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aug 13 2007

ampli5

at the very last minute ed and i decided to go to the ampli5 concert at the bellville velodrome. what a great evening...

the bands were awesome. although i must say i didn't recognise some of the songs. i was well chuffed to watch the violent femmes live. other honorable mentions are love jones, the parlotones, fokofpolisiekar. i see that the gang of instrumentals played at the other venues and i definitely would have loved to have seen them.

ed and i got there a little late, and beat the queuing crowds, yay. we then noticed that there were gold (for golden circle) and blue (for the cuervo vip section) bracelets. you could buy the gold ones, ofcourse, but the blue bracelets required your name to be on the 'vip' guest list. it turns out that damien's sister managed to get some for them... but try as i might the guys giving them out wouldn't be bribed to give ed and i a pair.

but, cunningly i managed to get my paws on a pair anyways (i will not divulge how though) and we managed to access the vip area... very cool!

       

Posted by sarah | add a comment | chillin', music

apr 23 2007

i like

i've been hearing this old sounding song on the radio (kfm)... and it turns out it sounds old but it's a new artist called amy winehouse. i managed to listen to a few tunes and i am really digging it.

time to drive ed nuts by looping my fav tracks, lol!

i must admit her hairdo is abit odd, but i guess if it rocks her boat...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | goodies, music

feb 03 2007

right on

yesterday i stumbled across an article about the excessive 'sexy' being shown in music videos. i agree with the columnist, infact i noticed it be rather ridiculous when i saw the black eyed peas 'my humps' video one afternoon with a friend's 8 year old - i gringed! i haven't made a point of looking for it in music videos, i must admit, i don't even watch the looped, 20 music videos on mtv anymore. but earlier today i managed to see the video for pink's 'stupid girls' and i tell you what, she is the coolest person ever! spot on...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | humour, music, ranting

feb 07 2006

reunited?

so the rumor that billie corgan started a few months back about wanting to reunite the pumpkins seems to be true.

i must admit that i think this is great news. mellon collie and the infinite sadness is one my all-time favourite albums...

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | music

jun 28 2005

silent disco

surfing through bbc news today i came across some pics from the glastonbury festival, a mere 11 to sum up the whole 3 day event, but hey they normally do that...

Posted by sarah | comments (4) | music

jun 23 2005

bits

last night was cool and crazy. we played our best game of volleyball ever, we still lost but as a team we rocked... then we stayed for some drinks and headed on home.

almost home and the back tyre disintergrates. 11pm at night. we call home to see if anyone is there and if they can give us a hand, nope. the (long) walk begins. we try hitching, but no-one's really interested, until we get to about 2-3 kilometres from the house and a really tired looking guy gives us a ride.

quickly grab my keys, some juice and head on back to the combi. what a mission to get the spare tyre out and change it, my jack is made for a tiny hatch-back not a big combi. put rocks under the other tyres so it won't roll off again... change the wheel and head off home, by the time we get there the spare has gone pretty flat, yay! head on out to the garage to put some air in and by the time we get there, that tyre is finished too. double yay! leave the combi at the garage and finally go home to get some sleep, it's well after midnight when we hit the bed.

mission around this morning trying to get some new tyres for ed, he's working from home until my dad comes around with some new (old) tyres for the car. i'm a little tired...

billy corgan has released his solo album. he's been keeping a secret for about a year now though, he wants to reform the smashing pumpkins... i liked the pumpkins, so hopefully it happens.

so we have our first woman deputy president. nice for the woman's rights, bad because it's like shuffling a bad deck of cards. what am i on about? well, the president replaced a person suspected of corruption with some-one else who's suspected of some questionable dealings... we'll see how this pans out, it seems dodgy in so many ways.

i was watching the news on tuesday evening and spotted a piece on patricia de lille naming names and still questioning the arms deal shenigans. i thought she had a valid point, in point form below a brief summary of what when down in the news piece (in parliament):
- de lille asks why we paid more than the market price for various arms
- trevor manuel yells that they only bought the best for the country

what do i think? well, why did we pay millions more than the market price for the weapons? she never asked "why didn't we buy the cheaper version?", she asked "why did we paid millions more than the market value?" well, why did we? i would like some-one to answer that question. i have no doubt that we would want only the best, but why at a cost of millions / billions when we have people starving, unemployed and without a roof over their heads?

make poverty history

Posted by sarah | add a comment | music, personal, politics

apr 12 2005

hype

i've often wondered how a crap song can be played on a radio station. more than once. i think it's got to do with money. the record companies pay for that crappy song to be played on the radio, alot. hoping to convince you, the listener, that it's actually popular. you might even think that lots of people have requested that song. nobody wants to be unpopular and not like what 'everyone' else is listening to, so you join in...

luckily i have a strong will and will not succumb to the record companies idea; that if i heard a crappy song 10 times in one week i'd actually 'crumble' and start liking it, hell, i might even go out and buy that crappy artists' album!

so when i stumbled across this article on bbc news, it just reaffirmed that they really don't care if the music is good, as long as there is hype (a number 1 hit for example) then they're happy and 'rolling in the dosh'.

granted it is a business. the artists need to make money, buy mansions and other expensive stuff. not if it's crap though.

seems i might even be right:

Mr Holmes said it would take several thousand additional sales to push a song from number 20 into the Top 10 and onto Top of the Pops.

With songs costing about 79p-99p each online, that would be money well spent for some labels, he added.

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | music, ranting

mar 24 2005

not again

arrgggh. 5fm has actually gone and done it again! they're changing their line-up and ditching some more of the foundations that made them the best national radio station in sa.

barney simon and derek the bandit are the latest victims, with alex jay and mark pilgrim being some of the initial victims, way back in 2002 and 2003.

mark pilgrim was the saving grace for me after alex jay got axed, even though i only got to hear his show on the odd occassion if i didn't sleep in on w/ends.

i must admit that i vowed to not listen to the station after alex got the boot, but they weren't that bad yet. now i can not say the same though. in my opinion, the music being played and the personalities are far less superior. i'm sick of switching that radio station on to hear yet another horrible r&b / crap pop tune, again!

there is not a single other radio station that could compare to what 5fm was when alex, mark, barney and derek were all part of the line-up.

the only dj's i like on their current line-up are zuraida and kevin fine and as luck would have it, their shows are during times when i am not near a radio or i am sleeping!

so, i better start sorting out the cd's in my car...

update: new line-up mentioned here, nothing about barney and derek getting the boot though.

Posted by sarah | comments (5) | music, ranting

Jan 06 2005

my car and i

so there i was, cruising along beach road in table view on my way to work. minding my own business, checking out stuff... everything but the road in front of me and not a second too early (or is it late?) either. the kind driver in front of me had stopped at a pedestrian crossing and i was about to say howzit to the rear end of her car.

screeeeech, a little sideways on the road (and off the road) plus alot of smoke from the burning rubber of my tyres.

the pedestrian gave me the evil eye and the kind driver sped away. i turned back onto the road, hoping that i'd pay more attention since i was wide awake now!

other road news: it happened awhile ago but it's been bugging me. who is the feather-plucker that decided that the 'slow' lane from table view to milnerton needed all that patch work? i think they've actually made the road worse and since i don't like to get speeding fines, i find i drive in the slow lane quite abit. it's just completely doff and bumpy, what a waste of our taxes!

thanks to coda for pointing out the dubious going-on's at musica digital. i'll wait for the mozilla friendly version...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | music, personal, tech, web

nov 10 2004

worst song of all time

apparently it's the beatles song; ob-la-di, ob-la-da... even though i never read the article, i now have the damn song in my head on repeat. i'm starting to think that it might just be right up there with the worst songs ever. but i can honestly think of some other songs more worthy of that title.

the macarena, they actually repeated it a few times the other night for some very hyperactive kiddies when we were getting a burger special at the spur. i also can't stand that frozen song by madonna.

what's your worst song of all time?

Posted by sarah | comments (3) | music

sep 23 2004

could it be possible...

that rem is going to be touring in sa? apparently so: thursday - 3rd march: the bellville velodrome - cape town the tickets aren't on sale yet but the prices have been advertised on computicket and they are pretty steep. having seen the band in london at earl's court a few years back i can say that it is well worth the price though whether you wanna be close (r365.00) or not so close (r263.00). i doubt being way at the back (r161.00) is really worth it though, so get the good ones before they're all gone! they start selling tickets on the 29th september @ 9am...

Posted by sarah | add a comment | music