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10
Jan
11

The Party

By SlickTiger 9 Comments
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Guitar Jon called me up the other day, asked me about the site and I told him that it had been over a month since I posted last.

“Blogging,” I said to him, “is like ice skating up a fucking hill. It’s hard fucking work. You’ve got to post and keep posting, as often as possible and be topical and relevant and all that crap or people just wander off to play somewhere else on the interwebs.”

“Sure,” he replied, “nobody really gives a shit whether you do it or not. It’s like a party – if you don’t show up, nobody’s going to stop the party, it just carries on whether you’re there or not.”

Which really got me thinking, because what the fuck? I like parties…

It’s about time I got back in the cockpit of this rusted old junkyard spaceship and started piloting it through the ether once more because if not me, then who?

And so, no fucking around, I hereby declare Them’s Fightin’ Words back up and running for 2011 – BOOYA!

God DAMN that felt good! Winking smile

Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all that stuffs.

Hug? Hug.

 

 

Your Tiger pal,

-ST

07
Dec
10

The Tiger Lifeless

By SlickTiger 8 Comments
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There will be no Tiger Life episode this week, sorry boys and girls.

I’m sick. SickTiger. I have an ear infection so bad I’m deaf in my left ear. Last night I got out the ol’ cotton swabs and you don’t wanna know what came out of my ear.

So that’s my excuse for not posting yesterday. My excuse for not posting for the six days prior to that is just sheer laziness. That and an uncharacteristic lack of any kind of inspiration.

 

 

My creative energy feels like it’s ebbing away, like in Spiderman 2 when he keeps firing blanks instead of webbing while he’s in mid-swing and ends up falling 50 feet and eating pavement.

We sat through a presentation of up-and-coming SA blog sites yesterday and it was depressing as all hell.

It was like, “And here’s blog x, it’s a wine blog, and here’s blog y, it’s a fashion blog and here’s blog z, it’s a lifestyle blog…” and all the while I was checking these sites out I was thinking, “What the fuck is my blog?”

Who fucking knows. One thing’s for sure, it’s not something that is any any way marketable. It’s not something I could ever make a cent off because it’s purely a project I started to find my voice as a writer and I’ve found that voice now and proven to myself that some people, not a lot, but some people out there actually want to hear that voice.

Boys and girls. I think it’s time for bigger things. I’ll still post on this site whenever I have a moment and I’ll still shoot and cut together the Tiger Life episodes cause I enjoy that, but it’s high time I got started on the script that’s been rattling around inside my empty skull for the last few years.

But yeah, I just want you to know it’s not you, it’s me and we can still be friends. I can’t imagine my life without you.

We’ll always have Klapping Gym, boet.

Your buddy ol’ pal,

-ST

30
Nov
10

Kings Of Leon Are Coming To SA And I’m The First Person To Blog About It!

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Fuck I’m amazing!

 

 

Um. That is all.

-ST

22
Nov
10

Scar Tissue That I Wish You Saw…

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Possibly one of my biggest regrets about my life as it is right now is that I don’t read.

It’s fucking tragic when I think about how back at varsity when I was reading English Honours I was motoring through about a book a week, some of the best literature ever written, and now I read about a book a year.

And it shows too. I used to be all clever and stuff and could write good, but now all I can do is shoot a buncha shit on my cell phone and work computers to make dorky internet videos and stuff.

Anyway, I digest.

For my birthday, J-Rab got me “Scar Tissue”, Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography and I’ve eaten that book alive, devouring entire chapters whole as the words rushed into my mind to fill the empty space that literature used to occupy.

 

 

It also helps that it’s a pretty amazing account of the life of one of the world’s craziest motherfuckers still alive.

I mean we’re talking about a guy who lost his virginity to his dad’s 18 year-old girlfriend when he was 11. And what’s even crazier is that not only did his dad know about it, but he brokered the deal after Kiedis asked him to!

It’s a wild read, but while I’ve loved every page of that book, it’s also made me think long and hard about my own life and how tame and boring it is in comparison.

The funny thing about life is that all those naughty kids back in school that everyone thought would amount to nothing seem to come out of the system with an edge that ends up getting them really far in life.

I think it’s because they get used to being confronted and put on the spot and being the centre of attention and those experiences actually equip them really well later on in life.

The people that break all the rules are the ones who end up making them one day.

If only I’d known that back when I was a kid maybe I wouldn’t have wasted my childhood and a good portion of my adult life so far colouring in the lines instead of drawing my own.

-ST

21
Nov
10

The Maen Comes Over

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Sundays here are a mixed blessing. On one hand it’s quiet I got time to create content, which is a good thing, but what invariably ends up happening is I get lost in the solitude of this place and instead of using the time I got effectively, I procrastinate, think too much about my life and where it’s not going and slide into a funk.

The MAEN missioned out here today, found the place the first time (an impressive feat considering my address is “The R44”) and broke the monotony of yet another Sunday where I could feel myself sliding again.

It’s an exciting time in The MAEN’s life, shit is coming together for him like I always knew it would. He’s an unstoppable force, he’s got enough life in him for three men at least and he’s totally fearless in every conceivable way.

 

 

I drank some whiskey and listened to his crazy ramblings and plans for the future. We stood on my balcony and looked out over the empty space around us and unlike almost everyone else who visits this place, he said how it was nice and all, but he could see how after living here for awhile, I person could lose their fucking mind.

We shot the breeze for an hour or two and after he left, I felt better. Like at least one of us is getting his shit together, kicking some ass out there and living the dream.

I spent the entire day editing the next episode of The Tiger Life and I’m happy how it turned out because truth be told, I get more of a kick out of shooting and editing those stupid clips than I do slaving away at the grindstone.

Ain’t that wonder?

Next Tiger Life goes up on Tuesday. Hope you like it Winking smile

-ST

20
Nov
10

Saturday Saved us

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Saturday saved us,
First time in awhile
Showed us something
Made us smile.

 

 

-ST

18
Nov
10

The Culprits!

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If you read this blog regularly (seek help) you might have stumbled on the post I wrote awhile back about how living in the shit shack J-Rab and I have ended up in is driving us completely nuts.

Well, a big part of that were the owls. Right outside our wooden shed were a pair of Spotted Eagle Owls that would hoot, loud as fuck, all through the night until J-Rab and I were driven totally shit-your-pants mad.

Eventually we resorted to standing on our balcony at 2 in the morning and trying to pelt the fuckers with onions because that’s all we could find to throw.

Good thing we don’t have neighbours because trust me, if they had to see me at 2 in the morning, carrying on like an asylum escapee on our balcony, firing onions into the darkness whilst screaming, “FUCK YOU OWL!” they’d definitely call the police.

Anyway, turns out the little bastards were hooting incessantly because they had babies.

Imagine my excitement. MORE fucking owls.

Here’s a pic I snapped of momma owl with baby owl standing in front of her, staring at me with this arrogant “that’s right, I’ma keep you up ALL NIGHT, BITCH!” look on his face.

 

 

In my mind I quietly reached for a 9ml under my seat, took aim and laughed maniacally as both owls exploded in a cloud of brown / black feathers.

And I used to be such a nice guy.

-ST

17
Nov
10

Album Review: Kings Of Leon–Come Around Sundown

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After Kings Of Leon released Only By The Night the die-hards who’d been following them since their Youth And Young Manhood days became instantly polarised, some saying they had finally sold out and some saying Only By The Night was their greatest album to date.

 

 

Either way you looked at it, it was going to be a tough album to follow and while their latest offering Come Around Sundown does pack a lot of great material, if Only By The Night is the only Kings album you know, the new album will probably fall short of your expectations.

From there I go on to extoll the virtues of this album and write a review that will blow your fucking mind.

Click here to get it…

Or listen to the opening track “The End” below and see if you dig it:

-ST

16
Nov
10

Sandton City Parking – Taking Things To A Whole Other Level

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It’s a known fact that parking in larney shopping centres, whether they are in Joburg or Cape Town, is ridiculously expensive.

I’ve been fleeced for as much as R10 for parking for 5 minutes which may not sound like a lot, but when you spend as much time in shopping centres as I do, that can add up to as much as R10 a month!

In my recent trip to Joburg I was forced to pay a visit to the Nashua Mobile in Sandton city to get an upgrade on my 3G card and on arriving was SHOCKED and DISMAYED to find that parking in said shopping centre seems to have undergone the same hyper-inflation that Germany suffered post World War I where a basketful of money would buy you two Chappies.

 

 

Unbelievable! Not only is the parking ridiculously priced, but it would appear that the MINIMUM amount of time people are allowed to shop for is 12 HOURS!

And the maximum is 45?!

Who the fuck in their right mind would shop for 45 hours?! Sure, I understand that we are a consumer society and all, but 45 hours of shopping is taking things a little too far if you ask me.

And what’s the deal with the R1 111 amount and the R2 345 amount? Do you get to choose? Who is his right goddamn mind is going to pay R1 234 MORE than they have to for parking?

The world has indeed lost it’s fucking mind.

So just be warned guys, if you shop at Sandton City they will TRAP you for 12 hours and make you pay anywhere between R1 111 and R2 345 for parking.

Unbelievable.

-ST

15
Nov
10

Back In THe Game

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It’s been rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough going, but I think my life is slowing down a little, just long enough for me to grab some time to post again so you, my loyal readers, don’t have to keep coming back to the site and reading about the Whisky Live Festival.

The last week has been chaotic, but amidst the maelstrom of travelling back to Jozi, doing Whisky Live up there, hooking up media interviews for a certain whisky celebrity and checking out the world’s first ‘Stunt Snail’, I met The Simpsons!

 

 

Also, all those of you who have been digging the Tiger Life Episodes, hang in there, the next one will be up soon and it should be pretty amazing.

Important thing here is: I’m back posting again. So don’t be a stranger.

Your buddy ol pal,

-ST

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