Happy Valentines

2013 Grammy Nominations

With just under a week to go for the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Of course, most of you know that I'll be watching just because Jack White and The Black Keyes are going to be playing.....how could I miss that??.  

Here are the awards I will be watchin...the others I don't really give a rat's arse about. 

Who do you think's gonna take it??

Record Of The Year

• Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
• Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
• We Are Young - Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
• Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye Featuring Kimbra
• Thinkin Bout You - Frank Ocean
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift

Album Of The Year

• El Camino - The Black Keys
• Some Nights - Fun.
• Babel - Mumford & Sons
• Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
• Blunderbuss - Jack White

Best Rock Performance

• Hold On - Alabama Shakes
• Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
• Charlie Brown - Coldplay
• I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
• We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen

Best New Artist

• Alabama Shakes
• Fun.
• Hunter Hayes
• The Lumineers
• Frank Ocean

Best Rock Performance

• Hold On - Alabama Shakes
• Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
• Charlie Brown - Coldplay
• I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
• We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen

Best Rock Song

• Freedom At 21 - Jack White, songwriter (Jack White)
• I Will Wait - Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall & Marcus Mumford, songwriters (mumford & Sons)
• Lonely Boy - Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton & Patrick Carney, songwriters (the Black Keys)
• Madness - Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)
• We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

Best Rock Album

• El Camino - The Black Keys
• Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
• The 2nd Law - Muse
• Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
• Blunderbuss - Jack White

Happy 10th Birthday Megan

Megan had her 10th Birthday Partylast weekend and it was a glorious day, 32 degrees in the shade.  Everyone enjoyed the water slide and the pool.  It was a good day with loads of sweets, cake and smiles.  I asked Megan why she only invited boys to her party, she said "Girls are no Fun!".

The Party Packs that they kids took home after the day.  As if the sugar rush at the party wasn't enough!

Double Figures of candles on the cake this year!

Cake Time!

The Slip and Slide being set up

My Boerewors and Percy enjoying the fun

Ready and Slide!

Percy playing with his hose

Meanwhile behind the bar...

Kaylin and her best friend, McKayla

Megan slamdunking

Kids in the Pool

Epic Mud Fail at the backside of the slide

Friends jumping in the pool

Meg, Tam and Mel enjoying the marshmallow fish!

Friends

Getting my arse kicked by my BFF, Mandy

2013 Mud Wrestling Championships

End Result

Trying to get a KO!

Best PhotoBombs Evar!

I'm a HUGE fan of photobombing... ...got these emailed to me and I thought I'd share them with you becoz they certainly cheered my day up.

Yip, that's Ryan Seacrest

 

and my personal favourite!

 

I Collect Gingers

Megan and myself are ginger #97 and #98 of Anthea Pokroy's I Collect Gingers art exhibition. 

Anthea has been photographing gingers since 2010 and now, two and a half years and 500+ gingers later, the red-headed Johannesburg-based artist and photographer will be presenting her debut solo exhibition at Speke Photographic / CIRCA on Jellicoe in Rosebank, Johannesburg tonight.

Pokroy explains, “It was only after my first photography session with seven ‘gingers’ that I began exploring the innate sense of community and collective experience that emerged from the otherness of the ‘gingers’ ”. Through her photographs Pokroy begins to construct a narrative, history/future and system of classification around this self-identified ‘race’. Pokroy uses this minority (2% of the world population) and mythical (historically considered witches and demons) group of red-headed people to highlight the obscurities of racial classification and discrimination which remain prevalent in South Africa. In a context that has historically been obsessed and oppressed by skin colour, Pokroy suggests an ironic alternative to genetic and pigment-based racial profiling. She begins to imagine what a ginger utopia might look like and what its implications would be.

Pokroy has documented gingers from all over South Africa, as well as internationally when she attended the Redhead Day in the Netherlands where thousands of gingers from all over the world congregated. ‘I collect gingers’, has received a plausible amount of interest in the media, including 5fm, 702 Talk Radio, The Star, Wanted Magazine, and Fair Lady amongst others. The artwork also has an impressive local and international social media following.
  
The exhibition opens on 17 January 2013 at CIRCA on Jellicoe. 

The show will run until 2 March 2013.