At first that meant lots of practicing and playing with local bands in Lavie's hometown, Haifa. That was when I decided to unplug my modem and move onto my next interest - music.' But one day, someone I knew very well had his house raided after doing some really dumb stuff (shutting down a university’s computer system for a couple of days just for fun).

'I was just a kid enjoying the thrill of entering some company’s computer. 'I wasn’t causing any damage,' Lavie says of his cyberpunk phase. BBS) of like-minded computer programmers looking to trade loose ideas and the latest software over their creaky dial-up connections. Aside from being able to write clean and compelling code in several languages, the singer/multi-instrumentalist ran a bulletin board system (a.k.a. It would be a stretch to say the movie Hackers was based on Shlomi Lavie's life, but he was a big part of that burgeoning community in the '90s. In a way, watching other people go down the rabbit hole became my very own rabbit hole.Īfter climbing out of my hole, feeling emotionally charged, I went into the studio to write and record Post-Truth and Bird Feeders. Basically asking my self, 'how the fuck did we get here?' I was driven by the urge to understand the digital ecosystem and its ability to alter and mold people’s perspectives so efficiently. I spent a year diving into, observing and archiving the darkest corners of the internet during the strangest year in recent history. Sip a tea full of tears of a liberal daughter She tells me there are only two things on my mind Sip a tea full of tears of a liberal daughter and son

They like to sit on the porch in the twilight hour I wanna be a fly on the wall in Mar-a-Lago I’m standing in the rain with regrets and no reason It’s a city of preachers but love is a homeless If it hurts then it hurts then it hurts then it hurts us Typing hate words on a board with buttons He writes comments till his fingers bleed

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