Do. It. Yourself

I've been quiet for a while because I've been writing (songs), reading this month's books (3 of them) and living. I've also been trying to figure out how to make this album release as painless as possible. 3 months ago I shot a music video for the Das Kapital remix of 'Today is the Day'. I kept making promises to upload it but... Nothing happened. Well here is a video explaining my woes.




What's the point of doing this is if I can't have fun? I honestly got so caught up in what wasn't being done, that I forgot that I can ALWAYS DO something about my situation.

Music Video Tings

Yes. I used the word 'tings' in the post title. Moving right along.

Last weekend I shot the first part of the music video for a song I released almost a year ago (Butterflies DJ Zinhle remix). A friends little sister is a film school student in 3rd year and she approached me to shoot a music video. Marcee and I are already clear about what music videos we are shooting next, concepts, dates etc. So we thought it would be cool to give them Butterflies (DJ Zinhle remix) to work with. It was the first one of my songs to be playlisted A LOT overseas. It was only 8 countries, but the reception was very good.

Last Saturday was the 'green screen' shoot. I had never done a green screen shoot, so it was very interesting. I had to do a lot of pretending. The idea is that there are butterflies all around me and I'm interacting with them. It made me feel like I always do; crazy. So I suppose it was no different to every day of my life.

The dress is by Lazuli. We spent all morning trying things on and just before we left I tried this one on and Marcee and Bukiwe (stylist) both agreed that it was the ONE. This weekend we shoot the rest of the music video.




I performed Butterflies on Expresso in Feb of this year. Its a very naked, stripped down version of the song.

Album Update

• I think I'm comfortable with releasing the album after Winter. There is still so much to do in terms of promo, so I'm giving myself the next 3 months to sort that and the track listing in order
• I am currently working on 2 music videos (dont have enough time to explain, but I will in the next few days)
• I STILL have a music video that is being played on TV and if you haven't see it, check it out here:

And the Das Kapital remix is below:

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