I'm up late at night workin' and I have to stay awake. Good thing music's keeping me up. Yesterday as I went to the record store to purchase a couple of new CDs, two interesting things happened:

1. Trina Broussard was playing;
2. Incognito's new CD had just arrived.

Trina Broussard's most familiar song was on the Love Jones soundtrack - a remake of the Minnie Ripperton song Inside My Love. Although the song is not on her new CD, The Same Girl, the album is not a dissapointment. Three songs are included here for your listenin' pleasure.

Incognito's back with the CD Adventures in Black Sunshine, this time with Maysa on seven tracks. Needless to say, I'm very impressed with the CD. Hope you will be too.

Flavors Friday VIII.

01. Trina Broussard - No Way Out.
02. Aquanote - True Love.
03. Incognito - Don't Turn My Love Away.
04. Trina Broussard - These Are The Days.
05. Incognito - The World Is Mine.
06. Magic Number - Everyday (Instrumental).
07. Trina Broussard - Joy.
08. Walter Jones - GC's Theme (Instrumental). from Lounge Candelas Version II, also released this week.
09. New Birth - It's Been A Long Time. The wayback machine was stuck in front of me for a sec.
10. Incognito - Listen to the Music.
11. Incognito - True To Myself.
12. Aquanote - Come Around.
13. Mocca Soul - Deep Sea So Blue. Soul || Soul anyone?
14. Cee Lo - Evening News (featuring Chazzle and Sir Cognac). You know how I do.

Let the sunshine in.

KB sent a little query out for us yesterday and asked us to come up with one of our favorite disco cuts. Without hesitation, I came up with All Night Thang by Invisible Man's Band. It was one of those songs that had superior instrumentaton, flowed, and the words were extremely seventies. If someone walked up to you and and said "sugar booga/honey could ya", would you run? That's all I'm sayin.

However my song is one of 27. With Vaughn Mason, Rick Dees, and The Villiage People (yeah, I had the cowboy outfit when I was growin' up, alright?!) in the mix, it's a stone groove, people.

And no, I'm not ignoring Disco Duck.

Bounce, skate, roll, bounce.....

Exhibit A:

Sometimes I Blog Slow from J. Brotherlove.

Exhibit B:

Sometimes I Blog Slow by Khary.

Discuss.

The best way to describe the weekend is to use the ever so convenient stylings of KB's Bakers Dozen.

1. Getting denied a day off.
2. Planes departing later than they're supposed to.
3. Having dinner with Ewedontno and Phillipe which makes up for having a bad day.
4. The Three Musketeers transforming into the three hos: Blog Ho, Veggie Ho, and Mac Ho.
5. Rockin' at The Roots concert.
6. Wishing Medeski, Martin, and Wood would stop speeding their tunes up and attempt to cause a migraine. Much better when mellow.
7. Making plans to meet up the next time and really do the right thing which is to go to the rekkasto. Not enough time with them, most definitely.
8. Getting on the wrong trains in NYC on Sunday while trying to make it to Churrascaria Plataforma and being 30 minutes late.
9. Having only 1 hour to eat and talk with P6, Bejata, Ronntaylor, Lynne d Johnson, Anzi, and Steven G. Fullwood.
10. Hating the fact that I wasn't able to have one more drink, two more hours, and three more helpings of food, easily.
11. Wondering if we'll ever see Trent or Trayc, but didn't even get to see Hashim or Louis this time.
12. Hate the fact that I didn't get home until 1am due to bad weather, and ended up working all night until 7am.
13. Thinking that I will definitely be doing this again in the fall.

I'm trying to elevate myself out of the stress that is work to hang out in New York City with the cool people this weekend. I find myself needing to be more mellow and less postal.

In my mind:

1. The blogpham is scheduled to hang in NYC on Sunday. Want to hang? Email me and/or stay tuned to this site as things develop.
2. I got inundated with spam so some comments got deleted inadvertedly (memo to Six Apart: bring back MT Blacklist!) I'm restoring the comments from previous posts, but it's a lot of cutting and pasting. Don't worry, the love is there, even if you can't see it.
3. I've got three double plays in this arby:
You'll see two cuts from Brigette McWilliams. When the album came out, J. Brotherlove bought Take Advantage of Me and played it nonstop, and of course I had to purchase it, its tunes etched into my brain forevermore. It didn't stay in my house long, floating away like half of my collection always seemed to. He had it in his hands again a week ago, and of course I had to spin it.
4. I now have the Magic Number CD That Day, and it's my favorite Neo Soul, Electronica, mellow groove CD so far this year. Seeing it sell out at the record store not once but twice made me feel good about getting one of the first 5 to enter into the store. I feel a review coming on.
5. Who dropped the knowledge 'bout Miguel Migs? Jason T aka NegroPlease, and being in the mellow mood, I had to pick it up again and spin it around.

Flavors Friday VII.


01. Brigette McWilliams - Cherish This Love. A cut from a decade ago.
02. D'Influence - Shake It.
03. Magic Number - Suddenly.
04. Miguel Migs - One Wish For Me.
05. Magic Number- Fly Away.
06. Alexander O'Neal - What Is This Thing Called Love? Minneapolis old school still in effect.
07. Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You. From Another Late Night.
08. Miguel Migs - The One.
09. Brigette Williams - No Groove Sweating. A Marvin Gaye vibe in full effect.
10. Miguel Migs - Soul Vibe. Speeding it up a little.
11. After 7 - No Better Love.
12. Cameo - Skin I'm In.
13. Blackalicious - Green Light: Now Begin. Still movin'. Still groovin'.
14. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away.
15. Heart - There's The Girl. Nothin' wrong with a little pop rock to end it off.

Green Light: Now Begin.

Throw away yesterday / Today is a brand new day

-Sia, The Church of What's Happening Now, Colour the Small One.

I'm searching. I'm looking for another gig. I mentioned that contracting is good for quickies but you know what? It's absolutely bad for seeking a permanent gig. While I haven't gone postal yet, if you see me wandering about the streets with a suit on, wrinkled paper in hand, foaming at the mouth, and babbling words, then just direct me to an employment agency. Remember, technical architects can be your friend too. Four words: resume. available. upon. request.

I'm travelling. Despite all that's going on the homefront, I'm still heading to New York City this weekend, even after having to change my flight twice. If you happen to be in the area during the weekend, drop me a line. There's a meetup brewing. Don't sleep. Doesn't look like I will.

I'm reading. You would think I would read books right? Well this time I have an excuse. What do I do during rest time? I sit and read Bloglines all damned day like a neverending story. I'm known as the blog stalker ho enthusiast. Trying to keep the blog limit to 200 is my ongoing quest.

I'm still celebrating. You should too. All Cancer birthdays rule. Thanks for all of the emails/IMs/phone calls. If you're thinking 'what can I give the man that has everything', then I've got one answer for you: An ipod.