December 2011
35 posts
A traffic circle enthusiast is not a bad thing to...
For some reason, I feel like magic is always going to happen on them. I wish we called them roundabouts though. I had a kiss on one once. At midnight, with cars all around. Not just a leg popper, but a heart popper too. Its also pretty dope when you can play with your friends on one. Maybe because its like sticking my tongue out to the memory of my mother telling me to “go play in...
First thought after seeing your mouth smile
‘come with every wound
and every woman you’ve ever loved
every lie you’ve ever told
and whatever it is that keeps you up at night
every mouth you’ve punched in
all the blood you’ve ever tasted
come with every enemy you’ve ever made
and all the family you’ve ever buried
and every dirty thing you’ve ever done
every drink thats burnt your throat
and every morning you’ve woken
with nothing...
He Say She Say
She said: “The Black Panthers are ‘our revolutionary vanguard. We must support them with love, money, propaganda and risk.” And supported his campaign for Congress.
He said: “My foes have called me bum, hoodlum, criminal. Some have even called me nigger. I imagine now they’ll at least have to call me Dr. Nigger.” Among many other things of course. This just happens to be my favourite.
P.S....
More and more Life confirms for me that Love really is just a nice house in a bad neighbourhood called Time. Knowing this doesnt make it any easier though. It is pretty much inevitable that we will keep wandering down dodgy streets trying to find it.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. ~ Walt Whitman
Powerful photographs from 2011
1. 84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her.
2. A woman jumps from a burning building during the London riots in August.
3. An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow’s decomposing...
henna game on steroids
I’ve been a fan of henna forever and ever and ever (undercover Indian right hurrr) and have gotten patterns and stuff done by other people but always just felt like it was a minor form of daylight robbery because I have limitless faith in my own capabilities. I’m that annoying customer that corrects the hairdresser/barber/tailor whatever because I always think I can do a better job....
Obsession: MADE IN HEIGHTS
Album Name: Aporia: In These Streets
“Aporia” is a noun, defined as: “An irresolvable internal contradiction in a text, argument, or theory.” The contradiction here is basically the booming electronics and the pretty dreamy wispy vocals. Together they totally drift off into their own realm of being. This is what it would sound like if The Weeknd and Lykke Li had to copulate. I’ve been...
everyone
everywhere
returning from love
like a long war
i know it seems like
it has to hurt
but why?
what if i want you
and you want me
and i just like to touch you
rub the back of your neck while
you’re driving
through an entire city
lit up by tiny windows
where silhouettes
of people are fighting
with the people they are
supposed to be loving.
~Warsan Shire
city girls
Joburg juuuuust before people go away on their respective holidays, is such a fun place. The music gets into bloodstreams, pheromone production starts working overtime and there’s just some kind of flippant frivolity in the air that you just wanna breathe in and then exhale with your own flavours stamped on it. We took our shoes off on a rooftop in...
She's about to do one hella good job
Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe.
Keep loving love.
Yesterday I was in the bathroom and one of our secretaries was getting all dolled up, make up nstuff. So she’s like 65 right and I’m forward right so I naturally asked about what she was up to cos it wasnt anywhere near home time yet. She blushed and bashfully told me that she was about to go on her first date since her husband had passed away and that she was incredibly nervous and...
Got an angel sleepin in my pocket.
Wrapped around...
