“Die Lewe is ‘n Kaaskrul” is a South African comic/web-comic in Afrikaans Kaaskrul plays on words with illustrative graphics. It is also available in English as  “Life  is a Cheese Curl”. I find the website very amusing. While I was abroad, I enjoyed receiving the Afrikaans jokes in e-mails from friends.

Check out the site for yourself, ek sê: kaaskrul.com

According to a survey by comparedownload.com:

A male from the UK on average owns 292 music albums, 49% of respondents admitted to illegal downloads and say more than 50% of their music collections consists of pirated music.

A UK woman owns on average 221 albums. Only 29% admitted to illegal downloads.

(Source: nme.com)

Wow that’s a lot of music! These high numbers are probably because CDs are cheaper in the UK than here in SA.

This makes me wonder:

How many music albums do South Africans own?

How many of these are original CDs

Admittedly, I don’t have a big CD collection. I usually just listen to the radio or pod-casts… and sometimes I put the songs from my CDs onto my mp3 player.

I also think it’s pretty cool that you can download albums directly from the artist these days, which makes it cool if you can play mp3s, but don’t have a CD player. I haven’t done this yet, but I think I might do this next time, instead of buying CDs, especially when it comes to rare albums or ones that aren’t available in SA stores

“Sell my guitars? Would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?”

Movie: School of Rock (2003)
Character: Dewey Finn
Actor: Jack Black

Written by: Mike White
Directed by: Richard Linklater

1. Lord of War
2. Gone in 60 seconds
3. Adaptation
4. City Of Angles
5. Weatherman
6. Face/Off
7. Matchstick Men
8. The Rock
9. Leaving Las Vegas
10. Raising Arizona

“There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.”
~ Nicholas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola was born on 7 January 1964 in Long Beach, California. He is the nephew of the well-known Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola. In order to achieve success without having to use the family name, Nicolas chose “Cage” for his stage name.

He made his film debut in a bit part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), which was cut from the movie.

Despite his sometimes eccentric, flamboyant and quirky roles, Nick Cage is a A-list Hollywood actor. On 31 July 1998 he received his star on the “Hollywood walk of fame”.

For his role in Leaving Las Vegas he won the best actor Oscar, Golden Globe, and several other awards and nominations. He also received several nods for his work in Adaptation as well as several other roles.

For his performances in The Wicker Man and Ghost Rider he received worst actor nominations for the Razzie award.

Cage has also directed a movie about a gigolo, called Sonny (2002)

Nicolas Cage is certainly an interesting character and is one of those actors who are able to act with their eyes. I will probably get more of his movies the next time I buy DVDs.

“It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.”

Movie: American Beauty (1999)
Character: Ricky Fitts
Actor: Wes Bentley
Writer: Alan Ball
Director: Sam Mendes