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

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!

Click Here for more info

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.

Click Here for more details

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

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

Suburban

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

Down South

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new South African ad for Toyota Corolla

You know what is it with South African ads that always tend to have a wicked sense of humour? Anyone will tell you that every single Nando’s ad has been hilarious, even if they are ripping off Julius Malema or not

Check this new ad for Toyota Corolla South Africa, I love the part where he says ” Siss! I can smell you from here, take a bath!” haha very well done

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTD40Kp12o

- Marky Mark

Confucius say….

If you can’t find book you looking for, then you probably shopping at….

If you haven't smiled then there's no helping you...

[Thanks Waine]

- Marky Mark

Durban Curry Night at Down South is a winner!

So I checked Down South were advertising dis Durban Curry Night on a Wednesday an all right, £5 for a schweet dish of proper Durban curry and they even throw in a dop of your choice, no word of a lie right. So you know I schmaak a schweet deal when I see one, so I tjooned the Jen, “Hey unty, we going for a curry!” So we hopped into the Black Mamba, slammed on the gas and with a squealing wheel spin, off we tjooned it to this place in Southfields called Down South. ey I slipped the black mamba straight into one parking with total perfection even Clarkson would have been impressed, the Jen battering an eyelid with a sigh of satisfaction in admiration with how smoothly I handled it. We walk in the door and straight away I smell the sweet scent of salvation, I thought to myself…you, me, we gonna dine tonight! So we pull up a seat at a table, the Jen sits down comfortably while I slouch in the chair checking da ou’s checking my cherry with one gleaming eye, and with one stare down an a nod, deez ou’s know I’m da man, no gold tooth required.

So we order two dishes of lamb fantasia, along with a coke for the Jen and ofcourse for me, one ‘Can of the Best’ and I don’t mean Castrol GTX right, I mean the schweet smooth taste of Jack and Coke. Popped a £10 over like I’ll never miss it thinking to myself, ey men, dis is one schweet fuggin deal right. Now before I arrived, I heard deez rumours that Baas Jannie that cooks the curry, is a bit of a Curry Koning, so I tjoon myself, okee I check dis rabble rowser, we’ll see about that.

A few minutes later Baas Jannie himself brings over two full plates of lekker Durban Curry steaming in all its glory, and with a smell that brought one fuggin tear to my eye from the flashbacks which made me reminice of days back home in shit-hot sunny Durban. Ey so I check dis out ekse, make a full one eye shut inspection and think okee, lets chow! So I dip my fork in one tender piece of lamb and place this succulent ting in my mouth. I tink to myself, now for the Fai$al test… one chew, two chew, gone! Passed with flying colours just like Fai$al’s VW 3.2l EOS at 155mph. EISH! this was good! Now let me tell you one ting right, when dis touches your lips you jus can’t blerrie stop. In just a bit longer than a GTi down a quarter mile I klaared that plate flat. Ey I check the Jen, packing that curry in like a savage, and no word of a lie right, if the Jen schmaaks the curry, then you got to obey because this rare moment is more valuable than the one time banging Rockford Fosgate super sound system in Fai$al’s cab right.

I have to admit, dis fuggin Durban Curry is the shit and for only 5 bucks its even better shit right… an with a free dop…Priceless! Gonna be back next week and also probably take Huncle for a taste of heavenly satisfaction.
One important ting though lani’s, Baas Jannie’s curry is becoming quite popular, so I found out tonight that if you gonna go and get a taste of home, make sure you give dem a call before you go so they can save you some, cause that fuggin pot goes down quicker than a fuggin M3 hauling ass down a strip okee.

I just wanna tjoon one more ting okee, Baas Jannie is a champion curry koning, no word of a lie right!

While you dere, check out the dop specials they ave over the weekend, you’ll be fuggin amazed right!

Down South Bar and Lounge

Tel: 020 878 82363

90 Inner Park Road, SW19 6DA

- Marky Mark

The Fray completely rocked the Royal Albert Hall hands down!

This evening myself and The Jen headed over to The Royal Albert Hall to catch one of my all time favourite bands, The Fray for their long awaited show.
Its the first time I’ve been to the venue and was completely thrown back by its awesomeness, no wonder thats where the Queen herself likes to jol. One must also be quite impressed with thus magnificent awesomeness. It turned out to be an extremely intimate gig due to the venue and because of the fact that our seats where literally within about 3 meters of the stage, to the extent that if Isaac Slade felt the need to hock a loogy whilst he belowed through the mic standing on the monitors as he did, it probably would have landed on us.
They rang out with just about every song off their two albums, ‘How To Save a Life’ and ‘The Fray’ ending up with quite a long set which took us from 8:45pm through till just about 11pm. They did a pretty cool cover version of a Kanye West song during their encore, ‘Heartless’ I believe it was. My only disappointment for the show was that they didn’t play one of my all time Fray favourites, ‘Look After You’, but when I say disappointment, it was hardly a spec of dust on the giant window pane that was this awesome show. They really outdid themselves this time as the previous show that I saw them at The Hammersmith Apollo, was a bit of a slight let down in regard to stage presence. Now I’d like to point out that I was mainly there for the music but unfortunately it seemed as if they came on, did there thing and went straight off again, but this time it was the absolute and no holds barred complete opposite. Isaac communicated with the crowd on such a level by getting everyone to do this little hip hop hand gesture during the Kanye West song and getting everyone to pull out there cellphones to create a twinkling star effect throughout the venue, to telling stories of wooing his bird when they first met and generally acting the fool which was pretty wicked. Now I’ll tell you, this was probably the best gig I’ve been to in the sense of possibly taking the best photos ever however as my luck would have it, the first fail was that I forgot to take my camera to work with me this morning as I went straight from there, and the second fail came in where I couldn’t get the camera on my phone to work properly, so I landed up with no photos and no videos…lovely.

All in all, if you missed it, you missed out big, catch them the next time they come around which should be in the next year or so as they stop off in London quite often, I know I’ll definately be there.

- Marky Mark

Pamela Anderson starring in Aladdin at Wimbledon Theatre

Yes guys you read that correctly, the one and only Pamela Anderson is going to be rocking up on our door steps to star in a pantomime of Aladdin at Wimbledon Theatre for two weeks starting from 13th December.

Pammy will star as the Genie bursting from the lamp in the show and will be taken over by talk show host Paul O’Grady after her two week stint.
From what I’ve heard and completely unsurprisingly, ticket sales for this have shot through the roof and is fast becoming the biggest thing to hit the Wimbledon Theatre since, well… the Wimbledon Theatre.

Hopefully we’ll get a glimpse of good ol’ Pammy while she’s here, I can see a huge crowd forming at the backstage door where all the kids usually gather for autographs and who knows, as with most of the actors and actresses that star in shows at Wimbledon Theatre, maybe just maybe she’ll pop into Bar Sia next door for one or two dops

I wonder if she”ll be keen to sign my DVD copy of Pam and Tommy… haha

- Marky Mark