Just heard that Z News (the scathing puppet satire show I worked on together with Ben Trovato, Tumiso Tsukudu and Zapiro himself) has been selected for screening at INPUT 2009, the world’s biggest public broadcaster conference. (more…)
Just heard that Z News (the scathing puppet satire show I worked on together with Ben Trovato, Tumiso Tsukudu and Zapiro himself) has been selected for screening at INPUT 2009, the world’s biggest public broadcaster conference. (more…)
Spotted on favourite geek webcomic, XKCD, a scathing critique in handy chart form (actually aimed at Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, but Moxyland is guilty of lotsa invented slanguage too).
My friend, fabulous writer and doccie maker, Lindiwe Nkutha sent me a mail asking for help on behalf of her sister, Pokie, who hopes to launch a coffee shop / book store that will play host to cool lit events, readings, talks and artsy get-togethers.
She needs to show the bank that she’ll be able to pull in interesting authors and has put out a request for anyone who’d like to participate in such events to email her a letter for the finance guys… You can get her on “Buyisiwe, Clara Putu” mbutsro@mweb.co.za
More info after the jump (more…)
Over 400 people rocked up for the official Moxyland soundtrack launch at Fiction (could there be a more appropriately named venue?). It made the Cape Argus’ gig of the week and was filmed by the good people of TV show Spirit Sister (the insert should be out sometime in October on SABC2)
Get a listen at African Dope
Here’s word on the street about the soundtrack:
Electrotrash : “Tracks range from the dark, noize assault of Jacob Israel, one of South Africa’s bright new stars on the scene, to Cape Town’s ever-popular rock machines, Taxi Violence…I haven’t heard a compilation go down so well since Garden State.” Jason D.
Levi’s Original Music Mag : “Think Dust Brothers sparring with funky, raunchy rock, but home-grown. The tracks flow one into the next as fluidly as spiked spring water – meaning, they flow, but there’s more than one layer.”
5to9: “Sort of like those tapes that you used to listen to, when you were a kid reading your first book, that played a chime when you had to turn the page. Except this more like a recreational timeout that disrupts your everyday life to venture through an experimental playground of contemporary South African creativity”
The official launch party for the Moxyland soundtrack from African Dope kicks off in Cape Town this Saturday at Fiction in Long Street from 9pm til the early hours.
Get a clandestine listen-in (better than a sneak peek) of the tracks here:
http://www.africandope.co.za/albums/moxyland3.htm
Or read the carrot for the album in the Levi’s Music Mag here (proving that the crunchy orange veges are good for the ears as well as the eyes) and also in this month’s Big Issue magazine.
Stay tuned – the Joburg launch will kick off sometime in Oct/Nov.
I just got fabulous news from Tania, who organised the inaugural Litblitz event at the Joburg Country Club and Baobab Bookstore in Long Street on Sunday past, that the event raised R7880!
The evening featured five minute readings from me, Finuala Dowling, Gus Ferguson, Hugh Hodge, Patricia Schonstein, my awesome coworkers Sarah Lotz and Sam Wilson, Epiphanie Mukasano and Mary Magdalene Yuin Tal of the Whole World Women Association, a xx chromosome refugee group who benefited from the evenings proceedings. (more…)
It’s a little mad, I confess, to skip the movie rights* and go straight to merchandising, unless you’re JK Rowling, of course. But then Moxyland leans towards the slightly mad.
Considering the launch featured rabid animal rights protestors, mad science, a killer virus outbreak, an evidence easter-egg hunt and hipster Gestapo door keepers, dabbling in a little merch on the side seems positively sane in comparison.
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