It’s rare that a first class media shit storm erupts properly, with the kind of flair and extravagance sought by the properly bored. There’s one trying to erupt at the moment, but it’s sluggish and holey and already dead in the water. De Wet Potgieter (investigative reporter) wrote an expose on Farhad Dockrat’s (loaded Muslim [...]
Chomksy loveBy Christopher Steenkamp, May 13.
There are tired words out there, tired ideas, alternative has long lost its punch. It’s a tedious reminder that we’re sloppy ideologues and careless. Anarchy can have the same tinge to it, a predictable and sometimes uncomfortable feeling associates itself with it. If I consider how I think about the world, the rules of engagement [...]
Ace plays a joker.By Christopher Steenkamp, May 12.
The Free State, SA’s very own silicone valley, has just held a re-election and it might come as surprise that the same five darlings who were elected when the conference was dissolved, by the initiative of local ANC members, have been re-elected, unopposed. That’s right, they’ve changed their minds, these local members have either [...]
Henry coming to playBy Christopher Steenkamp, May 11.
For any switched on, or moderately groovy facing, individual, ideological clarity is tantamount. This need to know what you believe, it’s important. The political spectrum, with its lefty’s and Nazi’s, is a special consideration when you see the amount of prickage that continuum is capable of. To think these things through, so we can defend [...]
the beautiful newBy Christopher Steenkamp, May 9.
I judged the screening of The Jive International Comedy Festival that’s happening around the corner. Brent Palmer, Kurt Schoonraad, Dylan Skews, Carl Weber, Mel Jones and myself joined forces to consider our city’s next wave of comedic talent. What an incredible evening it turned out to be. Two brilliant surprises, the level of talent [...]
looking for moreBy Christopher Steenkamp, April 17.
There’s far too much chaos. A helicopter crash, really? I think we should cut down entirely, we just don’t need this kind of stress in our lives. I’ve become addicted to sharing the daily caffeine infused ritual where we taser each other’s consciousness with daily offerings from our media outlets until our sensibility is left [...]
Comedy is important. It matters. A society without jesters or fools or some kind of sanctioned ‘say what you really think but funny’ quickly turns into a place where everyone takes themselves too seriously and end up going full retard. Maybe if somebody had been allowed to make fun of his ridiculous mustache Mr Mugabe [...]
I remember Martin Evans bitching about how backward our civilisation is concerning fundamentals, how reliant we are on this system of food distribution and the proxy technology that fills the gap between our hunger and knowing how to actually make bread. Louis CK also has a bit about god coming down and shitting all over [...]
I’d love to pay homage to the tilted residue left in the gritty part of my appetite, but sadly I can’t. If only I stayed up all night entertaining hookers while snarfing crank off a bloodied switch blade, then in a post rumpled state of orgiastic excess found myself muttering into my laptop about society’s [...]
breathe smokeBy Christopher Steenkamp, March 29.
Anarchy’s principle objections are that it promotes violence and is impractical. I can’t think of a better description for our current democracy. Prolific police brutality and MP’s pissing our money against over priced walls, money meant to swallow our economic divide, money meant for feeding & educating the poor’s children. Money, money, money. A tedious [...]
the vanguard’s protagonistsBy Christopher Steenkamp, March 25.
I’ve been thinking long & hard about character when it comes to stand up, not the pretend to be an ‘Indian oke’ school of characterisation, but rather the straight man stuff we, as comics, exhibit on stage. I’ve been thinking about this because apart from being a stand up, I’m also a director, writer and [...]
Hi Marty, just thought to write you a quick note, there’s something I need to mention to you. It’s a personal problem, but it seems like I’m not the only one suffering from it, we don’t really talk about it that much, as a people, but maybe this letter will open up the dialogue a little. There’s [...]
the yawning classBy Christopher Steenkamp, March 20.
Sitting in the cool evening air of late summer, Kirstenbosch wafting past and the merry wine fuelled chatter humming all around me, I came to a crisp conclusion, we’re bored. Tedium has found us, collectively. So much so that we’ll take this strange edifice up on its offer to watch a film outside. I call [...]
Indie ExcessBy Tilt Staff Writer, March 19.
The spirit of the independent creative, that mad eyed devotion to something entirely sold on, but yet to be recognised, piece of artistic real estate makes us swoon every time we encounter it. I guess it’s because we’re part of the same contingent, but even if we weren’t, we’d be just as hard. Here [...]
where there’s smokeBy Christopher Steenkamp, March 14.
Watching over paid, well, over everything’d, uncharming people piss our money against the wall is infuriating. I feel like taking that National Key Point and applying it lubelessly to every lying hole I can find. What joy to take a break from the odious spend thrift bastardly upper echelon, for but another wave of equally [...]
Born Again Atheists?By Christopher Steenkamp, March 8.
On opening my news feed this morning, coffee in hand & soul still orientating, I found a tweet that helped the process along. ‘Comedians launch atheist church in London’. What bliss, how beauteous. I immediately retweeted the links with all round high virtual fives. Then I went a sniffing, I had a look at their [...]
An Open Letter to Piers MorganBy Christopher Steenkamp, February 15.
Hi Pierce, hope I can call you by your first name, you’re a bit posh after all. I’m also aware that’s not how you spell youre name, but I thought you should give it a go, it has more ummpfh that way. I know things aren’t going so well at the moment between you [...]
on notebooksBy Christopher Steenkamp, February 14.
Intellectual exhibitionists are just as bizarre as physical ones. At some point, where the export of that mind and all its workings has turned itself on itself, in pursuit of progression, the value of broadcasting has to surely ebb. It seems counter intuitive, that a mind bent on convincing others of its significance, will not [...]
The Three Little PigsBy Christopher Steenkamp, February 13.
I know many people who consider theatre to be a bit kak; I also know people who take sadness way too seriously, these are seldom the same people. But I’ve experienced enough non suicidal art fagery to know that equating theatre with pure misery is an over reaction. It could be that I only [...]
A heavy altercation in a drive throughBy Christopher Steenkamp, May 17.
I’ve been thinking about writing a series for some time, linked thematically, something both interesting and entertaining. An illustrated history of something or other, perhaps a pop up book exploring ‘the medical implications of sodomy’ or ‘a rant comics guide to fuck you’,not sure, but I wanted something a little heady and applicable. My [...]