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So had a not very great evening, in that included returning home -- where I am spending the entire week all alone, just me and the dog, and thank god for her -- returning home, and making a salad, and spending four hours looking at apartment listings online. Nothing is less fun than looking at apartment listings, oh my god :( I mean, okay, probably a few things, but none that I can think of right now. But everything in Tel Aviv is so expensive and apartments are so tiny and more importantly, roommates are so alien, and I am totally someone who gets along with strangers but having a roommate can be so much more fun than that and I want that. I want to live with people I enjoy hanging out with! Instead I have a week planned out of auditioning for strangers every day after work, and these are not nice strangers I can count on liking scifi and Harry Potter, no, these are just strange strangers. Despair.
Anyway, dear anyone who knows people in Tel Aviv (especially locals, including lurkers), this is an honest to god plea: if you know people (in their 20s, let us say) who are either looking to move to Tel Aviv or looking for a new roommate in Tel Aviv, and they are Our Kind Of People, please pass me their info, and/or pass my plea along. Israel Fangirl Looking For New Home.
God, look at me, I haven't even gone to look at any places and I'm already depressed :/ Which is also why I've been putting off the whole apartment hunting thing for such a long time. BUT. It is time.
So I did that until after midnight, and then I was all bummed, and then these 11 precious seconds of Panic at the Disco daaaaancing were posted and that was awesome.
Oh, man. So Justin Beiber landed here today -- all hail the king -- and I just found out that Jane's Addiction will be playing here this summer, as well as Moby, as part of the annual 2-day rock/alternative music festival that guest artists always cancel at the last moment anyhow. And who cares, I ask you, about Jane's Addiction, when we have Bandom bands performing ALL OVER EUROPE except for here!
The other day, this guy at work casually, half-jokingly (but half-not-jokingly) asked "Who wants to see the Foo Fighters in Germany with me this summer?". And I realized today that Panic! are going to appear in the same music festival, and suddenly, like, it's crazy, and it's crazy expensive, but suddenly I'm thinking that maybe in the context of a music festival -- that maybe in the context of a longer trip -- then flying to Europe to see them won't be that crazy. I mean, I'm working, presumably I'm going to be working in the summer, it's not like I'll have time for an extended trip anywhere -- a few days or a week in Europe might be all I manage to get.
And the Highfield Festival by Leipzig will be cheaper than Reading or Leeds in the UK, but Reading or Leeds are going to have both Panic and MCR -- but then, Reading or Leeds are also going to look like this, which, no. I imagine none of the European music fests are going to look much better. And it's not going to be worth it, not spending so much money just for that. Ugh. THIS HAS BEEN A FUN EXERCISE IN THOUGHT. Dear bands I like, why could you not have released your records and toured with them last summer, when I was actually abroad? >:(
Okay, but so, ALSO, I've been listening to the band fun. (damn fucking indie bands and their fucking punctuation issues). I knew they were going to tour with Panic this summer and I knew that they and Panic fanboyed one another a lot, so I figured I should check them out. I ended up really liking the music, except for how the lead singer sounds too much like Mika sometimes, which bugs me because he's not Mika -- but their arrangements are great and I love the wide variety of instruments they use in songs, strings and horns and guitars and piano.
So today I checked out their story. Just, you know, to see. I ended up collecting enough material to eventually post a primer, if the need ever arises. For now, it is suffice to say that their origin story includes this:
“Me and Nate used to hate each other,” Antonoff says. “But some of the people I end up liking the most in life I start out hating. We kind of had a weird vibe on each other. We toured together in 2004 and the first couple of days it was like, ‘Grrrr. This guy.’ But after like three days we became best friends and we’ve been incredibly close ever since. (talking about these two guys)
this:
"I remember being on tour with him and just being blown away at his ability to play almost every instrument with ease, sometimes switching from singing and playing the glockenspiel to playing the piano and flugelhorn (all mid-song!!!). On that tour we spent many nights bonding over our love for Weezer b-sides, among many other things." (about Andrew and Nate)
and this:
Jack Antonoff is 26, lives in New Jersey, and plays in the band, Steel Train. His favorite movie is Noises Off, and the theme of his bar mitzvah when he was 14 was Star Wars. He can juggle and has a borderline ability to speak Hebrew.
Of the above three definitions of "lesbro," which do you think describes you best?
The first one, I have many lesbian friends. (from this AfterEllen.com interview, where he talks about being a straight ally, not being a 0 on the Kinsey scale, civil rights, and the companion album his former band produced of all-female covers if their songs. GUYS, I THINK I LIKE THIS KID.)
(Also, he grew up in the Jersey music scene and went to Solomon Shechter; if he and Gabe Saporta don't know one another, I will eat my hat.)
You can listen to their CD here. I really like the first song, 6, and 9. Songs 2, 3, 5, 7 sound a lot like Mika. I cannot wait to hear what they and Panic collaborated on.
Okay, so. Sleep, work, and apartment hop. Maybe it being a certain Bandom figure's birthday will be a good luck charm. Or the opposite way around...
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Anyway, dear anyone who knows people in Tel Aviv (especially locals, including lurkers), this is an honest to god plea: if you know people (in their 20s, let us say) who are either looking to move to Tel Aviv or looking for a new roommate in Tel Aviv, and they are Our Kind Of People, please pass me their info, and/or pass my plea along. Israel Fangirl Looking For New Home.
God, look at me, I haven't even gone to look at any places and I'm already depressed :/ Which is also why I've been putting off the whole apartment hunting thing for such a long time. BUT. It is time.
So I did that until after midnight, and then I was all bummed, and then these 11 precious seconds of Panic at the Disco daaaaancing were posted and that was awesome.
Oh, man. So Justin Beiber landed here today -- all hail the king -- and I just found out that Jane's Addiction will be playing here this summer, as well as Moby, as part of the annual 2-day rock/alternative music festival that guest artists always cancel at the last moment anyhow. And who cares, I ask you, about Jane's Addiction, when we have Bandom bands performing ALL OVER EUROPE except for here!
The other day, this guy at work casually, half-jokingly (but half-not-jokingly) asked "Who wants to see the Foo Fighters in Germany with me this summer?". And I realized today that Panic! are going to appear in the same music festival, and suddenly, like, it's crazy, and it's crazy expensive, but suddenly I'm thinking that maybe in the context of a music festival -- that maybe in the context of a longer trip -- then flying to Europe to see them won't be that crazy. I mean, I'm working, presumably I'm going to be working in the summer, it's not like I'll have time for an extended trip anywhere -- a few days or a week in Europe might be all I manage to get.
And the Highfield Festival by Leipzig will be cheaper than Reading or Leeds in the UK, but Reading or Leeds are going to have both Panic and MCR -- but then, Reading or Leeds are also going to look like this, which, no. I imagine none of the European music fests are going to look much better. And it's not going to be worth it, not spending so much money just for that. Ugh. THIS HAS BEEN A FUN EXERCISE IN THOUGHT. Dear bands I like, why could you not have released your records and toured with them last summer, when I was actually abroad? >:(
Okay, but so, ALSO, I've been listening to the band fun. (damn fucking indie bands and their fucking punctuation issues). I knew they were going to tour with Panic this summer and I knew that they and Panic fanboyed one another a lot, so I figured I should check them out. I ended up really liking the music, except for how the lead singer sounds too much like Mika sometimes, which bugs me because he's not Mika -- but their arrangements are great and I love the wide variety of instruments they use in songs, strings and horns and guitars and piano.
So today I checked out their story. Just, you know, to see. I ended up collecting enough material to eventually post a primer, if the need ever arises. For now, it is suffice to say that their origin story includes this:
“Me and Nate used to hate each other,” Antonoff says. “But some of the people I end up liking the most in life I start out hating. We kind of had a weird vibe on each other. We toured together in 2004 and the first couple of days it was like, ‘Grrrr. This guy.’ But after like three days we became best friends and we’ve been incredibly close ever since. (talking about these two guys)
this:
"I remember being on tour with him and just being blown away at his ability to play almost every instrument with ease, sometimes switching from singing and playing the glockenspiel to playing the piano and flugelhorn (all mid-song!!!). On that tour we spent many nights bonding over our love for Weezer b-sides, among many other things." (about Andrew and Nate)
and this:
Jack Antonoff is 26, lives in New Jersey, and plays in the band, Steel Train. His favorite movie is Noises Off, and the theme of his bar mitzvah when he was 14 was Star Wars. He can juggle and has a borderline ability to speak Hebrew.
Of the above three definitions of "lesbro," which do you think describes you best?
The first one, I have many lesbian friends. (from this AfterEllen.com interview, where he talks about being a straight ally, not being a 0 on the Kinsey scale, civil rights, and the companion album his former band produced of all-female covers if their songs. GUYS, I THINK I LIKE THIS KID.)
(Also, he grew up in the Jersey music scene and went to Solomon Shechter; if he and Gabe Saporta don't know one another, I will eat my hat.)
You can listen to their CD here. I really like the first song, 6, and 9. Songs 2, 3, 5, 7 sound a lot like Mika. I cannot wait to hear what they and Panic collaborated on.
Okay, so. Sleep, work, and apartment hop. Maybe it being a certain Bandom figure's birthday will be a good luck charm. Or the opposite way around...
comments on Dreamwidth.