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18 October the competitionWe didn't go through. aaaah well - i guess we should have known that the band TSP (three sugars please) would win... it does annoy me... They have been in the competition before, and they didn't make it past the quater finals. The are also friends with the organiser and know the people who were doing the judging last night (hugs all round when they came in) the person who organised the event is their fan, has organised a few gigs for them already etc. So I guess it was predetermined! :) that or it just isn't our time. We did well, people seemed to enjoy us and we had fun, so screw them all - thats what matters, and I can't wait for the next gig!
Thanks for all the thoughts and the good luck wishes, you all rock!
Love and hugs
Julz 17 October *nerves are a jangling*Tonight is the battle of the bands competition. I can't help but be a little nervous. It is a BIG competiton and we have no idea who we are up against - at least if i had an inkling, I could go and have a listen to some of their music, do some research etc... have a look at the details of the competition!
Every week we host 5 bands at Coolrunnings in fourways, they play 4 - 5 songs each and we then select a winner from each group of artists, the winners then go forward to the monthly final where all the winners then compete for the monthly prize of a paid gig at the venue to the value of R 2 500.00. Once the band has won the monthly final they go through to the grand final to be held at the end of the current series, that will be on the 17 November 2007. The grand final prizes will be as follows:
Management contract from VIP Events Management. EP Recording of six songs by Montana Media for the Bunker and by FX Music Productions for Coolrunnings. Add campaign by Grapevine Add agency to all SA varsity's. Web site hosting by Rocking SA. Add banner on Rocking SA's website. Marketing of EP by AKA Records. Poster designe and supply by BLOX Energy Drinks. Ad on "therockfinder.co.za" Total value of grand prize is around the R 700 000.00 mark, which is awesome for an up and coming artist to win, this will get their music career up and running in a huge way, in the future we will be looking at getting Barney Simon to MC at the grand final if all goes well. I must mention that there is a R20.00 entry fee per band member and a R 20.00 cover charge for spectators alike, this money goes to the sound company as the venue does not have its own PA. On the night there are various specials on drinks aimed at the students, as we are aware that they all are on tight budgets. Hope that this enough info but if you require any thing else please don't hesitate to give me a shout. Kind regards, Warren Powell Managing Director VIP Events Management Understand my nerves? I will have to let you know how it all goes tomorrow! *gulp* hold thumbs for us! Loves and hugs 09 October a tuesday quickie!Hellooo guys!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was as I said it would be, there were one or two changes, but a party none the less, I'm almost glad it's the week :)
So this week I start the kickboxing training on Mondays AND Tuesdays - I'm working my way up to being able to start a bar brawl and not be knocked out in the first 5 minutes! hahaha - ok ok I'm kidding - I'm far too lady like to ever consider acts of violence as fun *BWA HA HA* Speaking of which, did you guys watch the rugby world cup between the USA and South Africa? *evil grin* I believe we thrashed the USA 64-15. Now I know you are new to the sport, and that we are a bunch of third world neanderthals, but really - howz that for a thrashing? tee hee
It's now been over 5 weeks since I had a cigarette, so I'm very happy about that, I think I'm feeling the benefit, and I have not picked up weight, so its ok, the paranoia is subsiding about that! I have started watching the biggest looser - and wow, its like survivor for obese people - It's awesome that they are doing it, but how do people allow themselves to get that size? I understand overweight, tubby, cuddly etc, but obese? I know it's a world wide phenomenon, it is one that truly befuddles me ~ if you don't want to do any exercise then eat decently ~ it's not that hard a concept to grasp! I see people too lazy to leave their cars to walk into a McDonalds (which would be faster than waiting in a 20 car queue) and because it is cheaper than going to a woolworths and getting yourself a steamed chicken breast with spinach and noodles or a healthy alternative fast food like global wraps or kauai they would rather live with the shit that happens to taste like badly flavored cardboard. Seriously - can ANYONE explain the logic to me? (yes yes, I'm getting off my soapbox now)
On a lighter note:
A South Wales man got a life-size tattoo of his partner's face on his back - only to be dumped for a younger man. Alan had spent £870 on the portrait of Lisa with their daughters Jade, 15, and Daniella, ten. Loves and hugs 08 October aaaand there goes the respect!lol - the alternative nobel prizes - not the real ones, i missed the second paragraph and thought it was for real - must have been having one of "those" days!: A British radiologist has won an alternative Nobel prize for discovering that sword swallowers suffer "major complications" when distracted. Mr Witcombe attended the ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre before an audience of around 1200, with thousands more watching on the web. The prizes were handed out by real laureates during the annual event produced by the science humour magazine, Annals of Improbable Research. With Dan Meyer of The Sword Swallowers Association International, Mr Witcombe was cited for his medical report Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects, in the British Medical Journal. Meanwhile, the peace prize was awarded to the US Air Force Wright Laboratory for researching a chemical weapon that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops. The physics prize went to Profs Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled. Prof Johanna van Bronswijk, of Eindhoven University of Technology, won the biology award for a census of the mites, insects, spiders, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds. And for her efforts to extract vanilla fragrance from cow dung, the chemistry prize went to Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Centre of Japan. The linguistics prize went to a team from the University of Barcelona for their discovery that rats cannot tell the difference between Japanese being spoken backwards and Dutch being spoken backwards. 04 October :DDAMN - we had such a good gig last night! I couldn't move much on stage as it was small and every time I did I would get feedback from one of the monitors, and i had a BRIGHT yellow light shining on me the whole time, but holy crap did we rock. I think this was our best gig together in the history of the band! We just seemed to gel so well, we got everything right, where in time with each other and really enjoyed ourselves! *thinking about it makes me all warm and tingly!* :D Today celebrates the 7th anniversary of my sisters 21st - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SISTER AND BEST FRIEND! I LOVE YOU TONS AND TONS AND TONS! (and then some) Essentially it's going to be one of those weekends, filled with birthday celebrations! Tonight it is off to dinner with my mom and and one of her close friends that we consider family - We were supposed to have a family dinner and Lol had requested prawns (ugh) so I would have had to go get take away from somewhere before arriving... i really don't do the whole shellfish thing. I LOVE seafood, as in the fish part of it, calamari, snappers, sole the works, actual fish and some deep fried/grilled squid never goes wrong, but anything with an exoskeleton sorta freaks me out. It must be from the days when my beloved sister chased me round the house with prawn heads on her finger tips. mmm, charming. Tomorrow night im going to a restaurant called Rodizio's - im really looking forward to that! dancing and good food, good company and LOUD music! weeehaaaa! Saturday day I have my mate Chris' birthday braai/bbq, which should be nice and chilled, that starts at 1pm, at 9pm I have my very good friend Zoi's birthday at a cocktail bar on the opposite side of town which will be very cool - we get to pretend to be sophisticated (for all of five minutes, then we shall becomes the hooligans we are and take over the place!) I can't wait! :D Sunday shall be spent sleeping in late, taking a walk up to the flea market, buying freshly baked ciabatta bread, and eating it with a layer of pate while reading the newspaper before I head out to meet up with my friend Mark who is in JHB from Cape town for the weekend only. **phew** just thinking about it makes me... happy! This is why I need the week, so I can relax a bit from my weekends! I read a hysterical (ok, slightly sick and twisted) but funny non-the-less article this morning... Miami 'Freak show' aaaah some peoples children! I hope you have a wonderful week and weekend!! Look after you, don't do anything I wouldn't do and be safe! Loves and hugs |
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