Buenos Aires Vol. 1

Arrived in Buenos Aires, oh yes!
My favourite moments of this very diverse city...

On our way to Argentina!

The time has arrived!
We have booked our tickets for Buenos Aires and be leaving South Africa on the 27th Feb. Though our time in South Africa has been wonderful and therapeutic and it's going to be so sad to leave, the opportunity and excitement to go to a new country and experience something different. To learn another language. I'm very happy and can't wait to begin the South American adventure.

DHW

33 Hours

I just finished a short short film and wanted to share with you all.

Trip to Shelly Beach

What a fantastic time in the south coast of Natal, eastern part of South Africa. Was the first time we went camping together in an isolated area. So much so we where the only people in the campsite for a couple days. Which was great as it gave us time to get creative and jumpstart our writing project.

Here is the link to the album

You know how it is. You love your family an love being with them, especially when the make such good food lie my nonna, but being with the family is also work and time consuming. There where too many distractions and we couldn't get our creative spark to ignite. It's very hot in Pretoria and after a full italian lunch you can't move, let alone focus ;-). So we decided to take a trip before my uncles wedding in Durban on the 26th January. We aimed at the south coast, being cheaper and much fewer people. Well it really paid off. We had such a fantastic time sleeping out in the open right next to a small dam with the soon to be caught bass and a swimming pool at our disposal. I felt very relaxed and recharged and like it was never there my hand and mind where in sync and I was just writing and Rebekka creating wonderfully descriptive passages laying the path for the Book (won't get into detail just yet, all in due time)

hope you like the pics and would love to hear your comments

Damien

Another happy Wood wedding

Neil and Megna wedding

Rebekka and I where lucky to be here to go to my uncle Neil and his beautiful wife Megna's wedding in Durban, Natal. It was my first indian wedding and how wonderful it was. Magic decorations accompanied by equally spicy food :) Neil also honoured us by asking us to bring forth the rings to the ceremonial area on stage. I luckily was wearing my usual relaxed, cotton guru look garments and fit right in with the ornate and spiritually decorative attire of my family.

Many wonderful things to you both.
Damien & Rebekka

Gonna see my idol

I love it when things come together. My musical hero is in South Africa and I have managed to get tickets. Was a long shot, but it worked. And now it all I can think about. Everyday will be a marathon of Sixto Rodriguez albums, namely "Cold Fact" and "Coming From Reality" in preparation for our performance in unison. Must sound the same ... lol. It's great to get so excited about a musician again. And in this case it really isn't just any musician, this is Rodriguez. A lyricist few could match who breathed the stench of the inner city and poisoned the paper with lead whilst sining it to music written as if from a time that was always that was never. Beuatiful....



Shout out to Stephen Sugar Segerman 

Back to the 80ies

We had such a good weekend. Damien's mom invited us to go to an 80ies party last Friday. It was from 30 years up, so I thought it would be best to bring my ID with. But then at the entrance, the bouncer didn't even ask for my ID! Do I really look 30??? ;-)
Before letting us in, he handed us a little bottle of shampoo, so I asked him what kind of party was going on in there..... he laughed and pointed at the promotion they were doing. To my question if this shampoo would be good for my straight hair, he started to search in the basket until he found the matching conditioner :-) what a nice bouncer! The music in the beginning was so so, but then it got better, or was it the tequila? :-) Even though me and Damien were born in the 80ies, there were many songs we had never heard. It was great to watch Damien's mom and his uncle looking at each other with excitement to hear these songs again. I wish I would have taken pics or even better video of the crowd. Some people rockt up with perm-hairstyles and funky moustaches, tight tiger body suits and flash gordon t-shirts tucked in their jeans, wich were pulled up above the waist. The best about all of this was, that it didn't seem, that they dressed up... they just kept the style from the 80ies and carried it trough :-)