Moon ice

It's all happening at the same time. The universe will never be the same again!!

We are less than a 100 days of the first world cup on African soil. And on top of that they found ice on the moon. And where there is ice there is water. And where there is water there is life!! That's it, we humans are not that unique anymore. There is some form of life on the moon, up there in the sky.

Hello moon-creatures! Are you coming to the worldcup or do you get DSTV up there? Are there special ticket prices for out-of-earth visitors? Have the moon-lifeforms seen District 9? Are they District 9??????

Tomorrow wont be what yesterday was. That's a fact. Hello moon!!!

Red carpet action

So District 9 got a bunch of nominations for the Oscars next month - including for best movie I think. That follows a series of nominations for the British Baftas later this month. Rollercoaster of red carpet thrill.

Eastwood's Invictus got also some, but less than expected. Freeman and the bloke who plays Bokke captain Pienaar (sorry, my memory chip in my head just went blank on the actor's name) got nominated for best actor and best supporting actor respectively.

Wondering if the aliens in District 9 knew about W.E. Henley's words from Invictus: "...I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul."

Baftas

Our own District 9 has 7 nominations at the Bafta's - the British Academy Film Awards. The British Oscars in other words.

The awards will be announced at a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House next month. Fingers crossed.

District 9

Just picking up from that lunch memory at the Troyeville Hotel I mentioned yesterday. The cold Castle lager I was happily sipping away that day should have been to celebrate my friend’s Hollywood breakthrough. But my friend James Taylor, fully present at that Portuguese lunch, didn’t mention then that he had worked on the now famous sci-fi thriller District 9 which was shot in South Africa.

Indeed James helped building some of the props and sets for that blockbuster. Made in South Africa by a South African with South Africans,.... and with little big help from a Kiwi brother (aka Peter Jackson). A down under partnership with little cash but an awesome result. 112 Minutes of it.

But James didn’t boast about it at all. He just mentioned it en passant a few days or weeks later when we were hanging out together again. For him that District 9 job seemed just another creative matter done. Done and dusted and moving on.

Anyway. Indeed we should have toasted that Castle for James’ District 9 artwork. Sadly James won’t participate in any follow up to District 9. He died earlier this month. Just like that. A matter of a missing heartbeat. Or maybe he was just taken away by those District 9 aliens? Maybe they loved his artwork and hijacked him to their home turf. Joburg style.

And as September slips further down history second by second, some life is gone while other life gets born. The proof is in this photo below. Just some baby pigeon in my garden getting ready to face the universe. Tough task ahead.



p.s. It’s Heritage Day today in South Africa. Remembrance of the past while building the future. In football/soccer terms (to get some 2010 fever inserted) it would be: remembering the early games while building a better, winning team.

SA publishing house Jacana Media released a few years ago their “Exploring our national days” series. 7 Books about South Africa’s national days (public holidays) written for the youth of the land. The one on Heritage Day is this one here below. Check it out....