sorry. i’ve been juggling 4 audio books and working a ton — not really any new music in my life this week.
i’ve scheduled some time to catch up — and I promise to have some new beats for you.

hey, check this out:

it’s a chart detailing how the 8.5 Trillion (told you!) bailout is being spent

And here’s something that I learned from listverse.com:

7-Up - invented in 1920 contained Lithium - the drug commonly prescribed now to sufferers of bi-polar disorder.

The drink was originally marketed as a hangover cure - due to the inclusion of lithium citrate. It was released just a few years before the Wall Street crash of the 1920s and it was marketed under the name “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda” - quite a mouthful! The name was changed to 7-Up shortly after its release but lithium remained one of the ingredients until 1950. Some popular myths surround the name of the drink - but the name is most likely due to the original recipe containing 7 ingredients (with the “up” portion relating to the lithium) or the fact that lithium has an atomic mass of 7.

something on my mind… here’s an article in the SF Chronicle

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Schiff says. “People are going to feel like complete morons if they don’t participate. The people getting punished are the ones who never made an irresponsible decision to buy a house they couldn’t afford.”

“Remember that it’s not a crime to default on your mortgage. The banks are perfectly happy scraping around in the fine print of credit-card agreements to screw their customers; the customers should be perfectly happy similarly to optimize their own situation with respect to the banks. It’s an unfortunate situation all round, but it’s not something you can blame the financial press for.”

“Are you an idiot to keep paying your mortgage?”

You might want to stop making your mortgage payments

… if it works for big banks…