One of the things I’m enjoying at the moment is working on things I’m passionate about, with people who are passionate. While Google ads and Afrigator ads make money for me, I’ve decided to remove them to offer just what I want to be offered on SLXS. The Flickr photos are there because I really want to start adding some cool photos. Blogging needs to get away from trying to throw ads in at any piece of available space.

So I’m very excited to be working with the awesome crew from Halo, a small group of people passionate about trance music in South Africa. These are people who live for trance and do it purely for the love of the music. They invest a lot of personal time into these events to make them as unique as possible, and I’ve seen it grow into something awesome. Halo are finally touching down at Chevelle and I couldn’t be more amped, for the party, and for the guys organising these events! I’m extremely stoked to be involved as part of the media crew, I’ll be promoting the event and also giving away some free tickets to Halo Future Heroes.

The guys have been working so hard at progressing trance music locally, and they have really now ended up at a point where a lot of others might get greedy, but instead they are always thinking of the trance community and the artists. Future Heroes is their way of supporting local artists, with two slots reserved in the evening for two up and coming artists. Yup, that’s how these guys do it!

Check out all the details:

‘FUTURE HEROES’

Friday 1 October 2010 @ THE TEMPLE
(Chevelle, 84 Harrington Street, Cape Town CBD)

After bringing you some of the World’s finest Trance & Progressive Artists over the past 2 Years, with more to come both this year and next, HALO HQ is taking an opportunity to give back to the Cape Town Trance & Progressive Family, with our first, of what we hope will become a regular date on our Calendar, HALO ‘FUTURE HEROES’.

Over the past few months, HALO HQ has received numerous Guest Mixes and Promo’s from aspiring Artists across South Africa, and since there is no dedicated platform in Cape Town, for up ‘n coming Artists within our genre, we have taken it upon ourselves to create that platform, through HALO ‘FUTURE HEROES’.

We have made two 60 Minutes Slots available at strategic points through the nights entertainment, for the selected Artists to showcase their talents.

The two Artists selected are…

DALE ROTHER
and
AAVI

Over the past 6 months, on HALO Live, we have showcased two OUTSTANDING Guest Mixes from each of these Artists respectively, prompting us to consider them as ‘front runners’ in the ‘race’ for ‘Future Hero’ status. We have every confidence that these two Artists will only add to the performance value, of what already promises to be, an unforgettable evening of entertainment.

Supporting our ‘Future Heroes’, will be ‘The Usual Suspects’, The ‘HALO TRIO’, Rory Mitchell, Scott Small and Shaun Holiday, as well as our immerging Performance and Production Duo, 2nd Phaze, not to mention, a few surprises on the night as well.

This time round, HALO HQ has selected THE TEMPLE as the ‘canvas’ for the HALO ‘FUTURE HEROES’ experience. THE TEMPLE is the Main Dance Floor at Chevelle, one of the Premier Venue’s in the Cape Town CBD, boasting 2 Dance Floors, each with it’s own Bar and Toilets, as well as an exquisite VIP Area, overlooking the Main Dance Floor.

We will once again be kitting out the entire arena in true HALO fashion, with Mungus Fungus (the same guys that did Cosmic Gate), in control of the venue Décor. We will also be preparing some cool visuals and gimmicks for added entrainment and interaction value.

DETAILS:

HALO presents‘FUTURE HEROES’

DALE ROTHER
&
AAVI

Supported by:

RORY MITCHELL
SCOTT SMALL
SHAUN HOLIDAY
2nd PHAZE

Friday 1 October 2010 @ THE TEMPLE
(Chevelle, 84 Harrington Street, Cape Town, CBD)

ADMISSION:
ZAR 50
www.WebTickets .co.za

STRICTLY No U18
No Weapons
No Illegal Substances
R.O.A.R.

We’ll be chatting to the Halo Crew, and giving away a few sets of VIP tickets on SLXS, so stay tuned.

Click here to buy your tickets.

Yeeeeeeeeah!

Old school beggars

New school beggars

A while back I felt kind of bad at times, because I was telling people that all these blind beggars were a load of bull, because some people were going on like a bunch of haggard fish wives saying  “Aaaaah how can you be so mean” The reason I was being mean is because suddenly, every bergie was blind. Meanwhile I could see their beady eyes checking out my Red Bull and my car radio. Not to mention my cut physique, revered the world over.

Anyway, I wouldn’t make a complete joke of people because of a disability, it just irritates me that people fake disabilities.

Now I don’t want to be mean, but there is a guy at the traffic lights at Woolworths on Belvedere Road that scares the living daylights out of me! I was chilling at that robot the other day sipping on something awesome like a Cherry Coke or a RAD creme soda, and the next thing I knew there was this figure next to me. I turned to this figure of sorts and can honestly say that I nearly soiled myself! WOWZER!

This oke has the craziest eyes, like, crazy crazy eyes!

Hey crazy eyes!

Now I actually don’t think he’s faking it because he’s all sorts of weird. But the fact remains, there is another guy who hangs out at the Belevedere area, normally at the petrol station and he is FINE. He’s just a raging alcoholic who keeps telling me that I have a good heart and that I will give him money.

I must be seriously blind at the moment because I can’t see the ‘Mother Theresa’ printed in ink on my forehead. I mean, maybe it is written there? In that case, I’m sorry.

But he is perfectly fine other than the fact that he’s a raging alcoholic, and I saw him walking like a gimp the other day trying to beg for money. My first thought was to kick him in his nuts, but the last thing I need right now is for all the prim and proper set to report me to the Peoples Post, or God forbid, The Tatler, the places where people write ‘strongly worded letters’

‘I cannot believe that my neighbours daughter wears such short skirts, she is sullying the reputation of the greater Pinelands area’

The Tatler is basically a cool space for you to complain if you have zero to no life. Sort of like a pensioners weekly.

Anyway, I just wanted to ask if disabled/Rain Man type beggars have overtaken the blind ones in numbers now? It seems that all the old blind beggars are now walking around with limps, arms stretched out like Hansen, and one eye looking toward your car tyres, and the other one pointing to the skies.

Interesting times in the ‘burbs, interesting times indeed.

So my whole meeting at Brandhouse last week or the week before (I seem to have forgotten) was all in relation to Smirnoff’s Project X. And not even I know what it is all about! So I can’t help you along here, you’re going to have to use your imagination…Smirnoff will only let me know on Monday 13 September, so we have to wait. But because I hate making you wait, the good people at Smirnoff have put up a R2000 Smirnoff hamper…

Here are some of the details, a R2000 Smirnoff hamper needs to be given away on SLXS, so open up your mind…and let the ideas roll! Leave your suggestions in the comment box below to win.

Take a guess and let me know what you think it could be and you can stand a chance to win a Smirnoff hamper worth R2000.

The hamper is filled with goodies such as a six pack of Smirnoff Storm, 6 pack of Smirnoff Spin, bottle of Smirnoff vodka, a cap, an ice bucket, a cooler pack & so it goes on…

The most creative and outrageous suggestion will win the Smirnoff Hamper. I will be announcing the winners during the course of the next week. Please note that if you are under the age of 18 then you cannot unfortunately participate in this offer. In order for the winner to claim the hamper, they will be required to submit a copy of their ID.

Smirnoff – Not for Sale to Persons Under the Age of 18. Drink Responsibly.

So the Godskitchen Boombox is coming to South Africa, Above & Beyond are featuring, are you really ready? Like truly ready to lose your mind…

I VERY EXCITE!!

(Shot Mitch!)

Remember, tickets for the Godskitchen BoomBox featuring Above & Beyond are now on sale. The show is on 19 November 2010.

VIP Access is R400.

Plebb access is R200.

Click here to get your ticket to awesome.

I only felt it right that ek luister na Jack Parow during the writing of this article. Even though he drinks brandy, I thought this was suited anyway.

While many of the top bloggers want all sorts of rubbish in return for mentioning a product, I just kind of dig blogging and will mention things if I like them and if I score some free stuff. I have to like the products though, otherwise I’m not too interested.

So anyway Green Mamba were in contact with me because I’m a super cool blogger who is just not cool enough to hang in the same circles as the people who share the same advertisers, like CTG. I’ve seen those Nomu and Vida and Sunglass Hut ads on another blog! I just can’t seem to pinpoint it…weird.

Anyway, I actually remember a time when I used to piss Sunlight dishwashing liquid, in my decadent and hedonistic student days where creme soda was definitely a food source. Crisis, I was at Brandhouse the other day and they are quite good with educating staff about the dangers of full time boozing. So I’m guessing that Green Mamba want me to add in some sort of line about drinking responsibly. But let’s be honest, when your taste buds are only developed enough to enjoy cane and creme soda, you have one or two reasons to get drunk:

1) Get pants shittingly drunk and black out, thus forgetting that you just failed 2nd year at Stellies.
2) Pull loads of chicks with your super cool wicked smooth lines.

Cane and Creme Soda is basically married to Terrace in Stellies, and this is where you’ve probably enjoyed a delicious creme soda many a time. Not that you’d remember, you’ll just remember waking up in a first years dorm and thinking “I’m sure she wasn’t on crutches last night”

Well I heard this. Via the grapevine!

Such is life.

So Green Mamba gets launched and I firstly need to mention a flaw in the product, the can is too small. It’s like Superjuice, how is it that Superjuice cans are now smaller, but the price increased from the old days?

I think a 340ml can with two shots of cane would be a better choice. I’m not sure how much is in Green Mamba, its 6% booze? People want to smash cane and creme soda in their faces, they want to tear the can with their teeth, they want to run naked through Stellenbosch. You can’t do this on a 275ml can. They want to go streaking through the quad and into the gymnasium.

We gave the Mamba a little test on the boys weekend in Tokai this past weekend, and obviously being the boys, we had to abuse the name ‘Green Mamba’ (As we scare away any potential advertisers)

Although, your mamba shouldn’t be green. Unless you’ve just come back from Vegas. Then you have two weeks for those antibiotics to work their way through you. If it’s still not cleared up by then…well then I guess some shit doesn’t stay in Vegas.

Jokes aside about being blind drunk, Green Mamba is RAD though, the taste is good without being heavy handed on the cane. I can’t describe it to you, you all know what it tastes like. I guess the market for a ready mix cane and creme is very small and pretty much aimed at the student market. Which is where I’d worry, as these guys don’t have the money to pay a premium price for a ready mix drink. They want to buy two litres of creme soda, and drink 750ml’s of cane with that creme soda. I mean, I know some heavy boozers who can easily hit a bottle of cane.

In fact, they WANT to hit a bottle of cane. To drink this much in Green Mamba, you’d probably have to clean a case of the stuff. And if you’re at a bar, you are going to choose for the barman to mix you a cane and creme soda rather than buying a can of the stuff. I just can’t quite see where the product fits in with the target market. Cane and creme soda is aimed at a young market, who don’t want to spend loads of cash.

So the product is awesome, it’s delicious and its easy. But I just don’t know about the longevity of it. Guys want to drink huge quantities of cane for very little money.

And I don’t see Green Mamba accomplishing any of those two things.

Great product, good mix, great taste.

I’m just not sure how the market will react to it.

We can go on and on about responsible drinking, but the fact remains that the cane and creme soda market are anything but responsible. You don’t see grown men in suits drinking cane and creme soda. But this is what I was chatting about to some friends the other day, is it really the manufacturers responsibility to ensure that clients treat their products responsibly? I don’t think it is, at all. I get sold a car, and it is not Peugeots responsibility to ensure that I drive at the speed limit. So with drinks it should be the same. Smoking the same, people know the dangers, do we need signs all over the packaging telling us how bad it is? No one cares, that’s why people still smoke *Cue end of my responsible drinking talk!*

Oh I also found out this other awesome way to fix yourself after a bender!

Naturally you’re going to be dehydrated and your stomach is going to be a little out of balance (Read: mixing cement). But you don’t want to drink water because it tastes kak on a hangover. I have literally found your all in one solution, I drink this stuff like tea:

How is that? It hydrates you, gives you probiotics so you stop kakking yourself and its creme soda flavoured! Get it at Dis Chem in Cavendish Square.

Now I’ve had loads of these creme soda sachets, and they are delicious! I always keep a few in my drawer and just drink them when I’m thirsty. It’s great! It’s almost like liquid porn. Liquid erotica!

And that’s what I’m here for. Your health! I break you down with booze…and I build you back up again when you’re hanging like Paris Hiltons sleeve.

It’s a pleasure.

Note: The views in this article are solely mine, and are not reflective of Green Mamba whatsoever. Practice responsible drinking, and if you are drunk, call a Rikkis. This is an entirely independent review with independent opinions and I am in no way associated with Green Mamba, nor are they associated with SLXS.

Alright so there are only 5 photos on my Flickr account…bear with me! I will be uploading more of the Bosch/ Bishops game as well as a whole load of other photos I take.

Which could be quite cool. Look, they won’t be the best photos if you’re a pro, but they will be of real stuff.

I’ll try make sexy with the photos, and make them look half decent. We’re only just learning here!

So that’s it…for now.

Chat later.

Lately I’m moving away from writing, and more into photography. I think combining the two is awesome, but photography on it’s own is really powerful, even more so then some writing. That’s the new direction I want to take SLXS is, for no other reason than the fact that I always want to do what inspires me. I don’t want to do what other people tell me to do, or what is going to make my blog popular, I just want to do what makes me happy and what makes me feel good. At the moment photography is that. Phone photgraphy is something I’m really interested in, as phones allow you to capture images where a regular camera just seems too intrusive. I’m using a Blackberry and the camera isn’t too good, and you also don’t get access to the cool apps on the iPhone, but I can play with effects on online photo editors as well as Photoshop. Expect more visuals on SLXS from now on. Hopefully cool ones. No necessarily the best from a technical point of view, but I’ll try capture some cool images.

On that note, iPhone photography has taken off around the world, with books being printed just using iPhone pictures, to people displaying entire galleries on Flickr using iPhone photos. One such photographer is Sion Fullana from New York City. I always feel that a moment is captured not with the best camera or the correct settings, but just by the fact that you were there in that moment to capture it. Like this:

Click here for Sion’s Flickr gallery.

Howzit everyone! Apologies for the lack of posts, but my computer is broken! A server was installed, and I’ve now lost e-mails, I cannot save photos, and none of my folders have names. In short, I can do f*&k all! I cannot load a single photo onto this site. I can’t do anything I really want to do.

So while it gets fixed, or not fixed, I’m just going to pop to Makro to get another case of ice tea and some of that cool energy drink I found. You can catch me on Twitter though, I’m updating that from my phone. And then once I’m online again, I’ll chat to you about my new idea for SLXS. It’s nothing hectic, nothing top secret that is going to propel me to the top of the SA blogs, it’s just something a little different from now. But not too different. Just keeping it real.

Chat to you later, and hey…keep your clothes on miss.

X

Check out Stephen Hawking looking at this priest, wait…skeefing him out! He has…HAWK eyes on him! He’s looking at him, trying to decipher his brain. The priest is worried that Stephen is going to find out that…yes…he touched a little boy on his studio.

Fee fi fo fum! You’ve been touching a little boys bum!

Happy Friday!

Via

Sometimes I have little bits of who knows what on my mind, but not quite enough to warrant a full post. Like the Ray Ban Never Hide post…it was a bit shit really! But I wanted you to see it anyway. But it didn’t deserve its own post. But I gave it one anyway. Because we’re not printed on paper, so it doesn’t really matter. Al Gore can’t complain.

I wrote this on Monday, bear with me. Weekends always bring questions, such as, why is the service so slow at Clicks in Cavendish, and why on EARTH have they placed the tills at such a confusing angle? The shop is a complete muff show.

It also brought the question as to how Primi Piatti in Cavendish actually runs? We ended up there on Saturday, where I had the chicken kebabs. And by kebabs I mean bouncing balls, that was pretty much the texture of them. I sent them back, and they said they took the chicken off the menu after that. They were quite possibly the most hideous kebabs on the planet, ever. But the service was another story. Waiting 20-25 minutes before our waiter appeared again, asking for the bill and not getting it. Having pizzas shoveled into a box way too small, by our waiter, at our table? Priceless.

The overall feel of Primi is also awesome. If you’re a meth head in a warehouse. Air conditioning pipes everywhere, a fan big enough to clear the smell from a sewerage farm, cold concrete, darkness…Jesus, who came up with the idea for that interior? Murder scenes are probably warmer feeling.

Entourage Season 6 is blowing my mind, you should get it. Get The In Betweeners as well, if you can. It will blow your balls/tits back.

I’m using Ebay and Amazon.com a lot lately, just had some stuff delivered, The Best Camera book, as well as some new hair products (Although don’t tell the guys about this, obviously I had a barrel of Jack delivered). Try Ebay and Amazon.com, get the products you can’t get in SA. And get them for amazing prices on Ebay.

As South Africans, are we just accustomed to shit service? After the experiences at some shops and restaurants in Cape Town, as soon as I receive decent service, I’m almost inclined to give massive tips. But shouldn’t stellar service be standard? Shouldn’t we be treated well, no matter what? I mean, I went into that dark and depressing computer store in Cavendish, near Kauai to grab a hard drive. The guy said he’d order a Western Digital external for me and call me back that day, or the next, to pick it up. Never heard back from him. No problem though, I’ll just never shop there again.

On that note, Incredible Connection is also a mess in Cavendish. Why are there so many staff? That many staff doing nothing at the front of the store makes it look messy. Have the staff mingle around, or even hang back. Walking into a group of staff asking if you need help isn’t everyone’s idea of fun.

Woolworths environmental campaigns. If they’re so concerned about the environment, why do they package so many individual servings of food?
Two pieces of sushi in a plastic container. One stick of biltong in plastic. It’s a bit of a waste.

What do you think of people who get their cars model as their personalized number plate?

Sweet Pope On A Rope Smoking Dope

Personally I think these people need to be put down at the vet. Wow, their lives must be SO exciting if they’re SO creative. On that note, should kids be allowed to drive?

2plus1 — Are you serious? You paid for this?

I’m loving phone photography at the moment, I mean the Blackberry’s camera isn’t that good, but I’ve been using it, even on SLXS. It’s just easy, take a photo and e-mail it to myself and load it. I’d love an iPhone 4 though, 5mp camera in the slickest package possible. Took this on my Blackberry:

Waddup J Dog

Does anyone know anything about the Subaru Impreza that has been sitting in the parking garage in The Claremont (Those apartments opposite Tin Roof and Lizzards) It’s been there for years, collecting dust, and it has not moved. Should we steal it?

I won a trip to Durbanville. No jokes, I don’t joke about this.

The question is, should I take it? Do you want me to review the boerie curtain? Comments please…

I’m also stoked that the bananas I bought are in actual fact meant for complete monkeys. You get a colouring in picture on the back, stoked.

I’m also having quite a bit of fun looking at the e-mails I receive from randoms, people who think I’m the mayor of Cape Town. I mean, I am, but seriously, come now…check this, just one of the many I receive on a constant basis:

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?!!! I’m reading this, not listening to it in a night club…

And this one:

“Hey Found your blog so much fun to read. I’m coming to capetown in December and am dying to hit all the best shops. Where do you reccomend I go? thanks so much!”

I mean, how is that first one. No hello. No thanks. No nothing really, who teaches people to write e-mails these days? Aaaah the tik addicted Mxit generation. God save the Queen.

And yes my darling I’d love to do a quick write up on shops that you would like, based on the fact that I don’t know anything about you and what you like. Sorry, is this MindReader.com? Because I must be seriously mistaken then, I thought it was slxs.co.za?

Two things I want you to read:

A rad interview with Ryan Sandes, Hout Bays ultra marathon runner, on Urban Ninja. Click here for that.

‘Will Cape Town Drivers Please Wake The Fuck Up’ by Nash. Absolutely brilliant! Click here for that.

And that’s it, a little bit of everything for a Friday.
Nothing life changing, nothing too exciting or hectic, just easing you into the weekend. No lube required.

Although these chaps may need lube…

Why are we still writing like this, Cape Times?

As if the kids of today aren’t exposed to enough crazy shit already.

Have a good weekend people, I love you all (Except those of you who write me retarded e-mails. I still love you, in a dumber kind of way that you can understand), see you all on Monday!

xxx

The previous Godskitchen in Cape Town…MAD!!

CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR TICKETS

So this is just in, from the Smirnoff Facebook group and from a few sneaky tweets on THE TWITTER. Godskitchen is coming to South Africa again, shows in Cape Town and Johannesburg, with Above & Beyond featuring. This is what Smirnoff said on Facebook:

Smirnoff is amped to confirm the rumours about the return of the world’s leading club brand, GODSKITCHEN, to Cape Town and Johannesburg. The Godskitchen Boombox which had World Number 1 DJ Armin van Buuren rocking sold out shows mid last year returns with the world’s most famous trance trio to shake the foundations on 19 and 20 November this year.

Post your guess as to who the world famous talent might be… And you could be one of the winners receiving 2 sought after VIP tickets to the show in Cape Town or Johannesburg.

All will be revealed next week so make sure to let us know before then to stand a chance to win.

Oh this is probably a WORLD EXCLUSIVE, any mentions of this WILL have a link back to the SLXS Media Empire. Thanks.

But seriously, do you have any idea how huge this is? It is clinically insane, I think I’m breaking wood! Check it:

Click here to see photos of when SLXS were at the last Godskitchen with Armin Van Buuren.

So not only has SLXS not been nominated for a blog award (Time to stop blogging now!), Hitler hasn’t been either. Shaun Oakes sent me this, for those of you who read local blogs, you’ll enjoy the lolcats and weather mention…but someone forgot the morning headlines which was naughty. Check it!

Via

Now for the ‘blog purists’, ‘tech geeks’ and SEO people, I should have probably mentioned something about the Argus Cycle Tour 2010 entries now open in that headline, and a few more times in the text, and I should have also gone to the Google offices and teabagged the owners and given them a hand around to get this post a high SERP or whatever the hell it is.

But I really don’t care about that, I just choose to live a life instead.

But just to let you know, if you enjoy sitting on your nuts all day and talking about lactic threshholds, power outputs and generally jerking about on your bike, then the Argus Cycle Tour entries open today, in just over an hours time.

Now I know all the boys are going to be creaming their pants at this thought, wondering which group they will be in, wondering which outfit to choose and generally wondering why chicks don’t actually dig them.

SRAM Red — wet dreams

Sorry, I’m just bitter because my bike is a little broken. Riding old school Kona. Keeping it simple. No carbon.

ANYWAY! Click here to have your testicles go numb for an entire day, and they may also possibly fall off.