Michael "Mike" Rizzo, is an American DJ/producer/remixer from New York City since the early 1990s. He is well known for working with various artists such as Jennifer Green and Sun, all of whom scored hits on both Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay charts.
He also achieved success on both charts in 2005 with the song "Can't Go On", which featured female singer Allie (Credited as "Mike Rizzo Presents Allie"). The music video for his song, "I Wanna Hold You", which he produced and co-wrote and featured recording artist Adam Barta.
From January to February 2010, Rizzo headlined pop singer-songwriter Utada's tour, Utada: In The Flesh 2010.
In December 2010, he was nominated for "Best Remixed Recording, Non-classical" at the 53rd Annual Grammy awards, for the single "Orpheus (Quiet Carnival) by Latin-jazz artist Sergio Mendes.
Michael Anthony Rizzo (born December 14, 1960) is an American baseball front office executive. He is the General Manager and President of Baseball Operations of the Washington Nationals.
After a brief playing career in minor league baseball, Rizzo transitioned into coaching and scouting. He became the director of scouting for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000. Rizzo joined the Nationals in 2007 as an assistant general manager. He succeeded Jim Bowden as the Nationals' general manager in 2009, and was promoted to team president in 2013.
Rizzo grew up in Chicago as one of four children. His father, Phil, was a former minor league baseball player who drove a truck for the city and scouted for the California Angels on a part-time basis. The Angels made him a full-time scout, as many of the players he identified reached the majors.
Rizzo attended Holy Cross High School in River Grove, Illinois and Saint Xavier University, where he played college baseball for the Saint Xavier Cougars.
A boom operator is an assistant of the production sound mixer. The principal responsibility of the boom operator is microphone placement, usually using a boom pole (or "fishpole") with a microphone attached to the end (called a boom mic), their aim being to hold the microphone as close to the actors or action as possible without allowing the microphone or boom pole to enter the camera's frame.
At Paramount, Dorothy Arzner directed Clara Bow's first talkie, The Wild Party (1929). To allow Bow to move freely on the set, Arzner had technicians rig a microphone onto a fishing rod, essentially creating the first boom mike. She did not, however, take out a patent. One year later one was filed for a very similar sound-recording device by Edmund H Hansen, a sound engineer at the Fox Film Corporation.
Often in television studios, the boom operator will use a "fisher boom", which is a more intricate and specialized piece of equipment on which the operator stands, allowing precise control of the microphone at a greater distance from the actors. They will also attach wireless microphones to persons whose voice requires recording. Boom poles are usually manufactured from several lengths of aluminum or carbon fibre tubing, allowing the boom to be extended and collapsed as the situation requires.
Anjulie (born Anjulie Persaud; May 21, 1983) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, who has released one self-titled album, and has written songs for Fefe Dobson and Kreesha Turner.
Anjulie was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, and is the youngest of four children. She attended St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary school. Her parents are both Indo-Guyanese, her grandparents having immigrated to Guyana from India. Anjulie's background and what she calls her "racial ambiguity" led to isolation while growing up; in middle school, she said, "the black kids would be on one side and the white kids would be on the other... so I would mostly hang out by myself and write". However, though "it was hard that [she] didn't fit in", she decided to embrace her differences and was driven to "carve [her] own niche".
Anjulie became "obsessed with music" and was inspired to become a performer after watching Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope Tour. She opened for Jesse McCartney during his United States tour in 2009. The songs, "Rain", "Crazy That Way", and "The Heat" were featured on the MTV television series The Hills and "Addicted2Me" on The City. The single "Boom" has been featured on ABC's Eastwick, The CW's Melrose Place,The Vampire Diaries, and Canada's Next Top Model.
Anjulie is the first studio album by the Canadian recording artist Anjulie, released by Starbucks record label Hear Music on August 4, 2009 in Canada and the United States. It was produced by John Burk, Jon Levine, The Transcenders and Colin Wolfe and reached number two on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.
The album received generally positive reviews from critics, with Allmusic noting that "while the record's not without its rough patches, dully derivative moments, and false notes, Anjulie is quite impressive as an opening salvo from a talented musical collagist whose minor flurry of hype is well-warranted."
When he's asleep, when he's awake
Eating a Swanson's Salisbury Steak
He's glued to the TV
He knows the names he knows the plot
He likes it when they all get shot
A blaze of glory
Mike TV
Shot in front of a live audience
Mike TV
Owes it all to his parents
And that reminds me
Of something I saw on TV
Or was it some old movie
Life's just no fun it's all reruns
Hey look at me I'm on TV
I am whoever I want to be
I live vicariously
I figured it out
Cause I'm pretty smart
Fast forward through the boring parts
Action's all I see
Mike TV
Back after these messages
Mike TV
Back after these vestiges
And that reminds me
Of something I saw on TV
Or was it some old movie