Fading into Obscurity

I bet some of you out there would have expected me to get a job by now. Well I guess you are going to be surprised because I still haven't started looking. I guess the word is disillusionment - although spending all day every day lounging around the house isn't always exactly pleasant, it's slightly better than working (except there's no money in it). I'm not enough of a hedonist to believe this should be the case. Ideally, work would be stimulating, exciting, and fulfilling - at least some of the time. Not so with the last few (several?) jobs I've had, so these days lounging looks pretty good.

Well, at least it lets me occasionally take some time out to peruse my music collection and bring some (possibly) new and exciting tunes to you, my dear reader. I've decided to replace my music page with direct links from here, and I'm also going to retire songs once they've been up for a while, to save space.

This latest batch started as a coincidence of two musical interests. A friend went to see Blackalicious and reminded me I hadn't pushed any Quannum propaganda for a while; and I finally watched Three Kings and heard some cool French rap in the soundtrack. So all this thinking about music created an urge to update my blog.

I've been trying to track down good French rap for some time, with limited success. One band I found a while ago is called Loco Locass. They're actually French Canadian but whatever, I'm sure it's basically the same thing. So here's their song Groove Grave. The band from Three Kings is Plastic Bertrand, and you can listen to their song Stop ou Encore. As for our Northern California friends, many of you hopefully are already familiar with 8 Point Agenda, a song Latyrx did with backup from the Herbalizer. Perhaps you have not heard Burnin Hot in Cali on a Saturday Night, an excellent Latyrx-Blackalicious enterprise.

Enjoy!