I know this awesome group of audio mixers called the Crumplbangers. Each of them makes the most creative bootleg mixes you'll ever hear. Here's a video of some children trying to process a few of the best tracks. "
Kids React To Crumplbangers"
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So, to get to the point, one of the most beloved Crumplbangers,
MsMiep
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totally coordinated a Crumplbanger tribute to the dearly departed George Michael. It came out a couple days ago, on the anniversary of George's birthday. Here's what DJ DAW-GUN has to say on the subject -
"What the heck is a Crumplbanger?! So a bunch of my mashup peeps get together every now and then and make a tribute album - with a twist. The tracks ride that line where they're good but they're also bad and your brain can't decide if it should feel good hating them or bad liking them. I'm delighted to be a part of the newest collection. For your enjoyment or torture, I present
Careless Crumpl
( www.carelesscrumpl.com/ )
The zip is gratis, & also quite the hoot. I even got a mix on there with George Singing over the Foo Fighters.
You know how rare novelty records can be, so grab it now!
• Shammai and Hillel were both great Jewish teachers, but only Hillel had patience. A non-Jew came to see Shammai. The non-Jew pointed to the students in the room and said, “I do not have time to study your laws, your Torah, everyday like these students, but I would like to become a Jew if you can teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot.” Shammai sent the non-Jew away, saying, “You expect to learn in one minute what these men study their entire lives? That is impossible.” So the non-Jew went to Hillel and made the same request. Hillel listened carefully to the non-Jew, then said, “That which you hate, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. All the rest is explanation and commentary. Now learn the rest so you will truly understand what I have just taught you.” The non-Jew became both a Jew and a devoted student.
• Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1965, reviewed science and mathematics textbooks for the California State Curriculum Committee, pointing out both what was good and what was bad in textbooks that were being considered for use in California schools. He was concerned about bright children, and he did not want bright children to be penalized for solving problems in ways not discussed in the teachers’ manuals that came with the textbooks. In fact, his daughter Michelle was penalized for solving an algebra problem in a way not covered by the teachers’ manual. Mr. Feynman spoke to Michelle’s teacher, who told him that he (Mr. Feynman) didn’t understand mathematics! Following this confrontation between teacher and parent, Michelle studied algebra at home. She went to school only to take the required tests.
• An impoverished young man who worked as a water carrier in Jerusalem saw a beautiful young woman — the daughter of a rich man — and fell in love with her. He asked her to marry him, but although she was attracted to him, she replied, “Do you know who my father is? Me marry a water carrier? He’d fall over, laughing.” The young man decided to become more than a mere water carrier, so he began attending school with very young children, learning the Hebrew alphabet with them, and he began his study of religious texts. Eventually, he became the well-educated, great Rabbi Akiba, and he married the beautiful young woman.
• A Monsignor was both overweight and the superintendent of some Catholic schools. One day, he sat in on a first-grade classroom where the Sister teaching the class was reading the children a story about a pony. After reading the story, the Sister asked the children if they thought the Monsignor had ever ridden a pony. The children all answered, “No,” but the Monsignor explained that he had ridden a pony when he was young. One little boy, unfortunately, said, “But you couldn’t ride one now, because you’d squash the poor pony.” Fortunately — and to the relief of the Sister — the Monsignor laughed.
• According to NBA superstar Larry Bird, speaking in an interview with Tom Callahan, “The guy who won’t do his schoolwork misses the free throw at the end.” He and most of the other members of his high-school basketball team would practice shooting free throws at 6:30 a.m. before school started. One player, however, never showed up. Tournament time came, and that player missed the front end of three one-and-ones in a row during the regional finals. His — and Bird’s — team lost in overtime. Mr. Bird says, “I never said nothing to him. I just looked at him, and he knew.”
• Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC, author of How Queer: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parenting, once watched a young boy do his homework: writing short sentences to describe the pictures on a worksheet. For a picture showing two short-haired children playing together, he wrote, “The boys are playing.” Ms. Lev asked him how he knew the two short-haired children were boys. He replied, “Because they don’t have dykes in school.” He was a smart boy. In his home life, he knew short-haired females, but he also knew that in school-worksheet pictures, girls always had long hair.
According to American singer/songwriter Don McLean, on what day did the three men he admires most, The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, catch the last train for the coast?
Debuting in 1958, this American animated anthropomorphic virtual band produced two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, won five Grammy Awards, scored three certified platinum albums and also had one of the best-selling singles of all time with 5 million physical copies sold. What is the name of this group invented by novelist William Saroyan's first cousin?
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply the Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band created by Ross Bagdasarian for a novelty record in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual; and Theodore, the chubby, shy one. The trio is managed by their human adoptive father, David (Dave) Seville.
The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create high-pitched squeaky voices. This oft-used process was not entirely new to Bagdasarian, who had also used it for two previous novelty songs, including "Witch Doctor", but it was so unusual and well-executed it earned the record two Grammy Awards for engineering. Bagdasarian, performing as the Chipmunks, released a long line of albums and singles, with "The Chipmunk Song" becoming a number-one single in the United States. After Bagdasarian's death in 1972, the characters' voices were performed by his son Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and the latter's wife Janice Karman in the subsequent incarnations of the 1980s and 1990s.
Through the continued success of the franchise, the Chipmunks have become the most successful children's artists of all time while garnering two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, winning five Grammy Awards, having four Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, three certified platinum albums and the song "The Chipmunk Song" became one of the best-selling singles of all time with 5 million physical copies sold.
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Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian parents. His father was a grape farmer. The novelist William Saroyan was his first cousin and a life-long friend. Bagdasarian served as a staff sergeant (SSgt) in the United States Army Air Forces. During World War II, he was stationed in Europe. His later stage name "David Seville" originated from the fact that he was stationed in the city of Seville in Spain.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Alvin and the Chipmunks, but if they were detectives, the name would be "Alvin and the Chip-Monks"
Randall wrote:
Alvin and the chipmunks
Alan J answered:
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Jacqueline responded:
Alvin and The Chipmunks
zorch replied:
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Ross Bagdasarian, William Saroyan's first cousin, went by the name of David Seville and was the creator of Alvin And The Chipmunks and made a crapton of money.
Dave said:
Alvin and the Chipmunks. My guess was right, although I didn’t realize how big a hit The Chipmunk Song was. Alvin and the Chipmunks had a TV series when I was a kid, although I don’t remember it being a favorite. I do remember it was puzzling why, in the middle of typical cartoon hijinks, the characters would start performing a song. At the time I didn’t realize that in 1958 people actually bought that crap and played it at home.
Jon L responded:
Prob wrong, but I'm guessing The Chipmonks.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
I know this one: Alvin and the Chipmunks. My SIL, who is Armenian/Ashkenazi Jew and is distantly related to Bagdasarian, told us the story last Christmas. Fascinating.
mj wrote:
Amazing that something
That was so cute when you were 7 can be so annoying when you get past
30. I wonder how parents survived Alvin and the Chipmunks.
David of Moon Valley said:
ah'm a-gonna go with....
..The Chipmunks….only because my mom bought me the first album, on red vinyl no less, that enterained for quite a while…(hey, i was 4, what did i know….other than they were funny to me at the time…)
Daniel in The City answered:
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Dave in Tucson responded:
That must be Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Michelle in AZ said:
WAG Chipmunks
Bob from Mechanicsburg, Pa wrote:
Alvin and the Chipmunks
I cheated and looked it up
DJ Useo answered:
It took me about a minute of thinking in which I decided at one point to give up,
but then I remembered "Alvin and The Chipmunks". Good tough question. Kudos!
Roy the (now retired) hoghed responded:
Answer: Alvin and the Chipmunks
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Info: “Katvanger is a blues-tinged trio that defies description with a mix of originals that cannot be easily pigeonholed. Some might call it roots or Americana, but in fact, Katvanger’s idiosyncratic eclecticism defies description. With a conspiratorial wink, they’ve often described it as dubious blues, twisted roots, counterfeit country & western, and improbable jazz.”
Jan Vereçki - lead guitar and backing vocals
Ruud Fransen - bass and backing vocals
Jim Wake - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
“No one could have anticipated all that has transpired since Katvanger first recorded these 15 tracks, but as it turns out, they seem — far more than intended — to reflect a moment in time when much of what we thought we knew about the world seems to have been turned on its head. Love and death in the age of Trump — the title of one of the tunes — is strange, scary, and uncertain. Truth is variable. You may be better off with a healthy dose of skepticism than blind faith in your lover, your guru, or your leader. You may have great plans for the day — or your life — but it’s almost always later than you think. And the reality you are stuck with is almost certainly not the reality you ordered.”
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tought As Nails', followed by a FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Sharon Stone and Ken Burns.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Minnie Driver and Benny Blanco + Gracie Abrams.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Alexander Skarsgård and Karol G.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kevin Bacon, Retta, and Ash Soan.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Whitney Wolfe Herd.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'American Housewife', then a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Call Your Mother', then a FRESH'The Con'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 3/8/21) are are Seth Rogen, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Daddy Yankee.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'Game Of Talents'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Court Cam', then another FRESH'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'I Survived A Crime', then another FRESH'I Survived A Crime'.
AMC offers the movie 'Back To The Future Part II', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future Part III', then the movie 'Jurassic Park III'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[5:00PM] THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
[8:00PM] 2012
[11:30PM] 2012
[3:00AM - 5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', and another 'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
FX has the movie 'Thor', followed by the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', then a FRESH'Snowfall'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', then a FRESH'Assembly Required: Special Edition'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Blues Brothers 2000
[8:45am] Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[11:15am - 6:30pm] Scrubs
[7:00pm - 11:30pm] Two And A Half Men
[12:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - No One Steals The Kale
[12:30am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - No One Steals The Kale
[1:00am] Three's Company
[1:30am] Three's Company
[2:00am - 4:55am] Back
[5:30am] The Three Stooges - Monkey Businessmen (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] hoosiers
[1:00pm] the outsiders
[3:00pm - 2:00am] criminal minds
[3:00am] perry mason
[4:00am] perry mason
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SyFy has the movie 'Olympus Has Fallen', followed by the movie 'London Has Fallen', then a FRESH'Resident Alien'.
Walking affront to the integrity of medical degrees and the former president’s very favorite TV doctor Dr. Mehmet Oz is the latest celebrity to guest host Jeopardy! To the surprise of nobody at all, the man who once warned that apple juice might poison kids with arsenic and had to apologize after suggesting last April that America get its “mojo back” by reopening schools with a 2-3% mortality rate is not the sort of trusted fact-keeper anyone wants to watch.
Twitter has eagerly condemned the show’s decision to feature Dr. Oz after he tweeted about his two-week residency yesterday morning. A small sampling of replies sees the guest host referred to as “snake oil salesman,” “charlatan,” “the antithesis of the honest desire for knowledge that Alex Trebek stood for throughout his career,” and “Creepier Than Dr. Phil.” Jeopardy!’s decision has been called “repugnant” and “embarrassing.” Jon Daly, for his part, tweeted “Fuck you @Jeopardy,” which gets to the point just as directly.
Late last month, hundreds of former Jeopardy! contestants also got together to put aside all trivia rivalries, past and present, and sign an open letter to the show’s executive producer opposing Dr. Oz’s selection as guest host. The letter explains that, despite there being “very little that a large group of [contestants] can agree upon,” the 500-plus signatories unanimously believe that “Dr. Oz stands in opposition to everything that Jeopardy! stands for.”
The text highlights Dr. Oz’s misuse of “his authority as a doctor to push harmful ideas onto the American public,” including his history of “promoting supplements that do nothing, legitimizing gay conversion therapy … dangerous ‘cures’ for autism, and, most recently, the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.” It concludes by stating that, given Jeopardy!’s reputation for being “incredibly rigorous” with the facts used in its show, “[inviting] Dr. Oz to guest-host is a slap in the face to all involved.”
A Banksy painting honoring Britain’s health workers in the pandemic has sold for a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million), auction house Christie’s said Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities across the U.K., it said.
The work by the mystery street artist, titled “Game Changer,” first appeared on a wall at Southampton General Hospital in southern England in May, during the first wave of the pandemic. The black-and-white picture depicts a young boy sitting on the floor playing with a nurse superhero toy, as Batman and Spiderman toy figures lie in a wastepaper basket next to him.
At the time it went up, the hospital said Banksy left a note for workers there saying: “Thanks for all you’re doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if it’s only black and white.”
Christie’s said the sale price was a world auction record for Banksy. The auction house said it will donate a “significant portion” of the buyer’s premium to health organizations.
A reproduction of the picture will stay at the hospital for patients, visitors and staff, Christie’s added.
Paisley Park officials are marking the fifth anniversary of Prince’s death by offering fans free admission to pay their respects at the suburban Minnesota compound, where his ashes will be on display in the atrium.
A custom-made ceramic urn shaped like Paisley Park with Prince’s symbol on top was originally placed in the middle of the atrium when the legend’s 65,000-square-foot studio in Chanhassen first opened as a museum in October 2016. At the request of Prince’s family, the ashes were moved to a less prominent spot in the atrium and eventually removed entirely from public view, disappointing his legions of fans.
A total of 1,400 people fortunate enough to get reservations at paisleypark.com will be allowed inside on April 21 for 30-minute visits to the atrium. There will be 70 time slots available, with 20 people per slot. There will be no regular tours that day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
“We celebrate his life and legacy every day at Paisley Park, a place that Prince wanted to share with the world,” Paisley Park Executive Director Alan Seiffert said in a statement. “So, on this day especially, we acknowledge the incredible force and inspiration Prince is in people’s lives and open up our doors for them to pay their respects.”
A Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, titled Warrior, has sold for $41.9 million. The auction-world headline comes in the midst of a moment of rapidly increasing interest in NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. However, unlike recent such sales, which have fetched as much as $69 million and $500 million, the Basquiat news further cements the artist’s reputation—as opposed to catapulting him into a new category.
The work, which was sold to an anonymous buyer represented by Christie’s Hong Kong, went for the upper range of its estimate. According to the New York Times, the piece is said to symbolize the challenges faced by Black men in a white-dominated world. It was created by Basquiat in 1982—just six years before his untimely 1988 death at age 27.
The early end to Basquiat’s prolific and promising life has long meant that there is a limit to just how many of his works exist in circulation within the art world. At this Christie’s auction, three bidders fiercely competed for the painting until the auctioneer ultimately banged the auction house’s gavel. The final figure fetched far exceeded the $8.7 million that real estate mogul Aby Rosen paid for the work back in 2012. While Christie’s declined to publicly comment as to whether Rosen was the seller at today’s single-lot sale, the painting’s provenance implied as much.
Notably, the current record for the most ever paid for a Basquiat work far exceeds $41.9 million. In 2017, Japanese billionaire art collector Yusaku Maezawa took home an untitled Basquiat piece for a whopping $110 million. “Basquiat is one of the strongest markets coming out of the pandemic,” art dealer Christophe van de Weghe commented to the Times today. “You can have a 28-year-old spending millions on Basquiat and you can have a guy who is 85. He appeals to all kinds of people.”
If you’re reading this at breakfast, we advise you to put down your cereal spoon now. A harrowing tale from writer Jensen Karp on Twitter has sparked an unusual debate: shrimp tails or Sugar Blob? While enjoying a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Karp poured out a few more delicious squares only to find two unidentified morsels that looked suspiciously similar to shrimp tails. He reported the unusual cereal prize to Cinnamon Toast crunch who, after offering to investigate and replace the box, later claimed their experts had identified the lumps as accumulated sugar.
An admirable attempt by Cinnamon Toast Crunch to bury the scandal, but unfortunately an ineffective one. The internet soon stepped in to do what the internet does best: combine the force of legitimate experts and Meme Master Generals to turn the traumatic snack time into a Twitter thread for the ages.
Among the jokes came a sincere offer to DNA test the samples from Adam Wall of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, someone uniquely well-placed to weigh in on the issue being Collections Manager of the second largest collection of crustaceans in the USA. Armed with both the knowledge and necessary equipment, Wall’s Tweet makes for a refreshing change of pace, given it’s often the underqualified and unsubstantiated who make the most noise on the platform.
Sugar Blob theory became all the more unbelievable when, fueled by fear and the pursuit of justice, Karp went like a reportage photographer deeper into the belly of the beast (aka cereal box) and found further evidence of contamination.
Concerned citizens soon stepped in to deliver the news no cereal enthusiast wants to hear, “Hate to say it but the black stuff looks like mouse poo.”
An experimental stimulant drug from the World War II era is showing up in weight loss and sports supplements sold today, according to a new study.
The stimulant, known as phenpromethamine, was last sold as a nasal inhaler called Vonedrine in the 1940s and 1950s, but it has since been withdrawn from the market and has never been approved for oral use, according to the study, published Tuesday (March 23) in the journal Clinical Toxicology. It's also banned from competitive sports by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The new study appears to be the first to confirm the presence of phenpromethamine in supplements, the authors said.
In addition to phenpromethamine, the study identified eight other prohibited stimulants in sports and weight loss supplements, which were often found mixed together in various combinations to create "cocktails" of stimulant drugs that have never been studied in people, the authors said.
"This is really surprising," study lead author Dr. Pieter Cohen, a general internist at the Cambridge Health Alliance and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told Live Science. "Finding nine different experimental prohibited stimulants at the same time was really quite shocking." The authors found as many as four different stimulants in a single supplement.
The risks of consuming these combinations of stimulants is unknown, and these stimulants are not always listed on the product labels, the authors noted.
With restaurants and bars all closed due to pandemic restrictions, a Duesseldorf brewery found itself with 6,000 liters (1,585 gallons) of its copper-colored “Altbier” unsold and nearing its expiry date.
But with trying times come novel solutions. Fuechschen Brewery brewery paired up with craft bakers already using leftover grains from the brewing process to produce loaves of “Treberbrot,” or “Spent Grain Bread.”
“It would have been such a shame to just toss out such a tasty beer,” said Peter Koenig, whose family has run the brewery since 1908.
“Then we came up with this idea to bake the bread with the beer, to leave out the water,” he said Tuesday. “I think it’s great that these two craft industries have come together like this.”
About a dozen bakeries have been producing the Treberbrot since the start of the week, giving the added bonus of a bottle of Fuechschen’s Altbier, a regional specialty, for free with each loaf.
It’s been decades since California condors were spotted gliding in the Pacific Northwest, but officials said that could soon change.
The endangered bird will return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years thanks to a new release facility, the National Park Service said Tuesday.
Several government agencies and the Yurok Tribe are working together to reintroduce the condors to the Yurok Ancestral Territory and Redwood National Park.
Under the project, the condors will be designated as a “nonessential, experimental population under the Endangered Species Act,” which will help reintroduce the population, officials said.
The condors are expected to be released in the fall of 2021 or the spring of 2022, according to the National Park Service.
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