Aquila pronounced AK-weh-lah, uh-KWILL-uh or even a-kee-laa, means eagle in Latin. Just like the eagle, this blog is my “bird’s eye view” on situations or topics that I happen to come across in my life.
// April 19th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Video
Our church, GodFirst Johannesburg, will be kicking off an eight week series entitled Sex in the City, which is set to get tongues talking.
According to PJ Smyth, “Prudish fundamentalists should please take a Valium before setting out for GodFirst.”
It kicks off on Sun 17 May 2009 and if anyone is interested we’ll be at the Montecasino gathering. Hope to see you there.
// April 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Funnies, Video
A few years ago I mentioned that the Numa Numa video was undoubtedly one of those ‘laughing so much the coffee came through my nose’ clips.
The team over at Urlesque listed the top 100 iconic internet videos that made us laugh so much we cried and perhaps, just perhaps, changed the internet as we know it. Admittedly I don’t recognise all of the videos on the list, but here are some of my favourites below.
80. Bill O’Reilly Flips Out (We’ll Do It Live!)
39. The Two Talking Cats
20. The Evolution of Dance
17. Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption
13. OK Go, ‘Here It Goes Again’ Treadmill Video
11. Numa Numa
10. Sneezing Baby Panda
1. Star Wars Kid
Geez it cracks me up every time.
Update: Turns out that it was four years, almost to the day, that I first blogged about the Numa Numa phenomenon. Remarkable.
// March 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music, Video
Recently I received an email from James Bassingthwaighte introducing himself as a musician that reads blogs. Well James, cool surname, although I still can’t pronounce it without getting my tongue twisted in at least three knots. Apparently he’s a music producer and his record label has just signed their first artist, a guy by the name of Timothy Moloi. Since I’m always interested in finding new South African music, I eagerly clicked on the relevant links and landed on a couple of cool cover songs.
Dubbed, the YouTube sessions, it is a collection of well known songs from artists such as Timbaland/One republic, Mika, Frank Sinatra and others. I was very impressed with Timothy’s voice and overall sound. For a brief moment I thought I was listening to Seal – a good thing in my books.
If these renditions are anything to go by, I’ll be the first to stand in line when his album hits the shelves. Hope I can get mine signed.
As a parting note, why not listen for yourself – Timothy singing a cover of Mika – Relax, take it easy.
// March 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Video
This is an awesome video out of scripture, created by the team at Granger Community Church. I really love the typography style, it really brings the message across.
// April 16th, 2005 // 5 Comments » // Funnies
Numa Numa is undoubtedly one of those ‘laughing so much the coffee came through my nose’ clips.
Essentially it’s a flash-based clip of American Gary Brolsma lip-syncing to the Romanian techno song, “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, energetically on his webcam.
The video clip made him quite a celebrity, after he first posted his “Numa Numa Dance” on December 12, 2004. Since then it has had over 2,300,000 hits, popped up on hundreds of websites and blogs (including this one) and made appearances on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, and VH1′s Best Week Ever.
There are various versions of the clip, the original can be found here and one with additional content added here.
The latter has something to do with the future of ad-free content.
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