thursday night sans alcohol

[actually posted at 8.19am on return of the internet connection]

all three of us went out to see what the tel aviv street music festival thing was about. first stop: hadag nachash. i don't really like them, but a song of theirs that i do enjoy was up when we arrived. i made a snide remark that the next song would have to be hinei ani ba (here i come), one of the most awfully annoying songs ever written, in order to balance things out.

the security girl, in addition to flirting with me, informed us that there were only nine minutes left of the concert. that made me certain that hinei ani ba would be their last, and i was right.

worse than that was watching butt-ugly mercy cases (both for being butt-ugly and for being completely in the dark musically) gyrating in ways that brought to mind half-cooked slimed chicken.

when that was over we took a walk through rothschild, which was busy as hell and filled with beautiful women. once upon a time i met one of the guys working at the sandwich stop, and he was surprised that i remembered that we'd talked about his band. they're performing next week, but i'll be doing the desert thing so no go.

we decided to make a pass by levontin 7, and treated ourselves to a performance by yael dekelbaum. her first song was great, but set a serious tone that was completely exploded when she invited her father on stage with his banjo to play bawdy irish folk music.

her range, both vocal and style, is absolutely incredible. she's riveting, and highly entertaining. there were two camps, one on either side of the stage. the left side were making fun of her, the right cheering and vetoing and singing along... apparently this is the "usual" format, and it was really easy to play along :)

we got home to discover that the shower curtain rod is out of commission, our new flatmate doesn't dry himself before standing on the mat and at 2.50am - while writing this - i've lost internet and i'm sure it's because he's hung something over the router...

in the morning: the plumber, the hospital to return a form, and a second-hand games store to try and find crash bandicoot or abe's exodus.