Ray & Lola

Londoner Raymond Douglas Davies - aka Ray Davies - is an old chap. Born in 1944 and kicked to fame with rockers The Kinks.

He just released an album of Kinks classics recorded with friends like Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi,...

Just heard the surprising re-take of The Kinks' supersong Lola with guest vocals by Paloma Faith. At first listen you might go "No man....", but re-takes are not there to be carboncopies of the original (that fails 99.99999999999% of the time) but a creative and original approach to a classic. And this is what Ray and Paloma did with Lola.

And thus, as they say, find Ray Davies' album See My Friends in a recordstore near you,.... or on the net.

Apocalypse Now

It's the season of thunder and lighting in Jozi, but Radio 702 went a bit too far this morning. The way they made the expected downpour the leadstory at 7am, sounded like the apocalypse was about to happen within minutes. The end of the world as we know it. Darkness descends forever. Armageddon awaits. Say your final prayers!

Probably some Jehovah witnesses were all in a high (sorry folks!), but it was just another rainy moment. Nothing more, nothing less. Townships weren't swept away by the apocalyptic storm. Eskom survived the drops from the sky. Nobody - as far as I know - got stuck under a fallen tree because of gusting winds. So why this mad newsreports about the pending disasters from the sky?

Take a deep breath and smell the fresh air.

Back

Guess who's back?

Yesterday Liverpool's Fernando Torres gave us some flashbacks of what he was and could be again. Two goals by the Spanish striker sent Chelsea back to London empty-handed. It was the good old Torres again. The deadly striker! The magic touch. The speed, the hunger, the vision.

Sorry Chelsea lads, but Torres decided to bring back the best of himself just as Chelsea was coming to Anfield.

Fingers crossed now that Fernando keeps up the magic. Once again.

Terminated

Tuesday's election day in the US marks the end of an era in its richest State.

Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is packing his bags. No more governor. End of term. And on top of that the Republicans lost California to Democrat governor-candidate Jerry Brown. At least some good news for the Democrats amidst the avalanche of Republican victory in the US Congress.

The Terminator terminated. Will be back,.... or will be back no more?

Wonder how his wife feels about it as she has Democrat blood running through her veins as she is part of the Kennedy dynasty. Maybe Arnold will go back to Hollywood for a movie about his governorship. From Conan to Terminator to Governor. All in a bodybuilder’s life. The 'true' story of a pile of muscles. In a cinema near you soon! Asta la vista baby.

Tweeting Julius

The fight is on!!! Julius vs Twitter.

It seems that the almighty ANC Youth League is aiming for full web control. Global control! They have enough of Twitter and want it closed. Now. Right away. Basta!

They say there are just too many Malema impersonators on Twitter and thus it needs to be closed. Pull the plug! There can only be one JM and that is the real dude!

The ANC YL said they will go the the cops to close this evil thing down. Wow, they really have faith in the kick ass powers of the SAPS! Should we bet on this??

South

European birds are heading south as winter is moving in up there.

The Zuma show

The week (incl. weekend) that was.

Halloween seems a growing US export product. Zuma sends some packing and contacts the printers for new biz cards for others. The Sharks rule in their tank. Magic touch from Torres lifts Liverpool's spirits. The Tea Party is the talk of the town across the US of A. Lions in the Free State. Mandela at the Market Theatre. UPS and its explosive content. 1Time and its evacuation. Brazil gets first female president (they always seem a step ahead of us). To confuse us all, Europe changed their clocks last weekend and the US will do the same next weekend. Eish! Joao Silva is in DC. We wish him strength. Herschelle Gibbs is stepping on some toes. Has Vavi become an informal sushi promoter? Cuz any publicity is good publicity.... And the SABC keeps slipping up and delivering us more 'surprises'. Yesterday, less than 2 hours after Zuma's major cabinet reshuffle, SABC3's 7pm English bulletin started with the line that El Presidente changed his team,... but then the newsanchor said "We'll come back to that story a bit later". Wow. How to ridiculize yourself on a major local news day! Double eish!