M Is FOR MASHUP - February 9th, 2022
18 Volumes of DJ Schmolli Mashups!
By DJ Useo
I’ve enjoyed DJ Scmolli
( djschmolli.com ) creations since he began back in 1884 ( Date subject to verification ). I tried to keep up with his releases, but still missed many. Luckily, Schmolli makes his past releases easily available with his
“Schnipseljagd” series
( djschmolli.com/schnipseljagd-vol-9/ ) .
You will love all 18 zip files available in this free collection. All tracks are of highest quality, & have inspired hundred’s of thousands of DJ Schmolli fans.
Here’s his latest video, so you can sample his wares -
DJ Schmolli - “Ich + John Lennon” ( John Lennon vs Ich + Ich )
( youtube.com/watch?v=xduB8xao3_w )
Schmolli starts great, & only gets better! We are so blessed to have his discography. Plus, it’s incredibly easy to access.
Download ahoy
( mega.nz/folder/RdZziYZC#-JWN9Yn-9XxW9vg0hC4wmA ) !
Thanks to DJ Schmolli for all the fun!
Catch you later.
- DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Media
• Early in the 20th century, the New York Evening Graphic was competing with the New York Daily News. Bernarr McFadden was desperately trying to increase the circulation of the Evening Graphic, but his newspaper’s circulation lagged that of the Daily News by a half million copies. Desperate, Mr. McFadden summoned his staff to a meeting, where they brainstormed ways to increase the circulation of the Evening Graphic. Mr. McFadden asked, “How is the Evening Graphic going to get more circulation?” An underling answered, “Publish it daily in the News as an advertisement.”
• Lots of people like to see their words in print. For example, in Liverpool, England, at one time was a paper called Mersey Beat. People were allowed to put personal ads in the paper, and so some members of the Beatles — Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison — used to write little ads such as “Barry! Meet me behind the station” just in hopes to see them in print. Mr. McCartney remembers, “And then it would come out and we’d be like, ‘Yeah! It got in!’ Just seeing it there was a little kick.”
• Richard Foster, a popular Quaker author, was asked several times to appear on the PTL Club TV show, and in 1987 he did appear. However, instead of discussing his latest book, Money, Sex, and Power, he was asked instead to discuss an earlier book he had written that had the noncontroversial title A Celebration of Discipline.
Mishaps
• Maya Angelou once visited Senegal, where a friend named Samia invited her to supper. While she was there, she noticed that none of the guests was walking on the carpet. This made her angry because, she says, “I had known a woman in Egypt who would not allow her servants to walk on her rugs, saying that only she, her family and friends were going to wear out her expensive carpets. Samia plummeted in my estimation.” Therefore, to make a point, she walked back and forth a few times on the carpet as “[t]he guests who were bunched up on the sidelines smiled at me weakly.” Later, she regretted her action. Servants rolled up the carpet she had walked on, put down a fresh carpet, and then put food and plates and eating utensils on it. Samia then said to her guests that in honor of Maya Angelou, she was serving a very popular dish from Senegal. The guests then sat on the carpet. Ms. Angelou realized that in her ignorance, she had been walking on her host’s tablecloth, and she says that she was “on fire with shame.”
• R.L. Stine has written many, many scary books for kids in his Goosebumps and Fear Street series of horror novels. So what scares him? Actually, jumping into a swimming pool scares him. When he was a kid attending summer camp, he was placed in the beginners’ swimming group, which was called the Tadpoles. To move up into the next higher group, the Turtles, a Tadpole had to jump into the swimming pool, then swim the length of the pool and back. When it was his turn to jump into the pool, he couldn’t do it. Swimming back and forth in the pool was no problem, but jumping into the pool horrified him. He walked away as the other Tadpoles laughed at him. Today he says, “My […] nephews think it’s very funny. They’re always teasing me and trying to get me to jump. They think it’s funny that a horror writer is afraid to jump into a swimming pool.”
• Monty Python Terry Jones was friends with Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe books. One story that Mr. Adams used to tell was of being at a train station with a Guardian newspaper and a package of biscuits (British for cookies). He sat down with a cup of coffee and put down the newspaper. In the middle of the table was a packet of biscuits. Another man was already at the table, and he very calmly opened the packet of biscuits and ate one. Mr. Adams was annoyed but remained silent, and he ate a biscuit. The other man then ate a biscuit, followed by Mr. Adams eating another biscuit. Mr. Adams was still annoyed, but he made an effort not to glare at the other man. When it was time to leave, Mr. Adams stood up, picked up his newspaper — and discovered his packet of biscuits underneath the newspaper.
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BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Music: "Nada tiene por que" [“Nothing has to”]
Album: SCATTER GOLD RECORDS VOL 1
Artist: Satan Dealers
Record Company: Scatter Records
Record Company Location: Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Argentina
Info:
Satan have some albums on Scatter Records.
“Since 2003 Scatter Records has been a member of the emerging scene in Argentina, working and trusting in the exchange between bands and independent artists. We are a record label, producer of shows and events, we do press, dissemination and content generation.”
“Scatter Records: We Work for the Monkey!” [Their logo is a monkey.]
Price: FREE Download for 18-track album by various artists
Genre: Rock. Compilation.
Links:
SCATTER GOLD RECORDS VOL 1
Scatter Records
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Kindle
Bruce received this missive from the kindle-folks yesterday and I gotta say - WTF?
Hello,
We are terminating your account effective immediately because we found that you have published titles with misleading content that have the potential to mislead or defraud our customers.
You can see the violations reflected in the following title(s):
William Shakespeare’s "King Lear": A Retelling in Prose
As part of the termination process:
• We will close your account
• You’re no longer eligible to receive any outstanding royalties
• You’ll no longer have access to your accounts. This includes, editing your titles, viewing your reports and accessing any other information within your account
• All of your published titles will be removed from sale on Amazon
Additionally, as per our Terms and Conditions, you aren’t allowed to open any new KDP accounts.
Bruce responded, and they replied:
Thank you for the email concerning the status of your account.
After reviewing your response, we have reevaluated the Content Guideline violations relating to the titles in your account.
We found that you have published titles with misleading content.
As a result, we are upholding our previous decision to terminate your KDP account and remove all your titles from Amazon.
Bruce responded, again, and they replied, again:
We’ve reviewed the information you provided and we are upholding our previous decision to terminate your account and remove all your titles from sale on Amazon.
As a result, we will not be reinstating your account.
Please note that, per our Terms and Conditions, you are not permitted to open new accounts and will not receive future royalty payments from additional accounts created.
So -
Since Amazon terminated my KDF account because it is confused by the similarity because William Shakespeare's KING LEAR and Anonymous' THE HISTORY OF KING LEIR, I am having a special sale on my Smashwords books: over 140 books, all FREE!
Bruce's Books @ Smashwords.com
Actually, these are the new permanent prices.
David Bruce
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Current Events
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that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Toastier than yesterday.
Needs To Pay Up
Pandora
The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin say Pandora has been “willfully” streaming the late comedians’ recorded routines without proper licensing or even “a fraction of a penny” in compensation to the trailblazing comics’ heirs.
In new copyright infringement suits filed Monday alongside related complaints from fellow funnymen Andrew Dice Clay, Ron White and Bill Engvall, the estates claim the comedians’ works “continue to be exploited, performed, broadcast, and streamed” across Pandora’s platforms without proper permission and without any “substantive response” to warnings from literary agency Word Collections over the last couple years.
The legal actions ask for at least $4.1 million in damages for Williams’s estate and $8.4 million for Carlin’s estate.
According to the filings obtained by Rolling Stone, Pandora improperly offered 27 of Williams’ works through its digital broadcast radio service. The routines derive from Williams’ debut album Reality…What a Concept and A Night At The Met, widely regarded as one of the greatest stand-up specials in history.
Pandora
Polar Music Prize
Iggy Pop
American rocker Iggy Pop, known as “the godfather of punk”, and Ensemble Intercontemporain, a contemporary music orchestra based in Paris, have won the 2022 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award.
The award panel said Tuesday in a statement and video announcement that rock icon Iggy Pop, a singer and songwriter whose real name is James Newell Osterberg, has “created furious rock music by blending together blues and free jazz influences with the roar of the Michigan automotive industry.”
Iggy Pop, 74, is considered as one of the founding fathers of punk rock with his band The Stooges, established in the late 1960s. The award panel said he paved the way for the emergence of punk and post-punk, and was a role model to bands like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.
Ensemble Intercontemporain was founded in 1976 by the composer Pierre Boulez. The ensemble is focused on contemporary art music and has made itself known for exploring new musical areas and artistic expressions such as dance, theater and technology.
The orchestra made up of 31 soloists was cited by the award panel as “the Stradivarius of modern music and has inspired the greatest composers of our time to create new masterpieces since the 1970s.”
Iggy Pop
Germany’s Highest Honor
Simon Rattle
Germany’s president on Tuesday bestowed the country’s highest honor on British conductor Simon Rattle, the former head of the Berlin Philharmonic who is set to take a new job in Munich next year.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said as he presented Rattle with the Order of Merit that the 67-year-old “became ‘our’ Simon” during 16 years at the helm of the Philharmonic.
Rattle, who lives in Berlin and now has German citizenship, said he was “deeply grateful for this honor.”
He noted that he will soon have “another musical home in Munich,” where he is set to take over the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra next year. He is currently music director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
“Whatever the situation in my native country may be at the moment, most musicians there feel deeply European,” said the conductor, who has been among critics of post-Brexit restrictions on U.K. musicians touring in the European Union.
Simon Rattle
Top 20
Winter Olympics
Here’s a list of the 20 most-watched television shows in prime time for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6, their networks and viewerships:
1. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 11 million.
2. Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, NBC, 10.76 million.
3. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 10.15 million.
4. Winter Olympics (Thursday, 8-8:30 p.m.), NBC, 8.1 million.
5. “FBI,” CBS, 7.54 million.
6. Winter Olympics (Thursday, 8:30-11 p.m.), NBC, 7.26 million.
7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.43 million.
8. “FBI: International,” CBS, 6.27 million.
9. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 6.01 million.
10. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.94 million.
11. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 4.86 million.
12. “This is Us,” NBC, 4.54 million.
13. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 4.44 million.
14. Auto Racing: NASCAR Busch Light Clash, Fox, 4.28 million.
15. “Celebrating Betty White,” NBC, 4.27 million.
16. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 4.25 million.
17. “Ghosts,” CBS, 4.22 million.
18. “NCIS,” CBS, 4.11 million.
19. “Judge Steve Harvey,” ABC, 4 million.
20. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 3.82 million.
Winter Olympics
Conservative Spy Venture
Betsy's Bro
During the summer of 2018, as Richard Seddon, a former British spy, was trying to launch a new venture to use undercover agents to infiltrate progressive groups, Democratic campaigns and other opponents of the former President Donald Trump, he turned for help to a longtime friend and former colleague: Erik Prince, the private military contractor.
Prince took on the role of celebrity pitchman, according to interviews and documents, raising money for Seddon’s spying operation, which was aimed at gathering dirt that could discredit politicians and activists in several states. After Prince and Seddon met in August 2018 with Susan Gore, a Wyoming heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune, Gore became the project’s main benefactor.
Prince’s role in the effort, which has not been previously disclosed, sheds further light on how a group of ultraconservative Republicans employed spycraft to try to manipulate the American political landscape. Prince — a former CIA contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Trump’s education secretary — has drawn scrutiny over the years for Blackwater’s record of violence around the world and his subsequent ventures training and arming foreign forces.
His willingness to support Seddon’s operation is fresh evidence of his engagement in political espionage projects at home during a period when he was an informal adviser to Trump administration officials.
Seddon’s recruitment of Prince to help him secure funding is just one of the new details about Seddon’s operation revealed in documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with people familiar with his plans. They provide additional insight into the ambition of the operation to use undercover operatives to target Republicans seen as insufficiently conservative, as well as to, as one document describes it, “research, penetrate and infiltrate the radical left networks.”
Betsy's Bro
FSU's Strozier Library
Comics
There are only four keys to the lock protecting a half-million dollars worth of comic books housed in Florida State University’s Strozier Library.
Todd Peak, the library’s head of security, had access to one of them.
Peak, 38, was arrested by FSU Police on Friday on charges that, in 2020, he stole nearly 5,000 comics from the Robert M. Ervin Jr. Collection. Throughout the next two years, police said, he sold them to private buyers and comic book stores throughout the area.
Peak, who lives in Crawfordville, is charged with grand theft of more than $100,000, fraud, dealing in stolen property and sale of stolen property using the internet, according to court records.
In all, 4,996 items were missing from the collection that consists of comic books and serials on superheroes, science fiction, fantasy and horror. Over 1,200 serial titles are represented, predominantly from the 1950s through the 1970s. Publications include those by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, underground publishers, foreign language titles and pulp magazines.
Comics
Moose Attack
Iditarod
A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week — and the attack didn't end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal.
She said on Facebook Friday that the moose, after seriously injuring four of her dogs, wouldn't leave and that the ordeal stopped only after she called friends for help and one showed up with a larger caliber gun and killed the moose.
“This has been the most horrific past 24 hours of my life,” she posted after the Thursday moose attack on the Salcha River trail system near Fairbanks.
Watkins wrote that the attack, first reported by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, happened while she was on a 52-mile (83.7-kilometer) training run for the nearly 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It starts March 5 in Anchorage.
Alaska State Troopers had been preparing a helicopter to respond but stopped doing so after they were told the moose was dead, agency spokesperson Tim DeSpain said in an email.
Iditarod
300,000 Meteorites
Antarctica
Although meteorites are known to fall all over the world, the environment and unique processes in Antarctica make them somewhat easier to find on the pristine, snowy landscape. Still, collecting meteorites in Antarctica is physically grueling and hazardous work.
But what if there was a "treasure map" which showed the most probable places to find meteorites in Antarctica, directing researchers where to look?
Researchers from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have used artificial intelligence to create a type of treasure map to identify zones where meteorites can be found with high probability.
"Through our analyses, we learned that satellite observations of temperature, ice flow rate, surface cover and geometry are good predictors of the location of meteorite-rich areas," said Veronica Tollenaar, who led the study, published in Science Advances. "We expect the 'treasure map' to be 80 percent accurate."
Based on the study, the scientists calculate that more than 300,000 meteorites are out there on the Antarctic landscape, waiting to be found. This represents enormous scientific potential.
Antarctica
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