Steve Aoki came to South Africa… we went along to the JHB show on 3 April… it was so awesome!

Andrew Mohawk, T-Bone, Caryn Paryn and Number 1 and I all rolled through… we ran into old friends, we drank, we raved! Steve played some awesome tunes, some African tunes and some really weird tunes…

Photos after the jump!

Some african tune!

What I could see..

Woah!

T-Bone and Andrew Mohawk… eXcited Face!

Caryn Paryn and I… eXcited Face!

Tengo jodido tipo grande! Sink or swim and what not… good times!

That’s what happens…

And then you hydrate…

^5!

So everyone that comes here knows that I’m really bad at doing the regular blog thing and I always have these “catch up” posts… Here is the latest one! I just trawled through some old photos I got off my camera and this is what I remembered… (read it after the jump!)

Lego rocks! It’s not scary, but it still makes a great halloween costume! Caryn Paryn and I totally rocked the build on these bad boys. Andrew Mohawk and I suited up in the blue blocks, with Caryn Paryn and Nelia Face in the black corner. We partied it up at the Hotbox Studios halloween party, did some docking and got raucous! Neil went all out and looked the most bad ass!

Team Lego!

Lego docking!

Neil being badass!

Get me out!

I also got around and watched some bands, hit up +27 Design Cafe (most awesome iced coffee ever!), went to RAMFEST (the lame JHB one), got cooked for and generally misbehaved.

Wrestlerish!

Jacob Israel!

Leaving RAMFEST!

Andrew Mohawk even wore shorts!!!

Caryn Paryn cooking up some food!

Mmmmmmm!

At some point people dressed up as zombies for Aliswans party… I didn’t, so I just rode the exercise bike…

Zombie Andrew Mohawk…

Riding the bike!

T-bone and I have also totally been rocking out as the “dirtyoldDisco” with loads of gigs and what not. Check out the dirtyoldDisco blog over on at dirtyoldDisco.blogspot.com and give us love, thanks.

Yeah… exciting… yeah!

^5!

Study, study, study, work, study, Bloemfontein (punk as fuck), driving home, study, study, study, study, study, work, players… that’s pretty much been my last couple of weeks. Test week at varsity is over, exams are around the corner, and I seem to have a work ethic. Weird.

#1

Nearly There!

The drive to Bloemfontein on Saturday 3 October was about as exciting as the drive back to Pretoria on Sunday 4 October. Actually the drive back was more fun as we played some good ‘ol games of “I spy with my little eye” and some others I can’t remember off hand. The “festival” that we made the trip for was dusty, filled with punks and was actually everything I had hoped for. Nico and the team from Libery Valance rocked out… quickly, but rocked out none the less. Lungs filled with dust and drizzle, my homie MC was kind enough to “show us around” and took us to the Mystic Boer… hilarity ensued, pizza was eaten and smack was spoken. Good times.

#2

Image taken from here!

The second grand thing that has happened to me has been a sudden new found love of Tom Collins’. Greatest drink ever! I mixed some up at T-Bones braai on Saturday. They were enjoyed, too much and no one took photos for you to see. As a consolation prize, I managed to take this great snap of a nasty bug that was running around that night.

Pretty gross!

I have also taken the liberty of sharing the Tom Collins recipe I got off of Wikipedia:

Tom Collins IBA Official Cocktail

Type: Mixed drink
Primary alcohol by volume: Gin
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: orange, cherry, or lime
Standard drinkware: Collins

IBA specified ingredients:

• 2 parts gin
• 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice
• drizzle of sugar syrup
• chilled carbonated water to taste

Preparation: Mix the gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup in a tall glass with ice, top up with soda water, garnish and serve.

Drink it!

#3

I’ve been eating loads of these awesome noodles. Go buy them, they rock. The Chinese shop where my tofu comes from sells them (Yat Kee Chinese Supermarket, Maroelana Centre, 27 Maroelana Street, Hazelwood). Add a little ginger to the mix as well for maximum awesomeness.

Thats all for now,
Rick Disco, over and out
^5!

Dirtyoldman and I have been bringing the chop back to the clubs the last month, playing as the banging electro duo “dirtyoldDisco”! It has been totally awesome to see how our hard hitting style of electro gets the floor asking for more! I’ve put up some photos from the last three shows we played. Thanks to all the people that took them, you know who you are

Photos after the jump!
After a hell of a lot of organising and pulling last minute miracles we threw a great Viral Session in Pretoria… Destrukto, Cutout Collective, dirtyoldDisco… awesome!

Some of the gang that joined!

Dropping the chop!

We played a cute little opener set at the Toxic Avenger gig, then got to drop a banger after the Team Uncool DJ set a bit later as well…Muckleneuk Massiv!

Representing as they say…

In the mix…

Classic chop…

The following week we got to play another opening set at Kitchener’s Carvery for the launch of Mtkidu’s “Shakawon” album. The opener wasn’t our classic awesome style but it was ok, we got some nods. After Mtkidu did their thing we closed off the night classic doD styleZ and dropped it hard… we were applauded.

Caryn Paryn and I… Holga love!

dirtyoldDisco in the dark!

The shows were all awesome, the other DJ’s brought it, we brought it, it was great. Come to our next show. I’ll high five you. One time.

^5!

I was reading my blog posts on this site today and I have to apologise for writing some really boring drivel that is really boring boring the old man is snoring. So I have ended that. Rad.

I got sick last week, throat infection or something and it was totally badass. I spent a few days in bed being lame and watching series and sleeping and taking photos of my dogs – they were hanging with me in my room.

I captured Abbie in the middle of a yawn… She looks badass here, but is actually really sweet.

I finally read Moxyland (it’s been on my shelf since my birthday in March) and I have to say that Lauren Beukes is one talented author(ess?)… go to Exclusive Books tomorrow and have a look at the book, read the back, want to buy it… and then go home and logon to Kalahari.net and save a lot of money and get it delivered to your house.

I watched some weird movies as well. Surveillance is directed by David Lynch’s daughter Jenny, ’nuff said – It’s violent and awesome. IMDB says it’s about: “An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims – all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.”. It got a crap rating there, but I rickommend it. Tonight I watched Public Enemies with Kid Caryn… What an awesome film! It is shot incredibly well, has a great story, is about bank robbers and is based on a true story! WIN! Go watch it! If you don’t like it, your opinion is wrong.

I will be putting up some photo’s from the past few weeks worth of gigs that the dirtyoldDisco have played at sometime soon.

Stay tuned.

Rick Disco, Over and Out!
^5!

It’s been so quiet up in here because of a damn thing called university… it’s been keeping me so busy that there just hasn’t been enough time to do a lot of other things. I did get to build some cool electronic stuff for this project of ours, so it wasn’t too bad!

Woah! A wireless receiver!

Want to hear more? Rest after the jump!

Sometime in between all the building electronics I got to play some electronics at a gig at a really rad venue in Jo’burg – The eXtreme Cosmic Bowling Alley! I grew some mad chops for the event, just ’cause I can! I’ll have you know, it was also much easier to say “Shut Up, I’m Dancing” looking like a biker.

Got chops?

On September 29, 2007 my sister got married! Natalie married George, pretty crazy huh?! It was a great day. Casey got all dressed up and accompanied me to share the fun. This wedding meant that I got a +1 in the brother department… good times! We danced a bit and drank some more and woke up with sore heads!

Natalie & George, married!

Some dancing…

Sore heads!

Their was also a lot of random partying in between all the studying… here are some snaps of those times over the past few months…

My homeboy Nico had his 21st birthday party… as you can see, it ended well!

Great ending?!

We also headed out to Rosendal in the freestate for a debaucherous weekend away in celebration of Nicoles 21st. It got pretty damn crazy out there so I have decided to only put up a photo showing the cool sound we had in Andrew’s car…

Cool sound? Indeed!

We hit Jo’burg for some parties and said goodbye to Horror Cafe (R.I.P) and them fantastic Secret parties…

Andrew and I are seen here, being badass!

Juri and Jenni, Kapow!

Good times!

Jenni and I went and did some bowling at the Cosmic Bowling Alley, what fun!

I wore a size 9, she wore a size 5…

NOFX also came to South Africa to rock out, so we got all punked up, got into Lynns car and became band sluts!

Me doing my best to be PunkAsFuck (P.A.F)!

Drew & I: PAFs for life!

Band sluts are disgusting

Then exams came along and kicked me in the stomach. Thanks exams.

But…

Now this bad boy is on holiday and ready to party it up again!

^5!