Archive for October, 2009

'Invictus' trailer has been released starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar

A couple days ago an article was posted regarding Clint Eastwood's new movie 'Invictus' due to hit cinemas on 11th December.

The official trailer has now been released and its looking very promising with a huge buzz on the net at the moment.. Oscar material are two words that keep coming up. Check out the trailor for yourself now.

- Marky Mark

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Big line up this week with Halloween coming up involving loads of parties, so get ready for a big one this weekend!

Wednesday 28th October 2009:

Durban Curry Night at Down South

If you haven't been to Durban Curry Night at Down South on a Wednesday night yet, then you have no idea what you are missing out on.
£5 for a proper Durban Curry made from ingredients shipped in from Durban and a free drink, you couldn't get a better deal, not to mention that it tastes awesome! Check the review here from last weeks taster cause EISH! it was good, but like I said in the review, make sure you give them a call to let them know you are coming cause that curry pot goes down quick quick, and tell Baas Jannie that Marky Mark sent you

Tel: 020 878 82363

90 Inner Park Road, SW19 6DA

Friday 30th October 2009:

L.U.S.H – HALLOWEEN BALL – ANGELS & DEMONS @ ARTESIAN WELL

Every Friday is L.U.S.H at Artesian Well and because its Halloween theres a big special night planned with an Angels & Demons dress up theme, looks like its gonna be a massive night with a ridiculously massive line up of DJ's, this one is a definate!

Click Here for more info

Thank Funk its Halloween

For those in Wimbledon who want to keep it local, DJ Funksta and DJ Johny Garcia will be tearing up the floor at Bar Sia for their Halloween Party on Friday night!

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Walkabout Wimbledon's Awesome Black Light Halloween Party Weekend!!!

If you saw what the Wimbledon Walkie looked like for last years Halloween Party, then this is definately the place to be on Friday night.
The boys at The Walkie always go ALL OUT and have said that this year is gonna be even better than last years!
Click Here for more info

Saturday 31th October 2009:

'TERROR!'…Inspired by Tarantino

Mike Parry and the crew at Lucky Life bring you 'Terror'… Inspired by Tarantino at Babalou in Brixton.

The night is bound to be an awesome night with their Tarantino based theme where you get to dress up as your favourite Tarantino character. This is set to be the biggest Lucky Life event of the year and running on the huge success of last years Halloween party, this is something not to be missed.

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DIRTYDUBBINS HALLOWEEN MASSACRE

No strangers to huge massive parties, Dirty Dubbin presents their Halloween Massacre at Mass in Brixton.

Two dance floors and yet another ridiculously massive line up of DJ's down for the night, it looks like its going to be HUGE boasting:

1500 people!
20 top dj's!
The Scariest venue in London!!
50k Sound rig!
Facepainting
Pyrotechnics
Dancers
Treats
Tricks
& more

Click Here for more info

EISH! That looks like one big weekend!

Bar and Club Specials

Bar Sia

(Wimbledon Broadway)

2 for 1 Cocktails from 5pm to 8pm on Friday

Suburban

(Hartfield Road, Wimbledon)

FRI – SUN 5pm till 8pm 2 4 1 cocktails, £8 Bottle House wine. 4 Selected Beers for £10 all night.

Down South

(Inner Park Road, Southfields)

Fridays and Saturday’s – Happy Hour 8:30pm – 9:30pm

2L Cane and Creme Soda jugs – £10
2 for 1 Dbl Cane and Creme Soda’s – £5
2 for 1 Dbl Klippies and coke – £5
Savannah, Castle Lager, Hunter’s Dry – £2
Selected Shooters – £1

Down South are also introducing Poker Night on Thursdays from 8pm, winner takes all and a bottle of Jack, Click Here for more info

Well thats your debauchery info for this week, have a wicked weekend and keep London rocking!

If you know of something going down and you want people to know about it, let me know with the link near the top left of the page and I'll include it.

- Marky Mark

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Warthog owns Lion… this has to be the real Pumbaa!

Gosh I can’t believe the balls this warthog has to take on this lioness… EISH! haha

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyXB9NZUhI

- Marky Mark

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Base Jumpers attend the 2009 International Tower Jump

Base Jumpers from around the world recently attended the 2009 International Tower Jump from the worlds 5th highest tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which stands at 421m high. Check some of the pics that were taken, pretty wicked.

Is this for me… no! but I’d frickin love to try it! haha

- Marky Mark

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Weekend changes on FaceBook labelled a fail

Just this last weekend when you logged on to FaceBook you may have noticed a few changes, one in particular is new the top right side where it encourages you to “reconnect” with friends that you may have not contacted on FaceBook for some time. However what the people at FaceBook failed to realise was this may upset some users in the sense that it may bring up friends that have passed away and obviously not had contact with since although their profiles will still be active.

If someone passes away most people won’t delete them from their friends list for memorial purposes however this is what has caused the new feature to backfire somewhat. Apparently over 900 000 users have complained and would like the new feature removed unless FaceBook can find a way of excluding friends that may have passed away. This exact problem happened to The Phreak on Sunday night where it suggested a friend of ours that passed away earlier this year. Within hours of the changes going live, many people were Tweeting on Twitter regarding the changes as “a bit messed up”. Users have also said that this is also bringing up ex husbands and wives, although in my own opinion, unless you’ve both got over it and all is cool, why would you have you ex husband or wife on FaceBook, thats just begging for shit

It is said that FaceBook are currently investigating the situation.

- Marky Mark

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Apparently Anvil Shooting is a sport in the States…

For those who can remember far back enough, you’ll recall a line from the Frito’s advert back in the 80′s that went…
“THE AMERICANS ARE CRAZY!” well they were right, they are crazy, or just plain nuts…

Would you believe it, there are people in the states that place an anvil on top of another anvil with a large dose of gunpowder in between the two… and then light it… this causes an explosion big enough to probably get you arrested under the terrorism act here in the UK, launching one of the anvils a few hundred feet into the air uncontrollably, before it plummets down hitting the ground virtually buring itself due to its weight… and hopefully not landing on someone in the process. The big question here is…. WHY?
Although I do recall something similar that happens in South Africa which involves a 2 litre coke bottle filled half way with water and compressed air… although I doubt an empty plastic coke bottle hitting someone its going to do much damage.

Check this video…. apparently this dude is “The World Champion” haha He does ofcourse explain why

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ

- Marky Mark

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Top American Comedian Pablo Francisco blows away the The Troxy in London

If you haven’t heard of Pablo Francisco then you have never laughed to your laughing limit… if the is such a thing.
He is an insanely funny comedian from the states and thrives on sound effects and imitating famous people such as Arnold Schwarzenegger; Keanu Reeves and the Movie Preview Guy aka Don Fontaine… thats the guy who’s voice you always hear in movie trailors. I came across Pablo Francisco in 2007 when the Phreak somehow stumbled across him on YouTube. She was sitting upstairs in her room laughing her head off to the extent that he boyfriend Waine had to go upstairs to investigate just what the hell was making her laugh loudly for 45mins straight. What she was watching was Pablo’s ‘Bits and Pieces’ show. Soon after I saw it, and can quite honestly say that I had never seen anyone as hilarious as him up until then. From that point on we were all on a quest to find just about any footage of Pablo we could lay our paws on. A few weeks ago I was on FaceBook (there’s a surprise) and I noticed Pablo posted on his fan page that he would be doing a show at the Troxy in London on 22nd October! Lets just say, in about 30 seconds flat I was the proud owner of four tickets to the show. So last week Thursday the night had finally come and we went and saw Pablo live. While we waited in anticipation, three opening acts got our stomach muscles working, and then finally Pablo made a thundering appearance and kept us laughing uncontrollably for the rest of the evening. He is ridiculously dynamic in what he does, you kill yourself laughing at the way that he describes any given situation with a full range of sound effects and multitudes of voices. He honestly has you in sticthes from the word go.

One awesome part of the evening was right at the end, where I had the pleasure of meeting Pablo and got him to sign the copy of ‘Bits and Pieces’ that I’d just purchased from him, as you can see in the pic above Next time he’s in London I’m definately going again.

Incase you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing Pablo in action, check the video below from ‘Bits and Pieces’ and get ready to laugh your head off.

GREEN APPLES!!! haha

- Marky Mark

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It seems like someone got incredibly bored one day and decided to get a bit creative with a few dead flies.
If you don’t smile at this then you are an extremely dull boring person

I guess its safe to say that flies were harmed in the making of this haha

I seriously hope this person washed their hands afterwards though.

[Thanks Dave]

- Marky Mark

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Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, Invictus showing in cinemas in December

Clint Eastwood has directed a movie which tells the tale of how Nelson Mandela and former Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar joined forces in 1995 to bring the nation together during the Rugby World Cup. Apparently it is set to become the biggest South African based film of all time. It was filmed in South Africa around March this year and stars Morgan Freeman as the great man himself, Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar. I'm really looking forward to seeing this, especially to check how well Matt Damon does with a Saffa accent, Leo di Caprio did pretty well in Blood Diamond in my opinion. The film is due to hit cinemas on 11th December which is just over a month away and a promo poster for it was released last week. Matt Damon spent alot of time in South Africa training to be a rugby player coached by none other than former Springbok wing, Chester Williams who you'll remember played in the 95 World Cup. Morgan Freeman was cast from the very start for obvious reasons, because without even seeing the movie yet, you just know that he will portray Madiba perfectly. The film was originally going to be called 'The Human Factor' but has since been changed to 'Invictus'. It is based on the book "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation" by John Carlin. The plot summary from the IMDB is as follows:

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Alot of us will remember that day like it was yesterday, for some it was as memorable as the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, it was the day that South Africa became the World Cup champions of Rugby for the first time, although thinking about it, its actually already 14 years ago, can you believe it, time has flown, there's been three Rugby World Cups since then, and just to remind all non-saffa's incase you've forgotten, we won it again around this time two years ago The Rugby World Cup 1995 became a significant part of South African history, not just for South African rugby, but also as a vehicle that brought the entire nation together standing united as one. It was a time where the entire nation became completely colourblind and fully supported our boys to that very final whistle being blown at the end of that unforgettable final. There is no doubt in my mind that the main man Mr. Eastwood has managed to encapsulate all that into this story. I've been amazed at how many people have never really known what went on behind the scenes with Madiba and the Boks at the time, and this is going to be a sure way of exposing all that. Below is a Youtube video of a short documentary for ESPN, funny enough narrated by Morgan Freeman, which should give you an idea of what went on, its a definate watch and very interesting view which brings back alot of memories. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vlFQA-t9w

- Marky Mark

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Giant Seagull Invades the News on Aussie TV

Some of you may have seen this in the paper on the way home last night, but The Phreak and I just can’t stop laughing whenever we see it, weird I know, but thats what makes us Phreaks

Now you obviously seen the backdrop that they use on news bulletins where they’ll usually use a video of the city that they are filming in to make it look like a window… yeah just incase you never knew that… its not a real window Now this is normally a live feed to add realism such as the time of day if the sun is going down or whatever, so if a frickin seagull decides to take a stroll in front of the camera wherever it is mounted, the cheeky bugger is gonna be live on air everywhere… as with what happened when the news was on in Australia. The news reader had no idea but I bet he wondered why everyone in the studio was cracking up laughing.

See the video below for the footage.

- Marky Mark

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