… I wasn't sure if I should plug L.O.S.T's René of Mona, but hey —

which also links back to KRS1's MC Act Like They Don't Know.

/word

Back in the day of dial-up and one was connecting through mweb, you had to search the web for fine black women: Tyra Banks was my number 1 search query.

There is however more of her you can find online — I am not keen on having to wipe "clean" my keyboard.

I heard she has a tv-show: I can't watch it, you then realise her legs ain't that great (Y-FM esque shape). We can't have a fantasy corrupted by make-believe-television.

/drool

This song is special ... with whats happening in this country right now, theres still people suffereing - so we are not there yet ...

Toni Braxton is making a come back ... I must say for a 40 years old she does look banging. Hope that her music sounds better this time ... you know taking it back to secrets album

So I attended Bonang Matheba website launch last night ... which really cool. I’m just glad that South African personalities are taking themselves seriously [well in terms of their branding and image online]. Her website is nice ... and she has flickr account :)

thanks to Bonang and Melanie G Ramjee for the invite.

Q: Who is Thabang Moleya?

An up and coming director/filmmaker who wants to make a difference in the South Africa film industry. Passionate about telling stories,
Photography and painting. ART is my life, in many forms, it’s just that
with movie making one can manipulate an audiences emotions and create worlds and people that didn't exist. Inspired by my mother and driven passionately by the belief of being Gods instrument in the greater plan of life.

Q: Why did you choose Directing? and did you study for it or its
driving by passion?

I wouldn't say I chose directing. Directing chose me. It’s a voice
inside you, one can’t be trained for this; you’re born with in and in
time you learn how to articulate yourself through images, through
characters, through telling stories: from commercials to drama series
to feature films. I studied in Cape-Town at City Varsity and was
guided by Tim Spring and Roy Zetisky.

Q: What have you worked on so far?

I have so far directed, JOZI-H, JACOBS CROSS, THE LAB, SOKHULU AND PARTNERS (IEMMY NOMINATED FOR DRAMA SERIES 2009, WINNER OF BEST DRAMA SERIES AT SAFTA'S 2010) and many other short films, which I have written, produced and directed. My focus now after doing some of the greatest drama series work in South Africa, is the commercials world. Telling stories in 30-45 seconds, working with agencies and clients and mastering the commercials realm like I have done with drama series thus far. I’m currently one of the two directors at THE BOMB SHELTER and we plan on winning many more awards to add to the commercials collection.

Q: Where are you from and how has that influenced you in to directing?

I’m from a township called Tembisa. Born and raised there. Many of my childhood memories are there, the sweet innocent days of growing up without realizing what your country is fighting for.  When you want to connect with yourself and find the roots of your stories sometimes thinking of home can inspire, scenes, characters and situations which you then translate into the story your telling.

Q: Who do you rate a great director in South Africa?

The best director in South Africa without a doubt is Teboho Mahlatsi. One of the creators of YIZO-YIZO and ZONE 14, a remarkable man, humble, dedicated and ruthlessly passionate about the craft of filmmaking. An amazing commercials director: his awards do prove that. I look up to him. He inspires me.

hattip /via @Mosabunny and @ThaFilmaka

… top of the head there are very few female eMCee's that can actually flow (that is rhyme not swagger).

'nuff said.

… you know, I think this was her best Album — Although on her follow up album (I stand corrected): I did like that song (Paper procuded by Pras) sampling Marvin Gaye's Grapevine (pun unintended) — now that's old skool, fa sho!

/word

How far back are we going and how much far back is far back?

Its still fresh today.

/word

If old skool is old skool is way back when I was a teenager.  Nas' "It ain't hard to tell" waxes lyrical like no other (well till Biggie inked some leaves).

and we quote:

… The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up, Not stories by Aesop, place your loot up, parties I shoot up

Nas, I analyze, drop a jew-el, inhale from the L, School a fool well, you feel it like braille, It ain't hard to tell,

I kick a skill like Shaquille holds a pill, Vocabulary spills I'm +Ill+ plus +Matic+, I freak beats slam it like Iron Shiek, Jam like a tech with correct techniques,So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me, Scannin' while you're plannin ways to sabotage me

I leave em froze like her-on in your nose, Nas'll rock well, it ain't hard to tell …

*ps: if you listen closely you'll hear Michael Jackson's Human Nature.

/word

Like I said this month we do old school all the way ... Toni Braxton is a banger of note, I feel in love with her on this video. She made Bob Cut [hair style] a hit.

There’s nothing that I love more than when people put a little effort in the little things like design ... we like this.

Now i'm still waiting for Iron Man ll to drop this year while Tron Legacy looks more exciting than Avatar ... then we should check it out to see what this 3D thing looks like on the big screen

These logos are brilliant in my view [Spartan is my favourite one] they are sleek and clever ... I think that they are Keep It Simple & Stupid

The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th - Everyone needs to download this mixtape by J Period and G Brown.

These would be dope on white tees ... the style of the illustration is really nice. Cape Town was beautiful, will post images later in the week.

So last night we ended up at a pub called Kimberly in Cape Town and there was jukebox there. People started playing tracks they liked ... it ended up being a mini karaoke session. We hope that we gonna post old school music this month.

So this is Lisa Raye - Damn she is still fine at that age [I think she is about 40 or something]. This magazine is a bit dodge - coz the previous issues say "Black Men" but now it says "Black Man" and there’s that missing copy on the mast head ... which I don’t know what it still means ... or maybe its not the same magazine, anyways this is Lisa Raye

I’m not an Alfa Romeo fan ... but this is really nice. Has anyone seen any BMW concepts of late ... I would to see what they are up to.

Drew Sidora — She was in that silly movie called Step Up

oh, apparently she sings too: singer/actress? whateva!

/drool

Ok, this is super sexy ... a bubble bath in this - should feel like heaven. I’m a sucker for sexy furniture.

Ok, i'm sure everyone and their mama knows that I love this chick right ... but she doesn’t photograph well [most of the images that she has online are that hot] this is the closest that I got to her looking banging.

We miss Y+Y on s83 ... coz he always post some dope stuff ... specially the girls. *thinking of the girl with socks on

Now, Ive been looking for a coffee table for the longest time and I think ive found love. This is it.

I havent gone into buying stuff online yet ... but this I wanna find out how much and see if I can get it. The designer is from Canada.

hattip /via Miss Msibi

This is Karabo's work that he did and I think he was inspired by Celebrate Life magazine. I like the way he sees the world ... well via design

Like I said before theres nothing I enjoy more than furniture shopping ... this would be cool at the loft.

This reminds me of Cape Town --- we will be in the mother by tomorrow night ... if theres anyone who wants to hang - hit me up twitter GGMatsheke

Sade has graced the cover Ebony - she never does alot of covers ... so this is really special. Ive said this before and il say it again, this woman ages well ...

Hattip /via bossip

Now I try to read as much as I can specially magazines and I've discovered that actually Playboy has really good articles. Now I was reading a porn blog [for research purposes of course] and this actress raised an interesting point about size. She said she would prefer a small penis at home because she deals with big penis at her line of work.

Now the question is does size matter? And how small is small and how big is big? Isn’t that based on past experience?

Illustration

These would make dope designs on tees - I think for both girls and guys ... I digg the purple though.

Durex adverts are always awesome; this really proves that good advertising does really work - even when the product is not that great.

hattip /via Akona Ndungane

Edit: These are really cool ... from a design point of view - these will take alot of time to do [i did try this route before]

hattip /via @ltdn

Hmmm, this is interesting - should be able to check it out since there isnt really alot of stuff to go out to, i might as well ...

Sophiatown Bar Lounge every Wednesdays at 08:30, Cnr Jeppe and Henry Nxumalo. These sensational live jazz evenings are surely going to be the start of something that is going to resonate on people’s minds for a life time. Great food, amazing music and good company are exactly what is needed after a day’s work.