Mind Your Head (space)

A few days I go, a friend of mine said, shouldn't it possible to sue people who occupy you mind with thier mindless products, as in pop music (including kwaito).  So much bullshit out there occupying my mind, but this previous weekend was different.

Thursday night, I met the band, finaly, UJU that is.  Hopefully I will get around to building a web presence for them.  After we had a short discussion of where I think thier web presence should 'head' to, I heard them perform for the first time.  Most people I had asked about how UJU was, they said they were okay, somebody else went to say, they are loud.

Well, load is true, but they are not the type of band that plays in the background whilst you are digging into your serloin steak, sipping on crushed grapes, and discussing your child's post-matric future. They are what you should be feed your soul with, and you have to taste the food the serve.  Simply put, ba rocka! Yes, I was at 'roka bar', rocking away to UJU.

What fascinated me mostly, was that the majority of the crowd was young, and they were feeling the music, chanting, shouting, dancing, and some lucky fella got to 'duet' with the band, coz it was his birthday.  It was a fantastic evening, it concluded with dj euphonik playing and the crowd dancing away, my god, girls in joburg are banging, no digity, no doubt!

That was ill, then on friday afternoon, when I asked any person I knew what they were doing that evening and everybody replied, "... there is this setup opening tonight in down town jozi ... and its free ..."  It turns out there was a barrage of emails that people recieved to get down to this setup, i recieved none though, eish, need to get myself into the loop.

So, drank a few beers at Europa (rosebank) and prepared for the night.  Drove down to Fuel (newtown) picked a fella who knew how to get to this setup.  The directions where quite difficult if you don't know jozi, but quite simple, but hey, we got there, it's at a dead end, it could freak you out if you have a fear of jozi, but alas we got there.  We saw a couple of fellas with a torchlights and we asked them if this was the seup, they replied, "just walk through this door (which was the height of froto baggins) and mind your head."

What, mind your head.  Ask anybody who was there, that the moment they walked throught that door and heard that phrase, everything clicked, 'mind your head'.  Fantastic, nothing better than a well thought out idea.  The strangest thing was anybody that I would have invited to come through, was there, but what flippled my mind even more, was that they all knew each other, no introductions required, wierd.

My mind was blown away, the music was off the hook (hiphop, true hiphop), the live bands where ill.  The lead singer of Black Jacks, said this, before the set, '... mind your head, mind the music you put in your head.'  Perfect, the beer (black label off course) was reasonably priced (R9.50), even better.

From thursday to friday night, I managed to capture 300 photographs, and I finaly found a photography project worth my time to do.  Details on that, after I discuss it, with the person that inspired it.  I'd hate to think I am jacking somebody else's idea, that would be bad karma.

Alas, my weekend was cut short, by a client calling on friday afternoon, needing to push up the deadline to tomorrow morning.  Which meant, I could not go out on saturday, coz I need an entire day to detox and re-engage in work.

Spring is here.

Word.