative service. Check out this site. Its an eye opener for sure.
Well, i'm finally back at varsity and as i thought i'm over the moon! Its so good to be back at wits. Despite all my difficulties and reservations, I do love campus life. I spent my time going back to all my favourite spots on campus. Theres really something about sitting on the grass in the early morning sun, drinking really good coffee and digging into a book before class starts.
I dunno how i even got through 4 yrs at that place. Its such a social space that i cant go from one place to another on campus without bumping into 10 people and stopping to shoot the shit.
So tomorrows my b-day! Or should i say today. I'm 23! blegh. Gonna be doing something on saturday with friends. Dinner in Parkhurst first, then onto to some generally bad behaviour with the people i love in melville. Whoo-hoo! We's gonna have us a damn tootin' ho-down!
God, next week I got two openings to attend. On the same night! One is for the catalogue launch for a photography exhibtion I worked on and the other an opening on a show where i've got some work on. Hope it sells. ;-)
So thats it for now.
Catch ya'll laters.

A movie and Lenny haunting me again...

So I went off this eve with my sis and her boyfriend to see War of the Worlds which is one very cool movie. I was a bit apprehensive going to see it, cause I love the original and I'm glad to say that Spielberg hasn't turned it into a "humans kick the aliens' ass extravaganza". While it still needs a "something extra" it is one very cool movie. I just don't know what is missing. He manipulates you into the perfect degree of awe, wonder, confusion and just plain terror. There's even a nod in the direction of 50' and 60's pulp science fiction with the intro' narrative.
After the movie we headed off to the blue goose (a pub) for a drink and while we were having a drink, this girl from a very drunk group approaches and asks me for a smoke. Being the nice guy I am, I oblige with a smile. That in retrospect was one big mistake. A guy from her group takes offence and starts shit, shoving me about. Accusing me of hitting on her! While this is happening, his friend intervenes and tell him to stop being an ass. They get into a tussle over the issue and get thrown out of the pub. And there I am staring incredulously at the whole scene. These two guys, I might add had shared a rather intimate kiss earlier, as my sister had pointed out to me earlier.
Anyway, this girl keeps hanging on to me and urging me to dance, all the while giving me "come hither" eyes. Oi vey!
My sister and her boyfriend then call me over and tell me to back off and to be careful cause another guy friend of hers is giving me the evil eye. Oh! I forget to mention that her entreaties for me to dance with her were accompanied by " Oh my god, its Lenny Kravitz", "Lenny come dance with me!", "Lenny!" "Lenny"
Aaaaaargggghhhhh!
Thank god they left soon after! Surprisingly, despite the madness, we manage to have a good time.
A David lynch evening. Definitely. Or maybe a Kevin Smith kinda evening?

Birthday Anxiety!

So its my birthday soon, and this is the first year I've ever felt any anxiety about turning a year older. Normally I approach my birthday with enthusiasm. This year is no different, I'm still looking forward to it. Its just that, 23 is just not a cool age. Maybe its got to do with odd numbers. Anyway, no doubt ya'll gonna tell me I'm being silly, but hey, that's how I feel! Neurotic? Most definitely.
still dunno what I'm gonna do for it tho'. Maybe a big raucous party? Oh yeah...

Lame?

About 2 weeks ago, I went on a date. I know! Wonders never cease. Anyway it went really cool, we had a great time, didn't run out of conversation and all that bale blah that's supposed to constitute a good date. And! He fairly attacked me in the parking lot when I walked him to his car. A kiss! In the parking lot! Romantic hey? So, all in all a good date. I did, though have to endure my friends (who were at the same place as we were) calling me Senor Kissador for the rest of the evening. My friends are crazy.
Well since then I've invited him out to a party. He didn't show and I wasn't about to call him and seem all desperate and needy. So, I call him a coupla days later and he says that he's hectically busy and that he'll call in a week or so. So today I call him, not waiting for him to call. Hey, I gotta let him know I'm interested right?
We make small talk and I ask him if he wants to do something this weekend. But I get vague mumblings about he's weekends full and all that.
So what do I do? Is he a lost cause? He's cool and I like him. But have I done enough? Is the ball in his court?
Damn why is this so complicated?
My love life, or lack thereof, is seriously lame.

The editors of Heat vs. Aeschylus

What is it about celebrity rags hmmm? I mean, everybody's got a favourite celeb right? Even those whiners who take up an aloof posture and deplore endless speculation about Britney's pregancy. Now most people couldn't give a rats ass about it (including me) but who can resist a bit of news about their favourite Greek God? Even if it is about people who are respected actors.
Thats what some twat was going on about today. There I was sitting and enjoying a cup of coffee and this loud group of kids next to me were talking about. Celebrity gossip. This idiot, no doubt trying to impress this girl he was with was laying into the tabloids with a fervour that was likely to impress the most vehement fire-and- brimstone evangelist. One of their party piped up and asked the dude if he would read news (or gossip) about Willem Defoe? he spluttered a bit and said sure cause he was a respected artist. Yeah he actually said "artist".
This got me thinking though, about a course I did in Classics and some of our texts were almost soap opera's by our normal definition of it.
I had this vision of greeks flocking to theatres to see what their favourite characters had gotten up to. Is that bitch Clytemnestra in Agamemnon really different from the well documented (supposed) foibles of our own modern day celebrities?
Anyway back to the point. What is the point of this ramble? Shit-talking mostly. Which, as u can see, I'm very good at :-)
Everybody has someone they admire, right? And the rags put us a little closer to them...Pathetic? As the twit in the coffee shop said? Nope. Just normal i think.
Now where is that copy of Heat i put earlier?

What am i listeing to right now? Tosca, Suzuki. Really chilled,really cool, really beautiful.

Crazy hair

About a month ago i decided i was gonna go get a haircut. now usually my hair just grows until it gets to crazy 'fro proportions and then i get bored of it and shave it all off. Anyways, off to the hairdresser and he tells me that the lenny kravitz 'fro is so 2 yrs ago. I know! Bitch hey? Well i get tired of the whole "You know, You kinda look like Lenny Kravitz thing so i go and tell him to go ahead and do whatever. He cuts me this tres cool kitsch half mohawk mullet thing. Which in my books is totally trailer. But i guess thats why i love it. Go figure. The point is, that my hair grows so fast i'm due for another cut. I dont mind really. Haircuts make me feel good. Its like this instant "I feel good." Anybody else love haircuts for that reason? Or am i crazy?
Hmmmm Brett Kebble entries due next month? Should i enter? Cant hurt i guess. And it'll keep me busy before i go back to being a student bum. As opposed to just a bum that is.