Today is the day we celebrate birthdays orange flavored style.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

1. Deee Lite - Theme
2. Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman
3. Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough
4. Bugz in the Attic - Booty La La
5. Lil Kim - Lighters Up
6. Fugees – Ready or Not
7. Amerie - One Thing
8. John Beltran - Candela
9. Cesaria Evora - Angola
10. Masequa Mayer & Jami Ayinde - Black Land of the Nile
11. Irfan - Just a Little Lovin’
12. Bill Withers - Lovely day
13. Charles Webster - Ready
14. Hird - Keep Your Kimi
15. Roisin Murphy – If We’re in Love
16. RSL – Wesley Music
17. Soul Coughing – Soft Serve
18. Sunburst Band Joey Negro remix - Far Beyond
19. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - Maps

Between the free concerts in Central Park and the super-cheap ones at Hammerstein Ballroom, you folks are just spoiled. Seriously. Okay, so maybe I can catch a free Blackalicious show here in the Bay, but I'll probably have to test drive a rice rocket or two to get in! I think I'm going to have to make another trek east pretty soon...

Here's another mix from your friends here at coast2coast boogie. I know it's been a while, and you might think we're slackin', but we're actually hard at work on a bunch of stuff, including a site redesign and another mix for later on this week! So enjoy our latest offering and check back in a couple days for the next episode. Cheers!

1. Soil and Pimp - Waltz for Goddess
2. Inverse Cinematics - Seven by Seven
3. David Borsu - Monster
4. Love- Ft. Marla Turner Nublu Sessions
5. Common - Be
6. The Roots - Proceed (Remix) feat. Bahamadia
7. The Pharcyde - Drop
8. Beastie Boys - Alive (Moby Remix)
9. MC Solaar - Nouveau Western
10. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He's the D.J., I'm the Rapper
11. The Jacksons - Shake a Body (Early Demo)
12. Young MC - Bust A Move
13. K-Os - Superstarr Part Zero

I am sure most of you are upset about the disaster in New Orleans and how our government has handled the situation. Michael Moore wrote a great open letter. And if you have not already done so and would like to donate, he has some good suggestions.

Friends,

There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.

So, in the next few days, I will write to you about what must be done about Bush and Co.

But today I want you to join with me in bypassing the colossally inept and incompetent Bush administration and get help DIRECTLY to the people of the New Orleans area -- right now.

A lot of you have written me to ask what you can do. Many don't know who to trust. Many want to do more than write a check. You are right to think that writing checks to relief agencies will not get water and aid to people in the next 48 hours. Checks will be needed later and can be written later.

I have a way, though, for each and every one of us to do something today that can affect people's lives TODAY.

For the past few days I've been working with a group that, I guarantee you, will get direct aid to the people who need it most.

Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush's ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.

This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:

Paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, and anything else to lift people's spirits.

You can ship these items by following the instructions on VFPRoadTrips.org. Or you can deliver them there in person. The roads to Covington are open. Here's how to get there. You can drop them off or you can stay and participate (if you stay, you'll be camping so bring your own tent and gear and mosquito spray).

If you can't ship these items or go there in person, then go to VFPRoadTrips.org and make an immediate donation through PayPal. Camp Casey-Covington will have immediate access to this cash and can buy the items themselves from stores that are open in Louisiana (all donations to Veterans for Peace, are tax deductible).

Each day I will post up-to-the minute information as to what is needed and the progress Camp Casey is making. Please visit MichaelMoore.com often and do what you can to help.

Many other groups are also doing good work. MoveOn.org has set up a system for people to offer rooms in their homes to the survivors.

There is no time to waste. People are suffering and dying. Each of us can do something. There is no other alternative.

Thank you in advance for your help. Tomorrow, we will take care of the other work we need to do about the ideologically hamstrung incompetents in charge.

Yours,
Michael Moore
Mike@MichaelMoore.com
MichaelMoore.com

1. Dwight Trible - Celestial Blues
2. DJ Premier in Deep Concentration - Summer Madness
3. Crooklyn Dodgers - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
4. Osborne - Afrika
5. Alice Russell - Seven Nation Army
6. Roisin Murphy - Dear Diary
7. Donald Byrd - Lansanna's Priestess DJ Spinna Remix
8. Radiohead - Fitter Happier
9. Eyedea - How Much Do You Pay
10. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All
Going to Go
11. Outkast - SpottieOttieDopalicious
12. Common - Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World)
13. De La Soul - I Am I Be
14. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
15. Tom Waits - Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)

In New York, I imagine folks are beginning to anticipate a return of crispness in the air and the change in tint from green to yellow to orange... here in the Bay Area, we're just getting warmed up! Here in the land of moderate weather, the sun is out and about again and keeping us plenty warm, delaying the eventual hibernation that should normally come with the end of summer...

If you're around this weekend, check out Oakland's Art and Soul Festival. Heiroglyphics, Lyrics Born, Aimee Mann, Roy Ayers, Blues Traveller, and a whole bunch of other people performing throughout the long weekend. And AnotherPlanet.com has a gang of big and small name acts coming into town, including Living Colour, Santana, Blackalicious, Franz Ferdinand, and Green Day. Should be a busy season for us!

Meanwhile, in New York, there's a couple of shows at SOBS that I expect will be pretty good: Goapele on the 21st of September, and Arrested Development on the 22nd. Should be a pretty strong one-two punch. Oh, Q-Tip's hosting a party every Thursday night at Strata. And I'm sure there's a bunch of other stuff to do; but if I looked it up, I'd just get more jealous...

And here at coast2coastboogie, we're also getting our butts in gear... here's a mix to usher in the fall season. Enjoy!

1. The Muppet Show Intro
2. Mo horizons - Walk into Space
3. Air - All I Need
4. Christian Zimmerman - Diary of a Lost Girl
5. Wax Poetic - Oriental Wind
6. Micatone - Nomad Songs
7. Black Mighty Orchestra - Ocean Beats
8. Aubergine 3 - Sultro Matic Principle
9. Karma - Got My Mojo Working
10. Mike Doughty - Idiot Kings
11. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
12. Thievery Corporation - Vai Vai
13. Royksopp - Eple
14. Ulrich Schnauss - Between Us and Them
15. Hird - Moving On
16. Plaid - Ralome