Moving...

I've decided to take this blog over to MySpace for to simplify me life and keep more of my digital belongings in the same drawer.

I find MySpace to be aesthetically disadvantaged and potentially yesterday's socks, so I reserve the right to move back over here if I wanna. This will be like my vacation home where I can always run to should my primary residence become flooded with space spiders.

Nonetheless, that's where my blog action is going down, so checky checkit out!

The feed for the MySpace blog is this clickable sentence.

This one is for the regular blog URL

And this one is simply for the MySpace page.

I Celebrate Brooklyn Daily

Just in case word hasn't gotten to you, we will be playing Celebrate Brooklyn on July 20th as part of JDub's 5th Anniversary blow out/mind meld. Golem, Michael Showalter and Sway Machinery will be on the bill with us.

I am pretty excited about this gig. Besides my affinity for the concert series in general there is a particular significance to being asked to perform there. This is also the 5 year anniversary of the summer I spent working in the Two Boots tent at Celebrate Brooklyn. That's right, when the boys at JDub were dreaming up this wonderful outlet for Jewish music I was slinging BBQ chicken to hungry concert goers dreaming of how I was going to get up on that stage. Well 5 years later our respective dreams have converged.

For these reasons and more I hope you can come help us celebrate.

In other news, I've set up an imeem page. I heard that's the thing to do. The playlist is at the bottom of this page. It's got a few DeLeon tracks as well as some tunes that have been making me happy of late. Enjoy!

LA Pics

Thanks to everyone who boogied down with us at BCI this past week. We had fun with you guys. Now we're back on the east coast and I thought I'd share a few pics...
a. only a band this classy has the limo stop off for an "animal style" burger at In N Out



b. to make up for that we went to The Getty Center where we saw No Age perform.




c. dead mice can be served either on toast or in a pie at The Museum of Jurassic Technology.







d. opportunistic night band shot.








e. opportunistic strange tent shot.

More Notes From the Left Coast

DeLeon is still out here in sunny California.  It's been an eventful week, and a fairly museum heavy one.  I've had my mind blown at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.  It's oddness objectified and on display.  Also caught the band No Age at a free show at The Getty Center. That's one impressive building, and I dug their set. Earlier in the week I took the guided tour at the Bhagavad Gita Museum. At that one, gorgeous and well lit dioramas walk you through the key motifs of Hare Krishnaism.  The dioramas are so nicely done, they manage to transcend kitsch and just be good.

Other highlights included eating pupusas while watching the Euro Cup Finals, and drinking whiskey in Spike Jonze's beautiful house.  We've only got a couple more days out here, so I'm gonna sign off and try to make the most of it.  

Many good things to come once we head back east, including our performance at Celebrate Brooklyn and our Album's Release!  

Live from LA

We're a few days into our west coast odyssey and I'm sitting in an unusually attractive LA bar called Dinner Club M listening to music by Meryl Streep's son Henry. He sounds lovely. Earlier tonight we stopped by Hecuba's album release party at The Echo. Devendra Banhardt and Natalie Portman were in attendance as well. A little LA celeb spotting for ya.
I'm getting a better feel for this town, and am starting to see why people dig it, though I don't think I would ever get used to all the driving. I don't care how good the Mexican food is, having to drive to your morning cup of coffee just seems crazy.

Going Back To Cali (...er for the first time)

Yup Yup. DeLeon is heading out to LA this weekend with a mission to spread our Sephardo-Cheer to the left coast. This will be our first show out there, so naturally we are feeling groovy.

The event we are flying out for is being billed as a "mega celebration", so it's got that going for it, which is nice. Full details can be found here.

The show is on Sunday June 22nd. Hope you can make it!

FYI we'll be bumming around LA all week, so if you happen to be hosting an all night BBQ-Pool Party-Roller Derby-Hootenanny-Carnival then make sure to let us know. We'd love to attend.

Brighton Beach Boardwalk Borscht

Some days you have Borscht with a man who bills himself as the Sub-Zero Rabbi, and some days you don't. Today I did. Meet Rabbi Abraham Abraham.