M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - June 19th, 2019
More Beatlegs For You
By DJ Useo
When the Beatles Remixers Group
( www.tapatalk.com/groups/beatlesremixers/ )
was started by TjT & MP3J, I was inspired to join. SInce those early days, my love of the Fab Fours' tunes has motivated me often to try my own take on the style. I have several BRG albums released already. You can find them
down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
I had way more tracks than I needed to make this new 2 CD set "DJ Useo - The Beatlegs"
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2019/06/dj-useo-beatlegs-new-mashups-album.html ) . Fortune favored me when DJ Petrushka went over them with me, & we pared it down to mostly an hour per disc. There's tons of variety of music aside from the Beatles. I hope you find the audio journey a desirable one.
Here's the Preview track "Get Up, I'm Looking" ( Bob Marley vs The Beatles )
( drive.google.com/file/d/1CkVE2u-LZJBwvkmfUsZNI6k6IMCzj8Q6/view )
In addition, you'll find classic pairings like The Doors vs The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix vs The Beatles, & The Beatles vs Moby Grape, plus newer style tracks like The Pretenders vs The Beatles, The Beatles vs Eurythmcs, & The Beatles vs The Cure, plus many more.
If you like this kind of bootleg mix, come to BRG, & see what the others mix up & release. I've recieved word that there's some upcoming group comps to be released soon. Ni-ice, eh? For the time being,
enjoy these useo mashups. I'm told they're "the bee's knees".
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2019/06/dj-useo-beatlegs-new-mashups-album.html )
-DJ Konrad Useo
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Names
• When Cassius Clay converted to Islam, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. His new name means “someone who is worthy of praise.” After taking his new name, Mr. Ali let it be known that he no longer wished to be called by his “slave name” — the name “Clay” had come from the owner of Mr. Ali’s great-grandfather. Some of his opponents in the boxing ring continued to call him Cassius Clay. Mr. Ali responded by hitting them harder.
• A supporter of General Lewis Cass, an ardent Democrat, proposed to name a Western county “Cass” in honor of the General, but one of the opponents of the Democrats moved that the first letter of the name “Cass” be stricken out. However, the General’s supporter replied that it was unusual for a member of Congress to propose that a county be named after himself.
Olympic Games
• Figure skater Paul Wylie was known for a long time as a skater who performed best in practice, but in 1992 he won a silver medal at the Olympic Games. Afterward, reporters asked him if he thought he should have been awarded the gold medal, but Mr. Wylie replied, “How great of a Cinderella story do you guys want?”
• At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, gymnast Shannon Miller won five medals, all silver or bronze. A reporter asked Ms. Miller if she were willing to trade her five silver and bronze medals for one gold medal. Her response? A very definite no.
Physicians
• Harold Smithson was a well-loved medical doctor. Sharon Lucas, a Registered Nurse in Minnesota, tells two stories about him: 1) While playing Little League baseball, a boy had suffered a cut that required stitches. He had been given a local anesthetic and was lying on a gurney, and he could not see his arm. Dr. Smithson came in and started talking to him about baseball, and the conversation grew animated. Eventually, the boy asked, “Doctor, aren’t you going to sew up my arm or something?” Dr. Smithson said, “Son, I’ve been sewing it up. In fact, it’s all done as soon as I cut off the end of this thread.” The boy had not felt anything. 2) Some patients are obnoxious, and this patient cursed his nurses while they worked on him in the emergency room. Dr. Smithson appeared and watched quietly, and the obnoxious patient yelled at him, “What the h*ll do you want?” Dr. Smithson replied, “At the moment I’d like to see your rear end leaving the emergency room.” The patient yelled, “You can kiss my *ss.” Dr. Smithson replied, “Son, this is not the time to get romantic.”
Politics
• A group of Soviet Communists visited the United States and toured an American car factory which had a parking lot filled with cars. The Communists were informed that the factory belonged to Henry Ford but that the cars in the parking lot were owned by the workers. Later, a group of American Capitalists visited the USSR, where they toured a car factory that had a parking lot with only one car in it. The Capitalists were informed that the factory belonged to the workers but that the car was owned by the factory manager.
• Senator Warren Magnuson, a Democrat from Washington, had the nickname “Maggie.” At a dinner with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was referred to as “Maggie” constantly. Winston Churchill asked Senator Magnuson about the nickname, then told him, “Young man, if I were you, I wouldn’t resent it. I really think the reason that I’m Prime Minister of England is I’m known as Winnie in every pub in the country.” After speaking with Sir Winston, Senator Magnuson never worried about his nickname.
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Price: £1 (GBP) for track; £5 (GBP) for five-track EP; OR you can buy all three of Little Donkey’s EPs for the bargain price of £1.10 GBP)
Genre: Folk. Acoustic. Alternative.
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Peggy Noonan: 10 Things to Love About America (WSJ)
“An immigrant’s social media posts [by Amjad Masad on Twitter] express love for the land to which he came: ‘5. Open to weirdos. Because you never know where the next tech, sports, or arts innovation will come from, America had to be open to weirdness. Weirdos thrive without being crushed. We employ people with the most interesting backgrounds—dropouts to artists—they’re awesome!’”
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Current Events
Bet VA DMV heads are going to roll!
Senator Tim Kaine was among those poor motorists stranded on I-95 for more than 24 hours. He has finally made it to DC this afternoon and is no longer sitting in the mess that is still left on I-95
Not just I-95
Wow more than I-95 was totally clogged up by our snow!
Passengers riding a New York-bound Amtrak train have been trapped on board for over 30 hours. Per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the midnight train that left Atlanta, Georgia, early Monday was stymied on its north-bound route when snow and trees fell on the tracks north of Lynchburg, Virginia. One exasperated passenger of the Crescent 20, Sean Thornton, said, “Nobody has eaten for about 20 hours and the toilets in coach are completely backed up. The snack bar sold out of food yesterday. Passengers have been banned from leaving the train.” Though Amtrak told the AJC, “Our staff is working to make sure food and water is available for customers,” the company has yet to confirm when the train will get back to moving on its track.
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Got my booster at CostCo.
RERUN
FRESH
No Red Carpet, No Celebs, No Press, No Audience
Golden Globes
The 79th Golden Globe Awards, set for Sunday, will highlight the philanthropic efforts of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — which The Hollywood Reporter has previously written about — with winners announced intermittently throughout a 90-minute gathering at the Beverly Hilton, the HFPA revealed on Tuesday.
There will be no red carpet and no celebrities, non-HFPA members of the press or audience members in attendance — a reflection of both the grave COVID situation and the fact that the HFPA is currently personae non gratae with many in Hollywood.
It remains unclear if or how people not in the room will be able to watch the ceremony if they desire to do so — a live stream is a possibility, but there are presumably legal hurdles to broadcasting something as “the Golden Globe Awards” without the participation of NBC, which owns the broadcasting rights to the Golden Globe Awards.
And NBC is decidedly not participating in this year’s Globes, part of the fallout of last February’s Los Angeles Times exposé about the HFPA’s conduct and demographic makeup. The resulting uproar led many Hollywood constituencies to boycott the HFPA and prompted NBC, their longtime broadcasting partner for the Globes, to decline to air a Globes ceremony in 2022.
Golden Globes
Show Dark This Week
Seth Meyers
This week’s remaining episodes of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” have been scrapped after the host tested positive for COVID-19.
Meyers tweeted Tuesday about his positive result but said he felt fine, thanking the vaccine and a booster shot. He hosted an original broadcast on Monday.
NBC has canceled the four shows scheduled from Tuesday to Friday. “Tune in next Monday to see what cool location we will try and pass off as a studio!” Meyers tweeted.
“Late Night with Seth Meyers” is just the latest TV show to grapple with the new surge in the pandemic. “Saturday Night Live” had to scramble to broadcast a new show last month without a live audience and with taped sketches. Fellow TV host Jimmy Fallon also revealed a positive COVID-19 result right before Christmas, despite being fully vaccinated.
Seth Meyers
'Harry Potter' Viral Clip
Jon Stewart
Leave it to Jon Stewart to point out another problem with the increasingly problematic legacy of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter franchise. On a Dec. 1 episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast — an audio companion to his Apple TV+ current affairs series — the former Daily Show host called attention to what he considers to be antisemitic caricatures in both the Potter novels and their feature film adaptations.
That portion of the podcast was posted on the show's YouTube channel on Dec. 16, and is now going viral after being shared by activist Rafael Shimunov in a lengthy Twitter thread that comments on the "antisemitic tropes" in Rowling's work.
Speaking with The Problem staff writers, Jay Jurden and Henrik Blix, on the Dec. 1 podcast, Stewart called their attention to the appearance of the goblins who run the Wizarding World's leading financial institution, the Gringotts Wizarding Bank. "Talking to people, I was like ... 'Do you know what those folks that run the bank are? Jews!' ... That's a caricature of a Jew from an antisemitic piece of literature and J.K. Rowling looked at that and went, 'Can we get these guys to run our bank?'"
"It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen, and I was expecting the crowd to be like 'Holy s***, she did not — in a wizarding world — just throw Jews in there to run the f****** underground bank,'" Stewart said. "And everybody was just like: 'Wizards!'"
Jon Stewart
Judge Tosses Lawsuit
‘Nevermind’
A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a 30-year-old man who alleged that the image of him nude as a 4-month-old on the 1991 cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is child pornography.
Judge Fernando M. Olguin on Monday granted a motion to dismiss the suit from the defendants, who include surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic and the estate of Kurt Cobain, but left the door open for plaintiff Spencer Elden to refile an amended version.
The dismissal came after Elden’s attorneys did not file an opposition to the defendants’ motion to dismiss by a Dec. 30 deadline. The attorneys declined comment Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed in August in federal court in California, said that Elden had suffered “lifelong damages” as the band and others profited from the ubiquitous image of him naked underwater appearing to swim after a dollar bill on a fish hook.
The motion to dismiss filed Dec. 22 by Nirvana’s attorneys argues that the suit was filed well past the 10-year statute of limitations of one of the laws used as a cause of action, and that another law it cites wasn’t enacted until 2003 and was not retroactive.
‘Nevermind’
Already Here
Civil War
On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons.
In Washington, in the winter of 1861, Henry Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams, declared that “not one man in America wanted the civil war or expected or intended it”. South Carolina senator James Chestnut, who did more than most to bring on the advent of the catastrophe, promised to drink all the blood spilled in the entire conflict. The common wisdom at the time was that he would have to drink “not a thimble”.
The United States today is, once again, headed for civil war, and, once again, it cannot bear to face it. The political problems are both structural and immediate, the crisis both longstanding and accelerating. The American political system has become so overwhelmed by anger that even the most basic tasks of government are increasingly impossible.
The legal system grows less legitimate by the day. Trust in government at all levels is in freefall, or, like Congress, with approval ratings hovering around 20%, cannot fall any lower. Right now, elected sheriffs openly promote resistance to federal authority. Right now, militias train and arm themselves in preparation for the fall of the Republic. Right now, doctrines of a radical, unachievable, messianic freedom spread across the internet, on talk radio, on cable television, in the malls.
The right is preparing for a breakdown of law and order, but they are also overtaking the forces of law and order. Hard right organization have now infiltrated so many police forces – the connections number in the hundreds – that they have become unreliable allies in the struggle against domestic terrorism.
Civil War
Wrong Wright Brothers Plate
Ohio
The backward Wright Flyer that was at the center of an embarrassing license plate mistake in Ohio last year flew through the approval process with little to no discussion, records show.
Designers at the Ohio Department of Public Safety fussed over such issues as color saturation, centering and image placement. The Ohio State Highway Patrol tested the license plate’s lettering for readability.
Meanwhile, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, controlled the imagery’s overall messaging — from its rural and urban themes, to its nods to Ohio’s water resources and history, to the breed of the plate’s playful pup.
The flipped around plane — dragging a “Birthplace of Aviation” banner from its front, rather than its back end — appeared to be there from the outset, according to emails and images from the 15-month design process provided to The Associated Press through a public records request. Greg Wyatt, the department’s visual communications manager, declined an AP request for comment on the plate or the design process.
Some 35,000 plates were produced before the wrong Wright Flyer was caught.
Ohio
2,700-Years-Old
Toilet
A team of researchers found 2,700-year-old eggs of parasitic intestinal worms under a stone toilet in what is now Israel. The team suspects the worms may have been responsible for poor health of some of the residents of the palatial complex.
The toilet, which dates to the 7th century BCE, was found in 2019 in southern Jerusalem. The research team excavated the cesspit underneath the toilet, in hopes of finding information on the sanitary conditions of the time. They identified four parasitic worm species known to infect humans, described in a recently published paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology.
When it was in use, the toilet was located in the garden of a large estate. Based on the site’s scale and the decorative stone carvings found therein, its inhabitants were likely wealthy. But evidently that wealth didn’t keep them from ingesting several parasites: eggs of whipworm (Trichuris trichiura), tapeworm (Taenia), roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) were found underneath the toilet.
The research team noted that human feces may have been used as fertilizer during the 7th century BCE, meaning the parasites would’ve had plenty of opportunity to thrive and spread, especially given the lack of sanitation at the time. Parasites have also been found at sites like Acre, where a major battle of the Third Crusade occurred, and Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
Toilet
Physicists Crack Unsolvable Problem
Drunkard's Walk
A physics problem that has plagued science since the days of Isaac Newton is closer to being solved, say a pair of Israeli researchers. The duo used "the drunkard's walk" to calculate the outcome of a cosmic dance between three massive objects, or the so-called three-body problem.
For physicists, predicting the motion of two massive objects, like a pair of stars, is a piece of cake. But when a third object enters the picture, the problem becomes unsolvable. That's because when two massive objects get close to each other, their gravitational attraction influences the paths they take in a way that can be described by a simple mathematical formula. But adding a third object isn't so simple: Suddenly, the interactions between the three objects become chaotic. Instead of following a predictable path defined by a mathematical formula, the behavior of the three objects becomes sensitive to what scientists call "initial conditions" — that is, whatever speed and position they were in previously. Any slight difference in those initial conditions changes their future behavior drastically, and because there's always some uncertainty in what we know about those conditions, their behavior is impossible to calculate far out into the future. In one scenario, two of the objects might orbit each other closely while the third is flung into a wide orbit; in another, the third object might be ejected from the other two, never to return, and so on.
In a paper published in the journal Physical Review X, scientists used the frustrating unpredictability of the three-body problem to their advantage.
"[The three-body problem] depends very, very sensitively on initial conditions, so essentially it means that the outcome is basically random," said Yonadav Barry Ginat, a doctoral student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology who co-authored the paper with Hagai Perets, a physicist at the same university. "But that doesn't mean that we cannot calculate what probability each outcome has."
Drunkard's Walk
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