RHCP CPT.

I wouldn't be able to adequately put into words what it means to me to that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are performing in Cape Town tomorrow night. My earliest memory is dedicating "Otherside" to a boy in a bar. I thought I was requesting Slide by The Goo Goo Dolls but I made a mistake, and a pretty darn good one at that. I was 14 years old. And that is now half my life ago.

How long, how long, will I slide

Separate my side

I don't, don't believe it's bad

Slit my throat, it's all I ever...

Just before moving to Cape Town, at the end of 2002, the band released "By The Way" and it was the first album I bought to go with my first car. I finished high school, packed up my possessions (mostly clothing at that age) and drove to Cape Town, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in tow. They then played me through my getting to know the city, starting my life here and some pretty significant times in my early adult life. 

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.

Sometimes I feel like my only friend,

Is the city I live in, the city of angels...

I drive on the streets cos she's my companion.

I walk through the hills and she knows who I am. 

She sees my good deeds and kisses me windy...

I have lost count of the number of times I've taken them along for road trips, whether it be just a late night drive or a trip away. Plane flights, late nights, big fights, little delights. And one of the few books I've finished (believe me, there are very few) was Anthony Kiedis' Scar Tissue. He's even one of my five in one of those dinner with five, dead or alive, scenarios. He is one of the sexiest men alive, after all. It may sound soppy and silly and clichéd but they are my absolute favourite band of all time and I've been waiting for 14 years to see them live. So much so that I used to spend time plotting and scheming, trying to find ways to bring them out myself. Sweet man, groupie girl. 

The world I love,

The tears I drop,

To be part of the wave,

Can't Stop.

Ever wonder if it's all for you?

The world I love,

The trains I hop,

To be part of the wave,

Can't Stop.

Come and tell me when it's time to.

Sweetheart is bleeding in the snow cone.

So smart, she's leading me to ozone.

Music, the great communicator.

Use two sticks to make it in the nature.

I'll get you into penetration.

The gender of a generation.

The birth of every other nation.

Worth your weight the gold of meditation.

So what are we going to do tomorrow night?