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[fantasticpants]

Figured that roughly once in a lifetime, I can make an LJ post that isn't fandom-centric. So, yesterday, I went to a Yehudit Ravitz concert. It was BADASS. I just wanted to share this song:

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I have a complicated love/hate relationship with this country, but some parts of it are just heartbreakingly beautiful.

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[forsweatervests]

I'm honestly anything but an Israeli music expert myself (I'm sure you know more about Idan Raichel than I do, for one)

AHAHAHAHAHhahahahhahahahhahahhhhhhh. Yeah, no. One of my best friends is a serious Israeli-music-knowitall (he's actually more of a music know-it-all, but in a good way. He's not mean about it, he just knows e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. It's insane.) who's been living in Israel and volunteering in a leprosy clinic for the past year. (Not the point. The point is, he was feeding his Israeli / Arabic music habit.) He puts me to serious shame when it comes to Idan Raichel. He's delivered lectures that I fell asleep halfway through. But! I would love some more links! I'll mention the songs to him and then get a free education, to boot!

You know how it gets exponentially (first I typo'd 'sexponentially', which is also interesting) harder to do something the more you put it off? IT APPLIES TO LJ COMMENTS TOO.

I do, I do! (Also: "sexponentially". Heehee. Awesome!) I'm currently putting off writing to a friend of mine who lives in San Francisco because we haven't talked in, oh, two years, and trying to encapsulate two years in an email is a little daunting. Even though I love her dearly.

[fantasticpants]

Well see, you assume I know something about Idan Reichel, but other than being aware of his general existence, I can't really claim that. So that makes you better informed, even if most of your knowledge was absorbed during sleep.

Moar songs:

Another one by Yehudit Ravitz, about a woman involved in an affair with a married man. It's raw and beautiful.

And that's her biggest hit (with good reason!).

This is one of my favorite songs, by Yehuda Poliker. It's called 'Hurts but Less' (it sounds prettier in Hebrew, I promise!).

And that's just a timeless classic. :D

Eeep, yeah, two years is a lot. I'm not sure what to recommend, because I'm personaly terrible at writing to keep in touch (I find chat easier, if it's possible), so I'll just say good luck!

[forsweatervests]

Ohhh, those are awesome. Thank you!

All I've got about Idan Raichel is a) he's Israeli and b)started this music project as a way of uniting all the different peoples who live in Israel. Matt could probably talk your head off about him - frankly, Matt just wants into his pants - but that's all that's stuck with me.

Yeah. And a lot's happened in those two years, to both of us. I'm kind of at a loss. On the plus side, I can take a really long time to answer because she took, like, 6 months to answer my last email.

[forsweatervests]

Also: I love "Hurts but Less". How do you write it using roman letters?

[fantasticpants]

It is an awesome song, isn't it? Um, 'Pahot Aval Koev' (פחות אבל כואב in Hebrew - hopefully you've got the plugin so you're not seeing unfortunate gibberish).

[forsweatervests]

I'm seeing something that looks an awful lot like Hebrew to my untrained eye, but for all I know, you absolutely could have written in gibberish!