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Last year, my friend Msizi and I were walking along the beach discussing the influx of overweight people around us. We were joking around about discriminating against them and not allowing them on the beach, and that’s when the name popped out, ‘Fat Free Beaches.’ When I got home it got me thinking. We’re so obsessed with being thin, or fit. In the past, it was considered beautiful to be overweight. Thanks to increased health awareness we know its better not to be, but society has taken it too far with young guys and girls now obsessed with being fit or thin. Guys are taking all sorts of weird and wonderful substances to build muscles whilst girls aren’t eating in the hope of keeping off the pounds. At the same time being fat is still bad for you, but we as people can’t seem to find balance.
Comedy is one of the greatest ways to tackle issues from all sides, to show people just how ridiculous we are without preaching to them. Instead it highlights issues by making people laugh. That is exactly the purpose of this video. The video throws in political references and balances things out with Jock free beaches for maximum discrimination.
Byron Langley is a friend of mine from youth who got a kick start to his acting career in Spud: The Movie. We had been talking about doing a Srizzil video since December last year, in fact I had written the Fat Free Beaches Script with him in mind, but it took us five months to finally get together and film it.
Byron brought his high school friend Willem Nieman, a comedy legend of Glenwood High’s stage, to add some spice to the video. Throw in some help from dynamite Mandy Rothquel and Msizi Hadebe and you have a winning team. Msizi took the honours of the voice over and, I’m sure you’ll agree, did a fantastic job getting overexcited about such a horrible product.
Special thanks to Gary Friedman and Susan Foster for allowing us to use their dog Max. It’s a beautiful thing that complete strangers can be so willing to help out. You can see Max chasing Willem (Jeff 2) in the background of one of the shots. Max is official Fat Free Beaches security.
The season of family, friends, and insane shopping is reaching its peak for 2010. It’s the time of year where some families make their only trip to church, and churches everywhere sing carols and preach about Jesus’ birth. It’s a time where trolleys are filled with things people can’t afford and cues spiral along the shopping centre floors. It’s a time of year which is aptly referred to as the silly season.
Silly as people may get, it’s a special time of year. One where we can spend time with the people we love, and be thankful for all that we have.
I would like to wish everybody a happy and blessed Christmas, may your heart be warmed, and your love replenished.
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is one of the most famous songs in History. It was brought to the minds of our generation through Shrek and more recently Justin Timberlake and Matt Morri’s cover for the Hope for Haiti concert.
After hearing the Haiti cover, Msizi become obsessed with the song and insisted we cover it. Below you will find our cover of the song.
Thanks to our amazing church, and the ever capable Mandy, we were able to experiment with fun colours on a cool stage for this song. What do you think?
With a skip and a hop I am proud to announce the launch of Srizzil Music. It’s an idea that has been in the works for some time but is only breathing its first breaths today. To create some nostalgia and to pay tribute to the millions of hopeful singers on YouTube we uploaded the following clip:
In classic YouTube style, the video is unedited, low quality and perfect all at the same time. Any guesses to what I’m saying at the end? Thankfully we have moved forward, to a place and time where things are bursting with colour and technology is progressing faster than a hungry Uncle Sam dashing towards the Christmas pudding.
Go to youtube.com/SrizzilMusic, subscribe and comment with suggestions to songs we should cover.
Msizi and I have recorded raw unedited songs for your perusal. Check them out, study them, analyse them and then hit the comments below the videos on YouTube with zest. We want to hear everything you have to say, yes even you Bob! Love us or hate us, we love you. Join the love fest as we create some crazy music videos, do some great covers and add a little Srizzil twist every so often.
It’s easy to create beats, play with someone’s voice and make them seem talented. This is the reason we started off by creating raw music videos. Uncut, unedited, pure.
For Msizi’s video, we filmed at Durban, South Africa’s sunny beach front. The turbulent waves and beautiful clear sky enhance the message of Jason Mraz’s Live High.
Lyrics as sung in the video
“Live High” Jason Mraz
I try to picture a girl
Through a looking glass
See her as a carbon atom
See her eyes and stare back at them
See that girl
As her own new world
Though a home is on the surface, she is still a universe
Glory God, oh God is peeking through the blinds
Are we all here standing naked
Taking guesses at the actual date and time
Oh my, justifying reasons why
Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Taking it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously
Taking it easy
Try to picture the man
To always have an open hand
See him as a giving tree
See him as matter
Matter fact he’s not a beast
No not the devil either
Always a good deed doer
And it’s laughter that we’re making after all
The call of the wild is still an ordination why
And the order of the primates
All our politics are too late
Oh my, the congregation in my mind
Is this assembly singing gratitude
Practicing their loving for you
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Taking it easy
Live high, live mighty
Live righteously
