Gold Fish Submerged Sundays

Goldfish’s Submerged Sundays have truly become part of the fabric of Cape Town.

Now in its 3rd year, Goldfish have taken the Submerged Sunday’s Concept and grown

it into Cape Town’s hottest night of the week – hands down.

Featuring 12 exclusive sets from Goldfish every Sunday, the cream of South Africa’s DJs,

Sushi Bar courtesy of Tank, incredible visuals courtesy of Afterlife VJ’s, mind-numbing

sound from Audio Engineering, as well as top secret production effects to rock the

dance floor, The Fishies have upped their game once again.

Pull in early for a drink, grab some Sushi and watch the sun set with the perfect soundtrack

and setting before Goldfish take the stage to play the cutting edge live show that has

made them a global phenomenon, showcasing tracks from their new album

Perceptions of Pacha – Remixed.

With La Med’s refurbishment complete, there’s a more spacious Dance Floor,

a new VIP area and reserved parking, the stage is set for a Summer to remember.

Entrance: R50

Strictly over 18

Dress: Beach sand welcome.

Avoid the queue:

Presale: Tickets from Havaianas, V&A Waterfront

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In a nod to Dark City, Faith No More’s Epic, and any other joint that uses the imagery of a goldfish flapping its life away, surrounded by the shattered glass remains of its bowl on the floor…

A Man and His Fish

There was a man. He had a pocket. In his pocket, he had a fish.

A goldfish.

This goldfish would get so, soooo thirsty. But whenever the man offered to find it something soothing and cool to drink, the goldfish adamantly protested.

“No, no! No way. I’ve been in bowls and ponds before! No way in hell am I letting myself get put in the water again. I AM NOT A FISH. You need to understand that from the beginning, so get it straight. I WILL NOT BE TREATED LIKE A FISH.”

The man smiled, and continued walking.

As it turns out, this man smiles a lot. Keeps walking, a lot. But he began to grow concerned.

The I’m-not-a-fish in his pocket was getting feeble, weaker and weaker by the day. Not having water was clearly dampening its spirits.

The man would have smiled at the irony of this thought, because as it turns out, he smiles a lot. However, the man tries to think as little as possible. So he keeps walking, a lot.

The next morning, the sun rises. The man is walking. The goldfish is rasping. The birds are chirping.

The man walks up upon the edge of a pond. Without a word, he slips the goldfish into the water.

The goldfish, realizing the impending baptism is unavoidable, begins to protest “THIS BETTER NOT BE WATER OR” but is cut off as the cool quenching liquid surrounds and dissolves any qualms the I’m-not-a-fish had.

The man smiles, a lot. Keeps walking, a lot.

“Goldfish” Two individuals from Cape Town, who through their rhythmical sounds and scintillating beats they’ve changed the way South Africans see music.

A electronic Funk Duo utilizing elements such as effects, bass, saxophone, samplers and the list is endless. From two varsity students, and now two music phenoms who truly have inspired a nation of musicians. Caught in the loop of music, parties and everything goldfish.

They have traveled the world from Miami to Ibiza and have sold out at each show nothing really gets better than this. Their new album Perception Of Pacha Remixed, promises to be great.

What is “Goldfish”?

Two guys from Cape Town who love to make music!

1.What has been your motivation to make that difference.

We just heard a different sound of music to what was available, so we tried to make it ourselves.

2.The world has seen nothing like you what makes you unique and African?

What makes us African is that we don’t try to sound like a band from overseas. We were born here and our music should reflect that. We also love working with different vocalists and musicians from Africa!

3.Will you make a impact on those individuals who you inspire?

You’d have to ask them! We’re stoked to inspire people with the music we make

3.If you were to live your life all over again, what would you do differently?

Nothing…

4.What’s next for goldfish?

Touring SA as part of our tour promoting our new CD, and then playing some shows in Australia for New Years Eve. Next year a new artist album.

Cheers dude! Go and shine your own star:)

November Chronicles: Green lights in SoHo, margaritas & pizza, early morning walks to work, a happy reunion, and other charming/vaguely interesting moments that made up the first couple weeks of November. . .

Click below for the photos…

xx

Costume success! I have never gotten so into making a costume but 2009 was awesome. Under The Sea was our theme and we went all out and colorful!

~*!!!GOLD FISH!!!*~

Gold fish side view!!

Jason The “Ocean”!

Rich the “Reverse Merman”!

It was a good Halloween.

Pat the “Sea Lion”

یکی از غصه های همیشگی و زودگذر روزای عید ماهی های گلی بودن. اول واسه اینکه دلم واسشون می سوخت.توی تنگی کوچک بدور از هیچگونه امکانات،بدون تفریح،از این ور تنگ تا آخر تنگ فقط چند ثانیه راهه.بعد ها فهمیدم حافظه شون بیشتر از 30 ثانیه نیس. یعنی یه سرن می رن طرف دیگه ی تنگ می بینن به چه دنیای قشنگیه،باز برمی گردن سرجاشون می گن وای اینجا کجاس؟؟؟؟ بعضی وقت ها باید دلم براشون می سوخت اما نمی سوخت.اونم وقتی که از شدت کمبود اکسیژن می اومدن سطح آب و نفس می کشیدن و من لذت می بردم از این ژانگولرهایی که در میآوردن. وبعد ماهی گلی می مرد. چه قبل سال تحویل،چه موقع سال تحویل و چه بعد ازاون. ماهی گلی می مرد و واسه یه مدت ناراحتم می کرد. یه سال 2 ماهی گلی داشتم. تا بعد عید جون سالم در بردن. تصمیم گرفتم ببرمشون تو باغ و بندازمشون تو استخر. ماهی گلی هام واسه چند وخت زندگی شادی رو داشتن. تو استخری 3در3 با جلبک های فراوون. لذت می بردن و هی بزرگ و بزرگ تر می شدن. تا اینکه تابستون از راه رسید و فصل شنا. آب استخر رو باید عوض می کردیم تا بشد توش شنا کرد اما پس ماهی گلی هام چی؟ هر کاری کردیم نتونستیم بگیریمشون. سرآخر به این نتیجه رسیدیم جلوی لوله ی خروجی آب تور بندازیم تا از اونجا خارج بشن و بگیریمشون. همین کار رو کردیم. آب استخر دیگه خالی شده بود و ماهی گلی ها تلاش می کردن تا خودشونو از اون گرداب نجات بدن. راه چاره ای نبود.دل و زدن به دریا و وارد لوله شدن. اولی رو سریع گرفتیم . انداختیم توی یه قمقمه ی 20لیتری ولی دومی از دستمون در رفت و لای گل و لای پای نخل ها گم شد.هر چه گشتیم پیداش نکردیم. حوضچه های پای نخل ها حسابی عمیق بودن و نمی شد همه جا رو درست گشت. ماهی گلی توی 20 لیتری رو اوردیم خونه تا فردا صبح که استخر دوباره پر می شه برش گردونیم توی استخر. اندازه ی نصف بازوی من بزرگ شده بود.خوشحال بودم از اینکه اونو نجات دادیم و ناراحت از اینکه اون یکی سرنوشتش مرگ بود و تا آب ها جذب زمین بشه اون مرده. شاید هم الان هم مرده باشه. فردا صبح سریع بیدار شدم. رفتم سروقت 20 لیتری. دیدم ماهی گلی مرده. تو آب خفه شده بود. دهانه ی 20 لیتری تنگ بوده و نتونسته خوب هوا بره تو. و همه ی اکسیژن آب تموم شده بود. به همین راحتی مرد. انقد ناراحت شدم که دیگه هیچ وقت جون هیچکی رو نجات ندم.این یکی از بزرگ ترین تصمیمای زندگیم بود شاید. برگشتیم به باغ. بدون ماهی. دیگه ماهی در کار نبود. سر یکی از چاله های پای نخل دیدم یه چیزی برق می زنه. بدو رفتم. دیدم ماهی گلیه دومی توی یه چاله آب اندازه کف دست زنده مونده بود. سریع اونو ورداشتم و از روی دیوار پرتش کردم توی استخر باغ همسایه که دقیقا چسیده بود به دیوار باغ ما. از هیجان داشتم سکته می کردم. بال بال می زدم و از این اتفاق عجیب به فکر کائنات و معجزات خداوندی و لطف و کرم الهی افتاده بودم. ماهی گلی زنده موند. اما نه خیلی. فردای اون روز اون هم مرد. به همین راحتی.

Songs that are on the up at Radio in SA are

Kelly Clarkson – “Already Gone”

Michael Jackson – “This Is It”

Goldfish – “Fort Knox”

Whitney Houston – “I Look To You”

Britney Spears – “3”

Chris Brown – “I Can Transform Ya”

Maxwell – “Bad Habits”

Usher – “Papers”

Alicia Keys – “Doesn’t Mean Anything”

Boys Like Girls – “Love Drunk”

 11:59 pm

I Shishkabobbed my Ex’s Pet  Fish and You Give me 2 Years Probation? – PORTLAND, OREGON - There’s no doubt about it…. there is definitely a psycho born every minute, then they grow up to fulfill their destiny of being a Charles Manson follower.  It could be genetics, maybe mom and dad smoked a few too many joints, or just a plain old  screwed up family that drives a person goofy.  When they do something off the wall, it’s often overlooked because those who are doing the head turning don’t want to deal with the embarrassment.  Johnny drives by his ex’s house 50 times a day, after she told him to beat it.  Jeffrey calls a hundred times a day, then hangs up and laughs his ass off.  But Donnie breaks into his ex’s house to shiskabob some fish?  Yep, he’s got some issues that will soon be resolved the hard way.

An Oregon man who broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and impaled her pet fish with a barbeque skewer was sentenced to two years probation, a psychological evaluation and community service at a local pet store. Donald Earl Fite III pleaded guilty Tuesday to animal abuse, breaking and entering, possession of instruments for shishkabobbing, and domestic violence assault.   Apparently the woman had broken up with Fite in his aparment but later that day she came home and found him laying nakde in her her bed masturbating into a sock.  When she tried to call the police, Fite shoved her against a wall. and tossed her in the bathtub to cool off. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_impaled_fish)

The woman managed to run away and find a cop only to return and find her fish dead on the wood floor with a metal rod through it.   When he was tracked down Mr. Fishkabob said “If she can’t have me, then she can’t have the freaking fish. I should have just grilled him to get rid of the evidence. “   The unlucky pet owner plans to get a memorial tattoo of the fish and wanted Fite to pay for it, but he said hell no because he had already paid for enough stuf and didn’t get a freaking thing in return.   The judge declined to make Fite pay restitution for the fish, but he did order him to stay away from his ex, though he said he could have contact with other fish, as long as it’s in a restaurant.

mr. goldstien hasn’t seen much of the flarniverse, he is stuck in a bowl. being half moose and half goldfish has its obvious drawbacks, his walker helps him to keep his head above water for survival purposes, and his glasses aid him to see what’s going on outside his dwelling without the distortion from the bowl. finn’s hobbies include, interior design (a.k.a. moving his marbles around his bowl and changing the placement of his plants), bubble blowing, and bingo on wednesday nights.

finn’s annoyances: flarnimals gone wild dvds, dust, algae, reality shows, flowers, and lazy repairmen
his likes: water polo, dishtowels,  the idea of teleportation, vodka, time traveling in general, and gauze

I was homesick yesterday. Very.

I need my job to start quickly or I am positive I will go insane. I’m a people person, staying at home all day, alone, makes for an emotional wreckage of my normally ‘put together self.’

To say the least, at 4:30 when Scott got home from school I was in no mood to be happy, friendly, or welcoming. (shame on me) But I was a mixture of lonely, hormonal, and depressed…not to mention I had a swelling case of cabin favor.

Breakdown number 3. I balled, making some of the most obscene noises I have heard myself create. I also managed to have an awesome conglomeration of tears, snot, and sweat running down my checks. (real love is just beautiful…poor Scott)

But see, it really is beautiful because Scott handled it like a champ.

He offered his money, by offering to buy me a plan ticket home. He offered his support by  letting me use his shirt as a Kleenex. He offered his love by just sitting with me, listening to me, trying to understand the incomprehensible  jabber that was falling out of my mouth in-between short, labored breaths. Aah, that man is strong…(I am blessed)

But what worked the best was that he offered me…fun. He offered me a pet, a friend. (a silent, emotionless, friend..but a friend) He asked if I wanted to go get a gold fish… I think he was half joking..but the idea halted my tears and made me laugh.

I wanted a gold fish.

at 9:00 pm We walked though the door of our aparrment with Marge and Al.  (yes i named my fish after my parents…) We bought a tank, nice blue rocks, little sea shells to put in the bottom, food… Yes, Marge and Al were a perfect remedy to make me forget about being sad.

When we put them in there new home,( An hour later…because a ‘just add water tank’ is really far more complicated than that)  they swam around joyously…or was it frantically?? It didn’t matter to me… I loved them!

An hour later at 11pm…Marge and Al died. (typically) I decided immediately to change their names

We held a proper funeral, said our goodbyes and than flushed our little fish down the toilet.  

Marge and Al, renamed Mayflower and Christopher C, (being that they paved the way for our next fish) had  a short but very meaningful stay at my little home away from home.

They made me happy, reminded me that little things, like laughter, are what make life worth it. They got my mind off the surmounting differences, and took me right back to the simplicity of life.

It dose no good to look back on choices with wonder. I must look forward with optimism. Life, today, this moment…it’s all about making the best of where you find yourself.

And though Mayflower and Christopher C, only lasted about 2 hours, they took a bad day and turned it around.

So, Rest in Peace little fishes… You were Gold Fish with a purpose…and that’s more than a lot of Gold Fish can say.

I decided to dedicate a small post to Miyazaki’s latest movie, Ponyo, a film that was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, The Little Mermaid. Miyazaki’s film is centered around a gold fish named Ponyo, who befriends a human boy named Sosuke, and wants to become a human in order to be with him.

I have always been a huge fan of Miyazaki’s films, my first being Kiki’s delivery service at a VERY young age without realizing it. Now the one that I remember seeing for the first time, Princess Mononoke, through a humorous accident on the part of my mother (she figured since it said princess it would be appropriate for an almost 10 yr old and her younger brothers; I’m sure she read ratings after making that mistake lol). Anyway, instead of being horrified by seeing that much violence at young age, I was amazed by the movie because at that time I had never seen anything like it. I am serious when I say that my brother and I watched Princess Mononoke about 10-14 times a day before it had to be returned to the movie rental store.

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With Ponyo, it was the first time that I had been extremely unsure about a Miyazaki movie in my life since I loved his last one, Howl’s Moving Castle. It could have been because of the promotional images which didn’t make me excited about seeing it, or maybe it was just the title that threw me off; well what ever the reason, I was afraid that I may not like it when I went to see with a good friend the second day it was in theaters. I’m happy to say that I was wrong and that I loved it, it was very heart warming and magical, plus the characters were all very memorable, especially Ponyo, whose random outbursts and awkwardness when she first turns herself into a human are very funny but your just very taken by her nonetheless.

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I think what was very humorous about her was her love of ham. When she first meets Sosuke, a human five year old boy, she had just escaped in a bid for freedom from her undersea wizard father, fujimoto.  Through a troublesome situation she gets herself stuck inside a glass jar in the ocean and is washed near a cliff side with a house on top where Sosuke lives. Now fastforwarding, Sosuke decides to keep her as his pet gold fish and keeps her in a bucket of water. She discovers her love of ham while on the way to Sosuke being dropped off to his school and to his mother’s work, to get to the point, she steals the ham right out of Sosuke’s sandwich.

I found it extremely funny and very cute, although I can’t say I’d ever be that excited over ham but I guess if I was a magical gold fish tasting human food for the first time I’d probably love it too.  Anyway, even though she is with Sosuke for a short time before her father finds her again, she automatically falls in love with Sosuke and is determined to become a human girl so she can be with him.

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That determination leads to another escape with causes her to get mixed up in fathers magical potion, giving her the form of a human girl which ultimately leads to a catastrophic storm (which is mostly caused by her thousands of sisters who were inspired to follow ponyo in her escape from their father’s undersea castle) that swallows the whole seaside town in ocean water. The part that I’m talking about is probably my favorite out of the whole movie just because of the fact it was an extremely high point in the movie and I was very afraid Sosuke’s mother’s car would end up being swallowed by the waves that were following them all the way up to their house (thanks to Ponyo running on the waves to get to Sosuke).

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Another one of my favorite parts of the movie was where Sosuke’s father, who is still out at sea, sees a tall wall of water caused by the moon becoming so close to the earth that it is practically holding many ships captive and unable to move away. It kind of inspires a terror that such a monstrous wall of water may fall at any moment but fortunately, Ponyo’s mother (goddess of the ocean? I’m not sure what she symbolizes other than being Ponyo’s mother) comes and helps the ships out of the wall of water.

I think one of the things that I amazed me the most was that this whole movie was drawn by hand, which you have to admit is rare nowadays with all these completely 3d movies and 2d movies that throw in computer effects (not that I mind the later, it was useful in Howl’s Moving Castle so I couldn’t imagine that movie without them). Funny thing is, I didn’t even realize it until my friend had said something to me when had gotten out of the theatre. I guess it just makes me appreciate the movie even more, for it must have been many hours of painstakingly, but rewarding, hard work to create and put this movie together.

Even though Ponyo is obviously aimed at a younger audience, it may not be everyone’s favorite movie so I’m not going to sit here and say you all must like it or else. I do believe though that it will win the admiring of many adults as well as children, and this is coming from someone whose about to turn 21 next month. And even though it isn’t absolutely strange and crazily stunning like many of Miyazaki’s works, for me it is an automatic classic and a stunning modern telling of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid. Anyone who is a Miyazaki fan or just a lover of animated movies should see this, you will definitely not be disappointed!

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With an apple in hand,
and a basket, full of roses in another,
I was waiting for you.
Starry nights arrived, but not you.