Of Why I Watch Rhythm City: David Genaro

One of the reasons I watch Rhythm City (A South African soap which shows on eTV) Aside from calling it “research purposes” for learning how to write a TV script of my own, which is something I am greatly considering…..

 

someone to muse me into writing a script for a feature length film…..#that

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) March 28, 2016

Confession I have never done this before, you might want to step back, don't know how big its gonna get
**googles how to write a script**

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) December 19, 2017

……  so where were we, ah yes, one of the reasons I watch Rhythm city; to see what the character of David Genaro played actor Jamie Bartlett gets up to.

That guy is seriously crazy hilarious. When I watched Black Panther, I felt like he would have killed it had he played the part of Klaw (Ulysses Klaue)

On an interesting aside Connie Chiume who is cast in the movie as an elder of the mining town tribe also used to be in the soap Rhythm City until the script writers for reasons best known to themselves decided to end her character, I felt that.

Ooooh Mmamokete cut me deep like she was fam
~B

— Afrobloggers (@AfroBloggers) March 29, 2018

Mmamokete was the motherly character you loved to love, David Genaro on the other hand will have you wondering whether you love hating him, or just plain love him; love him or hate him he still the crazy  the wicked puppet master.

I only watch #RhythmCity just to. see @jambarts *drops beat*
David Genaro

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) July 11, 2018

hell has no fury like an avenging David Genaro #RhythmCity If I was ToolKit I would start running in a serpentine motion evasive maneuvers…..

— ~B 🇿🇼 (@Beatonm5) September 17, 2018

Here’s a monologue tale as told by David Genaro and he is the Lion

“Have you ever seen a lion in action, the way they operate with their huge feet that make the ground thunder underfoot.
Their Mane..
And even beetles usher back in to the cracks from whence they come.

The King of the jungle

Sometimes the king likes to lie on his back to soak up the sun….

And allows the flies to busy themselves about his nose and navel
And the dung beetles to lift his tail and go about their business….

And then some of the other animals and the cats around him. Take advantage of the king and try their luck…

And nip and bite and bug…

And all of sudden, he lets out a mighty roar

Gets up and swats and bites and kills

Just to show them that they are the tickey-timers that they are…”

you can watch the clip via link below:

https://ytcropper.com/cropped/5m5ba78c3fae58b

I also watch the series because I have a crush on an actress who stars in it but I aint saying nothing!!!!! ♥♥♥♥

~B

day 24 of my blog everyday challenge Africa: Stories from home

Update: he retweet my post eeeeeeek

Photo Credit etv.co.za

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Of Black Panther: A review of sorts

I finally watched Black Panther I get what all the noise was about

Yey

This isn’t exactly a review as such:

Wakanda could be Africa’s story had Africa not been colonised and allowed to flourish …agreed.…

However if Wakanda existed the way it’s depicted in the movie then it would have been an inward-oriented country; that would have probably let the rest of Africa be colonized. I find it hard to imagine an empire which would not adhere to the uBuntu philosophy (uBuntu is Nguni-Bantu word for Humanity) I am because We Are

If Wakanda where truly an African country (Chadwick Boseman, who plays Black Panther is said to have told The New York Times that Wakanda is a fictional version of “the Mutapa empire of 15th-century Zimbabwe.”) Wakanda would have dealt with world outside its borders with more humanity, humanity towards others.

The Mutapa Empire which spanned a significant portion of southern Africa might not have had vibranium but they had gold and vast amounts of it too which they traded freely, far and wide if not a bit too free and far which is how mining claims became colonial instruments one treaty at a time……..

Founders of the Mutapa Empire are descendants of those who built the Great Zimbabwe in the 11th century

Great Zimbabwe from where the name Zimbabwe are the largest and most puzzling architecture South of the Sahara competing only with the Pyramids of Egypt.

“Among the gold mines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers there is a fortress built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them…. …. This edifice is almostsurrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absenceof mortar, and one of them is atower ”

1531 Vicente Pegado, a Portuguese army captain

The architecture is so mind boggling that it’s not surprising history would not allow us to have achieved this by ourselves and would rather write about the Portuguese, Phoenicians or biblical characters yet it is a birthright from our ancestors how far would we have gone had we been left to flourish?

Back to Wakanda

So vibranium, all I know about it, is that it’s what Captain America’s shield is made from and the Black Panther’s suit and claws and that it absorbs kinetic energy but how does this explain how Wakanda managed to get so technologically advanced to be many years ahead of the rest of the world unless if the heart shaped herb not only grants you superhuman strength, speed and instincts but makes you smarter………

I kind of sympathized with Killmonger and thought they deserved having him come back and shake the cobwebs out of the cocooned lifestyle they built around themselves and even rooted for him a little bit.

What I loved most is how the women of Wakanda where their own people first, strong, proud and stood up for themselves; from Princess Shuri who would not let tradition limit hair, to the regal Nakia

and lets not forget their most elite fighting force the Dora Milaje an all woman ensemble led by the formidable General Okoye

When what’s his name says “would you kill me my love’ and Okoye replies “for Wakanda without a question”

But I did feel their “civil war” escalated on flimsy grounds and I think I might have disliked W’kabi more than the “villain” killmonger for taking so long to get to back his senses.

Can we also talk about the language of Wakanda though; what was that? I can’t be the only one made to cringe by them murdering the Xhosa language like that; what was with adding west/central African inflections to their speech and not just picking a west African language, maybe if the cast had been peppered with a more local talents then they might have spoken more naturally. I noticed a few faces from local TV soapies such as fondly known as Mamokhete from Rhythm city, Connie Chiume played the role of the Mining tribe elder

Overally well what can I say the numbers speak for themselves it’s a record breaking blockbuster

Wakanda Forever

~B

What are your thoughts on The Black Panther?

Of The Muse In You; Online Strangers

Welcome,  if you have been here before welcome back; for the benefit of those joining for the first time and those who don’t remember I am continuing where I left off…….

This is a writing project that I started and it somehow slipped my mind but  ITS BACK!!!!!!!

How it works: I am developing this story and you can be part of the journey, at the end of the post you get to help me decide how the story proceeds next.

The story so far: Which you can read by clicking  here: The message in a bottle

I received an email from a stranger on the internet, as I was about to delete I took a chance and decided to read it instead. The popular choice  from the readers (thanking everyone who voted) was:

Google the sender and email address to check if they not listed under any scam artists

Another ABBA track played on the radio, I sang along to it as I used the Google search bar to find my mysterious messager. I found it ironic how I called myself old soul, yet embraced technology as if I had born with my umbilical cord plugged into the internet. I laughed at the silly metaphors I made up by myself. Well, I was an old soul, call me old fashioned even but I loved letters too bad people didn’t write letters any more, only this instant messaging and social whats what media.

According to Google search results Nya Chiuta’s email was not associated with any known scams and had a FaceBook profile which was hardly used except for posts from friends wishing her happy birthday. “Well,” I thought to myself might as well as reply her email, “Who knows it could be just like pen pal except that emails took far much less time and you didn’t have to rush to the gate every time the postman passed hoping he had brought something for you, anything other than bills…….”

I opened my email tab and begun to type:

Dear Nya

I hope this email finds you well. I must confess your email had me worried and intrigued. If all you need is a friend though I can’t promise you much, I will listen.

Yours sincerely

T’Cha

I couldn’t help smiling at the way I signed my name, I guess the Black Panther craze had got to me too. I clicked send and watched as the email zipped away and into the information super highway………

Switching again to Nya’s Facebook profile because I had excellent research skills as I liked to refer to them; as opposed to stalker tendencies as my friends teasingly called them. Something about her profile had been bugging me, her location, it was a place in Nigeria, I suddenly remembered, a place I had recently heard in the news, where those girls had been kidnapped………..

What if….. but nah, but what if….. could it be just a coincidence?

What do I do?

1. Wait for her reply and then ask her
2. Pretend I know nothing and if she replies I’ll let her tell me if anything is wrong
3. Don’t get involved, ignore any incoming emails
4. Stalk her Facebook further, find her most frequent interactions see if there is anything to be found.
5. send another email, ask point blank where she is and her intentions

Of Coffee And More Cake

We are going to need more cake……..

If you were having coffee with me, I would be very happy to welcome you to my this hear wonderful space, I would ask you if I looked older?

Rich with strands of silver, Embracing my beard’s winter As I stand in the sun….

This morning I woke up feeling not even a day older; I looked at myself in the mirror; thinking about all that I have been, all I am and all that I will be.
I guess you could say I was reflecting.#FP

— ~B (@Beatonm5) February 23, 2018

It was my birthday just the other day in case you missed it……. Your birthday is when you get to experience what it feels like to be a celebrity, people being nice to you simply because you were born, but only for a day.

If you were having coffee with me I would tell that if I had to share a slice of cake wwith everyone I promised a slice, we would definitely need more cake. I would share some of my favourite messages from all over the internet:

The best rumours I have I heard about me I started them myself…

If you were having coffee with me I would tell you that I am a walking contradiction, my totem is a flame and my spirit animal is fire but my star sign is Pisces a water element, what happens when Fire meets water; why magic happens of course.

I still haven’t watched Black Panther scandalous as that may be, and so I navigate my internet timeline cautiously trying not to step on spoilers as people go about tagging #WakandaForever. I wonder wakanda character I would have been if Wakanda were real, but not to fret soon as I watch, a review will be coming up!!!!

If you were having coffee with me I would ask if you see the irony in saying:

 “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun”

when the only person who gains from is the person who manufactures/sells the guns.

I don’t watch the news much, but it still filters down to me, the atrocities people commit for various reasons and causes. The really is no-one is more dangerous than a person who believes in the righteousness of their cause.

If you are having coffee with me I would tell you that birthdays are but an excuse to eat cake, so we are going to need more cake….

~B

PS Final its complete the poetry duet I was doing with Mable where I would write something and she would RIGHT it give it a look see:

I wrote Of The Broken Mugged Man

She replied with Bruised Not Broken

I wrote Of UnBreaking

She responded with Hearts

Next I wrote Of Heart Petals In The Wind

And she said finally righted it You and I

PPS Mable definitely next Wednesday.