Filed under: video | Tags: friday sunset, ince ince, prog, psych, selda, turkish
Filed under: webs | Tags: bike lanes, brooklyn, details, eli valley, eurovision, gangsta rabbi, israel, jew not a jew, jewish, satmar, williamsburg
gangsta rabbi [impose]
eli roth plugs inglourious basterds on tmz [heeb]
can a knesset debate improve israel’s eurovision chances? [haaretz]
on details, “hot jewish girls,” and sloppy, knee-jerk misogyny [jezebel]
the hanukkah story [nytimes]
yiddish king lear on the relief roll [forward]
hipsters busted for repainting bike lanes removed at satmar request [failedmessiah]
photo stroll [eli valley]
David Zweig’s Swimming Inside the Sun challenges the reader to get a close look without directly staring.
The contemporary musician might read Zweig’s words and, before the layers of commentary fall into relief, find they hit too close to home. And the reader for whom the experience might be alien may be shocked to find themselves already inside. But that’s a testament to the candor of Zweig’s debut novel.
Do we sometimes detest the protagonist, Dan, for his overshare, his second-guess, his asterisk, his exposition of process? Probably. But the more we follow him, watching to see how that abyss will stare back, the more we’re taken over by the sweetness in his surrender to that world. And the closer we come to understanding that fragile joy that accompanies the creation of art, and music in particular.
Filed under: Bands, music | Tags: land of blood and sunshine, mp3, sick mystic, very nice dementia records
“sick mystic” (mp3)
Moving forward into 2010, perhaps LOBAS gives us a glimpse of the coming decade. Fuzzed out vocals seemingly run through a stressed car stereo speaker, parallel octave harmonies, pushed through wires and air from a small city 50 miles northeast of Des Moines, Iowa.
