The Weekend

Owen Nicholas at the 6th Songwriters Round, MoJo

Right now, I have a slight hangover. It's funny, I keep saying I have to refrain from indulging too much but last night I gave in to temptation, yet again. It was rather quiet at my place like any other Sunday and I told myself I'd have an early night. That was not to be as I had good company in the person of someone I will refer to from today as just, dad. Turned out dad is Cherie's old man. A very good man, he is. We talked, I drank some more and left slightly before the shutters went down. I hit the sack with a good buzz.

Shal Sagan with a big ass guitar, MoJo

I had a great weekend. I was at the 6th Songwriters Round at MoJo on Saturday. Owen Nicholas performed as usual and this time he had CD's to give away which was cool. I was a little late for the show and by the time I entered, the place was already packed. A different crowd this time and much livelier and noisier from the last.

There were new faces on stage but I didn't get their names. All young talents with great musical and songwriting inventiveness. One performer had this line in his song - 'Jesus left me for the whore next door'- which I thought was...thought provoking. Besides Owen, Shal Sagan sang. She was the guest artiste for the night. If you didn't know yet, she has an album out and she's currently working on her next. She was beautiful and her songs rather depressing which she later informed me summed up her life in general.

I was planning to stay for a while until this fellow, Kojak took the mike. Heard he's the front man of this local punk band call 'The United Kid's of Oi!' or something like that. I can't say much about him but he did a rendition of Bob Marley's 'No Woman, No Cry' and midway through it, I knew I had to go.

I swung by at my place where I downed more beers. Hope, the ever beautiful Hope then suggested sucking face. I found out later that lots of wine, lots of beer and the exercise involving sucking face does not mix very well.

I was floored.