Attended Sulu Series last night @ the Bowery Poetry Club. Finally got to check out Japanese-Jewish Musician, Danny Katz, live & upclose. Here are some unconventional photos I took of the fellow Asian Heeb, off-stage, admiring our Queer peers from afar.
A Haiku dedicated to Danny Katz will appear in my forthcoming collection of Pinoy Piyyutim (Chipmunka Publishing, Winter 2009).
MabuHAIku
For Danny Katz
Now that Asian Jews
Are "The New Jews," The Old Jews
Can leave for Sinai.
For Danny Katz
Now that Asian Jews
Are "The New Jews," The Old Jews
Can leave for Sinai.
Danny Katz is a bastion within the burgeoning Asian-American Indie Music scene in NYC. His collaborations with the likes of Filipino-American Artist, Jay Legaspi I find refreshing during the rough recessionary period, particularly this clandestine, East Asian acoustic jam session:
Chasing Cars
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
It's been a long, hard winter.
Almost over.
Sources:
Danny Katz on MySpace
Sensitive Guys with Guitars
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