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When I first moved to Cape Town. I moved straight into Observatory, and so did a lot of my friends. All waiting for the world to take us on, having drinking meetings every night. Criticising the city and how absolutely shit everything is. How nobody is doing anything exciting. And then also of how we are going to do the great stuff. Making the brilliant movies, having the world coming to Cape Town to see what great stuff is.
Also at the same time a lot of us started to smoke dope and started to take ecstasy. Ecstasy was not so popular because it was a bit too mainstream for the intellectuals. But it seemed that dope was the thing.
Dope and beer.
I must say that I really didn't like the completely doff feeling of dope and the slowness. As if everything was paused every ten seconds.
But all my friends really got into it and started to smoke dope from like a weekly thing, to a daily, to a non-stop thing, in a very small time of about six months.
But it seemed OK because everyone was still being able to work and we were still being able to criticise the city.
My housemate started to smoke it through the day and suddenly his work was not for him any more and he didn't know what he wanted to do. So he quit his great design job and started to make only rave flyers and posters for bands. They were very cool, and it meant that we always got free tickets to all the coolest parties.
I remember me asking him if he's happy now with not doing so much design work.
He was not doing anything just staying at home and smoke dope and criticising the world. But couldn't see the need to do anything, I mean he's bright he had all these ideas but nothing came of it.
He got completely into the whole "hippie save the world" trip. Couldn't pay his rent anymore and we started to fight a lot. I couldn't support him anymore and had to ask him to leave. He still doesn't talk to me and I see him every now and again. I wish I could just let him see himself. But he believe what he is doing is more honest to himself than me working for a salary.
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