Ever noticed how when you have to leave a place, time speeds up in the last few days, almost gurgling as it’s sucked into the wormhole of your impending absence?
Monthly Archives: August 2015
luister (2015)
Luister is a documentary about the lives of students of colour who attend Stellenbosch University, a South African institution of higher learning. In a series of interviews, students recount instances of racial prejudice that they continue to experience in the town of Stellenbosch, and the enormous challenges that they face due to the use of Afrikaans as a language of teaching at the university. Luister is a film about Afrikaans as a language and a culture. It is a film about the continuing racism that exists within a divided society. It is a film about a group of students whose stories have been ignored. Luister is the Afrikaans word for Listen.
keys, money, phone (2013)
Watch Roger Young’s award-winning portrait of white South African male entitlement:
Practically unconscious from a night of drinking, Sebastian is deposited by taxi outside his security complex. Too late he realises that he doesn’t have his keys, wallet or cellphone.
Failing to convince a security guard to just let him in, he sets off into the night to find the taxi driver responsible. Sebastian attempts to bully his way home through a mounting series of micro-aggressions against women and service staff, verging increasingly on violence, unaware of the redemption that lies just outside his grasp.
“A portrait of a young man who, while seemingly popular, has no real relationships, no community, and yet no sense of humility.” – Dylan Valley / Africa Is A Country
“A slick, fierce sociopolitical critique” – Grethe Koen / City Press
Winner: Best South African Short
– DIFF 2014
Official Selection:
– Lights, Camera, Africa (Nigeria)
– AFRIFF (Nigeria)
– Zimbabwe International Film Festival
– Shnit Cape Town (South Africa)
– Lusaka International Film and Music Festival (Zambia)
– Verona Festival Africano (Italy)
– Cap Spartel Film Festival (Morocco)
– XPONorth Film Festival (Scotland)
– Picture Farm Film Festival (USA)
– IMSFF (South Africa)
– Indie Karoo Film Festival (South Africa)
uct fails again: remember marikana
Rhodes Must Fall issue a powerful new statement:
imbokodo – the widows of marikana
homework asana
i wanna b yo teddybear
this heat – hi baku shyo
Read THIS.
the sound – i can’t escape myself
Off their brilliant 1980 debut album, Jeopardy, reissued in 2002 by Renascent Records.
woodstock, june 2015
More Skullboy HERE.
hypocrisy
fiona apple – i walk a little faster
Fiona is just so achingly wonderful… This is from a 2009 album of Cy Coleman songs, The Best Is Yet to Come – The Songs of Cy Coleman.
modern lovers – pablo picasso
The white geek entitlement blues. ;)
jonathan richman – true love is not nice (acoustic)
violent femmes – american music (1991)
The grossness of WASP hegemony… this band just GOT it. Hearing them in my teens in South Africa was truly a godsend.
radioclit, santigold & m.i.a. – get it up (original mix)
A formidable collab.
judy garland – it never was you
Judy Garland really can break your heart.
ruth etting – i wished on the moon
The first ever recording of this song with lyrics by Dorothy Parker.
blue moon

Kay Nielsen, 1914. Illustration from ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North’.
Check out the whole book at Project Gutenberg.