Kim and sis Khloe were stranded in Cape Town on the weekend and tweeted about it throughout their ordeal. There were talk of peeing, cries for help and a surreal tubular reference.
A Christmas reunion on someone’s dad’s side hanged in the balance as sad faces flew all over the place. It was a wild, wild ride.
Well, obviously. It does most weekends. Mostly it talked about don’t-ask-don’t-tell being repealed, which is splendid – but I was focusing more on what was being said about bikes. Bikes and cars. Bikes and cars and pedestrians, and their relationship to one another. The word ‘prawn’ was implied, but not quite stated.
We quietly dominated Dunes in Hout Bay for Ard Matthews and Just Jinjer’s ninth-year-in-a-row performance on Saturday afternoon. And what a killer day it was. The mussels were great, the babes were awesome, and band was just sublime. They played all the hits – new and old. Including one of my faves, Like You Madly – check the video!
Independent Newspapers has been providing us with little gems of unintentional wordplay for years now. And when they’re not reporting that X politician has been fingered by Y investigative body (how many times could you withstand that kind of interrogation before you cracked?), they’re making pictorial gaffs. Please enjoy this little piece of joy.
I know – it’s December, you’ve got this big pseudo-Christian consumerist monolith being forced down every available orifice imploring you to spend more money on This New Shiny Thing, and maybe you’re a little sick of that right now. I understand that. But believe me when I say that this is a freaking awesome advert.
Pakistan’s relations with the U.S. were talked up pretty heavily in the latest Cablegate leaks; further, false leaks with heavy anti-Indian sentiment were spread around the country by major national newspapers. So it’s nice to see the Pakistani advertisers make the most of an awkward situation.
Well, it’s not like they had them explode from a cake and huskily sing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. Jesus,’ but this comes pretty close. But hey, good thing they don’t allow gay folk to become Popes, right? Otherwise that creepy look on his face would be pretty hard to explain away.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association went out of their way to market this year’s Golden Globe Awards as a showcase for stupidity. They nominated a guy who thinks Russia’s music unites the world and a movie that tanked at the box office. Then again, that’s what we’ve come to expect from the Oscar’s ugly cousin.
It seems that if you’re blue, you’re in vogue… well that’s if pop culture in 2010 is anything to go by with James Cameron’s Na’vi tribesmen in Avatar, The Smurfs feature film and now our giant blue-headed villain in Megamind. Perhaps Andy Warhol was really onto something with his colour transition duplications of Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne’s heads when he coloured […]
My, was I surprised by the results when I typed “christmas tree” “tits” into Google Images. There’s one with a guy stealing a tree, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears next to what could be a Christmas tree or just some tree and a card that says, ‘Merry Titmas’. Listen to me rambling on. Why don’t I just show you.
We take a break in our schedule to give you a classic compilation of animals being hysterical. It’s so easy for us, as humans, to mock animals – we’re just so much more advanced than them. I mean, who came up with TV? And you don’t see them driving around in cars, right? God, they’re so thick! No internet for them either!
Well done, Internet. This thing has come more or less full circle – please, enjoy singers from Liberty University in Virginia performing a Chrismas carolified version of the ‘Bed Intruder Song’ that autotuned its way into your hearts so many months ago.
Let’s be honest. It was coming. Here it is, gang – the Brendan Venter paradoy video!
Starring Ryan Scott, or, “The Guy Who Played Brendan Venter In Invictus”, as he’s more commonly known around these parts.
Unicycling has arguably been around since there have been wheels and chairs. That’s just science. Charity has been around for a pretty long time too. So it’s fitting that these two ancient disciplines would come together in the Counter Balance ‘Freedom Revolution Tour,’ which is raising funds to provide disadvantaged school kids with shoes.
If you haven’t seen this hysterical ‘McHugeLarge’ beach video doing the rounds, I strongly suggest you press play (above). It’s got all the elements that make a great video – hot women, a geek, beach, sea, sand and a dwarf. What’s more, the geek gets punished at the end. Looks like it was filmed at […]
Ozzy Osbourne is what’s right with the world. We’ve seen him drunk, we’ve seen him high, we’ve seen him possessed. He’s met the Queen and bit off a bat’s head. He’s a role model without equal and here he is summing up what we’re all thinking in six glowing words. Watch what happens when he’s asked his opinion on Justin Bieber.
One of 2oceansvibe’s favourite new acts to come out of the RSA, Wrestlerish, have released a splendiferous music video for their single, sleep. As the title card for the video states, the video is a composite of 921 still fan shots, snapped in and around Gauteng at Wrestlerish gigs (and one guy’s pool).
Maybe it’s a little early to be getting nostalgic, the Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 has you ‘Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.’ South Africans can go ahead and skip to 2:05, though, because that’s where the important part of 2010 really starts.
Remember that song called “Jump On It!”? Sure you do. You used to graunch to that sing in your parents’ garage, with your Back to The Future hi-tops and lumo green laces. That one. This song is what that song is based on, it’s called “Apache”, and the video is face-palmingly awesome. Please enjoy the simulated keyboard dry-humping, among other delights.
God, some headlines just write themselves. Happy Friday, by the way. PETA member and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has angrily written SeaWorld protesting their apparent use of killer whale Tilikum as a “chief sperm bank,” collecting ‘deposits’ with “a cow’s vagina filled with hot water.” What happened, Tommy Lee? You used to not be crazy.
Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?
It’s been thirty years since John Lennon was murdered by a man who got a little bit too excited about his music for his own good, and for John’s, for that matter. In any event, we bring you a truly remarkable short film made in 2007 by a man who as a teen interviewed Lennon in his hotel room. It bears repeating on this infamous day.
So this is sort of interesting – some photos have appeared of Emma Stone with her new blonde get-up, in preparation for the Gwen Stacey role in Spider-Man Whatever. What’s interesting is that a number of people have commented on how much she looks like a Steve Ditko character – Ditko being Spider-Man’s co-creator.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is brought to us by the guy that gave us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. His name is Edgar Wright, whose dark British comedy films have become cult hits with the help of partner-in-crime, Simon Pegg. However, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a departure from his usual […]
PayPal, the online payments service that recently bitched out and froze the account of Wikileaks, citing terms of use violations completely unrelated to the recent US diplomatic cables leaks, has some interesting clientelle that it hasn’t dropped yet – the KKK, for instance.
If you got tired of the ‘New York State Of Mind’ parodies, then I am happy to tell you there are others. And this time they’ve covered and tweaked Eminem and Rhihanna’s song, ‘Love The Way You Lie.’ Better yet, this one has to do with Prop 19. Weed-heads, this one’s for you!
It’s a Tuesday morning, so I can only assume you’re hung-over too. Right? Yeah, see, we understand each other. You don’t want to read anything too demanding right now. So how about an image that you’ll stare at for a couple of seconds before snorting, and saying ‘I see what you did there,’ before going on with your day?
The Grammy Award-Winning artist and singer of the much-popularised single, Hide And Seek is coming to our temperate shores in early 2011. She’ll be playing in Johannesburg and Cape Town for two nights only, respectively. Check out the details after the jump!
That’s right my lovelies. The beach boys. At the Cape Quarter. More specifically, in our studio, this morning, at 1oh00. I don’t think there’s much more to be said here, except that you can book tickets for their South African gigs right here. Make sure to tune in before 10hoo if you’d like to listen […]
The thing about music, or any art form, or anything that human beings do for that matter, from inventing something to being nice to strangers, is that it has an effect on the quality of our lives. If someone does something brilliant, like ending world poverty, or serving a beer at the perfect temperature, they are in some way making the world a better place.
If you were a hippy, you could put it down to simply putting out good vibes. On the other hand, you could get more specific and say that by doing something excellent, you are furthering the cause of humanity by adding quality to lives and in turn inspiring people to also do something excellent.
This is why bad music should not be taken lightly. If we let people get away with it, then other people may start believing that it’s okay to have zero talent and not bother trying to do excellent things. If we don’t watch ourselves, the standards of the world will drop even lower than they already are and we will start devolving – that’s right, I’m talking about humans getting stupider and the world going backwards. Are you listening Paris? Any more flirtations with music (or any form of entertainment for that matter) will be dealt with in a zero-tolerance manner. Not quite sure what “zero-tolerance” implies exactly. Murder is clearly over the top. Any suggestions are welcome. Confiscate her Bentley? Something unbearable.
The Black Keys are the kind of band whose existence makes the world a better place. They are influenced by Hendrix, The Doors and Led Zeppelin, as well as the original Chicago bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and the old time delta bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Lightnin’ Hopkins. All of these musicians shaped modern music in some way. They all attempted do something magical and thankfully they all had the God given talent to pull it off.
This is the Black Keys’ sixth album. They’re the kind of band that many people are glad to have around, but this hasn’t necessarily translated into cementing them into our collective conscience in the same way, say, The White Stripes have been. Some people compare the two and say The Black Keys wouldn’t exist without The White Stripes, but the fact is they’ve been around for just as long and it’s clear they would be making their music whether their counterparts existed or not. Follow link for more.