M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - January 3rd, 2018
Do The Mashup!
By DJ Useo
The Institute Of Bootleggers generally releases a new mashup album four times a year. They don't choose an album theme, they just make a new discs' worth available. I get the lucky job of mastering the tracks, so they match each other level-wise. Some people use an app to master, but I like to do them each by "hand". The new collection is called "Do The Mashup", & you can obtain it from
mirror links here
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-institute-of-bootleggers-presents.html )
Per the norm, this collection features the world's best home producers doing what they do best. No one asks us to adhere to any "style". We all just provide what we already do, the mixes that we think best please us & you. Shahar Varshal made "Part Time Rebel Eater" ( Hall & Oates vs Stevie Wonder vs Billy Idol vs Elton John ), while ToToM releases "Johnny Is Playing at My House" ( Johnny Hallyday vs LCD Soundsystem ), & satis5d provides "Rockabye Bells" ( AC/DC vs Clean Bandit ft Sean Paul and Anne-Marie ) .
To assist in motivating you towards further listening, DJ SeVe offers up the preview track " Blame Your Smalltown Boy" ( Bronski Beat vs Calvin Harris ft.John Newman ft.Ellie Goulding ), which can be
streamed here
( sowndhaus.audio/track/8313/i-blame-your-smalltown-boy-by-dj-seve )
The modern pop vocals over 80's club tunage is ideally suited for pleasing your ears. It's genre clash that works, I say.
I reckon this assortment will hold you until the next Institute Of Bootleggers appears sometime in late March. If you can't wait, there's plenty more
past IOB albums currently linked here
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/ )
Thanks for your kind attention, now proceed with the non-mashup fare!
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Children
• Some people are fortunate in that they know what they want to do at an early age. When she was six, lesbian comedian Liz Feldman saw a Purim play at her synagogue in which her 11-year-old sister played Queen Esther. After the show, Liz pointed to the stage and told her mother, “That’s what I want to do!” At age 10, she asked her parents for an agent for her birthday. Unfortunately, she got a 10-speed bicycle instead. At age 12, she started auditioning in Manhattan. At age 15, she answered an ad looking for children who wrote and performed their own stand-up material, so she wrote three minutes of material and got a role in a play about very young stand-up comedians. One of the jokes she wrote — which she now considers “so bad” and yet “so gay” — is this: “You know how some kids will get embarrassed when their moms will spit on a napkin to wipe the dirt off their face? My mom just licks my face.”
• Jim Carrey was funny even as a youngster. One of his “acts” was to put a lot of colored candies in his mouth, chew them up, and then pretend to vomit. His very young audience loved it. In school, he once got in trouble when his teacher saw him mocking some musicians on a record. Fortunately, all turned out well. Thinking to embarrass him, his teacher ordered him to do what he was doing in front of the class. Young Jim did, and he was so funny that his teacher invited him to do the act at the school’s Christmas assembly. And when his mother became ill, Jim’s comedy cheered her up — sometimes at odd times. Occasionally, his father would wake him up and say, “Sorry to wake you up in the middle of the night, but your mother and I could use a good laugh. You’re on in five.”
• As you may expect, comedian George Carlin took too many illegal drugs in his life. According to journalist David Hochman, when Mr. Carlin and his 11-year-old daughter took a vacation to Hawaii, she made him sign a contract stating that he wouldn’t snort cocaine for the duration of the vacation. Despite his illegal drug use, and despite his heart problems, he got old, something that really wasn’t a problem for him. He stated that “the richness of memory, the richness of acquired and accumulated experience and wisdom, I won’t trade that. At 67, I’m every age I ever was. I always think of that. I’m not just 67. I’m also 55 and 21 and three. Oh, especially three.”
• David Letterman was an original even in high school. For an English assignment he was required to write about an important event in a person’s life, so he wrote about a man who had swallowed paper towels — his way of committing suicide. While working at a grocery store, David once put cornhusks in a box of cornflakes and put it on the shelf. Not everyone was impressed by him — or his sense of humor. His high-school guidance counselor, Marilyn Dearing, wrote that he was “a run-of-the-mill ordinary average kid.” In an interview after he became famous, she said, “I didn’t think David was funny then, and I still don’t think he is funny.”
• George Burns was Jewish, but once he wanted to become Presbyterian. Why? As a small child, he was a member of a singing group that sang in an amateur talent contest at a church picnic. They won first prize — each boy received a watch. Young George was so excited that he ran home and told his mother that he wanted to become a Presbyterian — he had been a Jew all seven years of his life and never gotten anything, and he had been a Presbyterian for 15 minutes and gotten a watch. His mother told him, “First help me hang up the wash, then you can be a Presbyterian.”
• Frank Sinatra loved his kids. Sometimes, he took daughter Tina out to eat. She was surprised that so many people stared at her in restaurants. Frank was embarrassed as he said to her, “They’re not staring at you, Pigeon. They’re staring at me.” Frank’s love for Tina worked out well for television comedian Soupy Sales, who was happy to get a telephone call one day from a major, major star: “I’m Frank Sinatra. My kid wants me to do your show.”
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BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
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Music: "The Wolf"
Album: DUALTONE SAMPLER
Artist: Delta Spirit
Artist Location: San Diego, California
Record Company: Dualtone Music Group, Inc.
Record Company Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Info:
“Here you will find samplers of Dualtone’s past and present artists, as well as tribute albums and other compilations from Dualtone’s back catalog.”
“The Wolf” is also available on Delta Spirit’s 20-track album INTO THE WIDE for $10 (USD).
Delta Spirit is:
Matthew Logan Vasquez
Kelly Winrich
Will McLaren
Jonathan Jameson
Brandon Young
Price: Name Your Price (Includes FREE) for 21-track album by various artists
Genre: Rock. Various.
Links:
DUALTONE SAMPLER
Dualtone Samplers & Compilations
INTO THE WIDE (DELUXE EDITION)
Delta Spirit on YouTube
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HBO Pulls Documentary
Larry David
HBO has pulled tonight’s premiere of The Larry David Story, a two-part documentary about the award-winning producer/writer and comedian, at David’s request.
In a tweet on Monday, HBO Documentaries announced “The #LarryDavidStory on @HBOMax is being postponed. Instead, Larry has decided he wants to do it in front of an audience. Stay tuned for more info.”
It was set to premiere tonight on HBO at 9 PM and be available for streaming on HBO Max, with the plans changing last minute after David was not happy with the finished product and opted to redo it with a live audience.
In The Larry David Story, the 74-year-old sits down with friend/director Larry Charles and gets candid about his personal and professional highs and lows. He reflects on his bumpy road to success and hit series Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and shares his thoughts on everything from metaphysics to parenthood.
Larry David
‘Dancing With the Stars’
Paddington Bear
The entertainment background of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was thoughtfully invoked by Succession actor Brian Cox during the actor’s SAG Award acceptance speech on Sunday night, just the latest example of what much of the world no doubt views as Zelensky’s unlikely path to the world stage.
Over the weekend, Paddington actor Hugh Bonneville and others shared a little-known aspect of Zelensky’s career: The man now standing firm against the Russian invasion once voiced the title character of Paddington bear in the Ukrainian-dubbed versions of 2014’s Paddington and its 2017 sequel Paddington 2. (The franchise’s producers at StudioCanal confirmed the news.)
Prior to entering politics, Zelensky was best known for his comic portrayal of a school teacher-turned-president in the popular TV satire Servant of the People. But even before that signature role, Zelensky had endeared himself to his countrymen in series and TV movies such as The Three Musketeers (2005) and Corporal vs. Napoleon (2012).
And in another of his little-known accomplishments — at least, little known outside of his country — Zelensky won Ukraine’s version of Dancing with the Stars in 2006.
Paddington Bear
Ratings
“60 Minutes”
Cable news viewership jumped during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Fox News Channel leading the way and CNN showing the most dramatic increases.
CNN, Fox and MSNBC collectively averaged 6.4 million viewers in prime time between the start of the war last Wednesday and Sunday night. That’s up from their January average of 4 million, the Nielsen company said.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks with an average of 3.17 million viewers in prime time. CNN had 1.5 million, MSNBC had 1.39 million, ESPN had 1.15 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 9 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.3 million.
For the week of Feb. 21-27, the top 20 shows in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.36 million.
2. “FBI,” CBS, 7.33 million.
3. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 7.18 million.
4. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.13 million.
5. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.95 million.
6. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.83 million.
7. “American Idol,” ABC, 6.3 million.
8. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.25 million.
9. “FBI: International,” CBS, 6.13 million.
10. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 6.01 million.
“60 Minutes”
“#Bendergate Is Officially Over”
‘Futurama’
Futurama will be back with its lead cast intact when the Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s cult animated sci-fi comedy returns with new episodes on Hulu in 2023. Holdout John DiMaggio has closed a deal to reprise his signature voice role as foul-mouthed robot Bender and an assortment of other characters in the revival, which has a 20-episode order.
The news comes three weeks after the announcement that Futurama would possibly return without DiMaggio mobilized fans who took to social media to throw their support behind him, using #bendergate. DiMaggio referenced the hashtag in his note to fans two weeks ago and in his statement about his return to the show today.
While the official Futurama revival announcement by Hulu and 20th Television Animation last month indicated that the role of Bender would be recast, that never happened. A producer filled in and read the part during the first table read as the studio and DiMaggio remained hopeful that a resolution could be reached.
“I’M BACK, BABY! So damn grateful for the love and support of fans and colleagues alike during this whole time (especially my wife, Kate), and I cannot wait to get back to work with my Futurama family,” DiMaggio said. “#Bendergate is officially over, so put it on the back of a shelf behind Xmas decorations, or maybe in that kitchen drawer with all of the other crap you put in there like old unusable crazy glue, or maybe even put it in a jar you save farts in. Whatever floats your boat, I don’t care, you get the picture. I’M BACK, BABY! BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!”
‘Futurama’
'History Repeating'
Holocaust Memorial
A Russian missile strike hit the site of a Holocaust memorial in Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon as Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate.
The memorial was struck when Russian troops fired at the neighbouring TV tower, reportedly killing five people.
President Volodymr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish and lost family members during the Holocaust, condemned the bombing of the Babyn Yar memorial, describing the Russian attack as "history repeating".
"To the world: what is the point of saying never again for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?" he said.
The massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar during the Second World War is widely seen as one of the Nazi's worst atrocities, and one of the most horrifying moments of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Memorial
Three Republicans
Lynching
The House of Representatives on Monday night passed The Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill received unanimous support save for three Republicans. Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Chip Roy (R-Texas) opposed the bill.
In explaining his “no” vote, Massie wrote in a Twitter thread that designating enhanced penalties “for ‘hate’ tends to endanger other liberties such as freedom of speech.” He also argued that lynching is illegal in all states already.
Roy issued a statement Tuesday explaining his decision. “Lynching is an unspeakably heinous crime,” he said. “But this bill doesn’t have anything to do with lynching, other than its name.” He called the bill “an effort to advance a woke agenda under the guise of correcting racial injustice” and said it is a “matter for the states.”
In a statement following the bill’s passage, Rep. Bobby L. Rush, who introduced the bill, recalled the killing of Emmett Till. Till, a 14 year-old child, was killed in 1955 by a group that accused him of flirting with a white woman. “I was eight years old when my mother put the photograph of Emmett Till’s brutalized body that ran in Jet magazine on our living room coffee table, pointed to it, and said, ‘This is why I brought my boys out of Albany, Georgia,’” Rush said. “That photograph shaped my consciousness as a black man in America, changed the course of my life, and changed our nation.”
Lynching
Response To School Book Bans
Activism
Until a year ago, Stephana Ferrell’s political activism was limited to the occasional letter to elected officials.
Then came her local school board meeting in Orange County, Florida and an objection raised to Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir.” And the county’s decision last fall to remove it from high school shelves.
“By winter break, we realized this was happening all over the state and needed to start a project to rally parents to protect access to information and ideas in school,” says Ferrell, a mother of two. Along with fellow Orange County parent Jen Cousins, she founded the Florida Freedom to Read Project, which works with existing parent groups statewide on a range of educational issues, including efforts to “keep or get back books that have gone under challenge or have been banned.”
Over the past year, book challenges and bans have reached levels not seen in decades, according to officials at the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and other advocates for free expression. Censorship efforts have ranged from local communities such as Orange County and a Tennessee school board’s pulling Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” to statewide initiatives.
According to PEN America, which has been tracking legislation around the country, dozens of bills have been proposed that restrict classroom reading and discussion. Virtually all of the laws focus on sexuality, gender identity or race. In Missouri, a bill would ban teachers from using the “1619 Project,” the New York Times magazine issue which centers around slavery in American history and was released last fall as a book.
Activism
Pain Relief
Nostalgia
The longing and wistfulness of nostalgia can make a person feel many different things. Amidst the memories, both happy and sad, you might even find a unique form of pain relief.
The observation is not new. Beyond boosting wellbeing and improving physical comfort, nostalgia has previously been shown to lessen perceptions of pain.
Using fMRI scanners to monitor the brain activity of 34 volunteers, the researchers presented participants with images designed to induce nostalgic feelings, depicting objects or scenes from childhood.
Non-nostalgic images were also shown to the group, acting as control images, showing objects and scenes from modern life, but not evoking childhood memories.
While being shown these images during the experiment, the volunteers were also subjected to a thermosensory device giving them a sensation of painful heat on their forearm.
Nostalgia
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