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Category Archives: Articles, Music, Opinions & Other Scissors

Sex, music, racism, inequality etc. – so beautiful, so absurd. Mike Hampton has something to say about it. Maybe the odd diary entry too…

Nobody loves you, you’re on your own

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Nobody loves you. They either love the idea of you or the you who became their idea. As soon as you’re a human being outside of the concept, they’ll tear you down. And that’s just your fans. Your enemies will follow like banshees biting on bone. There, at your weakest, you’ll realise that you’ve always been alone. That’s when you’ve got a choice to make. You can say whatever they want you to say so as to survive in the fakeness that is almost everything… to be forgiven, to rejoin … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Rockers Deity’s Muse aim for the clouds

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Alternative rockers DEITY’S MUSE give me happiness each time they break out of the limiting South Africa scene. Their recent successes wouldn’t have happened unless they’d the passion to stay together longer than their local counterparts. Talent needs balls too. I’m not kidding. Most of the bands I loved are long dead. But DEITY’S MUSE keeps staying alive for me – hey, I can pretend! It says something about DEITY’S MUSE that bands of varying genres want to perform with them. They’ve supported notables Seether and 36 Crazyfists but it’s … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Andra, music bigger than the sand of the Namib Desert and the stones of the Karoo

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I WANT YOU TO LISTEN I’m interrupting politics to share love for the music of a Namibian lass now based in Pretoria, South Africa. I communicated with her, briefly, maybe a dozen years ago, when I struggled in the struggling music industry of Durban. I’d just heard her coffee grind voice and wanted her on a compilation I was making. I don’t recall what happened but all that matters is that it never happened… and I began the dark journey into political activism. However, music remained my joy and escape. … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Do-ism: My personal centrist ideology for a better South Africa

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There’s no perfect system or ism wherein human animals are involved. We deserve the right to enjoy the rewards of our hard work. We’re inhuman if we don’t help the poor. Politics is best when centrist and growing the middle class, thus lessening the poor and containing the callously rich. Fighting corruption is the truth of all ideology, its litmus test. Do-ism, the act of doing something ourselves to make our world a better place. I never knew the word “do-ism” existed until a few minutes after this post… but … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Free yourself from the slavery of Facebook bigotry

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If I’d continued living in that stifling box that most call life, I’d have killed myself. I don’t know how others tolerate it, wanting to be a product, never discovering themselves. I know that most will never change because going with the flow is an addictive stress. To those on the fence, where the hope for hope waits, I ask you this: Don’t let your flawed parents, teachers or religions confine you. Don’t confine yourself. Shed all that you’ve been taught and start again as a shitting baby in a … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!
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