I’m telling you, there’s untapped potential in this country for dodgy porn. There’s definitely a demand, so where’s the supply?
The most obvious indicator is the amount of fun you can have with their titles:
- Vreet Koek Paleis
- Kringe in Haar Bos
- Jamie Doos’ ‘Fanny People 2′
- Fila se K*nt
There must be many more, but my knowledge of Afrikaans/local movies is a little lacking. Any additional thoughts?
Sheesh, so the other day I got acomment from Jason on my PVR post:
| Wow guys, my experience has been completely the opposite. Come on over to myPVR.co.za and see what I mean. http://www.mypvr.co.za |
I popped over to his blog to have a look, needless to say it looks a lot like faked out marketing rubbish, even the comments look contrived.
Go have a look, I’d like to know what you think.
In related news, if this kinda thing makes you want to vom, no worries, you have an alternative, TiVo (thanks to another comment on the afore-mentioned post).
Either way though, my problem remains. There’s nothing I really want to record…!
Tonight at 23h00 local time (check that, it’s now Saturday), South African Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, launches Falcon 1 from the Marshal Islands.
| SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten. SpaceX is the third company founded by Elon Musk. Previously he co-founded PayPal, the world’s leading electronic payment system, which was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. In 1995, Mr. Musk co-founded Zip2, which sold to Compaq Computer Corporation for more than $300 million. |
(As an aside, it amazes me that Elon hasn’t made this list…yet)
This is the guy that’s going to make space tourism a distinct possibility.
Hell yeah…!
So I just got a friendly phone call from EMI asking me to remove the link to a Michael Naiker file I posted a while back, I obliged.
The record company explained that this material was under copyright. Fair enough, but shit, get a clue, it’s on the internet now, all we did was link to it, we didn’t host it.
Far better would have been to ask us to keep the link live, and to add a line saying “for more Michael Naiker, call 555-MIKE” that way it’s a promo, and positive. Now I’m just irritated.
Sadly, people just don’t get the value of blog promotion yet…!
Crazy that I had to find out about this from a US based site, but Neill Blomkamp (the dude that directed the Citroen robot ad -showreel-), has put together a killer short film called Alive In Joburg. The CG is brilliant, the story, even better.
It’s a local tale, but with tourists from a planet, far, far away.
Which is pretty obvious really, considering no-one else is crazy enough to visit…!
I like to fart as much as the next guy, perhaps a little more than most, but having a dodgy stomach is always a touch-n-go when it comes to cutting the cheese, even if you’re alone.
The reason: Fear of “The Shart“. Derived from the two words ’shit’ and ‘fart’, the ’shart’ is a what-was-thought-to-be-a-fart-then-ended-up-a-shit scenario. The first time I heard about it was when I watched Along Came Polly, but it’s been close to my mind lately, because of the dodge tum.
So what is this totally random post about? I want to know if anyone has sharted, even in public, but more importantly, have you told anyone? Even if it happened like a month ago, would you tell someone that you followed through when you thought you were gearing up for an average dry baff? I’ve been holding off farting for a few days, and it’s killing me, but I think a shart would be the clencher on the ‘Stupidest things I’ve ever done’ list, so I’m gonna keep ‘em in until I think it’s safe.
I was reading a new SA mag called Maverick last week and I saw this picture:
This guy is the director of direct distribution at Standard Bank.
I’m not really irritated, lets face it, it’s not like your money’s really at risk, but what the fuck were they thinking from a PR perspective, is this really the image they want to portray?
Maybe I’m just jealous though…!
Just in case you didn’t know, DSTV has launched a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) – think TiVo and you wouldn’t be too far wrong. My first thought was to run straight out and buy one, but I’m holding myself back for two reasons:
Firstly, because there’s just not that much on that I really want to watch, I moved into my new house last December, I have a pretty cool home cinema but still haven’t bothered to hook up my VCR (the fact that ESPN lost the NHL license and now there’s no hockey games at 3am, has a lot to do with this though).
Secondly, because I really don’t feel like going through the same rigmarole Brian Berkman went through.
| “I have to fax through the form before they can activate me” – he says. I reply: “It is 7pm on a Friday, I don’t have a fax at home and, anyway”, I say, “when I last subscribed to DSTV I did it over the phone.” He says he can’t help me – I ask for the name of his manager – he doesn’t know, he replies and now, getting more than a little fucked off say: “How is it possible that you don’t know the name of your manager!?” “Please hold”, he says and comes back later saying I should give him my number and his manager will call me back. “No, I say, “I’ll hang on.” Even if the fuckwits at Multichoice are still in the technology dark ages and require a fax, I at least have a portable phone. |
Eish!
He’s set up an I-hate-DSTV email addy, send him your DSTV bitches, bitches.
Truth be told though, I may just suck it up and try it anyway.
I’m such a shiny toy whore …!
Update: more here
We’re finally in the last stages of that bloody Hoffmania, but the people of email-list-world cannot sleep any easier tonight. There’s a new crisis spreading creeping through the wires. That of ‘Random Facts About…’
Three categories so far:
Random facts about Mr T
“Mr. T can hit you so hard that he has time to pity you 3 times before you hit the ground.”
Random Facts about Chuck Norris
“Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.”
Random Facts about Vin Diesel
“If you ask Vin Diesel “How much wood would a wooodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood,” Vin Diesel will promptly chuck a woodchuck through your skull.”
I’m sure many of you already know what I’m talking about. In the last two days I’ve received these in the mail more than a lot of times, and I expect to get new, improved ones every day. I also envision a whole bunch of new Abouts, dealing with other dodgy celebs.
You’ve been warned. They’re pretty funny.
The facts are spewed from a generator. If you get tired of going through them one by one just wait until the entire list gets Fwd:ed to you by mates. Or mail me and I’ll do it.
This afternoon D’ave and I attended a blogging seminar hosted by the tmtd.biz crew. It rocked, here’s a recap:
- As an ice-breaker, I half choked to death on a butterscotch sweetie. People laughed at my misery – ah, the happiness I bring.
- D’ave spilled water and ice everywhere. Twice. People laughed at him too.
- Lots and lots was said about blogging (D’ave forgot to bring my gag).
- Graeme taught us some kick-ass segway moves.
- Barrie captured the moves on video (dude?).
- Mike said that he thought that Graeme and Barrie were being paninis.
- Clive decided that this blogging thing was worth a shot.
- Craig the PR guy (another attendee) and I reminisced about school, "Dude, didn’t we have a fist fight in standard 5?" I think we might have. We’re getting coffee soon.
- On the way out we bumped into another client that wanted to try the segway. He face-planted. More merriment all round.
Also, the whole seminar was blogged live (without ecto?) which was very cool.
Keep your eyes open for the next one, they’re great fun…!
P.S. The Christina Aguilera traffic on the way back to the office sucked. If you went, and thus caused this traffic, I hate you. Who said you could drive on my Hans Strydom anyway?
Brent just mailed me this clipping:
Sheesh, I guess Markas aint a bank fan…!
At Jo’blog, we’re big cherryflava fans, we assume you are too. However in case you:
- Dont read it (ponce), or
- Haven’t heard of it (rookie)
…he has a new society blog, it’s called Lusharazzi (designed by my hero Martin). A bit wordy for me at the moment, but cherryflava himself assures me that they will find their feet soon. I have no doubt.
Well worth a visit…!
On Saturday night I had the unfortunate assignment of filming an event. It was horrible. The client: Miller Genuine Draft. The event: The Summer Sizzle Swimwear Show 2005, at Billy The Bum’s in Fourways.
Chris from Missing Link helped me out, and we both hated it. Hot chicks in bikini’s, beer flowing like wine, Leanne Liebenberg, hot chicks in bikini’s, bikini’s filled by hot chicks, beer, chicks, bikini’s, bikini’s, bikini’s, chicks and some hot chicks in bikini’s.
Here’s some stills we shot, just in case you were interested in our crappy evening.
Shame. Don’t you feel sorry for us? And these monsters were loving Chris, well, who couldn’t really? He broke the camera beating one of them away, it was awful…
Any takers for the next one? ‘Cos I couldn’t possibly go through the torment again.
I just stumbled upon ScrewThePublic thanks to a link by David (who has a rad telkom profit counter of his own).
Very amusing, although as a capitalist pig myself, I’m not upset…
Just jealous…!
