Thursday, October 29, 2015
Support for Israel or Shameless Self-Plugging
I played a gig at a venue which had a stand of Five Towns Jewish Times newspapers. Here is the ENTIRE text/coverage of the rally in Times Square last week in support of Israel that supposedly drew 7000 people according to its organizers as published in the recent edition.
Support for Israel or Shameless Self-Plugging by/for musicians? We report, you decide!
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Believe It!
Check out what happens at 17:20, that is all! GINDI TLV FASHION WEEK Tovale SHOW 2015
Via Tablet Magazine
Via Tablet Magazine
Not Hip To Be Skver
חגיגות בסקווירא: ריקודים ושתיית לחיים - בחצרות קודש - בחצרות חסידים - בחדרי חרדים
Public dancing and celebrating in Skver as the arsonist/attempted murderer of a Skver dissident family gets re-classified as a youthful offender -- he was 18 at the time -- and has his seven year sentence reduced to time served.
The singing of this tune in particular "וכל קרני רשעים אגדע תרוממנה קרנות צדיק", "אויביו אלביש בושת ועליו יציץ נזרו", (it's the first one in this clip) is just offensive!
Public dancing and celebrating in Skver as the arsonist/attempted murderer of a Skver dissident family gets re-classified as a youthful offender -- he was 18 at the time -- and has his seven year sentence reduced to time served.
The singing of this tune in particular "וכל קרני רשעים אגדע תרוממנה קרנות צדיק", "אויביו אלביש בושת ועליו יציץ נזרו", (it's the first one in this clip) is just offensive!
Monday, October 26, 2015
PSA: J-Walking
Don't confuse this J-Walking
with this J-Walking,
despite the similar album art. They are VERY different!
with this J-Walking, despite the similar album art. They are VERY different!
Friday, October 23, 2015
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Friday, October 09, 2015
Yitzchok Meir Malek
Here's an odd one...
Yitzchak Meir Malek posted this video of him singing Shema Yisrael as a call to prayer on his Facebook page, where it has received over 10,000 shares, 9,900+likes and 1,400 comments thus far.
He's also posted a news article about his singing: WATCH What This American Israeli Singer Did To Teach Muslims A Lesson About God And Jerusalem.
Setting apart the question of whether this is an appropriate response or not, here is a larger issue here. Nowhere in the post or article does it indicate that it's not his voice. An awful lot of people have commented complimenting him on his voice and he hasn't acknowledged it there either, as far as I can tell. It's pretty dishonest for a singer to put something out, representing or implying that its his singing, and not clarifying that it isn't him, when so many obviously are taken in. It is insulting to his listeners, to all of those vocalists who work hard at their craft, and, of course, to the singer whose work he lifted without attribution.
Here's the clip he used, which was posted to YouTube in 2007. The singer in the track is unidentified.
Yitzchak Meir Malek posted this video of him singing Shema Yisrael as a call to prayer on his Facebook page, where it has received over 10,000 shares, 9,900+likes and 1,400 comments thus far.
He's also posted a news article about his singing: WATCH What This American Israeli Singer Did To Teach Muslims A Lesson About God And Jerusalem.
Setting apart the question of whether this is an appropriate response or not, here is a larger issue here. Nowhere in the post or article does it indicate that it's not his voice. An awful lot of people have commented complimenting him on his voice and he hasn't acknowledged it there either, as far as I can tell. It's pretty dishonest for a singer to put something out, representing or implying that its his singing, and not clarifying that it isn't him, when so many obviously are taken in. It is insulting to his listeners, to all of those vocalists who work hard at their craft, and, of course, to the singer whose work he lifted without attribution.
Here's the clip he used, which was posted to YouTube in 2007. The singer in the track is unidentified.
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
P.J. O'Rourke Schools Ann Coulter
She Said What?
Money quote is the closer.... "But at least Louie and Steve tried to be smart. And thank God—specifically YHWH—for the few, the very few, the chosen if you will, people in Toledo who tried. Who tried to cheer the Freedom Riders, tried to debate the ideas of Herman Kahn, tried to get to Chicago to see Lenny Bruce at the Gate of Horn, tried to read Herbert Marcuse and Eric Hoffer, and tried to dig Thelonious Monk.
Money quote is the closer.... "But at least Louie and Steve tried to be smart. And thank God—specifically YHWH—for the few, the very few, the chosen if you will, people in Toledo who tried. Who tried to cheer the Freedom Riders, tried to debate the ideas of Herman Kahn, tried to get to Chicago to see Lenny Bruce at the Gate of Horn, tried to read Herbert Marcuse and Eric Hoffer, and tried to dig Thelonious Monk.
Ann, I understand you’re a fan of Phish."
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Dr. Dreizich is Back!
He only had one song, but it's a good one...
"Last week in yeshiva I gave a chaburah.... to anyone who didn't come to my chaburah."
"Last week in yeshiva I gave a chaburah.... to anyone who didn't come to my chaburah."
Tuesday, September 08, 2015
Monday, September 07, 2015
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