Heads-up for Akala, hip-hop MC

http://www.myspace.com/akalamusic

I just learned about this guy from linkinparkyay on hiphopmusic. This guy is very solid. Great production, good melodies interspersed with tight rapping and laid over good, heavy beats. I think I'm going to pick up this album. At least electronically.

By the way, are there any Mac users out there using Firefox who are having trouble with MySpace? The music player's not loading properly for me, even the home page is futzed up. It goes away when I open up the pages in Safari, but I don't dig that browser as much as FF.

Nisargadatta: Desireless Clarity

From issue #2530, edited by Mark Otter:

Q: Are there not good desires and bad, high desires and low?

NM: All desires are bad, but some are worse than others. Pursue any desire, it will always give you trouble.

Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to AlongTheWay