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Sep 07, 2013 09:58AM
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Oooo! Check out Elvis Blue, people!! So proud of calling him south african
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(yes Adele, I know all about finals:-D)
Bastille is coming to Kirstenbosch un January! It will be magical!!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aK5RUrRBQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGw-y7_Vrj8
The only SA music I know is what Paul Simon brought back to America with him, when he ignored the sanctions. Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Check out shaun jacobs. And elvis blue. Brilliant
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I'm with Vicki. Love Jack Parrow - an Afrikaans original. Lighten up, Lisa!
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Agree with Prime Circle- my favorites by far.
Other weird stuff Fokoff Polisiekar & Die Antwoord
Buck, have you ever heard Mac Stanley? Or Seether- did a song with Amy Lee from Evanescence- they're ours.
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All the residents of Westminster's poets corner just died if fright!
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If Table Mountain could talk
What would she whisper in the Lions (Head) ear?
What kind of Signal (Hill) would she give, to the hill?
And if she spoke spoke loud enough
Could she perhaps get through to Chapman (Peak)?
Or did he lose his peak, years ago, years ago?
Just imagine, La da da da da, la da da da da da da
This is Table Talk
La da da da da, la da da da da da da
This is Table Talk
If Table Mountain could sing
Do you think she'd be into Elvis?
I have a feeling she's always been into rock of some sorts
And if our mountain could think
Do you think she'd be into Plato?
Or did she give up long ago, and let the Cape win her Point
What's the point?
Just imagine, La da da da da, la da da da da da da
This is Table Talk
La da da da da, la da da da da da da
It's on the Table!
If Table Mountain could say anything,
What would she say?
If she could only say
What would she say?
I cannot find an audio version
Lisa wrote: "All the talk abou Tablemountain reminded me of Just Jinjer's song Table Talk:If Table Mountain could talk
What would she whisper in the Lions (Head) ear?
What kind of Signal (Hill) would she gi..."
The song is new to me, but it won't be for much longer. I am planning to put together a music track for KILL MANDELA, together with a short video, and this one will be the opener. Thanks, Lisa.
Table Mountain and Robben Island were both characters in the book - brothers, in fact:
'The first chapter was complete. There, he proposed that Cape Town’s geology was a mirror to its history: Table Mountain and Robben Island personified the uneven struggle between the high and the lowly on this southernmost tip of Africa. The brave Portuguese had battled the storms, the local Khoi-Khoi tribes had tried in vain to resist the Dutch, the Xhosa had fought and lost nine frontier wars against the British and the boers, and now the final conflict – the struggle for power between blacks and whites. Jack shivered, and turned himself to the sun to steam off his wet shirt.'
'The shoreline that faced Table Bay and Cape Town, Jack knew, was littered with the wreckage of many victims. He once asked Klaas why this was so – why the landward edge of the island was so much rougher. The weather-beaten skipper shrugged: ‘They don’t like each other!’ He gestured at the island and the mountain. ‘They fight. They throw the tides at each other.’ This was fanciful but Jack liked it, jotted it down, and it went into chapter one of The Mountain and the Island.'
'The story began three centuries back, with the arrival of the Dutch in Table Bay. Up ‘til then the mountain and the island had worked well together, in symbiotic brotherhood. Despite their apparent differences in geography and stature, they were in fact related, connected to one another by a six kilometre- long saddle under the sea. Brothers! Jack felt a pang at this. He and Alpheus. Mountain and island. Part of the self-same nature, distinct, but connected beneath deep waters.
Both features had their faults: the mountain had no head; it was cut off at the shoulders, so that instead of a soaring peak the best it could offer was a flat top; the island could only get its nose into the air, with the rest of its bulk hidden deep beneath the sea.
Yet, despite these deformities, they’d worked well together. The mountain’s broad flat tabletop became a thing of wonder to the passing seafarers and drew them in, despite the dangers of the stormy bay; the island served as a refreshment station, stocked with seals and penguins as an alternative food supply when the storms rendered the mainland inaccessible. And so they’d combined their talents, on these southern African shores, as hosts to mariners from West and East.'
John wrote: "Lisa wrote: "All the talk abou Tablemountain reminded me of Just Jinjer's song Table Talk:If Table Mountain could talk
What would she whisper in the Lions (Head) ear?
What kind of Signal (Hill..."
Awesome! I can't wait, John! :-)
Go to 'You Tube' type in Just Jinger, Table talk......
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Tried, neither wanted to download:-( must be an issue with my iPad.
Need to try from desktop.
We've missed you Irene, where've you been?
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Cape Town May 2013 with Just Jinjer's Table Talk - YouTube
► 4:52► 4:52
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPjORhdUQU
Don't worry Lisa I have been stalking all of you........ Listening, learning, agreeing, disagreeing and staying silent!
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Lisa wrote: "Yay! Worked. Thanks Irene.Cape Town May 2013 with Just Jinjer's Table Talk - YouTube
► 4:52► 4:52
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFPjORhdUQU"
Thanks to you both, Lisa and Irene. I am so excited to have this song to include in the total experience of KILL MANDELA - and by a SA band nogal! I am going to put a link to it on my website.
Love that..... nogal..... Is it on SA Slang page?
Irene wrote: "Love that..... nogal..... Is it on SA Slang page?"Nogal. Some things you just can't translate. Afrikaans is like that - a raw, expressive, quirky language. I'm English speaking, but I get more laughs from Afrikaans. My wife is Afrikaans, and we speak it often. Would you believe that Adele is Afrikaans? Her English is so good.
It is a word I use over here in Ireland and my friends have now got used to me and my 'strange' words!
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Thought of you the other day, my husband was referred to as 'laanie' by a bergie.
Lisa, that brought a HUGE smile to my face!
Thanx John! You flatter me. Have you heard the u2 song that won a golden globe last week for a specially written song for "Long walk to freedom"? Called Ordinary Love. Its a good song.
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He then says to me- That's Stanley's word, right?
Adele wrote: "Thanx John! You flatter me. Have you heard the u2 song that won a golden globe last week for a specially written song for "Long walk to freedom"? Called Ordinary Love. Its a good song."
Yes, I did. I enjoyed the song in the movie. In fact, I enjoyed the movie immensely, but have found that every black friend or associate I have did not like it. Zakes Mda hated it.
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Have you heard the u2 song that won a golden globe last week for a specially written song for "Long walk to freedom"? Called Ordinary Love. Its a good s..."
What did he think was wrong with it? I'm looking forward to the book so that I can compare.
He felt that the movie lacked emotional depth, esp. the character of Mandela. I told him that this, for me, was one of the strengths of the movie. I was pleased that Anant Singh did not play to Hollywood with too much dramatic sentiment - it allowed me to make of the story, and the man, what I wanted. Zakes still disagreed - he felt that you do not have to go Hollywood lengths to instil the characters with emotional depth. He has a point.I think generally, black people feel that Mandela the freedom FIGHTER was underplayed and Mandela the RECONCILER was overplayed. Many believe that whites in SA and the western world have hijacked Mandela for their own agenda. If they were able to be honest, they would say that he failed the revolution, but that is difficult for them to declare in the face of Mandela's
virtual canonisation by the world.
Adele wrote: "Lekker! Enjoy!"You two talking in code, again. K-day?
Its a music festival by KFM held outside of stellenbosch. All local bands
