Again the Tiger sails the seas of cheese to bring you guys some lukewarm internet leftovers so he doesn’t have to use the twisted brain God (or something) gave him to come up with anything original.
It’s been a loooong flippin’ week, my brain feels like a gloopy mess in my head and right now I really want nothing more than to collapse face-first into the weekend.
So while I sit here, listening to stoner rock and sipping whisky from a hip flask under my desk, I want you to enjoy this video that features wrinkled old hipsters being way more awesome than they ever were when they were young (thanks @RiccWebb!).
Have a killer weekend party people, when next we speak it will be crappy Monday again but don’t worry, I’ll post a great pic of boobs or something to make it not so bad for you.
You could shoot something that is straight up mind-blowingly amazing. A show of skill that NO ONE can top – Damien Walters falls into this category (watch his showreels, holy shit).
Or maybe you get lucky enough to shoot the exact opposite, ie. someone failing in a way that is so spectacularly hilarious and painful to watch it becomes an instant viral hit.
Lastly you could shoot something that is so terribly LAME, whether it’s intentional or not, that people instantly forward it to EVERYONE THEY KNOW (“Gingers Do Have Soulsâ€, I’m looking at you buddy). THAT’S how I stumbled on this next video, way back in 2006…
Anyone remember… “aicha aicha�!
Yeah. This is happening.
After six years, a good buddy sent me this yesterday and I clicked play thinking I’d piss myself laughing like I did when I first saw it, but instead I watched in numb horror at how very, very bad this is.
If this guy shot this video today and put it up on YouTube, absolutely nothing would happen.
I honestly think that as an audience we’ve become a lot harder to please which is why if this had to go live tomorrow no one would tweet it, post it to Facebook, share it with their friends or possibly even laugh at it.
Am I being too harsh? Anyone out there watching this for the first time? What did you think?
Also feel free to unearth a few more long dead videos and slap ‘em in the comments section while I leave you with another gem from way back that is actually still pretty funny to watch.
Haha! The black guy with the afro eating the floor still gets me every time.
So I’m surfing the interwebs the other day just doing my normal thing of checking my emails, writing some kak on vleisboek and looking for pictures of MASSIVE AND RIPPED okes covered in oil looking flippin’ BUFF in there speedos and what do I find?!
THE FLIPPIN BUFFEST CHARNA IN THE LAND!
I mean, a oke who shouts ALL THE TIME, RIDES TIGERS, HAS BICEPS INSIDE HIS BICEPS, CAN TURN OFF THE SUN, KICK BUILDINGS DOWN and blow his own MIND! Seriously boet, the only way I can explain it is if you watch some of the videos I found.
How flippin’ INTENSE is that charna?! I dunno what it is about him that I think is more awesomer, his MONSTER pecs, his GIGANTIC DELTS and TRAPS, his MOUNTAIN RANGE BICEPS, his FLIPPIN’ AWESOME TAN, the fact that just like me he SHOUTS ALL THE TIME or his lekker tight red shorts.
But just wait, cause it gets BETTER!
The oke is so flippin’ POWERFUL, he’s invading OTHER OKES adverts!
Check how MASSIVE AND RIPPED he’s made this flippin KAK ad for some toilet spray stuffs.
But the BEST one is this one for some kind of chocolate bar you put on your washing (I know, who the flip puts chocolate bars in the washing?! Chopheads…)
Now THAT’S how you handle a situation! WITH EXPLOSIONS, A JETSKI, PECS THAT MAKE DRILLING SOUNDS AND FLYING THROUGH THE ROOF!
Charnas, we can only one day hope to be as buff as the Old Spice charna. In the meantime, I’ve bought 30 cans of Old Spice that I’ve been INHALING since Saturday and ja… I’m not quite as BUFF as that charna yet, but last night my muscles got a bladdy AWESOME workout when I went into a SEIZURE so I think it’s working…
The weekends just around the corner party people, which means thousands of the crazy cats who read this site are going to be hitting clubs around the world like muthufukkin’ WRECKING BALLS YO!
But you have a problem. You ain’t got no sick DANCES MOVES.
Well, that’s where your ol’ buddy Slicky-T comes in. If you watch and memorise the following dances moves, I can GUARANTEE you this: unlimited sex. With however many partners you want. All the time.
We’re going to start off slow with some dances moves called the “Sick Catâ€, watch, memorise share with all your friends and enjoy!
Great job! How we feeling? Ready to take it up a notch? OK! Let’s rock one of my favourites – “No Bonesâ€.
And now that we’re getting in the mood, let’s dim the lights a little and try on the “Romance Danceâ€. Ooooooohhh yyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh…
How are we feeling? Pretty amazing? More amazing than you’ve felt in WEEKS right?! THAT’S the power of sick dances moves.
But now it’s time to forget about that beginner level dances moves BOOLSHEEIT. If you REALLY want to get some fine BOOTAY, try some of THESE dances moves on for size.
Word!
Have a killer weekend party people, see y’all on the dancefloor
Just got sent this amazing video that Timmy Henny did called “Mini Cape†that you guys HAVE to watch if you haven’t already.
I’d love to know how the guys put this together. It has this crazy, surreal quality to it because from what I can tell it’s made up of actual bird’s eye-view shots of CT and shots of an extremely intricate model someone’s built.
I’d love to know how this was all put together. Inspirational stuff for SA film makers – great work guys! If any of the people who worked on this find this post, hit me on tellthetiger@gmail.com.
What a great post to start the New Year off with right? “Let’s hope the Mayans were rightâ€. What a cheerful guy our buddy ol’ pal Slicky-T is in 2012.
Can you tell it’s my first day back at work? But to be perfectly honest, even if it weren’t I’d still hold fast to the hope that the Mayans are right.
Morbid as it sounds, if this is it and the world ends in 2012, literally detonates or gets destroyed by a gigantic Tsunami or something and there’s nothing left of us, think about how awesome that would be!
I’m not afraid to die. Whatever happens after that happens, nothing you can do to stop it. But the thought of the people I love dying is probably the single most terrifying thing I can think of.
If everyone died at exactly the same time in a cataclysmic end of world event, who’d miss us?
So if this is it, the last year of human existence let’s not waste it on mediocrity.
Let’s learn from people like our friends Walk Off The Earth who, with one fucking guitar being played by 5 people have figured out the most amazing cover of the Gotye song “Somebody That I Used To Know†I’ve ever heard.
Now send this to all your friends, but don’t tell them about the mopey intro to this post, just say, “Hey, check out this cool video…†and in that way they’ll swallow the deceptive sugar-coated mind-fuck that is this site and their lives will be all the better for it.
Whether you’re being ironic or not, obsessing over how incredible the 80s were is sad.
The music was pretty awful, people dressed like they’d done a LOT of coke and raided a cheap dress-up store, everyone’s hairstyles were beyond retarded and the entire world was just really, really cheesy and fucking weird.
To prove my point, here’s a dating video that someone unearthed from the 80s that features a collection of the ugliest, creepiest, saddest and downright scariest men you’re likely to see outside of a rape suspect lineup at your nearest police station.
Except for Fred the Viking. He’s flippin’ awesome
“I like to talk to people deep into the night�
“I’m currently involved in cleaning up toxic waste�
What the fuck are these people thinking?
Loved the “goddess†dude though. Looks like an extra from a Bon Jovi video.
Here’s the dealy-o – at this very moment, there is a singer / songwriter in Cape Town that I had the privilege of hearing last night who is not only phenomenally talented, but is also a stand up guy on all counts.
His name is Foy Vance and he was flown out here from Northern Ireland to play a gig at a brand event we were working on yesterday.
I was standing not 2 meters from the stage while this man was performing and just the memory of that, I shit you not, is giving me goosebumps.
I’m not going to go into a description of his style, I’ll let the videos below speak for themselves, but what I will say is that Foy is a rare example of a musician who can not only bring the entire room to a standstill with just an acoustic guitar and the power of his voice, but can also plug in and rock loop and effects pedals to make it sound like he’s an entire fucking band.
It was amazing to watch this man live. For one track, he detuned his top string to play the bass parts and then deftly started layering the track he was playing, one riff at a time, adding harmonising vocals as he went and even singing into the pickups inside his guitar at one stage, which created a vocal sound like nothing I’ve ever heard before.
South African audiences might not know him but he’s toured Europe and the States, generally performing to smaller crowds and his music lends itself better to intimate clubs and bars than it does to gigantic, vapid spaces.
His father was a preacher in the Church Of Christ in Northern Ireland where the only accepted form of music was acapella singing, instruments of any variety were forbidden. Despite this, Foy’s father played the guitar and taught his son everything he knew starting, as you do, with House Of The Rising Son.
Foy speaks fondly of the man who taught him how to play and passed on his love of music and singing to Foy at a young age. Foy’s love of music is a bond forged in blood, something he feels more than he understands, a religion to which he has fully committed his life.
Being a brand event, the audience were receptive but distracted by the fine whiskey that was being served, which was what got me and my new partner in crime Texx thinking.
What if we could get Foy a gig in a venue slightly better suited to the whole singer / songwriter vibe where he could play to a crowd that would love him the same way we did?
Ten minutes later, Texx was on the phone with the Powers That Be at &Union and I am fucking excited to say the second they Googled him and heard his stuff they were like “BOOK HIMâ€.
So tonight, for the first time ever, Foy Vance is going to be playing at &Union, kicking off sometime between 7.30 and 8 so let’s show this man some fucking love people!
Dig this video of him playing “Hold Me In Your Armsâ€. I tried to find out if this is his song or if it’s a cover but couldn’t find out enough about it.
I don’t think it matters though. It’s a deeply moving, incredible song performed with a lot of heart, that’s what counts.
Technically it actually landed yesterday, but being a laggard, your Tiger pal only got his claws in it as of 15 minutes ago.
If “Lonely Boyâ€, the first single off their new album El Camino is anything to go by, this album could very well top all the others I’ve heard this year and claim the coveted prize of The Tiger’s Best Album of 2011.
That would make The Black Keys the first band to EVER top my favourite album list two years running.
So far I’m 8 tracks in and I’m gonna be straight up honest here and say I like what I’m hearing
You can’t go wrong with The Black Keys. Such a great band.
Here’s their video for “Lonely Boyâ€. I have memorised this entire dance, but I don’t do it in public anymore. Too many people’s heads kept EXPLODINGWITHAWESOME!
Expect a full album review next week. First one your Tiger pal’s done in a good long while (bad Tiger).
It’s one of the most amazingly well shot and edited videos I’ve seen this year. I have no idea how you even begin to plan a shoot like this.
Maybe they don’t and that’s the beauty of it. Maybe they go in there with an idea and enough skill to capture it and just let chance take care of the rest.
Either way, if you haven’t already seen JP Auclair’s street segment from the award-winning 70 min film All.I.Can, you need to put your headphones on and hit play right now, it truly is a work of art.
Again the Tiger sails the seas of cheese to bring you guys some lukewarm internet leftovers so he doesn’t have to use the twisted brain God (or something) gave him to come up with anything original.
