SA Rocks

I’m really not a massive fan of Egoli and I never have been. But it is an epic show on SA Television that stood some sort of test of time. It’s now over and below is the final episode.

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I was fortunate enough to be invited to the MK Awards on Sunday night past.

What an incredibly eye-opening and fantastic night and show. I rocked out. I was sucked in and embraced the entire evening as flippin’ incredible.

One of the stars of the show was undoubtedly Jack Parow. The man rocked out colabs with some of the hottest rock property in SA right now and he blew the crowd away.

Here’s the video that he based the colab on:

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It’s that time of the year again, Oscar time, or Academy Award time apparently.

I haven’t been this excited for an Oscar awards night since Tsotsi was nominated (and won) an Oscar. This year is bigger though. This year is badder. This year is going to be a battle for Neil Blomkamp and his breakout movie blockbuster, District 9.

He’s got some competition. But before I list the competition let’s see what District 9 is nominated for this year:

Film Editing
Best Picture
Visual Effects
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Obviously the big one there for us fans is the Best Picture nomination.

The competitors for Best Picture are:

Avatar
James Cameron and Jon Landau

The Blind Side
Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson

An Education
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey

The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro

Inglourious Basterds
Lawrence Bender

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness

A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Up
Jonas Rivera

Up in the Air
Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman

In my opinion I think that District 9 has a fight on its hands against the behemoth that is Avatar. I have a bad feeling that the brilliance of Blomkamp is going to be overlooked, much like Martin Scorsese was overlooked for decades in spite of his brilliance. But with that said, my full and unbridled support is behind the South African smash hit.

Taking away any of the oscars that District 9 is nominated for will be a triumph for Neil and his team. They deserve every success. I’ll be watching and waiting patiently for the winners to be announced.

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It’s time to announce the winners of the SA Rocks and Taste of Cape Town competition that has been running over the past 12 days or so on SA Rocks.

The winners are:

Michelle Alexander

&

Lynn Fester

But worry not. I offer the readers a great consolation prize!

If you book your tickets through Computicket and use the special code: “Taste” you’ll get a 2 for 1 special! Correct, if you use “Taste” and book through Computicket you get a buy one get one free vibe. Its just that easy.

Michelle and Lynn – I will be contacting you with more information about your tickets ASAP!

Thank you to all the entrants and have a rocking Taste of Cape Town!

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Fantastic to see a blog post like the one I read today from Park Life.

Here’s a little excerpt from their great blog post and a photo or two!

An asshole taxi driver decided to take a shorty down the emergency lane – crossing those very yellow lines that are meant to warn of such a cowardice act – and found himself driving straight into the open clutches of the JMPD!

The policemen pulled ‘Try Me Taxi 47′ over, offloaded all the passengers, cuffed the driver, and put him in the back of the piggy van. As the above photo’s show. (privacy respected)

What.the.fuck?!

The Black Dude behind me opened his window, whistled at the police and started clapping! Serious!
I did the same, and before we knew it, that whole row of traffic was hooting and cheering at these brave law enforcers…how nice!

Another taxi spotted the waiting passengers on the island and thought he’d take a shorty too – just the same – to rescue them…thinking the police wouldn’t notice…think NOT! These cops were good, real goooood!

Just as the poor commuters started loading themselves into ‘Stop Anywhere Taxi 39′, the cops removed the driver and slapped the cuffs on him too.

To read the original and full blog post click through to Park Life.

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