M Is FOR MASHUP - April 27th, 2022
Limothy Teary Vol 2 Heralds Another Age Of Psychedelic Mashups
By DJ Useo
Yes, the 16 volume series of “Intense Psychedelia” mashup albums
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ ) has ended, but the intent continues. Now, the new series “Limothy Teary Presents Psychedelic Mashups With DJ Useo” brings more to the many who expressed a desire for such.
Vol 2 has now arrived
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2022/04/limothy-teary-presents-psychedelic.html ) as well.
Volume 2 contains pairings like Echo & The Bunnymen vs Action & Tension & Space, The Rolling Stones vs Liquid Sound Company, & Aerosmith vs The Who. You get lots of classic rock psychedelia vocals, & tons of modern neo-psychedelic instrumentals, plus more. Here’s the preview track " People Are Thrill Or Trip" ( Depeche Mode vs New Candys )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/31883/dj-useo-people-are-thrill-or-trip-depeche-mode-vs-new-candys- )
The biggest booster of this trippy style remains Limothy Teary
( limothy.org ) , who is featured in the name of this release. I asked him to pass on some words of bootleg wisdom on the matter, & surprise of surprise, he complied! Allow me now, to pass you over to his repeated relevant expressions.
Limothy Teary sez - “Words on this new series of psychedelic mashups? Okay. Magnificent. Volume. Expressive. Tantric. Effusive. Those are words. Happy to oblige, I’ve been waiting to get those out of my cranium for ages. Good luck with the latest volume of this mashup album series. I give it 3 thumbs up. When can I have volume three?”
I can’t state for certain how many volumes this new series will eventually spin out to, but I’m super happy to bring you this 2nd edition. To tell the truth, the 3rd volume is largely already mixed.
Volume 1 is still available here
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2021/10/limothy-teary-presents-psychedelic.html )
Feel free to write your mashup suggestions to useo8@yahoo.com. Catch you soon at Audioboots Mashup Forum
( audioboots.org/ ) , now almost celebrating it’s 10th anniversary.
Later. - DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Puns
• Lord Kames was not known for prodigality in offering good wine to his guests, although he did serve a port of low quality. One day, his guest was the Hon. Henry Erskine. When the conversation turned to the fleet of Sir Charles Hardy, which the French were blockading, Erskine said, “They are, like us, confined to port.”
• During a rehearsal for H.M.S. Pinafore, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert told heavily built Rutland Barrington to sit on a skylight “pensively.” Unfortunately, Mr. Barrington was too heavy for the skylight and it broke. “For goodness’ sake, Barrington,” Sir William complained. “I said ‘pensively,’ not ‘expensively.’”
• Lord Tinwald (1680-1763) once spoke to a man named Mr. Lamb, who confessed that although he was a lawyer and often spoke before the court, the act of public speaking still made him nervous. Lord Tinwald replied, “It’s nothing unusual that a lamb should grow sheepish.”
Rabbis
• Some rabbis think that a white lie is permissible when telling it will avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Why do they think this? When God told Abraham, who was 99 years old, that his wife, Sarah, would bear his child, Sarah was eavesdropping. She laughed to herself and said, “Now that I am withered, am I to have enjoyment, with my husband so old?” God then said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I in truth bear a child, old as I am?” Apparently, God did not want to hurt Abraham’s feelings, or cause discord between man and wife, by relating what Sarah had said about his age.
• A rabbi once went to a rich man on a cold winter night to ask for money to buy coal for poor people. The rich man came to the door, but the rabbi declined to go inside. Instead, the rabbi kept the rich man answering question after question about the health of his family as the rich man stood shivering in his doorway. Finally, the rabbi brought up the topic of charity for the poor. Because the rich man now understood how people suffer from the cold, he made a substantial donation.
Sermons
• Two young rabbis were in competition to serve at a prominent synagogue. As part of the interview process, each rabbi was to give a sample sermon. One rabbi did not bother to write a sermon but instead took it easy and listened as the other rabbi practiced his sermon over and over again. The next day the lazy rabbi was invited to give his sermon first, so he stood up and recited the diligent rabbi’s sermon, which he had learned by hearing it so often. Then the diligent rabbi was invited to give his sermon. The diligent rabbi was angry, of course, at the lazy rabbi for stealing his sermon, but since it was the only sermon he had prepared, he was forced to give this same sermon in the synagogue. The members of the committee for selecting a rabbi were astonished at this rabbi for repeating word for word the sermon the first rabbi had given, and they elected him their rabbi because anyone who can hear a sermon once and repeat it word for word must have a brilliant mind.
• Scottish preachers can be outspoken. The Reverend Mr. Scott, of the Cowgate in Edinburgh, once told his congregation, “My brethren, Job, in the first place, was a sorely tried man. Job, in the second place, was an uncommonly patient man. Job, in the third place, never preached here at the Cowgate. Fourthly, and lastly, if Job had preached here, God help his patience.” By the way, after hearing a sermon, a Scotswoman criticized it by saying it had three faults: “First, it was read. Second, it wasn’t well read. And third, it wasn’t worth reading.” Also by the way, this verse can be found in Scotland’s Elgin Cathedral: “If lyfe were a thing that monie could buy, / The poor could not live, and the rich would not die.”
• Here are two anecdotes about sermons: 1) A preacher led a service that was attended by a former Republican governor of the state of Indiana. In his sermon, the preacher told about the Pharisee and the publican, and he said, “But the Republican would not so much as lift his eyes up into heaven.” 2) A pastor once spoke on the sin of adultery, and as he spoke, a balloon from a youth group party floated behind him—the balloon had a big smiley face.
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Ukraine
Rebecca Solnit: Ukraine has taught us all a lesson in moral courage (Guardian)
The journalist Nadezhda Sukhorukova, who survived in a basement as Mariupol was smashed to shards, wrote, “someone was bringing water to the corner of one of the streets every day from the city water canal. An ordinary city resident carried it in a huge barrel on his own initiative. He comes every day, and then stands under shelling and fills people’s bottles with free drinking water. I don’t know the name of this man and I hope he gets out of this hell alive.”
It’s not just Ukrainians. Russians risked prison and police brutality to protest the war. In Belarus, people sabotaged the railroad lines being used to ship Russian war equipment to Ukraine. In Poland, people set up aid stations on the other side of the border, took refugees into their homes, set up community kitchens, gathered toys (even while Middle Eastern refugees suffered in the cold and died on other Polish borders). Citizens of other nations went to Ukraine to join the defending army in a mobilization often compared to that of the international brigades in the Spanish civil war.
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Last Night
Almost back to seasonal.
Prime Time Ratings
“60 Minutes”
CBS won the week in prime-time last week with an average of 4.5 million viewers, led by “60 Minutes,” which was the week’s top-ranked show for the sixth time this season. NBC averaged 3.01 million viewers, ABC had 2.96 million, Fox had 2 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 970,000 and Ion Television had 960,000.
TNT led cable networks with a prime-time average of 2.62 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 2.25 million, ESPN had 1.33 million, MSNBC had 1.09 million and HGTV had 1.03 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.8 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” averaged 6.7 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.9 million.
For the week of April 18-24, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.6 million.
2. “FBI,” CBS, 7.51 million.
3. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.26 million.
4. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.21 million.
5. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.94 million.
6. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.66 million.
7. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.34 million.
8. “Ghosts,” CBS, 6.25 million.
9. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 6.08 million.
10. “FBI: International,” CBS, 6.02 million.
11. “American Idol (Sunday),” ABC, 5.88 million.
12. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.65 million.
13. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 5.57 million.
14. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.43 million.
15. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.37 million.
16. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.25 million.
17. “United States of Al,” CBS, 5.19 million.
18. “This is Us,” NBC, 5.088 million.
19. “NCIS: Hawaii,” CBS, 5.087 million.
20. “911,” Fox, 5.05 million.
“60 Minutes”
Brentwood Home Listed
Betty White
Betty White's longtime home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles is on the market four months after the actress's death at 99.
The 1952 home, which is more than 3,000 square feet and has five bedrooms and 6 baths, is listed for $10.5 million by Marlene Okulick of Sotheby's International Realty – Pacific Palisades Brokerage.
The Hollywood legend and her late husband Allen Ludden bought the property in 1968, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The three-quarter-acre lot also includes a three-car garage and a guesthouse, where the White and Ludden were joined by Gloria and Jimmy Stewart and Dinah Shore and Burt Reynolds for games of charades, the spokesperson said.
Betty White
US Farewell Tour
The B-52s
The quirky dance-pop outfit The B-52s are hitting the road one last time for a final tour this summer that will roam from coast to coast.
“No one likes to throw a party more than we do, but after almost a half-century on the road, it’s time for one last blow-out,” said Fred Schneider, co-founder and singer for the Athens, Georgia-based band, in a statement.
The band burst onto the New Wave scene in 1979 with songs like “Rock Lobster” and cracked the pop charts in the late ’80s with the party classics “Love Shack” and “Roam.”
Their North American farewell tour will visit 10 cities across the U.S., kicking off Aug. 22 in Seattle and ending Nov. 11 in Atlanta. Stops include Boston, Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C. Supporting the band will be The Tubes or KC & The Sunshine Band.
The B-52s
Role In Slavery
Harvard
Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to study and atone for its extensive ties with slavery, the school’s president announced Tuesday, with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus.
President Lawrence Bacow announced the funding as Harvard released a new report detailing the many ways the college benefited from slavery and perpetuated racial inequality. But the report stops short of recommending direct financial reparations, and officials have no immediate plans for that kind of support.
Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college, is the latest among a growing number of U.S. schools attempting to confront their involvement with slavery and also make amends for it.
The report, commissioned by Bacow, found that Harvard’s faculty, staff and leaders enslaved more than 70 Black and Native American people from the school’s founding in 1636 to 1783. It cautions that the figure is “almost certainly an undercount.” Using historical records, researchers were able to identify dozens of enslaved people by name, along with their connection to the university.
Harvard
Leaked Video
LA
The Los Angeles County sheriff on Tuesday disputed allegations he orchestrated a cover-up of an incident where a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate’s head and said a Los Angeles Times reporter who used leaked documents and video to first report on the case is part of his criminal investigation.
The paper’s top editor condemned Sheriff Alex Villanueva (R-Anti-Vaxxer)’s action, calling it an illegal “attempt to criminalize news reporting.”
Villanueva (R-Hannity Fan), who oversees the nation’s largest sheriff’s department, is up for reelection and Castellano’s claim states the sheriff was seeking to avoid bad publicity during his campaign.
The sheriff has previously targeted other reporters for their work, including when his deputies arrested a KPCC public radio reporter in 2020 while she was filming an arrest during a protest.
David Loy, legal director of the California-based First Amendment Coalition, said Villanueva’s probe into Tchekmedyian was an assault on press freedoms.
LA
Palm-Oil
Indonesia
The world's top palm-oil producer announced that it would ban exports of the commodity starting on Thursday, sending the prices of edible oils soaring.
Indonesia accounts for about half of the world's supply of palm oil, the world's most widely used vegetable oil. Palm oil is used for cooking and for the production of thousands of consumer products, including biscuits, detergents, and lipsticks.
The move comes as Indonesia has seen recent protests over the high prices of cooking oil, with retail prices gaining more than 40% so far this year, Reuters reported.
The ban is expected to be in place until further notice. Indonesian palm-oil exports were worth about $30 billion in 2021, the data provider Statista showed.
Indonesia
Protections Deal
Canada Lynx
U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service faces a 2024 deadline to draft the new plan for the wild cats after settling a legal challenge from two environmental groups — Wild Earth Guardians and Wilderness Workshop. U.S. District Judge Donald Christensen issued an order late Monday approving the settlement.
The groups sued to enforce a prior court ruling from Christensen that said federal officials wrongly excluded areas of Colorado, Montana and Idaho when they designated almost 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) in 2014 as critical for the lynx’s long-term survival.
On land designated as critical, federal agencies are required to consult with wildlife officials before taking or allowing any activities that could destroy or alter the habitats of a protected species. Those consultations can potentially lead to restrictions of logging in federal forests or limitations on dirt roads used for recreation.
Canada Lynx
May Not Exist at All
Time
Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: Of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock.
But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open possibility, and one that we should take seriously.
Physics is in crisis. For the past century or so, we have explained the Universe with two wildly successful physical theories: general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics describes how things work in the incredibly tiny world of particles and particle interactions. General relativity describes the big picture of gravity and how objects move.
Both theories work extremely well in their own right, but the two are thought to conflict with one another. Though the exact nature of the conflict is controversial, scientists generally agree both theories need to be replaced with a new, more general theory.
Time
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