Just as we heard with house, trance, punk, disco (fill in the genre of your choice), we are now hearing that mashups are dead. I don't understand this, as I see no slow up in the release of new, listenable tracks. Frankly, with so many fine new bootleggers like Guv'nor, Blu Flamingo, & The B Flint joining the ranks of the already-posting, it's impossible to keep up with all the mashups released. Here's a few tracks to demonstrate why mashups live on.
First up is a new bootleg from the well-known Eve Massacre. 'A Sweet Bit Dixy' continues her method of combining the familiar with the unfamiliar by positioning Switch, Peaches, & Neal Diamond into a winning dance number with appeal & memorability. For the past several years, Eve Massacre has favoured us with many winning mashups, & the slowdown has yet to occur, judging by this one. Lots of other new cuts lurking on
her site.
evemassacre.org/mixes.htm
Second new track of note is Copycat's 'l'Anarchie Pour Le UK' which deconstructs The Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy In The UK' & rebuilds it into a dubby melange of sources including spys, crooks, & assorted Brits. Very much an artistic triumph, Copycat's track transcends the source material & achieves a new identity sure to keep you playing. As a bonus, he devised a dub remix version that I personally found even more compelling. Check them out for yourselves
here -
djcopycat.com
Lastly, but not lessly, Celebrity Murder Party has released two tracks from his delayed project, BASS IN YOUR FACE, to hold us until the compilation is ready. "Cooking Up Your Iconoclast" is a pastiche of 4 Hero vs Madonna vs FSOL vs Indotribe, with a few others added for extra effect.Ravey, & dancey, it will force you to hit the dance floor. Not strictly a mashup, but certainly a bootleg,"Bassquake", the 2nd track is all-original by CMCPress himself, & contains samples of 303,606, Korg MS20, Korg Polysix, A Speech Synthesizer, & enough earthquake sounds to blow your mind. Don't miss out!
www.celebritymurderparty.co.uk/
Mix Of The Week - Divide and Kreate have made their first long mix, "The Zebra Mix", & it's a solid winner.
It was aired on the Zebramix on Oui FM (France) September 12, but now you can hear it. A popular-style bootleg mix of rock & pop songs, it also contains five previously unreleased tracks.24 minutes of perfect mashups, grab your copy
here -
www.divideandkreate.com/25.htm
Mashup Advice: A quick way to get comments on your tracks from label lawyers is to claim you own the copyright!
ON LINE DEFINITION: Viscous mucus secreted in abnormal quantities in respiratory passages.....one of the 4 humours along with Bile, Black Bile and Blood.
ON THE STREET: A word often used in my family during my upbringing to describe the culprit for early morning loogie hacking, rasping, and throat clearing.
IN A SENTENCE: Big Phil let fly a bodacious phlegm ball at a foolish but fairly agile pal...he missed his mark....but not by much....yuck.
Read BartCop Entertainment every Tuesday (or sometimes Wednesday) and learn a gross new word.
Jim Hightower: REIN IN THE FCC (jimhightower.com)
You've got to love the oh-so-soothing language that government and corporations use when they join hands to run roughshod over the public interest. Take the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission to let huge media conglomerates grab even greater control than they now have over the public's sources of news and discourse.
Beth Quinn: Huck and Tom's New Year's resolutions (recordonline.com)
We, Huckleberry Quinn and Tom S. Quinn, which are two Labs that live with Beth Quinn and Bob, do hereby make the following New Year's resolutions: We will quit staring at Beth Quinn and Bob during meals, which is just our way of saying, "Are you going to eat that? Cuz if you're not ..."
Julian Bell: Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels (lrb.co.uk)
To my amazement, there were no paintings . . . but only packages, piled one atop another to the height, say, of Picasso . . . And do you know what there was inside? Banknotes! Yes, sir, banknotes, the largest denomination that existed in France then, which was enormous.
Bill Gibron: The Top 10 Films of 2007 (popmatters.com)
#1 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Fans of Stephen Sondheim had every reason to be worried. His Tony Award winning masterwork Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is perhaps the most difficult and obtuse of his shows to make the cinematic leap - and with a track record that includes the unbalanced A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the miserably miscast A Little Night Music, he's far from foolproof.
Congress has limited the protection of former presidents and their spouses to 10 years after leaving office.
Who will be the last president to receive lifelong protection from the Secret Service?
A: Jimmy Carter
B: George 'Poppy' Bush
C: Bill Clinton
D: G.W. '#43' Bush
E: Al Gore
What was the first country to abolish capital punishment?
A: Austria
B: Denmark
C: Norway
D: Thailand
E: Wales
The first country to abolish capital punishment was Austria in 1787. Source
DanD was first, writing:
I know I heard about this one time on PBS, but damned if I can remember
the content of the show.
As it is, I believe all those Euro-centric countries that had to deal
with WWII officially had "treason" as a capital crime, with "death" as an
appropriate, most severe punishment. Besides, the Allies won and the
more local customs of punishment were irrelevant.
On the other hand, it seems to me that (D) Thailand -- which was just a
tad out of the way during that conflict -- had experienced its own
elitest epiphany of sorrow during a somewhat earlier era and had
formally renounced the state-sponsored murder of its more unpopular
residents ... ah, the frailty of reason and fantasy (in other words, my
reason and fantasy could be wrong).
As for the stated admiration of Sally, I blush. While I've never taken
to the ARS any discovery I've either found or purloined in my own amateur
archeological zeal, I did have the Ryola bottle "appraised" by my *Uncle,
who was an avid antique bottle collector. Upon seeing it, he
unassumingly claimed "prima nocta" ("Gee, that's a nice bottle NEPHEW, do
you mind if I had it?") because it was discovered on property he had a
formal economic interest in (he was one of my father's business
partners). Since I was staying in a property he owned just south of Rex
for an embarrasingly low rent, I gladly surrendered the glass.
Indeed, that property I was staying at is where the original Rex
furniture factory was located. Additionally, the stream that I
identified in the earlier tale also passed along the edge of this
property and had an ancient dam going across it (circa, 1850s when it was
first built) that was still operational. After my father had first
obtained Rex, my Uncle bought this property to the immediate south as it
became available a year or so later. He then boarded up the flood gate
and created his own little private lake.
Over the next 20 years or so, while the dam itself was about 12 feet high
at its middle, this lake eventually filled up with silt until it was only
a few feet deep going all the way up into Rex, and I decided on my own to
"blow out" the dam by taking a sledge hammer to the wood-planked, gate
doors. Luckily, when the central board holding back the tens-of-tons of
silt and water catastrophically broke, my young(er) reflexes, keen mind,
quick wit, and especially dumb luck kept me from being crushed and
drowned. I secretly did this in the fall (and when my Uncle discovered
the broke-out gate, i attributed it to "rotted" wood with an appropriate
fantasia of seeing water seeping through), so during the winter rains
most of the silt, other trash from upstream, and occasional artifact
progressively came pouring out through that opened portal.
It was then that I also discovered that my Uncle as an avid, ancient
marble collector. While digging through the silt and such behind the dam
as it periodically went south through the gate, there also passed many
soda and liquor bottle from the 1930s to the 90s. While digging in the
sand at the dam's northern base, I had also collected about 15 or twenty
marbles. Most of them appeared to have had their genisis from the "Tom
Sawyer" era of earlier Southern life. Having once again foolishly showed
my discovery to Uncle, he again laid first claim on them by simply
putting them in his pocket while generously thanking me. Meanwhile, my
rent remained unconscionably low.
Then there were the gold coins but -- oops -- that's gotta' be for a
different tale-time --
(*I capitalize "Uncle" because it's little different from people who
capitalize "God," that is what I always called him)
BadtotheboneBob answered:
I don't know what country was the first to abolish the death penalty, but, I DO know that the great state of Michigan (Go Blue!) was the first state in the US to do so almost 161 years ago, March 1, 1847 and it has never been rescinded...
DanD additionally observed:
While reviewing the soft-drink issues of Entertainment ~
What "root" was primarily involved in producing root beer (no fair
googling it, answer from your memory)?
Answer: The Sassafras tree provided the root that gave that wonderful
taste for both soda drink and teas. For a while when I was young and an
avid fan of the recent TV show Kung Fu, I was also a fan of
Euell Gibbons
and discoverer, through the local library, of plants from the wild that
you could consume. I really did lead a charmed life as I've never
poisoned myself (too much).
(While surfing I finally recalled the name of the naturalist I wanted to
use but mis-remembered as "Earl" Gibbons. My brain finally clicked.)
And, Sally responded:
The answer for today's trivia quiz is truly a coin toss. While all of the candidates, save Thailand, have ostensibly, "abolished" Capital Punishment, most have a caveat attached. For instance, in the UK (and Wales) Parliament voted to suspend for five years the death penalty for murder in 1965. (Making it permanent in 1969.) Since the abolishing of capital punishment for murder, however, the death sentence had remained in force for treason and piracy with violence. (although the use of capital punishment in these two instances was abolished in 1998.) My next, "guess" would be Austria which abolished capital punishment in 1968, followed by Denmark and Norway. Thailand is still back in the dark-ages with regard to capital punishment though...
Proud resident of the state of New Jersey, where we just passed a law abolishing the death penalty.
I believe the just should be above the criminal, and execution does not bring back the murder victim, whereas removing the revenge factor, pays tribute to them (ie., convicting the person/s who took the life) and shifts the spotlight on respect for the victim's life. The person(s) serving a life-sentence WITHOUT the possibility of parole, is left to ponder their crime for the remainder of his/her own life - incarcerated in a tiny cell...without the possibility...well, you get my point.
S. Bennett added this about the NBC chimes question yesterday:
While GEC are the initials of the General Electric Company that had nothing to do with the tone. Years ago NBC was owned by RCA and before NBC became NBC it was split into what was called the Red Network and the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Corporation. The history of the tone and its many incarnations and variations are (there was a four note tone for a while) make for interesting reading.
By the way NBC these days stands for Nothing But Crap.
Marty, the list of the
top 100 horror movies was interesting, but to my
elderly mind, the best horror movie of all time is The Wicker Man (1973). Made in
the late 60's, it's a wonderful mystery that builds an increasing sense of
foreboding, a fear that something terrible is going to happen, and it
does.
It's also a thoughtful film which exposes religion and its excesses by
juxtaposing Christianity and Paganism in a most enlightening way. The
long version is a must. 101 minutes, it think. The butchered shorter
versions are virtually incomprehensible.
A quick search will lead you to websites devoted to the movie. But you
shouldn't delve into them before you see the movie.
Wayne, from Manchester, GA, sister city to
Arkham, Mass.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Power Of 10', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Robin Williams and Lupe Fiasco.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig it's TBA.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH 2-hour 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH, but writerless, Leno (R-Enabler) is Mike Huckabee (R-Religiously Insane).
Scheduled on a FRESH, but writerless, Conan it's TBA.
On a RERUN'Carson 'The Scab' Daly are (from 12/5/07) are Mike Cammalleri, Derek Armstrong, and OneRepublic.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then another FRESH'Supernanny'.
Scheduled on a FRESH, but writerless, Jimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers a FRESH'Crowned', followed by a FRESH'Gossip Girl'.
Faux has LIVE'College Football'.
MY has 'Whacked Out Videos', followed by another 'Whacked Out Videos', and 'Celebrity Daredevils'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', yet another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Reno 911'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Bulletproof Monk', followed by the movie 'Romeo Must Die', then the movie 'Romeo Must Die', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Lost Worlds', and 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] Monster in a Box;
[08:10 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[09:15 AM] The Eye;
[11:00 AM] Shadow of China;
[12:45 PM] The Flower of Evil;
[02:35 PM] Monster in a Box;
[04:15 PM] The Eye;
[06:00 PM] Media Lab Results;
[06:15 PM] Shadow of China;
[08:00 PM] Murder By Numbers;
[09:00 PM] The Burning;
[10:35 PM] Madman;
[12:15 AM] The Burning;
[01:50 AM] IFC News Special;
[02:00 AM] Madman;
[03:35 AM] Murder By Numbers;
[04:35 AM] The Burning. (ALL TIMES EST)
Performers strut around City Hall during the annual Mummers Parade Tuesday, Jan.1, 2008 in Philadelphia. The start of the Mummers Parade, a New Year's Day tradition in Philadelphia, was pushed back until noon Tuesday to let rain showers pass through the city.
Photo by Rusty Kennedy
At least 134 media workers were killed on assignment in 2007, most of them in Iraq, which has become the most dangerous place for journalists since the start of the U.S.-led war there, a media group said Monday.
The Middle East was by far the deadliest region with 68 killings, followed by Somalia with eight killed, Pakistan with seven, Mexico and Sri Lanka each with six, and the Philippines with five, according to the International Federation of Journalists.
In addition to the 134 killings in 2007, 37 media workers died accidentally on the job, bringing the total number of deaths for the year to 171, the Brussels-based organization said.
Protesters advocating impeachment of U.S. resident George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney carry a giant copy of the Constitution as they follow at the end of the 119th annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California January 1, 2008.
Photo by Mark Avery
The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules giving broadcasters more flexibility in making the switch to digital television from traditional analog signals.
The rules would, among other things, allow some broadcast stations to make a "phased transition" to digital broadcasting.
Stations also will be allowed to reduce or terminate their analog service before the February 17, 2009 deadline for the transition "if doing so is necessary to achieve their transition," the FCC said Monday.
"The rules we adopt in this item attempt to provide broadcasters the flexibility they need while at the same time ensuring that any disruption to over-the-air viewers is minimized to the fullest extent possible," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R-Rupert's Whore) said bullshitted in a statement.
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will trade jokes with Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight Show." While his rivals will be making a final appeal to the state's voters, Huckabee will be flying to Los Angeles to tape the show with Leno, who returns to the air Wednesday without striking writers.
"It's just an incredible opportunity to be there, particularly the very first night he's back from the writer's strike," Huckabee said. "Besides, if all else fails and this whole process doesn't work out, maybe he needs a sidekick and I'll be auditioning tomorrow."
A similar late-night appearance backfired on rival Fred Thompson, the actor-politician who irked voters in New Hampshire by skipping a Republican debate last fall at the University of New Hampshire to announce his candidacy on Leno's show.
Women dressed as Playboy bunnies feel the cold as they enter the freezing water in the Firth of Forth during the annual 'Looney Dook' charity New Year's Day swim in South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland January 1, 2008
Photo by David Moir
Rock band Radiohead's decision to release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online, without a record label's help and at any price the user chose -- rocked the industry last fall.
Some hailed it as the beginning of the end for record labels. Other dismissed it as merely a publicity stunt. Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher told Reuters the group would follow such a strategy "over my dead body."
But everyone wants to know: Who's next? The following 10 acts represent where the smart money is on such speculation. Let the games begin.
The estate of Rick James has settled a lawsuit claiming that a music publishing company collected money from licensing his songs without permission. The estate's attorney, Jennifer J. McGrath, announced the settlement in court Thursday. A trial was to begin Jan. 7.
Dozens of James' compositions, though not the late funk singer's biggest hit, "Super Freak," were involved in the suit, filed in March in Superior Court.
It accused California-based Brooklyn Music Publishing Group Inc. of collecting money from European music publishers and making new foreign deals without authority.
The damages sought were not specified, and the terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court documents.
Female impersonator Gary Marion, also known as "Sushi," hangs above Duval Street on top of thousands of New Year's Eve revelers at the Bourbon Street Pub Complex in Key West December 31, 2007. The "Big Red Shoe Drop", with "Sushi" sitting in a huge high-heeled shoe, was a spoof of New York City's Times Square ball drop.
Photo by Andy Newman
The legal feud over the estate of James Brown is stalling the release of the soul legend's final recordings, his longtime adviser said.
Brown cut an album in Los Angeles the summer before he died in December 2006, but the songs are not being released because of courtroom disputes about who should benefit from his legacy and music royalties, said attorney Buddy Dallas. There are also between 50 and 60 other previously recorded songs in vaults, Dallas said.
Brown's fourth son, Daryl, is one of five heirs trying to have their father's will voided because they say his former advisers - including Dallas - used undue influence to get the singer to create charitable trusts from which the advisers would profit. The other advisers named in the lawsuit are Alford Bradley and David Cannon.
Daryl Brown, who is lead guitarist for his father's backing band, the Soul Generals, says he is not aware of any recordings done in California in 2006. Brown and the Soul Generals were working on an album at a studio in Georgia, but they only finished two songs before the singer died, his son said.
Legendary Swedish disco group ABBA may be one of the world's most successful bands but one of the quartet's members, Benny Andersson, says he has never danced to its bouncy tunes.
"Everytime we had a new song we used to take it and run down to one of the discos in Stockholm and play it at night to see if the mix was good or if we should go back and work on it," he said in an interview broadcast Tuesday on Spanish radio Cadena Ser.
"So we heard our music a lot in discos but that's about it, I never dance, I'm sorry," he added when asked how he reacted when he hears the group's hits such as "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia".
The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone's memory. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.
In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes.
The FBI said that while Cooper was originally thought to have been an experienced jumper, it has since concluded that was wrong and that he almost certainly didn't survive the jump in the dark and rain. He hadn't specified a route for the plane to fly and had no way of knowing where he was when he went out the exit.
Carmenanne Tolksdorf from Long Beach, Calif. stands in protest to the war along Colorado Blvd. during the 119th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008. Tolksdorf's nephew Reese Mereno,19, died in Iraq in Nov.2006
Photo by Reed Saxon
A television reporter turned political candidate said he plans to remain on a small scaffold near the top of a tower to focus attention on his long-shot bid to unseat a U.S. senator.
Dale Cardwell was hoisted more than 300 feet up the Corey Tower near downtown Atlanta on Tuesday morning. He said he expects to remain there "for days," sleeping in an insulated sleeping bag and eating military rations. A Webcam tracks his limited movements. Overnight temperatures are expected to drop into the 20s.
Cardwell, who hopes to unseat Republican Saxby Chambliss, said he thinks the publicity stunt won't hurt his credibility, but will make people curious about his message: that politicians should pay more attention to the concerns of working people and less to those of wealthy corporate interests.
Cardwell faces DeKalb County chief executive Vernon Jones in the Democratic primary July 15.
Sears and Kmart customers who sign up for a new marketing program may be giving up more private information than they'd bargained for, a prominent anti-spyware researcher claims.
According to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, Sears Holdings' My SHC Community program falls short of U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) standards by failing to notify users exactly what happens when they download the company's marketing software.
And given the invasive nature of the product, Sears has an obligation to make its behavior clearer to users. "The software is not something you'd want on your computer or the computer of anyone you care about," Edelman said in an interview. "It tracks every site you go to, every search you make, every product you buy, and every product you look at but don't buy. It's just spooky."
Problems with the retailer's My SHC Community program were first brought to light in late December, when CA senior engineer Benjamin Googins, wrote a blog entry criticizing the software, which was written by VoiceFive, a subsidiary of Internet measurement firm ComScore.
Getting a tattoo can be a painful proposition, but usually it's just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves, the Otero County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta, both 22, were treated at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after the shooting Thursday evening in nearby Chaparral.
Authorities said Glasser was struck in the hand when the gun accidentally went off, and Acosta was hit in the left arm. Their injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said.
Leslie and George Brock pose with a rare purple pearl found while eating a plate of steamed clams at Dave's Last Resort in Lake Worth, Fla. Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. At least one expert said the find could be worth thousands of dollars.
Photo by Bruce R. Bennett
Los Angeles' first homicide of 2008 has a macabre twist - a man found shot to death at a cemetery.
The body of a Latino man was discovered today at Forest Lawn-Glendale in the 1000 block of Glendale Avenue, police said.
The Los Angeles and Glendale police departments received calls of shots fired about 12:40 p.m. in that general area. It's unclear if the shooting occurred at the cemetery or if the body was dumped there.
For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according to a new survey.
Perhaps distracted by the introduction of such Web sites as MySpace.de and iTunes.de, German kids led the exodus, boding ill for the future of the medium.
According to the preliminary results of an annual study by Germany's television research institute, the GfK in Nuremberg, average per-day viewing in 2007 slipped to 208 minutes, down from 212 the year before. For young people the drop was more severe, to 178 minutes from 184.
A fast-food worker who found a $185,000 check on the sidewalk said he didn't think twice about trying to cash it. Reggie Damone, 47, who receives food stamps and works at McDonald's in Lisbon, managed to track down the owner of the check, a landlord.
Damone took a bus Monday to the bank and returned the wayward check to the landlord's niece, who thanked him with a $50 bill.
Damone said he found the check in an envelope he picked up from a sidewalk, intending to jot down a phone number on what he thought was litter.
He said he remembered his mother's words: If you take something, you lose three times that amount - and if you do something good, something good comes back to you.
New Mexico's float, depicting aliens on a spaceship, takes part in the 119th annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California January 1, 2008.
Photo by Mark Avery
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