So between now and the end of the month there are a lot of totally awesome things coming to Pretoria and Jhb!

This Thursday (20 August) my good friend Charles will be exhibiting along with a whole bunch of other talented people at Platform on 18th in Pretoria. The exhibition is called “Narrative Landscapes: Artworks generated from conceptual videos generated from personal narritives“. Check out the flyer in pretty .pdf format here, the map to the venue is here and the Facebook event is here!

Read about more awesome parties after the jump!

Then next week Thursday (27 August) will be the next installment of the Viral Underground parties, and the start of a (hopefully) regular thing in Pretoria dubbed the Viral Sessions! A nicely rennovated club smack bang in Brooklyn, Pretoria for only R25. Themba and I will be banging out an awesome electro set as the dirtyoldDisco alongside Destrukto as well as a mystery (for the time being) main live act! It’s going to be awesome, so be there! Check out a map to the venue here as well as the Facebook event here! Follow the Viral Underground on Twitter here!

Then the big one that I am most excited about is the Toxic Avenger, playing in Jhb! To top that off, Themba and I as the dirtyoldDisco will be playing a set as well! Yay! Check out the Facebook event here!

I hope to see you all at all of the events, they are gonna rock!

Take it easy
^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!