In one of my posts last year, while still deep in the throes of an anguish induced by heartbreak, I wrote about booby-traps: ones of the heart and mind, and also the very literal ones. We all, as part of the human condition, have experienced the emotional booby-trap. The booby-trap is something you come across [...]
OK, so what has been going on with me other than my normal battles with my job/work and my artistic passions/studies and the struggle to find a balance between the two? Well, four pretty huge things actually: I attended a family wedding, I spent an afternoon keeping my mother company in St. Augustine’s Hospital, I [...]
So the first semester of my honours year of art studies is almost done. I only have an art practices proposal to hand in, my Spanish exam to complete and it is done, and then onto second semester where the workload increases three-fold! Last week we had our lecturers down in Durban for five days [...]
On December, 2nd 2000, The Smashing Pumpkins as I knew them split up. Arriving on the scene in the wake of the grunge phenomenon, of notably, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins made music that was dense and layered and this provided a perfect framework for their alternately angst-ridden and dreamy,poetic lyrics, and made the Pumpkins [...]
By now, dear reader, I am sure you aware that I, to use a euphemism, tend to colour outside the lines. A lot of that has to do with who I am, but strangely enough, all the quirks and mishaps that life can come up with are drawn to my oddness. I am the living [...]
There was an awesome tweet on Twitter this week: Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman. Then be Batman! Hells yeah!! The Batman is the superhero all other superheroes are measured against. Sorry Stan Lee and Marvel Comics, but as long as DC Comics have Batman you will always be second best I’m afraid. [...]