M Is FOR MASHUP - May 18th, 2022
AH!’s Mashin’ Picture Soundtrack
w/DJ Useo
Hugely talented & massively popular
Dublin bootlegger ah!
( www.thealanhurley.com/ ) has released a wonderful new mashup album. The release is titled “
Mashin' Picture Soundtrack”
( ah-mashups.bandcamp.com/album/mashin-picture-soundtrack )
& features 14 awesome mixes, each of which pairs Pop favorites over motion picture soundtrack tunes.
ah! sez - “Movie soundtracks were my gateway into enjoying music, ever since we rented Jurassic Park on VHS and I re-watched the closing credits multiple times just to listen to the score. So here's a mixtape of mashups I made featuring some of my favourite music from the movies.”
The album has swell mashups like “Twenty One Pilots vs Mark Mothersbaugh”, “Olivia Rodrigo vs Kenny Loggins” & “Pet Shop Boys vs The Servant”. Here’s the preview link for
the Mothersbaugh track
( ah-mashups.bandcamp.com/track/the-life-aquatic-with-twenty-one-pilots-twenty-one-pilots-vs-mark-mothersbaugh )
You’ll surely enjoy his audio creations, with plenty
more collections available here
( ah-mashups.bandcamp.com/music ) Each is presented at “name your price”.
If you like what you hear,
drop ah! a line
( ah-mashups.bandcamp.com/contact?b=1237498953&n=ah%21 ) .
It’s a great way to motivate a bootlegger, & you’ll likely end up getting more mashups.
More new mashup albums next week.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Education
• Tilly Smith, a 10-year-old English schoolgirl, saved approximately 100 people at a resort on the Thai island of Phuket from a tsunami on 26 December 2004. The tsunami killed at least 178,000 people. Fortunately for the people at the resort, Tilly had studied tsunamis in her geography class in Oxshott, a small town south of London, just two weeks earlier. Tilly said, “I saw this bubbling on the water, right on the edge, and foam sizzling just like in a frying pan. The water was coming in, but it wasn’t going out again. It was coming in, and then in, and then in, towards the hotel.” Tilly told her mother, Penny, “Mum, I know there’s something wrong. I know it’s going to happen — the tsunami.” Her mother did not believe her at first. However, her father, Colin, said, “Tilly went hysterical.” Colin and Tilly’s eight-year-old sister, Holly, went to the hotel and spread news of the approaching tsunami, and Tilly told a Japanese-born hotel chef who recognized the word “tsunami.” The chef and a hotel security agent helped spread the news of the approaching tsunami at the beach, and people left the beach. Minutes later, the tsunami hit the beach. According to media reports, “The beach near the Marriott Hotel was one of the few in Phuket where no one was killed or seriously hurt.” Former United States President Bill Clinton met with Tilly the following year. He said, “Tilly’s story is a simple reminder that education can make a difference between life and death. All children should be taught disaster reduction so they know what to do when natural hazards strike.” Because of Tilly, many people lived through the tsunami who otherwise would have died. Fortunately for them, Tilly likes studying geography.
• After Joe Hyams tried tricky moves against a more skillful sparring partner — and got beat — kenpo-karate master Ed Parker spoke to him. Mr. Parker drew a line on the floor with chalk and asked, “How can you shorten the line?” Mr. Hyams gave several answers, all of which Mr. Parker rejected. Mr. Parker then drew a second, longer line and asked, “How does the first line look?” Of course, in comparison with the long, second line, the first line looked shorter. Mr. Parker then said, “It is always better to improve and strengthen your own line or knowledge than to try and cut your opponent’s line.” After that, Mr. Hyams tried to improve his own knowledge and skills instead of trying to trick his opponent.
• On a cold winter Sunday several people went to church. Outside the front door of the church was a man who appeared to be homeless and sleeping. A hat was pulled over his eyes, so no one was able to see his face. His overcoat was very old and very worn, and his shoes had holes. No one invited the man into the church, and no one offered to help him. Instead, worshippers walked by him and went into the church. When services were scheduled to start, the “homeless” man walked into the church, went to the altar, and took off his hat. The “homeless” man was the church’s preacher, who told the congregation, “Folks, I don’t think I have to tell you what I am preaching about today.”
• Anne Fine, author of Alias Madame Doubtfire, had a good teacher at age nine. Each Monday, Mr. Simpson would write five titles on the chalkboard and tell his students to write a story. He criticized each story with comments such as, “Well, what happened to that spaceship?” and “I think that you forgot that you had a princess on page two.” Ms. Fine says that “it was amazing practice to be left alone to do this every week, learning how many characters you can take on board and still sort out tidily by the end.”
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg was very busy as a law professor and as an ACLU lawyer, but whenever James, her young son, got into trouble at school, the school principal always called her and not her husband. Finally, she informed the principal that James had two parents — not one — and she requested that the principal call her husband half of the time when James got into trouble at school. In 1993, Ms. Ginsburg became a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Track: "I Want U"
Album: AS IF
Artist: Love Hearts
Artist Location: Oslo, Norway
Info:
“Bubblegum pop punk love songs. Every song title is from a love heart candy message.”
“Sweet and sour bubblegum pop punk love songs!”
“Written, played and recorded by Mikel from The Lemonaids & The Hallingtons, with drums provided by Tom Dupree III.”
“LOVE HEARTS' 3rd album brings you another pack of 10 bubblegum pop punk love songs. Catchy, sugar sweet earworms to sing to your valentine!”
Price: £0.50 (GBP) for track; £5 (GBP) for 10-track album
Genre: Bubblegum Pop Punk Love Songs
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Zelenskyy Opens
Cannes Film Festival
The 75th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia’s war in Ukraine and a live satellite video address from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called on a new generation of filmmakers to confront dictators as Charlie Chaplin satirized Adolf Hitler.
After tributes and musical numbers, Zelenskyy was streamed live for the formally attired audience who had gathered for the premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy “Final Cut.”
Zelenskyy, dressed in his signature olive green shirt, drew a thunderous standing ovation and and spoke at length about the connection between cinema and reality. He referenced films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” as not unlike Ukraine’s present circumstances.
Zelenskyy quoted Chaplin’s final speech in “The Great Dictator,” which was released in 1940, in the early days of World War II: “The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.”
Cannes Film Festival
Prime Time Ratings
“60 Minutes”
With the broadcast television season winding down and most scripted series about to go into hibernation for the summer, it’s instructive to look at the power of network franchises.
Of the Nielsen company’s 20 most popular scripted series on the air last week, 12 were parts of franchises — the three “Chicago” dramas on NBC, the three “FBI” shows on CBS, for example. That’s without counting the CBS comedy “Young Sheldon,” even though it began life as a spinoff to “The Big Bang Theory.”
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race with an average of 7.5 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” averaged 6.2 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.5 million.
For the week of May 9-15, the top 10 prime-time shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.44 million.
2. “FBI,” CBS, 7.16 million.
3. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.93 million.
4. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.84 million.
5. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.61 million.
6. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.31 million.
7. NBA Playoffs: Dallas at Phoenix (Sunday), Turner, 6.29 million.
8. NBA Playoffs: Memphis at Golden State (Friday), ESPN, 6.28 million.
9. “FBI: International,” CBS, 5.82 million.
10. “American Idol,” ABC, 5.57 million.
“60 Minutes”
Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Whitley
Country Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, the late country singer Keith Whitley and music executive Joe Galante will join the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Lewis, 86, nicknamed “The Killer,” wore a red sequined jacket and white shoes at Tuesday’s announcement, where he was introduced by duo Brooks & Dunn.
Over the years, he’s been vocal about being snubbed from the Country Music Hall of Fame, saying he couldn’t understand not being recognized for his country records and contribution to the genre. The Country Music Association created the Hall of Fame and handles balloting. A veteran-era artist and a modern-era artist are inducted each year, along with a rotating category of non-performers, recording musicians and songwriters.
Whitley had a short career, spanning just four years and seven months on the Billboard charts before his death at the age of 34 in 1989. But the singer from Sandy Hook, Kentucky, found commercial breakthrough with hits like “When You Say Nothing at All” and “I’m No Stranger to the Rain.” He met Ricky Skaggs when they were both teenagers and they both were hired to be part of bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley’s band, the Clinch Mountain Boys.
Country Hall of Fame
Members Testify
Eagles of Death Metal
Members of the Californian rock band Eagles of Death Metal provided emotional testimony Tuesday about the night Islamic State group extremists stormed their Bataclan theater concert, killing scores of people in France’s worst attack in generations.
Singer Jesse Hughes and guitarist Eden Galindo -- both civil parties to the case being heard by a Paris court -- are among the survivors and witnesses of the Nov. 13, 2015 attacks. They told the court that the attacks upended their lives forever.
Hughes, 49, was visibly emotional, saying that upon hearing the gunfire in the concert hall, he “knew death was upon us.” He said they “ran for their lives” after “nearly 90 of my friends (the fans) were murdered in front of us.”
He finished by quoting former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne: “You can’t kill rock n roll.”
Eagles of Death Metal
The Right's Problem
Violence
Over the past decade, the Anti-Defamation League has counted about 450 U.S. murders committed by political extremists.
Of these 450 killings, right-wing extremists committed about 75%. Islamic extremists were responsible for about 20%, and left-wing extremists were responsible for 4%.
Nearly half of the murders were specifically tied to white supremacists.
As this data shows, the American political right has a violence problem that has no equivalent on the left. And the 10 victims in Buffalo, New York, this past weekend are now part of this toll.
The pattern extends to violence less severe than murder, like the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. It also extends to the language from some Republican politicians — including Donald Trump — and conservative media figures that treats violence as a legitimate form of political expression. A much larger number of Republican officials do not use this language but also do not denounce it or punish politicians who do use it; Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, is a leading example.
Violence
Congressional Hearing
UFOs
While the first congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years didn’t reveal the existence of extraterrestrial life, it did affirm that the U.S. military is taking sightings of unknown craft seriously as a national security threat.
A House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing convened Tuesday morning with a 90-minute public session that was followed by closed-door testimony later in the day.
“Unidentified aerial phenomena [UAPs] are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way,” Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., said at the beginning of the hearing, referring to the preferred technical term for unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
The hearing — the first on the topic since 1966, when congressman and future president Gerald Ford held one after a sighting in Michigan — was less focused on concerns about alien invasion and more on intelligence lapses that could lead to other nations having unknown technology about which the U.S. is not aware. That push included making sure pilots feel comfortable reporting anything they see.
UFOs
Regulators Wrong
Freezin’ Season Winter Ale
North Carolina regulators were wrong to reject a beer label that featured a silhouette of a naked man standing next to a campfire, a federal judge has ruled.
The owners of Maryland-based Flying Dog Brewery argued that the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission violated their First Amendment rights by rejecting the label for its Freezin’ Season Winter Ale. The commission had said the label was in “bad taste,” but later allowed the beer to be sold. Flying Dog proceeded with the lawsuit anyway, hoping to get the regulation struck down.
U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle ruled in favor of the craft brewery last week, finding that the regulation was vague and overbroad, violating the free speech rights of Flying Dog and its competitors. The ruling requires North Carolina to remove the current regulation.
This is not the first time Flying Dog has gone to court over its labels. A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the brewery in 2015 regarding a ban of the sale of its Raging Bitch beer in the state of Michigan, news outlets reported. The dispute began in 2009 when a board determined the label to be “detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the general public.” The label featured a drawing of a female dog with accentuated features, bared teeth and a tongue covered in blood.
Both of the labels were created by artist Ralph Steadman, who frequently collaborated with Hunter S. Thompson, the founder of “gonzo” journalism.
Freezin’ Season Winter Ale
150,000-Year-Old Human Tooth
Denisovans
Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only three spots known to host these enigmatic humans.
In addition to Siberia and the Tibetan Plateau, we can now add Laos to the achingly short list of places that have yielded fossils of an elusive human species known as the Denisovans. A team of paleontologists found the suspected Denisovan molar at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 cave in the Annamite Mountains of Laos. The molar dates to the middle Pleistocene, and it’s the first Denisovan fossil ever to be found in southeast Asia. A paper detailing this discovery is published today in Nature Communications.
Laura Shackelford, an anthropologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a co-author of the new study, was excited to learn that Denisovans, like their Neanderthal cousins, inhabited a variety of environments, some of them extreme.
What’s more, the new discovery “further attests” that southeast Asia was “a hotspot of diversity for the genus Homo” during the middle to late Pleistocene, as the scientists write in their study. So in addition to Denisovans, this part of the world was once home to H. erectus, Neanderthals, H. floresiensis, H. luzonensis, and H. sapiens.
Denisovans
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