Blogging from Paddy

I'm going to try and resurrect this blog from the ashes of last year!

It became increasingly impossible to maintain it from work... now, however, I have the pad!

Saying that, I may implement a few changes... some major, other major-or!

Happy Obligation Day!

Cam

Meet You Around Childish!

Can I be honest and say, I spend a large part of my 'week' day with a bunch of...

... Justin Bieber's!

It's not by choice... trust me!

God help us all!

Mickey Is Immortal

So Deadmau5 is here in South Africa...

... Canada's apology for Justin "Bieber-balls" Bieber!

Unfortunately, Deadmau5 doesn't play in the sorts of venues C-Girl and I like to frequent.  And to be perfectly honest, we're a bit concerted out!

U2, Coldplay and Kings of Leon all in one year. The first two being incredible shows however, KOL was not my favourite and possibly the worst for two reasons...

... if you're a 'stand-and-deliver' type of band, then don't have your show in 110 000 seater stadium! They felt lost and were overshadowed by too many lights and screens.

Don't play new shit and expect us to sing along!  For 7 songs in a row, I didn't know a single tune.  Which left me standing and swaying like a wind ravaged palm tree!

Coldplay, however, were incredble!

Aside from being RIDICULOUSLY hung-over, the show was incredible and Chris Martin has a stage presence that is something to behold!

They knew some of their new stuff would be unrecocknisable, so what did Coldplay do? They release a whole bunch of beach-balls and giant balloons for the crowd to play with and take photo's while the got through that setlist... amazing!
KOL just drone on in a boring monotonous fashion that got tedeous at the best of times.  Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of KOL! But think 3 shows at a smaller venue would have suited them better than one MASSIVE stadium!

Now, it's time for Big Concerts to bring out Green Day, Linkin Park, Muse and the Red Hot Chili Peppers before I get too old and lose interest in trekking to Soweto for a concert fix!

Cracker day in Jozi!

Re-adjusting the 'Sock in It'!

Blimey!

WTF has happen to ParkLife?

Look at all the dust! This place looks like that creepy house in Misery with Kathy Bates!

Sho'!

Something got me thinking about my blog today.  It was that old 'deep-scrub' feeling you get of nostalgia, the feeling of knowing you once wrote some crap about your life and some mental people actually read it!

I think it was after watching the final Harry Potter. You know when Neville Longbottom chops off the snakes head and Ron looks into Hermoine eyes and I know they were thinking about Parklife!

Hey, if Bangers and Nash can write a whole lot of opinionated shit and still keep people interested then so can I... I once did! Or does this require me moving to Cape Town?

So, the point is, I'm going to try everything possible in these last few days of 2011 to return PL to it's former glory of 1 reader before our wedding next year... easy enough!

In the mean time, you can trot over to the SA Blog Awards and vote for my good-friend and fellow leopard spotter's blog, Ranger Diaries... for the idea, the work he's put in, and the content he turns out, he deserves your vote more than Bangkok needs sandbags!

Do it! Do.it.here -  http://website.sablogawards.com/2011/vote/voteforme/4025

This World Needs a Hero!

It's a sad place!

I'm sure many will share this sentiment!

There are so many opinions and statements FLYING around social networks but in reality, anarchy is a product of neglect?

Whatever your thoughts our about the UK Riots, my feeling is that you either have to be cynical or humorous these days otherwise you'll just get depressed!

Bubble.

From C-Girl...

How do you get a Maroon 5 song out of your head?

If you move like Jagger?

Fuck that song annoys me! But it's usually the annoying ones that stick in your head like Pritt!

Ro and I went to an 'open day' at our wedding venue on Saturday and let me tell you, the excitement is now becoming intolerable!

270 days to go...

... have to 'stick' in there!

We tasted all the menu possibilities, met some other suppliers although we've stuck down most of them already. But was nice to get a feel for the place. Just wish it wasn't so far away however, everyone keeps saying the time will fly... it's just not fly fast enough!

It seems like these next 4 weeks are dragging! We want to move, we want to start decorating our new place, we want to be able to fart in the lounge without hearing it in the bedroom! But winter has this knack of dragging it's heals like a drunk gorilla in Illovo!

And there's more winter to come! Another cold front is sure to hit Jozi like an icy fly swat!  You know it's on it's way when your Cape Town mates start complaining on Facebook!
Statuses range from, "Fuck, I just shat a polar bear" to "OUR MOUNTAIN! THEY TOOK OUR MOUNTAIN!!! No, wait, sorry, it's just cloud and fog... boy, that was a close one!"

Then you know it's time to wrap-up in Jozi Hannesburg!

Stook!