wanting what you can't have..

There are a whole bunch of things that I want right now that I can't have.

I want some head. But I'm at work, can't have that.

I got an e-mail from my man who is doing a medical school rotation in fu*king Jamiaca for a month.... I want to be in Jamaica for work for a gotdamn month!

I also want a new car. An Acura TL to be exact. I've been rocking my Explorer since '97 and when I got it, it was 3 years old. my baby is taking care of me though, so I'm not hating on my Explorer. I promised myself a while ago I wouldn't let myself get a new car until I had bought a house. I refuse to be one of those brothers renting with my Lexus parked out front.... Not that I'd buy a Lexus anyway, but you understand...

I wanted a good crab cake for lunch today... but how do you justify spending $20 for lunch on yourself? You can't... On someone else's tab.. hell yeah! But not on myself... to go to a restaurant of the caliber to have a quality crab cake, you can't really go alone.. which means I'd have to go with someone... and fake like their company is important when really, it's all about the crab cake.

I want to take back this shirt tie combo I have on today. There's nothing wrong with it.. the problem is, I actually look TOO good today. I've been complimented on my shirt (lavender Kenneth Cole with a light plaid to it) and my tie (real thin diagonal stripes of lavender, purple, orange, blue, black, and white) like 6 times today.... which means I can't wear this shit for a while, because everyone will remember it because it has been the hot topic in the office today.. wtf!!?? So now I have to remember I wore this shit cuz I can't wear it for like 2 months until it slips out of everyone's collective conscious.

I want to go out tonight and get my drink on... But I have to prepare for class tonight... Hopefully I can teach the kiddies something tomorrow, but these fools are more interested in being cool than learning. Not all of them, but some.

For example, the class was just dragging last week, so I told everyone we're going to take a 5 minute break, and when we get back, we're going to have a quiz.... Two people didn't even bother coming back for the quiz!!?? Just decided to bounce and take the zero... I don't get it..

I want to order Sign of the Times since it just came out on DVD.... in fu*king Canada though!? The DVD will play in our DVD players... but... I just ain't ordering nothing from Canada on general principle... I don't really have anything AGAINST Canada... but I already own a bootleg DVD of Sign of the Times (video transfer) but the sound and picture are disappointing.... it's not like I ever watch that shit anyway.

What they NEED to put on DVD is this but I'm not holding my breath.

anyway... here's to Canada.

~C

CD of the moment: John Legend - "Get Lifted"

the brother in the print room...

You can change cities and you can change companies, but some things you can count on, like the good ole unintentional humor of the brother man in the print room.

You know I love my people. And I hate to make them the butt of jokes... and I'd be upset if I found about all the other people in the office that are going to be cracking jokes about the brotha in the print room behind my back. They don't want to offend me by making jokes about the brotha in the print room. I appreciate that. But dammit, I'd be making jokes about the brotha in the print room too... probably not to them of course, but to my black counterparts, I'm sure I'd make John* the butt of many jokes

Big John sent this out to the entire staff today:

"To all staff,

As a reminder: the property in the print room don't belong to you. The tools are here to use in the print room, not for your personal use. All the resources
in the print room are for everyone. Not for you to take to your desk and don't return it. Dear staff anything that's lying in the print room belongs to someone so don't take it if it don't belong to you. Everyone likes a clean working space help us by cleaning behind yourself, and if your going to leave a mess leave a tip.
Please return all items belonging in the print room. All items must be used in the print room."

Thanks John. Thanks for that today. You are right. Everyone likes a clean working space. Take pride in yo shit dude.... We need more of that.

~C

CD of the moment: Herbie Hancock - "Monster"

* name changed to protect the guilty..

I need a harder walk

I was on my way home from work today and thought for a second I was walking with a little gay-ass bounce. I stopped for a second and was like, "aww, HELL NAW!!!" I ain't doing none of this bouncy walk shit.

The monatany of going to and from work I think will bring out the worst in your walk. It is so easy to get caught up in the herd mentality... "off to work, off to work, off to work, off to work, off to work.... then at the end of the day... "off to home, off to home, off to home, off to home...." I feel like I'm in a bad commercial or something...

As I continued to walk, I realized what my problem was. I was trying to keep up with the white folks.

White folks walk fast as shit. I don't know what it is. But y'all mfers be MOVING to get to work. running after trains, getting your briefcases caught in doors, spilling your coffee to get around people, spilling coffee on yourself trying to walk and sip at the same time.... I would bet money there has never been a colored speed walking champion. There is no way if you put the best of the white speed walkers in a competition they wouldn't 'walk away with it'. (LOL, I crack myself up sometimes...)

Its easy to not even realize you're doing it. I find myself treating the sidewalk like the highway. You never want to be going to slow because all of the cars have to move in this synchronistic way to keep the flow going... the sidewalk is a little different. You can stop, pull off to the side, whatever you need to do because there is an understanding that your walking doesn't affect anyone else. Your average everyday sidewalk doesn't operate like a road. Now, if you were in midtown Manhattan, it would be a different story.

The magnificent mile is a great example in Chicago of a herd of non-experienced city walkers in the city for tourism and shopping cluttered with work folks... its a nightmare. But most sidewalks allow for a specific amount of freedom, meandering and individuality. Thus the need for a harder walk. It allows for some originality, almost calls for it as long as you don't disturb the flow too much.

I think I'm going to freeball it tomorrow just to give my walk an extra dimension to see if that helps.

~C

CD of the moment: The Time - "Pandemonium"

FYI: a few great movies are on DVD now...

Just in case you missed these, I want to recommend a few great movies that are out on DVD now:

Louis Kahn - "My Architect" Even if you're not into architecture I think you will enjoy this movie. Its a great story about a son who never knew his 'famous' father trying to learn about who is father was.

"Hero" w/ Jet Li - If you like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, you'll love Hero. A phenomenal movie that is gorgeously filmed. The use of color, music, all that..... comes together nicely. There's love, there's fighting, there's pain, there's suffering.... great movie.

~C

CD of the moment: Reel People - "Second Guess" (this is actually the bonus CD which I want, because it has all the remixes... for some reason, the original is not available on Amazon?

pissing off folks

I pissed off a friend last night. I was just being honest, but she got pissed off and hung up on me. I feel bad, but she hung up on me dammit!! I think she was intoxicated and she's always sensitive so I realized as soon as I said it that I had pushed a nerve that goes to the core of her being... but I was just being honest.

If someone asks you a question and you think your honesty might offend them, do you still be honest? I'm thinking... you shouldn't have asked the question if you didn't want to hear or might disagree with what I might say... I guess I should learn to hold me tongue...

ok. next time...

~C

CD of the moment: Actually, a web radio station out of Canada www.netmusique.com with three channels to choose from 1. JazzMusique (mostly downtempo), 2. Housemusique (mostly uptempo), and 3. ElectricMusic (electronica ... kinda German if you ask me..)

testing the photo thing..

testing the photo thing..
Originally uploaded by cinnamon_stick.

lets see if this works....

this is an example of a piece of my mother's jewelry that she makes now that she is retired. But since she has no idea what a blog is and I wouldn't let her know that I have a public domain where I cuss and talk about pussy, she'll never know about this little piece of promotion I'm doing for her...

MLK DAY FURNITURE SALE!!!

(In my best WWF voice impersonation) “Come celebrate the holiday at your local furniture store!!!” I swear to God I saw this on TV last weekend. The ad was complete with this shotty black and white image of MLK that looked like it was created on a Lite-Brite machine.

I mean damn, people will do anything to get you to come out and spend money. Did they really think that people who truly celebrate MLK Day would be moved enough by this ad and choose to celebrate the great legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by purchasing a new dining room set. I guess MLK liked to eat, but c’mon!….
There is nothing about a couch that represents the legacy of this great man. (Although I’m sure he liked to sit too.)

I decided to go out and get my groove on for MLK day. I figured I would dance and drink to celebrate his legacy… I guess that isn’t any better than buying a couch huh? At least if I bought a couch I would have something to sit on… I much prefer to go out on a Sunday – Thursday because usually there are better parties and you avoid the suburban drunks that invade the city. (it was the same in Chicago.)

Well there is this vertically challenged girl (actually a midget) who frequents the clubs here in DC. Cool chic, everyone knows her she rocks it out on the dance floor and seems like a real cool person, BUT I wouldn’t be trying to hit that. Especially on the big three day weekend Sunday when everybody and their momma is out at the club!! Everyone sees you trying to be all cuddled up with the 3 foot tall chic!!

Well, there was this brothat trying to bang the midget. I understand that sometimes times are tight, but that is what black cheerleaders #469 is for. If you are 6+ feet tall, you have no business trying to get with a 60 pound 3 foot chic. Maybe he is a closet pedophile and this is his way of realizing those dreams legally……..

She creeps me out anyway. I’m not used to being in a packed ass club and having to worry about stepping on somebody. I’m sure she is used to weaving through the club at that level, but it just seems odd. After a while, you just keep on dancing on don’t think about the fact that there is a hobbit dancing nearby.

~C

CD of the moment: Ministry of Sound -"The Chillout Sessions Summer 2004"

I finally decided to buy some pickles...

PIckles are on of the most underrated luxeries in life.

Whenever I go to the grocery store, it is usually just buy the essentials: meat, fruit, vegetables, seasonings to make it tasty and liquid to wash it all down. I don't spend much time messing around with chips & sals, cookies, etc... I always consider buying pickles, but ultimately I put them back. Sometimes, I even do it as a checkout purge right as I'm placing things on the thingy to check out.

Today on my way to the grocery store, I knew before I even went in that I was going to buy me some pickles. Three day weekend ahead + nothing to do but sit around the house and enjoy me = Curt's buying pickles.

I get to the pickle aisle on the verge of just opening up the jar on the spot. As I examine my choices, it suddenly dawns on me: "Where are the sweet & spicy joints?" .......... aww hell naw!!!! I wanted sweet and spicy spears dammit!!! I start pulling out pickle jars and looking behind the ones in the front.... read all the labels... even considered getting those thin ass sandwich stackers, but they didn't even have THEM in sweet and spicy. The only spicy pickles they had was that 10 pound jar of weird multi-color pickles that when dry look like they would make good Thanksgiving table ornaments...

Alas, I settled in with some dill spears, but feel like I've wasted this bi-annual pickle buying day.

~C

CD of the moment: Jorge Ben Jor - "Samba Esquema Novo"

Top 10 CD's I purchased this year..

*The following list has been updated with links to the records on Amazon.com and I also had mistyped the title of the Zero 7 record. (Thanks for the correction.) enjoy!

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The end of the year is also the time to do all those "best of" lists, but we all know they are usually full of a bunch of BS. So I'm going to break it down for you. These were the top 10 CD's that I purchased this year. Some of these may have even been released in 2003. But I didn't know about them until 2004.

These are the best to me for a number of reasons, either I applaud them for their sheer ingenuity in this time of musical blandity or I either simply fell in love with the album for whatever reason and couldn't stop listening to it. That to me is the sign of a good record. It grabs you, it makes you listen over and over and you discover something else with each listen.

As I look back it is also interesting to notice the complete lack of hip-hop that I purchased this year. Even when I did purchase an album it was more than anything to support an artist that I felt was trying to do something different than the everyday radio BS. But more often than not, I listened to it a couple of times, then never picked it up again. I know I'm getting old because 4 of my top 10 were either originally released 20+ years ago or are compilations of songs released 20 years ago.

1. Lizz Wright - "Salt"
Simply amazing. The sheer sensuality and strength and character and love and hapiness that exists in this woman's soul comes through her voice on this album. I tried 4 times to see her live this year and something happened every time preventing it from happening. Then someone I know sees her and said the only two concerts that were better were Nina Simone and Sade. A tremndous album from start to finish fusing jazz, blues and gospel into an unforgettable musical journey.

2. Fertile Ground - "Black Is"
Each Fertile Ground CD gets better and better and more closely resembles their tremendous live show that I first saw while bartending at State of the Union around 1997-98. Powerful vocals with soulful afro-latin rhythms made this a mainstay in my car. Not to mention, they put on one of the most energetic and fun live shows around these days.

3. Miles Davis - "In a Silent Way" (3 CD box set)
- I had the original CD for a few years and occassionally listened to it and felt it was a solid CD, but this release has gorgeous packaging, incredible liner notes that give you great insight into each individual session as well as alternate versions of tracks to give you an idea of what the track could've been, unedited that stretch as long as 20 minutes. These are the real original versions before they would've been edited down to fit on vinyl. This is a tremendous box set that any jazz fan should grab if you can still find it.

4. Jeff Mills - "Choice: A Collection of Classics"
- This CD is great to me for a number of reasons. Here is a guy who was a DJ during the era that I grew up in so he acutely spans the gamut from music my momma used to play (Teddy Pendegrass) to music I loved to hear on the radio from Chicago and St. Louis such as old electronic classics and that early detroit techno sound that I would only hear on mix tapes from someone's older brother that just happen to come back from the 'city' and it's all seamlessly mixed into my personal trip down memory lane. Even though I only really knew about half the songs on the CD, they are all in the spirit of songs I enjoyed while growing up.

5. Amp Fiddler - "Waltz of a Ghetto Fly"
- This album should've received much more press than it did. To me it was much more solid than Donnie's album, more cohesive than Van Hunt and/or Cody Chestnut, not to mention being incredibly funky and it had the ability to stretch into the underground house music scene in ways that others had to show the above mentioned guys how to do. This album is a true R&B album to me and I hope we hear more from him in 2005.

6. Louie Vega - "Elements of Life"
- I love this album so much. I received a couple of promo-vinyl only singles of this album way back and was so excited that I dropped like $30 to buy the Japanese Import of the album 5 months before it came out in the US. Then I purchased each subsequent 12" to receive all of the remixes of the 5 singles that were released off of this album, not to mentioned all of the other tracks released on his record label that I bought, so damn, Louie got a lot of my loot this year. I shouldn't need to give his ass any more props since he got all my money, but he is doing hot hot shit right now and is clearly on top of his game with every release he does and every remix he touches. I guess I haven't even talked about the album yet... umm, latin, house, jazz, funk, soulful, dancefloor, samba, salsa, etc... all in one. AND, they're about to release a remix album of all the alternate versions that were previously only available on vinyl which is probably worth checking out too. It's called "Extensions" you can pre-order it and be the first to check it out allowing you to stay ahead of the curve when people try to tell you about this CD. Isn't nice to be able to say, "But do you have the REMIX album?"

7. Amel Larrieux - "Bravebird"
- Amel has one of the most beautiful voices of our generation and I applaud her for saying screw you to the major labels, releasing her album independently without any press at all, no publicity at all and relying strictly on the strength of the record to move units. Much props and I hope you continue to do the independent thing. This is why I continue to support Ani DiFranco whose albums I can kinda fuck with on a good day, but her conviction alone makes me give everything she does a second look.

8. Zero 7 - "When It Falls"
- Most Sophomore albums aren't that great. D'angelo, Badu, Portishead, and Maxwell are exceptions that come to mind, but Zero 7 stuck to the same no nonsense straightahead downtempo formula and created the best underground lounge sountrack of the year. When you listen to this you can only somehow feel like you are cooler than everyone else around you. The albums is way laid back and is just long enough to not bore you. However, if they come with the same formula for round 3, it would be extremely tired.

9. Dimitri from Paris - "In The House"
The former DJ from Dee-Lite brings us this 2CD set which is a great mix of house music from past and present and contains classic tracks by Lil' Louis, Crystal Waters, The O'Jays and Jestofunk all updated and re-edited as well as understated and not overdone remixes by Blaze, Dubtribe, current hot producer of the moment Rasmus Faber and the Africanist vibes of DJ Gregory. Nice stuff here.

10. Marvin Gaye - "Here My Dear"
Lastly, but not least, I bought the reissued version of this old Marvin Gaye album that I never knew about. He created this to help pay off his divorice debt to his ex-wife. It is an extremely personal manifesto of love, hate, and pain that creates probably the most personal record I've ever heard. From the beginning he states, "here it is, this is what you wanted right?" and it is very clear that the entire album is about the pain of this divorice he's going into and how he realizes he has to make this record with all of the proceeds going to her as part of their settlement. From the metaphoric cover art to the incredible liner notes that talk at length about how he would come in from court pissed off and start singing without knowing what he might say. You can hear the pain in Marvin's voice yet on other tracks you can tell how much he loves his ex-wive Anna. I'm still trying to figure out if this is something I listen to when I'm happy because of the incredible underlying sense of humor he shows or when I'm sad because of the obvious pain and truth that exists between his jokes. Though it was released in 1978 it is still a tremendous album to this day.

The crisis of mediocrity

We have reached a turning point.

Either we move forward, or get left behind.

Accepting mediocrity and living our lives with a lack of concern for our fellow man has to stop.

Since I haven't transferred my Netflix to my new address yet, I was forced to go to Blockbuster for my parent's weekend visit. (that's a whole other chronicle) Although, I doubt my parents would be interested in any of the movies I'd be interested in anyway.

Well, both of the movies were scratched or something and at about the half-way point wouldn't play anymore. Do you know how annoying it is to get half way through a movie and then have it just sit there like theres a ghost in the room playing with the pause button?.... Even a bad movie, once you get half way through it, I usually stick it out and see if it makes a turn around.

I've only walked out of a couple of movies (especially if I paid my money... sheeeiiittt, I'm staying.) I remember some random film festival movie that looked like it was made with a Beta camcorder, and believe it or not, I walked out of Pulp fiction the first time I saw it. However, it was the second movie in a Curtis 2 for 1 early afternoon weekday special. I was out of popcorn and didn't want to risk going out and not getting back in to see the second movie.

I digress...

So when I went to return the movies I walked in and told the guy, neither one of these two movies played all the way through. He said,

"just drop them in there and pick out two new ones.."

I said, "If I drop them in here, then someone else will get these movies, not be able to play them and be pissed off like I am now...."

............... he paused, then said, "well you can just drop it in the box and I'll get it."

He's not going to get it. He had a line of 5-6 people and people coming in behind me dropping off movies in the box so there was no way he would know which two I dropped in there that didn't play!!

So in his efforts to dismiss me, I persist:

"If I drop these into the box with all of the rest of them, how will you know which ones don't play?................ you won't!.......... and someone else is going to get these non-playing movies!.........."

he comes over, takes the movies from me, and drops them in the box himself........... I'm sure he didn't plan on being confronted with his mediocre approach to life and work. I'm sure he didn't give two shits, and that's the problem.

First day of class was yesterday, and I KNOW I'm not that boring of a teacher. I mean it is the first day of class and people were settling way down in their chairs pulling their hats down while we were going over the syllabus!!!???

I mean, damn bro, let's give the class a chance. Your parents pay all this money for you to come into my class and sleep??

I asked the Dean's secretary if I could throw things at people who doze and she told me "No."

I let her know I kicked a guy who was sleeping on the aisle and she informed me I can't kick people either, so I said it was an accident.

I'll give them one more week of that shit, then I'm going to start being an asshole.

~C

CD of the moment: Jazzanova - "the remixes"

Short guys in trenchcoats

... this just... shouldn't be.

This is a definite fashion faux pas (sp?)

If you are under 5'-5ish... you shouldn't be wearing full length trench coats that touch the ground when you bend over...

you just shouldn't.

On a more serious note, I had no idea of the extent of the devistation of this tsunami until I went to this site: http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/2.html

It isn't anything graphic, just arial photos of the beaches before and after.... this is... just...

no words...

~C

Laughing my ass off at Chicago...

See, this is why I left y'all.

Chicago = 27 degrees, feels like 7, 8" of snow with another 3-5 predicted tonight

DC = 60 degrees, light drizzle, hoes still showing leg with the skirt/heel combo....

miss ya!

~C

CD of the moment: Sueno Libero Vol. 1 - "A trip through obscure 70's jazz funk tracks form Italian music library"

Shirley Chisolm RIP

Some great quotes below and info about Shirley Chisolm, the first 'woman congressman who happened to be black' who passed away peacefully this week.

~C

Shirley Chisholm (November, 1924 - Jan 2005 )

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress. An early education expert, Shirley Chisholm was elected to the New York Legislature in 1964 and to Congress in 1968. She ran for president in 1972, winning 152 delegates before she withdrew. Shirley Chisholm served in Congress until 1983. During her congressional career, Shirley Chisholm was noted for her support for women's rights, her advocacy of legsislation to benefit those in poverty, and her opposition to the Vietnam war.

Selected Shirley Chisholm Quotations

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

The United States was said not to be ready to elect a Catholic to the Presidency when Al Smith ran in the 1920's. But Smith's nomination may have helped pave the way for the successful campaign John F. Kennedy waged in 1960. Who can tell? What I hope most is that now there will be others who will feel themselves as capable of running for high political office as any wealthy, good-looking white male.

At present, our country needs women\'s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she\'s probably a lesbian.

... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Prejudice against blacks is becoming unacceptable although it will take years to eliminate it. But it is doomed because, slowly, white America is beginning to admit that it exists. Prejudice against women is still acceptable. There is very little understanding yet of the immorality involved in double pay scales and the classification of most of the better jobs as "for men only." (1969)

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. (attributed -- also attributed to Marian Wright Edelman)

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It\'s a girl.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

~C

CD of the moment: Groove Armada - "Another Late Night"

random new year ramblings

You know, this Bush win is still bothering me.... it all just seemed to happen and be accepted all too quickly.... it just FEELS like something is up... I don't know if it's the whole voter fraud thing with the machines, the religious folks or what... but everyone is just way too quiet.... feels erie..

I don't want to become a big Bush basher. (that would be too easy) I mean, I could sit back and say 'oh that george bush! he said _______ yesterday and he's still an idiot!' but what point would it serve?

The republicans own everything anyway. Believe it or not, I actually do have a naive hope that gw will actually be more moderate in his second term. I think that most of his insane religious-right posturing was just trotted out just to win the election. Besides what the hell does 'born again' mean in america in the 21st century?... it means that you only drive American suv's? or that you only drive suv's with 'wwjd?' stickers on the bumper?, i mean he likes zz top and cocaine, he can't really be a crazy conservative, right?

Do you ever think when talking about our president the question isn't 'did he ever do drugs?' but 'when do you think he stopped doing drugs?' We've inherited the worst parts of our 70's childhoods.... the self-involvement and hedonism without any of the idealism and altruism. ah well, it could be worse.

as an aside, I love being back on the East coast simply because of the range of seafood options at the grocery store. i'm surprised that some crazy vegan hasn't started a line of fake fish. I mean, they have fake cow and pig, why not fake catfish? squirrel? or fake pigeon? It could make MILLIONS in Asia.

Speaking of Asia, I heard a guy say at lunch today that the whole tsunami thing could be the basis for even bigger conspiracy theories than 9/11... he says on this wonderful place called the internet, he 'heard' (how do you hear on the internet if you're reading?) that the quake could've actually been the US doing some new 'terrorist attack testing' with an underground nuclear bomb but they miscalculated the whole affects of the tsunami thing..

you know over 100 people died in Somalia.... that means it took the wave like 9 or 10 hours to travel from Sumatra to the East coast of Africa..... NO ONE thought for a minute to warn the brothas??? And don't tell me that they don't have cell phones in Somalia yet...

~C

CD of the moment - ... actually, it's one song that I keep playing over and over and over. It is the Little Louie Vega remix of a Japanese artist called Pushim and the song is called "Like a Sunshine, My Memory". I guess I could recommend the whole album, but I haven't heard it yet. It might be some corny Japanese shit. I've tried to buy a few Japanese artists, but besided Mondo Grosso I haven't found anyone else that has a solid release... and since to recommend a single song that you can't purchase in the US anyway would be rather elitist of me I'll recommend a CD: Joey Negro & Dimitri from Paris- "Kings of Disco"

Then again, I'm coming to grips with the fact that my musical tastes are pretty elitist.... so ... whatever.... I'm just rambling because I'm trying to find an interesting way to end this one.... but I'm just thinking to myself.. "how in the hell did I get here?"....

um... yeah...

bye.