From my perspective, the winter stayed far too long & I have no patience for Spring, so let the Summer begin!
In mashupland Summer is marked by the new SUMMER BOOTY bootleg music complilation. This year again the release features over twenty international home producers doing the thing they do best. Starting with the musical premise of 'a bootleg, remix,or mashup' that evokes the feeling of the endless summer, perhaps a hot day's drive in a convertible while the stereo blasts, they more than delivered. From the opening track submitted by UK's popular mixer The Geez & the immediate release of a video to accompany, it was clear the Summer mood prevailed.
youtube.com/watch?v=8PSUQoVMeQY
Quickly, more tracks arrived from various well-known DJ's & soon tracks like Liam Nicklen's "Sneaky Exhale" (Liam Nicklen vs Sneaky Sound System) & Pomatic's "Summertime Blown" (Beyonce vs. Snoop Dogg vs. Diddy & Notorious B.I.G.) were filling out the upcoming release. Fast-rising mashup star, Virtual DJ, did his magic on Shakira & the Thievery Corporation & before you could say 'bastard pop,' the instant classic "Lebanese Thieves Don't Lie" was ready to burn itself into your memory.
More videos came quickly in the form of Alpha1999's "Faith Be Dub To Me (George Michael vs Beats International) [youtube.com/watch?v=FjFzNybyJ3I&feature=user] an amazingly appealing track will get caught between your ears, & not easily dislodged, as if you'd want that. Pomatic's track yielded a
super video hand-made by the ever-talented Guttorm [youtube.com/watch?v=BoFROkrPvYs&feature=user].
All set a tone that inspired, so soon the entire collection was at hand. An assortment of such Summer potency that you will all want to re-play till snow returns.
In the finest SUMMER BOOTY tradition, there's a seamless one-hour mix containing both discs. This years' long mix features the return of DJ Petrushka & her strong hand at joining wildly disparate musical styles. It's a needed talent when dealing with a collection like SUMMER BOOTY 2008. In her own words she says "I love music very much, and these tracks had me loving them. When I play them I feel like I've got my Ray Bans on, I've got my foot to the floorboard, & the wind & the music is whooshing past my head".
Don't miss tracks by the above-mentioned, DJ Spider, Simon Iddol, Miss Frenchie, Cheekyboy, Voicedude, Supakon (catches breath), DJ M.i.F, DJ Fac, MP3J, Aekon, DJ Morgoth, DJ Magnet, DJTopcat, Corrupt DJ's, Dottysmash, Mad Martigan, & me, DJ Useo. A line-up so good I'll say it 2wice. lol
Thanks to Alpha1999 for his amazing art direction.
Thanks to DJ Petrushka for helping with day to day planning.
Thanks to all the bootleggers who gave of their time & energy.
& thanks to the label stars who make it all possible with the world's great pop music.
Mix Of The Week - DJHDD vs CMP - "V Further Hallucinations ov LSDisco: A tribute to Albert Hoffmann" is an intense, mellow, captivating, repulsive affair that goes where no mix has gone before.
Go a journey with your ears here - colonelmustardrecords.com
Mashup Tip: Try the new DJ Ronko slicin' knife to cut your loops to precision.
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for Jay Marvin on AM760 Progressive Talk in Denver
this week (4 - 8 August), from 5am to 9am (pdt) | 6am to 10am (mdt) | 7am to 11am (cdt) | 8am to noon (edt).
Continue the Countdown to the Convention!
Talk about the Race for the White House; Record Oil Profits; the Search for Viable Green Energy; How to Protect Our Votes; the Rove Effect and who is going to testify?
Rate your interest in watching the Olympic Games...
1.) Extremely interested! ... All Olympics, All the time! USA! USA! USA!
2.) Very interested ... I am a/an _______ fan and will watch those events without fail and perhaps some others, too, ever mindful of the true spirit of the games...
3.) Moderately interested ... Maybe, if I'm in the mood and, besides, my partner wants to watch it together all snuggle-bunnies like...
4.) Little interest ... Only if I'm bored to tears because the weather sucks and I'm completely unmotivated to do anything else indoors and there's nothing else interesting on TV and I don't have a new book to read...
5.) Zero interest ... Olympics!... Ack!... I'd sooner watch 'Brady Bunch' reruns than that display of nationalistic commercialism. Besides, they're all doped up anyway...
Meet the rich (guardian.co.uk)
The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. But that doesn't seem to bother Britain's wealthiest earners. In an extract from their new book, Polly Toynbee and David Walker describe the jaw-dropping arrogance they encountered when they asked some of the fat cats to justify their lives of luxury.
Alan Connor: No time to think? (BBC News Magazine)
When Barack Obama met David Cameron, the pair got around to discussing thinking time - and the lack of it. It's not just potential leaders of nations who are short of opportunities to reflect on the bigger picture. How can any of us grab thinking time during the working day?
A Review by Michael Dirda: "Books: A Memoir" by Larry McMurtry (powells.com)
Memoirs are inherently wistful, but Larry McMurtry's reminiscences of his life with books -- not as a novelist but as a reader, book scout, and bookstore owner -- are especially valedictory. ... As he says, "A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them." But, he fears, the age of eagerly turned pages is passing:
20 QUESTIONS: George Pelecanos (popmatters.com)
George Pelecanos takes a little time from his prolific career to contemplate with PopMatters the temptation to try out a silencer and laser sight.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Football (athensnews.com)
In 1974, during a playoff game, Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Doug Sutherland stuck his fingers through the facemask of Conrad Dobler of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Dobler reacted in what he felt was an appropriate way: "I figured he was not there to stroke my moustache. It was not a friendly act. So I bit him." At halftime, Mr. Sutherland asked for some kind of guard to protect his fingers. He also asked to be tested for rabies.
Vic in AK was first, and correct, with:
The Answer would HAVE to be B:Condensed Milk... Borden is the proud mother of Elsie the Cow and Elmer the Bull, Elmer pimps himself out for the paste and glue crowd and Elise of course whored for milk like products and by-products.
Here's a picture I made of the imaginary Sponsor of my REAL TeeVee show
(Thank you Sally for the kind words about the show...I DO Rock!)
Marian the Teacher replied:
condensed milk
DanD responded:
from a book about regretful names for young boys
Gail Borden was a pre-Civil War faux-cross dresser (long before C&W Musician Johnny Cash sung about a "Boy Named Sue," The Independent Republic of Texas was home to this guy named Gail) who discovered how to artificially desiccate cow-juice from large bovines udders into small metallic cans. Ultimately, it was The War Between the States that turned Gail's condensing process into a profitable enterprise.
Alan J answered:
Condensed Milk
Adam in NoHo wrote:
OK, I peaked n Google (Gail's a dude!), but I was fairly sure it is
condensed milk since his name is on the can.
Charlie responded:
B: Condensed Milk
You may want to shrink the picture some. ~~~~~~~~~~~~>
Sally said:
Gail Borden invented Eagle Brand Sweetened condensed milk (B) circa 1855.
How sweet it is...
DC MadMan replied:
I'll go with the seemingly obvious. Every can of condensed milk I've
ever
seen says Borden on it. Cheating says I'm a winner, sort of. I thought
Gail was a gal.
Sharon answered:
Gail Borden (a man) invented condensed milk.
Thanks to Charlie and Vic in AK for the picture.
Coming Soon - More 'Prizes' - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD!
(Just not as soon as expected.)
Love your site. I take some cool pictures sometimes. Here's one of a
mantis in my backyard. If you like it, feel free to use it. I can send
more from time to time if you like them.
I like that you link to After Ellen & Advocate too.
Sauna-like humidity. Days like this make me wish I had gills.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Greatest American Dog', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Penelope Cruz and Randy Newman.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Eddie Izzard and Colin Hanks.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Baby Borrowers', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jack Black and Conor Oberst.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Javier Bardem, Danny McBride, and the B-52s.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/21/08) are Bill Bellamy and Brett Dennen.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Wife Swap', followed by a RERUN'Supernanny', then 'Primetime'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Luke Wilson, Eliza Dushku, Matt Harding, and Rev Theory.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux has a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY has an old 'Twilight Zone', followed by another old 'Twilight Zone', 'Whacked Out Videos', and another 'Whacked Out Videos'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', still another 'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', followed by a FRESH'Dog The Racist Bounty Hunter', then a FRESH'Criss Angel Mindfreak', and another 'Criss Angel Mindfreak'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hondo', followed by the movie 'Troy'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Bonapartes
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Lidstone
[3:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Shepton Mallet 73
[3:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Ardingly 68
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 9
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 10
[5:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[5:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[9:00 PM] My Mums Used To Be Men
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[12:00 AM] My Mums Used To Be Men
[1:00 AM] What's Eating Victoria Beckham?
[2:00 AM] My Mums Used To Be Men
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 2 Gabriel Byrne, Letitia Dean and Backstreet
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Shepton Mallet 73
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Ardingly 68
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Project Runway', 'Project Runway', followed by a FRESH'Project Runway', and a FRESH'Shear Genius'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report are Jason Bond and Kevin Costner.
FX has the movie 'Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', then the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', followed by a FRESH'MonsterQuest', and 'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[7:15 AM] Strange Invaders
[8:50 AM] Darkon
[10:25 AM] Roadside Prophets
[12:05 PM] Strange Invaders
[1:40 PM] Darkon
[3:15 PM] Roadside Prophets
[5:00 PM] Strange Invaders
[6:35 PM] Mystery Train
[8:30 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
[9:00 PM] The Cars That Ate Paris
[10:30 PM] Crash
[12:50 AM] IFC in Theaters
[1:00 AM] Solaris
[3:50 AM] IFC News Special
[4:00 AM] The World According to Shorts
[5:40 AM] Trauma (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', 'Ghost Hunters International', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters International', 'Scare Tactics', and another 'Scare Tactics'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] In This World
[06:35 AM] A Path of Purpose
[07:15 AM] Chain
[09:00 AM] The Best of Youth (Part 1)
[10:45 AM] Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
[12:45 PM] Red Doors
[02:30 PM] The Apostle
[04:45 PM] Household Saints
[07:00 PM] Swimmers
[08:30 PM] Eramos Pocos
[09:00 PM] Episode 10 - Middle East, Part 1
[09:30 PM] Episode 2
[10:00 PM] Clay Pigeons
[12:00 AM] Chapter 1. Crime or accident
[12:50 AM] Kiss or Kill
[02:30 AM] Kardia
[04:00 AM] Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream
[05:30 AM] The Apostle (ALL TIMES EST)
In this image released by Bravo, Kathy Griffin visits a patient at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington on the season finale of 'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,' airing which will air, Aug. 14, 2008 at 10p.m. EDTon the Bravo network.
TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity.
They are to accept their honors, each with an accompanying $100,000 honorarium, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 17.
Angelou, 80, has written more than a dozen best sellers including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as three Grammy-winning spoken-word albums, poetry, plays and children's books. She also has written for television and film, serving on the board of the American Film Institute and as a member of the Director's Guild.
Lear, 76, was creator, producer and writer for television series that became cultural landmarks including "All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," "The Jeffersons" and "Maude." In 1982, he founded the advocacy group People for the American Way.
Penelope Cruz, left, and Scarlett Johansson, cast members in 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' pose together at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
The son of legendary singer Frank Sinatra has launched a search in Brazil for a boy his father sponsored in the 1980s so he can invite him to a Rio concert Thursday of many of the late crooner's famous tunes.
A newspaper in the city, Rio O Dia, on Tuesday published a photo of the boy taken 28 years ago, the day the late Frank Sinatra gave him a bicycle. It identified him as Carlos Henrique dos Santos and said today he would be "around 40".
Sinatra senior had asked to see the boy he was sponsoring for 19 dollars a month through a charity that helped children in underdeveloped countries.
Dos Santos regularly sent letters to his famous sponsor in which he spoke of his day-to-day life, and his dream to one day own a bike. Sinatra made that wish come true when he finally saw him face-to-face.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government was roundly slammed Tuesday by art lovers, experts and historians for covering the breast of a female nude in a reproduction of a famed Italian painting.
Outpourings of outrage made their way into the columns of La Repubblica daily on Tuesday over the government's decision to tamper with a copy of a painting depicting Truth by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), considered the last "Grand Manner" fresco painter from the erstwhile Venetian Republic.
"Who in the world could have felt offended while seeing Tiepolo's nude depicting truth? It's sheer folly," said Antonio Paolucci, chief of the museums at the Vatican and a former culture minister.
Andrea Emiliani, an historian, slammed the government's "prudishness."
"The entire history of Renaissance Art and the period that followed is full of nudes," he said. "It's not funny when one thinks of what is aired on Canale 5," one of the television channels owned by media mogul Berlusconi.
A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday.
Cameo Auctioneers said the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and had recently been discovered by a man in northern England while he was clearing out his father's attic.
The tape features John Lennon and Paul McCartney collapsing into fits of giggles as they try to finish the ballad "I'll Follow the Sun."
Actress Penelope Cruz (R), star of director Woody Allen's new film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", poses with actress Salma Hayek at the film's premiere in Los Angeles August 4, 2008.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Paris Hilton has thrown her hat into the US presidential race, declaring her desire to campaign against "that wrinkly white-haired guy" and threatening to paint the White House pink if elected.
The blond socialite responded to Republican candidate John McCain's controversial use of her image in a campaign television spot last week with a satirical ad of her own posted on the website Funnyordie.com on Tuesday.
"Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too," Hilton declares breezily. "Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot.
"But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude, and I want America to know I'm, like, totally ready to lead."
Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government in prosecution costs for his tax conviction.
According to court documents, U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges ruled last week the action film star must reimburse the government about $217,000. Snipes, star of the "Blade" trilogy and "White Men Can't Jump" among other movies, had objected to the cost.
A jury convicted Snipes in February of three counts of willfully failing to file his income taxes. He has appealed the convictions and his three-year prison sentence.
Woody Allen, director of the new film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", poses with sister Letty Aronson (L) who is also the producer during the film's premiere in Los Angeles August 4, 2008.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, made the remarks as Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, awaited a verdict in the first war crimes trial to be held under a special regime created for "war on terror" suspects.
Morrell said there were plans for at least 20 more such trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba but he said a significant portion of the detainees being held there would neither be tried nor released.
He said efforts were being made to reduce the size of the population through transfers of prisoners to their home countries for incarceration or release.
A rental truck containing Iggy Pop and the Stooges' equipment was stolen after a concert in Montreal.
Stooges road manager Eric Fischer says the 15-foot truck stolen Monday contained all the group's instruments and stage gear. He tells the Detroit Free Press the lost items are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The Stooges are in the middle of a tour with stops in Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain and the United States.
Fischer says the Stooges will still make their scheduled Wednesday gig in Toronto using rented and donated equipment.
Lion cubs peer out of a bag before their naming ceremony at the Serengeti Safari park in Hodenhagen August 5, 2008. German pop singer Sarah Connor and her husband Marc Terenci named four three- week old lion cubs Tyler, Montry, Lex and Mick.
Photo by Christian Charisius
A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two anti-violence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs.
The suggestion that Mary Lou McFate was a double agent is contained in a deposition filed as part of a contract dispute involving a security firm. The muckraking magazine Mother Jones, in a story last week, was the first to report on McFate's alleged dual identity.
The 62-year-old former flight attendant and sex counselor from Sarasota, Fla., is not new to the world of informants.
Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims.
The pressure on Ivins was extreme, a high-risk strategy that has failed the FBI before. The government was determined to find the villain in the 2001 anthrax attacks; it was too many years without a solution to the case that shocked and terrified a post-9/11 nation.
Dr. W. Russell Byrne, a friend and former supervisor of Ivins at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., said he had heard from other Ivins associates that investigators were going after Ivins' daughter. But Byrne said those conversations were always short because people were afraid to talk.
Byrne said he was told by people who had recently worked with Ivins that the investigation had taken an emotional toll on the researcher. "One person said he'd sit at his desk and weep," he said.
A woman snake charmer displays a cobra on the eve of Hindu festival "Nag Panchami" in Ledhiyari village, about 35 km (22 miles) from the northern Indian city of Allahabad August 5, 2008. The devotees will attend the festival on Wednesday to worship the snake god. The snake is one of the most revered animals in Hinduism.
Photo by Jitendra Prakash
Officials say an indigenous New Zealand reptile regarded as one of the last living remnants of the dinosaurs will become a father for the first time in decades at the age of 111.
Henry the tuatara and his younger mate Mildred produced a dozen eggs last month after mating at the Southland Museum on New Zealand's South Island in March.
Tuatara curator Lindsay Hazley said Wednesday Henry has lived at the museum's special enclosure for Tuatara since 1970 and had shown no interest in sex until he recently had a cancerous growth removed from his genitals. He was now enjoying the company of three females and might breed again next March.
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 28-Aug. 3. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (14) "America's Got Talent," NBC, 13.85 million viewers.
2. (40) "Wipeout," ABC, 9.7 million viewers.
3. (17) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.35 million viewers.
4. (48) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 8.84 million viewers.
5. (21) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.7 million viewers.
6. (54) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 8.69 million viewers.
7. (14) "NCIS," CBS, 8.5 million viewers.
8. (19) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 8.44 million viewers.
9. (20) "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.08 million viewers.
10. (10) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 8.03 million viewers.
11. (27) "CSI: NY," CBS, 7.78 million viewers.
12. (84) "Flashpoint," CBS, 7.68 million viewers.
13. (X) "Primetime: Last Lecture 2," ABC, 7.65 million viewers.
14. (84) "Celebrity Family Feud," NBC, 7.53 million viewers.
15. (48) "Old Christine," CBS, 7.5 million viewers.
16. (X) "NBC NFL Pre-Season," NBC, 7.45 million viewers.
17. (30) "House," Fox, 7.42 million viewers.
18. (37) "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," NBC, 7.21 million viewers.
19. (123) "Big Brother 10" (Sunday), CBS, 6.61 million viewers.
20. (123) "Big Brother 10" (Thursday), CBS, 6.39 million viewers.
Six-week old Siberian tiger cub 'Antares' walks in an enclosure during his presentation at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin August 5, 2008.
Photo by Johannes Eisele
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Gail Borden invented what food item?
Adam in NoHo wrote:
