Back in Israel
I am back in Israel. Flight sucked. Food sucked. Movies sucked. Babies screaming in my fucking ears sucked.
Thank goodness for Ambien.
Sad time for us
Blogging will resume in another week or so when I return to Israel. My father in law passed away last week after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. His passing is going to take me a long time to get over and I’m really not ready to write about it or anything else for that matter. To be honest, I’m just having a difficult time making sense of this whole thing. I just thought that my readers should know why I have been absent. To those friends who have written and visited during shiva, your thoughts and presence meant the world to both me and Z.
Although I still hate Teaneck, my mother in law’s friends (old school Teaneck folk) have been amazing and incredibly supportive but I don’t think I’ll be eating salmon for a long, long time.
So I’ve been in America for about 72 hours and thus far have seen over five hummers. All of which have been in the vicinity of Teaneck, NJ where I am currently located. I understand that NJ residents do a lot of off roading so having a humvee is a necessity.
I can’t stand Teaneck. Nothing personal to my readers from Teaneck but do you REALLY need a four floor home? Four luxury automobiles? My wife pointed out one home that was recently built. Some Egyptian dude bought four houses and had them all destroyed to build an completely over the top villa that would look far more appropriate in the Hollywood Hills than here. Don’t even get me started about the Jewish community…
In other news…
Coca Cola tastes considerably different here. In Israel our coke is made with sugar year round whereas here it’s made with corn syrup (unless it’s Passover of course). I’m not sure which I prefer. I’ll have to think about that.
One of my favorite blogs is The Amateur Gourmet. Adam is one wacky dude. He posts all about his advetnures in cooking. He has bizarre and hysterical song parodies and creative videos of many of his culinary adventures. Adam is studying for the bar exam so he has asked for submissions from loyal readers of his site. So if you want to know more about me than you are probably interested in knowing, go check out the contents of my fridge.
While your there check out the video “Adam and Lisa east the Lower East Side (and Soho”. It had me in stitches.
Aviv Gefen: Israel’s crybaby
Aviv Gefen is a tool. No, he is a lying tool. For those who don’t know who Gefen is, he is an incredibly contrived wannabee Glam rock star who writes “heartfelt” ballads and who doesn’t really rock.
Read this interview with him and Stephen Wilson. They recently recorded an album under the name Blackfield.
In the interview he lies several times and basically bitches the way only Aviv Gefen can bitch.
I could not believe the bullshit he spews. It’s an absolutely nauseating read.
I consider myself as a new hippie, like a flower child with poison in my thorns. I feel like I’m the only rebel in Israel: I’m talking against my government, against the occupation against the settlers, etc. I refused to serve in the army (which is very hard when my cousin (Mozes Dayan) used to be the security minister. I arranged a peace rally with Izchak Rabin (he was our prime minister) in 1995, which brought over 300,000 people- then someone shot him in front of my eyes. But this just gave me more power to fight against my government, and I became to be the spokesman for the young people in Israel.
First of all, Gefen didn’t serve in the army and always maintained that the reason he didn’t serve was that he has severe back problems, not that he was a refuser. His revisionism is shocking. He didn’t “refuse.” He lied. Take the high road you whiny bitch.
I am absolutely dumbfounded that he now claims that he “arranged” the peace rally where Rabin was assassinated. Another lie. The claim to be spokesman for Israeli youth? Bullshit. Gefen ran away to London where he tried to make it big by being all “controversial” and shit by singing about Jesus.
And please. New hippie? Flower child with poison in your thorns? Give me a fucking break. The always suffering Gefen had a privileged youth, growing up in a wealthy family in Ramat Aviv. Don’t patronize people with your bullshit.
What is your personal philosophy of life?
Aviv: I am god and god is me.
Wow.
Could you talk a little about the idea behind Cloudy Now- especially the We are the fucked up generation outro. Is this also a political statement?
Aviv: It’s the most famous rock line in Israel, it means that our generation is fucked up! This line made me famous overnight, but it’s not a political statement.
How is our generation fucked up, and is there any way to fix it?
Aviv: My generation is fucked up because of AIDS, Bill Gates, George Bush, techno and trance music, the wars, Al Queda etc. It’s not the 60’s or the 70’s dude, we are the garbage of the century. I don’t think I can fix it, all I can do is sing out all my pain.
Ah yes. Trance, techno and Microsoft has really done in our generation. Right up there with Al Queda and AIDS. Moron.
Read the rest of the interview. It’s embarrassing. The ego on this guy has no bounds. The lies he tells cannot go unnoticed by the Israeli press. Any one else find this interview infuriating?
Not only is he a tool, he is a sell out. He walks around claiming to be so damn sad all time and being such a rebel and then goes and does a television ad for Bisli (a tasty snack that is as popular here as Doritos is in America).
I was watching one of my favorite movies the other night. In America, it’s known as The Professional. Everywhere else in the world it’s known as Leon.
There is one scene when a young Natalie Portman asks Leon, the sensitive assassin whether life is always this hard. He answered yes.
I looked at my wife and said, “Ain’t that the truth.”
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