M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - November 8th, 2017
Best of MatzeMix
By DJ Useo
One of the very current home producers that rock our world is MatzeMix. I hear his new works quite often, including on various bootleg radio programs. We often hang out in similar circles, & I've found that in addition to his advanced mixing skills, he's a friendly, & intelligent person. All of that adds up to increased pleasure with his newly released album "
Best of MatzeMix"
( kopimiradio.net/matzemix ) .
MatzeMix's single tracks leave a swath of searing satisfaction, but when you get a big batch all at once, the achievement becomes percievably apparent.
In an advertising coup, the new album was premiered on the world's most successful mashup radio show, "Kopimi Radio w/ Mazanga Von Badman". I was fortunate to be in the group chat during the live broadcast, & got to interact with one happy bunch of listeners. Often, the success of a new release is largely due to listeners sharing the links around with each other. The album can be wonderful, but still fail if people don't tell each other about it. "Best of MatzeMix" doesn't seem to be suffering in that respect.
Bastard pop albums tend to be slightly more challenging than some people can handle, what with the general contrast of styles within one track. Matze's album addresses this by displaying an overwhelmingly appealing manner throughout. Sure, there's plenty of genre clash, except MatzeMix blends them for maximum satisfaction. The flavor he achieves is one that would seem to compell the larger audience.
On this album you'll find cuts like "Sirius Kryptonite" ( Alan Parsons Project vs 3 Doors Down ), "Just The Crazy Way You Are" ( Madonna vs Bruno Mars ), & "Aventura" ( Marcela Gandara vs Mr. Big vs Kings Of Leon vs Fall Out Boy vs Black Eyed Peas vs Boston ). In addition to the 15 tracks, there's an incredibly-fine bonus track called "MatzeMix 13 Sources Mashup" that's worth the allocation of this collection all on it's own.
You can stream or download the Kopimi Radio show here
( hearthis.at/kopimi/bestofmatzemix/ )
& the zip file of MatzeMix's album has
mirror links here
( kopimiradio.net/matzemix )
I just love a new mashup album, how about you?
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Jennifer O'Connell: As Notre Dame burned, so too did a part of us (Irish Times)
You don't have to have lived in Paris to have had a visceral reaction to seeing Notre Dame gutted.
Patrick Smyth: Notre Dame will be rebuilt by all of Europe, say EU leaders (Irish Times)
French prosecutors say fire at popular landmark was probably caused by accident.
Paul Krugman: Republicans Are the Real Extremists (NY Times)
Take AOC's famous advocacy of a 70 percent tax rate on very high incomes. Economists who knew anything about public finance immediately recognized that number as coming from a widely cited paper by Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez, two of the field's leading figures. You don't have to agree with their analysis to recognize that AOC, far from showing her ignorance, was actually drawing on solid research.
Laura Snapes: "Nick Cave: 'Perhaps rock music needs to die for a while'" (Irish Times)
'Dissolute behaviour' is key, Cave says about censoring musicians accused of misconduct.
Donald Clarke: How Brad Pitt's death scene went viral (Irish Times)
The sudden interest in Meet Joe Black brings back an overlooked oddity from 1998.
Dr. Michael Gregor: Changing Protein Requirements (NutritionFacts.org)
People are actually more likely to suffer from protein excess than protein deficiency. "The adverse effects associated with long-term high protein/high meat intake" diets may include disorders of bone and calcium balance, disorders of kidney function, increased cancer risk, disorders of the liver, and worsening of coronary artery disease. Considering all of these potential disease risks, there is currently no reasonable scientific basis to recommend protein consumption above the current recommended daily allowance.
Steve Horowitz: "Lissie Goes It Alone on 'When I'm Alone: The Piano Retrospective'" (PopMatters)
As the album title suggests, Lissie has stripped down the songs to their essence. It's just her voice and piano. It's like putting a lion in a cage and calling it a cat. She should let herself out.
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Anecdotes
• Resisting segregation and racism is a good deed; so is simply being non-racist. Ralph Ellison, African-American author of Invisible Man, grew up in the era of Jim Crow and segregation. The black children knew about racism. When he was a child attending Frederick Douglass School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the black children skipped rope and sang, "These white folk think / They are so fine / But their raggedy drawers / Stink just like mine!" His mother, Ida, wanted her children to know how affluent white people lived, and so she took them for walks in well-off white people's neighborhoods. Young Ralph decided that he wanted to live in a "world in which you wore your Sunday clothes" everyday. Ida even took her children to a whites-only zoo, entering at the tail end of a group of white people. No one seemed to mind until at closing time, when an angry guard confronted Ida, who said that she paid taxes and therefore she and her children had a right to visit the zoo. Roscoe Dunjee, editor and publisher of the Black Dispatch, criticized segregation and racism. Blacks were not allowed to use the Oklahoma City Carnegie Library, so Mr. Dunjee threatened to sue the city, which opened up the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Branch Library for black people. The books weren't new, but young Ralph read many of them. Unfortunately, the adult Mr. Ellison also encountered racism. When he went to New York City and ordered a meal at a restaurant, the waiter salted his food so heavily that it was inedible. But some white people also helped him. He took a photo of white author and translator Francis Steenmuller that was used on the cover of one of Mr. Steenmuller's books, and Mr. Steenmuller allowed him to use a quiet office in a wholesale jeweler's suite he owned. The suite was on Fifth Avenue, and none of the white people in the upscale neighborhood questioned his being there, and all of the white people were courteous to him. The Steenmullers also let Mr. Ellison use their Vermont vacation cabin, where he wrote the first chapter of Invisible Man, which in 1953 won the National Book Award's gold medal for fiction and is now a modern American - and world-class - classic.
• Amiri Baraka grew up in a racist age, and while he was dating a white woman named Hettie Cohen who later became his wife, they were walking together in Greenwich Village when a number of white people started to jeer at them. Angry, Hettie turned toward them, "ready to fight or preach," as she later wrote, but Amiri, who at the time was named LeRoi Jones, grabbed her arm and told her, "Keep walking. Just keep on walking." Hettie wrote, "It was his tone that made me give in, and only later I realized we might have been hurt, or killed - and him more likely." The two worked at a music store called The Record Changer, which was going out of business, and they were looking for other jobs. Hettie once listened as Amiri (LeRoi) pretended on the telephone to be his boss, giving him a recommendation. He said to the person on the other end of the telephone, "Yes, I'm well aware that he's a Negro, but he's been a fine employee." Shortly after, he said on the telephone, "He hasn't stolen anything, if that's what you mean. We'd be glad to vouch." His face remained calm as he spoke, but Hettie noticed that his jaw muscles clenched and unclenched as if he were grinding his teeth.
• Ed McMahon stood up when standing up is necessary. He was Irish, and he was old enough to remember this sign for job openings: "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY." Eventually, Americans stopped being prejudiced against the Irish, but other kinds of prejudice remained. When his daughter Claudia came home from college with a Chinese friend, a country club in Westchester County that the McMahons belonged to refused to let them in. Mr. McMahon paid a visit to the country club and raised his voice. He says, "Believe me, no McMahon ever set foot in that country club again." Mr. McMahon and his daughter Linda once went to P.J. Clarke's in New York. A man there bothered Linda and tried to put his arm around her. Mr. McMahon says, "I poked him in the chest so hard I knocked him to the floor. I remember exactly what I said to him, 'It will not be necessary for you to touch me or any member of my family for the rest of your life. Do I make myself clear?'"
• In 1914, African-American author Langston Hughes was 12 years old. He enrolled in Central School in Lawrence, Kansas. His teacher, who was white, wanted black students to sit in a certain row, separate from white students. Langston made up cards for the black students to put on their desks: "JIM CROW ROW." He was expelled from school, but he was allowed to return when black parents and VIPs spoke up for him. The teacher stopped requiring black students to sit in the Jim Crow row. When Langston was in the first grade in Topeka, Kansas, his mother, Carrie, enrolled him in Harrison Street School, which was all white. The principal would not admit him until Carrie went before the Topeka School Board and won.
• Henry Ford was an anti-Semite who backed the anti-Semitic publication the Dearborn Independent. This publication was about to start a series of articles railing against Jewish influence in Hollywood. Dore Schary, a film producer and the author of the play Sunrise at Campobello, showed Mr. Ford a short public-service documentary about automobile safety. The documentary showed a lot of automobile crashes - all of the crashing automobiles were Fords. The Dearborn Independent shelved its series of articles railing against Jewish influence in Hollywood, and Mr. Schary shelved his short public-service documentary about automobile safety.
• A hospital orderly once took care of a really racist patient. The orderly gave the man a sponge bath with a chemical that turns white skin black for several days. A nurse in on the joke told the racist that blood from a black person had been used in his most recent transfusion. Unfortunately, the racist stayed racist.
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America 'Living With Divorced Dad'
Michelle Obama
Former first lady Michelle Obama took a dig at President Donald Trump (R-'Ignorant Thug With A Lizard Brain') during an event in London on Sunday, saying that America was now in the care of "divorced dad."
In a conversation with Stephen Colbert at the O2 Arena, Obama said life under Trump was a little like being a teen in a broken home:
"We come from a broken family, we are a little unsettled. Sometimes you spend the weekend with divorced dad. That feels like fun but then you get sick. That is what America is going through. We are living with divorced dad."
Although Obama did not mention Trump by name, she referred to him indirectly several times, including when she said the presidency didn't change who you are but instead reveals who you are, The Independent reported.
"It is like swimming in the ocean with great waves," Obama said. "If you are not a great swimmer, you are not going to learn in the middle of a tidal wave. You are going to resort to your kicking and drowning and what you knew how to do in the pool."
Michelle Obama
'Ignorant Thug With A Lizard Brain'
Cher
No, Cher is not crossing over to Team Trump.
While the president praised a tweet the iconic performer posted about immigration - she questioned how sanctuary city Los Angeles could help immigrants when there are so many residents there already in need - she made her thoughts on Trump clear (as if it wasn't). In a follow-up post, she called him an "ignorant thug with a lizard brain" who "guarantees his survival above all else."
The 72-year-old singer wrote that what the Democrats don't understand is that while they are "playing politics," Trump is "playing butcher your enemies" and creating "constant mayhem."
She posted a second tweet about feeling "misunderstood" over her immigration posts and "wondered how" people "could condemn me after all I've said & done in life" and "took care of those in my care."
Cher's tweet caught the attention of "Build the Wall" Trump, a frequent target of the singer's, who tweeted, "I finally agree with" her. Actors James Woods and Scott Baio, who are as outspoken as Cher is on political issues (though with opposing views), also took notice - as did Donald Trump Jr.
Cher
'Everybody Wants to Rule the World'
Weezer
Weezer linked up with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears for a performance of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday.
Smith and Rivers Cuomo shared vocal duties on the song, trading verses while Weezer guitarist Brian Bell breezed through the song's famous twinkling guitar lines alongside Orzabal. The best moments of the performance, however, came when Orzabal joined Cuomo and Smith to croon the famous chorus in perfect three-part harmony.
The performance on Kimmel comes days after Tears for Fears joined Weezer on stage at Coachella to perform "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." The band's set also featured a special appearance from TLC's Chili, who helped the band perform "No Scrubs." Both tracks appear on Weezer's recent covers record, The Teal Album.
Weezer released The Teal Album in January, while in March they offered up The Black Album, an LP of all-new material produced by TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. Weezer will perform at the second weekend of Coachella this weekend, while they have a handful of other U.S. festival dates scheduled throughout the summer as well.
Weezer
For Sale On eBay
Baby T Rex
You wouldn't normally associate the world of dutiful natural history preservation with sporadic bursts of all-caps letters and exclamation points - or at least not until last month, when the fossil of an infant Tyrannosaurus rex, potentially the only in existence, went on sale on eBay for the "buy it now" price of $2.95m.
The listing reads: "Most Likely the Only BABY T-Rex in the World! It has a 15 FOOT long Body and a 21" SKULL with Serrated Teeth! This Rex was very a very dangerous meat eater. It's a RARE opportunity indeed to ever see a baby REX…"
The skeleton, estimated to be 68m years old, was first discovered in 2013, on private land in Montana. It became the property of the man who discovered it, Alan Detrich, a professional fossil hunter. In 2017, Detrich lent the fossil to the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, where it was still on display when Detrich made the surprise decision to put it up for auction.
Analysis of the skeleton may help to settle a major debate in palaeontology over whether small Tyrannosaurs from North America are infants or should have the separate classification of Nanotyrannus. Such research may now be impossible with the fossil likely to end up in a private collection.
The Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology (SVP) has criticised both Detrich, who will be taking an important specimen outside the reach of scientific study, and the university, for helping to inflate the price of the fossil, acting as a shop window for professional buyers.
Baby T Rex
Attempts Skyrocketing The US
Suicide
In the United States, suicidal behaviour has quietly morphed into a public health crisis, and it's one that's affecting some of the youngest people in the country.
For the second decade in a row, the number of children and teenagers visiting the emergency department for suicidal behaviour has almost doubled, and the median age is just 13 years old.
Using data collected by the Centres for Disease Control and Infection (CDC), the authors analysed over 30,000 visits to the emergency department for children ages five to 18.
In 2007, at the very beginning of the study, the authors tallied about 580,000 visits for suicide attempts or suicidal thoughts. By 2015, that number had skyrocketed to 1.12 million.
It's the second analysis in a row to show this alarming increase, and by the looks of things, the problem is only picking up steam. Using the same kinds of data, an earlier study reported a similar increase between 1993 and 2008.
Suicide
Found Inside Rocky Meteorite
Comet Fragment
Our perception of the early solar system just got warped. Researchers have found a piece of a comet - an object made up of ice and dust - inside of a space rock known as a stony meteorite.
Researchers made the strange find in a meteorite that smacked down in Antarctica's LaPaz Icefield, a popular location for people hunting for space rocks. Embedded inside the meteorite was a carbon-rich dust particle that looks very similar to those already seen in comets, researchers said in a statement.
The find is interesting because comets and meteorite parent bodies (also known as asteroids) can originate in very different areas of the solar system. Both types of small worlds came from the large collection of gas and dust available in the young solar system, around 4.5 billion years ago. Comets tend to form far out in the solar system, away from the sun's heat, where ice resides, while asteroids are made of tougher stuff and can form just about anywhere.
Meteorites occur when pieces break off larger space rocks and plunge through Earth's atmosphere before slamming into the planet's surface. (As it's burning up, it's called a meteor - only if some part makes it down is it called a meteorite.) Most of a meteorite's material does get burned away before making it all the way down, making the comet dust find superspecial for scientists.
Analysis of the LaPaz meteorite suggests that this dust fragment was captured very early in the solar system's history, only 3 million to 3.5 million years after the sun was formed. Further chemical and elemental studies suggested that the dust particle probably came from the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects beyond Neptune's orbit where many comets come from.
Comet Fragment
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Virginia vs. Texas Tech, CBS, 19.72 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 11.82 million.
3. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 11.76 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.72 million.
5. "The Code," CBS, 8.14 million.
6. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.09 million.
7. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 7.62 million.
8. "Survivor," CBS, 7.6 million.
9. "NCAA Basketball Pre-Game Show," CBS, 7.47 million.
10. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.32 million.
11. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 7.26 million.
12. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 6.98 million.
13. "God Friended Me," CBS, 6.92 million.
14. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.87 million.
15. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.83 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.82 million.
17. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.79 million.
18. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 6.7 million.
19. "American Idol" (Monday), ABC, 6.5 million.
20. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 6.15 million.
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