M Is FOR MASHUP - June 25th, 2014
Get Your Summer Booty 2014!!
By DJ Useo
So, like, I'd already overseen making seven volumes of "SUMMER BOOTY The Summer Mashup Album". This year I decided it didn't fit into my schedule. Sighs of relief all around here. I really didn't plan another.
Then…I got FOURTEEN incredible mashups from folk who had been on previous editions. The tracks were each, and all, sublime, and I got completely inspired to make 2014 the year of the eighth volume.
Now, most of the past years, SUMMER BOOTY was actually THREE discs! ~GASP!~ Lol. Well, I decided to do myself a favor, and keep it to two simple discs. Well, after I sent out invites, people sent me multiple submissions. Really FANTASTIC multiple submissions. I'm no fool, not about mashups at least, lol, so I decided to not decline any mix that was wonderful. This quickly swelled the collection back to the previous years' norm of three discs. Shazbot!
The thing about the 2014 volume having three discs, though, is it is 100% great mixes right to the end. So, that's 27 bootleggers, 3 discs, 3 & 1/2 hours, and 49 tracks ! Many of the most skilled mashers appear on the comp this year, and the results are a delight to the ear. Hype? Not at all. I hope you've been reading my articles on mashups, & not just skipping down the Bartcop E page to see if Dale of Diamond Springs posted a hottie. ;) If you have been reading, you'll be happy to hear that SUMMER BOOTY 2014 has mixers onnit like Voicedude, DRA'man, DJ Zebra, Sgt Mash, AtoZ ,Solcofn, DJ Spider, and so many more. 27 bootleggers in fact, as mentioned above.
Each of these international mixers expressed in a track, the vibe of Eternal Summer, as they saw that concept themselves. The variety of artists mashed is wide, yet, always incredibly appealing. Check out the full 3 disc playlist
here
( audioboots.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/235/summer-booty-2014-the-summer-mashup-album )
An interesting trivia of note regarding SUMMER BOOTY 2014 is that each disc ends with a mashup using Underdog Projects' classic song "Summer Jam". I thought that was a great capper to the tradition of that tune appearing in some form on every edition of this mashup series.
There're mirror links so you can choose the best way for you to get the files. There's also one link that nets you all three discs in one LARGE 500 mB file. ( That's the way to go, since, as I mentioned, the album is super to the last track. )
All links found here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2014/06/summer-booty-2014-summer-mashup-album.html )
Remarkable preview track video from Voicedude & BobbyG " I Like The Way Godzilla Works It " ( Blackstreet vs Blue Oyster Cult )
here
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlsJtXRFifk )
That almost tells the tale, but I must say thanks to AtoZ for providing the fine covers. Much appreciated, m8. Then, I can't leave without telling you that renowned veteran long mixer, BUDTHEWEISER will soon post his Lo-ong mixes containing all three discs, but seamed onto three single tracks. This again, is a fine tradition for this series, & I'm powerful pleased it occurs again. Thanks, Bud!
Have fun with the album. It's meant to last all Summer. :D
Recommended Reading
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Sarah Boseley: "The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know" (Guardian)
As a nation we are getting fatter to the point of crisis. But why? And what are the implications? For starters, it's hard to treat after the age of five and is bankrupting the NHS.
Andrew Munro: 5 Terrible Secrets Big Drug Companies Don't Want You to Know (Cracked)
If you go by their portrayal in movies and TV shows, you'd think that huge pharmaceutical corporations make all their money by turning children into zombies and having them steal grandma's heart medication, or whatever the plot of Resident Evil was. But the truth is that Big Pharma (as hippies and crackpots call it)...
Paul Krugman: The Big Green Test (NY Times)
Are conservatives willing to settle for "second best" solutions for global warming?
Zoe Williams: Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and the rape generation (Guardian)
Madonna took raunch culture into the mainstream. But where does self-expression end and sleazy sexism begin? As Lady Gaga pulls her latest X-rated video, Zoe Williams takes a wrecking ball to pop culture's doublethink.
Kurt Cobain was 'desperate' for fame, says Courtney Love (Guardian)
Nirvana singer wrote to 'every major label' asking to sign, his widow tells the National Geographic TV channel.
Suzanne Moore: Sorry for doubting you hay fever sufferers - now I know your pain (Guardian)
I used to think allergies were for wusses, but now I'm one of a rising number reaching for the eye drops, nasal sprays and pills.
Joel Stice: 20 Yard Sale Signs That Are Advertising Gold (College Humor)
The stuff may be crap, but the signs are golden.
Andrew Tobias: The Potato
During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home?" "Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person and ask them to empty the bathtub."…
David Bruce: Wise Up! Illness and Injury (Athens News)
A burglar broke into and entered the home of Cara Phillips. Unfortunately, she happened to be at home, so the burglar robbed her. However, the burglar had a really bad headache, so he demanded some aspirin. She gave him several Valium tablets instead of aspirin, and when the dosage put the burglar to sleep, she called the police, who arrested the burglar.
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from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
The most active open discussion is on Bart's Facebook page.
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We have opened up the radio show archives which are now free. Listen to
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overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
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Sunny and even warmer.
Lyrics Sell For $2 Million
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's original, handwritten manuscript for "Like a Rolling Stone" sold for just over $2 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's rock and roll auction, which also included memorabilia from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley.
The price for the 1965 annotated lyrics for "Like a Rolling Stone," considered one of the most influential songs in postwar music, makes it the most expensive rock music manuscript sold at auction.
It shattered the previous record set in 2010 when John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "A Day in the Life," the final track from the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" sold for $1.2 million, according to Sotheby's.
The manuscript for Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," which fetched $485,000, was the second highest selling lot, followed by the Vox guitar organ, a hybrid instrument given to the Beatles by the inventor in 1964, which sold for $305,000.
Bob Dylan
Picks Chicago
George Lucas
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas has selected Chicago to house his much anticipated museum of art and movie memorabilia, a spokesman for the mayor's office said Tuesday.
The decision is a major victory for the nation's third-largest city, which was locked in a battle for the museum with San Francisco. Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel, confirmed that Lucas had selected Chicago but did not immediately have any details.
The selection was somewhat of a surprise, given Lucas' close ties to San Francisco and California: He is a native of the state, Lucasfilm's visual effects division is based in the city and the headquarters for LucasFilm and Skywalker Sound is across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County. Los Angeles had also bid for the museum.
But Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former chief of staff, pushed hard for Chicago, just as he is pushing hard to persuade his former boss to build his presidential museum in the city. Chicago was always given a good chance, in large part because Lucas' wife, Mellody Hobson, a prominent businesswoman, is from Chicago and Chicago closed down Promontory Point on the lakefront so the couple could host a star-studded party to celebrate after Lucas' California wedding.
George Lucas
Panel Overturns Defrocking
Frank Schaefer
A pastor who presided over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.
The nine-person panel ordered the church to restore Frank Schaefer's pastoral credentials, saying the jury that convicted him of breaking church law erred when fashioning his punishment.
The church suspended Schaefer, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, last year for officiating his son's 2007 wedding. It then defrocked him because he refused to promise to uphold the Methodist law book "in its entirety," including its ban on clergy performing same-sex marriages.
Schaefer appealed, arguing the decision was wrong because it was based on an assumption he would break church law in the future.
The jury's punishment was illegal under church law, the appeals panel concluded, writing in its decision that "revoking his credentials cannot be squared with the well-established principle that our clergy can only be punished for what they have been convicted of doing in the past, not for what they may or may not do in the future."
Frank Schaefer
'No Criticism' Rule Struck Down
Ruidoso
A federal judge came down hard on a New Mexico village Monday after officials tried to ban residents from saying anything negative at Council meetings.
U.S. District Judge James O. Browning issued an injunction Monday finding that the village of Ruidoso's rule or policy barring speakers from being critical is "an unconstitutional burden on free speech," the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Under the village rules, a speaker could praise personnel, staff or the village Council, or could make a neutral comment, but couldn't voice criticism.
In an 89-page opinion, Browning granted summary judgment to lawyer William Griffin, who sued after the Council refused his request to speak at a meeting.
Browning said limits can be placed on time and topic, but not on the speaker's opinion.
Ruidoso
Violates Constitution
No-Fly List
The U.S. government's no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown, ruling on a lawsuit filed in federal court in Oregon by 13 Muslim Americans who were branded with the no-fly status, ordered the government to come up with new procedures that allow people on the no-fly list to challenge that designation.
"The court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this modern world. Indeed, for many international travel is a necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society," Brown wrote in her 65-page ruling.
The decision hands a major victory to the 13 plaintiffs - four of them veterans of the U.S. military - who deny they have links to terrorism and say they only learned of their no-fly status when they arrived at an airport and were blocked from boarding a flight.
No-Fly List
What Climate Change?
Heat and Humidity
The old adage, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity," will come into play more often and in more places because of climate change, with life-altering results in southern U.S. cities from Miami to Atlanta to Washington and even northern ones such as New York, Chicago and Seattle.
"As temperatures rise, toward the end of the century, less than an hour of activity outdoors in the shade could cause a moderately fit individual to suffer heat stroke," said climatologist Robert Kopp of Rutgers University, lead scientific author of the report. "That's something that doesn't exist anywhere in the world today."
That result emerges from the heat-and-humidity analysis in "Risky Business," the report on the economic consequences of climate change released on Tuesday. The analysis goes beyond other studies, which have focused on rising temperatures, to incorporate growing medical understanding of the physiological effects of heat and humidity, as well as research on how and where humidity levels will likely rise as the climate changes.
If climate change continues on its current trajectory, the report concluded, Midwesterners could see deadly heat-and-humidity pairings (which meteorologists call "wet-bulb temperature") two days every year by later this century.
The Southeast is expected to be hit with an additional 17 to 52 extremely hot days per year by mid-century and an additional 48 to 130 days by 2100. That could prove deadly for thousands: "Risky Business" projects an additional 15 to 21 deaths per 100,000 people every year from the heat, or 11,000 to 36,000 additional deaths at current population levels.
Heat and Humidity
Car At Auction
Green Hornet
With revolving license plates, machine guns, a huge engine and tinted glass for privacy, it could be the perfect car for the daily commute as well as for anyone who was a fan of the original TV series or recent film remake.
Based on a 1965 Chrysler Imperial, the Black Beauty as imagined by French film director Michel Gondry and his creative team for the 2011 film, was bought to life by Dennis McCarthy of Vehicle Effects in California and is now being bought to the general public thanks to RR Auctions.
The car boasts its original 413 engine, but that is pretty much the only thing about this particular car that is stock or could be considered as original equipment. For example, it has two hood-mounted Browning machine guns, Stinger missiles integrated into the front and rear bumpers and backward opening doors.
It also has green headlamps, cannons that fire beanbags and shotguns integrated into the doors.
Green Hornet
Fux's Ferrari
Enzo
A mechanic driving a customer's extremely rare Ferrari sports car wrecked it on a Connecticut highway, state police said on Tuesday.
The Ferrari Enzo, which ranges in price from $600,000 to some $3 million at auction, was accelerating up an entrance ramp to Interstate 95 in Stamford on Monday when it fishtailed and struck a barrier wall, according to the accident summary.
The car, only about 400 of which exist, spun across all three lanes of traffic, crashing into a second barrier and then came to an "uncontrolled stop" in the median, the summary said.
Driver Leonardo Garcia, identified as a Ferrari mechanic at Greenwich, Connecticut's luxury car dealership Miller Motorcars, suffered a minor cut to the head and was issued a ticket for failing to drive in an established lane, the report said.
The Ferrari's owner, Michael Fux, founder of memory foam mattress and furniture company Sleep Innovations, could not be reached for comment.
Enzo
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.42 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Sunday), NBC, 8.12 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 7.82 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.67 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 6.72 million.
6. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.5 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.42 million.
8. "Night Shift," NBC, 6.25 million.
9. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.19 million.
10. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 6.02 million.
11. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.96 million.
12. "Rookie Blue," ABC, 5.92 million.
13. "Rizzolli & Isles," TNT, 5.81 million.
14. "24: Live Another Day," Fox, 5.63 million.
15. "Mom" (Thursday), CBS, 5.58 million.
16. "Mike & Molly" (Monday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 5.5 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.35 million.
18. "The Last Ship," TNT, 5.33 million.
19. "So You Think You Can Dance," Fox, 5.32 million.
20. "Mike & Molly" (Monday, 9:30 p.m.), CBS, 5.28 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of Method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported.
Wallach's death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine, the newspaper said. The circumstances of his death were not immediately known, and representatives for Wallach did not immediately return requests for comment.
Having grown up the son of Polish Jewish immigrants in an Italian-dominated neighborhood in New York, Wallach might have seemed like an unlikely cowboy, but some of his best work was in Westerns.
Many critics thought his definitive role was Calvera, the flamboyant, sinister bandit chief in "The Magnificent Seven." Others preferred him in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" as Tuco, who was "the ugly," opposite Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's classic "spaghetti Western."
Years later, Wallach said strangers would recognize him and start whistling the distinctive theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
Wallach, who was still making movies into his 90s, graduated from the University of Texas, where he picked up the horseback-riding skills that would serve him well in later cowboy roles, and studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse Actors Studio before World War Two broke out.
Eli Wallach
In Memory
Teenie Hodges
Teenie Hodges, the diminutive guitarist and "Take Me to the River" songwriter who became a towering figure in the Memphis music scene, has died. He was 68.
Longtime friend and Royal Studio owner Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell said Tuesday that Hodges died Sunday night from complications of emphysema at a Dallas hospital. Hodges fell ill during a trip to the South By Southwest music festival in March and had been hospitalized with pneumonia since.
Hodges, rapper Drake's uncle, was the go-to guitarist for Memphis soul in the 1960s and '70s. He helped define the sound by working with artists including Al Green, Syl Johnson, and Etta James, and later would inspire dozens of others from Michael Jackson to Cat Power.
Born Mabon Lewis Hodges in Germantown, Tennessee, in 1946, and given his nickname because of his size, Hodges was playing guitar in his father's blues band by the age of 12. He made his first mark in the music world with the help of his brothers, who joined him to form most of the Hi Rhythm Section, the house band for influential Memphis label Hi Records.
Hodges co-wrote "Take Me to the River" with Green and though the soul singer didn't have a hit with it, it's been covered scores of times by artists as diverse as Tina Turner, Talking Heads and Tom Jones and has become part of the American songbook. He also penned "Love and Happiness" with Green and teamed with other Memphis legends including his mentor Willie Mitchell and singer Isaac Hayes to craft a sound that's easily identifiable and still influential.
Hodges and the Hi Rhythm Section disbanded after Hi Records was sold in 1975, though it would often re-form over the years, and he worked with a number of musicians in the last decades of his career. He was at South By Southwest to promote the music documentary "Take Me to the River," one of two films he participated in late in life.
Teenie Hodges
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