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Hip Hop Events / WOMANTIDE...

« on: August 07, 2009, 11:13:19 PM »

...is what happens when you put together the creative talents and light energy of performance poet malika ndlovu, former lead vocalist of moodphase5ive ernestine deane and singer-songwriter and guitarist, tina schouw.

i love being made to eat my hat. if youre in cape town and you have the time go and see this. three distinct women who, each in their own way, move the earth and raise the sea. a triumph of sincerity and a conversation in feeling. a listening, giving, celebration that re-members our humanity. the power of what it means to LOVE. there is just not enough being uplifted.

because sometimes these things go beyond conceptual ideas and you have to sit inside the experience. 

and maybe one day: 'tenderness will rule the world'


 - artscape arena 17h00 and while youre at it catch claire phillips at 20h00 -

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Politics / Re: Hani killed by Modise ?

« on: August 03, 2009, 08:26:20 PM »

i just wanted to say here you know. just by the by in amongst all the other issues, as a point of discussion actually. because i think we are struggling with having the kinds of conversations we need to be, because they are out there nonetheless happening. sometimes we just carelessly have these conversations here like we are somewhat away from, like we arent right here in the middle of these contexts. and sometimes i just feel like we miss some really important moments of communication and understanding here together. and it requires humility on our parts. we are what is happening out there. these are pressing, relevant out there realities, questions, statements, frictions - shaping lives. these are things we are battling with right now. this is where we are. and no one is talking.

this place is in flux, in many ways, dynamic and sensitive. and we are struggling to find the balance to have the kinds of conversations that build. that have our equal parts of the landscape in honest conversation. a lot has been done and kept in the interests of enabling the country to make its way towards a renegotiation of itself. thats where we are and thats all. we are still at the place of having to learn to weave our way around being able to constructively engage with each other. and some of these things are part of that.

i think you would be surprised you guys with regards to azania. i think it would be extremely interesting to just peak out the window and listen. say you would have a referendum. just. i think you would find that the name azania means a lot of things to a lot of people in this country.

the issue is not always about what people say, its our beginning to be able to think about HOW we talk.

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Hip Hop Events / Re: URBAN VOICES

« on: July 24, 2009, 11:51:18 AM »

thank you for the thoughts.

this, is sparta!!!

* salutes *

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Hip Hop Events / URBAN VOICES

« on: July 22, 2009, 11:44:26 AM »

notorious for never saying things. so im saying:

im opening at the urban voices festival in cape town.




* FREE WORKSHOPS *

JO’BURG/b]
- cla** on poetry/movement/performance in partnership with the dance factory
- marc bamuthi joseph and abena koomson
- wednesday 22 July 2pm-4pm
- venue: the dance factory, newtown, joburg

- friday 24 july 11am-1pm
- venue: sibikwa, cnr liverpool and bolton, benoni, east rand


CAPE TOWN
- poetry/movement/performance in partnership with jazzart
- marc bamuthi joseph
- monday 27 July 10.30am-12.30pm
- venue: artscape theatre centre, rehearsal room 351


limited seats please RSVP to zee@artsexchange.co.za 

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Hot Traxxx / Re: MPHO!!

« on: July 21, 2009, 05:12:41 PM »

deac-on-frost...360 degrees awareness my sweetie:

www.africasgateway.com/forums/index.php?topic=25302.1245

and then check her out here: www.youtube.com/mphosounds doing a track called 'running up that hill'


sipho hotstix mabuza's daughter and 'pop art' is the album.

shes that guts and glory baby. GUTS AND GLORY.


shes going to be big this chick, a 'showing shortly'.

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Hip Hop Events / MANDELA DAY

« on: July 18, 2009, 01:40:49 PM »

in the spirit of all things worth fighting for, a beautiful mandela day to everyone.




















" after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. "

make it mean something.

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Chief Rocka - Open Mic / Re: poets corner 14 ( relapses or corpses)

« on: July 01, 2009, 11:36:56 PM »

hello witness in silence.


ACROSS THE ROOM: GIRL MEETS BOY

from across the room
you blow, like a breeze
in the quiet corners of a wanting soul
soothing haunting longing
there but
not.

from across the room
with eyes that caress my pain
you pull me into you
and i like the way you feel
in all ways
you feel good to me

from across the room
you travel my being
have me seeing things
youre such a tease
but i, i am privately pleased
from across the room

i turn to smile at the silence
and how it gazes over me
life giving
an uninterrupted flowing
sensation
the controlled lust of secret pa**ion
and we’re the watchers

a do not disturb sign

you, me, across the room.

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Motoring Forum / Re: cars that make you cry

« on: June 09, 2009, 10:42:30 PM »

he-llo tunerooooo...

im the bhlakhroze. i like fast cars. youre so sexy. you make me feel things.

and i got the hearts for youuuu.


* makes eyes at him *

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General Discussion / Re: Cape Town

« on: May 14, 2009, 07:50:04 AM »

Anyway...I didn't create the thread to start a race war or a city war.
It's just that, based on my years there and comments on this website, heads from Cape Town hate paying for something and  think that's normal.

Can you take people like that serious?
As an audience?
As artist?
Businessmen?

Na!        

i think it depends who you are. what youre trying to do and how youre trying to do it.

having left cape town on and off for years making my life a tale of two cities, i think what i will say for it is that some of the points you highlight in your first post are key and on point. i will not deny them. some of them are things that piss me off every other day. cape town IS racist, its a hard pill to swallow for the 'mother' city, but truth is she isnt always very nurturing.

but there are points and clearly at this point in my life theyre enough. i dont think she always does well by way of scorecard, but sometimes its not about the scorecard. and well for me right now, its a choice i make. and i think its a lifestyle choice. based on what i need.

and also i think im naive enough to be like in the face of all black people always leaving (rightfully so) i do think those 'unlikelys' for black people mentioned in your earlier post, theyre possible. and thats all that matters. may not be as easy. but its possible. l 

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General Discussion / Re: What do you do?

« on: May 14, 2009, 07:29:45 AM »

Please dont make this a Battle of the Sexes. i'm a brother that's been hurt by someone I care about. I need some advice. Surely this is a universal problem that any fellow AGian can experience regardless of gender.

i wasnt making ANYTHING a battle of the sexes. youll know when im making a battle merchant. you know. nam niyandi hurta nasoloko nindinqala. if you could take the time to tell me this you could have also taken then time to get a sense of the tone of what i was saying. and on top of that i was taking to her. sharing a moment of laughter. with her.

mina angizingeni lezindaba zonika i-advice about abantu engigabazi. and what theyve done for that matter.

nxe.

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Hip Hop Events / Re: POETRY FESTIVAL

« on: May 12, 2009, 07:45:52 PM »

awww. i wuv you though

it will be on youtube...if that helps...uhm...

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Hip Hop Events / POETRY FESTIVAL

« on: May 12, 2009, 07:20:22 PM »

if youre in and around and you are a lover. infact even if you arent. it was the spier poetry festival and now theyre rebranding and repositioning under the name badilisha poetry xchange. im made to believe theres more on facebook and youtube. and the site (oops. haha)

a celebration of thought, of feeling, of words in sight and sound.



and from our neck of the woods here, emile yx and myself.

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General Discussion / Re: What do you do?

« on: May 12, 2009, 07:05:19 PM »

msg209031#msg209031 date=1242137250]
HOW DOES ONE GET BACK AT A CHICK? 

Ignore her. Everyone knows how we love attention, just don't give any. Don't call, don't sms, don't email,no snail mail, don't even think about her and even if you do, don't let her in on it. Don't talk about her to her/your friends because she'll find out. When you bump into her in public don't be an a**, say hi ask how she's doing and end it there. Don't ask how her day is going or even how her sick mother is doing and DON'T ask about her personal life ie. who she's seeing.

If she should sms you, don't respond unless you absolutely have to and in that case stick to one word answers. If you know you're still weak don't take your phone with you when you're about to get drunk.There's nothing that says "I still long for you" more than a drunk call/sms in the middle of the night.

If you still have some of her things and you think she might want them back RETURN THEM QUICKLY.  Get her out of your system with the quickness. But don't get a girlfriend just yet. It's too soon and she'll think you're using the next girl just to get over her. Just chill for at least 2 months so she'll see you didn't need her you just enjoyed having her around and you're okay without her. Don't give her any excuse to call you so that when she does, you know it's cause she missed you.

Don't sleep with her friends they'll only end up discussing how whack you are, even if you were good.  And sooner than you think all her girlfriends,their friends and random chicks they met at the gym and their friends will know how whack you are. I don't know your girl but you'd be surprised at how many people actually do this.

Always keep clean. Don't let her see you scruffy, she'll only think you're falling apart. If you know she's gonna be at a party and you really don't need to go. DON'T cause she probably knows you're gonna be there and she's gonna come out guns blazing and if you're not ready it will only take you one step back.

Let her miss you. There's nothing worse than missing someone and not knowing if they feel the same way.

My 2 cents worth..use it, don't use it. 

id like to call you to order chief. hayi. ndiyanqanda tyhini. kanti whose side are you on bra. they didnt even have to pay you. hayi hayi ndiyanqanda. zatsha izindlu zabantu. im seeing ashes

hayi hayi athena. hayi. safa. sincede. you knows somebody is going to use this wrong. and watch it be me on the otherside. kaloku ndingu i stand accused.

i saw my life flashing   

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Readers Corner - Books / Re: the beauty myth

« on: May 06, 2009, 08:22:35 PM »

EXHIBIT A

i hope the book is more accessible than this description. what's here is obviously a case of allowing pa**ion to cloud clarity.

is it an American book?

i believe "difference is a beautiful thing" until we believe it to be absolute.

ah the panic! but ofcourse. we meet again is it. i had kind of hoped it would fly over your head completely. but alas. sigh. pity.
* deadpan *

yes, its american. you, however, are on your own should you decide to go there etc etc. much as i would like to, im currently unable to join you for this evenings ping pong.


...oh and about pa**ion and clarity. id say it’s a bit of both panicky one. id rightfully own them as a bit of both. and id consider it a job well done

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Readers Corner - Books / the beauty myth

« on: May 06, 2009, 11:01:50 AM »

*walks into the shooting gallery, stands in front of the target and poses *


it’s a book by a woman called naomi wolf.

just an interesting investigation of the situation regarding the children of the prior struggles for the liberation and self determination of women. it’s intelligent and thought provoking, bridging the use of slightly academic theorems into a real world, everyday context. its accessible reading. she interrogates how far women have come in terms of themselves and their positioning in society, both as subjects and objects. it questions the extent of our self awareness within the ever quietly shifting paradigms of the conscious and unconscious agreements we make in relation to our choices. it explores the issue of the gains women have made in the public space over the years, as juxtaposed with some of the new challenges we face, it highlights these.

like much else it may be dismissed as being feminist when i think that to do so is to be grossly negligent. at a very basic level i think that if we look at the world as it is, with women not only being the greater majority and actually forming the backbone of societies everywhere, perhaps its more important than we think. its what some of us already intrinsically know and experience but most of us don’t engage with. and it is a conversation missing amongst women themselves. one that shouldnt be exclusive to halls of learning or corridors of so called power.   

she decribes this current system of functioning as ‘checkmating power at every level in individual womens lives...undermining, slowly, imperceptibly, without our being aware of the real forces of erosion...'

its pertinent in so far as i think its important for us to be consistently re-evaluating our understanding of our role in society. to be able to contextualise ourselves, in terms of what we believe in and why. and as the inheritors of the rich legacy of being given better chances to make the best possible contributions to our society, we need to be clear on where there is still work to be done. we need to be questioning whether we, today, are making the best of use of that. are we simply perfecting what is already or in our own way, using our voices to shed some new light.

like any good book, it challenges thought in a manner which is simultaneously uncomfortable as it is empowering.


its not always cool but umzabalazo continues broers.

and difference is a beautiful thing.