August 2011
50 posts
Girl Crush: Va$htie Kola
I dont ever wear sneakers, bar rare occassions when I pull on All Stars (but they dont count because they were a gift) or my sequinned flowery pink sneakers (they dont count either because well they are sequinned flowery and pink) but Im about to start hey. Like I just figure, this girl is mad cool, she’s absolutely a TTP, not ridiculously beautiful but ridiculously sexy and actually just...
WatchA.D.H.D. - Kendrick Lamar, directed by Va$htie.
Its pretty neat. And I like this guy. Still working my way through his album, Section 80, so more on him soon. I think you needa listen to new albums, especially by new artists, at least three times to really get a feel for it but so far so good.
“Babe, Is It Okay With You If I Call Our Young...
Babe, is it okay with you if I call our young family “The Nation?”
If I move you and the kids to an as-yet-undiscovered field somewhere in Oregon,
and we let them pick their own new-world names, whatever they want, though it’s heavily implied that the son or daughter who picks her name from the “Star Wars” pantheon will receive candy of better quality with greater frequency?
If we teach that...
Whiter than White
“My whites work for me”
“Whites are suffering”
“I am jealous of the whites next door”
“Most of my friends are white”
“Is it because she’s whiter than me?”
“My whites work for me”
These are some of the risque lines Surf used in a brave ad campaign that recently saturated the Daily Sun. I’m not clued up on the dynamics of advertising so I’m not exactly sure what happened, but...
He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and...
La femme noir
Anne Hathaway by Mert&Marcus for Interview September 2011From The Princess Diaries to this, who’da thought? So beautiful.
Musings on Social Networking
Okay so I have been without the artificial limb attached to my right hand, i.e. my Blackberry, for exactly a week. I think some introspection into my slavish devotion to it is necessary. I’m really perturbed actually. See, when I took it in for repairs (the thing was completely possessed, pressing buttons by itself, freezing blah blah. Like, I’d be on the phone with my boss and all of a sudden it...
Can we be dishonest with each other?
YOU STEAL HER SPIRIT. DONT CALL IT LOVE. And somewhere during lunch I realized that the words that I write mean nothing even if you actually managed to derive meaning from them like you do with those letter magnets on your fridge. You have been living nothing vicariously through me because writers and readers (yes, you and I) are just sleeping during our discourse, our passionless intercourse....
Musical Excitement.
I adore RHCP. I only reeeally started getting into their music as a means to impress a retard I had a crush on a coupla years ago. Wow I’m thankful, I guess boys can actually be useful from time to time. Cant wait for the end of August to have this. Wale hmmm I kinda feel like he fell off a bit, but I think its cool that wham bam he reeleased this without any hype, that’s rad man....
I want to dress like this every day. Hello Free...
Pretty things I want.
Wrist Candy. That gold nail detail. Need to try...
The Weeknd x Grandtheft - Rolling Stone →
This song. It’s amazeballs. I’m really bad at describing music right, but there’s like this sound behind the beat and like instruments, that sounds like that rock candy that pops and fizzes in your mouth, yknow it came with the foot sucker on the stick? Anyhow, it does to my ears what that candy did to my mouth. And this mix makes it really pop. The video of the original is...
In Brogue. Yes please.
The pink ones. Oh my sole. I mean soul.
Wrangler. I want it all.
Kanye and Jay Z stole SA music apparently.
Legendary South African singer Caiphus Semenya is fuming after rap kings Kanye West and Jay-Z used his song, Murder to Excellence, for their latest album, Watch the Throne. Semenya worked on the song with US producer and composer Quincy Jones and was “was not aware” the two had used his song as it was the “first time he’d heard of it” when City Press contacted him. “I know nothing about this....
Sies!
So my whole office is in a bit of a tizz over this picture that’s on the front page of The Sowetan. Yoh, police officers are laf. This is a video that’s gone viral of a Correctional Services officer and policewoman getting it on at some hospital that they transport prisoners to. According to Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, “The footage we have seen is an embrarrassment to the...
Review: Watch The Throne
Socially, I’m very lucky because I have lotsa friends who hook me up. As a girl, and a brokeass one at that, I refuse to pay exorbitant amounts for clubs because I simply don’t think it’s worth it, but I recognize that I can have this kinda thinking because I have friends working at clubs, friends promoting clubs, and sometimes just friends who know people. Sometimes when walking past the queue...
London Burning
So London right. I had to say something on this. Last night I was chatting to a friend who was pretty inflamed about the riots nstuff and said something along the lines of “What I really like about London is the classical buildings and architecture and now selfish people are going to mess that up! The town is steeped in so much heritage- I just can’t understand it.” Okay so lemme just start off...
“I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much, but a little free creature that slept...”
– Francesca Lia Block
Stalley is the bizniz.
So like, sorry for the video overload. I hate blogs with video after video, it just seems a bit lazy buuuut I just had to share. I really love music in much the same way I love anything style related: these interests are not core concerns, driving features or passions that gets me up and at em in the morning, but they do help me get through the day and happily so. And for...
Dear God, can we swap Eric Miyeni for Amy...
So Sowetan columnist Eric Miyeni is in major trouble right now but more importantly, he’s revealed himself to be a Class A idiot too. The hype started when he wrote an article titled “Haffajee does it for white masters”, where he lambasted Ferial haffajee, the editor of the City Press newspaper after she wrote some articles on Julius Malema. Basically, it was pretty ugly. I mean...
Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau
10 year old French model. Is this creepy or cute? I’m kinda on the fence here.
The Weeknd — a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye, a 20-year-old kid from Toronto sings spacey R&B songs about loving you better and doing drugs and other things of of that ilk. Mixtape House of Balloons dropped back in March. Things to know: He’s got the support of his hometown mate Drake, and the two might be recording together; also, Entourage is using his track “High for This” in...
Boys at Milan Fashion Week. From Jak & Jil Blog. Drool.
