M Is FOR MASHUP - June 26th, 2013
Seven Years Of SUMMER BOOTY!
By DJ Useo
Last week, I gave y'all a taste of SUMMER BOOTY 2013 The Summer Mashup Album with the preview tracks from Voicedude, Mumdy, DJ Spider, and the video preview from Envision.
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-061913.index.html )
Now, you get the full treatment of three full discs, 54 new mashups, mixed by 27 bootleggers. It's a generous listen in this modern age of the single track attention span, ( I don't mean YOU of course ) so I think it'll take time for the audience to achieve a full acquaintance will all the material. Especially when the first major response I received was from someone who was so into Envision's video that she was replaying that one solely, and hadn't gotten to the rest yet. Lol.
For a project only out since June 21st, the Summer Solstice, the response has been very satisfying. Mostly around 300-500 downloads a day is going to really add up eventually. As mashup producers, we claim no copyright and charge no fee, so it's good to know there's people listening. The
annual SUMMER BOOTY project has routinely pulled in numbers in the high ten thousands. If you count that on your fingers, that's a lot of hands! If you think you'd enjoy hearing dj 's mashing tunes into tracks that feel like eternal Summer, this is the real deal. Have a gander at the full playlist to see the many chosen source fodder pairings, and also who mixed them, if that interests you.
( www.soundunsound.com/content.php/214-SUMMER-BOOTY-2013-The-Summer-Mashup-Album-All-New )!
This project has inspired many to express themselves with the Summer bootleg vibe. The creation thus continues with more Summer offshoots appearing.
Budtheweiser has mixed
2 thoroughly enjoyable long blends of the entire project! Totally zarjaz!
( www.mixcloud.com/paul-buddery/summer-booty-2013-mix-1/ )
( www.mixcloud.com/paul-buddery/summer-booty-2013-mix-2/ )
Stream them today for maximum Summer thrills.
Before I spare you more hype, allow me to mention that SUMMER BOOTY contributor Hahnstudios has birthed a fantastic video version of his thriller mix '
It's A Wonderful Reggae Night Life' ( SEEED vs Jimmy Cliff ) .
I'm enjoying it repeatedly, pausing only to type these very words you read. Word has reached me of more video versions coming, so I'll drop you the links as they appear. I hope you all have tons of fun with this new 2013 edition. I regard it as the musical version of a water theme park. Essential for Summer celebration. If you couldn't make it to Stonehenge to celebrate the seasons arrival, jamming to this collection is the next best thing!
( vimeo.com/68801164 )
The music mixed contains the best source artists like Daft Punk, Taylor Swift, Alice Cooper, Snow Patrol, Katy Perry, Seal, Muse, and so many more.
The bootleggers are are all accomplished home producers with a successful mashup career of their own. dJ BC, Solcofn, DJ Spider, Voicedude, Giobat, mARKYbOY, DJ MXR and the many more flocking on this release are all proven mashup commodities sure to leave you pleased. Once you hear what I've heard here, you'll want more. Thus, all the single tracks are tagged with the home sites of the mixers. Don't thank me, just tell your friends!
Full 3-disc collection linked from here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/06/summer-booty-2013-summer-mashup-album.html )
Enjoy it! There's no other seasonal collection that can beat it! ;)
All 6 past SUMMER BOOTY albums available here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Will I write about new mashups next week, or will it be all limericks? Come back to see!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Zapatou: Best of Web 5 (YouTube)
Weather camera spider scares Kristi (YouTube)
Meteorologist Kristi Gordon was surprised by a spider on the weather camera as she did her Noon News forecast.
Nick Hanauer: The Capitalist's Case for a $15 Minimum Wage (Bloomberg)
The fundamental law of capitalism is that if workers have no money, businesses have no customers. That's why the extreme, and widening, wealth gap in our economy presents not just a moral challenge, but an economic one, too. In a capitalist system, rising inequality creates a death spiral of falling demand that ultimately takes everyone down.
Catherine de Lange: "Edith Heard: 'We can't undo what our parents have given us in terms of our genes'" (Guardian)
When something isn't working, Edith Heard is the kind of person who will try to fix it. And at the top of her list might well be the reputation of her subject - epigenetics.
Kira Cochrane: "Billie Jean King: 'It's not about the money. It's about the equality message'" (Guardian)
The former tennis star, winner of 39 Grand Slam titles, talks about her fight for women players to get equal pay as well as her work for gay rights.
Amy Fleming: Hot or not? How we really rate our looks (Guardian)
Some advertising would have us believe that we're more beautiful than we think. In fact, the reverse is true.
Henry Barnes: "Ira Glass on This American Life: 'Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned to me'" (Guardian)
What sweets do fighter pilots eat? Can pigs' rectums be passed off as squid? These are the sort of questions that have made This American Life an internet sensation. Henry Barnes meets Ira Glass as he comes searching for British stories.
Leah Price: Books on Books (Public Books)
You need a birthday present, let's say for your cousin's boyfriend. You're bad at guessing shirt sizes, so it might as well be a book.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Apple iBookstore
David Bruce has approximately 50 Kindle books on Amazon.com.
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Mercury Retro
Gare G
Gave the heads up in previous mailings (and in my column at www.catprez.com ) which all of America should read.
Be wary and careful in issues regarding communication, travel, mechanical/electronic items and legalities.
This will last until 7/20.
Let me know if you need further explanation.
Gare G
Thanks, Gare!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Bit of a marine layer rolled in, keeping it overcast most of the day.
Disney Renames Stage
Annette
The stage at Walt Disney Studios where "The Mickey Mouse Club" was filmed is now officially the Annette Funicello Stage.
Disney chief Bob Iger led a ceremony Monday dedicating the soundstage to Funicello, the Mouseketeer-turned-movie star who died in April at age 70.
Former Mouseketeers, Funicello's family and colleagues and Mickey Mouse himself also participated in Monday's dedication. Frankie Avalon, Richard Sherman and Leonard Maltin were among those honoring the late actress.
Julie Andrews is the only other entertainer to have a namesake stage at Disney studios.
Annette
Broadway Marquees To Dim
James Gandolfini
Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of James Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" star who earned a Tony Award nomination in 2009.
The Broadway League said Tuesday the lights will be dimmed for one minute at exactly 8 p.m. EDT.
The 51-year-old actor died Wednesday in Rome. A funeral will be held Thursday at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City.
Gandolfini received a Tony nomination for his role in the award-winning "God of Carnage." He also appeared on Broadway in "On the Waterfront" in 1995 and "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1992.
James Gandolfini
The Corner of Klingon and Romulan Courts
Sacramento
Do you know the difference between a Klingon and a Romulan? "Star Trek" fans do, and for decades they have debated their allegiances between the alien species.
For some Californians, however, they're just names intersecting at a small corner of Sacramento.
KXTV News 10 reports that while space might be the final frontier famously referenced in the opening of "Star Trek," Sacramento has long been home to a street corner bearing the names of the saga's most famous alien races.
The unusually named intersection received some renewed attention when a man named Bob Blaylock posted photos of it on Panoramio. The photos also became a hot topic on the social media site Reddit, where discussions of all things "Star Trek" pop up like multiplying Tribbles.
An anonymous city planner named the streets in June 1977. At the time, the "Star Trek" saga was experiencing something of a lull. The original series had been off the air for nearly a decade, and the first motion picture in the series was still two years away from its debut.
Sacramento
"The Street of the Sun"
Korea
For decades, South Korean film buffs thought all their country's moviemaking from the Korean War era was lost forever. And it would have been, but for one film wrapped in a cocoon of old newspapers, tucked inside a plastic bag and placed in a dark, dusty closet.
That film, "The Street of the Sun," got its first screening in six decades Tuesday, the 63th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Now digitally restored, it offers South Koreans a rare glimpse at how their ancestors lived amid the destruction and poverty of war.
The movie was the debut feature of Min Kyoung-sik, a South Korean director who took a camera to the streets of Daegu in 1952, while a stream of refugees poured in. The southeastern city was tucked behind a perimeter secured by U.S. and South Korean forces battling North Korea and China to the north.
While fiction, it offers a look at real life in war-torn South Korea. The actors and producers had been uprooted by fighting, and many of the scenes reflect the city's actual surroundings rather than a movie set, with non-actors in the mix.
Min's movie was long believed to have been destroyed or lost, along with the 13 other South Korean films made during the war, according to the Korean Film Archive, the organization behind the film's restoration. But two decades ago, the director's daughter-in-law, Seong Ryeong-chul, found the 62-minute, 16 mm film in a closet at her home.
Korea
US Phone Hacking Claims
Rupert
The lawyer for a stuntwoman suing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. over alleged phone hacking said Tuesday that other people have reached out to his team with their own claims.
The attorney, Norman Siegel, told the media in New York that his legal team is researching "a bunch" of allegations from people in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Those claims are in addition to the lawsuit filed earlier this month in Los Angeles by Eunice Huthart, who has worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie. Her lawsuit claims she was a victim of phone hacking attempts to get information about the actress.
Huthart, of Liverpool, England, is the first person to sue the media company in the U.S.
News Corp. has spent $388 million in settlements, legal fees and other costs associated with ongoing investigations in the U.K. since the hacking scandal came to light in 2011. Last year, the company settled 36 lawsuits by hacking victims including actor Jude Law and soccer player Ashley Cole.
Rupert
$675,000 Fine Upheld
Song-Sharing
A $675,000 verdict against a former Boston University student who illegally downloaded and shared songs on the Internet has been upheld.
A jury ordered Providence, R.I., resident Joel Tenenbaum to pay $22,500 for each of 30 songs after the Recording Industry Association of America sued him on behalf of four record labels.
Tenenbaum argued the $675,000 award violates his due process rights because it's not tied to the injury he caused. He estimates that to be no more than $450, or the cost of 30 albums.
A federal appeals court Tuesday found Tenenbaum's conduct was "egregious" because he illegally shared songs for years despite numerous warnings.
Song-Sharing
Moscow Car Accident
Gerard Depardieu
French actor Gerard Depardieu was involved in a car accident in Moscow on Tuesday when a taxi rammed into a Mercedes carrying him in his adopted homeland of Russia, where he is filming a movie.
The 64-year-old star of films such as "Green Card" and "Cyrano de Bergerac" was unhurt and posed for photos with Russian traffic police in footage shown by tabloid portal Lifenews.ru.
Depardieu, who was granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin in January after criticizing a planned 75-percent tax on millionaires in France, appears not to have been behind the wheel during the Moscow accident.
He was banned from driving for six months by a French court earlier this month, after he was found to be three times over the alcohol limit when he fell from a scooter last year.
Gerard Depardieu
Mansion For Sale
Liberace
A Las Vegas mansion that once belonged to Liberace and ultimately landed in the hands of a bank is now listed for half a million dollars, cash-only.
The nearly 14,939-square-foot mansion, built in 1962 and set on a half-acre lot near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has two bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and several large areas for entertaining.
It also features touches reminiscent of the flamboyant pianist that once lived there, including chandeliers, a mirror bar etched with Liberace's signature and a room with tile piano keys in the floor.
Liberace bought the home in 1974, according to Clark County property records pulled by the Las Vegas Sun. His foundation sold the house to a married couple - Vance and Jan Turner - in 1989, two years after the performer died of an AIDS-related illness.
Liberace
'Bonanza' Memorabilia At Auction
Lorne Greene
Several pieces of memorabilia from the long-running hit TV series "Bonanza" are going up for auction in Nevada, including the branding iron used in the iconic Western's opening credits.
The family of "Bonanza" star Lorne Greene is selling a number of the deceased actor's personal items and much of his memorabilia from the show at an auction Saturday in Reno. The sale was arranged by Greene's son, Chuck, who lives at Lake Tahoe.
One of the auction's highlights is the branding iron that appeared during each episode's opening credits, burning up the Old West-style map of the ranch and surrounding frontier.
Also up for sale are awards, photos of Lorne Greene at the Reno Rodeo and large personalized belt buckles, including one he received in 1962 from the owners of the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City with an inset of an 1884 Liberty silver dollar.
Lorne Greene
Michigan Menu Change
McDonald's
The only two McDonald's restaurants in the United States that were serving food prepared according to Islamic law have stopped several weeks after a $700,000 settlement over a lawsuit that alleged the items weren't consistently halal.
The fast-food giant said in a statement Monday that the locations in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, which has a large Muslim population, are no longer offering a halal McChicken sandwich or Chicken McNuggets in order "to focus on our national core menu."
The lawsuit, brought by customer Ahmed Ahmed in 2011, technically covered anyone who bought the halal-advertised products between September 2005 and January from the restaurant on Ford Road and another one in Dearborn with a different owner. The second location wasn't a defendant or a focus of the investigation.
The settlement is being shared by a customer named Ahmed Ahmed, a Muslim-run Detroit health clinic, Dearborn's Arab American National Museum and lawyers.
McDonald's
Guess They Didn't Pray Hard Enough
Crusaders
Medieval feces discovered at an ancient castle in Cyprus has revealed that the Crusaders suffered from a bad case of the worms, and had poor hygiene habits.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that occupants of a 12th century Crusaders' castle in western Cyprus were rife with parasites, reaffirming previous research which suggested high mortality rates among Crusaders from malnutrition and infectious diseases.
Tests on latrine samples in the Saranda Kolones castle, a crusader fortress which was built after King Richard I of England captured Cyprus during the Third Crusade in 1191 AD, showed two species of parasite eggs, the roundworm and the whipworm, prevalent in the soil of what was once a cesspit.
Both types of parasites can live in the human gut, and their eggs are released through bowel movement.
The parasites are transmitted orally and evidence of their presence reflects the poor hygiene conditions that prevailed in medieval castles, according to researchers Evilena Anastasiou and Piers D. Mitchell.
Crusaders
Loses Title
Mississippi
There's good news for the children of Mississippi; their state is no longer the worst place to be a kid. That's because a new set of annual rankings on children's welfare says New Mexico has dethroned Mississippi's perennial hold on the bottom ranking of the Kids Count list.
For the past 24 years, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has used a series of 16 indicators to rank the well-being of children in all 50 U.S. states. This year's edition is the first to not place Mississippi at 50 out of 50 on the list, citing gains in health and education. However, Mississippi is still No. 49 on the list.
The foundation also noted that a third of Mississippi's children continue to live in poverty. By comparison, 13 percent of New Hampshire's children are listed as living at or below the poverty level.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts finished at the top of the children's well-being list.
There also appears to be an overall improving trend in the South. Louisiana, which was 46th on the list, is the only other Southern state to finish in the bottom five. However, the Southwest has fared less well-three of the bottom-five states are New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
Mississippi
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 16-23. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Game 7), ABC, 26.32 million.
2. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Game 6), ABC, 20.64 million.
3. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 15.6 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 12.68 million.
5. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.75 million.
6. "Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda - The Walk," Discovery, 10.65 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.41 million.
8. "NCIS," CBS, 8.13 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.66 million.
10. "Winner Is," NBC, 6.69 million.
11. "NBA Countdown to Game 7," ABC, 6.56 million.
12. NHL Stanley Cup Final: Chicago at Boston (Game 4), NBC, 6.46 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.41 million.
14. "Skywire Live with Nik Wallenda - Before the Walk," Discovery, 6.25 million.
15. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.03 million.
16. "American Baking Competition," CBS, 5.8 million.
17. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 5.799 million.
18. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.78 million.
19. "Master Chef" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), Fox, 5.777 million.
20. "Person of Interest," CBS, 5.768 million.
Ratings
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