Israeli Newspaper Taken Over by Poets and Authors
Israel daily newspaper Haaretz sent their staff writers home last Wednesday and invited 31 of the nation's most celebrated poets and authors to report the day's news. The special edition of the paper was a tribute to the annual Hebrew Book Week, a tradition whose roots go as far back as 1926. ... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsOh crap, this song's about...!: Confessions of musical oblivion
[Above: Jellyfish, those sneaky bastards.]A recent conversation with Paste web editor Austin about power pop in general and Jellyfish in particular led me to make a perhaps ill-advised admission: After years of listening to Spilt Milk, it was only recently that I paid any real attention to the lyrics of "He's My Best Friend." Oy. I don't know how many total hours of my life have been spent singing along to that album (mostly alone in the car, thankfully) and I don't know why it took me so long to, um, ahem, grasp the true meaning of the song, but... read more
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