M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - December 16th, 2015
Four December Mashup Albums
From DJ Useo
One of my favorite things ever is a fine mashup album. Strangely, there's fewer, & fewer of them available nowadays. I'm now presenting to you four new ones that've recently appeared. All four are by established bootleggers with a proven track record when it comes to creating an entire album. Allow me now to briefly describe each album, & link you to their gratis goodies.
01 - "Happy Cat Disco's Litter Box Collection (2015)" . A collection of 30 unpublished mashups from 2015 .
HCD says of his own collection "About 20% of my mashups never get published for various reasons.
I've decided to combine these into a yearly compilation album I call the Litter Box Collection!"
These are all inventive, & memorable mashups that I'm enjoying very much. I think you will too.
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2015/12/happy-cat-discos-litter-box-collection.html )
02 - S.I.R. - "Strictly 2015: Songs From The Dock" . S.I.R. has been making great mainstream mashups for many years now, so this new album comes very welcome to me. All the tracks are prerelease tested, & wonderful to hear. S.I.R. says "My new compilation album 'Strictly 2015: Songs From The Dock' is OUT NOW! Hope you'll like it and spread the news :) "
( sirremixes.blogspot.com/2015/12/sir-strictly-2015-songs-from-dock-new.html )
03 - DJNoNo - "Ballroom" album . DJNoNo is a fine veteran of the bootleg wars with many a great past release. Of this new record, he says "As part of my last mashups I finished this project, started 10 years ago with 'Stripper Jackson' and 'Cha Cha Like It's Hot'. This presents them in remixed or HQ form and 7 other new tunes. Mixing ballroom music - big band, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, swing, easy listening and classical pops - with hip hop and r n' b years before the term electroswing was invented, I'm surprised no-one has done an album concept like this in the last decade? It's very Crumpl."
( www.mutantpop.net/artists/djnono/final-mashups-4-djnono-ballroom )
04 - ToToM - "Kanye of the Stone Age (album)" .
ToToM is a proven commodity when it comes to inventive, successful mashups. That talent shows thought this swell collection. Each track is instrumentals of Queens of the Stone Age, & acapellas from Kanye West . The melded effect is extremely rewarding. Treat yourself to the best.
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2015/12/totom-kanye-of-stone-age-album.html )
There you go, four fantastic free records! Mashups do you right once more!
I'll be back next Wednesday with more.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Josh Marshall: Trump Is Killing McConnell In Kentucky (TPM)
A few moments ago I noticed a new PPP poll showing that Mitch McConnell seems to have been damaged significantly in his home state of Kentucky by the effort to repeal Obamacare. The number that caught my eye was that McConnell has an astonishing 74% disapproval rating with just 18% approving of his performance in office. A hypothetical Democrat beats him by 7 percentage points. But that only tells part of the story.
Andrew Tobias: The Wheel of Civilization
Democrats are not right about everything everywhere all the time. But we're right about putting people to work rebuilding America's infrastructure, which the Republicans would not allow; and we're right about wanting to allow student-loan refinancing at today's low rates, which Republicans would not allow; and we're right that the minimum wage should be raised, which the Republicans fight tooth and nail; and we're right that the road to affordable health requires improving Obamacare, not sabotaging it - let alone carving out from it a massive tax cut for the wealthy. And we're right in being horrified by both the character of the President and his incompetence ….
MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF: How to Make Fun of Nazis (NY Times)
Germany is not America. For one, neo-Nazis aren't allowed to carry assault rifles through the streets there, let alone display swastikas. But we do have similar examples of humor being used to counteract fascists in the United States. In 2012, a "white power" march in Charlotte, N.C., was met with counterprotesters dressed as clowns. They held signs reading "wife power" and threw "white flour" into the air.
Emma S. Ketteringham: Live in a Poor Neighborhood? Better Be a Perfect Parent. (NY Times)
Eline's children feared going to sleep in the closet of their studio apartment, but it was the only place they would be safe from the rats. Covered in blankets from neck to toe, Eline would keep an eye on the kitchen entrance and followed the sounds of the rodents rummaging in the cupboards.
Margaret Atwood: "Voyage to the Otherworld: A New Eulogy for Ray Bradbury" (Paris Review)
At the end of February 2012, I was sitting in a bar in the Chicago Hilton, discussing Ray Bradbury. I was staying at the Hilton, and in a moment of Bradburian weirdness, I had been put into the suite where President Obama saw on TV that he had just won the U.S. presidential election.
Sam Leith: "Inspiration, procrastination and the importance of pens: how writers write" (Spectator)
Authors reveal their hugely contrasting routines for getting words on the page.
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Michael Egan
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Current Events
Woman outside the Predator rally waiting to get in and proudly displaying her sign that says McCain is a Traitor. We know Predator has never served a day in the military or government service before the election. Wonder if that woman or her husband have given any service; great way to toss around the word traitor about a man who is NOT whereas we still don't have the final word about Predator and Russia!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
THE MISOGYNIST PIG AND HIS DISGUSTING WIFE.
THE BLUE DOGS OF MUMBIA.
"SHADOWS AND LIGHT"
"...BLOTTING OUT THE TRUE SINS OF TREASON AND SLAVERY."
"THE SUN IS EQUALLY TO BLAME FOR BLOCKING THE MOON."
"ADOPT A NAZI"
DONNIE TAKES A DUMP.
THE "GRANNY STARVING" LIAR!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The electric company left a note on the front door informing us that the power will be off for at least 8 hours Thursday (tomorrow) - they're replacing power poles. Ack.
Donated $1 Million
George and Amal Clooney
George and Amal Clooney have donated $1 million in a partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to help fight hate groups in the US after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to The Guardian.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice - which has helped fund schools for Syrian refugees in Lebanon in the past - was co-founded by the actor and his wife, a human rights lawyer, in 2016 "to advance justice in courtrooms, classrooms and communities around the world." The $1 million grant will help the SPLC
"We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States. What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate," George and Amal Clooney said in a statement.
In a controversial rebranding move, the Trump administration decided to steer current government counter-extremism efforts that target all forms of violent extremism - including violence committed by white supremacy groups - toward a sole focus on countering Islamic extremism. > Trump's decision to cut funding that targets right-wing extremism has left a void that organizations like the Clooney Foundation are working to fill.
Trump has faced plenty of backlash following his lukewarm response to the violence that transpired after white nationalists staged a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. SPLC president Richard Cohen praised the Clooney Foundation's support and condemned Trump's campaign for enabling the radical right.
George and Amal Clooney
Dons Star of David Jacket
Billy Joel
Billy Joel wore a bright yellow Star of David on his black suit during an encore at Madison Square Garden.
Monday's performance by "The Piano Man" came more than a week after a rally by neo-Nazis and other groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, ended in deadly violence against counterprotesters.
When asked about Joel's attire, his spokeswoman on Tuesday quoted Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Joel joined with Patty Smyth on stage in taking a swipe at President Donald Trump's administration. Photos of fired officials appeared on screen as Smyth sang her hit, "Goodbye to You."
Joel's ex-wife Christie Brinkley and their daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, attended the concert. Many of his relatives died in the Holocaust.
Billy Joel
2017's Top 20
Highest-Paid Actors
Forbes released its annual highest-paid actors list for 2017 and there are quite a few newcomers on the list. Overall, the list proves that if you star in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you're set for a while.
4. Adam Sandler - Earnings: $50.5 million
3. Vin Diesel - Earnings: $54.4 million
2. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - Earnings: $65 million
1 Mark Wahlberg - Earnings: $68 million
Highest-Paid Actors
German Police Seize Thousands
'Trump' Ecstasy Tablets
German police say they have seized thousands of tablets of the party drug ecstasy in the shape of Donald Trump's (R-Doll Hands) head, a haul with an estimated street value of $45,900.
Police in Osnabrueck, in northwestern Germany, say they found the drugs while checking an Austrian-registered car on the A30 highway on Saturday.
They say the people in the car, a 51-year-old man and his 17-year-old son, told officers they had been in the Netherlands to buy a vehicle but hadn't succeeded so were returning home.
Officers said they found about 5,000 of the orange, Trump-shaped ecstasy tablets along with a large, but unspecified quantity of cash.
'Trump' Ecstasy Tablets
Closing Print Edition
The Village Voice
The Village Voice, a storied progressive alt-weekly that has watchdogged New York's political and business classes for more than half a century, is ending its print edition, its owner announced Tuesday afternoon.
The announcement is a symbolic blow for alternative weeklies across the United States, which have endured successive cuts and closures in recent years as print advertising revenue has dried up. The Village Voice, founded in 1955, is regarded as one of the first alt-weeklies and counts among its alumni crusading journalists and literary authors such as Wayne Barrett and Norman Mailer.
In a statement, Village Voice owner Peter Barbey said that The Village Voice's website will remain intact and that The Voice "plans to maintain its iconic progressive brand with its digital platform and a variety of new editorial initiatives and a full slate of events that will include The Obie Awards and The Pride Awards."
He called the decision to end the print edition necessary to secure its future.
Alt-weeklies have weathered serious financial headwinds that have sapped their newsrooms and depleted their ranks. Several notable alternative publications, including The Boston Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Philadelphia City paper all folded in the last half-decade as decreasing revenue and circulation took their collective toll.
The Village Voice
Obama Plotted Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Rally
Republican Theory
A Republican state legislator from Idaho is being slammed for sharing a conspiracy theory that accuses former President Barack Obama of helping to organise the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville as part of a plot to sabotage Donald Trump (R-Crooked).
Idaho Representative Bryan Zollinger posted a story on Facebook that suggested that other top Democrats including billionaire George Soros and Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia, may have also helped orchestrate the violent rally that led to the death of a young woman earlier this month.
"I'm not saying it is true, but I am suggesting that it is completely plausible," Mr Zollinger wrote on Facebook.
On further reflection, its claims are "probably wrong," Mr Zollinger said, but he continued to describe the claims as "plausible", the newspaper said.
Republican Theory
White House Halts Study
Coal Mining
Just over a year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump (R-Buffoon) appeared at a campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia. He spoke to a crowd of more than 10,000 people, many of them waving "Trump Digs Coal" signs, and was joined by the vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association, which had just endorsed him for president. Trump made a show of putting on a hard hat and giving a swaggering double thumbs-up.
"If they didn't have ridiculous regulations that put you out of business and make it impossible for you to compete, I'm going to take that off," Trump told the cheering crowd. "You are going to be proud of me."
Now that he's in office, we've begun to see how Trump plans to repay the Appalachian voters who overwhelmingly supported him. In February, he signed legislation to end an Obama-era regulation that would have protected waterways from coal-mining pollution, calling it a "job-killing rule." And on Friday, the Trump's Interior Department ordered a halt to a study on the health effects of mountaintop-removal mining, or MTM, a type of surface mining that removes the land above a coal seam.
Besides tearing up the mountains, the process can lead to extensive pollution from rubble that contains dust and heavy metals being dumped in streams and valleys. There may be associated public health effects, as well: A 2011 study showed that areas near mountaintop-removal mines in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia had higher mortality rates compared to other counties in those states, but the MTM areas also have higher poverty rates, and poverty is linked to higher mortality rates on its own. Experts can't say for sure that mining is to blame over other factors, but that's why they wanted to do more research.
The move fits a pattern for Trump, in which some of his most ardent supporters find themselves out in the cold. For coal-country voters, his proposed 2018 budget would eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission, a government program established in 1965 to provide economic development grants to declining coal-mining communities. Appalachian communities looking for Trump to make them proud of him may be waiting a while.
Coal Mining
Energy Transfer Sues Over Dakota Pipeline
Greenpeace
Energy Transfer Partners LP on Tuesday sued Greenpeace and other environmental groups, accusing them of launching an "eco-terrorism" campaign aimed at blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline, the center of months of opposition by Native American and green groups.
ETP said the groups' actions and negative publicity against it, its sister company Energy Transfer Equity LP and other firms caused billions of dollars in damages.
Greenpeace USA General Counsel Tom Wetterer said the company's lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Bismarck, North Dakota, "abuse(d) the legal system to silence legitimate advocacy work."
In its 231-page filing, Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace and groups like Bank Track and the Bold Alliance of "manufacturing a media spectacle" around Dakota Access pipeline opposition.
Energy Transfer is being represented by the Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman law firm, whose founding partner Marc Kasowitz is Donald Trump's (R-Corrupt) lawyer.
Greenpeace
Backers' Reliance On Hoax And Conspiracy Theory Websites
T-rump
We increasingly live in two Americas. And those two Americas have very separate sources of news.
But the 2016 campaign wasn't just about media polarization and Donald Trump (R-Fabulist) bashing the mainstream press; it was also about dubious information. A new study provides a troubling look at how much websites that peddle fake news and conspiracy theories infected Trump's base of support.
The extensive study, from Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, tracked down the most linked-to news sources on Twitter for supporters of both Trump and Hillary Clinton. The study collected 4.5 million tweets and searched for users who retweeted either Trump or Clinton. From there, it analyzed the URLs that these users shared on their feeds.
Fourth on the list of most-shared sources among Trump supporters on Twitter was Gateway Pundit, a site especially notorious for trafficking in hoaxes and falsehoods. No. 13 on the list was InfoWars, Alex Jones's conspiracy theory website, which is infamous for suggesting the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, among many other things.
Also ranking in the top 15 were two other highly suspect sources of news, the Conservative Treehouse and Truthfeed.
T-rump
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 13.44 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 10.89 million.
3. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 10.24 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.80 million.
5. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 6.48 million.
6. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 6.33 million.
7. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.28 million.
8. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 5.90 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 5.88 million.
10. "CMA Fest," ABC, 5.740 million.
11. "NCIS," CBS, 5.737 million.
12. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 5.33 million.
13. "Marlon," NBC, 5.20 million.
14. "Bachelor in Paradise," ABC, 5.102 million.
15. "Hollywood Game Night," NBC, 5.098 million.
Ratings
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