M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - June 5th, 2019
The AudioBoots French Boots Album Arrives
By DJ Useo
At Audioboots Mashup Forum
( audioboots.com/frontpage.html )
, we like to do themed mashup compilations a few times a year. A favorite theme once more was French mashups. To be eligible for the comp, all you had to do was employ French vocals. ( & you had to pass your track by the pre-release team ) The mixed offerings ( submissions, some call them ) flowed in, resulting in a collection that really "Pops". ( As the new generation says )
Co-owner Chocomang
( chocomang.org/Mashup2/ )
ably stepped up, & handled all aspects of this new 2 disc set, including producing, co-ordination, site-construction, & mixing a wonderful batch of mixes himself. The theme helped draw in an ideal group of home producers, including Amoraboy, DJ GIac, DJ Rudec, Hahnstudios & so very many more. Every contributor is an accomplished regular releaser of mashups, & worthy of following.
To give you an idea of the collected content, there's an overview sampler on the download page here
( audioboots.com/Albums/FrenchBoots/ )
Videos are expected. Look for links to them in the forum thread here
( audioboots.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1979 )
The entire two disc set is available gratis from this page here
( audioboots.com/Albums/FrenchBoots/ )
All past volumes are still available here
( audioboots.com/forum/index.php?p=/categories/compilations )
Here's a link to stream my preview track,
"Getting Away Enfant" ( Yelle et Electronic )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/13117 )
The combos are inspired, & the tracks are mixed with proficiency. Look for pairings like Alizée vs Depeche Mode, Stromae vs Plastic Bertrand, Edith Piaf vs Etienne Daho, plus a substantial additional number of rewarding blends. This isn't even the last of the Audioboots new albums, as the new "It Is To Laff" comp will appear within the month. Don't fret, I'll clue you in regarding when it becomes available. Woot!
PS. Thanks to all contributors. Your contributions are highly appreciated.
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Critics
• Egon Brecher once acted in a play in Vienna. He played a Japanese man, and in the cast were six actors who were from Japan. A critic wrote that only Mr. Brecher was convincing as a Japanese person. Mr. Brecher says, “It was true. I played the Austrian idea of a Japanese.”
Dance
• Rudolf Nureyev valued his freedom. In 1961, he was on tour with the Kirov Ballet in France, when he was suddenly told at the airport that although the rest of the Kirov Ballet would fly to London, he was to fly to Russia. Sensing that if he returned to Russia, he would never again be allowed to dance in the West, Mr. Nureyev immediately approached two French policemen in the airport and demanded their protection. After Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West from the Soviet Union, he began to dance with Margot Fonteyn. At first, Ms. Fonteyn resisted the idea. She was much older than Mr. Nureyev and felt, “It would be like mutton dancing with lamb.” However, she and her husband discussed the idea of the dance partnership. They decided that Mr. Nureyev would be the next great sensation in ballet and for the benefit of her career, Ms. Fonteyn decided to dance with him. Despite (or because of) the practical nature of her decision, it was a wise one, and the two dancers blossomed artistically together.
• When Shirley Temple first met Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, she asked if she could call him “Uncle Billy.” Mr. Robinson replied, “Why, sure you can. But then I get to call you ‘darlin’.’” They made the deal, and they starred together in four movies. When they danced in their four movies together, they used a hand squeeze system. Three squeezes meant that a hard part was coming up. One long squeeze meant, “Really good, darlin’.” No squeeze meant, “Well, let’s do it again.” Of course, Shirley Temple did a lot of tap dancing in her movies. Whenever one of her movies came out, parents would see it, then enroll their children in classes to learn tap dancing. Gene Kelly used to say that enrollment at his dance schools would nearly quadruple whenever a new Shirley Temple movie came out.
• As a young dancer, Alicia Marks, who later danced under the name of Alicia Markova, was taken to audition for Princess Seraphine Astafieva. Alicia’s mother stopped by Ms. Astafieva’s dance studio one day and sent in a card announcing “Little Alicia — The Child Pavlova.” Big mistake. Ms. Astafieva believed that Pavlova was a great artist, and she was very angry that anyone would dare to bill a small child as “The Child Pavlova.” Nevertheless, Ms. Astafieva watched little Alicia audition, then took her on as a student. Alicia’s mother immediately burned the offending cards in the fireplace. However, a short time later Ms. Astafieva presented the small dance student at a concert as “Little Alicia — The Miniature Pavlova.”
• Anna Pavlova and her dance company performed all over the world. In Mexico City, they danced on a stage in the bullring. This created a problem because it often rained in the afternoons when they danced. Ms. Pavlova was once amused to see her music director, Theodore Stier, conduct while a large umbrella was held over him. She knew the laws of the many countries she danced in. In Mexico, there was a law saying that if an open-air performance stopped within a certain length of time, the admission price would have to be refunded to the audience. As Ms. Pavlova danced, a heavy downpour began and her company rushed to get under shelter, but mindful of the law, she continued dancing and finished the performance.
• In George Balanchine’s “Apollo,” the great choreographer has Apollo appear to walk on his knees. When a reporter questioned Mr. Balanchine’s choreography, asking when he had seen Apollo walk on his knees, Mr. Balanchine replied by asking when the reporter had seen Apollo. The great choreographer also has Apollo alternatively open and close his hands a number of times. Mr. Balanchine claimed that the movement originated from the blinking advertising signs he had seen in London’s Piccadilly Circus. (One Apollo he had personally coached claimed that Mr. Balanchine had told him that the opening and closing of the hands meant “Bar and grill! Bar and grill!”)
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Guitars - Hayden, Dimitri
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Drums - Ryan
The El Caminos is a 4-piece instrumental surf band from Adelaide, featuring members from other local acts such as Murdergrin, Molloy, Patriarchal Death Machine, The Saucerman and Fell to Earth.
Bjorn Isheden, a fan, wrote, “Fantastic surf !
One of my favorite Bandcamp bands. Please release more music! Favorite track: ‘Black Sand Beach.’”
Another great surf band named El Caminos is from Japan.
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Gas up to $5.59/gal (cash) at the no-name station - $6.19/gal (cash or credit) at the Chevron station in a nicer neighborhood.
Finally
James Hong
James Hong, the ubiquitous veteran character actor who found a champion in "Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim, accepted his fan-funded star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in a burst of drums, cymbals and Chinese lion dancers — all harbingers of joy and good fortune.
"I'm here! I'm alive!," the energetic 93-year-old said Tuesday as he accepted the 2,723rd star on the Walk of Fame, located between Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum and the TCL Chinese Theater. And Hong just made history as the oldest person ever to receive a star on the Walk of Fame.
Hong, who is Chinese American, was born in Minnesota and served stateside in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He joins fellow performers of Asian descent including Anna May Wong, Mako, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu on the Walk of Fame.
Hong's career started in the early 1950s, and he has referred to himself as "probably the only living guy that has worked with Groucho Marx!" He shared the screen with Clark Gable as well, as a Chinese policeman in 1955's "Soldier of Fortune." His longevity has resulted in credits on 469 TV shows, 149 feature films, 32 short films and 22 video games, according to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
James Hong
Prime Time Ratings
“NCIS”
Perhaps trying to make sure it really happened, more people watched replays of 80-1 underdog Rich Strike winning the Kentucky Derby than watched it live.
NBC said some 36 million people watched the exciting finish of horseracing’s premier event on NBC Sports’ social media accounts, including 11.6 million on TikTok, the most ever achieved for a network sports presentation. That doesn’t account for non-NBC outlets, for which there was no estimate available Tuesday.
CBS dominated the ratings in prime-time last week, averaging 4.2 million with “NCIS” as the most popular show. ABC had 3.7 million, NBC had 2.8 million, Fox had 2.1 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television averaged 970,000 and Telemundo had 900,000
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.8 million viewers. NBC’s “NIghtly News” had 6.5 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.6 million.
For the week of May 2-8, the 10 most-watched programs on prime-time television, their networks and viewerships:
1. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.27 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.11 million.
3. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.46 million.
4. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.23 million.
5. NBA Playoffs: Memphis at Golden State (Saturday), ABC, 6.1 million.
6. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.82 million.
7. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.61 million.
8. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 5.52 million.
9. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.47 million.
10. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.4 million.
“NCIS”
Statue To Be Restored
Marjorie Tallchief
Enough pieces of a bronze statue of a famous Native American ballerina that was stolen in Tulsa have been recovered to restore it, historical officials said.
The additional missing pieces of the statue of Marjorie Tallchief that were found include the head, said Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Director Michelle Place, according to the Tulsa World.
Still missing are the lower portion of each leg, both feet and one arm, but Gary Henson, one of the original sculptors, said he will be able to restore it.
Tallchief and her sister, Maria Tallchief, were among five renowned Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma known as Five Moons and a bronze statue of each was unveiled outside the Tulsa museum in 2007.
Marjorie Tallchief
Librarians, Authors, Publishers Form Coalition
Book Ban
The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers and more than a dozen other organizations have formed a coalition to fight the nationwide wave of book bans and challenges.
Unite Against Book Bans ( uniteagainstbookbans.org ) also includes the publishers Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, the Authors Guild and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Resources will include helping community members draft petitions, forming questionnaires for political candidates and designing graphics for social media.
“This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs,” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the library association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s time that policymakers understand the severity of this issue.”
The library association reported last month that it tracked nearly 1,600 attempts to ban books in 2021, the highest since it began recording challenges more than 20 years ago.
Book Ban
The Real Victims
Rupert & Rafael
Fox News hosts and Republican politicians have spent the past year plus downplaying the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, a familiar refrain being that the breach of Congress that resulted in five deaths and dozens of injuries was a “peaceful protest.”
The same conservative hosts and politicians have responded to the actually peaceful protests following the leak of the Supreme Court’s drafted plan to overturn Roe v. Wade with outrage and disgust, part of an effort to convince Americans that they — not the nation’s women — are the real victims of the push to do away with reproductive rights.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Bubble Butt) was front and center Monday night, describing the riot at the Capitol last Jan. 6 as a “peaceful protest” while bashing Democrats for not calling off the “goons” protesting for reproductive rights.
Cruz in January called what happened last Jan. 6 a “violent terrorist attack,” getting himself eviscerated by Tucker Carlson. Cruz responded by going on Carlson’s show and begging for forgiveness, and now, just a few months later, he’s call the insurrection “peaceful” while labeling pro-choice protests “mob violence.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Narnia) was determined not to be outdone when it came to making absurd comparisons between the attack on the Capitol and the protests since the Supreme Court draft leaked. Hannity later deflected blame for the violence on Jan. 6 away from (the) former President Trump and onto those who supposedly “had the authority” to call up National Guard troops but “didn’t,” leading Graham to blurt out, “[ Trump the grifter] said, ‘Leave.’ He told them to leave the Capitol.” ( Trump the loser waited about three hours after the attack until he posted a video telling his supporters, “Go home. We love you. You’re very special.”)
Rupert & Rafael
China Was Shooting Us
‘Hurricane Gun’
Near the beginning of Donald Trump the twice-impeached loser’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.
“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”
The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump the unindicted conspirator began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018. Two of the sources recalled that as Trump got deeper into the second year in his term, he started to drop the topic, and occasionally joked about it.
In certain circles within the upper ranks of Trumpland, the then-leader of the free world’s query became such a mockable occurrence that it became known among some as the “Hurricane Gun” thing.
‘Hurricane Gun’
Starting to Lose Its Memory
The Ocean
The oceans that surround us are transforming. As our climate changes, the world's waters are shifting too, with abnormalities evident not only in the ocean's temperature, but also its structure, currents, and even its color.
As these changes manifest, the usually stable environment of the ocean is becoming more unpredictable and erratic, and in some ways the phenomenon is akin to the ocean losing its memory, scientists suggest.
"Ocean memory, the persistence of ocean conditions, is a major source of predictability in the climate system beyond weather time scales," researchers explain in a new paper led by first author and climate researcher Hui Shi from the Farallon Institute in Petaluma, California.
On another note, the ocean memory decline is expected to make it significantly harder for scientists to forecast upcoming ocean dynamics, reducing reliable lead times for all sorts of predictions related to SSTs. This will hinder our ability to project monsoons, marine heatwaves (MHWs), and periods of extreme weather, among other things.
The Ocean
Glues Hand To Starbucks Counter
James Cromwell
Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from “Succession’s” Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin’ — pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain’s extra charge for plant-based milk.
The 82-year-old Oscar nominee, known for “Babe: Pig in the City” and “L.A. Confidential,” channeled his role as the crotchety, anti-capitalist brother of a billionaire media mogul for the protest organized by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Cromwell sat on the Starbucks counter wearing a “Free the Animals” T-shirt and read a statement denouncing the surcharge for vegan milk alternatives.
Cromwell glued his hand to the counter, then later used a knife to scrape it off. Police said there were no arrests.
Cromwell, nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the farmer in “Babe,” is a veteran protester who was charged with trespassing in 2017 for interrupting an orca show at SeaWorld in San Diego.
James Cromwell
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