M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - June 21st, 2017
Summer Booty 2017 The Summer Mashup Album
By DJ Useo
I wasn't going to do another Summer Booty collection.
Ten volumes had me quite satis5d (sic) until people
started sending me tracks too great to decline.
I had ten incredible tracks received, when I gave in
& decided to do another volume.
Now that it's done, I got'ta say, I'm so glad to have it.
If you've heard any of it yet, you know why I'm so happy.
Thanks to all 25 contributors, & especially to
Chocomang, AtoZ, DJ Petrushka, & Sgt Mash (U.S.)
who all helped so very much.
( But check out the complete playlist.
So many excellent bootleggers! )
During the time spent assembling this collection,
time & time again circumstances worked hard to
prevent it's release, not least of which was my wife's
two heart attacks.
Well, she's doing much better now, ( After a terrible scare )
& the album, it's also so much better.
Please to be enjoying!
Summer Booty 2017 The Summer Mashup Album
( audioboots.com/Albums/SB2017/ )
Ten previous Summer Booty volumes linked down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Have the Summer of good - Konrad Useo
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Daniel Cox and Ryan Streeter: Having a Library or Café Down the Block Could Change Your Life (The Atlantic)
Living close to public amenities-from parks to grocery stores-increases trust, decreases loneliness, and restores faith in local government.
Joe Humphries: Why the world needs Iris Murdoch's philosophy of 'unselfing' (Irish Times)
Centenary of author's birth in Dublin is being used as an occasion to reclaim her moral vision.
Josephine Livingstone: Freeing Britney Spears (New Republic)
The pop star has spent more than a decade in legal bondage. How did this happen?
Game of Thrones: Worst Finale Ever? (New Republic)
Ryu Spaeth: But I feel quite comfortable saying that no one-no one!-wanted Bran Stark, who does nothing but fall asleep at pivotal moments in the action, to become ruler of Westeros. Do we all agree that this was the worst of all possible endings to the show?
Josephine Livingstone: Ryu, for literally the last time, he's not asleep.
Dominic Green: "Publish and be damned: Non-Fiction reviewed" (Spectator)
In the United States, home of the Know-Nothing and the vaginal deodorant, 'intellectual' is a dirty word and sex a dirty business. To understand the differing status of the arts in Europe and the United States, consider the chances of Hollywood ever making a film in which a publisher is a major character.
Natasha Green: What I learned from Doris Day (Spectator)
We're all Doris; standing around trying to figure out how relationships work.
Will Lloyd: Spotify and the death of discovery (Spectator)
The service's algorithms have shaped a generation of listeners who are defined by attention deficit disorder and a fear of complexity and difficulty
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Presenting
Michael Egan
answered:
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
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Anecdotes
• Katy Perry's real name is Katie Hudson, but she changed her name to avoid confusion with Kate Hudson, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Almost Famous. "Perry" is Katie's mother's maiden name. (Katy did record her first album, which was self-titled and categorized as Christian/gospel, using the name Katy Hudson.) The road to the top was difficult. Some record companies dropped her before her first non-Christian album, One of the Boys, hit record stores on 17 June 2008; of course, it was a hit. Among its singles were "Hot N Cold" and "I Kissed a Girl." Katie's parents are evangelical Christians, and they have always supported her career. In the music video for "Hot N Cold," they play the roles of Katie's character's parents. Even with a hit album, Katie had to work hard. She performed outside during the Warped Tour, and at a concert in Maryland the weather was so hot that her shoes melted on stage. When Katie was a little girl, she was not allowed to watch any television episodes of The Smurfs. When she got a job doing voice work for the 2011 movie titled The Smurfs, she called her mother and said, "Guess what, Mom - I'm Smurfette!"
• Conductor Leonard Bernstein gave credit where credit was due. At one time, Mr. Bernstein wanted to record all of Gustav Mahler's nine symphonies with the New York Philharmonic. However, conductor Bruno Walter, who had known and had worked with Mr. Mahler, recorded Mahler's First Symphony. Mr. Bernstein listened to the recording and then said, "I couldn't bear to record the work now. It's his!" One of the very good things that Mr. Bernstein did as music director of the New York Philharmonic was to always conduct at least one American composition at each concert. That helped to give the American music credibility - at one time, people felt that American compositions were inferior to European compositions. By the way, one of the stories told about Mr. Bernstein after he retired from the New York Philharmonic was that while rehearsing an orchestra for a performance that would be filmed in Vienna, he did not notice when the curtain above the orchestra pit caught on fire! Of course, he loved music and tried to educate people in how to appreciate music. He once said, "Only a society prepared by music can ever be a truly cultured society. Music desperately needs a prepared public, joyfully educated ears."
• Stevie Wonder - "Superstition" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You" are among his many hits - is blind, and when he was small, his young brothers thought that he needed more light in order to see - they set a fire in a trash can and nearly burned down the house. Stevie remembers, "I know it used to worry my mother, and I know she used to pray for me to have sight someday, and so finally I told her that I was happy being blind, and I thought it was a gift from God, and I think she felt better after that." Stevie's mother was Lula Mae Hardaway, and his name at birth was Stevland Hardaway Judkins. The story is he acquired the name Stevie Wonder when he was discovered as a young boy and someone said, "That kid's a wonder!" Mr. Wonder once appeared on a poster for M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). Under his photograph appeared these words: "Before I ride with a drunk, I'll drive myself."
• In 1998, Cher released the song "Believe," which became a monster hit and won her a Grammy. An 11-year-old fan named Eric, who suffered from a life-threatening brain tumor for which he was receiving radiation treatments, wanted to meet her. The Make-a-Wish Foundation arranged a visit, and Cher went to Tampa, Florida. She wore gem-studded jeans and spikey high heels and gave Eric a couple of hugs. Eric said, "I like her music. I think it's good, and well, I think she's pretty, even though she's older than my mom and dad. And gosh, my dad is like 30." Cher is feisty - and she was feisty even in the fourth grade. One day was "Sharing Day," during which all the students were supposed to tell what they had done over the summer. Cher thought that was stupid, so she said, "I'm going home" - then she walked out of school and went home.
• Jerry Lee Lewis' mother once told him, "You and Elvis are pretty good, but you're no Chuck Berry." Chuck Berry, of course, was a duck-walking guitarist who put 15 songs on the R&B Top Ten chart. By making hits out of such songs as "Maybelline," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Roll Over Beethoven," Mr. Berry helped integrate the United States, which during the 1950s was segregated in many places. He and Fats Domino, best known perhaps for "Blueberry Hill," toured together in the 1950s. At first, a rope divided the blacks from the whites, but later the black music fans and the white music fans mixed. Mr. Berry said, "Salt and pepper all mixed together." He added that Fats and he used to look at the mixed audiences and say, "Well, look what's happening."
• Pianist Van Cliburn, who did not smoke or drink, did many good deeds in his life, including many before he became wealthy. Once, when his life savings amounted to a little more than $1,000, he donated that money to help buy a much-needed piano for the church he attended in New York City. He also gave up a $500 engagement - when $500 was a small fortune to him - to perform for free at a church banquet. After visiting Russia, he carried back to the United States a lilac bush that a Russian fan of Sergei Rachmaninoff had asked him to plant at the head of Rachmaninoff's grave in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
• Run-DMC's first hit was "It's Like That." At the time, both Run and DMC were college students at different schools. Run was walking on campus at LaGuardia College when "It's Like That" began playing on the radio. Excited, he caused a scene by shouting, over and over, "That's my song! That's my song!"
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Current Events
Some woman here in VA died & had it in her will that she wanted her dog buried with her so the executors of her estate had her healthy dog euthanized, cremated, and its ashes buried with her!
Jeezus! I used to worry about Honey and how she could be successfully re-homed if I went first, but I would NEVER have contemplated having her killed just because I died first! No damn way anyone who actually loved an animal would have a healthy animal euthanized. What a horrible thing to happen--and how messed up are those executors to do that to a healthy pet?!
Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly overcast and a lot cooler than seasonal.
'Make America Great Again'
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro is no stranger to voicing his dislike for President Don-Old Trump (R-Crooked). Monday night was no different, as he called for the president to be impeached in a speech honoring Al Pacino at the American Icon Awards in Beverly Hills.
De Niro praised Pacino, his "lifelong compatriot," alongside fellow honorees Quincy Jones and former pro boxer Evander Holyfield as people who should be considered role models for the rest of the country instead of the president.
"The producers of the American Icon Awards call it a tribute to individuals who lead America. Not so fast," the actor said in a video obtained by TMZ. "(These icons) don't lead America. Maybe they should, but they do fill their own essential roles. People of great individual accomplishments who give us examples to look up to. They've earned our respect and admiration, and they deserve this tribute."
"You didn't think you were going to completely get away without a '(expletive) Trump' moment, did you?" he joked, referencing his infamous f-bomb speech about the commander in chief at the Tony Awards last summer.
"On the other hand, the individual who currently purports to lead America is not worthy of any tribute," he continued. "Unless you think of his impeachment and imprisonment as a sort of tribute. And that's how you'd make America great again."
Robert De Niro
New Comedy Leaves Georgia
Kristen Wiig
After several TV and film companies vowed to pull their businesses from Georgia, over controversial anti-abortion laws, one director says they've already canceled plans to shoot a TV show there.
Emmy-winning director Reed Morano told Time magazine she will no longer film her upcoming Amazon show, The Power, in the state following the governor's decision to sign a bill banning abortions after six weeks.
"We had no problem stopping the entire process instantly," Morano told Time. "There is no way we would ever bring our money to that state by shooting there."
In addition to Morano's show, a rep for Kristen Wiig told Time her upcoming Lionsgate comedy, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, was also pulled out of the state following the bill's signing. Lionsgate did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment.
Earlier this month, Christine Vachon said her film company, Killer Films, would no longer shoot in Georgia. The company is responsible for the Oscar-winning film Still Alice and the Oscar-nominated Carol.
Kristen Wiig
Stranger Things
New Coke
Those who lived through New Coke's short but terrifying reign in 1985 are still traumatized by Coca-Cola's ill-conceived attempt to reinvigorate the iconic brand with a new formula. We can't even talk about it. Actually, we don't talk about it. Honestly, no one even remembered it until just now. That formula was swiftly locked away in a vault at the company's Atlanta headquarters, where it lay dormant for over 30 years. The end of New Coke brought about a period of great peace, only briefly interrupted by the rise of the flavored Mountain Dews.
But today brings news that will strike fear into the hearts of those who remember what New Coke was like, as Variety reports that Coca-Cola's aborted formula-which has been hidden away like Rochester's crazy wife in Jane Eyre-will return this summer as part of a tie-in promotion with Stranger Things season three. Behold the horrible synergy your nostalgia hath wrought, and tremble at New Coke's resurrection.
The third season of Stranger Things is set in 1985-the year of Nintendo, the Wuzzles, Back To The Future, and the first version of Microsoft Windows. It was a pleasant time of questionable fashion choices, of Cabbage Patch children, Cocoon, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It was also the year that Coca-Cola decided to get hip and "with it" by introducing a new version of its iconic formula. The consumer masses were repulsed by this pretender, and within three months, New Coke was gone, locked away in the Coca-Cola vaults, never to be heard of again...until now. New Coke will appear in a few episodes of Stranger Things' third season, which premieres July 4.
New Coke
The Color Red
Ancient Fossils
Some 3 million years ago, a tiny mouse featuring reddish fur on its back and a white belly scurried across the landscape of what is now Germany. We know this thanks to a remarkable new breakthrough in which reddish color pigment was detected in an ancient fossil-a scientific first.
Fossils with traces of soft tissue are exceptionally rare, making it difficult-if not impossible-for scientists to determine the color of a specimen, the texture of its skin, and other important cosmetic and functional characteristics. Without this information, scientists can't be sure when certain physical features emerged in a species, and how it evolved over time.
New research published Tuesday in Nature Communications describes a new technique in which scientists, for the very first time, were able to detect reddish color pigment in a 3 million year old mouse fossil. Using x-ray spectrography, chemical imaging, and other techniques, researchers from the University of Manchester and several other institutions showed that the extinct field mouse had reddish to brown fur on its back and a white belly. Excitingly, the new technique could be used to detect reddish color on other fossils retaining traces of soft tissue.
"The fossils we have studied have the vast potential to unlock many secrets of the original organism. We can reconstruct key facets from life, death and the subsequent events impacting preservation before and after burial," said Phil Manning, the lead palaeontologist on the paper and a professor at UM, in a press release. "To unpick this complicated fossil chemical archive requires an interdisciplinary team to combine their efforts to crack this problem."
Indeed, the new study called for experts in physics, paleontology, and chemistry according to Manning. A key challenge was to develop a new technique for discerning red color pigments in an ancient fossil. To do so, the researchers had to map the chemical elements associated with the pigment melanin-the dominant pigment in animals. For the color red, the version of melanin is pheomelanin, and for the color black it's eumelanin. In fossils, the red pigment is rarer and more difficult to detect, as it's less stable over vast time scales.
Ancient Fossils
Growers Profit
Garlic
Unlike millions of other U.S. farmers, garlic growers are profiting from the trade war with China and have cheered President Donald Trump's latest economic attack accordingly.
Sales of California-grown garlic are now increasing after decades of losing ground to cheaper Chinese imports. Sales are poised to get even better as Chinese garlic faces even higher tariffs, with no end to the trade war in sight.
While many farmers are suffering through the trade war because they relied heavily on imports to China, U.S. garlic growers benefit because they rely overwhelmingly on domestic sales.
The trade war has also left many West Coast specialty crop farmers, like nut and cherry growers, scrambling to find alternative markets after China imposed steep duties on imports that made their products too expensive to sell there.
Jamie Johansson, an olive farmer and president of the California farm bureau - which represents 400 crops and 36,000 members - said the Trump administration had put California farmers in the middle of tariff wars with four of the state's five top markets, including China.
Garlic
Gilroy Garlic Festival | July 26, 27 & 28
Scientists Turn It Up To 11
Sound
Scientists have discovered what they believe is the loudest possible underwater sound - a sound so powerful that it can vaporize water on contact.
It's not the sound of a massive underwater earthquake, nor is it the sound of a pistol shrimp snapping its claws louder than a Pink Floyd concert. It is, in fact, the sound of a tiny water jet - about half the width of a human hair - being hit by an even thinner X-ray laser.
You can't actually hear this sound, because it was created in a vacuum chamber. That's probably for the best, considering that, at around 270 decibels, these rumbling pressure waves are even louder than NASA's loudest-ever rocket launch (which measured about 205 decibels). However, you can see the sound's microscopically devastating effects in action, thanks to a series of ultra-slow-motion videos recorded at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, as part of a new study.
According to Claudiu Stan, a physicist at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and one of the study co-authors, these pressure waves likely represent the loudest possible underwater sound. If it were any louder, the sound "would actually boil the liquid," Stan told Live Science - and once the water boils, the sound has no medium to pass through.
This is not the first time SLAC researchers have used this X-ray laser to test the limits of physics. In a 2017 study, researchers used the same laser to blast the electrons out of an atom, creating a "molecular black hole" that sucked in all the available electrons from nearby atoms. Taken in tandem, that study and the new one result in one unassailable conclusion: Lasers are really, really cool.
Sound
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 13-19. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.5 million.
2. "Game of Thrones," HBO, 13.61 million.
3. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 13.6 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 11.7 million.
5. "Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell," CBS, 11.6 million.
6. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 8.7 million.
7. "FBI," CBS, 8.6 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.4 million.
9. NBA Playoffs-Conference Finals, Portland at Golden State (Thursday), ESPN, 8 million.
10. "Chicago Med," NBC, 7.98 million.
11. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 7.96 million.
12. "The Voice," NBC, 7.7 million.
13. NBA Playoffs-Conference Finals, Portland at Golden State (Tuesday), ESPN, 7.5 million.
14. NBA Playoffs-Conference Finals, Portland at Golden State (Saturday), ESPN, 7.24 million.
15. "Survivor," CBS, 7.21 million.
16. "Bull," CBS, 7.2 million.
17. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 6.9 million.
18. "Chicago PD," 6.7 million.
19. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.6 million.
20. "9-1-1," Fox, 6.4 million.
Ratings
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