M Is FOR MASHUP - April 13th, 2022
Audioboots Presents satis5d
By DJ Useo
The Audioboots mashup forum is featuring famous bootleggers in the “Audioboots Presents”
( audioboots.org ) series available at
audioboots.org . Each volume gives you a ‘disc’ full of killer mashups by the named home producer.
This newest edition brings you 16 awesome tracks by renowned mixer, satis5d
( audioboots.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/2635/audioboots-presents-satis5d ) . His is a name well known amongst lovers of fine mashups. satis5d’s creations dwell amongst the best of this musical type. In fact, we’re confident you know much of his work already.
As DJ’s do, satis5d’s taste in source artists is highly refined. Then, you get the added huge bonus of his advanced mixing abilities. On this collection you find blends like Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande vs. Journey vs. Fleetwood Mac, Donna Summer vs. Kylie Minogue vs. Outwork ft. Mr. Gee vs. INXS, & Rare Earth vs. Pat Benatar ft. Queen Latifah vs. Stevie Wonder vs. Rage Against the Machine, plus 13 more!
Please try the preview track “Stray Cats Are Made of Love” – Eurythmics vs. Stray Cats vs. Shouse
( sowndhaus.audio/track/29883/stray-cats-are-made-of-love-eurythmics-vs-stray-cats-vs-shouse )
It’s a fine example of the audio joy awaiting y’all
( theinstituteofbootleggers.blogspot.com/2022/04/audioboots-presents-satis5d.html ) .
All included cuts were selected & ordered by satis5d. As a special bonus, 10 of the zip files of this album contain special blocks of cheddar cheese, added as a chase gift to his biggest fans. Yum! Cheese! ( & Mashups! ) ;)
Huge praise & thanks to satis5d
( sowndhaus.audio/profile/satis5d ) for allowing us to feature him. More in this unfolding series soon.
Have the day of good
- DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Food
• Ballerina Illaria Obidenna Ladré lived through interesting times. When the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912, she saw a huge sign on the main street in Petrograd: “Titanic Sunk.” She also witnessed the Russian Tsar giving a watch to retiring actor Korgen Krukovskoy on 18 February 1917. It was the last watch the Tsar ever awarded because that night the Russian Revolution started. As Illaria left the theater with her mother, they heard shooting. Life during the Revolution was difficult. Illaria’s sister got tuberculosis, so their mother bought a goat for its milk. Because they lived in a third-floor apartment, they arranged for another family to take care of the goat. Unfortunately, within three days the goat had disappeared—the other family had eaten it! Illaria and her family survived the Revolution, but at times the only food they had to eat was American kidney beans and Crisco. Sometimes, to get fuel to cook with, they were forced to tear up the parquet flooring from their apartment and burn it in a tin oven.
• Reb Levi Yitzhak had a knack for looking on the bright side of things. Once he found a Jew eating during Tisha B’Av, the fast day set aside to remember the destruction of the Temple. Reb Yitzhak asked, “I suppose that you forgot that today is Tisha B’Av?” The Jew replied that he knew what day it was. Reb Yitzhak next asked, “I suppose you forgot that today is a fast day?” The Jew replied that he had not forgotten it. Reb Yitzhak then asked, “I suppose that you are ill and your physician has ordered you to eat on this fast day?” The Jew replied that he was in perfect health. Reb Yitzhak then prayed, “Lord of the Universe, see what a remarkable people Israel is! An Israelite will rather admit that he is a sinner than tell a lie!”
• When George Balanchine took his New York City Ballet on tour to his native Russia, he was displeased with the behavior of his dancers, who engaged in a food fight in a Russian dining room because they found the food unappetizing. Mr. Balanchine chewed out his dancers, telling them that they were ambassadors from the United States to Russia and such behavior was unacceptable. Suzanne Farrell once mentioned to him that she liked the omelets, and trying to be helpful, Mr. Balanchine arranged with the Russian cooks to feed her omelets for breakfast, lunch, and supper. She ate hundreds of eggs during the tour.
• An admirer of the young Margot Fonteyn invited her to dinner. She ordered the same thing he did—a sole meunière. Unfortunately, she had not eaten this dish before and soon found her mouth filled with bones. Her date ended up teaching her the finer points of eating fish. By the way, while in China, Ms. Fonteyn’s father became a member of the Shanghai Club, where he was given advice about how to ward off illness in a foreign climate: “If you just remember always to keep about two inches of whiskey in the bottom of your stomach you will never have any trouble.” He spent 20 years in China, and was never ill.
• Clarinet player Irving Fazola liked hamburgers. Before a concert, he ate so many hamburgers that he got stuck—really stuck—in a chair and could not get up. Al Rose had hired him for the concert and wanted to play, so he used an ambulance and some strong men to carry Mr. Fazola and the chair to the concert stage. During intermission, Mr. Fazola was finally able to get out of the chair with the help of some strong men. He was even able to stand for his solos. After the concert, Mr. Fazola went to a restaurant—and ordered hamburgers.
• While opera singer Mary Garden was sailing on the Alfonso XIII, she walked by—and smelled—the ship’s kitchen, and she resolved never to eat anything that came out of that kitchen. Fortunately, she had some baskets of fruit that friends had given her as going-away gifts, and she lived off those. Whenever there was stormy weather, the fruit would tumble out of the baskets and bounce around the room. Ms. Garden amused herself by watching to see which fruit made it around the room first—it was always the pineapple.
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Michael Egan
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Music: "The Bogey Man"
EP: RESURRECTED
Artist: The Delstroyers
Artist Location: Seattle, Washington
Info:
“The Delstroyers emerged from the mists of Seattle, WA in 2016, awash in reverb and cloaked in black. Their dark, instrumental surf melodies pay homage to both the founders of the genre and the revivalists of the 1990s, all wrapped in an undying love for things that go bump in the night.”
“The Delstroyers are an instrumental surf band from murky Seattle, WA USA that worships things like Fender Reverb units and creatures that go bump in the night. In 2017, the band teamed up with producer Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, The Posies, The Supersuckers) on their first full-length album, DIABOLICAL! In 2019, the 7" RESURRECTED was released, and a new full-length record is coming in May, 2022.”
Price: $2 (USA) for four-track EP
Genre: Instrumental Horror Surf
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A decade or so ago, a Republican governor might’ve considered it too blatantly racist to make a big show of eliminating two Black Democrats' House seats. Now, MAGA governors would sell coffee mugs and T-shirts boasting that fact. And the New York Times might helpfully publish some “both sides” drivel...
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Last Night
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Auction To Benefit Opera
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so liked the caricature that accompanied an article about her that she got a copy from the artist and hung it in her Supreme Court office.
That signed and inscribed print by artist Eleanor Davis is among 150 items from Ginsburg’s office and home at the Watergate in an online auction to benefit opera in Washington that will end in late April.
The sale could raise $50,000 to $80,000 for the Washington National Opera, one of the late justice’s passions. She took part in at least three productions over the years, including a speaking, but non-singing, role for one night in 2016.
Ginsburg’s family selected the Potomack Company to handle the auction.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mondays Only Starting In May
Rachel Maddow
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow returned to the air Monday with some bad news for her fans: Starting next month, she will be doing her prime-time show only once a week.
After working her customary five nights a week for the rest of April, Maddow said, she will work on Monday nights only starting in May. The network said it will rotate guest hosts the other four weeknights on a show called “MSNBC Prime.”
“For big news events, for things like the leadup to the election, I will of course be here more than that, but that is the general plan,” Maddow said on her show Monday.
The cable news network’s most popular personality had been on hiatus for the past two months, working on a new podcast and a movie adaptation of her book “Bag Man.” She said the weekly schedule will give her “more time to work on some of this other stuff I’ve got cooking for MSNBC and NBC.”
Rachel Maddow
Ratings
NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship
Tiger Woods may not have won the Masters golf tournament, but his stirring return from injury was certainly a winner for the television networks following him.
CBS led the broadcast networks last week in prime time, averaging 4.2 million viewers. ABC had 3.6 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 1.7 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 860,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.9 million for the week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.7 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.8 million.
For the week of April 4-10, the 20 most-watched prime-time shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina vs. Kansas, TBS, 9.54 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.27 million.
3. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.4 million.
4. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.68 million.
5. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.61 million.
6. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.93 million.
7. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.71 million.
8. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.6 million.
9. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.583 million.
10. NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina vs. Kansas, Turner, 5.578 million.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship
'Teen Spirit' Guitar To Auction
Kurt Cobain
The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out with in Nirvana’s seminal '90s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month.
With “Smells Like Teen Spirit” racking up more than 1.4 billion views on YouTube, the 1969 blue Fender is arguably one of the most famous in rock, said Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions.
“The guitar comes with its original case and, also, the guitar strap, so that’s ... really important to collectors when they come to the auction to know the originality,” said Nolan, who noted that the guitar has stayed with the family since Cobain’s death in 1994.
The auction also features other items, including an original Kurt Cobain artwork of Michael Jackson, that is expected to fetch up to $40,000 and one of his cars, a 1965 Dodge Dart, expected to fetch between $400,000 to $600,000.
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Reprehensible Behavior
House GOP
In a bitterly divided Congress, it was a rare measure that had been expected to sail through without a fight.
A bill to name a federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, after Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, the first Black man to serve on the Florida Supreme Court — sponsored by the state’s two Republican senators and backed unanimously by its 27 House members — was set to pass the House last month and become law with broad bipartisan support.
But in a last-minute flurry, Republicans abruptly pulled their backing with no explanation and ultimately killed the measure, leaving its fate unclear, many of its champions livid and some of its newfound opponents professing ignorance about what had happened.
The real answer is as much an allegory about the state of House Republicans in 2022 as it is about a federal building in Florida. With little notice and nothing more than a 23-year-old news clipping, a right-wing, first-term congressman mounted an eleventh-hour effort on the House floor to convince his colleagues that Hatchett, a trailblazing judge who broke barriers as the first Black State Supreme Court justice south of the Mason-Dixon Line, was undeserving of being honored.
The objector was Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Shortly before the House vote, he began circulating an Associated Press article from 1999 about an appeals court decision that Hatchett wrote that year that struck down a public school policy allowing student-approved prayers at graduation ceremonies in Florida. The decision, which overruled a lower court, held that the policy violated constitutional protections of freedom of religion.
House GOP
Jury Hears Defense
Blame
Mentions of Donald Trump Individual #1 have been rare at the first few trials for people charged with storming the U.S. Capitol, but that changed Tuesday: The latest Capitol riot defendant to go on trial is blaming his actions on the former president and his false claims about a stolen election.
Dustin Byron Thompson, an Ohio man charged with stealing a coat rack from the Capitol, doesn’t deny that he joined the mob on Jan. 6, 2021. But his lawyer vowed to show that Trump the instigator abused his power to “authorize” the attack.
Describing Trump the grifter as a man without scruples or integrity, defense attorney Samuel Shamansky said the former president engaged in a “sinister” plot to encourage Thompson and other supporters to “do his dirty work.”
“It’s Donald Trump the conman himself spewing the lies and using his position to authorize this assault,” Shamansky told jurors Tuesday during the trial’s opening statements.
Thompson is charged with six counts: obstructing Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote, theft of government property, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
Blame
Record Highs
CDC
Despite widespread lockdowns and quarantine orders, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic did not stop Americans from spreading sexually transmitted diseases.
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their latest STD figures, showing that 2.4 million cases of the most concerning STDs were reported in 2020. There were record highs for both gonorrhea and syphilis, including cases of life-threatening congenital syphilis in babies. Cases of chlamydia took a slight decline, however.
The CDC’s STD surveillance program primarily keeps track of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia incidence based on cases that are required to be reported by local doctors and hospitals (HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C cases are tracked as well, but separately). The 2020 numbers were released as part of the CDC’s STD Awareness Week, now in its third year.
The 2.4 million cases reported in 2020 are a slight step down from the over 2.5 million cases reported in 2019, which represented the sixth consecutive year of all time highs. But this drop was only seen for chlamydia, as reported cases declined from 1.8 million in 2019 to 1.6 million in 2020. Cases of gonorrhea rose from 616,392 in 2019 to 677,769 cases in 2020, while cases of syphilis rose from 129,813 in 2019 to 133,945 in 2020—both the highest numbers seen in the U.S. since modern tracking began.
CDC
Botched Construction Job
Utah
A section of fragile dinosaur footprints dating back 112 million years was damaged beyond repair by heavy machinery.
The Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite in southeastern Utah offers a snapshot of life in the early Cretaceous period. It contains roughly 200 fossilized footprints from at least 10 different dinosaur species — including sauropods, ankylosaurs, and ornithopods — according to the Bureau of Land Management. Discovered in 2009, it is among the most studied paleontological sites in the world.
But the agency failed to take necessary precautions when constructing a boardwalk aimed at protecting the fragile ancient footprints, according to a Bureau of Land Management report. "Areas of avoidance" were not properly marked and work crews weren't thoroughly briefed on where they could and couldn't go, the agency said in a March 8 assessment, which was made public earlier this month.
The assessment concluded that damage to the site was minimal. Even so, "had the project not been stopped, it is likely that much greater damage would have occurred with increased construction activities," the report added.
Utah
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