DJ Moneyshot & Rackabeat teamed up to plot world conspiracies as The Allergies, a courageous duo armed with kicks, samples and a catalog of secret handshakes. Of course Bill Hicks all up in it just makes me love it more.

Fingerbanger 1: The Allergies – This Is Just A Ride (don lowed) (soundcloud)

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There’s a big difference between princess and toadstool…

Fingerbanger 2: Homeboy Sandman – Watchu Want From Me (don lowed)

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“I want to deliver a warning this afternoon: When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,” – Senator Ron Wyden, OR-D

Fingerbanger 3: Ty – Closer Feat. Maceo (don lowed)

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Get about 40 seconds into this before it takes off.

Fingerbanger 4: A7 & Plusga – Blasphemy (don lowed)

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how does this pension system work? We all put money into our 401(k)s. We work our lives. We’re putting this money in once a month. It goes to Wall Street. Wall Street — through these ways of managing these large funds, enormous — I mean, I’m just one of the — [let me] pause to say the amount of money we’re talking about I measured in terms of percentage of GDP [gross domestic product]. This is an enormous amount of money, trillions of dollars.

So anyway, the average person puts this money in once a month. Wall Street takes it and skims off. With the help of hedge funds, but also with just the help of poor trading and bad decisions, it just skims off a certain percentage every quarter, so larger percentages every year. At the very end of somebody’s career, they retire and they get some of that back. I mean, it just seems like such a wasteful system in the sense that this is this person’s money, and it’s just basically going to Wall Street. – Cathy O’Neil (read it here)

Fingerbanger 5: Sixfingers – Down On 26th Street (don lowed)

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Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently. – Wall Street Journal