I have a big treat for you today. I found out that Welsh mashup founder, Soundhog, has a best of collection still available. The bit rate is a bit low, but that's how it was in the early days of the world wide web. However, the content is completely rewarding.
Soundhog aka Ben Hayes describes the collection thusly -
"Well, I might as well upload this I suppose... This is a collection of some of the 'bastard pop bootleg things' I used to do in the first half of the last decade. I did my initial ones sometime in 2001 (so, happy 10th anniversary to me, eh? Puh...) but none of them were 'good' enough to make it in here. In fact, when I put this compilation together back in 2007, I was already struggling to find 20 tracks out of the 100 or so I'd done by that point which I could still listen to without cringing.
Today, that number is much, much smaller... but compared to the m@$hup crap that people churn out these days, they're all gold standard. The Depeche Mode remix at the end might be my favourite thing I've ever done, actually. I don't look anything like I do in the 'cover' photo anymore, by the way, and that Mercedes is long gone as well... shame, it was rather ace. Anyway, it's here and all free and that, so if you fancy hearing what my idea of what the 'bootleg scene' was/should have been about,
click below…"
( soundhog.blogspot.com/2011/03/historia-de-la-musica-rock-2002-to-2004.html )
My personal experience with Soundhog's recorded output has always been one of complete satisfaction, from his acclaimed long mixes, to his skilled mashups, to his rollicking remixes. I do understand his disappointment with some past releases, as I'm also a harsh judge of some of my earliest tracks. Any readers responses to his album are eagerly anticipated. You can count on me passing them along to Soundhog. If we're luckier than we deserve, maybe he'll offer up a new track.
The live show from Useo Mixlr
( mixlr.com/djuseo )
"Show 24-GYBO 2005" is a live set of useo remastered tracks by many bootleg founders. No Soundhog in there, sadly, but the contained content is classic!
Catch you next week, here on Bartcop E, with more mashups.
• Some American towns are wet (they allow alcohol); other American towns are dry (they don't allow alcohol). During his 1885 American tour, Colonel James H. Mapleson had the misfortune to stop in Topeka, Kansas, a dry town. His opera troupe had drunk all the wine available on their train, and they were very displeased when water was placed before them while they dined at their Topeka hotel; in fact, Colonel Mapleson's baritone drew his knife and said that unless he had something suitable to drink soon, he would not perform that evening. Hard pressed, Colonel Mapleson sought a physician and explained the situation to him. The understanding physician wrote a prescription in Latin, Colonel Mapleson took it to a pharmacist, and the pharmacist filled the prescription by giving him three bottles of something much more stimulating than water.
• People who drink to excess are found throughout the world - even in the high arts. At a production of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème at the Dublin Grand Opera Society, the tenor was drunk, but he managed to make it to the intermission. During the intermission, the audience speculated on whether the tenor would be able to continue the part. As the intermission grew longer and longer, the audience then speculated on what excuse would be given for the tenor's non-appearance. Eventually, a man appeared in front of the curtain and announced that the tenor had just returned from West Africa and was suffering from malaria. A member of the audience shouted, "I wish I had a bottle of that!"
• Good things can come out of evil. Someone once put LSD in Richie Ramone's drink. He had a very bad reaction to it, and he had to be carried away in a strait jacket. However, he wrote the great Ramones' song "Somebody Put Something in My Drink." Of course, Richie gets the credit for writing a very good song. Whoever put the LSD in his drink gets a ticket to h*ll - or at least a few more hundred years climbing the Mountain of Purgatory. By the way, the Ramones insisted on canned soft drinks in their dressing room. Yoohoo chocolate drink was also a favorite dressing-room tipple.
• Conductor Luigi Mancinelli, a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in the early 20th century, used to dine often at a restaurant and order a $5 bottle of Italian wine (quite expensive at the time), which was brought to him by his favorite waiter. One evening, his favorite waiter was ill and at home, so Mr. Mancinelli ordered his favorite bottle of wine from a new waiter. He was shocked to learn that his favorite wine cost only $1.50 per bottle - his favorite waiter had been deliberately overcharging him for months.
• Rolling Stones Keith Richard and Ron Wood attended a party hosted by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook at the Cobden Working Men's Club in London. The party was upstairs, over a bar, and so when Mr. Richard and Mr. Wood felt like getting a pint, they went downstairs. Mr. Richard talked with some of the people in the bar, and one of them asked, "What do you do?" Mr. Richard replied, "I'm in a band." "Which one?" "The Rolling Stones." "Oh, yeah. I think I've heard of them."
• During the days of Prohibition, tips sometimes consisted of something other than money. Besides being a radio announcer, Glenhall Taylor was also a pianist. Once in a while, a bootlegger would call him up to request that he perform "Twelfth Street Rag" on the radio, then the bootlegger would send over a fifth of gin to show his appreciation.
Written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for a movie starring Gene Wilder, this song was Sammy Davis, Jr's only number-one hit, spending three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1972. What is the title of this sweet song?
Captain Ahab, the main protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, lost a leg when the great white whale bit it off. What material was used to make Ahab's prosthetic leg?
Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of the sea.
Melville biographer Andrew Delbanco calls Ahab "a brilliant personification of the very essence of fanaticism". Scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls attention to the fact that Ahab is called an "ungodly god-like man". Ahab's "tragedy is that of an unregenerate will" whose "burning mind is barred out from the exuberance of love" and argues that he "remains damned". Writer D. H. Lawrence felt little sympathy for Ahab and found that the whale should have "torn off both his legs, and a bit more besides".
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Whalebone.
Randall wrote:
whale bone
Cal in Vermont said:
Well, it wasn't carbon fiber, so it must have been whalebone.
Alan J answered:
Whalebone.
mj replied:
It was white and polished
Made from a whale bone (jaw, I think).
zorch responded:
Captain Ahab's leg was made of whalebone.
Jacqueline replied:
Whale bone. Moby Dick caused Captain Ahab to lose his leg.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
whalebone
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Ironically, Captain Ahah's leg was made of whalebone. I mean, what else could it possibly be? Sure, wood was popular for prosthetic legs, but the story works so much better with a whalebone leg.
I wonder if I'd have the patience to read that book again if I wasn't getting graded on it. #quarantinemusings
And we're baking away in NorCal. At 8 pm the downstairs temperature was 82*, so I turned on the a/c and slept like a baby. I guess it's unofficially summer.
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Whalebone
Daniel in The City answered:
Whalebone
DJ Useo responded:
I read that book! So, I'm sure I remember his fake leg was made of whalebone. I'd rather have one made of gyro meat, but then, I'm hungry.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Captain Ahab's prosthetic leg was made from whalebone, probably a sperm whale, but I am not sure about that since it has been a long time since I read that book in high school. Ahab is a fitting character for today's world where we have our own crazed leader destroying everything he can.
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CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Game On!', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 5/4/20) are Anderson Cooper and Mark Foster.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 11/18/19) are Helen Hunt, Ron Funches, and Dave East.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon it's "Tonight Show" Staff Favorites, including Jamie Foxx, Bruce Springsteen, and Will Ferrell.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/6/19) are Ice T, Paul Schrader, Ina Garten, and Tucker Rule.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/24/20) are Lana Condor and Sofia Carson.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', followed by a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel is Howie Mandel.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a RERUN'Bulletproof'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'Ultimate Tag'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'White House Down', followed by the movie 'Con Air', then the movie 'The Rock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Angel One
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - 11001001
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Too Short a Season
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - When the Bough Breaks
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Home Soil
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Coming of Age
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Heart of Glory
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Arsenal of Freedom
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Symbiosis
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Skin of Evil
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - We'll Always Have Paris
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Conspiracy
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Neutral Zone
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Child
[8:00PM] HITMAN
[10:00PM] HITMAN
[12:00AM] SAHARA
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Home Soil
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Coming of Age
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Heart of Glory (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', and 'Real Housewives Of BH'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Three Missing Links
[6:15A] That '70s Show
[6:45A] That '70s Show
[7:15A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[9:30A] Piranha 3D
[11:30A] Bad News Bears
[2:00P] Up in Smoke
[4:00P] Summer Rental
[6:00P] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[8:00P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[10:15P] Vegas Vacation
[12:15A] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[2:30A] National Lampoon's Vacation
[4:45A] That '70s Show
[5:15A] Bad News Bears (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:25am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:30am] Zodiac
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Inferno (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Constantine', followed by the movie 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'.
In a series of convoluted maneuvers that would make J.J. Abrams envious, it seems that Taylor Swift has Mystery Box'd her career to the point where it necessitates a thorough analysis from Buzzfeed-complete with Tumblr screenshots and reaction GIFs, of course. While the (extremely very likely) theory has yet to be officially confirmed (and, for legal reasons, probably won't be for quite some time), it sure as hell looks like Taylor Swift is, at the very least, a diabolical genius. Even if you aren't a Swiftie, you must admire and respect the game (allegedly) on display.
The TL;DR of it all: Taylor Swift and her brother, Austin, created a fake cover band called Jack Leopard & The Dolphin Club, and recorded a cover of Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" with Austin on lead vocals. That cover was then used over the credits in this week's episode of Killing Eve.
If you want to get into the why and how of it all, that's when things get a bit convoluted but ultimately rewarding. As extensively reported, Swift's former record label, Big Machine, owns all the masters of her old songs, which she won't be able to re-record until later this year (which she plans on doing). In the meantime, both Swift and Big Machine have to approve of any use of her earlier music in film, television, and advertising. Swift has rejected every request because the profits associated with licensing her older songs would go to Big Machine-not Swift.
BUT if another band-like, say, Jack Leopard & The Dolphin Club-were to cover one of Swift's songs, that band could easily offer the rights to use that song in film, TV, et al. The end result being that Swift gets to put her song on a TV show she likes without allowing her old label to reap the benefits. And that is (allegedly) exactly what she did because Taylor Swift loves Killing Eve producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge and wanted to get one of her songs on the show. Anyway, what are YOU doing with your quarantine?
Criminal Minds may be off the air now, but Disney, CBS and a pretorian guard of executives from the long-running series are now looking down the barrel of a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
Over 14 years, Gregory St. Johns, the director of photography for Disney and ABC-CBS' joint production of Criminal Minds, "engaged in sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation against persons working on the set of the show, including without limitation, production crew members," proclaims the filing from the state agency in Los Angeles Superior Court against the long-accused director of photography.
"St. Johns' conduct was rampant, frequent, and in the open," adds the 23-page document, which seeks widespread damages and relief (read it here).
"Protected by the executive production team--including showrunner Erica Messer, executive producer Harry Bring, executive producer John Breen Frazier, director Glenn Kershaw, and unit production manager Stacey Beneville--St. Johns continued his unlawful conduct for years," the filing notes. "Defendants' executive team not only had actual and constructive knowledge of St. Johns' abusive conduct, they condoned it. No necessary steps to prevent sex-based harassment and discrimination were taken over the years, nor were appropriate corrective actions. Instead, the executives fired anyone who resisted or who tacitly evaded St. Johns' advances or abuse."
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been renewed for a 15th season. The record-setting pickup was revealed as part of FX's original programming slate through 2021, announced Tuesday morning.
With its 14 seasons to date, It's Always Sunny had tied ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action comedy series. Now FX's flagship half-hour series is solidifying its place in the TV history books as the sole holder of the record.
The news comes on the heels of It's Always Sunny creator, executive producer and star Rob McElhenney revealing last month that writing on Season 15 of the FX series had begun.
It's Always Sunny, developed by McElhenney and Howerton, was the first comedy hit for FX. Last year, Landgraf called the long-running series "the first successful deconstruction and reconstruction of a sitcom."
Jimmy Fallon has publicly responded to an online controversy that erupted after a two-decades-old Saturday Night Live sketch surfaced on Twitter that showed him performing in blackface. "There is no excuse for this," the current host of The Tonight Show wrote in his own Twitter statement. "I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable."
Originally aired in 2000, the offending sketch features Fallon playing fellow SNL veteran Chris Rock, who appears alongside Darrell Hammond as then-Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? host Regis Philbin. Emerging to audible gasps from the audience, Fallon-as-Rock proceeds to make uncomfortable jokes like, "I've seen Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and guess what? Not a lot of black folks on the show. ... Know why? 'Cause black folks don't like to answer questions!"
The SNL clip was resurfaced by a Twitter account that features the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty, as well as a note that references Megyn Kelly's high-profile departure from NBC in 2018 after making widely-condemned comments about blackface on the now-defunct Megyn Kelly Today. "NBC fired Megan Kelly for mentioning blackface," the note reads. "Jimmy Fallon performed on NBC in blackface."
Twitter for the first time took action against a series of tweets by Donald Trump (R-Petulant), labeling them with a warning sign and providing a link to further information.
Since ascending to the US presidency, Trump has used his Twitter account to threaten a world leader with war, amplify racist misinformation by British hate figures and, as recently as Tuesday morning, spread a lie about the 2001 death of a congressional aide in order to smear a cable news pundit. Throughout it all, Twitter has remained steadfast in its refusal to censor the head of state, even going so far as to write a new policy to allow itself to leave up tweets by "world leaders" that violate its rules.
The company's decision on Tuesday afternoon to affix labels to a series of Trump tweets about California's election planning is the result of a new policy debuted on 11 May. They were applied - hours after the tweets initially went out - because Trump's tweets violated Twitter's "civic integrity policy", a company spokeswoman confirmed, which bars users from "manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes", such as by posting misleading information that could dissuade people from participating in an election.
Trump responded on Tuesday evening with a pair of tweets that repeated his false claims about voting and accused Twitter of "interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election". "Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!" he wrote. Federal law protects the rights of internet platforms to moderate the third-party speech they publish.
Trump's tweets include numerous false statements about California's plan to expand access to voting by mail in November due to the coronavirus outbreak. The tweets now feature a light blue exclamation point icon, with the message "Get the facts about mail-in ballots". The alert label may not be visible when the tweets are embedded in another web page, such as below.
Senior White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Sunday that America's "human capital stock" is ready to get back work as the country takes steps toward reopening.
On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Hassett discussed future unemployment and America's readiness to lift measures put in place to tackle the coronavirus spread.
"Our capital stock hasn't been destroyed. Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work, and so there are lots of reasons to believe that we can get going way faster than we have in previous crises," Hassett said.
It's unclear what Hassett meant by "human capital stock." He did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
New satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) reveal that the mysterious anomaly weakening Earth's magnetic field continues to evolve, with the most recent observations showing we could soon be dealing with more than one of these strange phenomena.
The South Atlantic Anomaly is a vast expanse of reduced magnetic intensity in Earth's magnetic field, extending all the way from South America to southwest Africa.
Since our planet's magnetic field acts as a kind of shield - protecting Earth from solar winds and cosmic radiation, in addition to determining the location of the magnetic poles - any reduction in its strength is an important event we need to monitor closely, as these changes could ultimately have significant implications for our planet.
At present, there's nothing to be alarmed about. The ESA notes that the most significant effects right now are largely limited to technical malfunctions on board satellites and spacecraft, which can be exposed to a greater amount of charged particles in low-Earth orbit as they pass through the South Atlantic Anomaly in the skies above South America and the South Atlantic Ocean.
Research has shown that Earth's magnetic field is constantly in a state of flux, and every few hundred thousand years (give or take), Earth's magnetic field flips, with the north and south magnetic poles swapping places.
A hospital in Trinidad and Tobago has admitted a monkey was discovered inside the building, but angrily denied a snake was with it too.
The simian was reportedly spotted in Port-of-Spain General Hospital's operating theatre early on Friday by medical staff, who were preparing to resume elective surgeries following a three-month interruption due to coronavirus.
The incident caused an hours-long delay in operations, with zoo workers called in to capture the animal, according to the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian.
In a statement, the region's health authority said it was aware of two posts circulating on social media, one which was captioned, "Monkey and Big Snake was found at the Post-of-Spain General Hospital yesterday".
The statement, reported by the Guardian on Saturday, reads: "The Authority categorically denies that a snake was also found on the hospital's compound and any information suggesting same is false, misleading and malicious.
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