我已经对欧美流行乐麻木很久了吧。上一张让我觉得值得收藏的专辑应该是去年的《The Script》吧。昨天无意打开haoting，看到了一个名叫Yael Deckelbaum的歌手，她的专辑叫做《Ground Zero》。唱了第一句我便喜欢上她的嗓音，音乐也还行，编曲很有新意。不过我还是会担心后面的歌会一首不如一首。

 

事实上，是一首好过一首。虽然编曲使用了很多的音乐元素，但音乐仍然质朴，毫无浮华之感，让我回到90年代末，并且她的声音和Paula Cole真有几分相似。

 

豆瓣搜索不到这张CD，我手动添加了。Amazon也搜索不到。只有看她的自09年3月发行专辑后便没有更新过的主页以及她的MySpace。

 

原来，此人为以色列人。又一位操英语的以色列的艺人惊现了。上一位大火的是唱New Soul的Yael Naim。不知道国籍是不是她的歌声不能传出耶鲁撒冷的原因。

 

摘录一下她的Bio吧，有空再翻译：

 

Yael Deckelbaum - Ground Zero

Yael Deckelbaum (Songwriter and Vocalist ) was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1979 to an Israeli mother and a Canadian father. She grew up in a small village near the city. Her father, David Deckelbaum, a dentist and a banjo player, was a founding member of a folky, country, Celtic, good-time band, "The Jerusalem Taverners". He quickly recognized his daughter’s musical talent, and Yael has performed with her father’s band as a guest singer and musician throughout her entire childhood.

At the age of 16, Yael won first prize in a national contest for the best young singer-songwriter in Israel. She was accompanied on stage by Jonathan Levy and Shaul Eshet. This is where the foundations of a future musical partnership were laid. Yael performed in many nightclubs, festivals [such as Jacob's Ladder,Shantipi World Festival, Gezer Festival], singing folk songs and playing covers for Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell and many others.

In 1999, Yael performed as a vocal soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at a tribute concert to the Beatles. This was part of a world tour produced, directed, and conducted by Sir George Martin [arranger and producer for the Beatles]. There she met Shlomo Artzi – long considered Israel's leading singer-songwriter – and toured with him for more than a year, joining him on a hit duet of his famous album, Ahavtihem.

Yael is also a third of "Habanot Nehama", a superb female pop trio that includes Karolina, leader of the band Funset, and Dana Adini, one of Israel's newest and best singing stars. The group performed recently together at the Geneva Convention with the band Shotey Hanevua [Fools of Prophecy], plus venues in Prague, Germany, "Radio City Hall" in NY, "Kodak Theater" in LA, and all over Israel and the United States. Their album todate has sold over 45,000 copies ( platinum) in Israel alone.

The Making of Ground Zero
Yael met Jonathan Levy the musical producer of ‘Ground Zero’ and the band’s bass player, at Zion Square – where Jerusalem youngsters hang out – when they were both 15 years old. They have been making music together ever since and dreaming about this collaborative album. Eleven years later, living in Tel Aviv and persuing their professional musical careers, they finally fulfilled their dream. "Ground Zero" is the result of six years of a musical journey and hard work. For this project, Yael was also joined by Shaul Eshet, keyboards, a fellow class mate at their Jerusalem high school, Dani Dromi, guitar, also from Jerusalem, and Nir Mantzur, drums. In the five years prior to the production of "Ground Zero", Yael has been performing solo and with the band all over Israel while recording and creating this, her first solo debut album.

 

已经不记得上次做红烧肉是什么时候了。“少吃肉，尤其是猪肉”的概念已经占据我大脑很久。由于最近老是馋这个味儿，今天终于决定去肉铺买块五花肉。也有说法说，由于煮得久，红烧肉里面的有害脂肪和胆固醇都减少得差不多了，而饱和脂肪酸变成了对人体有益的不饱和脂肪酸，所以红烧肉对人体的害处应该不大。

 

步骤：

五花肉切成一厘米宽块条。先煸之，出油之。肉呈金黄色盛走，油另盛一碗。洗锅，重新起锅。刚才盛的油，用多少放多少，同时加冰糖。化糖炒红，放肉上糖色。放花椒、大料、葱、姜、生抽、老抽、醋、桂皮、红辣椒、新鲜橘子皮，稍炒后加绍兴黄酒，同时加入开水没肉。小火炖之，水少补水，半个时辰以上即可大火收汁出锅。

 

个性化变量：

俺不喜欢放太多老抽，老抽色重且味道能盖过肉香。生抽里有糖，不喜欢太甜也可以少放。毕竟红烧肉不光靠生抽和老抽。俺更喜欢黄酒，不太喜欢料酒，不喜欢酒味可以少放。

 

既然要吃，还是要控制好量，以防吃腻。没吃好就吃光，还会想下次。先取三分之一与土豆胡罗卜共炖……剩下的可与海带粉丝共炖，与香菇竹笋共炖。

 

吃吃现在的，想想第一次给老婆做的红烧肉，那可真不是个味啊。

 

其貌不扬却营养美味

仿照大盘鸡做的小碗鸡。红绿小辣椒段的色彩确实对菜起到了很好的点缀。

吃完晚饭给老妈送去一小碗。老妈尝了问：“你们又去哪个饭馆吃了？”我欣慰了。

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热水器的出水开关铜球阀漏水了。买了新的准备换上。不料上端的螺丝扣俺使了牛劲也没扭动。

一定是锈在一块儿了。怎么办？硫酸烧！没有硫酸。突然想到了水壶除垢剂。试试吧。

找个矿泉水瓶把阀门泡起来！结果泡完澡成功扭开了。