Thursday, April 08, 2004  

Missed Louis Mhlanga last night (finished before we got there), but saw a fun local Afro-pop band whose name got lost in a glass of rum & Coke. But I did meet ol' Louis, and he seemed to be more out of it than me. I liked that.

Also met Rashid Lombard, the fella who puts on the North Sea-Cape Town Jazz Fest and who owns the Manenberg Jazz Cafe and espAfrika Productions, and he's a total character. Still super enthusiastic about music and his life's work (he turns 54 on Saturday), and he's a lot of fun to talk with because he's really inspired. Dude is fired up. My back kinda hurt.

Went up on Table Mountain today. It's spectacular even when you're not jetlagged, I'm sure, but it's especially freaky when your head is spinning with poetry and prose about the meaning of the universe without sleep.



OB, this Table Mountain chickenrabbitsquirrel is for you:


Note: These photos are merely placeholders for my own spectacular photography (you like thumbs in your landscapes? Me too!), which I will post as soon as I find a place to plug in my laptop instead of using one of the hotel's Commodore 64 desktop computers.

Off to a free jazz fest for all the Cape Towners who can't afford the North Sea fest---which seems to be pretty much everybody that we've talked to.

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