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- 'Like I wouldn't know it's you...' innocence at two hundred and sixty two degrees wp.me/p2Mmhm-p8 At My Most Beautiful ~ R.E.M. 7 hours ago
- Such a profoundly moving film @Sherabphagmo... oh, and that music! Beautiful! 20 hours ago
- 'Tuning myself to the great key...' unified at two hundred and sixty one degrees wp.me/p2Mmhm-p1 Still ~ Great Lake Swimmers 1 day ago
- Oh my goodness! Why have I only discovered @passengermusic now? This man's voice is utterly bewitching! #newmusic 1 day ago
- Now this is *my* kinda cover... youtube.com/watch?v=SY7dtx… 1 day ago
- Just watched Chariots of Fire. Man, what a classic! 1 day ago
- 'The coolest thing I ever saw...' the art of evolution at two hundred and sixty degrees wp.me/p2Mmhm-oW Undressed ~ Lloyd Cole 1 day ago
- RT @GA_TheOverberg: More #reasonstolove the Overberg? We do epic views... vast skies, mirror water & flamingoes at Spookhuis http://t.co/8T… 1 day ago
- How fabulous @Sherabphagmo! Saw the show in CPT, then bf looked at me in horror & said "you'd like to be up there with them, wouldn't you?" 1 day ago
- Ah @Sherabphagmo happy teenage memories of singing along to these divinely daft songs! And what an astounding Youth Day. Big love to you xx 2 days ago
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Tag Archives: Cape Town
coming clean…
I have a confession. Maybe it’s festive f*cking insanity or the dealing with daddy drama but a whole lot of clarity seems to be barrelling my way. Happy effing christmas right? Right. And before we roll into the new year, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships and other disasters
Tagged betrayal, CA, Cape Town, circus, Dax, Duke D. Nile, Ellen Goodman, father, Girl, Hout Bay, Iphigenia, Loki, move, scarlet, Tori Amos
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roses are red…
…dilly dilly. Violets are blue. Or something. Apologies (again) for the radio silence but family’s been at the forefront this week. And there’s been a little drama. Typical my family *sigh* but on with the show, right? Right! I’ve loved stories, most … Continue reading
Posted in myths & madness, On screen..., Out and About
Tagged Batman, Cape Town, Dianne Simpson, Duke D. Nile, Everything's As If We Never Said Goodbye, fairy-tale, Girl, Glenn Close, harbour, hero-villain archetype, Imogen Heap, Kalk Bay, Kalk Bay Theatre, Kardiāvale, Lady Gaga, Ouroboros, Pieter Bosch Botha, Queen, Rose Red, Snow White, stepmother, Sunset Boulevard, The Dark Knight, The Good Girl, The Princess Bride, Tori Amos, Women Who Run With The Wolves
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curtain call: Drama Queen…
Given the direction he’s generally headed, ‘curtains!’ would probably be more apt when discussing this eX. But since I promised you a rose garden (or something like that), let’s get through ‘em thorns… If you remember, I’d just been seduced … Continue reading
Posted in eX-files
Tagged Cape Town, Dorian Gray, DQ, Everybody Hurts, floozie, Loki, REM, The Crash, The Drama Queen, The Narci, The Plus, The Push, The Queen, tokoloshe, wedding
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enter the heartland…
Sunday marked my first 30 days of 34, nigh on one month off the smack and D. Nile free. Which might explain yesterday’s vaguely caustic post I was so ‘inspired’ to pen. Alas, though this is not exactly what I … Continue reading
Posted in stroke of luck, What's read...
Tagged babelfish, beach, Cape Town, Christopher Coumbus, Duke D. Nile, headaches, Jeanette Winterson, limbic, love, neural, smack, stroke, Sunday, The Stone Gods, tumour, war, write
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the reckoning…
It’s been a rather tumultuous week. More moving on Monday (lugging writing desk, chairs, sleeper couch and boxes upon boxes of books), followed by a breakup fight concluded by breakfast on Tuesday (soothed by pampering at Bliss and fabulously supportive … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes..., Relationships and other disasters
Tagged Betty, Betty Blue, blog, breakup, Cape Town, Dax, John, NaNoWriMo, Noordhoek, novel, peace, Philippe Djian, rollercoaster, single, TTFU
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galloping headlong…
Scarlet sees red in the Big Apple as calendars dissolve into the annual commercial blood fest: Valentine’s Day. Bleurgh… Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:06 AM Subject: parking violations & encore awards (beware the tirade) Hello again. It’s been another rather … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from limbo
Tagged Adrian Mole, Africa, ballet, Bear Mountain, Beetle, blizzard, Business Class, Cape Town, card exploding hearts in every, Central Park, commute, coordination, cynic, dogs, employer of choice, encore award, Erica Jung, eternal love, exhibition, fire hydrant, fool’s gold, Global Collaboration, guilt, GWB, haircut, Henry Miller, heroin chic, ice skating, London, lost, Maltese Poodle, Ms Jones, New Orleans, New York New York, NY, parking violation, pathological, plumber, primary school, quit, quote, retail therapy, risk, romantic, rookie error, Rottweiler, self image, sentiment, shopping, sightseeing, single, South Africa, Starbucks, strategy, stress, Taste, thank you, the law, tobogganing, toll, trainer, u-bend, Umgazana, unwelcome attention, US, Valentine's Day, writing, yuppie
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once up on a pony…
… a long long time ago, Scarlet arrived in the Big Apple, bright eyed and bushy-tailed (like every other madly motivated, high octane, crazy stupid marketing mogul under 30). And like any good South African shipped abroad with a supressed desire to write, … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from limbo
Tagged Berlitz, Big Apple, Business Class, cabs, Cape Town, Central Park, Century 21, Durban, George Washington Bridge, Godiva, Ground Zero, Haagen Daz, Harlem, Henry Hudson highway, HP, London, Manhattan, Montvale, nervous breakdown, New York, NYPD, packing, parking, South African, Statue of Liberty, Upper East Side, US, Wall Street, West Coast
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