This evening Israeli Channel 10 News covered Brad Pitt’s microphone malfunctioning on Fox’s Idol Gives Back and stage manager Debbie McVickers shining as she came to the rescue. Channel 10’s fluffy-issues correspondent Haim Etgar dubbed the incident ‘a huge screw-up’, right before using a caption that seemed like it was spelled by an 11 years [...]
IDOL GIVS BAKE
April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting
Mom, I Didn’t Kill Your Daughter
April 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 100% vent free
Jonathan Danilowitz, Adir Steiner, Uzi Even, Tal and Avital Yaros-Hakak – each of these individuals have helped Israel shape its laws and grant equal rights for queer people, that much cannot be disputed - but I contend that all these people have helped very little in softening the collective Israeli heart towards gay people, compared to one transsexual singer [...]
Oh Europe, Where Oh Where Did It All Go Wrong? - The Rise and Fall of The Eurovision Song Contest
March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · venting
It all went to the crapper in 1999 when two rulings annihilated the core essence of the Eurovision song contest we knew and loved: the cancellation of the national language restriction and the abolishment of the mandatory live orchestra rendered an annual event of joy and pride (!) into an annual ceremony of exasperation. Where once entire [...]
I Held My Breath, Everything Is Perfect Now
March 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · 100% vent free
This week’s episode of The L Word (509: Liquid Heat), ended with an amazing sequence that cross-cut the characters during a heat wave power blackout. The intensity of the erotic ending was greatly enhanced with music by Freezepop , an American synthpop band, whose song ‘Swimming Pool’ is by far the most moving piece of music [...]
