Music therapy

Dad and I took a short 32-hour trip to San Diego to see my sister in the hospital. She is not doing well; most people who had this surgery would be home by now, but her intestines were so blocked due the tumor obstruction that things aren't getting a lot better. But we got to talk with the idiot doctors and I got to be my usual confrontational self (I have no respect for medical people anymore, at all, and I just pepper them with questions, machine-gun style). The news is of course very bad, and today they are doing a procedure to put in a permanent port again, which caused her extreme hardship the last time -- they nearly killed her, and I'm not certain she can withstand their bungling again. The nurses are great, but my feelings for the specialists and doctors is very low. Assuming she is okay, though, I go down again Monday night, before, in theory, heading up to Escapade on Thursday, but that's turning into a whole other nightmare.

It was hard traveling with Dad. Very, very hard. But my iPod has become a total lifesaver, though I realize that mindless happy music is in short supply on the thing. I haven't really begun to put music into it, I still have 16 gigs left to make use of. I've been relying on the library to get hold of things I don't have before I put in tons of things I do have, but I've found they don't have a lot of the club mixes and dance songs I was really craving to listen to yesterday when our flight was delayed for over an hour (apparently I can never leave San Diego on time, it's a law or something), and the hip-hop discs are always too badly damaged to play. I still haven't done that file sharing thing, and just trying to figure out something like that right now is too much for me to handle; I should probably post a request on teh music community, but... the 50 fields you have to fill out for each song just overwhelms my spazzed-out brain right now. I feel like lately it's all I can do to get dressed. I realize the likelihood of people having any of these songs is really low, but, I had such luck on the Christmas music, I thought I'd see if anyone here might have any of these dance or hip-hop tunes as mp3s they would be willing to send me:

Anastacia -- Sick and Tired
Oceanlab -- Satellite
Deep Dish -- Flashdance
Dirty Vegas -- Walk in the Sun
Robbie Rivera -- Which Way You're Going
House of Pain -- Jump Around and Top O' the Morning

And since I hate asking for things without giving anything in return, here are some on offer (I'll only be able to leave these up for a short time, as I have to put my Escapade vid up soon and I'm running out of space). Right click to download, please, don't stream!:
Breathe by Telepopmusic You might be familiar with this from the Mitsubishi commercial a few years ago, and it was ubiquitous around the same time, even showing up on my beloved late Robbery Homicide Division.
This Misery by the Wild Colonials This is an old favorite, and the vocalist for the Wild Colonials is the guest vocalist on Breathe. She has a cool, husky voice that I love; if you like Mazzy Star's "Fade into You," or that song "Feed the Tree," you might like this.
Start the Commotion by the Wiseguys One of my all-time favorite dance tunes, but no one ever seems to know it when I request it of DJs. This was also a huge hit off a Mistubishi commercial a couple years ago. Maybe I should go to work for Mits's ad agency since we seem to have the same taste in music.
Fallen by Vib Gyor This is a new band producing some of the coolest stuff I've heard in a while. EW described them as a heavenly marriage of Sigur Ros and Coldplay, and they're not wrong. They have lovely, complex stuff.

Enjoy!