This isn’t standard TMYLM kind of stuff, but the world is kinda fucked up these days.. And perhaps this request, coming and leaving out of some kind of social-networking site, unnamed now but important to the global sociality that threatens us all with its utter LACK of l33tspeak, fulfils some kind of ancient, pre-1990s urge to just get up there and yell.

This guy said it better, but we have the album.

Newtown Beggars - Beggars CAN Be Choosers (full album)

Well… Its February 14 evening and we certainly aren’t vivo-ing per lei, I tell you.

It’s been a long time for TMYLM and, rather than adding to the economic nationwide collapse of blogs, we thought it’d be better to look on the upside.  We’re coming back, and it’s gonna involve much more than some software upgrade.

Let’s talk a little about music, the world, and world music.  Some choose to tattoo it on their arms; others choose to listen to the music when it comes to you.  And others, those well-moneyed types, can afford to actually travel in these awful times.  Well, TMYLM is at least one of the above, but certainly just came back from some long, ambiguously deserved trip.  And brought these two Belizean (well, actually Garifunian) gems for you:

Reckless - Don’t Discriminate

Umalali - Yuendueya Weyu

We could discurse randomly on these pieces (hybridity of Garifuna culture; the internalization of medical debility through HIV culture in Belize; women’s agency via song, etc) but actually, the songs are great and you should enjoy them.