Lyric of the Day

Just when you think you are over someone. It takes just one thing to make you
realise how very wrong you are. Disliking the person, I am. Moving on, I am.

"Proud can I never be of what I hate;
But thankful even for hate, that is meant love"
Act 3, Scene V, Romeo and Juliet

"Nothing can change what you've done, 

nothing can change the way I feel

You will never be forgiven...

Never again will I be betrayed, 

Never again will you crush me...

You are dead to me and time won't heal what you've done..."

- Never Again by Killswitch Engage

Lyric of the Day

"Obscurity is eternal once all hope is gone"

- Know your Bones by aKing

Lyric of the Day

This past week I have been going through a bit of a phase. I have been listening to all the albums that shaped me as a teenager, and I guess, who I am today. Bands like Minor Threat, Pennywise, Tiger Army, Leek and the Bouncing Uptones. I dusted off the albums and have been loving them. Maybe I love what they represent to me. I don't think I'll ever grow out of "this" music. I do love it. It makes me smile, it makes me sing, it makes me happy, and it makes me think about things other than the menial things going on in my day. The lyrics are positive and life affirming.
So today it has been Pennywise.
This band sings anthems. It's the only way to put it.
They sing from their hearts, loud and fast.
I'm a Pennywise girl forever.

"Have to release every thought or care
And take control life is a dare
I can start over today
Live my life a different way
Can't find a way to erase bad times to make
Everything OKI'll start over and live every single day"
- Every Single Day by Pennywise

So Cute! Pandas after the Earthquake in China

This may be old news, but these pictures are still cute and made me happy when I saw them. These Pandas were part of a captive breeding program, The Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center, in the Wolong region (Sichuan province) of China. And when it was devastated by an earthquake on May 12, 2008, their habitat was destroyed. The pictures show people rescuing them, feeding them and the pandas just being cute. Enjoy, I certainly did.

Lyric/s of the Day

I chose my first lyric as it reflects on countless conversations I have had with my friends. A conversation that seems to go in circles, I know the answers to the questions I keep on bringing up. I know what I have to do. I just need to muster the strength and do it. My friends know what I am talking about! haha. Once again it is Rise Against. I rummaged through my CD drawer last night and dusted off all the old punk albums I grew up to and loved. And one of them was a legend compilation called family business. And one of the tracks, Rise Against - Six Ways 'Til Sunday. The song came on and it reminded me of my sister, I had dedicated it to her once. The verse then came on that is of relevance to me, today.
Here is my snippet...

"You're claiming to be something different

so wanting to believe

that you're better than the rest

to make up for your self-esteem

you talk to hear your own voice and

you've left me no choice but to choose

I miss the person that you were

but I don't miss you.."

- Six Ways 'Til Sunday by Rise Against

My second lyric is chosen because I have reached the point where...

"I declare I don't care no more

I'm burning up and out and growing bored...

I'm not growing up

I'm just burning out

And I stepped in line

to walk amongst the dead"

- Burn Out by Green Day

I felt like a pre-packaged robot, machine thing today. I am glad I have new things for me waiting in the wings. This is not my career, it is my job.

Lyric of the Day 2.0

More than ever I need to move on. I want to write the most hurtful words, but come up empty as I know I am better than that. This is what our friendship has become. I don't want to throw it away, but you have shown me how to treat you.

"And why are my lungs aching when I breathe?

Is there something wrong with the heat?

Why am I so cold?

And my heart feels sick

And it hurts when I speak

And this is not what I hoped for

Wake, wake up, wake, wake up"

- Happiness by the Kilowatt by Alexisonfire

Lyric of the Day

In the last year I have had the biggest urge to travel. I don't really care where I go. I just want to see... EVERYTHING. I have hit 23 years old and have basically studied and got a full time job. No gap year, no London bar tending gig. So, now I am bored, and spend my weekends (read salary) on parties and booze. I know every young lad/lassie goes through this urge to spread their wings. But it has felt like for a long time that my wings have been clipped not just tucked away. I am of course saving, saving, saving for this awfully big adventure. When I have collected enough coins and notes, and my jar is full, I shall book that flight to Kimberley. Just kidding. So to sum up how I feel. I have selected a song that I sing-a-long to at the very top of my lungs. It is powerful, and gives you goosebumps at all the right moments. I am in love... with a song. Please excuse the lyrics, I had to listen to the song over and over, and some may be incorrect, but they seemed fitting...

"We just don't live we flow, to every corner of the earth,

fuck your fences, fuck your borders...

We'll make home in the minds of the ones that we love...

We travel where we please, no mark for the stationery...

Every skyline beats in my chest,

somewhere between love and sadness, 

Desire for something new, lead us to everywhere...

Just give us something new, favour the Wayfarer Youth...

(We don't just live) my heart is where the ceilings touch the stars..."

- Wayfarer Youth by Alexisonfire

This Shizzle Made Me Laugh

Lyric of the Day

Okay so I love Rise Against. No harm in that right? Their lyrics are positive and meaningful. These lyrics happen to be one of my life mottos, you know, those words you live by. So I share them with you. Take it, leave it.

"...alive and well,

I live to be alive,

and I live to always strive,

for something more..."

- Alive and Well by Rise Against

Friends, Frozen Margheritas and a Funny Hat

It was my friend Caroline's birthday. She chose the most awesome restaurant, Cafe Mexhico (the old Tokyo Star in Melville). We sat at the longest table, sipping on heavily tequila-ed Frozen Margheritas and eating some yummy Mexican foodies. The night got a little crazy. We ate a cake with her face on it. And then people donned the sombrero...

What I did today...

So I went shopping with my mom at the epic China Mall. I love it there. It's where South Africa shops. haha. All the shops sell pretty much the same stuff, bag shop, watch shop, and then there is "Much Better Place" which has now been renamed "Much and Better Place". Much better name don't you think? That place has everything, even Chinese snacks. I thought why not buy and sample some of the far east snacks. So I bought a juice pack (Winter Melon flavour) and lollipops. I reckon that these were some safe buys for a first timer like me. First timer, as in someone who likes South African Chinese style food. Well... bad idea. The juice was bad. Bad, bad, bad. It tasted like burned popcorn that had been rolled in hamster sawdust, then water had been passed through this, and this by product was bottled and sold. Haven't tried the lollipops yet. Those I plan to unleash on my victims, I mean friends tonight. Also bought a rad scarf... All in all it was a cool experience. I like how haphazard and thrown together it is there, and it works. And you get great stuff at great prices.

Lyric of the Day

Had a crappy day. Just been driving around, running around, chasing people, getting too much shit done for other people. It's been one of those days where you just feel trampled on and taken advantage of. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate my job. I just hate what it entailed today. And the day is over and it is the weekend. Time to drink and dance and get lost in it all. And then do it all again on Monday, the work that is, not so much the drinking and dancing. So, to make myself feel better I found some inspiration in these lovely words. They come from the wonderful aKing.

"I find delight in empty days

I take my counsel with wine

My own devices have robbed me of reckless leisure

My worth will be proven in time"

- You and I by aKing

Lyric of the Day

I have been meaning to post this lyric for a long time now. And I feel that today is the right time to do so. A few weeks ago, coming back from a party I drove home in a blur, tears streaming down my face, screaming this song at the top of my lungs. Feeling every word, every beat. But not the person. This song is in a sense closure.

"Well nothing feels real anymore

I'm not taking my time anymore

To show you how I feel

To show you who I am

Cause it's locked away"

-Heads Or Tails? Real Or Not by Emarosa

Lyric of the Day

I haven't gone to a live show in a while... and I am feeling it. I miss the first sip of that semi-cold beer I waited half an hour for from the overcrowded bar. I miss the sweaty drunken boys who are just so like super amped to mosh bru. I miss getting my toes trampled. I miss the smell of the overpriced beer that has been spilled on the floors by said circle pitters. I miss the lights. I miss the bad sound. I miss singing at the top of my lungs. I miss pushing people around. I miss the hugs of from all the familiar faces. I miss going home with my ears ringing. I miss talking about the missions and mishaps of the night before, the morning after. I miss the music. So my lyric of the day is just that. I have held onto this song. I love it. I truly believe in the words, and feel that everyone should too. Oh hell... who am I kidding.

"We want a band that plays loud and hard every night,

That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door ,

That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more 
than a plate of food and a place to rest,

They'd strike chords that cut like a knife,

It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub,

They'd stop at nothing short of a massacre,

Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world,

And this was where they always belonged,

We would dance like no one was watching,

With one fist in the air,

Our arena just basements and bookstores across an underground,

America With this fire we could light,

Just gimme a scene where the music is free,

And the beer is not the life of the party,

There's no need to shit talk or impress,

'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon,

And every promise that's made and bragged is meant if not kept,

We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why,

Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back,

Let's make everybody sing,

That they are the beginning and ending of everything ,

That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear..."

- Reinventing Axl Rose by Against Me!

Lyric of the Day

Ever since I was 15 years old I have had a love affair with one band, and one band only. This is the only band that has seemed to stick with me and my ever-changing (see what I did there) music tastes. I am talking about the incomparable Rise Against. I just love love love 'em. I even had a dream about them (no, not that kinda dream, GOSH!!) the other night. It was awesome. So today I was spinning a little Rise Against, as I was having a pretty crappy day. And this song was the one...

"Life for you, (who we are) has been less than kind

So take a number, (who we are) stand in line

We've all been sorry, (who we are) we've all been hurt

But how we survive, (who we are) is what makes us who we are..."

- 'Survive' by Rise Against

Things that made me laugh today (it was a gloomy one)

This made me giggle. I would do this. postsecret




And then some randoms off of FML (this site makes me feel better about myself):


"Today, my friend and I decided to get bikini waxes. Afterwards, the women who did the waxing told my friend it was $30 for her wax. Then, in front of the whole salon, the women points at me and says, "You! You so hairy- $35!". FML



"Today, I moved in with my brother to save on a swanky apartment. I was skeptical as to how this would work out as we fought a lot as kids. Our first big fight? Whether or not to keep his dorm-style futon complete with Return of the Jedi sheets. He's a 35-yr old physician; I'm a 28-yr old lawyer." FML



"Today, I got home and threw my phone onto my bed as usual. This time it bounced out the window." FML

Lyric (okay Song) of the Day

Alicia calls me an Emo Kid, Jordan calls me Emo, Neil calls me Emo... I think I am a happy person. Granted, we all have our "emo" days and feel a little down. Today was not particularly one of those days for me, but I was listening to some good old-fashioned emotional hardcore in the form of From Autumn to Ashes (who I saw live in May 2007, I thank you very much). And a song (well two of them in fact) seem to resonate with me now more than ever. They are in the form of question and answer. A duet per se in two songs. So here they are. My emo-ness for the day...

The Question - Autumns Monologue

Oh why can't I be what you need?

A new improved version of me.

But I'm nothing so good no, I'm nothing...

just bones, a lonely ghost burning down songs

of violence, of love, and of sorrow.

I beg for just one more tomorrow!

Where you'd hold me down,

fold me in deep deep deep in the heart of your sins.

I'd break in two over you

I'd break in two and each piece of me dies

and only you can give the breath of life!

But you don't see me.

You dont.

Here I'm pinned between darkness and light,

bleached and blinded by these nights.

Where I'm tossing and tortured till dawn by you,

visions of you, then you're gone.

The shock bleeds the red from my face,

when i hear someone's taken my place.

How could love be so thoughtless, so cruel?

When all, all that i did was for you...

I'd break in two over you

I'd break in two and each piece of me dies

and only you can give the breath of life!

But you dont see me. You don't.

I'd break in two over you

I'd break in two and each piece of me dies

and only you can give the breath of life!

But you don't see me. You don't.

I'd break in two over you,

I'd break in two over you!

Over you I'd break in two,

I would break in two for you.

Now you see me, now you don't.

Now you need me, now you don't.

The Answer - The Fiction We Live

You might be just what I need

No I would not change a thing

Been dreaming of this so long

But we only exist in this song

The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow

And if you come and meet me tomorrow

I will hold you down, fold you in

Deep, deep, deep in the fiction we live

I break in two over you

I break in two

And if a piece of you dies

Autumn, I will bring you back to life

Of course I see you

I do.

From Autumn to Ashes - Carling Academy Islington, UK, 2007

Lyric of the Day

Bands, and listening to bands, I think one goes through phases and this is directly influenced by mood, the people you spend your time with, want to spend your time with, and what you spend your time listening to. I have found that in the last week (also owing to the fact that this album was just released) I have been listening to the new Alexisonfire (Old Crows / Young Cardinals) non-stop. It's not to say that I did not enjoy them before, but I think they stopped being new for me. Their witty, wonderful and emotional lyrics were played out for me. I wanted something new. I am glad that there is something new that I can kill now. I tend to do that. I think everyone does. I still think Dallas Green does magic with a pen, and truly makes you feel as if you are the only person who knows what he is singing about. But then isn't that the beauty of it all right? I have yet to see them live. For now I listen to this album (on repeat), in particular, "Wayfarer Youth". Hmmm....

"There's no police between two beating hearts"

- 'Accept Crime' by Alexisonfire

Lyric of the Day

I picked this song and lyric as it has such special meaning to me, and it is of course sung by the AWESOME Desmond and the Tutus.

"For the love of beat, let me kiss you on the cheek"

-'Kiss You on the Cheek' by Desmond and the Tutus

Lyric of the Day

Okay, this was yesterdays lyric. And owing to the ever fantastical South African power cuts I did not get the chance to press the "Publish Post" button in time. Alas!!! Do not fear. Have a read. haha.

I think that this is the one the most beautiful songs ever written... and so do many many many people. I know! So there has to be some truth in it... I looked for the music video (the original) and have not been able to find it. It is so cute. Oh wells.

A snippet of the wonderful...

"Love of mine some day you will die

But I'll be close behind

I'll follow you into the dark"

"...fear is the heart of love"

"If there's no one beside you

When your soul embarks

Then I'll follow you into the dark..."

-'I Will Follow You Into The Dark' by Death Cab for Cutie