I just received a message alerting me to the G-Star sale in Cape Town at those select stores! Look, even at half price it might be expensive (Plebb) but G-Star is awesome and that is a fact. I kick it in G-Star’s:
G-Star’s, Chuck’s…aint no thang!
Read up on that post over HERE.
Sale starts today, get some proper denim in your life!
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Just a quick one, a few e-mails came through from people saying they have been battling to post comments…anyone else experienced this?
If you could leave a comment here to test, and if it doesn’t go through, then you would be dolls/kiff okes to just drop me an e-mail at seanl (at) slxs (dot) co (dot) za and I’ll see what can be done.
If you’re naughty enough, you’ll be done! And the okes will get high fives…KIFF CHINA! LEKKA BRU! (As we see out the Ed Hardy crew)
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John Paul Dejoria of Paul Mitchell Hair Systems and Patron Tequila…struggling, clearly…
I’ve always had a fascination with brand history as very often the worlds biggest and most exciting brands have very small, humble beginnings, devoid of million dollar start up capital. In the case of Paul Mitchell Hair Systems, the start up was a mere $700. Not bad for the now $900 million a year empire.
And so we will come to learn how Paul Mitchell hair products, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan and Patron Tequila are all interlinked!
Patron Tequila is no doubt the most talked about tequila in the world at the moment, with references in movies, and everyone in Cape Town is talking about it, and drinking it. The next day memories are a little fuzzy, but it’s selling well! All I hear at Chevelle and Karma Lounge is “PATRON!”
And it’s a great story of how it became the tequila of choice for nearly everybody.
Patron Tequila was founded nearly 20 years ago, and it has redefined what tequila really is. In the past it was seen as one of those ‘wrecking crew’ drinks, where you just drank it to forget! You’d slam down a few tequilas and chase it with a beer to get the taste away, then hope it kicked in while you tried to score someone on the D-Floor at your local bar/club.
Patron is the number one tequila in the elite category of top of the line tequilas, a category which it basically invented. Patron is only outsold by Jose Quervo’s line of cheaper tequilas, the same way that Ferrari are outsold by Citi Golfs.
John Paul Dejoria started Paul Mitchell Hair Systems back in 1980, and then came Patron Tequila. This from Entrepeneur:
How did you start Patrón?
I started Patrón in 1989 with a friend of mine. I had put my friend Martin [Crowley] in the architectural business. He had a little bad luck in his life, so he would go down to Mexico, buy stone pavers and furniture and come back to the United States and sell it to architects. I said, “Martin, why don’t you bring back a few bottles of whatever the best tequila is that Mexicans drink down there.” So Martin brought me back the tequila and this bottle he found, that was the same bottle as Patrón today.
He said, “JP, I have this idea; taste this.” I thought, Wow, that’s smoother than anything we’ve ever had. He said “I can make it smoother. I can send a mixologist down. And here’s a bottle we can put it in, and I’ll design this beautiful label for it. What do you think about going into business together?” We made it a little smoother, put it in these hand-blown bottles. So I bought a thousand cases–12,000 bottles. And my thinking was, if no one bought it, I would keep it, because Paul Mitchell was doing good. And for 10 years everybody I knew got one–for their birthday, christening, bar mitzvah, any kind of holiday you could think of. “Here’s a bottle of tequila! [laughs] If you’re too young, give it to your parents.”
Now if you’ve watched You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, you will have seen ‘Paul Mitchell’ on the phone to The Zohan, well this Paul Mitchell is in fact John Paul Dejoria who is worth around $2,5 billion.
The full interview on Entrepeneur can be found HERE, and that is, in short, how you came to drink the best tequila in the world the other night!
It makes a change from knocking back shots of the cheap stuff in Tin Roof before chundering, then hitting Steers, then waking up and remembering nothing!
Click HERE for the Patron website.
Read More Add a CommentOne of the things I’ve never quite understood is people who buy cheap sunglasses from the side of the road, or ‘fashion’ sunglasses. Firstly, these trendy, cheap and plastic sunglasses create massive amounts of waste each season, as people basically just throw them out because ‘they were only R80′ Then there is the small matter of having these sunglasses imported from China which is quite far away. On top of this their lenses are of poor quality, which can lead to some serious damage of your eyes.
Good quality sunglasses will essentially last forever (Obviously barring scratches etc) and should not be seen as expensive, but they should be seen as an investment. I’m a fan of classic styles that never date. In clothing it’s my white v-neck t-shirts, All Star’s, G-Star raw denims, cardigans and anything casual that never dates or goes out of style. It’s eternally cool.
For sunglasses, I’m a huge fan of Ray Ban, because they have so many classic styles. Young people tend to go for Oakleys, in their crazy designs, but I’m a fan of the classic and timeless Aviators and Wayfarers. If you bought them 30 years ago, they were awesome, they’re awesome today and they will be awesome forever. And the Ray Ban G-15 lens is a classic, because what they do is emphasizes the colours that our eyes see most easily, and de-emphasize the less useful colours which the eyes can’t as easily see. So green and yellow are highlighted, while red and blue aren’t so much.
It’s very easy to justify spending R2000 on a pair of sunglasses when they are going to last a lifetime. Even if they only lasted 5 years (Let’s say you lose them after a bit of time), it would only cost R400 a year for proper eye protection.
If your lenses have poor UV protection, the darkness of the lens means your pupils dilate, letting more light in. Without UV protection, inferior quality sunglasses do major amounts of damage to your eyes. Cheaper sunglasses may also only block certain UV rays. Furthermore, the UV protection may be a light coating on the lenses, and if they get scratched, you’ll get a UV leak which will damage your eyes.
I’ve only ever worn two brands of eyewear because of their superior lens quality, and that is Oakley and Ray Ban. I use Ray Bans for my casual style, and I’ll use Oakley for sport because they are simply the best sport performance sunglasses available. Let’s take a look at what I’d choose from the Ray Ban catalogue for casual wear:
Brad Pitt KILLING a pair of Ray Ban Aviators! This is how you wear them…with a kick ass pilot attitude
One of the many reasons you’ll buy these is going to be due to Top Gun! I mean, who didn’t want to put on a pair of Ray Ban Aviators, walk up to a chick and tell her that you’re a ‘naval aviator’? I tried this once at Tin Roof but at the last minute got a bit excited and said I have a torpedo that needs a cave to explode in…mmmm…not ideal. Needless to say I didn’t come right that night! Well actually I did, I think drinking the ice cream dip at the Steers that used to be oppossite Tin Roof, while NONE of the staff noticed me, classifies as ‘coming right’
That was around the time I passed out on the bar counter at Conti’s while sharing a fish bowl with my mate Jools. He didn’t wake me up, but just kept drinking my share! Ahhhh…good times. My spent youth!
Anyway, legends have worn Aviators, and Ray Ban sunglasses continue to be worn by film stars and those with an innate knowledge of what it means to really be stylish. It’s not about following seasonal trends, but about wearing timeless and classic pieces of fashion.
Megan Fox, looking GREAT in a pair of Ray Ban Aviators
There are also other styles from Ray Ban, offering a more squared Aviator style which are very, very cool.
Another classic used by film stars, the Ray Ban Wayfarers go against all normal design!
Robert Pattinson wearing Ray Ban Wayfarers
They stick out and don’t wrap around your face, but somehow the package just comes together so well. You’ve seen Jack Nicholson wearing them, and he’s a cool guy. More importantly, he still pulls the hotties! Even while drinking beer and eating hot dogs on a boat with his stomach out. There is a whole article on Wayfarers over HERE on Wikipedia and it’s interesting to follow their rise and fall in popularity. But the people with real style have been wearing them all along. As their popularity has surged again recently, they have released some awesome new editions, like the Ray Ban Rare Prints:
But to be honest, you can’t go wrong with Ray Ban Wayfarers in any style. They are all good!
For sports sunglasses, and ones that you are going to use when sweating like a beast, Oakley simply offer the best sunglasses on the planet. Whether you go for The Oakley Radar, or the M Frames, or the Jawbone, you can’t go wrong. They stick to your face thanks to a unique rubber that gets stickier when you sweat. I’m a fan of the M-Frames as they have an insanely comfortable fit, although most stores are now stocking the Oakley Radar. But you can still ask them to place an order for some M-Frames.
Cedric Gracia in Oakley Radar
Lance Armstrong HURTING the competition and a pair of M-Frames (Actually, possibly Pro M-Frames)
And buying expensive sunglasses doesn’t guarantee great UV protection. Sometimes sunglasses from designers don’t have the best lenses, and you need to stick with the core sunglass brands who sell great designs with top of the range UV protection. Check this out from Wikipedia:
In addition, high prices cannot guarantee sufficient protection as no correlation between high prices and increased UV protection has been demonstrated. A 1995 study reported that “Expensive brands and polarizing sunglasses do not guarantee optimal UVA protection.” The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has also reported that “consumers cannot rely on price as an indicator of quality”. One survey even found that a $6.95 pair of generic glasses offered slightly better protection than did expensive Salvatore Ferragamo shades.
So PLEASE don’t buy those cheap shades! Get some proper eye protection that will last a lifetime, and will also ensure that your eyes last a lifetime.
It’s more of an investment than anything else really, and you’ll look really good.
I mean…real good…
Everybody…come and see how good I look!
Read More Add a CommentCrisis, I’m like a one man wolf pack at the moment and I’m loving it!
Go hit golf balls…by myself.
Go to the beach…by myself.
Go watch the early morning movies to catch them in peace without teenagers playing with each other…by myself.
I’m like a young George Clooney.
“Excuse me miss, while I realise you want to be all over me, I must pass on this opportunity because I’m going gambling with the boys”
So I’m chillaxing on the beach two weekends ago by myself, just soaking it all up. I was there with the shades on, the usual trucker cap, my Island Tribe Sunscreen smeared all over me like sexual erotica, in and around my mouth…wow…too far there.
And I decided I was going to have a day of just listening. A day of looking is alright, if you want to tan your back (My umbrella pole gets in the way whenever hot girls walk past…how weird is that?!)
So I’m chilling there by the sea when I suddenly tune into the fine radio stations that happen to come from the mouths of the different people in Cape Town. You’ve got the white folk, the black folk, the coloured folk and…well then you have Joburg my CUZZIE!
And it is just semi-hysterical to lie on the beach and listen to all of this, and I was nearly in tears, because each group sometimes say the most hilarious things, and do the most hilarious things.
Firstly we had the coloured guys next to me smoking a hubble and wearing their pants so low that their boxer shorts were showing. But ALWAYS silky, baggy boxers, that’s how they roll! The cops were patrolling, and started asking them questions, searching their bags for weed I suppose. The cops think they are clever like that “Ooooooh a hubble…these folk must be smoking mara-joo-wana!” As soon as the cop leaves you just hear
“Yoh, jus naai!”
“Jus my brassa, the bass never outdates! Check my kwaai cabbie, new Rockford Fosgate my bru. Ja hooked up a deal at Jamiels cousin. Jussus check that brassa’s new chrome”
Which reminds me of this coloured dude in school, who never wanted to swim in PE, he would just go “Nooooo sir, I don’t have my bather!” I mean, at a young age, I was in hysterics because of this type of language, and I’ll never forget it. I still remember my teacher, Mr Human (Rondebosch Boys Junior School), he thought this was hilarious that a costume was called a bather.
So the coloured ‘brassa’ were sitting on my right hand side.
Then there were some white chicks on my left, discussing men problems. It’s weird, because white girls just can’t get over guys. They have these huge discussions of what went wrong, and how they can’t believe he ‘already has a new girlfriend’. Man, they need to learn a thing or two from the black girls I was listening to about three weeks ago. The ones who somehow are rolling an American accent.
It’s easy to spot the white folk on a beach…just look for anything that looks like it’s walked out of a magazine. Us white people LOVE to follow trends! You see it in GQ or Cosmo…the white people will be wearing it. Wayfarers? Check! Straw hat/panama hat? Check! Sandals…well Havaianas to be precise? Check! We love the trends. You’ll also see the white girls sitting there putting on their Dermalogica sunscreen and saying “It’s solar activated you know, so as soon as I go in the sun it starts working” Which is nothing short of bizarre, because if you’re putting on sunscreen, then SURELY it means you’re going to go in the sun. Why can’t it just activate when you put it on? We love falling for marketing tricks!
“But it’s got vitamin C” (Forgetting for a moment that vitamin c is better if you just take the tablets, and cheaper) says tart as she pops another goji berri down. “Anti-oxidants”
The white girls also love to sit on the beach, talking about all the latest skandaal. But they’ll go on and on and on…
“But I still hate seeing John with his new girlfriend…I downright refuse to go to a party where he is going to be, with that new skank girlfriend of his that he cheated on me with. I hate it that I still have feelings for him though…”
The black chicks, well they don’t care about ‘John’s’ feelings.
“Oh that mother_ _ _ _ _ _! I’m gonna rip his _ _ _ _ off! Cheating on me with that skinny ass white bitch!”
Then the black dudes are just cruising around “How Jo how’s this dood!” Do I hear correctly, is it ‘Jo’? What does it mean?
I should actually ask Gazza! But Gazza is kicking it in the UK somewhere I think. Gazza is down with all that lingo.
Gazza at 8pm…still fully clothed and still owning a name
By this time I was finding it extremely hard to keep any sort of composure. You can’t very well sit on the beach by yourself and laugh, because people then know you are listening to them and you are labeled a stalker (Ha!)
Now all of this is still funny, because whether we’re black, white or coloured we can look at the way we act and the way we do things, and we can have a laugh.
And then Joburg arrives. And bugger the whole jol up.
“Yussus cuzzie that’s a shweet Ed Hardy cap you got there hey! Bru…check my triceps. Dak CHINA! Yeah Warren put me on this stuff…nah…it’s legal hey, but only just. Bru I’m chilling at The Hat the other night with my broad and this oke scopes her, and I’m like ‘Listen bru, you checking my chick?’ F_ _ _en flexed my tri one time and this oke even said sorry…can you believe it?”
“No so bru I’m on this new stuff hey, glutamine, protein and creatine, I’m so much stronger hey. Yeah I’m gonna go on the ‘roids again hey, but my broad was complaining…you know…can’t get it up hey. And my skin was quite bad hey, had a bit of accers. And the rage as well, but it’s a small side effect to be dak hey”
And that’s the end of the story, because we have spoken about Joburg WAY too much this summer already!
But next time you’re on the beach, listen to the things people say, it’s hilarious. And leave a comment here on your favourite saying from the beach, it’s actually too much for my mind to handle!
And here are some photos of my UGLY weekend that just passed, where I hit Clifton 4th up with Gaz (The other Gaz) and Stace. Mmmmm I think we’ll do that again this naweek!
Boardies by Country Road
Good times.
Read More Add a CommentIf you’re an athlete, you will know that nothing beats Oakley when it comes to pure performance. I wouldn’t wear anything else as an athlete, whether it’s running, cycling or anything else in between. Lance Armstrong wore the M-Frames to multiple Tour De France victories, and they are still one of the most popular sporting sunglasses on the planet. Recently Oakley have introduced the Jawbone and the Radar, which is what all the top athletes are replacing their M-Frames with. I’m still a big fan of the M-Frames as they just seem more sturdy than the Radars, but the Radars do come with some cool new technology like the Hydrophobic lens coating. This ensures that water simply washes off the lenses and keeps your vision clear. Sweat and oils are also unable to stick to the lenses, keeping your field of view clear for the ultimate in performance.
The Oakley Limited Edition Radar Path with the “Anti-Freeze” frame colour and the Jade Iridium lenses are the ones you’ve seen Biff (Graeme Smith) wearing lately.
The Limited Edition Oakley Radar Path — Anti Freeze/ Jade Iridium
You can’t order them anymore, but you can grab them at Cycle Lab in Westlake in Cape Town for R2450. They are seriously one awesome looking pair of sunglasses and you better not leave it too late if you’re keen to get your hands on a pair as you won’t be able to get them for much longer. This is what Oakley have to say about them:
They say it’s the color of the word “go” and it screams of freedom, nature and endurance. We don’t know about all that touchy-feely crap. We just think the color is sick, and you can only get it with these Oakley RADARS designed for cycling. The green hue is a rarity called Anti-freeze made only for this Limited Edition frame and we matched it with JADE IRIDIUM lenses, a little something we’ve been cooking up in the lab for years.
True performance eyewear goes back to the days when athletes had zero choices and a company called Oakley began addressing their needs. We grew up supporting cross-country cycling and downhill racing. We were there at the birth of Free ride and we’ve been part of the Big Tour and Classic segments for decades. Radar eyewear is now essential equipment for anything with two wheels and no limits, and this is one of the first designs to come with Jade Iridium lens coating for truer color recognition, especially in bright sun. (It doesn’t make the world look green; it just makes the other riders green with envy). Put it all together and you’ve got unbeatable performance and rare style.
Get this Limited Edition cycling combo now because once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.
So if you’re keen on owning a very unique, sports specific pair of shades, these are the ones. Available at Cycle Lab in Westlake.
Read More Add a CommentI tend to have an obsession with photos, especially awesome ones, and these are the ones I’m loving right now.
Firstly, we have two young, hot actresses. We’ve all had a thing for Dakota Fanning, it’s just that everyone has held back because of her age! I think she’s 16 now. Still too young! But it never hurts to invest for the future. Mind you, Kristen has a thing for me, so I’ll date her in the interim. POW! I love this photo because it’s just two of the most popular young actresses in the world, just chilling.
Then we have Emma Watson from Harry Potter in the Burberry campaign. She’s really beautiful and Burberry just transcends cool. It’s that slim, classic look that just never ages. The Burberry check is phenomenal and it just reminds me of London musicians. Clean fitting, classic and I love it. Check out the stand alone Burberry store at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, on the upper level above Willoughby’s.
And then…well we don’t need to say anything about how cool Johnny Depp is.
Just hurting a pair of Ray Ban Aviators.
These are the ones…sickie woo!
Just a quick one, I was scouting the Waterfront yesterday (Burberry — Simply TO DIE FOR!) and came across a pair of Ray Ban Aviators at 20% off. They are around R1600 normally I believe, so at 20% off they’re rolling in at around R1300 give or take a few rand. Not bad! They have a black frame and the sought after G-15 lenses, and I found them at the sunglasses store (In the aisle) just outside of Exclusive Books. So if you were looking for Aviators, that’s a pretty sweet deal. I’m not looking for the black frame, looking for the silver frame, with G-15 lenses with no mirror finish on them.
SICK! I’ll be a real cop then.
Read More Add a CommentYou know I never ask much of you guys and girls, but you know, I’m a giver. But now we need your support, because friends help friends!
Cape Town boys Locnville need your votes in the 2010 MK Awards as Best Newcomers, and we’re naturally supporting them.
Locnville: Hurting it!
You literally need to take 30 seconds out of your schedule of boozy lunches and ‘important telephone calls’ and ’staff meetings to touch base’, to help out here. I mean, not that the guys really need help because no one won’t not vote for them, but we want them to absolutely take the awards to the dry cleaners. Everyone knows Locnville are by far the best newcomers so it’s all good!
All we need from you is to SMS 5D to 33154. I only ask for these little favours when it means the world to me and those around me. This is one of those times.
Do it do it! If they win, Mark Felgate will run naked around Karma Lounge in Camps Bay while pouring milk all over himself and shouting “I am the milk man!” He doesn’t know he’s going to do this, but he’ll find out soon enough.
So get those votes in and let’s see Locnville HURT the MK Awards 2010!
Read More Add a CommentI’ve been meaning to talk to you about this for QUITE some time, because people think I own the company that makes this stuff, which is weird. They thought the name was actually based on my lifestyle, ‘loaded’ because of the state of my bank account. Well this is a complete lie, I’m not loaded! Well I am at the 25th of each month when I pay myself, but by the 30th my lone missions to Vegas in search of strippers and cocaine has all but depleted the monetary values!
And then ’smoothie’ because I’m apparently smooth with the ladies. Well this I can confirm is all fabrication! I stutter and stumble when talking to girls, and I blush, and I’m self conscious about my hair. So when seeing me at a club, please don’t approach me because I’ll get nervous. But if you’re hot…well approach me anyway and I’ll see how I can do you. I mean what I can do for you. Ladies!
Calm yourselves…
I was on this huge mission to Spar this morning (Spaza shop) to grab the paper, my lottery winnings (Massive…apparently I can’t cash out that much as the Spar…WTF?) and a Bioplus sachet or three to jolt my mind into ass kicking, chick pulling, tanning, Greek God rippedness action. The sound track to my trip to the shops was naturally ‘The Four Tops– Loco In Acapulco” Which is well suited to Dockside boat shoes and Wayfarers and Caribbean shorts from Country Road and copious amounts of Island Tribe to prevent me from turning into a Pom tourist. Thanks!
So I nipped in (I’m using ‘nipped’ again, it makes me feel sexual, like a revolution…in your pants) and did all the usual when I was looking for some juice, and I saw Loaded Smoothies, again! I’ve been drinking them for ages and they’re so damn good they could cure anything. The whole angle is that they’re healthy, very healthy, but more importantly they’re tasty. They beat the hell out of any fizzy drinks I’ll tell you that much!
Loaded Smoothies are 100% natural, contain zero preservatives, zero stabilisers, zero colourants and they are sugar free.
Today I tried the Loaded Smoothie Berry flavour, but they are all just so good! You honestly would never think that something so healthy can also be so tasty, but Loaded have it just right. The berry flavour contains banana, strawberry, pear juice, blackberry and aronia berry juice. Whatever that is. I also bought the Loaded Kiwi, which contains banana, apple and kiwi.
Sick!
Loaded Smoothies are the secret to my happiness. And unhealthy amounts of incense…woooooooooo!
You should be able to grab Loaded Smoothies in most Spar stores in Cape Town, but if your shop doesn’t stock them (Odd), then tell them to put their pants on and stop buggering around because you need a Loaded Smoothie. It’s perfect for summer. Just like tiny bikini’s and cleavage.
Oh I’ll see you filthy animals on the beach later! I’ll do Llandudno.
You can just do me.
DESIRE!
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