…said South Africa to the rest of the world.

Or so the youth wing of Azapo would want.  My thoughts, and I have been wrong before, is that we should call ourselves ‘The Nation of 44,187,637 Herculeses’, or is that Herculi?

In the previous post’s comments, ../Ant linked to a story which poses a serious question:

Will South Africa be ready to host the 2010 World Cup Soccer?

On a security front, the SAP are confident that the tournament will be crime-free. There’s talk of Zimbabwe hosting visitors, because of our shortage of accommodation. Business opportunities on the boom. Add-on’s and plans for Soccer City. But some are concerned. And rightly so. Even one of the world’s top guns is trying to help.

Plans, discussions, meetings. They all mean crap if there IS NO ACTION!

Excerpt from story:
“Faced with questions about South Africa’s suitability to hold the 2010 tournament, Joe Phaahla, the head of the organising committee for the African National Congress government, admitted: “Issues of safety and accountability of event organisers need to be tightened.”

Tony Leon, the official leader of the Democratic Alliance opposition, said the country was two years behind in its preparations, due to government sluggishness in processing all the legislation necessary for a successful tournament.”

What if, for argument’s sake, (and I’m anicipating one), South Africa realises in 2009 that everything won’t be ready on time. What then? Back to Germany who are more than fit to host it? Is there a backup country preparing, just in case? How long does it take to build or renovate a stadium to suit international standards? And if they are built in record time and then crumble like most building projects of late, then what?

All these questions worry me. I am a South African. I have nothing to do with the tournament whatsoever, but if things flop, I’d feel like a disgrace, because it’s my country. What can I do? Nothing. Just sit, and watch, and hope that things come together, because how awesome would it be to watch the World Cup Finals in your own country?

On the big plus side, some new teams are ready and willing to stop at nothing to take the 2010 trophy home! Awesome.

While everyone in Gauteng,

including myself,

was resting on a warm Sunday afternoon, a gang of heavily armed men robbed Honeydew Pick ‘n Pay.

The suspects were followed to their hideout in Jeppestown, where they ambushed policemen, all-in-all 12 people were killed.

Terrible.

And on a Sunday.

That’s the exact thing Rich…! sms’d me at 00:15 after the Pretoria Lagwagon gig. Now, for Rich…! to say something like that about a gig (he can be fussy) is saying a lot. I, on the other hand, still needed to see it for myself. And I did.

Last night: In-fucking-sane!

We caught the second half of F…Etc which I knew would rock anyway (old Shifty days), and they didn’t let me down. Fuzigish, aaah, Fuzi. Now, I’ll admit, I’m an Old School Fuzi Fan, but their new stuff is the business! Skanked it up ska-style for half of their set, ‘cos I was preparing and saving myself for Lagwagon. Got hit in the nuts twice (once with a head, the other with a shoulder) and fell once. Killer set, short, but killer. I asked J-Bones about it and he said it was cos it was a big line-up. I still think fuck it, let’s jam till the wee hours of the morning people!

Then,

:: insert dramatic music here ::

Lagwagon.

They kicked so much ass. I’m struggling to put into words the feeling I felt when they started with Never Stops, off Fat 6, an amazing track, and then the all-time crowd favourite, May 16. You have to understand something, my first ever video that I edited (my 21st birthday party) was to this track, now I do video for a living. This shit rocks!

During their set I fell twice, once on my (already-on-it’s-last-legs) back, got hit in the nuts, again, and jumped and screamed and spun around like a top, it was awesome. One thing that surprised me though was the lack of jumping in the air, I think I might’ve seen one other guy, all the other air-jumps in the pit were courtesy of yours truly. Guess I’m just old school… Or blind…

A big thanks to Rich…! and Missing Link for getting me a ticket, real pity you couldn’t have been there, I promise you were there in spirit, I went apeshit for the both of us! Also to Jase and Rob, my pit crew, man we went off!

Today, I hurt.

So punk rock.

..Lagwagon rocked Pretoria big time last night. It was absolutely killer.

Joey intro’ing “May16″.

All the favs (sadly missing was “Gun in your hands” but otherwise a perfect set)


Crazy-ass pit action too.I was in my element.

At the beginning of the show and through both support acts there was a crowd control barrier, I was chatting to Malcolm from Fuzi (who were fucking awesome – no surprises there) about this, he shrugged and thought it may have been a Lagwagon request. Not at all. One song in Joey complained about the barrier and had it removed, allowing the punters access to the stage – part of what makes punk shows the best in the world.

The stage performance was brilliant, and the set-list near perfect, when “Razorburn” and “May 16″ came on, I screamed like a schoolgirl – along with every other punter.
Do yourself a favour, Jo’burg’s tonight, and CT’s on Thursday, these guys are true music legends, get to one of their shows…!

Thanks to Wezzo for the email.

I don’t really care about the story, ‘cos they all get away with everything anyway, but the headline is hilarious.

Probe. Hehe.

So last week I got my hands on the demo EP of ex-State Far Better band mates, “A new hope“.

Shit but this is good music, especially considering that this is not a studio recording, but an at home job.

Have a look at their myspace page and give a listen to “Save me from going nowhere” and “Freedom“, my two favourite tracks.

They’re a Cape Town band by the way, so expect gigs there in the next few months…!

One, count it, one schoolgirl out of 1766 surveyed near Durban answered this question right:

‘What is abstinence?’

Surveys also showed that abstinence, being faithful and using rubbers weren’t a common thing either. And how do girls protect their virginity? They take it up the bum.

Story here.

Well, 8 days for the Joburg show that we’re going to, but oh man,

CAN’T.

FUCKING.

WAIT.

Bring yer dancin’ shoes Mary-Sue, this here gig’s gonna get yo’ feet tappin’!

Thanks to JP from Fuzi for the reminder… Like I needed it… Pff.

Thanks to Goggles for the pic!

Every single day a millionaire dies, and his personal assistant emails me wanting me to take some of his money.

Please, for all you millionaires out there, please be careful. There must be a bug going round killing you all. Take your vitamins, and write a proper will. Or better yet, just send me your money now so I don’t have to deal with a middleman.

Thank you.

I’m not available right now, please leave a message and I’ll get back to you. Thanks. Bye.”

To which my latest voice message answered:

“Hi Clinton, please get hold of the office urgently. Thanks.”

Monday while driving on Jan Smuts:

Motorist bites Metro cop

This morning while driving on William Nicol:

www.?.co.za

I take it he’s selling domains, but he wasn’t handing out pamphlets or anything. Just a Scream-masked man, resting on a pole, holding a sign. Bizarre.

We met this guy a few weeks ago, one of the most interesting guys you’ll meet. He’s been all over the world, and right now he’s somewhere where lots of people probably wouldn’t want to be, but, he has access to the World Wide Web.

I introduced him to Jo’blog when he was here, and he was keen to start a blog up himself. So, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to an SA boy, very far away from home, but with lots of stories to tell.

I’d like you all to say a big hello to Chris (or Hoox), founder and owner of

Go now!

“The media had taken the incident out of context,” said a 36-year-old man who severely beat up an 82-year-old man after an accident.

Um, you guys had a crash, then you beat the bejesus out of him.

Hmm. Looks pretty clear to me.

Update: He might be one of 16 million Americans!

He may have beaten me to it, but I’m not to be outdone. Here’s me, in all my glory (not just some pic off the net, Don), making my contribution. Happy 6/6/6 everyone!

But, as an interesting project. I challenge everyone out there to post a picture of themselves pulling the ol’ sign of the devil on their blog and let us know about it. And I know pretty much everyone has a picture, somewhere, of themselves, rocking out…

If you’re blogless (or just post as rarely as I do), mail them to me (and send any gross stuff to Don the Ursurper), and at the end of this week, we’ll post them all here, and chose a winner. They’ll get some sort of prize.

Promise.

Check Flickr for some inspiration

Edit: What in the world is being released today of all days?
AFI release their long awaited follow up album, ‘DECEMBERUNDERGROUND’. Can’t wait.
The Doors Nightclub in Edenvale (like you don’t know) is having a 666 party
The Omen remake is released
Finnish Gwar-wannabees Lordi release their new track, Hard Rock Hallelujah
Slayer release the new, and hopefully better ‘Unholy Alliance’. It’s also, apparently, their national day.

Am I missing anything?

Hope you like Joblog’s new look. Actually it’s not a new look, we’ve just re-installed an updated version of WordPress in the hope that some of our problems go away. We are in the process of getting our own server and will hopefully have everything running smoothly in the not to distant future. Hold thumbs that we go down a little less until then.

I beat D’ave to it!

Happy 06/06/06 everybody.

Thanks to Al for pointing it out.

…stopping work at 21:30 is considered an ‘early one’.