Slamdancing in the Desert
Earlier today, I went with a few friends to Beersheva’s Kanyon HaNegev mall for some frozen yogurt.
The Kanyon (aka the Mall of the Negev) is Israel’s largest shopping mall south of Jerusalem. It’s located across from a bus station where guards wand you before entry and an outdoor souk that deserves the adjective Damascene. But you enter the Kanyon and, apart from the soldiers carrying machine guns shopping for jeans, you might as well be in North Jersey.
In any case, after getting the yogurt I went for a stroll around the mall. One store appeared to be an Israeli version of Hot Topic.
I looked at the front window and there was a MASSIVE DISPLAY OF HARDCORE 7”s. Verbal Abuse, Mob 47, DRI, Flux of Pink Indians, Crucifix, Poison Idea, Agnostic Front, Black Randy & The Metrosquad… the whole lot.
It just goes to prove: No matter where you go, there will be angry kids slamming around to a 1.5 minute song about injustice. A universal quality, that.
