Last night I got a call from a brother of mine who I don’t get to speak to so often. We get along, but we just don’t really have that much in common. We don’t live in the same city, don’t have many of the same interests, don’t work in the same profession and he isn’t religious. So we don’t have much to talk about when we speak. We are two very different people. We still make a point to call each other every few weeks just to say hi and keep in touch. I love him dearly, but dear or dear do we have the most boring conversations in the world.
Ring ……….

Me: Hello?
Brother: Hi Chaim, what’s up?
Me: Nothing much. How are you?
Brother: I’m good. So ….. You good?
Me: Yeaup …. Good, Things are going well.
Brother: Going well, huh … How’s work?
Me: Work is good, going good, no complaints.

Brother: Good…. So everything is going nice.
Me: Yes …. and you? How’s work by you?
Brother: Good …. you know, busy, lots of stress.
Me: Ya .. stress … I know, by me too.
Brother: Is it still cold by you?
Me: No … It’s nice now, got a little warm. …. and by you?
Brother: still cold .. you know … always cold here.

Me: Yeaup … I know … So how’s your wife?
Brother: She’s good, you know … doing well ….and yours?
Me: She’s good, kids are good, ya know getting older.
Brother: Ya .. mine too …. they are getting big aren’t they.
Me: Yeaup … they grow fast
Brother: So … see any good movies lately?
Me: No, no time for that, wish I had one free evening.
Brother: Me too, haven’t seen anything in a while.

Me: Ya … so … your good?
Brother: Yeaup .. good. Alright, so speak to you in a few weeks?
Me: Of course! Thanks so much for calling.
Brother: No problem, take care till then.
Me: You too. Love you
Brother: Love you too, bye.

So … ya …. like I said …. b-o-r-i-n-g.

I don’t mind, we may not have a lot in common, but it means a lot that we stay in touch and talk. Even if we don’t talk about anything, it’s very important to remember to call your family and just say hi. This one’s for you bro. ;-)

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I absolutely love this song!

I actually had a nice day, but this song just hits me. I really, really love it.

You can hear it here. You can buy it here.

Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
They tell me your blue skies fade to grey
They tell me your passion’s gone away
And I don’t need no carryin’ on

You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You’re faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life’s been way off line
You’re falling to pieces everytime
And I don’t need no carryin’ on

Cause you had a bad day
You’re taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don’t know
You tell me don’t lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don’t lie
You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don’t need no carryin’ on
(cont.)

This is actually the second “Bad Day” song that I love. The first being this one.

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This past Sunday Matisyahu was on CBS’s Sunday Morning Magazine.

You can watch it on you tube, or click play below.

It’s 7 minutes long and very interesting.

Lots of good pictures, lots of information, not a 2 minute fly by like his MTV stuff.

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Good morning, I have a few things to post this morning. First off I wanted to tell you that there is finally something positive over at Chaptzem’s.

Chaptzem is asking people to tae the Jewish music challenge. Post the name of the last Jewish music album that you actually enjoyed listening to.

New Matisyahu numbers came in on Billboard this week:

King Without a Crown fell from from #30 to #49 on the Top 100 Singles chart.

Youth fell from #7 to #17 on the Top 200 Albums chart, and sold 43,000 CD’s
(Week 1 debuted at #4 on the chart with 119,000 CD’s, Week 2 fell to #7 and 57,800 CD’s)


Youth has now sold in three weeks, 219,800 CD’s. (source)

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Someone in the comments section asked a great question.

What is a troll?

The “anon” who was being called a Troll by me in the comments section was writing from the same IP each time (12 times to be exact). The person who asked this question, was writing from a different IP. So I know the askee, and the actual troll are not the same.

A comment Troll is usually someone who is not interested in making polite conversation. It’s like a drive by shooting. We all have names, is that correct? Can I assume that at some point in all our lives we were given legal names. Hebrew names and in most cases nicknames too? Since we all have names, it should be pretty easy to just type your name into the comment section.

You don’t have to put your e-mail address, you don’t have to sign in, you don’t have to leave a web address. All you have to do is write your name in the name field. You don’t even have to write a last name. Just a name. So what else is a blogger supposed to assume when someone types “anonymous” into the name field. I mean, it doesn’t even have to be YOUR name, make one up, use someone else’s, at the very least, put “Avraham” or “Moshe” in that field.

As far as I know no one has been given the name “anonymous” yet. If there is someone who’s legal name is Anonymous, then he or she has been getting around a lot!

Back to what a troll is. A troll is someone who doesn’t leave a name, and in most cases goes by “anonymous”, in most cases it’s someone who wants to make a comment that he doesn’t want to be held responsible for. Of course you could make up fake names for leaving such comments, but that fact that you don’t tells me, your just looking to hit something. Like a drive by shooting, just looking to hit a target.

Most trolls have ulterior motives, like following a blogger they don’t like from site to site and writing abrasive patronizing comments right after the blogger leaves a comment. Most trolls also think they are smarter than everyone else. The funny thing is, either they don’t know, or they don’t care, but every blogger can track the IP of a person, no matter if he writes Yankel Shmendrick, or Joe Shmo.

That’s why I assume that if a person cares so little that he could be tracked, or cares so little to take the time to leave a name, they are just looking to be mean spirited.

That to me is a Troll. Someone who is looking to ruin other peoples fun. A grouch, a know it all, someone who cares so little about contributing to the hopefully civilized tone on a website. That he can’t even be bothered to leave a name.

Ready for the twist? It’s like The Sixth Sense all over again!

I know who the troll is. I confirmed it because I matched his IP to other comments he left under his real name in the past. I’m not going to tell you who it is, that wouldn’t be nice. I’ll respect his/her privacy, but it just goes to prove that you only leave “anonymous” comments when you don’t want to be associated with your words. I’d just like to publicly ask him/her to stop, it’s not nice. I think better of you.

On that note, I’d like to leave you with an out of context quote from Treppenwitz’s Jblogger interview a few weeks ago.

“I’ve found that the occasions when I’ve truly longed for the expressive freedom that anonymity would provide are usually the times where I want to say something really irresponsible or really hurtful. I truly believe that if I had the opportunity to do either of those things on a regular basis it would slowly blacken my soul…. and I’d end up like any of the trolls who spew their anonymous filth all over the blogosphere. Being ‘out’ forces me to act responsibly (most of the time, anyway).”

I know I liked Trep for a reason, he’s so much smoother than me.

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I must say, I was disappointed the other night when Dan lost. I have to wonder if he wasn’t distracted with Yomim Tovim. The first few weeks he seemed calm, relaxed, cool, smart and in charge of his emotions. Then right before Yom Kippur, he takes Project Manager and seemed out of control, nervous and making bad decisions.

I was really pulling for him, I wish him much success.

Speaking of success, Brent, who was fired the week before, has launched a new diet plan. He has lost 110 pounds off of a “4 Bagel Diet Plan”, ya, I’m not making this up.

See all about it here.

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The 11th of Nissan was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s birthday. Every year when the Rebbe’s birthday approached, Chassidim created a new niggun to go along with a pasuk from The Rebbe’s Kapital of Tehilim for that year.

via Shmais


“Chassidim continue to compose new niggunim for the Rebbe’s birthday, and now, for the second year in a row, Levi Greenberg a young shliach from Anchorage Alaska, aged 10, has composed a new niggun in honor of this special day. Levi is both the vocalist and musician of this piece.”

Keep in mind when you listen to this Niggun that the composer is ten years old and that this is the second year he composed a song.

On a side note, The Rebbe’s birthday, which falls out on April 9th this year is also known as Education and Sharing Day, in the U.S, this day was created by Congress in 1992 and made to come out every year on 11th of Nissan.

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Watch Yitziyas Mitzrayim the way the gentiles view it!

The Ten Commandment is now out in a 50th Anniversary edition.

There is a very comprehensive review here.

Special Features include:

  • Hand-tinted footage of the Exodus and Parting of the Red Sea Sequence from the 1923 version
  • Commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of “Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille’s Epic, The Ten Commandments,” on both the 1956 and 1923 versions
  • 6-part, 37-minute “making of” documentary, featuring interviews with Charlton Heston and composer Elmer Bernstein, among others
  • Newsreel footage of the New York premiere
  • 3 theatrical trailers: 1956 “Making of” trailer, 1966 re-release trailer, 1989 re-release trailer.

Even though I grew up in a frum home, I remember watching this on TV once and being shocked. It was my first introduction to religion outside of my frum yeshiva day school world. All I could think of was, boy, this don’t look anything like The Little Midrash Says.

It’s obviously not so great for educational purposes, but just for fun, ya know, why not.

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Somwhere in that big thug heaven in the sky, Biggie and Tupac are crying themselves silly.

Actual link here.

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I think he is from The Rabbi’s Sons. If I’m wrong someone correct me. This is some nice old school Jewish music.

The music starts about 2 minutes in.

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First of all, someone needs to find a clip from the alleged song online somewhere. Come on, you guys are all on the internet reading blogs, chances are you can do some digging. there must be some online store sellings Jewish Music that has samples.

Mindy, from the JM Message Board, left a comment saying that Michoel Stricher’s song, “Yerushalayim, our only home, this time I’ve always known, it’s where we all belong. The song is from this album, but it doesnt have any samples. She say’s it has at least the same chorus, maybe even more from the Dschinghis Kahn song I linked to last night. Muscow.

If anyone has this album, please check it out for yourself and e-mail me. I’m dying to know if it’s an exact match. You can hear it a little in this very short clip Mindy found online.

In a related note, she also found this blog entry by another host from a different show on Nachum Segal’s AM radio station. From that posting he makes it very clear that Nachum Segal knows about this group.

Here’s more:


“For several years, I’ve had an LP cover by the 1970’s German disco band Dschinghis Khan gracing the cover of my DJ locker at WFMU. So imagine my surprise when Bryce mailed me this music video (mpeg video file) of the band doing a fantastic cheesy cossack disco dance number! And then when Nachum Segal saw my Dschinghis Khan LP this morning, he screams, “Dschinghis Khan, they’re huge in Israel!” And then Nachum send me even more Dschinghis Khan vid! eos. Why does Israel go crazy for bands like Dschinghis Khan, Baccara and t.A.T.u.? (MP3s) Why do I? Don’t answer that.”

I can’t really describe what I think about that, I don’t know why. But it feels wrong. I really would like once and for all for this whole Yidden thing to be addressed by MBD.

You think that’s every gonna happen?

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From the creators of “Yidden” comes another Dschingis Kahn hit!

Soon to be on the cover of Country Yossi!!

Do we know if this is on any of MBD’s CD’s? It has such a familiar sound.

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BloginDm has a laugh out loud post on the infamous RMM. I’ve been feeling this for a few issues already. It seems that she is getting lazy on the job. Come on, we need some new sparkling adjectives. Another way to describe for us how amazing ________________ ’s new CD is!

Jewish Blogmeister, has some great questions that he suggests people ask Eli when he goes on to “debut” TekNoy on Nachum Segal later this week. I actually have one really good question. Why are you debuting a CD Thursday when the CD came out months ago. Is this what happens when an “King Middas” CD bombs? You need to “re-debut” it?

You can read my thoughts on the Country Yossi write up of Teknoy here.

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