A song about Jesus by Ozzie Wright!
As you learned earlier in the week, BeachGrit is with the surfers Ozzie Wright and Otis Carey in Israel, that brave, lovely democracy, smartest people in the world, miracle of the Middle East etc.
(Commenters, I can hear your engines firing into life! But no need to be sad or to start unfurling your Hamas flags. Keep reading!)
Two nights ago, while returning home from what we all agreed was the equal finest bar we’d ever been to (Salon Romano, Tel Aviv, ties with Dalida, also in Tel Aviv), Ozzie hit on a ukulele chord progression and first verse that just… grew.
Earlier, we’d agreed that if we could gather enough clips, we’d make a short. But that short would need an original song specific to the region.
Wasn’t Jesus born in these parts? The Nazarene? Wasn’t Jesus the self-appointed King of the Jews, a claim that would later see him on the spike?
Ozzie dropped the first verse about Jesus’ birth and his (disputed) parentage. BeachGrit threw in a King of the Jews hook (of course!), Otis Carey choruses with gusto (and a Shalom at the end) and it just kinda works. Or doesn’t.
The quality of the sound suggests King of the Jews was recorded in a studio, a Rick Ross production maybe, but, no, backseat of a car at three thirty am, on an iPhone.
smartest people in the world…….just ask them. the chosen people???? ugggggh. my best friend is israeli and even he can’t stand them.
sshhh. just surfing pls.
Sorry Nick Dee… repeating the same comments continuously is just spam. So not on this thread today.
What made you want to grow up and be ‘the man’? Censorship sucks balls caarnt..
I got sick of seeing good forums and commentary boards turn to shit.
The record here is 96 mindless posts by a troll in a day…
Childish name calling, unnecessary faceless personal attacks, flag wavers, ranting/thread hogging multiple posts… This site is better off without that.
My favourite from the BeachGrit manifesto is “We believe that free speech is free until it hits dumb and cruel.”
Remember you can have all the free-speech you want on your own blog. WordPress is a good start!
You know what!? I’ll cop that negnuts.. I retract my statement/question.. I think I might of been in a bit of a trolly mood myself at the time I wrote that comment.. Everyone makes mistakes… Thank god your here to stop me from making a dick of myself.. I love censorship.
See, we just want smart Trolls like you here at the Grit… that last sentence. I need a towel! So much sarcasm, I’m drenched.
Ahhh…. In the States we call them “beer goggles.” I guess in Tel Aviv they call it the “Manischewitz Mask?” Either way it impaires your ability to make good judgements and lowers your standards thus leaving you with a slightly larger less intelligent version of what you would normally take home. I guess we could file this post under “3 AM drunk text” with a sly wink from JC Himself and payback in the form of “once something is on the Internet/Soundcloud, it can never be taken off.”…………. Still love u Decor😘
It strikes me as a tad hypocritical that Otis Carey, proud defender of indigenous culture, would visit the World Capital of Apartheid
Yesterday i seen your 156 tricks and found out what kind of kook your really are O.W. Today you proved to be a piece of toilet paper. Who is O.W., 3 turns of a goon of doom…….