Soce, the Elemental Wizard Word from: Mordy

Soce, the Elemental Wizard, bills himself as the first gay, Jewish, white rapper. His next show is this Saturday night at the Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg. My favorite song is Work/Play which starts with the line, "This is the Bar-Mitzvah remix," before heading into territory too dirty to be mentioned on the Mimaamakim blog.

The World Cafe, with David Dye, will be broadcasting a Matisyahu music session on Friday, July 29th, 2005. Mark Jacobson told me today that someone had recently told him about the Jewish Eminem, "Starts with an M or something?" he asked. I had to think. "Mattisyahu?" He nodded. Interesting. Mattisyahu is the Jewish Eminem?

Jewish Mayhem Magazine apparently just set up a chat room, promising, "Our member's list is literally, a who's who of the Jewish world! so consider participating in the forums or in the CHAT, you never know who might be watching." The Jewish world? So, like, R' Reuvan Feinstein may hang out on Jewish Mayhem? How enlightening!

And final news for the day, best forum thread of the week: Why is Paul Simon Always Singing About Jesus? from Jewsrock.org. I asked my mother the same question when I was young. The next day her Bookends album got caught in the stereo system and came out shredded. She accussed me of cursing the system. Years later I still listen to Mrs. Robinson...