Prepare to be bemused, outraged ... scared!

Labels: advert, elections, robert mugabe, television, zimbabwe

Posted by eishman at 8:31 AM | Permalink | Comments

Hello, is this the South African Police?"
"Yes. What you want?"
"I'm calling to report my neighbour, Hendrik van der Merwe! He is hiding dagga inside his firewood."
"Eeeh-Yes...Thank you for your co-operation and information in combating crime and violence, in our society"
The next day, the SAP descends on Hendrik's house They search the braai lapa where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they chop open every piece of wood, but find no dagga. They shout and swear at Hendrik and leave.
The phone rings at Hendrik's house.
"Hey, Hendrik! Did the SAP come?"
"Ja!"
"Did they chop your firewood for the braai tonight?"
"...Ja...."
"Happy Birthday Boet!"

Labels: humour, SA Police

Posted by eishman at 8:14 AM | Permalink | Comments

A drunken barmaid in a city park is heavily maimed and then killed by an army officer, using David Hasselhoff's best-of album. There was no trace of the perp. After extremely intense testing of haemmeroid samples found at the scene, the perp is arrested and tried. The vic and the perp were co-workers.

You to can have your own CSI plot generated.

CSI Plot Generator

Labels: csi, plot generator

Posted by eishman at 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments

If you have been a regular reader of Eish!! One Day Remains will be well known to you. First featured on the 3rd April 2007 when they unwittingly burst onto the international independent media scene. Since then we have followed their path to becoming SA's premier hard rock outfit.
They are not yet, but with 'Sins, Convictions & Confessions,' their debut album about to hit the shelves and a track from this album 'Never say die' just having being chosen as the soundtrack to SuperSport's Vodacom Tri-Nations advertising campaign, they could be at the top very soon.

Click here to take a listen to the track.

The video below is an acoustic version of the current single, 'The Need', that has garnered a fair amount of airplay on the local radio stations.

Links :

• MySpace
• Bio HomePage
  

Labels: friday music spotlight, music video, one day remains, rock, sa music

Posted by eishman at 8:33 AM | Permalink | Comments

50So, I switch on the laptop, ready to kill off one of those stories waiting in the wings .. ready to give the Eish!! readers a pearl that is going to change the online experience.
But, wait first I need to check Digg to check out the latest online buzz. I better wade through the various email accounts for feedback, requests and other material before deciding on today's topic. You know what, I should see what the rest of the SA blogosphere are writing about at Muti and Amatomu ... maybe take a quick peek at Afrigator as well? Hey, look someone has joined my BlogLog community and a couple of dudes and dudettes have updated those wiki's I like to keep tags on. In fact while I am at it let's see what the guys and gals are up to on Twitter! (yes, it's up .. damn) OK, I guess I should take a browse through the Facebook seen I am on a roll. Now maybe I should check out Plurk ...

Now why did I switch the machine on?

Labels: blogging, eish, social networks

Posted by roygbiv at 9:51 PM | Permalink | Comments

On the 31st of December 1985, the much-loved Springbok Radio ceased transmission. The format was deemed antiquated and no longer relevant.
However many, many people enjoyed the radio theatre, talk shows, stories and music shows, and were extremely sad to see it go. The real hardcore fans never let go of their beloved station's many and varied showsrand now the Springbok Radio Preservation Society of SA will begin offering an online feed, styled on the original format as of the 1st July 2008. They promise old favourites like 'Squad Cars', 'The Men From The Ministry' and many others, they have preserved and digitised over the past 21 years. They claim to have over 20,000 programmes archived, so there should never be a shortage of entertainment.
Interestingly, much of the material has been taken from one, now deceased, individual who recorded, reel-to-reel, years of Springbok Radio transmissions for himself to listen to when he retired. Thanks to him, we will now be able relive some truely golden moments of radio.

I have long been an 'Old Time Radio' enthusiast, and can't wait to give this a listen.

Link : "The Internet Radio Service of Springbok Radio.Com"

They already have some programming available to preview, go and fetch some memories. But before you run off to tell mom, dad, granny and grandad, make sure you explain to them that this will eat into their monthly bandwidth allocation!

Labels: old time radio, springbok radio, streaming

Posted by eishman at 7:42 PM | Permalink | Comments

As we continue our journey through the varied and dynamic SA music landscape, we pause at an interesting artist making his presence felt in a genre we haven't highlighted yet @ Eish!!

Ninja, recently signed to independent label Sotho Mafia and is currently recording his debut album.
Not having any expertise in the Kwaito/Hip Hop/Hard Ass Rap genre, I asked for some input from the label. Here is the reply, directly from the keyboard of the artist ...

“Don’t get it twisted I'm not your average mreppa.Eazy just, that dude, mr see ha ke go feta. Life is too short to wait. So I’m always on the move Get I right.im here for good I’ll never go back. I didn’t build this city but I want my own plek. Yeah another Maftown rapper.Tshepiso,Ninja,Mixed Breed...Funny how u turn a hobby into a career. I don’t wat the first hip hop track I heard was. but what I do know is I've been into it for bells. from the time I was called "lemy man" to "lehipi" to "lenigga" now ke "mreppa".MHS where I started spitting at school shows. and then formed a crew "Sotho Mafia”. which is now the record label I run with. Now with all the fooling around it got crazy when I recently featured on Morafe's 2nd album "a e ne",9mm logo...alongside some of Maftowns sickest mc'z.K.T,Thainouko and Gomez...I was recently approached by glen sebeelo (my producer,skeem sa ka) to work with him on my album. Then went to Cape Town where I worked with Lungelo.Im ready to take ova.me,I follow the birds.up.Now,tswala matlho,relax n breath.”

He has put a few tracks on his MySpace page as a preview , click the link below and give them a listen, it'll get you into the weekend vibe.

Links : MySpace

PS :
(For those of you who struggled with Ninja's reply, I put the quoted text above through the Google Translation Ringer and got this result :
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Labels: friday music spotlight, hip hop, kwaito, music, ninja, sa music, sotho mafia

Posted by eishman at 12:22 PM | Permalink | Comments

I have long been a fan of the This Week in Tech, one of the pioneering podcasts. Once a week a group of tech analysts and journalist get together and have an informal chat on the week's technology news.
For a few weeks now I have been listening to SA's incarnation of this format The ZA Tech Show. The core group of participants are Simon Dingle and Brett Haggard, both from Hypertext Media; Duncan McLeod from the Financial Mail and FM Tech; Benedict Kelly from Finweek; and Jon Tullett from TechTarget.
What emerges is a quality look at the international technology movements from a local perspective, as well as view of the South African technology news. Something that cannot be found on any major South Africa media radio or television station.
Although slightly geeky at times, the hosts keep things relatively easy to understand and in fact go out of the way to ensure the content is accessible to anyone with even a remote interest in technology. The tag line " South African tech journos indulging in beer and opinion ..." says it all.
I strongly recommend you give is a listen, in fact as an introduction, give Episode 14 a listen where they have a very insightful chat to Mark Shuttleworth.

Labels: news, podcasting, technology, za tech show

Posted by eishman at 9:41 AM | Permalink | Comments

In my quest to find a broad spectrum of genres for the Friday SA Music Spotlight, I decided to look for something a little more electronic.
And I succeeded in finding yet another Cape Town local, albeit only since 2004!
Micheal Martin plays a style of dance that can only be labeled as organic trance. His early didgeridoo playing has definitely influenced has compositions. I found myself suitably entranced.
His album Align is full quality tracks my favourite being Transgenesis. Incidentally the track has been placed on the Podsafe Music Network so let's hope he gets some nice international exposure ala One Day remains.

Links :

• www.deviantdidg.com
• Myspace Page

Labels: electronic, friday music spotlight, indidginus, michael marttin, music, sa music

Posted by eishman at 9:46 PM | Permalink | Comments

Labels: cartoon, comic, thabo mbeki, zapiro

Posted by roygbiv at 9:31 PM | Permalink | Comments

Look past the accent ...

Labels: comedy, robert mugabe, youtube, zimbabwe

Posted by roygbiv at 2:02 PM | Permalink | Comments

My good friend Bristol Saffa, soon to change his name, did the roving reporter thing in London this week for Eish!!

He took these pic.s of the back of a Rolls Royce, pimped to look pretty much like a batmobile.







Click here for a front view

Labels: batmobile, London, rolls royce

Posted by eishman at 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments