The dirtyoldDisco got invited to play at FestiVAL 2010 in a small town called Val in Mpumlanga… We made a road trip out of it… here is the story…

It’s really small, even on a map!

I rolled through to Game to get a nifty little tent (they were having a special… it was fate), packed my stuff and loaded up the gear into T-Bones car…On the way to Caryn Paryn’s flat we got to see some Eugene Terror respect art outside the University of Pretoria…

Eugene Terror!

Bravo Pizzeria!

We got Caryn, picked up some Bravo’s pizza (it’s the shiz niz… find it on South Street, Hatfield, Pretoria) and finally made it onto the highway. Check out the shenanigans after the jump!

Tea Baggins!

Caryn Paryn and I!

The R23…

We drove behind this truck for a while… it was the most exciting part of driving to Mpumalnga.

The most eXciting part of the trip…

Finally after about 2 hours we rolled into Val, set up my new bitching tent and checked out the scenery. T-Bone even pushed a hoe.

Welcome to Val!

My bitchin’ new tent!

Pushin the hoe!

The local bar, the Moeggeploegkroeg, was pretty rad. We got some drinks there, watched some bands outside there, ate some sarmies in there, rick-overed after getting too wasted with drinks from there, took crotch shots there, drew in the guest book there and welcomed the bears there.

Moeggeploeg Menu!

Rick-overing…

Crotch shots… From left to right: Myself, Caryn Paryn,  T-Bone.

T-Bone adding to the guest book…

Nice, we were there!

Chuckles and Will!

T-Bone and I played a cool set to those that were still awake enough to party with us, there were no photos, no one could see.

Saturday morning arrived and everyone felt like sh1t. I walked along the train line for a bit, checked out the town a bit more and then sat in the bar until we left. I ignored the drive home.

Feeling less than awesome…

Walking…

More of the town...

Even more…

And even more!

FestiVAL is a pretty rad little festival, it’s not too far from Gauteng and the get a way is good! I’ll see you there next year! Goodbye!

Kay bye!

^5!

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…

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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!

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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.

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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!
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I couldn’t make it to Oppikoppi this past long weekend, so making the most of being stuck at home Caryn and I did some cooking! On Friday night she made me delicious home made pizzas with artichokes, rosemary, rosa tomatoes, mushrooms, some fresh chillis and a whole lotta mozzarella! They came out amazingly as I’m sure the photos will show!

After eating too much we went out for a drink with my old friend Charlie… always a good time! Charlie is having an exhibition soon, but I will keep you posted on the details!

The rest of the weekend was filled with more work than I care to normally do, a good solid night of beers with Nico and Steve as well as a lovely lunch at Caryn’s family’s home. Be sure to check out Nico’s punk as f@ck band Liberty Valance out on Facebook… Two new songs up!

On Monday night it was my turn to make something awesome so I put together a few delicious stuffed peppers… this is what I did…

Grab the recipe after the jump!

Mmmmm!

Stuffed Green Peppers (feeds two)

• 2 large green peppers
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 medium sized red onion, finely chopped
• some button mushrooms, sliced
• 2 small chillis, finely chopped
• 70ml Jasmine rice
• 1 large tomato, chopped
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 20ml white wine
• 20ml cold water
• 100ml hot water
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 10ml rice vinegar
• a few roasted almonds / cashews
• salt and pepper
• grated cheese, for the tops

Place the rice in a bowl and cover with boiling water, cover and leave for at least half an hour.Wash the peppers, slice off the end with the stalk and remove the core and seeds from the peppers. Place these in a deep saucepan with a lid that will still fit with the peppers inside. Heat up a pan with a bit of oil in it, add the mustard seeds and saute the onion in the pan slightly then add the mushrooms and brown. Add the cold water, rice, tomatoes, thyme. Season with salt and pepper, stir and cover. Drop the heat down low and simmer for about 15 mins. The rice should still be firm. I also chopped up the ends of the peppers that i cut off and added them to the mix. Add the wine, stir and spoon into the peppers until full. Add the hot water and olive oil to the deep saucepan, around the peppers and cover. Slowly simmer for about 45 mins. Add the almonds / cashews to the tops, cover with grated cheese and grill.

Served with an avocado, split pea and baby corn salad… delicious!

That’s all for now
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The Mountain above us

I managed to have a quick getaway weekend this past one. Caryn and I drove through to Verlorenkloof in Mpumalanga to have a weekend with her folks. Being just what the doctor ordered, it was super relaxed! We did some chillin, some walking and I learnt to fly fish (horay for a new skill!). Verlorenkloof is beautiful, peaceful and serene. If you like that sort of thing, go go go www.verlorenkloof.co.za!

Photos and more after the jump!

Walking Feet!

Caryn Paryn!

The Waterfall at the top!

Fly Fishing!

Casting!

Fly Fishing Fun!

We drove back on Sunday and made it back in P-Town just in time to head off to Cool Runnings to have some birthday drinks with T-Bone. A whopping quater of a century old now, but he got a new car so thats pretty awesome. It was turbo rad to hang with everyone… just too many drinks and not enough sleep made my first day back at varsity suck.

T-Bone Looking Badass!

Good Times

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Caryn and I decided to head down to the Pretoria Zoo to see what we could see. It’s always awesome to see that the Pretoria Zoo is constantly upgrading the living areas of their animals and that they are always in super great shape. They are currently busy building a new seal / penguin enclosure that looks huge, I’m definitely looking forward to that!

Read about our zoo trip after the jump!

Caryn and I walked the zoo in the unconventional right to left fashion so as to end up with the aquarium instead of start with it. So we began with the vultures and the primates and then moved on to the savanna… Three lions have been moved down the mountain to the Africa exhibit section to make it easier to get a look at them.

After that we crossed our first bridge towards the aviary! I love walking in the huge aviary and getting to see all the strange birds they have in there!

After a tiring walk up the mountain we saw some strange looking white antelope (there wasn’t a tag on the fence to let us know what they were :<) as well as our orginal lion trio! Tony the tiger was up there too! The other tigers were down below in the shade roaring like crazy.

Any ideas?

It’s GRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEAAAT!!!

We then found an old friend…

We found Themba!

Bears are just awesome!

The seals were being cleaned and were jumping around their temporary area like a bunch of crazy folk! We headed through the Australia section and got to see the koala bears… unfortunately none of my photos of them came out nicely. After that was the pygmy hippos and accross our final bridge.

We walked up past the old elephant to the aquariam and reptile park… you always see awesome things there!

Aw!

Komodo!

Some aligators!

Exhausted, over heated and content we headed back home for a much needed swim!

^5!

I haven’t blogged in ages, I just haven’t really had much to say. This has been a pretty interesting year for me so I loaded up the photos I’ve taken and tried to remember all the things that have happened / I’ve done etc… I know I’ve forgotten a lot but here goes anyways…

Stream the thoughts!

Partying much less, studying much more, getting a girlfriend, listening to a lot of bad music that I downloaded off of blogs, selling my car, shaving my moustache, breaking my speakers, watching LOTS of movies, Magaliesberg Canopy Tours, tennis, mountain biking, Infected Mushroom, picnics, dirtyoldDisco, radio deconstruction, threadless, blah blah blah!

Read the full story after the jump!

Caryn and I

So first off… Meet the girlfriend: Caryn. I’ve known Caryn for some time now but we only got to know each other properly around my birthday this year and I’ve never looked back!

Infected Mushroom

Then swiftly moving through everything else… I watched Infected Mushroom (the Israeli trance band) live. Now I’m not a fan of trance but wow, what a show they put on! I would definitely go and watch them again any day! I also shaved my moustache, extreme, i know. Word.

Check that roof rack yo!

My old car finally gave up the ghost so I cut my losses and now drive an Opel Monza… and it has a roof rack! Lame.

Magaliesberg Canopy Tours Certificate!

Caryn and I managed to organise a little holiday away to the Magaliesberg. We did a mad rad extreme canopy tour (there is no canopy? I still don’t get the name)! What fun it was though, I really recommend it to anyone! Check it! I started to play tennis every now and again… I’m not too good at it though but its great! Themba and Neil have also managed to get me out of bed at 4:30am on Saturday mornings to go mountain biking on the Groenkloof Nature Reserve trail… pretty eXtreme!

The dirtyoldDisco

My “partner in grime” as Greg “Destrukto” Tucker puts it, Themba, and I started a music project that moves so slowly but it’s awesome! Entitled “dirtyoldDisco” you should be able to hear it in the not so near future, eventually. It’s one part dirtyoldman (Themba T-Bone) and one part yours truly, Rick Disco… it’s a fantastic combo off hard hitting, banging electro! Grab a preview mix off of my favourite website electrotrash.co.za (giggle) here! The dirtyoldDisco is also doing some exciting things with team Deconstruction… they rock so keep an eye on www.deconstruction.be!

Picnics are Awesome!

For some reason 2008 was a year with more picnics than I’m normally accustomed to… OK it was probably only like four or so times but still, picnics really stood out this year. Sometimes we kicked the soccer/foot ball around and once I even wore a shirt and hid in the background of other people’s photos!

Hiding in the back…

Then there was a lot of random partying, Aandklas one too many times, a few trips to Jo’burg, lot’s of bands at Tings and a lot of good times!

So the end of the year has arrived and to conclude it, I will be making my way down to Cape Town after Christmas to bring in the new year down there.. OH YEAH!

So all in all, it’s been a fairly rickstreme year.
Love you all!
^5!