AQUILOGY is dead, long live AQUILOGY

08 Tuesday May 2012

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About five years ago, July 2007 to be exact, I opened a blogger account and I haven’t looked back since. I was finished with exams and I didn’t know how to properly spend the free time I now had in my hands, so I opened a blogger account. I had two blogs prior to this one, I had to delete them because I was revealing things about myself that I didn’t want the world, which is ironic considering how much I shared with the online community during the first year of this blog, but I digress. In September 2007 I created this blog and it was one of the best things I ever did. I have met (albeit, not in real life) some of the most wonderful people and have grown as a human being because of it.

Almost five years has passed and a lot of things have changed. I have grown older and wiser and I am not as comfortable with sharing as I once was. This is a personal blog and without the ability to share my personal life with an indifferent internet, I find myself struggling to write any post. Hell, 80% of the post I’ve dropped here since 2011 have been lame.  So I decided to discontinue this blog. It has been a fun ride and I want to thank each and everyone of you for taking the time to read, comment and share my blog posts. Special thanks to everyone who was there from the genesis, those who were with me when this blog went from obscurity to blowing up (mid 2008 to early 2009 when this blog used to get 500 hits per day) and sticking with me when google’s algorithms changed and I no longer had that search engine love (late 2009 when this blog went from 500 hits per day, to a modest 50, obscurity FTW!). Extra Special thanks to the following people: Dr. Laura for being one of my earliest readers and the smartest person I know (and still be humble about it lol), Lola gets for being one of my earliest commenters and being awesome, The late UBM, for believing in me when I didn’t, Rest in Peace and Goodenough Mashego, for being an inspiration.

Peace and blessings to all of you.

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The camera lens never lies II

03 Thursday May 2012

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About two years I took up jogging to lose weight and to stay sane. I stuck to my running schedule religiously for about a year and a half. Things have gotten a bit hectic for me because I now spend my free time studying and doing creative work, I no longer had the time to spend three to four hours a week running. I only ran three times this year! I also developed a bad addiction to triple decker pizza with extra cheese. I wasn’t aware that I was slowly gaining back the weight I worked so hard to lose and keep off ’til I loaded this weekend’s photos on my computer. I need to start running again.

21 (meaningless) ?uestions

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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  1. With all the intellectuals in this continent, why hasn’t anybody wrote anything about the unbearable whiteness of DSTV/multichoice programming?
  2. Could the Sowetanlive comments section be the embodiment of ignorance?
  3. About the Gauteng e-tolling saga, what does protesting over R500 per month when we already pay DSTV R600 for shitty shows say about us as a people?
  4. How long are we going to sit here and pretend that Tumblr didn’t render blogging irrelevant?
  5. Did we honestly believe that Robert Mugabe would live forever?
  6. Am I the only person who was totally dissatisfied with the third half of Fiona Forde’s “Inconvenient youth“?
  7. Where in the world is Jay Electronica?
  8. Is it just me or has there been a systematic silencing of Andile Mngxitama in mainstream media?
  9. When will fans of Hip Hop band, ‘The Roots’ finally admit that the group hasn’t done anything brilliant since ‘Illadelph Halflife’?
  10. Isn’t it sad that no one is mourning the obvious death of R&B?
  11. Ever notice how free circumcisions to combat HIV are always offered/ ‘Marketed’ towards poor black males?
  12. Am I a bad person for thinking that KFC’s ‘add hope‘ campaign is a hoax?
  13. Now that Julius Malema is gone, who will be the next black bogeyman?
  14. When will we get over Zuma’s polygamy?
  15. Could monogamy be the greatest hoax social convention played on us?
  16. Having been treated like this for what seems like an eternity, when will poor black people start a revolution?
  17. Will ‘Skelethon‘ be able to pull Aesop Rock out of the Definitive Jux induced creative rut he’s been in?
  18. How can people think This is acceptable?
  19. What will happen if ‘The black power mixtape‘ becomes a compulsory viewing for every fourth grade black student?
  20. How long must we wait for solar flares to wipe out humanity?
  21. Will my unroadworthy car survive maputo*?

 

*Don’t ask

The ex factor

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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I might be drunk right now, or not. I’ve been drinking all my adult life and the anorexic thin line between sobriety and getting toe up is getting blurrier and blurrier with each glass of klipdrift premium I guzzle. Intoxicated or not, my mind can’t help but pop up visions of you, images that I erroneously thought I had suppressed in my memory vault of regrets. I might not act like it half the time but you’re my ultimate regret. We had a good thing going and me being the Neanderthal that I am, ruined everything. If I could amass the requisite extra IQ points, I would built a time machine and go back in time to that fateful moment where I ruined it all. I would go back to the time when all I needed was your embrace to counteract my irrational insecurities, the healing effect of your soft lips, the magical words you used to utter to me to reassure me that everything would be okay, before I broke your heart. I am not smart enough to build that machine, and with the amount of brain cells I murder each day with my binge drinking, I will most probably not be able to construct such a device. All I have are my words, no matter how worthless they are and all I want to say is ‘I am really sorry’ but you don’t want to hear that and I totally understand. I just wish we could go back to the days when the dopamine and serotonin would flood my brain, induced by my eyes catching a glimpse of your face causing a euphoric feeling. I know better though, those days will never reoccur ’cause we’ve long past the point of no return and all I can look forward to is an empty feeling of regret.

Lake Fundudzi

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

Lake Fundudzi

There’s a 1000 word essay of my trip to lake Fundudzi in my drafts folder, but I decided not to post it ’cause it reveals certain things about my psyche that I don’t want the internet to know yet.

If you happen to find yourself in Venda, take a detour and drive to this place, it’ll be worth it.

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Things I learned this year.

16 Monday Apr 2012

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Get your learn on, Negro!

  • You can never really recover from an episode of mental illness, your existence will forever be trapped in a state where you scrutinize every moment in your life just to make sure that you aren’t having another episode.
  • There’s nothing black people can do to combat the racist perceptions white people have of them. If  white folks really want free themselves to the default situation we all find ourselves in i.e white supremacy, they must educate themselves by going to the library (or online, book piracy is the new music piracy) and reading leading anti-racist writers like Biko, Fanon, Du Bois etc. They must also actively try deconstruct the racist systems that are actively keeping people of a lesser hue perpetually disadvantaged. Everything else is a cop-out.
  • Everybody secretly hates AQUILOGY.
  • Having lived my whole life preferring my own company, I will probably die a loner and I am totally at peace with that.
  • Alcohol is a helluva drug!
  • I am not as pure and innocent as I once thought I was and it’s a shame that I had to drive 600 kilometres away from home to figure that obvious fact out.
  • There comes a time in your life when you realize that people who you thought were your friends will probably abandon you and move on, settle down, leaving you with a shameful title of being the oldest guy in the club looking for a girl to settle down with.
  • Growing up is still overrated. One of the biggest reasons your former associates don’t fux with you no more is because being around you makes them realize how much fun they would’ve had if they had stubbornly held on to their childhood like you did.
  • I will eternally be attracted to women with unresolved emotional issues.
  • Confirmation bias aside, The Venda myth is probably true. Pause.
  • One day people will realize how special I am but then, I’ll either be dead or crazy and it will be too late for them to suck my specialness out of me. I know specialness is not a real word so fux all of you for trying to be my English teacher……….wait ‘specialness‘ is a word so fux you even more suckers!
  • I will probably die broke and when that happens, cut off my organs, sell them at the black market and leave some inheritance for my progeny.
  • Kaizer Chiefs is DEAD, long live Moroka Swallows!
  • This blog is DEAD.
  • I love my moms. No really.
  • I love my dad, even though we have some unresolved issues to sort out.
  • I love my sister. I only realized now the numerous amount of things she sacrificed so that I can be successful, even though I’m too busy involved with my own bullshit to be considered successful by today’s asinine standards.
  • 17 years ago, my little brother lebogang passed away. I was nine years old when that happened. I only realized it this year how much that affected me. I never actually got over his death, I don’t think I’ll ever will. I have been obsessed with death ever since and can’t seem to get over the fact that I could’ve been a big brother.
  • therapy (no matter how whack it was) helped me sort out most of my issues and now it’s up to me to sort out the residual psychological stumbling blocks that keep me from being great.
  • One day I’ll fall in love, genuinely.
  • I’m not a bad person, once people get to know me.
  • I love people, regardless of my loner mentality.
  • De la Soul is the greatest.
  • Nostalgia is a helluva drug!

Music Break: Fans expectations edition

09 Monday Apr 2012

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In 2007 Rapper, Blu together with producer, Exile released an album that many considered classic. In “Below the heavens” Blu successfully covered topics and concepts that some considered mature for someone his age (he was 23 when he recorded the LP) and because the album had a somewhat rap purist streak in it, it attracted the worst kind of fans a young MC can get, “Backpackers”. Ever since then, everything Blu has done has been scowled at by his fans. Which I find ridiculous considering the fact that Blu’s one of the most forward thinking and most creative MC. It’s a shame that his fans can’t appreciate his creativity and “don’t a flying fux” approach to music.

The track above is take from the LP, “No York“, the album that features some of the most futuristic and mind bending beats you will ever hear and was met with the usual “Make another ‘Below the heavens’” response from his fans. Madlib provides the beat.

Meshell Ndegeocello is one of the most underrated musicians of all time. She has experimented with diverse genres and pulled it off every single time. Unlike Blu, she has the most amazing fans, who let her be as creative as she wants to. They understand that during her 19 year old career, she has not released an album that sound the same to her previous releases and the ingest whatever she releases with appreciation.

The above track is taken from her 2003 classic, “Comfort Woman” and features a haunting solo from guitarist Doyle Bramhall II. Enjoy.

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