Man, oh man have you hit the jackpot of mashups. Imagine you have 21 of the best bootleggers from around the world at your disposal. Each is going to express their vibe of Eternal Summer in a mashup. That'd be some album's worth, right? Well, multiply that by three, & you'd have "
Summer Booty 2018 The Summer Mashup Album", hosted as always at
AUDIOBOOTS MASHUP FORUM
( audioboots.com/Albums/SB2018/ ) .
The same as last year, I wasn't going to do another Summer Booty collection. Eleven volumes had me quite satis5d (sic), until people started sending me tracks too great to decline.I had twelve incredible tracks recieved, when I gave in & decided to do another volume. A familiar experience for me, actually. DJ Petrushka offered to help me with all the aspects, & with her & AtoZ assisting, we began.
I still find it hard to believe this makes a dozen of these collections. The talent involved has changed much, but the quality seems to have been honed into perfection. Listen for mixes by Voicedude, Roaxx J, DJ Rudec, Mumdy, oki,& many more. All of the contributors are highly skilled, & regular posters in the mashup scene. You could pick any of them, then delve into their discography, & be a fan for life. My hope is that happens to you, maybe even multiple times.
The tracks on this 3 disc collection assuredly present the mixers' concepts of Eternal Summer in the strongest way, despite the many styles employed. Listen for Pop, Rock, Hip Hop, Techno, & more, all worked into a fine blend. During the time spent assembling this collection, time & time again circumstances worked hard to prevent it's release; not least of which was constant emergencies on all sides.
Paul Krugman: The Great Tax Break Heist (NY Times)
A few days ago The Times reported on widespread abuse of a provision in the 2017 Trump tax cut that was supposed to help struggling urban workers. The provision created a tax break for investment in so-called "opportunity zones," which would supposedly help create jobs in low-income areas. In reality the tax break has been used to support high-end hotels and apartment buildings, warehouses that employ hardly any people and so on. And it has made a handful of wealthy, well-connected investors - including the family of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law - even wealthier.
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the "best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accents. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Among other accolades, she has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight.
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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer. Tomlin started her career as a stand-up comedian as well as performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973. She currently stars as Frankie Bergstein on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which debuted in 2015 and has earned her nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo-soprano sound, she was an important singer of blue-eyed soul and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of the Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, as well as her flamboyant performances made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.
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Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Movie Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for four BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. She has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dave makes a valid point with the Grammy nominations, so gonna call this one a can o'worms.
zorch was first, and close, with:
They've all changed their names.
Dave wrote:
Nominated for a Grammy Award. Streep for a spoken word album for children, Tomlin for a comedy album, Springfield for the single, "Son of a Preacher Man," and Spacek for her vocal performance on the "Coal Miner's Daughter" soundtrack.
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From an early age, Conan learned that his superpower was making people laugh. With "Conan Without Borders," Conan is using his superpower to connect with people all over the world.
• Conductor Herbert von Karajan believed that a new conductor ought not to work with a first-rate orchestra. Instead, give the conductor a 10th-rate orchestra. The conductor will learn much by trying to make the 10th-rate orchestra play like a 6th-rate orchestra. Mr. Karajan never spoke loudly during a rehearsal, and often he spoke little. He explained, "If I don't raise my voice, they'll listen to what I say, and the less I speak, the more important each word is." He could be critical. At the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, he conducted an orchestra with an inferior bassoon player. Mr. Karajan had boated on a lake, and he had heard the sound of an alphorn carrying across the water from a great distance - a sound that Walter Legg, an English classical music producer, called magical. During a rehearsal, Mr. Karajan said, "Last night I heard an alphorn for the first time. Is there anybody here who plays it?" The inferior bassoon player pompously announced that playing it was mandatory in the Swiss schools. Mr. Karajan replied, "Pity it's not the bassoon."
• Even a very talented conductor can make mistakes. Hans von Bülow once became upset at the beginning of a rehearsal of Brahms' "Tragic Overture" and called to the orchestra librarian, "Where is the contrabassoon? Why is there no contrabassoon engaged?" The orchestra librarian protested that no one had ordered that he engage a contrabassoon. Mr. von Bülow thought a moment, stopped being angry, and proceeded with the rehearsal. After the rehearsal, Mr. von Bülow gave the orchestra librarian $5 and said, "Do not say anything; it was my mistake. There is no contrabassoon in the Brahms Overture."
• Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham and soprano Frieda Hempel may not have liked each other. Before singing in a performance of Zauberflöte, Ms. Hempel sent someone to Sir Thomas' dressing room to request that - since she was indisposed - he would transpose her aria. Sir Thomas agreed, but instead of making the aria easier to sing by transposing it down, he made it harder to sing by transposing it up.
• Maestro Arturo Toscanini became terribly angry at tenor Leo Slezak because he swallowed a quarter note during a performance. Mr. Slezak begged for forgiveness, which Maestro Toscanini eventually gave. This forgiveness made Mr. Slezak, a large man, so happy that he picked up Toscanini, a small man, and kissed him on both cheeks. This enraged Toscanini more than before, and he stayed enraged at Mr. Slezak for two weeks.
• The BBC once interviewed conductor Pierre Monteux and pointed out that conductors can be described in various ways; for example, one conductor can be described as a technician, another as a classicist, a third as a romanticist, and so on. The interviewer then asked how Mr. Monteux would describe himself. Given permission to describe himself in two words, not one, Mr. Monteux replied that he was a "d[*]mned professional."
• While on tour with the Cleveland Symphony, violinist Josef Gingold was playing Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony - which frequently appeared on programs during the tour. Conductor George Szell leaned toward him after the first movement to ask, "Joe, take it easy. What are you giving so much for?" Mr. Gingold said, "George, I love this piece." Mr. Szell replied, "I love it, too. But not every night."
• Conductor Arturo Toscanini and soprano Helen Traubel once had a disagreement about how a phrase should be sung. Maestro Toscanini decided, "We will try it my way and try it your way." After hearing both ways the phrase could be sung, Maestro Toscanini thought for a moment, then told Ms. Traubel, "Your way is better - we will do it your way."
• Conductor Jeffrey Tate and his companion Klaus Kuhlemann keep in their home a collection of very valuable early Meissen porcelain, each piece of which cannot be replaced because of its rarity. According to Mr. Kuhlemann, "Our cleaning lady is terrified."
• Like many conductors, Leopold Stokowski conducted without a score. This led to a misunderstanding, as a woman once said, "Isn't it a shame that the wonderful Mr. Stokowski can't read a score? Imagine how great he would have been if he only knew how!"
So, I'm in the check-out line at the grocery store and the woman ahead of me was giving the clerk a hard time. When it was my turn, the clerk, who recognized me, made a comment about how people don't realize how much multi-tasking is involved.
I said 'there are a lot of angry people out there.'
She responded "Why do people blame trump? He's living his best life"
All I could say was 'yeah, but a lot of other people are picking up the tab.'
She looked me straight in the eye and said 'you've got a point'.
I got out of there in a hurry.
WTF?
Living his best life?
This young, over-stresssed, under-paid Black woman is concerned that a rich white man is living his best life?
Maybe she thought since I'm white-ish, I'd be a fan of the orange man, but sweet jebus, living his best life?
Sigh.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team', followed by a RERUNSWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Joe Biden.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Marc Maron, Jillian Bell, and Keane.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Songland', then a RERUN'Hollywood Game Night'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Orlando Bloom, Constance Wu, Jack White, Brendan Benson, and the Raconteurs.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Tracee Ellis Ross, Maren Morris, and Carter McLean.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/26/18) are Alice Eve, Odetta Hartman, and Bert Kreischer.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Goldbergs', followed by a RERUN'Schooled', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'Single Parents', then a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Dr. Phil McGraw, Method Man, and Shaed.
The CW offers a FRESH'Bulletproof', followed by a FRESH'Hypnotize Me'.
Faux has a FRESH'Master Chef', followed by a FRESH'BH90210'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', then a FRESH'Psychic Kids'.
AMC offers the movie 'John Carter', followed by the movie 'Independence Day'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 2-Realm of Fear
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 3-Man of the People
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 4-Relics
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 5-Schisms
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 6-True Q
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 7-Rascals
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 8-A Fistful of Datas
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 9-The Quality of Life
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 10-Chain of Command (Part 1)
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 11-Chain of Command (Part 2)
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 12-Ship in a Bottle
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 13-Aquiel
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 14-Face of the Enemy
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 6 - EPISODE 15-Tapestry
[8:00PM] ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)
[11:30PM] THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)
[2:00AM] ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 16-The Secret To Their Success (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
FX has the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then a FRESH'Snowfall'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Back to the Woods
[6:15A] Escape From the Planet of the Apes
[8:30A] Conquest of the Planet of the Apes -
[10:30A] Contagion
[1:00P] Outbreak
[4:00P] Zombieland
[6:00P] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[8:00P] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
[10:00P] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[10:30P] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
[12:30A] Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
[2:30A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[4:45A] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[5:15A] Night Flight - Vocal Vanguards
[5:30A] Night Flight - Fame!
[5:45A] Night Flight - Rock on the Road (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] All in the Family
[7:35am] All in the Family
[8:10am] All in the Family
[8:45am] All in the Family
[9:20am] All in the Family
[9:55am] All in the Family
[10:30am] Rudy
[1:00pm] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] No One Saw a Thing - A Pound of Flesh
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:45am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2', followed by the movie 'Jack The Giant Slayer'.
Terry Gilliam has said he disagrees with John Cleese over his friend and former Monty Python collaborator's comments about Brexit and immigration.
Cleese faced a backlash after voicing support for Brexit, and claiming that London was no longer an "English city".
Gilliam has since said in an interview with the Radio Times that he despairs of Brexit, along with Donald Trump, and that the two subjects make him "terminally depressed".
"I'm the instinctive, monosyllabic American and he's the tall, very suave one. I love John enormously but I just disagree with the way he perceives the world," he said.
The director, who has renounced his US citizenship, said that although members of Monty Python had Oxbridge backgrounds, their material pushed for diversity and attacked the establishment.
A South Carolina man who founded one of the nation's biggest conversion therapy ministries has something to say: he's gay.
The Post and Courier reports Hope for Wholeness founder McKrae Game came out of the closet this summer, nearly two years after he was fired from the faith-based conversion therapy program. He's now trying to come to terms with the harm he inflicted when he was advocating for religious efforts to change a person's sexuality.
"Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it's very harmful," Game told The Post and Courier. "Because it's false advertising."
The 51-year-old also is trying to find his place in a community he's assailed for at least 20 years. Game is one of several former movement leaders who have left the pulpits of heterosexuality, come out as LGBTQ and condemned conversion therapy as a dangerous and misleading practice.
Currently, 18 states and Washington, D.C., ban the practice of conversion therapy for minors, according to Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ think tank. South Carolina, however, is not one of these states.
Who is going to win? Now we have the list of six Booker Prize shortlisted authors, the bets are on.
The Booker Prize is one of the greatest literary triumphs for any novelist. Former winners Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are the biggest names on this year's shortlist, hoping to win the £50,000 prize.
It is awarded annually to the best novel of the year, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland, between 1 October 2018 and 30 September 2019.
The prize was won last year by the Northern Irish writer Anna Burns, for her novel Milkman, about a teenager who is harassed by an older married man. This year's winner will be announced on 14 October.
To make it onto the shortlist is no mean feat, considering it is whittled down from 151 submitted books. Women are leading the way this year, with four female authors in the running - Atwood, Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, and Elif Shafak, who are competing for the prize with two male authors, Rushdie and Chigozie Obioma, who is shortlisted for the second time with his second novel, An Orchestra of Minorities.
Greece confirmed on Tuesday its readiness to loan treasures to the British Museum in return for being able to temporarily exhibit the Parthenon marbles but also said the proposal did not alter its long-standing demand for their permanent return.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Britain's Observer newspaper on Sunday he was willing to lend important artefacts to London that "have never left Greece" in return for putting the marbles on display in Athens in 2021, when the country marks 200 years since the start of its War of Independence.
Athens has repeatedly called for the permanent return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures that Britain's Lord Elgin removed from the Acropolis temple during a period when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule.
The British Museum, custodian of the marbles, has ruled out returning them, saying "the sculptures are part of everyone's shared heritage and transcend cultural boundaries".
Athens has stepped up its campaign in recent years for the return of the marbles after opening a new museum in 2009 at the foot of the Acropolis hill that it hopes will one day house the sculptures.
"Our parks are literally crumbling," Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said last week at a meeting of senior National Park Service (NPS) officials, repeating a theme he has sounded frequently since being confirmed earlier this year. Bernhardt described visiting a maintenance shed at Acadia National Park in coastal Maine where the grout between concrete blocks had worn away almost completely, he said, effectively creating new - and unwanted - windows.
Bernhardt used that story to illustrate a pervasive state of disrepair, which he claims can be fixed only with a $12 billion investment. Because that funding isn't likely to materialize from Washington, Bernhardt believes that the Interior Department -which administers the nation's public lands - must look elsewhere for new sources of revenue.
Supporters see creativity at work, the kind of collaboration between the private and public sectors that many have expected from President Trump, whether for national parks or international airports. But critics see little more than a strategically inflated figure meant to frighten the public into accepting corporate giveaways.
Bernhardt's remarks last week - delivered in the Interior Department's penthouse, which is decorated by a recently restored 80-year-old Native American mural - made clear that the administration's search for new revenue continues apace. Trump's Interior Department has already considered raising entry fees to national parks. At the same time, the department has leased hundreds of thousands of acres to energy companies.
"If David Bernhardt gets his way, American families will pay more to access their birthright, because Trump's billionaire buddies and the special interests that made them rich will always come first in this administration," says Chris Saeger, executive director of the Western Values Project, a not-for-profit organization that opposes the Trump administration.
The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico has taken aim at Mexican icon Frida Kahlo for her support of Marxism, stirring up a fierce social media debate with a tweet asking if the painter had not been aware of atrocities committed in the name of that ideology.
Few Mexicans have enjoyed greater global recognition than Kahlo, who spent long periods bedridden after a traffic accident in her youth, attained international fame following her death in 1954 and became a feminist symbol in the 1970s.
She created some 200 paintings, sketches and drawings - mainly self-portraits - in which she transformed her misfortune into works of bold color.
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau (R-Pendejo), who was appointed by President Don-Old Trump (R-Embarrassment) and sworn in last month, must navigate a volatile bilateral relationship. Trump frequently berates Mexico over trade and immigration.
Not shying away from controversy himself, Landau took to Twitter on Sunday during a visit to Kahlo's house, now a museum in the colonial-era Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacan.
One of the world's most indestructible ships will depart Norway in a few weeks, bound for the Arctic Ocean, where it will spend the winter deliberately trapped in sea ice, drifting wherever the winds take it.
The powerful icebreaker, called the RV Polarstern, has an ambitious goal: to determine how climate change is reshaping the Arctic. The 13-month-long, $130 million expedition, called Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAIC), has been planned for years and will require more than 600 scientists and technical staff.
The ship sets sail Sept. 20 from Tromsø, in northern Norway, and it will head eastward along the coast of Russia. Expedition leader Markus Rex, of the Alfred-Wegener Institute (which operates the Polarstern), said the ship will likely enter floating sea ice in mid-October, and then will drift across the Arctic, surrounded by ice, until next summer, before returning to its home port in Bremerhaven, Germany, in the fall.
Getting stuck in floating sea ice would spell the end for most ships, but Rex said the Polarstern is tough enough to handle it.
"Our ship is one of the most powerful and most capable research icebreakers that exist," Rex told Live Science."There could be huge pressure from the ice … but we know the strength of our vessel. We are not in danger of losing our ship."
The asteroid 6478 Gault first drew attention to itself for sprouting a rare double trail of dust behind it, but now it's treated astronomers to another surprise: a colour change.
Asteroids have never before been caught in the act of shifting colours like this while under real-time observation. In the case of 6478 Gault, a reddish colour is giving way to a fresh blue hue in the near-infrared spectrum, as captured by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawaii.
Experts think this is happening as the dusty exterior of the asteroid gets stripped away by its continuing travels through space - and the colour change is happening quickly, observed over just two nights.
"That was a very big surprise," says astronomer Michael Marsset, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Around 3.7 kilometres (2.3 miles wide) and orbiting around the inner region of the asteroid belt, 6478 Gault averages a distance of around 345.6 million kilometres (214.8 million miles) from the Sun.
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