Ooh, this hurts…
Tags: fifa, worldcup, fifa2010, 2010, 2010worldcup, soccer

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Cover of Bring Me to Life

Keeping the TV off, here’s a couple of tasty previews for those fellow suckers who decided to attempt the “Hassle-Free” Coke Fest. See you there I guess…
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
Staind – Open Your Eyes
Staind – So Far Away
3 Doors Down – Be Like That
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
Hoobastank [...]

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Another one to watch:

Fall Out Boy Misheard lyrics – This aint a scene Arms race.
Yes, due to the TV boycott, I will try and provide as much viewing material as possible here…
Tags: FallOutBoy, misheard, lyrics, ArmsRace, TVturnoff, boycott

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Go watch this unbelievable violin player NOW!!
Great way to end the day smiling.
What are you still reading this for? I said Go Now!!!
Tags: violin, music, player, excellent, talent,

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Indeed it is TV Turnoff Week.
Druk die rooi knoppie.
And indeed the Peppers said it best with “Throw Away Your Television”:

Throw away your television
Take the noose off your ambition
Reinvent your intuition now
Its a repeat of a story told
Its a repeat and its getting old

I haven’t had a TV since mid-March. I’m probably too lazy to buy [...]

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The Best English and Afrikaans Rock albums for 2006 that is.

Fokofpolisiekar took the South African Music Award for Best Rock Album: Afrikaans with Swanesang (or kalahari.net), and Cassette took the Best Rock Album: English for ‘Welcome Back To Earth‘ at Saturday’s awards ceremony.
Chris Chameleon also walked away with a SAMA for Best Adult Contemporary Album: [...]

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I can’t take any credit, all I can do is point you at this link:
Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird
and say “If you use these tools, go do this now!”
Awesome stuff – now I’m slowly getting closer to that GTD goal.
Tags: google, calendar, thunderbird, sync, gcal, gtd, productivity, scheduling

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Departing Friday early from Pretoria, our adventure began. We managed to miss any semblance of that horrid N1 traffic and were soon scooting along towards Northam via Brits, if we could just remember the route.
Fortunately our driver JMan did remember the route – something along the lines of: Go until you think you’re wrong, and [...]

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So I just picked up off Idolator that Guns ‘n Roses are postponing their world tour due to an injury to bassist Tommy Stinson’s hand.
Great, so now we get an even more watered-down version of an already watered-down band.
Frankly I’m surprised Big Concerts didn’t just pull the plug…
Tags: MyCokeFest, GunsNRoses, tour, band, music, rock

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What the hell? Where do I start? OMG.
Here’s what I need to do:
1. Write about Oppikoppi.
2. Write about the bands for 52weeks.co.za.
3. Process photos and upload.
4. See what video I have and upload it too.
5. Charge camera batteries.
6. Not do it in the order above.
7. Rip Bought CDs.
8. Listen to Bought CDs.
9. Share thoughts [...]

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