M Is FOR MASHUP - March 21st, 2018
Bootie Mashup New Top 10 Collections
By DJ Useo
BOOTIE Mashup
( bootiemashup.com/ )
is the world's premiere live mashup show. For ages now, they've provided wonderful club shows all around the world, with tons of great bootleg DJ's. BOOTIE Mashup is led by the talented Adrian & The Mysterious D, a beloved production team who've released many a fine track. If you've gotten to the live shows, you'll know they give out a monthly
BOOTIE Mashup Top 10 disc, which is also available as a digital file on the web site , as well. You can find all of them, plus more,
located here
( bootiemashup.com/top-ten-albums/ )
A Plus D hand select the tracks from among the new favorites they hear regularly, resulting in a perfect assortment every time. Over the recent months, they've posted "Bootie Top 10 - January/February 2018"
( bootiemashup.com/top-ten-albums/bootie-top-10-january-february-2018/ )
& "Bootie Top 10 - November/December 2017"
( bootiemashup.com/top-ten-albums/bootie-top-10-november-december-2017/ )
I seem to have similar mashup tastes to tA Plus D, as I'm always familiar with every track chosen.
Check out any of the BOOTIE Top 10 collections, & you'll realize why you'll want more. The viability of attending the live shows will also be highly apparent. Maybe I'll see you at a show sometime in the future. They're a complete hoot, & you should experience it before the "fun police" enact the clampdown.
Mix Of The Week - Ian Fondue's "M.Y.B.O" is two awesome mixes of classic mashups from the long-defunct forum "Get Your Bootleg On". In his own words, Ian says - "Basically a load of stuff from the GYBO years that I loved, either sonically or through dancing to it like a drunken idiot at the Asylum. Some may sound familiar if you were at the Bastard v2 in Old Street nights …". Here's the
links for
both sets. Essential bootleg listening, imho.
( www.mixcloud.com/thelloydbrary/ian-fondue-mybo-1/ )
( www.mixcloud.com/thelloydbrary/ian-fondue-mybo-2/ )
Next week I have a new Useo collection for you. Take it easy.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Trump and Trade and Zombies (NY Times Column)
Coming soon: a battle of bad ideas that refuse to die.
World Happiness Report. (pdf)
The USA is number 18; Finland is number 1. See Figure 2.2.
Laura Snapes: Lorde's US tour has flopped - but it might be the making of her (The Guardian)
The New Zealand star is playing to arenas that are only a third full. But dropping out of pop's upper echelons may give her the long future she deserves.
Joni Mitchell: the sophistication of her music sets her apart from her peers - even Dylan (The Guardian)
As a book of interviews and box set of songs from Joni Mitchell's career are released, long-time fan Sean O'Hagan argues that her run of five classic albums, from Blue in 1971 to Hejira in 1976, surpass the work of her more celebrated male contemporaries.
Sean O'Hagan: The Pixels of Paul Cézanne by Wim Wenders review - director as (generous) critic…(The Guardian)
The film-maker's short essays on the artists who have inspired him are overly reverential but not without insight.
Issy Sampson: Is pop ready for Beyoncé's rap alter-ego? (The Guardian)
Queen B recently dropped bars on DJ Khaled's Top Off - a risky move from singer to MC that not many pop stars are capable of pulling off.
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Presenting
Michael Egan
replied:
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
David E Suggests
Brand Awareness
David
Thanks, Dave!
Bonus Links
Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp
Reader Comment
FB
I'm so close to deleting my FB account, and I've had very strict "privacy" (and I use the term loosely) "controls" (again, used loosely). Not that I'm influenced by "fake news" (another misleading term; news is news or it's gossip and inuendo), but who knows where else our personal information ends up? Ugh.
Step 1: Sign up for Facebook. Read the full story
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CONAN
Reader Comment
Current Events
Do we need to start a GoFundMe effort?
Do we need to start a GoFundMe effort to rent a nice room for Putin & Predator wherever this is they're getting together soon? No tacky Trump property would be good enough.
I want pictures because I know Putin will be on top--he's a manly assassin/thug, and we all know Predator is submissive.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
from Marc Perkel
Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
THE JESUS BOMB?
SATAN RUNS FOR OFFICE!
"WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?"
THE DICTATOR!
WHACKY CHRISTIAN MAKES A SHIT SANDWICH.
FASCISM RUNS DEEP. INTO YOUR LIFE IT WILL CREEP.
FACEBOOK IS NOT JUST HARMLESS FUN ANY MORE.
Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still waiting for the rain.
Finally Receives Knighthood
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr, a.k.a. former and forever Beatles drummer Richard Starkey, was knighted for his services to music in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London today. The Duke of Cambridge did the honors.
Some 53 years ago, Starr was at the palace with his former bandmates accepting the MBE - Member of the Order of the British Empire - and acknowledged missing them today. "I was a bit shaky today on my own," he said.
Then again, he could have been calmer in 1965 for a different reason. Although John Lennon claimed in 1970 that the group had smoked marijuana in the palace men's room before the ceremony to calm their nerves, Starr debunked it on Tuesday.
"We never smoked marijuana at the investiture," he said. "What happened was we were waiting to go through, standing in an enormous line with hundreds of people, and we were so nervous that we went to the toilet. And in there we smoked a cigarette - we were all smokers in those days.
"Years later, I'm sure John was thinking back and remembering, 'Oh yes, we went in the toilet and smoked,' and it turned into a reefer. Because what could be the worst thing you could do before you meet the Queen? Smoke a reefer! But we never did."
Ringo Starr
'Propaganda Machine'
Fox 'News'
Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Col. for the army and until recently a Fox News strategic analyst, decided to leave his post at the station after finally having a moment of clarity.
Peters' departure was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which obtained a copy of an email announcing his departure and detailing his reasoning to his colleagues.
"Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers," Peters wrote in the email. "Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed."
Peters continued by saying he thought that Fox News "degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration."
"As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign," Peters wrote.
Fox "News'
Passed Polygraph Test
Stormy Daniels
Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, passed a 2011 polygraph test in which she said she had unprotected sex with Donald Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the adult film actress took the test seven years ago when she was attempting to sell her story for $15,000 to Bauer Publishing, the company behind magazines like Life & Style and In Touch Weekly. Though Bauer Publishing did not run the story about Clifford and Trump at the time, In Touch published the interview with her in January. Trump has denied the affair ever happened.
The person who administered the polygraph was Ronald D. Slay, who works for Western Security Consultants in Las Vegas.
"In the opinion of this examiner, Ms. Clifford is truthful about having unprotected vaginal intercourse with Donald Trump in July 2006," Slay concluded, according to the Journal.
Trump attorney Michael Cohen has admitted that he paid Clifford $130,000 in October 2016, reportedly as part of a nondisclosure agreement that would bar Clifford from sharing information about Trump.
Stormy Daniels
Former Playboy Model
Karen McDougal
Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald Trump (R-Philanderer), is taking a page straight out of the Stormy Daniels playbook.
According to a The New York Times report, McDougal filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to get out of her 2016 non-disclosure agreement, becoming the second woman in two weeks to filed a lawsuit accusing the president or his allies of trying to bury news about a Trump extramarital affair.
McDougal is suing American Media Inc., The National Enquirer's parent company, which, according to the Wall Street Journal, paid her $150,000 to buy her story - but never ran it. The Enquirer's chief executive, David Pecker, is a friend of Trump's.
In her lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, McDougal claims that Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer, was in talks with American Media behind her back and that both AMI and her lawyer at the time misled her about the deal.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that A.M.I., one of the country's largest tabloid news providers, is known to buy damaging stories about allies for the sole purpose of burying them, a practice known as "catch and kill."
Karen McDougal
Execs Bragged Of Using Fake News
Cambridge Analytica
Disturbing undercover interviews with executives from U.K.-based political research firm Cambridge Analytica have revealed admissions of bribery, entrapment and the use of sex workers to sway political elections around the world, according to an investigative series airing Monday.
The results of a monthslong investigation by Britain's Channel 4 News revealed Cambridge Analytica's inner workings as told by Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, and Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, to a reporter posing as a client.
The interviews are part of Channel 4 News' "Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks" investigation series.
During phone calls and in-person meetings at a London hotel from November 2017 to January 2018, Nix was recorded bragging that his firm and parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) secretly influenced more than 200 elections around the world, including those in Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.
According to Channel 4's meetings with Nix, his firm's methods for influencing an election included putting certain politicians in compromising positions and secretly recording them, as well as conducting their work using fake IDs, websites, and under different company names so that the company's relationship with the client is not publicly known.
Cambridge Analytica
No Dreamer Deal In Sight
Democrats
Democratic leaders have backed away from their demands that young illegal immigrants be protected from deportation as the deadline approaches to fund the federal government.
Top Democrats had tied their support for previous budget bills to their receiving of commitments from Republicans to consider legislation that would salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme. But with less than five days to go until the government runs out of money, and little appetite for another government shutdown, Democratic leaders have indicated that they will not again hold a hard line over the issue.
Instead, they want negotiators in both parties to drop all contentious provisions unrelated to the budget to make it easier to pass the spending bill and keep the government open.
"I think that's probably the best policy for us to do," said Representative Steny Hoyer, the Democratic whip, according to The Hill.
Democrats
LGBTQ Discrimination In Schools
DeVos
Questioned by a persistent lawmaker on Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said private schools that discriminate against LGBTQ students should not be eligible for federal dollars, backtracking from an answer she gave last year.
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) had pressed DeVos on the issue at a House appropriations subcommittee hearing last May. At that time, DeVos indicated she thought the importance of state autonomy and parental choice should allow schools with such discriminatory policies to still qualify for federal dollars.
This year, Clark again focused on the issue at a similar hearing and DeVos finally relented, saying these schools should not be eligible for the money.
Clark's questioning stemmed from Education Department's 2019 budget proposal, which calls for giving more than $1 billion to school choice initiatives. Such programs - which are currently only supported at the state and local level - help families use public dollars to fund scholarships to private schools.
DeVos repeatedly tried to evade the question, saying that "where federal dollars flow, federal law must be adhered to," along with variations of that response. But Clark repeatedly demanded a "yes" or "no" answer.
DeVos
Sunken Battleship Discovered
USS Juneau
The USS Juneau is the latest Second World War wreck to be discovered by a team funded by billionaire Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen.
The discovery on March 17 locates another mass grave of American servicemen, as only 10 of its almost 700-strong crew survived its sinking during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
Among the hundreds who went down with the ship were five brothers, the Sullivans, who had insisted on serving together despite US military policies designed to avoid multiple losses to a signal family.
The story of the siblings had a profound effect on the American public and prompted the implementation of the Sole Survivor Policy, which led to the events that the film Saving Private Ryan is based on.
USS Juneau
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 12-18. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 13.27 million.
2. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.88 million.
3. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.18 million.
4. "This is Us," NBC, 10.94 million.
5. "Bull," CBS, 10.64 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.08 million.
7. "The Good Doctor," ABC, 9.89 million.
8. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 9.25 million.
9. "Instinct," CBS, 9.05 million.
10. "American Idol" (Monday), ABC, 8.41 million.
11. "Survivor," CBS, 8.38 million.
12. "NCIS: Los Angeles, 8.02 million.
13. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 7.81 million.
14. "Little Big Shots," NBC, 7.54 million.
15. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7.18 million.
16. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.08 million.
17. NCAA Men's Basketball: Ohio St. vs Gonzaga, CBS, 6.85 million.
18. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 6.66 million.
19. "911," Fox, 6.55 million.
20. "Chicago PD," NBC, 6.54 million.
Ratings
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