"Beth, every word she utters on that appalling reality show of theirs, just makes her uglier and uglier. Her banality and stupidity make her hideous to me."
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Strato Copteros commented on Cover Girl's blog post Kim Kardashian by Nick Knight for V79 The Travel IssueStrato Copteros commented on Socratis Avgitidis's blog post Ghostly Paintings on Newspaper by Shin-Young An""Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Strato Copteros commented on Iconic's blog post Jimi Hendrix by Gered Mankowitz 1967"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. Jimi Hendrix
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Strato Copteros commented on Cover Girl's blog post Kim Kardashian by Nick Knight for V79 The Travel Issue"Andy Warhol in 1968 said that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." When it comes to KK and her ilk; I think time's now up for rich, dumb and vacuous."
alexandra avgitidis commented on Strato Copteros's blog post East Cape Blues"Thanks for sharing Strato:)"
A blog post by Strato Copteros was featuredNational ArtFest Days 8,9,10, 11 - More Than One Could Ever Imagine
So its over. The ArtsFest for 2012 is done. As am I. I'd hoped to write daily updates - to put you right inside the glorious kaleidoscope that the Grahamstown National Arts Festival always is. I couldn't. This year was just too big, too much, too busy, too full, too intense, too constant. My god! Every day was so full, that by evening what had happened just that morning felt like it was days, even weeks, old.Having worked as a wordsmith for a dozen years, I pride myself at being able to…See More
Strato Copteros posted a blog postNational ArtFest Days 8,9,10, 11 - More Than One Could Ever Imagine
So its over. The ArtsFest for 2012 is done. As am I. I'd hoped to write daily updates - to put you right inside the glorious kaleidoscope that the Grahamstown National Arts Festival always is. I couldn't. This year was just too big, too much, too busy, too full, too intense, too constant. My god! Every day was so full, that by evening what had happened just that morning felt like it was days, even weeks, old.Having worked as a wordsmith for a dozen years, I pride myself at being able to…See More
A blog post by Strato Copteros was featuredDays 6 & 7: Creative Heaven
In our little normally secluded corner of the Eastern Cape, when Fest rolls into town, everything changes. Obviously! But it's more than the obvious influx of shows and people. It's almost as if the town's DNA,and that of its people, is irrevocably altered - a kind of creative cosmic shift, where the largesse of what is all around us somehow infuses itself into our bloodstream through our pores. For a while, like plants, we grow by osmosis. For some in Gtown, Fest is the annual cash express - a…See More
Nomsa Kagiso commented on Strato Copteros's blog post Days 3,4,5: The Arts Are Alive!!!"Wonderful read, thanks Strato:)"
A blog post by Strato Copteros was featuredDays 3,4,5: The Arts Are Alive!!!
... And it's nearly killed me! This has by far been the busiest festival I've had in years; and how much of a good thing I can stand, now seems to have become the sub-plot of my fight against fest fatigue. You know when a kid comes back from the zoo and starts listing? - "We saw lions, and tigers, and monkeys and leopard and ... and ... and ... Oh and ... wow and there were ..."Check this out for the Strato Artfest zoomania days 3, 4, & 5 retrospective In the last three days I have…See More
Strato Copteros posted a blog postDays 3,4,5: The Arts Are Alive!!!
... And it's nearly killed me! This has by far been the busiest festival I've had in years; and how much of a good thing I can stand, now seems to have become the sub-plot of my fight against fest fatigue. You know when a kid comes back from the zoo and starts listing? - "We saw lions, and tigers, and monkeys and leopard and ... and ... and ... Oh and ... wow and there were ..."Check this out for the Strato Artfest zoomania days 3, 4, & 5 retrospective In the last three days I have…See More
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- I'm a writer, musician, performer, creative, closet academic and out and out football fan. Our band is called SunshiP, after one of John Coltraine's last records - which is also the name of a song we do as a tribute to him. It's one of about 30 originals, some of whom are stupendously good, and almost 40 reinterpretations of others' work which include total reworks of over half a dozen Robert Johnson's, a couple of Muddy Waters' tracks, Peter Green, Howling Wolf, JJ Cale, bla bla. The world of music opened up for me as an active lifestyle at 41 when I started playing drums and fulfilling a childhood dream. Childhood dreams are fundamental truths, I've found. I'm fully pro environment, loathe mining, pesticides, logging, fracking, the petrochemical industry and branding. I believe that great products make good brands and not the other way around, find the notion of people as brands nauseatingly Joan Collins, and don't tweet ever! If we are to break the human experience into tiny digestible morsels, well tyhen we may as well bleat!
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East Cape Blues
Thank you to neofundi and my good friend Socs - a friendship now into its 35th magnificent year - for providing such an amazing platform for me to share some of my thoughts ... and now my music.
So ... emboldened by my friends' positive reaction to my posting of one of our band's songs "My Death" yesterday, today I'm posting the vid of one of our live performances earlier this year. The song's called "East Cape Blues" and was shot exclusively on iPhone and edited on laptop by good…
ContinuePosted on July 18, 2012 at 16:00 — 1 Comment
SunshiP
Having blogged intermittently about the 2012 Grahamstown National Arts Festival; and written bits and bobs for the last year about SunshiP - the band I drum in - finally I have something to show my friends in Jozi, most of whom haven't seen me play - in fact all of whom knew me before my exit from Jozi and mid-life existentialism drove me to finally actualise the dream I've had since childhood.
So ...
SunshiP is the band; and "My Death" is the single that appears below. The…
ContinuePosted on July 17, 2012 at 16:42
National ArtFest Days 8,9,10, 11 - More Than One Could Ever Imagine
So its over. The ArtsFest for 2012 is done. As am I. I'd hoped to write daily updates - to put you right inside the glorious kaleidoscope that the Grahamstown National Arts Festival always is. I couldn't. This year was just too big, too much, too busy, too full, too intense, too constant. My god! Every day was so full, that by evening what had happened just that morning felt like it was days, even weeks, old.
Having worked as a wordsmith for a dozen years, I pride myself at being able…
ContinuePosted on July 10, 2012 at 16:30
Days 6 & 7: Creative Heaven
In our little normally secluded corner of the Eastern Cape, when Fest rolls into town, everything changes. Obviously! But it's more than the obvious influx of shows and people. It's almost as if the town's DNA,and that of its people, is irrevocably altered - a kind of creative cosmic shift, where the largesse of what is all around us somehow infuses itself into our bloodstream through our pores. For a while, like plants, we grow by osmosis. For some in Gtown, Fest is the annual cash express…
ContinuePosted on July 5, 2012 at 15:51
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- At 11:06 on June 10, 2011,
Mr. Alpha said… - Ola Chollo..
- At 11:24 on June 10, 2011,
Kally Boyiatjis said… - Stratos!!!! How are u? xxx
- At 21:32 on August 10, 2011,
Chantel Green said… - My Disco king...meeting you in the cyber world....miss the dance floor and your presence...
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