M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - July 3rd, 2019
Mash Of The Titans VIII Is Served
By DJ Useo
Panos T
( panost.net/ )
has released a volume of "Mash Of The Titans" every year now, for eight years in a row. The series features significantly talented bootleggers mixing mainstream-style tracks of the highest order. Many of the volumes are 2, or even 3 discs' worth, so ponder the quantity of blends that entails. All past volumes remain available, with this latest collection expanding the multitude.
Panos provides excellent videos for many of the new cuts. Links for viewing are
located here
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/mash-of-the-titans-viii/ )
where the album download link is also displayed. The content is quality throughout, with mixers like Kill_mR_DJ, Jarod Ripley, MixmstrStel, & many more providing the thrills.
As a Special bonus, Panos has just released "
Mash of The Titans VIII - Metamorphosis" as an extension of the #MOTT8 album. It includes 14 more brand new mashups by producers from around the world.
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/mash-of-the-titans-viii-metamorphosis/ )
A fine addition to the joy which the 8th MOTT brings all on it's own.
I've been into this series since it was birthed, as you can tell from this "Mash Of The Titans' mix"
I personally spawned earlier this year
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-selections-from-mash-of-the-titans-podcast/ )
It gives a fine overview perspective as it uses two tracks from every volume.
You'll leave your friends impressed with your musical tastes when you turn them onto this mashup feast.
So, grab the latest volume, or gorge on the entire menu of eight volumes from
links here
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/ )
I hope y'all find mashups suitable for your 4th of July celebration.
They're certainly a better choice than tanks. ;)
Have the Summer of good -
DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Politics
• In France (at least until recently), politicians and civil-service workers were expected to be well read. In 2006, French President Nicholas Sarkozy got book lovers angry at him when he suggested that civil service entrance exams should not include questions about such things as the 17th-century French novel La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette. Lovers of the works of La Fayette immediately did such things as arrange public readings of La Princesse de Clèves. In addition, the writer Jacques Drillon suggested that since Mr. Sarkozy is not well read, citizens of France should perform the good deed of mailing him books.
• The family of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges was against the Perón dictatorship. His mother and his sister were arrested because they took part in a political protest against the Peróns. His mother was aged and so was allowed to serve her sentence at home — an armed guard stood by the door for a month. Norah, his sister, could have gotten out of jail by writing a letter of apology to Eva Perón, but she declined to do that. Instead, she stayed in jail and used the time to create portraits of the inmates, who were mostly prostitutes. She portrayed the inmates as angels.
Practical Jokes
• At one time, novelist Nick Mamatas, author of Under My Roof and Move Under Ground, used to write term papers for students who were incapable of writing their own. These students would go to a business that sold term papers, and people such as Mr. Mamatas would write a term paper on any topic and at any length the student wanted. The topics were usually deadly dull, and so Mr. Mamatas found ways to make the writing less deadly dull. If he was writing a paper for a business class, he would use Marxists as his sources. If he had to write a paper on any topic in ethics, he would write about the ethics of buying term papers rather than being honest and writing them yourself. If he had to write a paper on any topic in literature, he would write about his own short stories and novels — he says that several students “rate me as their favorite author and they’ve never even read me, or anyone else.” Whenever he had to write a paper that included personal experience, he would make up and write about the student’s sexual oddities.
• H. Allen Smith once received a letter from a man who wrote that he knew that the letter would not be read by Mr. Smith, but by a secretary. This insulted Mr. Smith, who had never had a secretary. The man continued to write in his letter that he wished that the secretary were young, pretty, and redheaded. Mr. Smith wrote back to the man, inventing a secretary in the process. In the letter, Mr. Smith wrote that the man must be psychic because she (meaning the fictitious secretary) was young, pretty, and redheaded — furthermore, she was willing to take a day and a night off from work to meet him and have a good time. Later, a telegram arrived for the “secretary,” setting up a rendezvous at a hotel. Mr. Smith thought about telling the man the truth, but he decided that the man needed to learn a lesson, so he let him come to New York. Mr. Smith received no more annoying letters from the man.
• J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, played many pranks during his life. As a first-year student at Oxford, he played the female character of Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play The Rivals. He and the other actors visited a tea shop, wearing overcoats while on the train, but taking them off and revealing their costumes in the tea shop. Later, when he was an Oxford don, he would sometimes dress as an Anglo-Saxon warrior and, wielding an axe, chase after a startled neighbor. Also, during lectures he would say that leprechauns existed — to prove their existence, he would take out of his pocket and display a pair of four-inch-long green shoes. And when he was an old man, he would buy something and sometimes hand the storekeeper the money needed to buy the item — along with his false teeth.
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BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
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Music: "The Stranger"
Two-Sided Single: “Shadowy Bites” (“The Stranger” bound with “Jet Black”)
Artist: Draculina
Artist Location: Saint Peterburg, Russia
Record Company: MuSick Recordings (Home of The Boss Martians, Messer Chups, The Fathoms, Wave Electric, Satan's Pilgrims, The Space Cossacks, Draculina, Hypnomen, Pollo Del Mar, The Moog, David Lane, and more.)
Record Company Location: Los Angeles, California
Info:
Draculina is a former bassist with Messer Chups.
“SHADOWY BITES” features two 1960s classics by THE SHADOWS — “Jet Black” and “The Stranger” — that are revamped and given new immortal life by DRACULINA and the extraordinary group of surf and garage musicians joining her on these tracks: EVAN FOSTER (The Boss Martians, The Sonics), CHRIS BARFIELD (The Huntington Cads, The Finks), DUSTY WATSON (Dick Dale) and LARRY MULLINS (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds)!
Draculina - bass
Evan Foster - guitar
Chris Barfield - guitar
Dusty Watson - drums
Larry Mullins - vibraphone
Price: $3 (USD) for two-track single
Genre: Surf Rock.
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Andrew Tobias: Too Woke to Win?
We all agree people should be treated fairly, with kindness and respect.
We all know it doesn’t always happen — indeed, we ourselves sometimes fall short.
So sensitizing people to others’ feelings and advancing the cause of equal rights are important things to do.
And yet it’s becoming ever more clear that in pursuit of perfection the pendulum can swing too far.
Read this story, out of the University of Illinois, and tell me there can’t be such a thing as too woke.
Or recall Al Franken’s sophomoric behavior before he was elected to the Senate. Are we sure an apology shouldn’t have sufficed?
Or . . . well, by now, the examples are endless.
I’m not saying I agree with everything in Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity — not least because I’m barely past the Introduction.
But I do think we’ll make more progress toward equality if we don’t scare — or look down on — the sensible center.
Otherwise, we’ll needlessly hand the G.O.P. seats as we did in 2020 with “defund the police.” The goal was right — better policing, accountability, mental health resources, criminal justice reform — but the framing was suicidal.
And this time, it could mean a Republican controlled Senate and a vengeful, unhinged former president sitting as Speaker of the House.
Andrew Tobias: Too Woke to Win?
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Jennifer Sey: Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free. (Common Sense)
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
Things changed when Covid hit. Early on in the pandemic, I publicly questioned whether schools had to be shut down. This didn’t seem at all controversial to me. I felt—and still do—that the draconian policies would cause the most harm to those least at risk, and the burden would fall heaviest on disadvantaged kids in public schools, who need the safety and routine of school the most.
Jennifer Sey: Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free. (Common Sense)
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Animated Series in Development
‘Bloom County’
Ack! Bill the Cat, Opus and the rest of Berkeley Breathed’s “Bloom County” universe are heading to Fox. The comic strip, created and written by Berkeley Breathed, is being developed as an animated series at Fox, through its animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, as well as Miramax, Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment.
Just like the strip, the TV version of “Bloom County” will center “on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.”
“Bloom County” will be co-written and executive produced by Breathed. Bento Box will serve as the animation studio on the project. Miramax, Spyglass and Project X will also executive-produce.
“At the end of ‘Alien,’ we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world stuffed with far worse,” Breathed said in a statement. “Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us.”
‘Bloom County’
Top 20 Prime-Time Programs
Nielsen
Here’s the Nielsen company’s list of the 20 most-watched prime time programs last week, their networks and viewership:
1. Super Bowl: L.A. Rams vs. Cincinnati, NBC, 99.18 million.
2. “Super Bowl Post Game,” NBC, 54.07 million.
3. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 21.28 million.
4. Winter Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 11.09 million.
5. Winter Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 9.81 million.
6. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 8.57 million.
7. Winter Olympics (Monday), NBC, 8.47 million.
8. Winter Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 8.35 million.
9. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 8.24 million.
10. “911: Lone Star,” Fox, 5.18 million.
11. “Jeopardy! College Championship” (Friday), ABC, 4.6 million.
12. “Super Bowl’s Great Commercials,” CBS, 4.595 million.
13. “Jeopardy! College Championship” (Wednesday), ABC, 4.57 million.
14. “Jeopardy! College Championship” (Thursday), ABC, 4.52 million.
15. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 4.29 million.
16. “Jeopardy! College Championship” (Tuesday), ABC, 4.28 million.
17. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 4.05 million.
18. “FBI,” CBS, 3.71 million.
19. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday) Fox News, 3.67 million.
20. NBA Basketball: L.A. Lakers at Golden State, ABC, 3.61 million.
Nielsen
Blunt-Smoking, Confederate Flag-Burning Senate Candidate
Gary Chambers Jr.
Gary Chambers Jr. has raked in nearly $600,000 since announcing his bid for U.S. Senate in Louisiana last month, his campaign said in a statement Monday, according to Politico.
The average donation, according to the campaign, was $38, with most donors being service workers and educators.
Chambers’ long-shot bid to unseat Republican Sen. John Kennedy received national attention for his first ad, released Jan. 18, in which the North Baton Rouge native smokes from giant blunt to make a point about cannabis-related incarceration. “I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology,” Chambers wrote in a tweet accompanying the ad.
Chambers followed the ad up last week with one in which he lit a Confederate battle flag on fire. Chambers explained in the ad that he supports legislation targeting racial inequities in his state and nationally, like accelerating the compassionate release of federal prisoners aged 60 and over, changing the federal judiciary, and creating national accountability standards for police. “Here in Louisiana and all over the South, Jim Crow never really left,” he says in the ad.
Gary Chambers Jr.
Police "Typo"
Florida
An apparent typo was sending motorists in South Florida seeking to resolve their traffic citations to a website selling 2024 merchandise for the former President Donald Trump, officials said.
Miami Beach police had been handing out the erroneous fliers until last week, police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez told the Miami Herald on Monday. He did not know how long they had been in circulation.
“We’re aware of this typographical error now,” Rodriguez said. “We put out a notice to officers to discontinue using them.”
The flier explained how to resolve minor traffic tickets online by visiting the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts website. The problem was the web address printed in the flier left out a hyphen, prompting drivers to visit the wrong website.
Florida
Families Settle With Remington
Sandy Hook
The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting announced Tuesday they have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.
The case was watched closely by gun control advocates, gun rights supporters and manufacturers, because of its potential to provide a roadmap for victims of other shootings to sue firearm makers.
The families and a survivor of the shooting sued Remington in 2015, saying the company should have never sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. They said their focus was on preventing future mass shootings by forcing gun companies to be more responsible with their products and how they market them.
Gun rights groups said the settlement will have little effect on rifle sales and gun makers, who continue to be shielded from liability in most cases under federal law. But some experts said it may prompt insurers to pressure gun makers into making some changes.
Sandy Hook
‘This Policy Undermines Trust’
San Francisco
When a medical professional performs a forensic examination of a rape victim, in addition to interviewing the person and treating any injuries, they will collect biological evidence including bodily fluids, skin cells and hair. This can include DNA samples from the victim, not just the perpetrator. According to District Attorney Chesa Boudin, San Francisco Police Departments’ crime lab has been entering victims’ DNA into a database law enforcement uses to identify possible suspects. In the latest in a series of disagreements between the DA and the police, Boudin has condemned the practice because it could deter rape victims from reporting the crime to law enforcement. “There are few crimes more serious [than sexual assault], and we need to do everything we can to eliminate barriers to reporting and to accountability,” Boudin tells Rolling Stone. “And this policy undermines the trust that we need victims to have in the work we do.”
Boudin learned about the apparent practice last week in the context of one woman, whose DNA was collected in 2016 ago during a rape exam as part of a domestic violence and sexual abuse case. He says the San Francisco Police Department then used her DNA to link her to a recent felony Boudin describes only as a “property crime.” He says his office discovered what had happened during the course of litigating the crime. “It was buried in a rather opaque manner in a SFPD forensic crime lab report,” he says. “We cross-referenced the incident report referenced in the crime lab. We looked at the arrest warrant details and we realize to our horror what had happened.” (The SFPD has not confirmed the practice, but say they are reviewing the matter. The case has since been dropped.)
According to Boudin, SFPD maintains a local database of DNA for so-called quality assurance. “It’s maintained in theory for the purpose of ensuring that there’s no contamination from other samples that have moved through the lab,” Boudin says. This database has no connection to the federal forensic database CODIS, to which it is illegal to upload a rape victim’s DNA. Boudin says the head of the police crime lab told him their software is programmed to run suspect searches of the quality assurance database, as a matter of police policy.
But that practice may violate victims’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as potentially violating California’s Victims’ Bill of Rights, which includes a right to privacy. “It’s illegal,” Boudin says.
San Francisco
Quarter-Century In Solitary
'Penal Tomb'
Dennis Hope has spent 27 years in solitary confinement in a Texas prison, in a cell that is 9 feet long and 6 feet wide — smaller than a compact parking space.
“It’s three steps to the door and then turn around and three steps back,” Hope, 53, wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.
His only human contact is with the guards who strip-search and handcuff him before taking him to another enclosure to exercise, alone. He has had one personal phone call since 1994, when his mother died in 2013. He suffers from depression and paranoia and fears he is going insane.
Last month, Hope asked the Supreme Court to consider whether such prolonged isolation can violate the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishments.
Hope was sentenced to 80 years in 1990 for a series of armed robberies and landed in solitary after he escaped from prison in 1994. He eluded capture for about two months, during which he stole a car at knife point from an 83-year-old man and robbed four grocery stores.
'Penal Tomb'
Most Extreme On Record
Rogue Wave
An enormous wave roughly the height of a four-story building is believed to be the most extreme rogue ever recorded according to a recent paper. The marine beast surged through waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island in 2020 where it was picked up by open ocean buoys.
The dramatic wave height at Amphitrite Bank, where the buoy was deployed, was recorded and the data collected by Marine Environmental Data Section. Using this information, the authors behind a paper published in Scientific Reports were able to carry out rogue wave models, simulations, and predictors to establish the “Ucluelet wave” was almost three times the height of surrounding waves at 17.6 meters (57.7 feet).
Rogue waves are characterized by being extremely out of step with the waves around them, described as the “wave field”. While the Ucluelet wave isn’t the tallest wave height ever recorded, this rogue wave is thought to be the most extreme ever recorded owing to its relative size.
“The Ucluelet wave had an absolute wave height of 17.6 meters [57.7 feet] and a crest height of around 12 meters [39.3 feet], when the background wave field was 6 meters [19.7 feet],” said study author Dr Johannes Gemmrich of the University of Victoria to IFLScience.
Rogue Wave
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