Seems your mind is wandering between confusion and thoughts of home.
Right... So I promised y'all some music, and I shall deliver. Today's theme: Israeli artists who are really too damn good for this f@#$ing country. I was thinking the other day how some of my favorite artists these days are actually Israeli. Which sort of ruins my 'Israeli music is shit' moto. But when you think about it, you can hardly call this Israeli music... it just happens to be performed by Israeli artists. So all is well. I haven't turned into a partiot overnight or anything crazy like that.
And don't worry, they all sing in English. ;)
Geva Alon
Weeeell, he's thirteen kinds of awesome.
Click to viewMmmmm, channeling Elliott Smith but not exactly. This song never gets old.
Another amazing song of his...
In My Head
Rosemary's Eyes
Modern Love - a David Bowie cover
Tal Cohen Shalev
So apparently my roommate has some very, very talented friends. This is one of them. She was listening to his Last.fm page and for me it was, to quote Michael, love at first sight... with my ears.
- Into Myself (one of my favorite songs at this moment)
- Between The Lines
- Maybe You Are (Asaf Avidan Cover)
- Parasite (Nick Drake cover)
- Spider Pig *nods* Yup.
Amit Erez
Oh, you're heard me going on and on about how friggin' talented this guy is. Again, for those who missed it, here's a couple of songs---
(not my favorite, but oh well, it has a video. *shrugs*)
Heart Away
Cinnamon Scattered Along Your Shoulders
Clever and Strong
Oh My God
Asaf Avidan
This guy... is something special. He's like Janis Joplin reincarnated or something. When you listen to too much of his stuff, it tends to get annoying. But then again he has some really beautiful songs, so I don't know. These two songs are definitely awesome:
- Her Lies *headbangs* okay, maybe not, but how cool is this song?! I want to marry it and have fifteen of its babies, or something. The tune rocks my world.
- Devil's Dance Depressing but beautiful.
And that concludes our musical episode for the day.
If you skipped that last part, you should go back and check out at least SOME of the songs. C'mon, support Israel just do it. :P
And now for the updates-on-my-life part.
I don't actually have much to tell. Second semester has begun, I'm still recovering from my month of exams (yes, a whole month. 9 exams in four weeks, not a single day off between semesters. How is that right?!), and I should really be doing chemistry-statistics-physics-biology homework, but unfortunately, my brain is overstudied and I just can't force myself to do anything involving studying. I just... really need a break. I don't know what I'm going to do, it's only the second week and I'm already lightyears behind because I can't force myself to do anything that requires thinking.
On a more positive note, I probably won't be flunking out quite yet, because even with the crazy exam schedule, my marks have been pretty neat. So far I know I got:
Physics 88
Math 80
Chemistry 77
Psychological Physiology (basically brain anatomy) 94
Statistics 77 (*sigh* I HATE STATISTICS!!!)
Developmental Psychology of the child 98
Intro to Psychology 98
The two marks missing are for "Personality Theories" and "Historical and Intellectual Sources of Social Sciences". and I think I got good marks in these two.
So... yeah. That was the easy semester. This one has two more kinds of chemistry (organic and physical. lovely), a lot more biology, and more physics and statistics. I'm going to die.
*points at icon*
Only Noah can wear a shirt that says "I <3 π " and still look cool. I'm discovering a new love for math geeks (don't even get me started on my math professor), so it's oddly appropriate.