5 years have passed since Joe Strummer departed this mortal coil, but his music lives on. From his classic work with the Clash to his later innovative solo work, the library of tunes he left continues to inspire. Now comes a tribute mashup album that takes moments from his discography & reinvents them in honour of a true artist. "THIS ONE"S FOR JOE aka PUNK ROCK WARLORD - a Tribute To Joe Strummer" is 12 tracks of bootified Strummer that will remind you why Joe rocked!
Brought to us by MutantPop & RadioClash, the collection starts off strong with Dunproofin's new mix of the Clash's 'This Is Radio Clash', & finishes big with Instamatic's 'English Ghost' (Dillinja & Amp vs Lemon D vs The Clash). Along the way, you'll encounter memorable tracks by top mashup faves like DJ Earlybird.Bobby Martini, & Fukjamum. Whether it's the pulsing 'Coma Girl Acid Test' from Celebrity Murder Party, or the electro-reggae of 'White Riot' (Chaos Island Mix) by World Famous Audio Hacker, you'll be re-playing these, & then rushing for the originals to compare & contrast!
I found the variation in style of the overall release to be in good stead with the varied musical expressions Joe left in his wake. Ian Fondue, a mixer of note, devised the somber 'The Brooding Moon' (Joe Strummer featuring The Music Maker and Edo B), which brings into Strummer's track a haunting cover performance of Echo & The Bunnymen's 'Killing Moon'. Juxtaposeur's 'Jungle Appleseed' does Joe up with some energetic beats that are all new, but recall Mr.Strummer's spirit of rhythm, & provide a fine vehicle for his vocals. I even got my piece included,an ambient take on Joe's Big Audio Dynamite track 'V Thirteen', that I instilled with samples from 10 different Moody Blues' songs. I like to think Our Honoured Friend would've approved.
Our benefactor in boots, RadioClash,has this to say -
"We hope you enjoy it - this is purely done for love of music and love of Joe, not for money, but please consider contributing to these charities
(of course they are not affiliated with this project in any way, they are just charities he supported or are continuing his legacy). www.strummerville.com/donate.php www.futureforests.co.uk/
Enjoy the tribute to a great musician, & remember to check out his discography, available for sale like, everywhere, man.
Mix Of The Week - Scotlands' Keyser Soze has one solid,moving treat for you with his new one, 'Tank Fly!'. The generous-to-a-fault Keyser decribes his set like this-
"From rrrrrrrollllling Pendulum beats to the pure cheese of Booty Luv. Perfect mix for the festive party spirit. Everyone will love at least 30 seconds of this............"
I've played it twice already, despite all the Christmas mixes I've been playing. Get your ears the love they crave
here -
www.keysersoze.podomatic.com/
This Week's Mixing Tip - Don't buy pellas from that scruffy-looking guy on the corner. They're all off-pitch!
Jim Hightower: GIFTS FOR A HAPPIER NEW YEAR (jimhightower.com)
Wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of
America's power elites for Christmas. To each of our
Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from
now on they receive the exact same income, health
care, and pensions that we average citizens get. If
they receive only the American average, it might make
them a bit more humble - and less willing to ignore
the needs of regular folks.
Enemies of thought (guardian.co.uk)
A very public feud between two philosophers involving
damning book reviews, professional roastings and
personal slights shows how bitter, unforgiving - and
unwittingly hilarious - academic spats can be, says
Stuart Jeffries.
FROMA HARROP: Henry Potter or Alan Greenspan? (creators.com)
Nowadays, it's impossible to watch the 1946 holiday
movie "It's a Wonderful Life" and not feel a twinge of
respect for Henry F. Potter, the villainous banker
played by Lionel Barrymore. Potter was not above
drawing the last drop of blood, but at least borrowers
knew whom to hate. And if they were late paying, they
knew where to crawl.
Ted Rall: DEMOCRATS: THE OTHER WHITE MEAT (news.yahoo.com)
In fact, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan the whole
time U.S. forces were "looking" for him in
Afghanistan. So was Al Qaeda, and most of its training
camps. The money for 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia. The
hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Roger Ebert: The year's ten best films and other shenanigans
It was a time of wonders, an autumn of miracles, one
of the best years in recent movie history. One great
film after another opened, and movie lovers found
there were two or three, sometimes more, must-see
films opening on a weekend. I gave up rationing my
four-star ratings and went with the flow. The best
films of 2007: 1. "Juno" ...
Alan J was first, and correct with a succinct:
Joe Lieberman
mj was second, and also right:
Merry Christmas
There. I said it, and I mean it.
D. Because the possible sight of a naked petzel scared the Bejebuss out of those fine upstanding peckerwoods.
mechadave was also right:
I think that Lieberman was not. I don't think Skull and Bones admits Jews. Kissyface may be good enough to carry water for Bush, but good enough for his club.
joe b. was also right:
I say its "D" only because he is a Jew.
What Bob said about Tim Allen is true but to get life you had to have
2.2 lbs. of coke.
If you snitch, I don`t think they would give you 3 to 7 years, but maybe
I`m wrong.
I enjoy this and don`t look up the answers
either I know or think I know.
bebo was also right:
the answer has got to be D - Joe Lieberman.
DanD responded:
I'm going to WAG (wild-assed guess) on this one.
Well, mostly because S&B just serves in a servant capacity to our ZOG
(Zionist Occupied Government), the masters just don't belong to service
organizations ... it seems that "D" would find that whole experience
demeaning.
Sally answered correctly:
Joe Lieberman (D) shocked his Yale classmates by refusing membership in Skull & Bones, the secretive Yale "society" of numskulls!
Buzzcook was also right, and makes a correction about Ford's VP from yesterday:
Nelson Rockefeller was Ford's VP not Nixon's
D: Joe Lieberman A Jew in Skull and Bones? you must be kidding.
And, Sally also commented on Nelson Rockefeller's vice presidency (from yesterday):
I noticed that the Baron has listed the, "correct answer," as "14A," Nelson Rockefeller coupled with Richard Nixon as a President/Vice President combination in yesterday's, "Super Duper" Trivia Quiz. I believe that Nelson Rockefeller was VP for Gerald Ford. President Ford appointed him after Nixon resigned. The "Rock" was an infamous New Yorker as was I...and I remember him well.
:
Thanks to Baron Dave for the Ultra-Duper Questions
CBS starts the night with a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by the FRESH, but pre-taped and heavily edited '30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors'.
On a RERUNDave (from 12/14/06) are Will Smith and Evanescence.
On a RERUNCraig (from 3/6/07) are Poppy Montgomery, Jeremy Roenick, and Paul Morrissey.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 10/29/07) are Russell Crowe, Jenna Bush, and Carrie Underwood.
On a RERUNConan (from 12/20/05) are Jim Carrey and Isaac Hayes.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 12/18/07) are Ali Landry and Gym Class Heroes.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Pushing Daisies', followed by a RERUN'Private Practice', then a RERUN'Dirty Sexy Money'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/9/07) are Sarah Silverman, Balthazar Getty, and Wayne Newton.
The CW offers a FRESH'Crowned', followed by a RERUN'Gossip Girl'.
Faux fills the night with the movie 'Christmas With The Kranks'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'A Touch Of Fate'.
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 'Heartbreak Ridge', followed by the movie 'The Dirty Dozen', then the movie 'The Great Raid'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 La Gondola;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 9;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 19 Shepton 20;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 20 Lichfield;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 7;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 9;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 5;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep 3 The Great Escape;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Episode 7;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News;
[7:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 6;
[8:00 PM] My Small Breasts and I;
[9:00 PM] My Big Breasts and Me;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News;
[10:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 6;
[11:00 PM] My Small Breasts and I;
[12:00 AM] My Big Breasts and Me;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[1:40 AM] The World Stands Up - Episode 3;
[2:00 AM] The Weakest Link - Episode 3;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 9 Blackpool;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.2 100th Programme;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 16 Detling 23;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 17 Peterborough 37;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 5;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 6;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', still another 'Scrubs', 'Jim Gaffigan: Beyond The Pale', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Hellboy', followed by the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator', then the movie 'Alien Vs. Predator', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Lost Worlds', 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[06:55 AM] All over Me;
[08:30 AM] Mondays in the Sun;
[10:25 AM] Chinese Box;
[12:10 PM] Far from Heaven;
[02:00 PM] All over Me;
[03:35 PM] Mondays in the Sun;
[05:30 PM] Chinese Box;
[07:15 PM] Trauma;
[09:00 PM] City of Industry;
[10:45 PM] Bad Lieutenant;
[12:30 AM] City of Industry;
[02:15 AM] Bad Lieutenant;
[04:00 AM] Proof;
[05:35 AM] The Henry Rollins Show #315: Christopher Walken/Shane Macgowan. (ALL TIMES EST)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a 9-meter (30-foot) -high Christmas tree made of 4,000 beer bottles is illuminated at the Baolong Square in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007.
Photo by Jiang Kehong
Grammy-winning R&B artist John Legend returned to his hometown to headline a small Christmas Eve benefit concert of local artists at his high school alma mater.
Legend, 28, performed in the "Coming Home Christmas Benefit Concert" along with R&B, gospel and rock talents, including the Springfield North and Springfield South high school choirs.
Proceeds from the concert, which was the brainchild of Legend's brother Vaughn Anthony Stephens, go to the Jason Collier Memorial Scholarship Fund. Collier, an NBA player and Springfield Catholic Central alum, was 28 when he died from a sudden heart rhythm disturbance in 2005.
James Moya, of Elyria, Ohio, gets a 'lip smack' off the top of a wave on turbulent Lake Erie, at Edgewater Beach in Cleveland, Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. Moya and other Cleveland area surfers enjoyed some Christmas Eve surf due to high winds created by the winter storm that blasted the rest of the Midwest on Sunday.
Photo by Jamie-Andrea Yanak
David Beckham said on Tuesday he was "starstruck" when he met Stevie Wonder, and told his wife that he wanted to take a picture with the music legend.
The England national soccer star told BBC Radio that he was also left in awe by Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali, and added that Wonder's 1972 hit "Superstition" was his favourite song.
After explaining his music selection, Beckham said that when he met blind singer Wonder, "He turned round to me and said, it was quite funny, he said: 'If you could teach me to play football, then you'd be some player'. You know, those sort of moments you cherish."
"It's quite embarrassing because I was like turning round to (wife) Victoria and saying: 'I really want a picture but I can't ask him'."
Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.
In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"
"It is an awful and disgusting lie," Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. "It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation."
"Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet," read the statement.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a sand sculpture is illuminated during a sand sculpture show at the Shimen Forest Park in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Monday, Dec. 24, 2007.
Photo by Yang Shaogong
For Carson "The Scab" Daly, the phrase "the show must go on" has taken on a whole new significance. "An ultimatum was put in front of me," Daly told the Los Angeles Times of his decision to return to host NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly" during a continuing writers' strike. "It was, 'Put a new show on Dec. 3 or 75 people are fired. What's your answer?'"
Daly said he quickly decided he couldn't live with putting loyal staffers out of work, the newspaper reported Monday. When asked who at NBC delivered the ultimatum, Daly said it was his "immediate bosses" but wouldn't be more specific.
After NBC announced Daly would be returning, the Writers Guild of America issued a statement saying it was "disappointed" and "appalled" by the decision. A group of protesters - presumably writers on strike - noisily disrupted a "Last Call" taping.
Toby Keith, his mother and his siblings have been awarded $2.8 million in damages in the 2001 collision that killed the country music star's father.
A jury returned the verdict against Elias Rodriguez and Pedro Rodriguez, operators of Rodriguez Transportes of Tulsa, and the Republic Western Insurance Co.
According to evidence presented at trial, a charter bus owned by the Rodriguezes was "in urgent need" of brake repairs before H.K. Covel was killed in the March 2001 accident on Interstate 35, said attorney Greg Dixon, who represented Keith's family. The Rodriguezes had been advised of the brake problem before Covel's truck crossed the center median and struck the bus, he said.
The family initially suspected Covel suffered a medical condition that caused the truck to veer out of control. It later learned another vehicle had bumped the truck and filed a wrongful death lawsuit to clear Covel's name, Dixon said.
Boats sail at the Nile river during sunset in Luxor, Egypt Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. Sporting dark sunglasses and holding hands, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his top model-turned-singer girlfriend Carla Bruni, arrived in Luxor Tuesday, kicking off a private visit to Egypt.
Photo by Nasser Nasser
A woman who snapped photos of R. Kelly in a courtroom with her cell phone has pleaded guilty to contempt of court after spending the weekend in jail.
Jean Johnson, 49, was sentenced to five days in jail after entering the plea Monday, but she was released after Judge Vincent Gaughan gave her credit for the days she had already spent in custody. He also ordered her cell phone destroyed.
She said she didn't realize cameras weren't allowed in courtrooms.
"I feel stupid," Johnson said. "I just got carried away. I'm a big fan of R. Kelly. I wanted it so that every time my phone rang, I could open it up and he'd be right there."
Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began arriving - written in his hand with a return address of "Heaven."
The greeting read: "I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards. At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally said, 'Oh well, what the heaven, go ahead but don't (tarry) there.' Wish I could tell you about things here but words cannot explain.
"Better get back as Big Guy said he stretched a point to let me in the first time, so I had better not press my luck. I'll probably be seeing you (some sooner than you think). Wishing you a very Merry Christmas. Chet Fitch"
The mailing was a joke Fitch worked on for two decades with his barber, Patty Dean, 57. She told the Ashland Daily Tidings this week that he kept updating the mailing list and giving her extra money when postal rates went up.
In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.
Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP on Tuesday that the move was necessary to pay for the upkeep of the country's thousands of pharaonic sites.
"The new law will completely prohibit the duplication of historic Egyptian monuments which the Supreme Council of Antiquities considers 100-percent copies," he said.
However, the law "does not forbid local or international artists from profiting from drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and Egyptian monuments from all eras -- as long as they don't make exact copies."
Germans are losing their taste for beer, according to the German brewery association.
Per-capita consumption of beer in Germany, once the world's largest consumer of the drink, fell by 3.5 litres in 2007 to 112.5 litres -- the eighth decline in the last nine years.
Brewery Association managing director Peter Hahn told Die Welt newspaper on Monday demographics were partly to blame for the fall from a peak of 156 litres in the 1980s.
Only once in the last nine years did beer consumption in Germany rise -- in 2006 when it hosted the World Cup. It has long since fallen behind the Czech Republic and Ireland."
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