That annoying kid on the bus

August 14, 2008 - 8:46 AM by

Riging the busPublic transportation anywhere is a mixed bag. Sure, you get from point A to point B on a low budget and without having to park. But in exchange, you have to deal with limited schedules, often slower routes and sharing close quarters with fellow commuters. This last drawback can be especially infuriating in Israel, where the local culture is too “warm” to stick to reasonable personal space buffer zones and bombastic characters often have little regard for maintaining standards of a quiet, pleasant ride for all.

Led by Nati “Fanati” Hassid, up-and-coming Jerusalem rap crew The Bakery has released “Just Another Bus Ride” (available as an mp3 download or for browser-based streaming), an amusing indictment of inconsiderate bus riders that is slated to be an integral part of the ensemble’s upcoming mixtape It Tastes Better in Hebrew.

Over an old-school-style sparse arrangement, Hassid paints a colorful group portrait of strangers on a bus: the greasy ars teen, the one with protruding chest hair, the one checking out all the girls, etc. But his main beef is against the unnecessary playing of music that always seems to emanate from the cell phone of some inconsiderate young person who apparently has not heard of headphones. “Catch the phone and throw it out the window,” goes the refrain, which rhymes in Hebrew.

It’s nice to see that sometimes the local talent agrees with the gripes of those of us who didn’t grow up here.

Image courtesy of sailorwind from Flickr under a Creative Commons license.

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One Comment on That annoying kid on the bus

  1. sailorwind on Fri, Oct 17th 2008 10:28 PM

    2. Heh. Just amused to randomly come across this photo being used in a blog. I must say, of all my photos on Flickr this was probably one of the last ones I excpected to randomly come across on a Google search.

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