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So for the 8th year in a row, I’m missin’ carnival. I’m regressing into Trini-speak for this post because ah damn vex that another year has passed and ah cah find my way home for carnival AGAIN.

I’m not gonna go into too much detail about how fabulous carnival is, you kinda have to experience it to know. But I guess if you take a rave, make it 3 days straight (more for some), remove all clothing except underwear, change that god-forsaken boom-da-boom-cha-boom-da music to sweet sweet soca, and take it to the streets, you might kinda get a feelin’ for it. Glorious.

But das all I sayin. Full-stop. I’m so out of it, I barely feel qualified to have a conversation about it. (Go to my first post for a better understanding of current ambivalence). And don’t go to wikipedia because their Trinidad Carnival post is sadly lacking.

Here’s a list of tunes for carnival 07 (I asked a friend to compose the list for me. I trust her judgement because she’s in a soca music video). You can find them all on on Trini Jungle Juice.

• crazy - cold sweat
• machel montano - one more time one more wine
• machel - higher than high
• machel and patrice - lights up or light in d air
• machel - jumbie
• patrice roberts - suga boy

And in my research, I also found a Soca Podcast that I’ll probably subscribe to.

All the better to depress myself with, my dear.

So if my posts the week of February 18 are particularly bitter, now you know why.

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