Quick one.
I know I said last week I was looking forward to watching Wolfman.
Well I saw it last night and it is HORRIFIC!
So skip that.
Ladies and gentleman, that is all for now.
Read More Add a CommentWhatever you do, DO NOT watch Did You Hear About The Morgans? because it is a shocker! Brothers is awesome, Sherlock Holmes too. And them there are some movies coming out that I’m really keen to see, write ups below on what these bad boys are about:
In cinemas on the 12th of February.
In this Joe Johnston horror thriller Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.
Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancee, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full.
Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed.
In cinemas on the 12th of February.
Because chicks dig it!
Veteran director Garry Marshall helms this ensemble comedy featuring multiple overlapping storylines revolving around five relationships set during a single Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles.
Kate (Julia Roberts), an army officer is on leave from Iraq on a flight to Los Angeles. On the same flight is a gay man (Bradley Cooper) whose lover is a closeted football player.
The owner (Ashton Kutcher) of a flower shop proposes to his girlfriend (Jessica Alba), only to realize he is in love with his close friend (Jennifer Garner), who simultaneously discovers her boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey) is married.
A happy retiree (Shirley MacLaine) confesses a long-ago affair to her husband. An assistant (Anne Hathaway) working at the biggest talent agency in town is dating a mailroom assistant, while a publicist (Jessica Biel) who is unlucky in love finds that she has no date on Valentine’s Day.
Currently in cinemas
Starring George Clooney in the lead role and directed by Juno’s Jason Reitman - the comedy drama Up in the Air is based on the novel by Walter Kirn and tells the story of a corporate downsizing expert who happily lives his life moving from job to job, sleeping in endless hotels and racking up countless air miles in the process.
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) makes his living firing people. Wherever and whenever companies need someone to come in and deliver the bad news of retrenchment to a bunch of bewildered employees, then Bingham is their guy.
He is perfectly suited to bear the anguish, hostility and despair of those he has just let go and has even developed a false compassionate face with which to best deal with it.
And while the endless journeying from place to place in order to do their jobs would get some people down, Bingham considers his lifestyle to be ideal.
However, Bingham soon finds all this threatened when his boss back at head office hires upwardly ambitious young executive Natalie (Vera Farmiga) who has developed a method of video conferencing that will allow for the termination of employees without anyone ever needing to leave the office again.
Determined to stand his ground and show the new girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, and just as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the drawbacks of his way of life.
In cinemas on the 19th of February.
Because chicks dig it!
This compelling and deeply moving romantic drama from director Lasse Hallstrom ( Ciderhouse Rules, Shipping News, Chocolat) and screenwriter Jamie Linden brings to the screen an adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks’ novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl.
Soldier John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on leave when he meets beautiful and conservative college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried). The pair start to date and as their relationship blossoms they decide to marry.
However, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks John decides it is his duty to reenlist in the military and, instead of going home and starting life with Savannah, he redeploys to a distant country.
Over the course of the next seven years, when each deployment seems more treacherous than the last, the love letters that Savannah sends to John are some of the only things that keep him going.
However, those loving and heartfelt correspondences ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.
So those are the ones that I’m keen to see, remember to book your tickets at Ster Kinekor by clicking here.
Read More Add a CommentYou never know which day is going to change your life, and I certainly never expected the 21st of January to change my life! But it did. The day started off fairly normal, I woke up late, tripped over the dog, went to the shop, cashed in R28 worth of lottery winnings, came back home, had writers block, cruised the internet, went to exchange a broken computer screen, then watched Bustin’ Down the Door (Aaaaaaah Gaz got me a copy…all the way from Canada! We’ll talk about that later, and we owe Gaz more than we can give!)
So anyway for those of you not in the know I grew up in Pinelands which is a dry suburb and there is no bottle store there, but funnily enough the people of Pinelands consume their body weight in papsak each morning. My parents liked the odd drink (That being in odd numbers…so they’d sip their first drink, down their second, sip their third, down their fourth and so on…) and the parties that used to go down were quite something. But this was in the 80′s, and by the end of the 80′s I was only 5…inches…from the ground! No but seriously, I was too young to even know what the sky was, but somehow the music from the 80′s was stuck in my head.
We stayed in Pine Close in Pinelands, the house right at the end of the cul-de-sac, that’s where I grew up. To me that was the biggest house in the world and I distinctly remember running like a mad child down that garden because there was just so much space. My bedroom was upstairs and looked out onto the garden, and we could also climb onto the roof above the ‘Games Room’ Now the games room was where all the shenanigans went down, because it led onto the garden and into the pool.
To say the neighbours were kept awake would be an understatement, I think they nearly died. Which is common in Pinelands because everyone is so damn old. They could probably find some Egyptian tombs there.
So my folks would party up a storm while I slept, or whatever I did, and sometimes at parties my mom would carry me around, but I wasn’t really into the whole party scene around the age of 5, so I used to just dos while she carried me. But I’d hear the music, and to this day music from the 80′s still brings me back immediately to those parties, me in my moms arms just sucking my thumb! Wondering about the point of life…
So I was at the V&A Waterfront yesterday, because about two weeks ago I had seen a CD with hits from the 80′s. I cruised in yesterday to buy it, hammered back home in The Beast and slammed it into the player.
How do you like my two butlers? RAD!
Well slap me around and call me Susan!
It is honestly one of the most mind blowing CD’s I’ve ever in my life purchased! I didn’t recognize the names of the songs when I read them, but listening to them was like opening up the memory bank and realising I’m loaded! If you were born in the 80′s, this is simply the CD you have to own, well it’s actually 5 CD’s. For R223! That’s a steal. From what I gather you can only get this CD set at Exclusive Books in The V&A Waterfront, they have a small music section near the tills. There were only about 5 of these bad boys left, so I’d hurry if I were you, because this will simply blow your mind apart. I don’t even know where to start, but if you’re an 80′s kid, or just loved the music from that time, then how about some of these pearls:
It makes such a refreshing change from music nowadays which is all digitally altered, crap, uses sex to sell utterly crap songs and is emotional to the point of me wanting to kill myself. And I also hate musicians that try to change the world, you’re a musician, I just want to hear your music. I don’t want you preaching to me about starving slave kids driving the worlds clothing industry and how if I buy your CD $1 will be donated to little Pablo to sew his his two fingers back on that were lost while sewing a pair of overpriced jeans. The 80′s were the happy days before everything turned to global warming and other stuff to distract us from living awesome lives. Now we’re so worried about everything, we take out life insurance, travel insurance, household insurance, insurance for our insurance, we have airbags in our cars, we get scanned before going anywhere, we have camera watching us, there is crime, drugs(Well bad drugs…cough…tik)…the 80′s were just free and it scares me to think that my kids won’t be able to experience the world like I did. Because it was awesome. At like 6 years old I used to walk to the shops in Pinelands (There by Magica Roma), buy sweets, and walk back. And no one dared touch me.
Because they knew that in 18 years I would be editor of this battleship!
I think it’s time the clubs in Cape Town have a proper 80′s party, only old school beats, I’d completely lose my composure. As long as bush stays out of this…we’re good!
The only thing about this CD is that it brought a tear to my eye, knowing we’ll never live in a world like we did in the 80′s. With all our technological advancement, we just seem to be going backwards. Famine. Pollution. Hate. All these bad things, and as good as things are now, I would literally do anything to go back in time.
Because back then we had it all, we had enough. Sure, we now all have much better ‘things’ than we did in the 80′s. We’ve got PVR, Blu Ray, 3D movies, better cars, easier travel, cellphones, but have these things made us happier? I really don’t think they have. Because the more ‘things’ we acquire, the more we want.
What we didn’t realise in the 80′s was that what we had was perfectly enough.
And I miss that.
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Ok so the story goes that I REALLY need/want to watch Bustin’ Down The Door but no one has a clue where I can find it and I need your help. I’ve tried Take2.co.za and I’ve tried Kalahari.net, but no one has stock. Musica and Look & Listen don’t seem to have it and I want an original, unused copy.
Does anyone know a place that carries stock of this documentary in Cape Town?
Come on make it happen! I mean, why wouldn’t Shaun read SLXS? So Shaun, drop us a line, I need to buy this documentary somewhere.
Sick!
Click here for the Bustin’ Down The Door website.
Read More Add a CommentWhile I’ve read the 4 Hour Work Week (HERE), I don’t necessarily think it’s going to change your life unless you really, truly work on it. Most of the time though if you’re in an office job, the tasks are impossible to do. If you’re at an ad agency and you only reply to your e-mails twice a day, or every few days, you’re going to get fired. If you work at a company where clients book things with you, and you don’t reply immediately, they’re going to go elsewhere. Depending on the industry you’re in, many things in the 4 Hour Work Week are out of your grasp. However, if you do find yourself working for yourself, then there are definitely some tips worth looking at. E-mails and Twitter are no doubt locking us into some serious computer addictions, and I don’t like it. I almost never use Twitter now as I find it particularly useless and you end up trying to catch up on everyones Tweets, wasting hours and hours of time on stuff that really doesn’t enhance your life.
And people also expect you to always answer e-mails immediately, or answer your phone immediately. I’m hardly ever available on my cellphone but if you do call me or sms me, I will probably get back to you…if it’s important. Otherwise I’ll see you around town sometime and we can chat then. What’s the rush? I’m not on call 24 hours a day, and unless I was born as an answering machine, there is no reason for me to be in contact 24 hours a day.As I say, you can’t quite implement the 4 Hour Work Week all at once, but there are certain ways to incorporate some of the rules into your life, and one is not worrying about being on call all day. It’s this fear of missing something that always has our minds elsewhere, which means we’re now living in the now. We’re always thinking of something else, instead of concentrating on what is happening right now.
You’ll see loads of people living in the past and the future. From the past they’ll say “I wish I had been born into better circumstances” then they’ll quickly go into the future saying “In 5 years time when I have more money things will be better” And they miss the whole point of life, living for the moment, living for the now. They stress about the past, about being hurt in relationships and having hard times, then they dream towards the future when they think things will be better. But you’re never in the future or the past, so why is your mind always there? Why are your thoughts always in the past and future, instead of the present? This is the power of now, and there is a book entitled The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle which I’m currently reading, with a few pages left.
I’m not one for business books and I’ve read Rich Dad Poor Dad and in my honest opinion, it’s the biggest load of rubbish in the world. Except for the author, who has made some awesome money from it. I actually don’t know of any of my friends who have read it and put any of the plans into action. In fact let me ask you, do you know of anyone who has used it and become wealthy? While the 4 Hour Work Week offers some good choices, I think it is best combined with a book that actually gets to the root of the problems of the human mind, which is what The Power Of Now does. It allows you to live for the now only. So when you’re reading e-mails, you’re not thinking of anything else. When you’re eating, you’re not worrying about relationship problems. When you’re watching a movie, you’re not stressing about work. It is this constant ‘fear’ that most people live on that is damaging us. And also The Power Of Now teaches you to not become attached to material things and wealth. There are loads of people whose identities are based on what they have and not based the people that they really are.
I’d highly recommend The Power Of Now over any other book currently on the shelves, and I would really recommend it over any other business book. Business books just look at acquiring wealth and assets and don’t deconstruct the true problems of the mind that nearly everyone is afflicted with. Without realising the full potential of the mind and actually finding out where the true meaning of life lies, material and financial wealth is nothing.
It’s not to say I don’t believe in financial wealth, but you also need to use your financial and material wealth in the correct ways. There are too many people who let their wealth define them, and will walk all over others just because they have more than them. Combining financial wealth with intelligent thinking and a peacefulness is the way to go. There are a lot of people with money who are not happy, but that’s because they always seek more, when life is really all about enjoying the present moment and the simple things it offers.
Obviously like any book, you need to use it with a degree of open mindedness. It is obviously quite difficult to be happy if the bank is repossessing your house and you have nowhere else to stay, or if you’re out of a job and have no money. It is all about not focusing on the material things in life, but naturally we all need the basics such as food and a house, but it’s an awesome book that can really make your life much better than it is right now, just through changing the way you see things, and what you think about. You don’t need to acquire anything more to make you happier, which is the exact opposite of many business books.
If you are interested in these books, they’re available at all good book stores as well as online.
Click here to buy the 4 Hour Work Week safely and securely online.
Click here to buy The Power Of Now safely and securely online.
I’d also recommend reading the 4 Hour Work Week blog, you can start off with these two great pieces for becoming more efficient with e-mail:
How To Check E-Mail Twice A Day…Or Once Every 10 Days
and
10 Steps To Become An E-Mail Ninja
Read More Add a CommentI must actually get into the books I’m currently reading, you will lose your marbles! I’m deeper than you think…
Anyway the books that I will most likely order this week are the following (Force Of Nature and Born To Run are best ordered online at the moment. Exclusive Books at V&A Waterfront have two copies of Born To Run, but they are being kept aside for other people, and they don’t have Force Of Nature)
Let’s see what these books are about:
With a superhero’s physique, a beautiful athlete/model wife, and the ocean as his office, Laird Hamilton’s charmed lifestyle is enviable. Now, for the first time, he shares his secrets for living a perfectly balanced life. Force of Nature opens a window onto the unique physical regimens, mental strategies, and spiritual beliefs that has allowed Hamilton to do what he loves, while being surrounded by family and radiating peak health and fitness.
Hamilton shares his life-enhancing approach to constantly challenging oneself to improve in three distinct areas: -body–Hamilton’s comprehensive guide for fitness, nutrition, injury prevention, and rehabilitation also includes his first-ever surf tutorial with specific how-to information about his sport -mind–in this revealing look at the inner life of a world-class athlete, Hamilton talks about conquering fear, adversity, and negativity while embracing the promise of change that each new day holds-soul–from finding one’s passion to traveling a less-trodden path, Hamilton invites readers to look inward, forging their own set of core spiritual beliefs that will literally determine the course of their lives.
To elite athletes, blockbuster celebrities, and the rest of us, Laird Hamilton has proven to be the authority on performance and living as fully as possible. Now he shares his recipe for living in this highly anticipated book.
Click here to buy online.
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.
Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.
With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is thatrare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.
Click here to buy online
Oh and there is also this:
It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right – this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and pirates – and of course the terrible, evil, Captain Hook. Peter Pan is undoubtedly one of the most famous and best-loved stories for children, an unforgettable, magical fantasy which has been enjoyed by generations.
Click here to buy online.
Because you know, I’m just really a child! We all are…aren’t we?
So if you wanted to know what I’m going to be reading soon (As you do), then there we go! My pleasure. But seriously, I cannot wait for Born To Run, it sounds quite epic.
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I always have these movies that I just haven’t seen, and never get around to it. So I cruise into DVD Nouveau and I have literally wanted to watch The Godfather for years. But when I say 5 years I really mean that. That’s a lot of years to look at a film and say “Well I won’t hire it today” (To the smart ones out there, I know DVD Nouveau hasn’t been open 5 years…I think)
The 8th of October was a momentous occasion for me as I strode into DVD Nouveau in Newlands and finally laid my hands on the Godfather. With these sorts of films, it’s always a bit nerve wracking hiring them because you know everyone else has seen them, and you want to hire it without anyone knowing. So I thrown it down on the table and say “This is the first one hey?”
Rookie error!
“Ja it is”
“Wait, haven’t you seen The Godfather?”
Saying this in a store is like social suicide! Can you imagine my future wife was in the store?
I may as well then also shout out loud that I don’t know what the G-Spot is!
I mean…of course I know…ummm…*Twiddles thumbs*
(Sean is taking a moment to acquaint himself with The Google)
Holy smokes!
I thought it was Gareth’s Restaurant, are you kidding me? This is great!
So I actually left the store sort of like a gangster/mob type guy. I flipped my collar, tilted my hat and threw my shades on. The car guard was walking towards me and I simply barrel rolled, cocking it up and rolling into my bumper, hurting my forehead. It was then that I realised that I was a complete tool, trying to be gangster looking like this:
Ja what? I can also hang on the East side
Gosh, what a ra-tard.
I slipped off home, threw the dee vee dee (You like that?) into the player, put my hand in my pants…
Ha ha ha! I was thinking back to those times when I used to watch E-TV and felt so naw-tee! Crisis in my life it’s embarrassing, I caught E-TV the other night while flipping through the channels and this one chick was basically humping this guys chest. But when everyone was in school that was the business!
Then you’d come to school on Monday and Mrs Venter would bend over to put a tape in the player in Biology class, and you’d think about E-TV’s Saturday night naughtiness and launch the most impressive pants rocket in the world. It was amazing.
But that’s off track isn’t it? We’re talking about The Godfather. It is simply stunning!
Although I’m hesitant to use the word ‘stunning’ when talking about The Godfather.
Goodness gracious me, imagine we were to talk about my aloe and propolis moisturiser, the boys in The Godfather would plutz! Or would they?
You know how you’re writing an article and you get so off track that it confuses you? Like sometimes my body gets so confused it doesn’t know whether it’s in writing mode or sexy time mode, so right now it’s in two minds.
I’m writing and I am also sporting a massive woodie. Clearly my body does not know what is happening but not to fear, it will come right if I could just find my dog and that peanut butter. This is exactly what I’m talking about when I say we have lost the plot and gone off track.
Anyway this is how you make a short story long (As opposed to cutting a long story short) The fact is I had The Godfather on a two day hire and never finished watching it.
It’s a known fact that I’m fairly ADD when watching movies, and while the movie is damn brilliant, I will get to watching it when I buy it. My DVD collection is getting so big because I hire movies, then realise that for the amount of time I need to hire them, it’s cheaper to just buy them.
For me to watch movies properly I’m going to have to get more of my 30mg Ritalin.
And at the moment I’m all out, so the review of The Godfather will have to wait until next time.
Read More Add a CommentIt’s always somewhat tricky going to DVD Nouveau because they have so many DVD’s for hire, and you’re like “WTF?!”
So to push you in the right direction, Goodfellas and the Godfather series are top choices, but let’s take a look at the documentary section today.
I watched this last week and it’s a fascinating look into the start of modern day skateboarding including half pipes and aerial maneuvers. The guys from Dogtown pushed the limits of what was known and were the fuel and idea men for modern skateboarding. The documentary is truly amazing as it shows footage from the old days and interviews with the guys today — Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacey Peralta. Some went on to become successful skaters and businessmen, while the likes of Jay Adams got into drugs and wasted all their talent.
The documentary is a fascinating look into how skateboarding evolved, all thanks to a group of kids and some skate shop owners who turned the sport around and were always looking for the next thrill. Old footage of the guys skating pools is really cool, and it’s rare to be able to watch a documentary on people who had such a big impact on a sporting code, who are still alive today.
I highly recommend hiring Dogtown: The Legend Of The Z Boys
Click here for the website which gives a good peak at the documentary
The Billabong Odyssey was a three year project involving some of the worlds top surfers where they searched for the biggest waves to surf, in the world. Follow the crew as they cruise the world and push the limits of what is humanly possibly, surfing some of the most insane waves on the planet. Footage includes spectacular wipeouts where you simply cannot understand how the guys make it out alive.
An insane look at the world of big wave surfing and the crazy crew who do it for a living.
An interesting look into the electric car and how it was rtemoved from the roads overseas even though it was a huge success with customers. It goes to show what sort of control we are constantly under from corporates and the government. The cars started being taken off the roads and trashed so that no one could use them. Why go electric when there are still trillions of dollars worth of oil still need to be pumped?
Really an underrated documentary in South Africa, not many people seem to have watched it but I reccommend it.
And that’s it, some cool documentaries for you to watch at DVD Nouveau. Most people just walk right past the documentary section, but you should stop and have a look because it’s really interesting and you are sure to find something there that you will enjoy. The documentaries can be found as you walk up the stairs, directly on your right hand side.
It makes a nice change from some of the rubbish that Hollywood is trying to sell us!
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As you may have deduced by reading between the headline, Gossip Girl Season 2 is available to order in South Africa via the sandy place with bushmen. It is quite expensive and it is a region 1 DVD, but virtually all DVD players play region 1 anyway, unless you’re a plebb. Yeah so it’s R450 but that’s 1.5 grams, so what are you complaining about, Fabio?
We’ve spoken about Gossip Girl Season One (Here) and there is no doubt that season 2 is going to be a pearler. I caught a few episodes on a friends computer but as you know, I like to own the real thing.
But really, you should watch Gossip Girl. It will change your life. And it is fine for guys to watch it, trust me I watch it all the time and I’m a rad master. And I use bubblegum Lip Ice.
Click here to buy Gossip Girl Season 2 online in South Africa.
Read More Add a CommentYou by now will know of Tucker Max, and there really is no need to go into detail. Now as you also know, he has managed to make himself famous, and get himself all famous by being a dick, awesome!
Goes to show, all that they teach you in school is wrong.
So Tuckers movie is called I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell and I haven’t seen it because it’s not here yet, but when it comes to SA you know I’ll watch it! Just to sort of let you slip into the Tucker Max character, let’s check out two facts from the website:
Rad! And you say I’m bad, whaaaaaaat?!
Check out the I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell website over here.
I thought you’d enjoy that.
I watched the trailer, and I won’t lie, it looks a bit kak! But I am still trying to recover from how awesome The Hangover was.
Read More Add a CommentI was mincing my way through Cavendish not really taking too much notice as to how I looked (You know how EVERYONE looks at their reflection on the glass at shopping centres, pretending to actually be looking at the clothes in the window, but touching their hair) when I was about to do the right thing and check my hair in the window, but then something more beautiful than thee caught thine eye!
And it was the Musica sale!
At that very moment, I heard girls screaming my name in hysterics, kids giggling…birds chirping…MILFS gurgling…wow, I guess I took it a little too far there, a little too soon?
But to be honest the Musica sale is like teenage desire…all over again! I know for a fact that it’s like sex in Musica right now, people are going mental. And at R70 a DVD, you should go mad! Take your clothes off, spritz some CK One, shave your balls, you get the picture. Wash, tone, moisturise. Is this making any sense to you?
Because if it is, well done you are the proud recipient of a crack addiction!
And that’s what’s happening on the New York Stock Exchange, crude oil is trading horribly.
Nothing to see here.
But I have picked up (Not an STD) some mind blowing DVD’s! My grandparents would have seen these at the bioscope, but I can just see them at home, such is the crazy life I lead. Check what I picked up:
Dirty Dancing, ja darling! Footloose? OHMYGOD!
Zoolander? To help me learn how to become professionally good looking for a career.
American Psycho…you have seen this haven’t you? I even threw in The Wrestler (Regular price) because it’s so damn awesome.
(Talking of Psycho’s, do you ever look on Facebook and see that the psycho chick/dude that you and all your friends avoid is listed as in a relationship. You go to look who psycho is now dating and think “Well he/she actually looks like quite a nice person” And you’re just wanting to warn them what they’re getting themselves into, but you can’t because you don’t know them. I’ve just seen this happen now. Heart breaking! Facebook should have an early warning system to avoid these tragedies, so as soon as you are listed in a relationship with someone it gives you a red, orange or green light. Green for this is a great person, you can date. Orange for, hook up with them, but don’t ever speak of a relationship. As soon as they become clingy, get out of there before they permanently attach themselves to you. Some refer to this as a FAD or a F’nD — F and Duck, and it rhymes!. Red — CODE RED. Abort mission)
American Psycho is an absolute classic, and while it is a little weird, it’s so weird that you simply cannot help laughing. Christian Bale running naked down a passageway with a chainsaw trying to kill someone? SO weird that I laughed!
The music in these films is absolutely classic as well, let’s look at some of the tracks that are played:
Zoolander — Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Beat It by Michael Jackson, Relax by Powerman 5000 and Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham
American Psycho — Phil Collins, Lady In Red by Chris De Burgh, Huey Lewis And The News (Hip To Be Square), tremendous! The awesome thing on American Psycho is that they contrast violence with super chilled music, making it seem…well less violent.
Dirty Dancing — The Time Of My Life, Hungry Eyes and She’s Like The Wind.
Footloose — Footloose, Holding Out For A Hero, Waiting For A Girl Like You.
How crazy?!
I can only compare this to sleeping with Oprah Winfrey and Roseanne Barr…whoops! WRONG FANTASY! That’s the fantasy where someone dares me to try and end planet earth with one action.
But really now, there is absolutely no reason to be buying pirated DVD’s now (Other than the fact that it WILL break your karma in half) because at R70 each, it essentially costs you nothing. I worked out the other day that I pay R20 odd rand to hire a DVD, and I never ever get round to watching it on the day I hire it. In most cases, it takes me a few days to watch it, and then I want to rewatch it and the next thing you know it has cost me R100 to hire a DVD! So it makes sense buying them at R70, and I even buy the new releases at R150 becase it is well worth it.
It is also a fact that chicks dig guys with book and DVD collections. That fact was made up by me, but I’m sure it’s true.
It’s like “Wanna see my DVD’s…baby…”
“No Sean I don’t, because your DVD’s are in the corner of the room and NOBODY puts baby in the corner!”
Whaaaaa ha ha! Are you in the same frame of mind that I’m currently in? Because if you are you will know what it’s like to be off the hook.
I sometimes like to say off the hizzay, but that’s almost exclusively for when I’m rolling my NY Yankees cap, my Nike Dunk Low shoes and my bad ass attitude. Because…I’m…bad…ass…?
The entire point of this whole bit of ‘writing’ was to let you know that Musica are having a sale, and there are some crazy specials for DVD’s at R70.
If you want to know a little secret, they even have a Godfather Disc Box (Well it’s tin) for R330 or R350. That’s The Godfather Part 1,2 and 3. Buy that one!
My work here is done.
*Wipes hands on a cloth, like a mechanic would*
*Places shades back on*
*Puts hands in pants. Changes gear*
Who’s hungry?
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The movie on my radar this week is Public Enemies, which stars one of my all time favourite actors, Johnny Depp. A friend of the late Hunter S Thompson, Johnny Depp played his character in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. And now he is back on South African cinema screen with the newly released Public Enemies.
The movie follows FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his attempts at capturing the notorious bank robber John Dillinger.
Dillinger is a here in the eyes of the public as they blamed the banks for the problems caused by the great depression. At the height of Dillingers ‘career’ he was virtually unstoppable.
The FBI, under the leadership of J Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) were quite a new force in the 1930′s, and to show how good they were, Hoover set them the task of capturing Dillinger. Purvis, the lead agent, was unleashed to capture Dillinger by whatever means possible.
Purvis however underestimated Dillingers abilities as a master criminal and would need to set out on a series of cunning betrayals in order to try and capture this notorious bank robber.
I think this movie sounds really cool! I’ll be watching it this week, and if you’re keen to book online then simply go over to Ster Kinekor and book your tickets online.
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Bradley Cooper, the last thing on your girlfriends mind before she goes to sleep. Hey, the truth hurts.
So as we were just chatting about one of the many girls in line, Nathalie Fay, I thought it only right to mention that there will be a sequel to The Hangover which will be released in 2011 at current estimates. Oh yes baby!
When quotes like this come from a movie, you know you need to make a sequel:
Alan: Hey Phil, look![laughs hysterically while miming the baby masturbating]
Alan: He’s jackin’ his little weenus!
Phil: Pull yourself together, bro!
Alan: Not at the table, Carlos!Phil: You’re not really wearing that are you?
Alan: Wearing what?
Phil: The man purse. You actually gonna wear that or are you just fuckin’ with me?
Alan: It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Phil: So does Joy Behar.
Yeah! I do hope the sequel is as good, but it’s directed by Todd Phillips who also did Old School. He’s the guy who rings the doorbell at Mitch’s place, announcing “I’m here for the gang bang” He also appears in The Hangover as the guy going down on the chick in the elevator, with that porno moustache of his. Hilarious!
The reason The Hangover 2 is only set for release in 2011 is due to the fact that Todd Philipps is directing Due Date. This is about an expectant dad and an unlikely travel companion of his (Zach Galifianakis form The Hangover) who have to race across the country to make it home in time for the birth of his child. Sounds awesome, because after watching The Hangover, Zach is surely set to make an awesome road trip companion.
So let’s hope 2011 comes quick.
And one more thing, of all the woman in Hollywood, Bradley Cooper hooks up with Renee Zellweger? Come on dude, you’re letting her play way out of her league! If I were you…well let’s not even get into that.
Read More Add a CommentI’ve been watching The Hangover again and again because it is simply awesome and I simply had to find out who the girl is that works at the desk at Caesars Palace.
And it’s stunner by the name of Nathalie Fay. My word Nathalie, you are quite a stunner! I found this photo of her on her IMDB profile:
Gorgeous, just gorgeous!
She also appeared as Mindi in Old School, which makes her quite awesome because she has appeared in my two favourite comedies of all time! She’s a girl after my heart.
So I’m going to let all of you fight it out over Fox, because my path has changed and I’m going to go for girls like Nathalie Fay. For a few reasons:
She most likely won’t come with the baggage that regular Hollywood stars come with.
She’ll be very chilled and no one will be fighting over her, like they are for some of the current girls like Fox and the likes.
We’ll likely go under the radar in LA, leaving us to pursue a life of leisure!
Megan Fox has said some great things, like this:
“I really enjoy having sex, and that’s offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven’t met a lot of men who’ve said, “You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!”. That’s because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.”
Now this is all great, until she says things like this:
I’m horrible to live with. I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, “Megan, you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn’t flush.”
And that is the point where I projectile vomit all over my computer screen and choose Nathalie Fay.
Finally, I’ve found someone that no one else has claimed!
Well do me sideways!
I’ve just this very moment found my Rodriguez Cold fact CD, and I tell you my head nearly exploded. It still gets me all excited, even more so now because I haven’t heard it in so long.
You can search Rodriguez on the internet, and some weird things come up like the stories of his death (He’s not dead), and the fact that his album Cold Fact had become a huge hit and yet he was found working on a building site, unaware of the success. The Rodriguez website is a mess and it’s all over the place, but the best thing is just to leave everything to mystery and enjoy the music. You can search him on the internet, but I also came across a nice little piece in the GQ magazine, check it out, I have painstakingly written it out for you only because I love you:
Don’t get the wrong idea about Sugarman
Sugarman was just the idea, not one person or anything. It was the 70′s and the whole globe was turning on. I’m not recommending any of that stuff to anyone. It’s certainly less destructive than alcohol though, but I’m not for hard drugs. I think it’s good to be clean and it’s good to have discipline. Sugarman is a tune, that’s all, I don’t want people to have the wrong idea when the music starts swirling around.
This music thing takes work
A lot of young cats think that it will take two weeks. That they’ll put a CD out and it will all happen. But it’s got lulls, and a lot of people can’t take the lulls. So it’s good to have something outside of it. I don’t mind when it’s quiet.
Regrets…Jeez, I don’t know
When people start talking about the past…anything behind us is gone. You can’t go back there. You can always be here today though.
Age
It’s all an act man, you can fool the mirror, but you can’t fool the clock. You know what I mean? I enjoy what I’m doing and enjoy going out there and a lot of people enjoy what I’m doing.
If it’s going to be, it’s up to me
A lot of guys are better than me at guitar, they’re better looking than me, but I’m lucky. I got luck with this music thing, somebody found my stuff and I’ve seen a lot of things and it’s been fun.
Fashion
You can’t go wrong with basic black. You can match it really easily too. But I just dress for the weather. Stay real. My granddaughter gave me an anarchy t-shirt, with the A like that, but I don’t know if I want to wear it. I haven’t worn it yet.
I don’t have a TV, I don’t have a car, I don’t have a phone…
But I do have a CD player. Thanks for your time, and you can thank me for mine, and after that’s said, forget it!
The bottle
I enjoy drinking wine. It’s my favourite drink. I have abstained, but I find myself in situations where I ask myself ‘Am I going to have a drink?’ Usually, I’m going to have a drink.
I consider myself a writer
I did give some thought to those words. I have a lot of respect for the English language and I also like to mess with it – butterfucker – just twisting it around. I like the word poetry. The language is always being messed with. Like e.e cummings starts breaking words and moving type around, trying to stress something else.
Inspiration is everywhere
I’ve always concentrated on social issues because I’ve always found it easier to write about things that upset me. A lot of the issues are still the same. Even more serious.
The revolution has just started
I’m not into sports or religion. I like music, but I am also interested in politics. All that money is tax payers’ money you know, but somehow it seems like it’s the governments or something like that. I ran for office.
Three times for city council, twice for mayor, twice for the senate…I think change is going to come.
I’m hard working class
Music is my passion but you got to do an internship everywhere else. I think it’s good to stay physically active. Good hard labour. It’s a physical thing, music. So it’s like, you know, it’s good, and it keeps you out of trouble and it’s something to do.
I’ve never played a gig in the states
It’s a heavy market there and I really don’t seek it. It’s two different situations. It’s an odd twist to the story, but yeah, I’m happy at the way things turned out.
Old school
I know this material came out a while back, but I like to consider myself a contemporary. I’m up to date. I watch bands in Detroit and hang out with music people, people in the arts and stuff.
My cult following
Oh jeez, that’s quite a grandiose term. I was walking on the piers the other day and some guy who hangs out there was familiar with the material, humming the bass line to I Wonder. I like that.
And there we have it, that is straight from GQ. See I referenced it so it’s all good. And I mention GQ enough on this website to be able to do as I please with their content.
Give me a damn Pulitzer or something.
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