Ghetto BLaster: October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Poisoned Tears

Snoop Dogg & Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Remix)
DJ Premier - 2009 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher
50 Cent & Eminem - Psycho
Wale & John Mayer - Letter
Wale - Beautiful Bliss
La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)
Michael Jackson - Beat It (Blister Boyz Remix)
Till West & Ludacris - Same Man Stand Up (Damgroove Bootleg Edit)
Imogen Heap - Thriller (Michael Jackson Cover)
DJDT - Praise You refixxx (feat. Benny Benassi)
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Chromeo – Night by Night (Siriusmo Remix)
Notorious BIG - Party & Bullshit in the USA
Miami Horror - Sometimes
Beautiful Girls - Don't Wait
Donnis - Sexytime
LA Riots - Fall 2009 Mix
Draax & Seavers - Rude Boys (Krafty Kuts Rerub)
Skitty - Foundation X October 2009 Studio Mix (Alt)
Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes
Madvillain - Rhinestone Cowboy
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Lucero - Smoke
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
They Might Be Giants - I Am A Paleontologist
Willy Wonka - Oompa Loompa

Thursday, October 29, 2009

I need a Winn-Dixie grocery bag full of money

Unknown Artist vs. Lil Wayne - Got Money (DnB Remix)

Fresh To Death

So I decided last night I was gonna retire this blog, mainly due to lack of direction with it. I started a new one, Fresh To Death. I posted some music up and came to the conclusion I'd rather dedicate this blog to music and my other one to everything else, mainly art and just random shit. So enjoy...

Deadmau5 - You Need A Ladder
Felix Cartel - Salty Lake
Shwayze - Get U Home (Alan Wilkis Remix)
Bonobo - Days To Come
Usher, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross & Drake - Fed Up
Lil Wayne - No Ceilings (Mixtape)
Lil Wayne - Run This Town
Lil Wayne - Make Her Say

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Post #250

Maybe I should retire after this one?

Rehearsal Space

Hang Time

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

It's Always Sunny

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Valerna Remix)
Jagged Edge - Tip Of My Tongue (feat. Trina & Gucci Mane)
Jagged Edge - Let's Get Married (Remix feat. Run DMC)
Diplo & M.I.A – Baile Funk Two
Diplo & M.I.A – China Girl (Diplo Mix)
Edu K – Bundalele Baile Jean
Bumblebeez – Dr Love (Edu K Baile Funk Remix)
Lil Wayne - Most Wanted Rockstar
Lil Wayne - Thinking To Myself (feat. Mack Maine, Nicki Minaj & Kid Kid)
Weezer - Can't Stop Partying (feat. Lil Wayne)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
N.W.A. - The Panic Zone
Death In Vegas - Aisha (feat. Iggy Pop)
Run DMC - Ghostbusters
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Juelz Santana - Mixing Up The Medicine
Tweet - Call Me (Tokimonsta Remix)
Basement Jaxx - A Possibility
Lil Wayne, Kanye West, & TI - The Best

I still have the VHS promo copy of this around somewhere haha

Walk Me Home

Classixx & Villains - I'm On It (AC Slater Remix feat. o8o)
Mayer Hawthorne - Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)
We Love You So - Sound Advice 23 (Mixtape)
Gorilla vs. Bear - Halloween Mix
Joker & Ginz vs. Lil Scrappy & Young Buck - Re-Up For Money (Cable Thugstep Blend)
Kano - Niggaz Want My Old Shit
Sway - Mercedes Benz
Chris Brown - I Can Transform Ya (feat. Swizz Beatz & Lil Wayne)
Mistabishi - Enemies of Dorothy
DJ Hype - Essential Mix 2009.10.17
Moby - One Time We Lived (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
dBridge - Memory Park
Annie - I Don't Like Your Band
Paparazzi - Paparazzi Does Cali Mixtape (Alt)

Texts From Last Night

(202): i just used google streetview to figure out where i spent the night last night

Monday, October 26, 2009

A family of trees wanting to be haunted

Said The Whale - Gentlemen (Remix feat. Shad w/ Holy Fuck, MGMT & The Who)

Between you and the humpty dance, I'll have to get a metal plate on my butt.

Download here!!!

Bonus: DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Vibe I'm On (Mixtape)

The Case Of The Beautiful Blackmailer

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Under Me Sleng Teng

Mad Decent Podcast 54 - Diplo in China
Mad Decent Podcast 53 - David Rodigan
Mad Decent Worldwide Block Party '09 (Video)
Mad Decent Podcast 51 - Major Lazer Essential Mix

more @ Mad Decent

their blog rocks too

Don't Lose

Daft Punk vs. Bob Marley "Is This Digital Love?" (MadMixMustang Mash)
Designer Drugs - Drop Down
Chiddy Bang & MGMT - Kids
Lil Wayne - Swag Surfin' (Alt)
Lil Wayne - Wasted (Alt)
The Notorious B.I.G. vs. Miley Cyrus - Party and Bullshit in the U.S.A. (Hathbanger Mash-Up)
Drake, Santigold, & Lil Wayne - Unstoppable
Clipse & Cam'ron - Popular Demand
DJ Benzi presents The Elitaste CMJ Mixtape
Dizzee Rascal - Holiday (Laidback Luke Remix)
Tegan and Sara - Hell
Lupe Fiasco - Spraypaint & Ink Pens
Lupe Fiasco - Fire

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Downtown grocery store to benefit farmers, students

Walking through the open market on McKinley Street and Central Avenue, the senses come alive with smells of organic chocolate, crisp apples, harvest granola and home-roasted coffee from down the alley way.

The air is filled with sounds of live music of local Phoenix artists and friendly conversation between vendors and customers. This is exactly the sort of experience the public market director, Cindy Gentry, wanted to create for Phoenix’s new indoor public market.

“One of the things [the vendors] really wanted to do was create a gathering space around good food,” Gentry said. “There is so much creative energy around here. It really opens up your senses and wakes you up. You come alive.”

This month Phoenix is welcoming the Public Market grocery store. The grocery store and wine bar will feature many of the products the outdoor market offers but will be more accessible to patrons and be open every day.

The store will be home to many of the same vendors and farmers that participate in the outdoor market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Gentry said.

It will also give opportunities to other interested vendors to join in on the idea of coming together as a community around good food, she said.

The market will not carry commercialized products or brands, but it will still provide foods that the local farmers may not necessarily grow.

“As long as it is not competing with our farmers, then I am not opposed to carrying it,” Gentry said.

Gentry has a very specific vision for ASU students to be a part of.

“ASU will make Downtown a real laboratory. They have a chance to study the people that are here, living what they study,” she said. “They can develop leadership for the next generation to develop sustainability and awareness through their studies and endeavors and careers.”

Freshman nursing student Katie Powell said students don’t currently have a grocery store or a location to get healthy food, but the market will offer that.

“I think [the market] is a great opportunity for students to get in touch with local farmers and allow them to be healthy and make healthy choices,” she said.

The store will also create a symbiotic relationship because it helps farmers make their living and the students to make healthy choices for their body, she said.

“It allows them to interact with their community, which is the purpose of why students are Downtown,” Powell said. “We are here to liven up Phoenix and have students move outside of the campus into the greater Downtown area.”

Gentry sees the market as a place to come, live, eat and discover what it is like to be part of a community.

“Phoenix is a community that is young and new, but the people who are a part of it see it as a place to harvest growth and innovation,” she said.

The market is just one of many big steps the community is taking to help it’s inhabitants, she said.

It gives the farmers a place to go to sell their food every day, on top of still being able to participate in the outdoor market on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

One of Gentry’s goals is to reach out to students.

“We will be here every day. It is affordable. My hope is that it will be inviting to the students,” she said. “We will provide fresh food for the students to utilize, and that is something that has not been available to them in the past.”

Vintage

25% off the whole store @

Bows and Arrows
1712 L St
Sacramento, CA 95811
(916) 444-3606

Palms Out Sounds

Nicole Wray & Missy Elliot - Make It Hot
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Rah Digga - Party & Bullshit
Jery The Damaja - Rize
Beastie Boys - The Maestro
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Schooly D - Gucci Again
Massive Attack – “Bulletproof Love” (Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid Remix)
Rob Base & DJ E Z Rock - It Takes Two
The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)
Positive K - I Got A Man

Hardcore Gentlemen

Redeyes - I Love Hip-Hop Mixtape

Side A
01 Illa J - Timeless
02 Group home - Up against the wall
03 Dj Jazzy Jeff & Cl Smooth - All i know
04 Reflection Eternal & Mos Def - Fortified live
05 Roddy Rod - This Time Around
06 Mobb Deep - Temperature's rising
07 Bullion - Long promised
08 Moka Only - Run and find
09 Onyx - Da nex niguz
10 Digable Planets - Jettin
11 Talib Kweli & Mos Def - Little brother
12 Supreme NTM - Le reve
13 Slum Village - Fall in love
14 Erikah Badu - Back in the days
Side B
15 Reflection eternal - 2000 seasons
16 The Roots & Common - Act 2 (love of my life)
17 De la Soul - Stakes is high
18 Dorian Concept - Four-teen
19 Talib Kweli - My favorite song
20 Queen Latifah - UNITY
21 A tribe called Quest - Stressed out - Raphael Saadiq remix
22 Pete Rock & Cl Smooth - In the house
23 yU - Almost Time
24 Notorious Big - Gimmie the loot
25 Q-Tip - Wont trade
26 Damu - Same beat
27 Tanya Morgan - hardcore gentlemen
28 Quasimoto - Astro black
29 Gangstarr - Mass apeal
30 A tribe called Quest - Electric relaxation

Redeyes - The Ultimate Love & Hope Mixtape

01 Willie Hutch - hospital theme
02 Spacek - eve
05 Boomclap Bachelors - combine
06 Little Dragon - forever
07 Burial - in mcdonalds
08 Al Green - how can you mend a broken heart
09 Erykah Badu - the healer
10 Owusu and Hannibal - monster
11 Dwele - subject
12 Flying Lotus - breathe.something stellar star
13 Jay Electronica - eternal sunshine (the pledge) part 1
14 The Blackbyrds - mother and son bedroom talk
15 Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - in a sentimental mood
16 Gil Scott-Heron - pieces of a man
17 Musiq Soul Child - girl next door
18 Van Hunt - the thrill of this love
19 Michael Jackson - i cant help
20 The Plant Life - when she smiles (she lights the sky)
21 Muhsinah - mine
22 James Pants - ?
23 Awakening - prolouge
24 Dj Mehdi - anything is possible
25 Jay Electronica - eternal sunshine (the pledge) part 2
26 Herbie Hancock - vein melter
27 Dj Shadow speech
28 Mos Def - umi says
29 Ben Westbeech - so good times

Redeyes - Random Summer Flavas Mixtape

01 - gang starr - 92 interlude
02 - mf doom - high john
03 - kmd - sorcerers
04 - pharcydes - runnin - rae & christian remix
05 - jeru the damajaa - me or the papes
06 - sa-ra - rosebud
07 - avila brothers - i want you
08 - gb - simply so - ft steve spacek (sa-ra remix)
09 - dj kiyo & masaya fantasista - waves transmission
10 - mos def - miss fat booty
11 - ntm - tout n est pas si facile
12 - bottom fly - feels so good
13 - gagle - smog
14 - sa-ra - glorious
15 - wale oyejide - ibandan sunrise (instrumental)
16 - shawn j period - places everyone
17 - j dilla - donuts 1
18 - freddie crugger - running from love
19 - bahamadia - uknowhowwedu
20 - a tribe called quest - ince again
21 - a tribe called quest - stressed out
22 - common - the people
23 - masta ace - nostalgia
24 - q tip - lets ride
25 - diamon d - i went for mine
26 - black pocket (steve spacek) - thank yu & credits
27 - simbad ft.steelo - soul fever
28 - owusu & hannibal - delirium
29 - j dilla - donuts 2

Redeyes - Breakbeat Co UK Podcast 2008.08.21
Redeyes - March 2006 Mix

Full Blown Aids

Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month's worth of anti-AIDS medicine.

Only later did she learn that she had made herself all but uninsurable.

Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The next thing she knew, she said, she was lying on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she had been raped. She never developed an HIV infection. But months later, when she lost her health insurance and sought new coverage, she ran into a problem.

Turner, 45, who used to be a health insurance underwriter herself, said the insurance companies examined her health records. Even after she explained the assault, the insurers would not sell her a policy because the HIV medication raised too many health questions. They told her they might reconsider in three or more years if she could prove that she was still AIDS-free.

Stories of how victims of sexual assault can get tangled in the health insurance system have been one result of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund's citizen journalism project, which is calling on readers to provide information and anecdotes about the inner workings of the insurance industry. The project aims to uncover details and data that can inform the larger debate over how to fix the nation's health care system. As the Investigative Fund reported in September, health insurance companies are not required to make public their records on how often claims are denied and for what reasons.

Some women have contacted the Investigative Fund to say they were deemed ineligible for health insurance because they had a pre-existing condition as a result of a rape, such as post traumatic stress disorder or a sexually transmitted disease. Other patients and therapists wrote in with allegations that insurers are routinely denying long-term mental health care to women who have been sexually assaulted.

Susan Pisano, spokeswoman for the health insurance industry's largest trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans, said insurers do not discriminate against victims of sexual assault and ordinarily would not even know if a patient had been raped.

"These issues you are bringing up, they deserve to be brought up," said Pisano. "People who have experienced rape and sexual assault are victims and we want them to be in a system where everyone is covered."
Story continues below

Turner's story about HIV drugs is not unusual, said Cindy Holtzman, an insurance agent and expert in medical billing at Medical Refund Service, Inc. of Marietta, Ga. Insurers generally categorize HIV-positive people as having a pre-existing condition and deny them coverage. Holtzman said that health insurance companies also consistently decline coverage for anyone who has taken anti-HIV drugs, even if they test negative for the virus. "It's basically an automatic no," she said.

Pisano, of the insurance trade group, said: "If you put down on a form that you are or were taking anti-HIV drugs at any time, they [the insurance companies] are going to understand that you are or were in treatment for HIV, period," she said. "That could be a factor in determining whether you get coverage."

Some doctors and nurses said that the industry's policy is not medically sound. "The chance of a rape victim actually contracting AIDS is very low. It doesn't make any sense to use that as a calculus for determining who get health insurance," said Dr. Alex Schafir, faculty instructor at Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Ore.

Nurses who deal with sexual assault cases say the industry's policy creates a significant problem for those treating women who have been assaulted. "It's difficult enough to make sure that rape victims take the drugs," said Diana Faugno, a forensic nurse in California and board director of End Violence Against Women International. "What are we supposed to tell women now? Well, I guess you have a choice - you can risk your health insurance or you can risk AIDS. Go ahead and choose."

Turner, now a life and casualty insurance agent, said she went without health coverage for three years after the attack. She second-guesses her decision to take the HIV drugs. "I'm going to be penalized my whole life because of this," she said.

Several women told the Investigative Fund that after being sexually assaulted they had been denied care or ruled ineligible for health insurance because of what were deemed pre-existing conditions stemming from their assaults -- particularly post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier. The woman, Kimberly Fallon, told a nurse about the previous attack and months later, her doctor's office sent her a bill for treatment. She said she was informed by a nurse and, later, the hospital's billing department that her health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she "had been raped before."

Fallon says she now has trouble getting coverage for gynecological exams. To avoid the hassle of fighting with her insurance company, she goes to Planned Parenthood instead and pays out of pocket.

A New Mexico woman told the Investigative Fund she was denied coverage at several health insurance companies because she had suffered from PTSD after being attacked and raped in 2003. She did not want to disclose her name because she feared that she would lose her group health insurance if she went on the record as a rape victim. "I remember just feeling infuriated," she said.

"I think it's important to point out that health plans are not denying coverage based on the fact that someone was raped," said Pisano of the insurance trade group. "But PTSD could be a factor in denied coverage."

"That might not be a discriminatory action, but it certainly would seem to have a discriminatory impact," said Sandra Park, staff attorney at the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. "Insurance discrimination against rape victims will only further discourage them from coming forward to law enforcement and seeking medical help."

Even when patients have coverage, there are fundamental disagreements between insurance companies and doctors about what mental health treatment is medically necessary. The Investigative Fund spoke with doctors, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers around the country who work regularly with victims of sexual assault. They said that their patients have been experiencing an increase in delays and denials, particularly for talk therapy.

"There's a lot of anger about this in the medical community," said Dr. George Shapiro-Weiss, a psychiatrist in Middletown, Conn. "You don't realize what an Alice in Wonderland web this has become."

"A lot of my patients are being told that their treatment isn't medically necessary," said Keri Nola, an Orlando, Fla., psychologist, who said about 75 percent of her patients are victims of sexual violence.

Several therapists cited problems with managed care companies that specialize in mental health. Such firms generally work under contract with health insurers to hold down costs while still authorizing appropriate care.

Some therapists and patients said the managed care companies have cut off necessary treatment for sexual assault victims in the name of cost containment. "The companies are peppering them with questions about their symptoms, and about their histories, and asking, 'Well, are you sure you really need therapy?'" said Jeffrey Axelbank, a New Jersey psychologist. "For someone who has been traumatized, it can feel like another trauma, and it makes the therapy less effective."

Pisano, of the insurance association, said it was not fair to draw a larger pattern from such anecdotal evidence. "These situations are evaluated on a person-by-person basis," she said. "There is nothing routine about this."

Jim Wrich, a Madison, Wis., a consultant who helps employers evaluate the companies that manage their mental health care, said his work has made him wary of the industry. "This is absolutely routine - these denials," Wrich said. "The default position is to reject care."

Magellan Behavioral Health Services, Inc., one of the nation's largest managed-care companies with more than 58 million customers, said that it does not routinely turn down treatment requests from victims of sexual assault or other clients. "We're not denying care. We are exercising our responsibility to make sure that medical necessity is met," said Dr. Lawrence Nardozzi, Magellan's medical director. "I think the process works well."

Asked if cost is a factor in the company's decisions, Magellan spokeswoman Erin Somers said: "If all the safeguards are in place to determine whether treatment is medically necessary and appropriate" then "the cost takes care of itself."

A former care manager for Magellan said in an interview that she felt pressure to deny care for cost reasons. Lois Gorwitz, a psychologist with thirty years of experience who went to work for Magellan in California in 2000, said her superiors would tell her: "We are not denying this person treatment, we are denying them their benefit. If they want the treatment they can still pay out of pocket." But, Gorwitz said, "You know that means that the person is not going to get the treatment because they can't afford to pay out of pocket."

Gorwitz quit after two years. "It's a very uncomfortable feeling of not being able to offer help," she said.

Asked for a response, Magellan's Somers said, "I think you should keep in mind that there have been a lot of changes at Magellan in the last seven years. I think the people who work at Magellan now are not having that experience."

Impressive

Nosaj Thing

Check out more at Yours Truly (via Discobelle)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Turbo

Sunglasses

Unmasked

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Doppelganger

October 24th

@

Red Hot Robot

Land of the Kings

Land of the Kings (via The Mash Up)

Stoked for Kings Season

Two and a Half Men

S07E01 - 818-JKLPUZO

S07E02 - Whipped Unto the Third Generation

S07E03 - Mmm, Fish. Yum.

S07E04 - Laxative Tester, Horse Inseminator

S07E05 - For The Sake Of The Child

Monday, October 19, 2009

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

S05E01 - The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis

S05E02 - The Gang Hits The Road

S05E03 - The Great Recession

S05E04 - The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention

S05E05 - The Waitress Is Getting Married

Bored to Death

S01E01 - Stockholm Syndrome

S01E02 - The Alanon Case

S01E03 - The Case Of The Missing Screenplay

S01E04 - The Case Of The Stolen Skateboard

S01E05 - The Case Of The Lonely White Dove

Sunday, October 18, 2009

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

Big Boi - Shine Blockas
Private - My Secret Lover (Diplo Remix)

sometimes things get complicated

Saturday, October 31, 2009