It’s been a helluva weekend, it started out on Friday night when I went to see fokofpolisiekar live at Mercury with Anita. It was an awesome show as it was a kind of remembrance concert for them in the venue where they had their first ever gig. They did a lot of their old stuff – the stuff that made them legendary in the first place, and some of the stuff from their new album Antibiotika.
I’ve seen them live several times, and this was by far the best show of all. To the band I must say, and I can only say this in Afrikaans: Julle is die stem van jong Suid Afrika, nou fok julle..
Pictures from the concert:
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Saturday afternoon I went to a Urban Ink tattoo parlor to do something I have been planning for months, a new tattoo. This is my second piece of ink, much larger than the first, far more prominently placed (on my bicep) and here’s the clencher, what I got tattood on my arm is the kongoni logo. This logo, an iconic GNU (wildebeest) is a symbol of freedom, long after computing has moved on and the kongoni OS is just a memory and I’m an old man, that freedom will still be important to me- it’s a logo I am proud to wear for the rest of my life, and right now, it’s the logo of the GNU/Linux distribution I started… and that is just awesome 
Here is a full set of pictures of the process. Of course it’s not exactly like the computer version, a few minor adaptations was needed to make it work on skin, and it won’t show exactly right for a few days yet until the bruising has gone down (the lighter colors are masked by the red skin) but even now in the evening it’s already looking great. Thanks to Anita for taking the pictures.
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This evening was Natalie’s birthday party, we went to Primi Piatti in Cavendish for dinner, some of them went on to go clubbing, we skipped that… we were just too tired after the weekend so far. My neck is so stiff from Friday’s headbanging, guess we’re getting old. Tomorrow is Arno and Christel’s aniversary party, at least it promises to be a quiet and peaceful ending to a long busy weekend.
