Today's subject is a wonderful project. Voicedude and
Mashuptown teamed up to make "Sgt Pepper's Mid Life
Crisis", a 19 track mashup version of "Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. The tracks are all
ones specially picked by Voicedude from the voluminous
amount of Beatles mashups available on the internet.
This is to celebrate the 40th Year anniversary of Sgt
Pepper. This album's tracks are all mashups in the
same order as the original album. "Sgt Pepper's
Lonely hearts Club Band" intro still goes into "With A
Little Help From My Friends," but somehow Guns 'N
Roses and Gary Glitter get into the mix. I absolutely
love it. The wonderful thing about mashes is that
they make old songs become new. It's really great if
you still like the originals to begin with.
The wonderful artists on this compilation are:CCC, Go
Home Productions, Semato, DJ Earlybird, Jimmie
Jammes, Voicedude, Soundhog,and Mr. Encrypto. You can
tell that each of these mixers has a special place in
their heart for the Beatles, as every track is a new
journey into the familiar music that we all know and
love. George Martin must have heard mashups, because
he and his son have released "The Love Album", which
mashes and remixes many Beatles songs. If you have
heard that work, and like it, then this project is
especially for you.
I will never forget listening to Sgt Pepper's when I
was in high school. Everybody loved this album. There
was a feeling in the air that anything could happen,
and the music made us all feel great. My friend and I
were in the gym painting posters for a football game,
and we watched the pom-pom girls rehearse their
routine. They were using the reprise to Sgt Pepper's
to get the beat right for their routine. I was
amazed, as I had never percieved the music in that way
before. We were all touched in some way by this
album. Music was and is a universal communicator, and
the message still reverberates today.
People have been hearing wonderful tracks from
Voicedude for a few years now. He has a knack for
making beautiful, mellifluous mashes. A few faves of
mine are: "Everybody's Free On Brokeback
Mountain" (Quindon Tarver Vs. Gustavo
Santaolalla),"Rock The Monkey" (David Essex Vs.Peter
Gabriel), and "After The Healing" (Prelude Vs.Marvin
Gaye). Voicedude is a fine masher, and an all-round
nice person to boot. I enjoy participating at
Beat-Boot-ique, with mashers like
Voicedude around.
Mashuptown is one of the best places to go for a daily
killer dose of mashups. They have the current and the
best tracks, you can even sign up for it as a podcast.
A Dub, The Illuminoids, and Jason Funk Permanand are
among the folk keeping an eye out for the latest
tracks, and posting them for you. Believe me, you'll
want to bookmark this site for sure.
Mix of the Week: The Beatles Mix, By Paul Ramone.
This mix is another one with Beatles, and it is
marvelous. Paul Ramone is a great masher/remixer, and
this a solid hour of Beatles bastard-pop. Put on your
black Beatles Boots, and head for the dance floor!
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Roy F. Baumeister: Is There Anything Good About Men? (denisdutton.com)
Who's in prison, all over the world, as criminals or political prisoners? The population on Death Row has never approached 51% female. Who's homeless? Again, mostly men. Whom does society use for bad or dangerous jobs? US Department of Labor statistics report that 93% of the people killed on the job are men. Likewise, who gets killed in battle? Even in today's American army, which has made much of integrating the sexes and putting women into combat, the risks aren't equal. This year we passed the milestone of 3,000 deaths in Iraq, and of those, 2,938 were men, 62 were women.
David Podvin: LABOR DAY (makethemaccountable.com)
Another Labor Day has arrived, making it the perfect time to examine how American workers are victimized by those who pledge friendship. Conservatives never betray laborers, if only because it is impossible to betray people you openly despise. It is progressives who seduce the working class with false promises of fidelity.
Jim Hightower: THE ECONOMICS OF GREED (jimhightower.com)
Wall Street's financial elites are robust promoters of trickle-down economics. Provide special breaks for us speculators, they say, so we can amass royal fortunes - then, someday, someway, our massive gains will magically trickle down to the lower classes (maybe).
Justine Hankins: Can love ever bloom between veggies and carnivores? (guardian.co.uk)
Sir Paul McCartney is rumoured to be stepping out with Renee Zellweger now that the pair have been spotted enjoying a candlelit meal together. It's good to know that divorce difficulties haven't put Sir Paul off his food, but can he stomach Zellweger's appetites?
Went down to Seal Beach to celebrate the kid's last day of summer vacation.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Power Of 10', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Danny DeVito and Avril Lavigne.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Drew Carey and Megalyn Echikunwoke.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Most Outrageous Moments', followed by a FRESH'Last Comic Standing', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno (R-Enabler) are Fred Thompson, Jerome Bettis, and Travis Tritt.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Clive Owen, Alan Alda, and Dinosaur Jr.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson Daly are Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and Mat Kearney.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Jim', followed by another RERUN'Jim', then a FRESH'NASCAR In Primetime', then 'Primetime: The Outsiders'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Will Forte and Rilo Kiley.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by another RERUN'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'Til Death', followed by another 'Til Death', then a RERUN'Bones'.
MY has a FRESH'Temptation', followed by another FRESH'Temptation', then the RERUN'Breaking The Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', another 'CSI: The 2nd One', still another 'CSI: The 2nd One', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Wyatt Earp', followed by the movie 'The Dirty Dozen', then the movie 'PT 109'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7;
[1:00 PM] Everything Must Go - Episode 11;
[1:30 PM] Everything Must Go - Episode 12;
[2:00 PM] The Weakest Link - Episode 10;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 10;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4;
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Lanterna;
[6:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 11 Lost Weekend;
[6:30 PM] My Family - Ep. 12 Ghosts;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 2;
[8:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 4;
[9:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 5;
[10:00 PM] Coupling - Episode 6 - 9 1/2 Months;
[10:40 PM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 3;
[11:00 PM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 4;
[12:00 AM] Hotel Babylon - Episode 5;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Episode 6 - 9 1/2 Months;
[1:40 AM] The Catherine Tate Show - Episode 3;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 11;
[3:00 AM] Hollyoaks - Episode 3;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 11 Torquay;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 19 Shepton Mallet;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 10 Kedleston 45;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Reno 911!', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Lil' Bush'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 8/22/07) is Sen. Barack Obama.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 8/22/07) is Richard Branson.
FX has the movie 'The Italian Job', followed by the movie 'Three Kings', then a FRESH'Rescue Me'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Lost Worlds', and 'UFO Files: Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[07:50 AM] Celebrity;
[09:50 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase;
[10:50 AM] Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie;
[12:50 PM] Son of the Bride;
[03:05 PM] Celebrity;
[05:00 PM] Double Happiness;
[06:30 PM] Quiet Cool;
[08:00 PM] The Business #205: Full Moon and Half Nuts;
[08:30 PM] Minor Accomplishments #205: Yoga Brain;
[09:00 PM] Havoc;
[10:30 PM] All over Me;
[12:00 AM] Havoc;
[01:30 AM] All over Me;
[04:05 AM] Celebrity. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] Mardi Gras: Made in China;
[07:00 AM] The Mighty Celt;
[08:00 AM] Frankie Starlight;
[10:00 AM] The Liberace of Baghdad;
[11:00 AM] La Moustache;
[01:00 PM] Bowery Dish;
[02:00 PM] The Mighty Celt;
[03:00 PM] Frankie Starlight;
[05:00 PM] La Moustache;
[07:00 PM] Chrystal;
[09:00 PM] Episode 3: Fatal Attraction;
[09:00 PM] News for the Church;
[10:00 PM] The Blues Brothers;
[12:00 AM] Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
[02:00 AM] The Basketball Diaries;
[04:00 AM] Bowery Dish;
[05:00 AM] The Blues Brothers. (ALL TIMES EDT)
British actress Keira Knightley arrives for the UK premiere of 'Atonement' at The Odeon Leicester Square, London, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007.
Photo by Nathan Strange
Richard Gere and Charlize Theron added their voices to a chorus of stars taking swipes at the Bush administration at the Venice Film Festival.
"How did we elect Bush twice?" Gere asked rhetorically while promoting his new film, "The Hunting Party."
"What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?" the 58-year-old actor said at a news conference Monday.
In "The Valley of Elah," Charlize Theron plays a New Mexico detective drawn into the case of a U.S. soldier who disappears just days after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.
"The decision-making process for going into Iraq was very hastily done, and I think the facts weren't there, and I just don't think you go to war for those reasons," Theron, 32, told Associated Press Television in an interview. "I think the thing that upset me most was the manipulation that our government did towards our people, manipulating them to believe that if they weren't for the war, they weren't patriotic."
Demonstrators hold signs while protesting against U.S. resident George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard outside Sydney's Central Station September 4, 2007. Bush is scheduled to arrive later in the evening. Australia is this year's host for the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, which goes through September 9.
Photo by Adrees Latif
It's odd for an agency that has the word "communications" as its middle name, but the Federal Communications Commission routinely leaves the public in the dark about how it makes critical policy decisions.
That secrecy was on display during the recent debate over how the government should auction off the rights to billions of dollars worth of publicly owned airwaves.
For three weeks, potential bidders such as AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. and a coalition of public interest groups waged a war through the media over proposed rules, prepared under FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R-Fuck You, America), that would guide the auction.
The debate advanced largely on rumor and speculation, because Martin's draft, as required by agency rules, was never made public. In fact, even when commissioners approved the auction rules at an open meeting on July 31, they still hadn't been made public.
In a new afterword to his controversial "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," former President Carter criticizes the lack of "balanced debate" in the U.S. about the Middle East and warns officials against being "seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action and policy" of the Israeli government.
Carter's book, a best-seller first published last year, accuses Israel of harshly mistreating the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Carter has said that conditions there merit the word "apartheid," associated with the former system of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa.
Jewish groups and some fellow Democrats strongly objected to the book and more than a dozen members of the Carter Center's advisory board, based in Atlanta, resigned in protest.
In calling for renewed efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, Carter worries that Americans not be seen as "in the pocket" of Israelis or Arabs.
Nobody worry about me, says Bill Murray. He was just dropping off people after a party when he was stopped in downtown Stockholm driving a golf cart.
The actor-comedian, who was among the early cast members on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and was nominated for an Oscar for 2003's "Lost in Translation," said he was in Stockholm last month to play in a pro-am golf tournament, and hitched a ride to a post-event party in a golf cart.
When no one wanted to drive home, he volunteered.
"I ended up stopping and dropping people off on the way like a bus. I had about six people in the thing and I dropped them off one at a time and as the last couple were getting out, who wished to be dropped off at a 7-Eleven. ... I didn't know they had 7-Elevens in Stockholm," said Murray, who turns 57 on Sept. 21.
U.S. director Brian De Palma arrives for the screening of the movie ' In the valley of Elah' at the 33rd American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France, Tuesday Sept. 4, 2007.
Photo by Michel Spingler
"Doctor Who" fans will be forced to go for almost two years without a series fix from the Tardis-travelling Timelord, because actor David Tennant will take time off to do stagework, the BBC said Monday.
The fourth season of the latest iteration of the sci-fi action drama will air in the spring of 2008, but season five will be delayed until 2010, BBC director of fiction Jane Tranter said Monday.
The BBC will air three one-off specials during 2009 and a Christmas special in 2008.
Tennant will work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon on projects thought to include a lengthy run of "Hamlet."
Five years after being charged with child pornography, R&B star R. Kelly's trial had been set to start on September 17. But a Cook County judge has postponed it because the lead prosecutor had a baby recently.
Kelly was charged in 2002 and is accused of engaging in videotaped sex acts with an underage girl. Since his arrest, the case has been hit with numerous delays. A new date hasn't been set.
The case has been hit with delay after delay. Since being charged, Kelly has had six best-selling albums and three nationwide tours.
French extreme climber Alain Robert speaks after he climbed a 243-metre (797 feet) tall building in Moscow September 4, 2007. Robert, also known as the French Spiderman, has scaled some of the world's tallest structures including the Eiffel Tower and London's Canary Warf building, often without permission.
Photo by Hans Knopf
Comedian Jerry Lewis apologized on Tuesday for his use of an anti-gay slur during the weekend broadcast of his annual Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
The controversial remark came Monday afternoon in the 18th hour of the live national telecast, when a visibly weary Lewis, 81, was joking on stage, pretending to introduce members of someone's family as he mugged for the camera.
"Oh, your family has come to see you. You remember Bart, your oldest son, Jesse, the illiterate fag ...," Lewis said, as he apparently caught himself and ceased the gag in mid-sentence, turning on his heel away from the camera.
During an appearance at a comedy festival in 2000 he was asked who were his favorite female comedians.
"I don't like any female comedians," he responded, going on to say that seeing a woman doing comedy "sets me back a bit. ... I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies into the world."
A Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday recommended that the U.S.-based Church of Scientology stand trial for fraud and extortion, following a 10-year investigation that concluded the group should be labeled a criminal organization.
Scientology said it would fight the criminal charges recommended by investigating prosecutor Jean-Claude Van Espen, who said that up to 12 unidentified people should face charges.
Van Espen's probe also concluded that Scientology's Brussels-based Europe office and its Belgian missions conducted unlawful practices in medicine, violated privacy laws and used illegal business contracts, said Lieve Pellens, a spokeswoman at the Federal Prosecutors Office.
Scientology has been active in Belgium for nearly three decades. In 2003, it opened an international office near the headquarters of the European Union to lobby for its right to be recognized as an official religious group, a status it does not enjoy in Belgium.
This undated photograph made available by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows an archaeologist next to an opening of one of the ancient beehives found in excavations in Tel Rehov in northern Israel. Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
Photo by Amihai Mazar
Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.
Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.
The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.
Local media last week blamed the company's woes on an electrical fault. The carrier runs international flights to five cities in Asia.
The Pentagon often has dragged its feet or refused to spend on safer equipment for US troops in Iraq, forcing the Congress to step in, a study published on Tuesday found.
Among many examples, the newspaper cited hesitance by US army officials to buy Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles despite eager requests from commanders in Iraq.
The USA Today report quoted Senator Joseph Biden as saying Rumsfeld "and many top administration officials believed the war would end quickly," so in their view, there was "surely no need to spend large amounts of money for equipment.
"The cost of ignoring the facts on the ground ... has been the lives and limbs of our sons and daughters," he said.
A Republican political consultant who had a hand in an infamous "Adam and Steve" flier that agitated a local legislative race has died in an apparent double murder-suicide in Orlando, Fla.
Ralph Gonzalez, 36, president of the Strategum Group, was found dead at his Orlando home last Thursday, Aug. 23 along with his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30. The shooting happened two days before on Aug. 21.
Police say Gonzalez and Abrami were killed by Drake, a former U.S. Marine, who then turned the gun on himself. Police said they did not know what the motive might have been.
Gonzalez designed and mailed a flier, which described how Democrat Gloria Dolbare of Bigbee had not signed a Christian Coalition pledge to support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in Alabama.
Gonzalez and Abrami were longtime friends and conservative Republican allies who lived at the house on Hickory Oak Boulevard. Drake was a St. Cloud High School graduate and former Marine who was once featured in newspapers across the country during his service in Kosovo. Orlando Sentinel
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Gonzalez is the former head of the Republican Party in Georgia and was president of Strategum Group, an Orlando political-consulting firm that represents Republican candidates. He managed U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney's 2002 campaign and the unsuccessful 2003 Orlando mayoral campaign of advertising executive Pete Barr.
Abrami, an attorney, previously worked as an assistant to Orlando political-consultant Doug Guetzloe. He was active with the Young Republicans at the University of Central Florida, and in 1992, he was among a group of Florida Republicans who made a 22-hour drive to New Hampshire to support candidate Pat Buchanan in his unsuccessful presidential bid. Orlando Sentinel
A baby west-African mandrill monkey called Justus, cuddles up to his mother in the zoo in Berlin, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007. The male baby monkey was born on Aug. 8, 2007.
Photo by Franka Bruns
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