Wednesday, March 28, 2012

O.M.G!! Avengers!!!



My inner little boy is doing cartwheels right now. I cannot contain my excitement right now *insert scream here*

March book (update)

This month I picked Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. I really wanna say that I am half way through the book, but as stated before. I had  a bit of family stuff to do, then it was my birthday (birthday post will be up by Sat) and now I have to do this 'scary-hush-hush-16-day-project that I mentioned in the previous post.

So I'm gonna try and finish this book before the end of April and for April I will pick something short and fun. Not sure what yet. Might even pick a play. So that is my update. But so far so good. 

This the image on the cover of my book

I scare myself

Its been a while since I posted on The Journey. My apologies, family stuff got in the way and being part of a 2 woman label means work is definitely affected. I'm back and ready to share.

Last year I decided that it was important to do something that scares me everyday. I lived a life ruled by fear and that seemed like the only way to learn to live with fear. I don't think fear ever goes away, you just need to learn to not let it run your life.So everyday I do at least one scary thing. I found that I'm actually getting tougher by scaring myself everyday ha ha ha.

Anyway... I am working on something big-ish for the album and it needs to be completed in 16 days. By now you know that I am very ambitious and that I like to traumatise myself with big scary tasks. This is one of them. I can't say now what it is, because there are other people involved and I don't wanna take way the 'SURPRISE' moment.

So I may be quiet-ER than usual for the next 16 days. 2 woman label work has just gotten EXTRA intense. I need to get this done and then I can announce my other BEEG surprise. So many exciting things coming up, Yaaaaayyy!!

Wearing my Today is the Day shirt and look extra excited for my next 2 releases for the album
Later Days. Porcelain. Out.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Foxy Friday

I love...





Ha ha ha but why must (young)Jay and that woman expose us to bad acting at the beginning of this video? Ha ha ha.



Friday, March 2, 2012

February Book 2 (Cion)


I mentioned that February would be Zakes Mda month. I started off with Memoirs of an Outsider and then finished off Cion.

I REALLY enjoyed Ways of Dying about Toloki the professional mourner. In Cion the professional mourner is now in the US and learns about the ancestors of the people with whom he is staying. It took a while to get into the book. But I trust the author so I kept going on. When I got to the end of the book I wanted to know more about what happens to all the characters. I must add that I felt like the characters were a little thin. They were a little hard to bring to 'life' but I enjoyed the book none the less.

It would be unfair to compare this book to 'Ways of Dying' (which is one of my favourite books). I don't think you necessarily have to have read Ways of Dying to enjoy Cion. This book reminded me a little of Toni Morrison's works, which is great because I am a HUGE Toni Morrison fan. Her book A Mercy was the January book.