Fonds de tiroir

That was a pretty long break, wasn’t it?
Alright, folks, here is the deal:
It all started when megaupload was being a pain and kept disconnecting uploads every time I’d try to.

And I am not the patient type.

Maybe some of you would have guessed that.

So at the same time, I quitted my job.
Felt soooo good. I didn’t find another one, my wife did!
So it was my turn to look after my son and all of a sudden the world was such a better place.
Especially when you play a little James Brown or The Embrooks or whatever I was obsessed at the time.

By the way, it’s not a joke, The Embrooks are a pretty awesome bunch of freakbeat makers. I discovered them because RYP from Twilightzone offered the album “Yellow Glass Perseptions” in November – or was it October? Anyway, I haven’t stopped listening to them since. I got the others albums. They’re good. I’m a happy little freakbeater these days.
And also, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but Twilightzone offers the best selections these days: Buddy Holly, The Embrooks, The Fleshtones, some amazing obscure garage comps, man, try not to miss that, it’s pretty funky.

So after a while, it’s like it’s been too long to write on the blog again, see?
I’m sorry, I thought I would be a little more consistent than that.
But it is just not there anymore.
The will is not there.
So I don’t know. I think I’m going to go more or less quiet for a while.

Anyway, I’m not going to go like that.
Especially since after trying now and then to upload something on megaupload, the other day, I got fucking lucky. After a couple of trials, I got up to four uploads. Yeah, baby.

So I’m going to post what was already on my computer and maybe a couple of cool more things that I get in the meanwhile. Because, oh baby again, I got tons of good shit the past few months. I had what my friend Sylvain and I call a “bon pétage de plombs”: kinda when you loose control and start to buy everything that sounds good and not so expensive.

From a 1cent CD – Tee and Thee Crumpets on Amazon, you can check, it’s still there – to a 32euros 8 CDs boxset Atlantic Records 1947 to 1974. And put about a good 3 or 4 dozens of CDs in between.
I got lucky, crazy, I needed it, call it whatever, my ears are clear and ringing from all these good sounds. So the Embrooks. That’s one. Grinderman. Tom Waits (Alice, Blood Money, Frank’s Wild Years), Led Zeppelin (Physical Graffiti, the japanese vinyl replica double for 11 euros, how could I resist?), etc, etc.

So here it is, folks, months after, when it doesn’t really mean so much anymore but I am having fun anyway, some stuff I uploaded on my computer some months ago and I hate a waste job.
Plus you know, I still have tons of stuff to tell you so:
a) I’m going to finish posting the good dozen and a half albums I uploaded for you.
b) Maybe I’ll throw in a new thing or two that I found too cool to pass by without sharing it AND TELLING THE FUCKING WORLD HOW FUCKING MUCH I LOVE AND WORSHIP THIS GODDAMN MUSIC THAT CARRY ME, LIFT ME UP, AND KEEP ON INSPIRING ME EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE. (I guess I had to say that. Sorry.)
c) And then, I won’t close it. I’ll let the links die one after another (wow, that’s sounds not cheerful all of a sudden). Okay, here is the deal: anytime someone encounters a dead link in the right column, please let me know and I’ll revive it. You know, some kind of cool haunted dead blog where the roots of it are kept alive, the minimum I can keep on giving to the world all the time. Putting some really good music out there. You know, it sounds a little stupid written like that but I bet it is still more than a lot of people out there. Like right now, I leave in New Jersey, right? And I have to talk
d) Sarkozy is dying by his own hand. I hated him so much that I was too blinded to see it coming. I live, again, very happy times. He is sooo perfect. I almost love him now, of course. I am a sick motherfucker, ain’t I?
e) And if Life keeps on being slightly better every day or so, the feeling to be on the right track stays around, maybe I’ll find the time and the want from time to time to give you news.

Of course, a lot of other things happened to me but unfortunately, we don’t have time to go any further into details. Maybe another day.

So let’s go: music, Maestro!

The Mike