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My summer holiday so far sounds like Cat power, Noisettes,Bicycle Boambay Club, Fleet Foxes, Little Comets just for some silliness and beach days,farm days, hill days, quiet days , lonely days , reading days, musing days, pointless mission days. Some good old Nina Simone,Bjork,Frank Sinatra and Tracy Chapman for stability. And a little Mike Snow and Madlib to get the Party started. Fela kuti,Soweto Kinch, Herbie Hancock,Bjork and Coltrane on days I wake up feeling cheaky! Purple bananas!!

and other days I just like good posters :)

"I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street" - Henri Cartier Bresson

some days i just...

Birds of a feather

I know I should be home
comparing scars, making oats
but i must be alone
to write this down

you are a man of few golden words
and my mother’s loved you since fort hare days
in that game you remembered all the birds
that I would forget

and she lives in the cape
enfolded is my disgrace
of past where my back would break
i tried to be her

Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?


where jacaranda flowers fall
the younger, a spirit so tall
shoulders where all our burdens fall
the yoke will fall down

she hastens this call must end now
something burning, evryone is in the lounge
you’re the only who isn’t around
when will you come home?

scared is term i will not use
I am so used to this noose
If I throw it down what will i lose?

a feather or two…

Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?
Ntakani le? Le, le, le?


I’m done questioning why this flock
you answer with blessings, I’m taking stock
they know my heart used to be a rock
yet they ask…
when will you come home?

Bank Holiday silly!

The trouble with a first world countries is that they don't realise that the world is coming to them because they poked the world first. You do a good enough job of raping developing countries of their wealth to build the pound sterling, you should expect some visitors. If you turn yourself into the land of milk and honey by leaving other lands broken,barren with gaping economic wounds, expect frequent knocks at the UK Home office. Your borders will never rest.

Yeah recession is upon you and its hard to share with these foreigners. Recession is lame but so is starvation. No more public holiday's until August. Oops my bad, it's called bank holiday here silly!

Msakarina was a girl...