M Is FOR MASHUP - June 2nd, 2021
Mighty Appealing Mashups Are Useo Friendly!
By DJ Useo
I’m taking full advantage of this being the 2nd ever “Year Of The Mashup Album”. Accordingly, I planned an album a month for each month of this year. My June release is “Useo Friendly”, a 20-track affair intended to please nearly everyone.
The “theme” on this new collection is appealing genre clash. Lurking on this album are style blends like Rock vs Dubstep, Hip Hop vs Blue Grass, Pop vs Reggae, & many more. Each track featured here benefits from plenty of listener input as to whether it should be included.
To give you an idea of what lurks on this release, the preview track is "3 Strange Drunken Monkey Days" ( School Of Fish vs Bo Biz ) 1991 Alt Rock vs 2016 Dubstep
( sowndhaus.audio/track/21644/dj-useo-3-strange-drunken-monkey-days-school-of-fish-vs-bo-biz- ) . During a recent live show, I premiered it, & it got a very favorable response.
Among the employed source artists contained are pairings like The Hondells vs The Ramones, Alice Cooper vs Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones vs Afro Celt Sound System, & many more.You’ll find lots of appeal among the wide variety of styles herein.
While I don’t censor my mashups normally, I paid special attention to exclude harsh language this once. Who knows, someone with delicate shell-like ears may be listening & I wouldn’t want to risk offense on this particular collection.
Based on the top ten Useo albums available, this new collection should enjoy the best available amount of listeners. Here’s the full list of my most currently popular albums sorted by downloads -
01 - DJ Useo - The Beatlegs
02 - DJ Useo - In Las Vegas
03 - DJ Useo - Pockage
04 - DJ Useo - Don’t Encourage Useo
05 - DJ Useo - Double Secret Album
06 - DJ Useo - Having A Ball
07 - DJ Useo - How To Dance To Mashups
08 - Institute Of Bootleggers - Astro Mashups
09 - DJ Useo - Sugar Frosted Useos
10 - DJ Useo - What It’s Like To Be
If you enjoy what you discover on this new audio bootleg set, many more are
available here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Prayer
• A deeply religious woman was shocked when her 14-year-old son revealed that he was gay, and so she did what deeply religious people should do — she prayed for guidance. Very quickly, she received an answer to her prayers. God said to her, “You know what a gay person is like; you lived with one for 14 years.” After hearing that, she decided that the problem was not homosexuality, but some people’s negative reaction to homosexuality. She says, “From that moment on, I never shed another tear that my son was gay. I may have shed a lot of tears for how he was treated, but not because he was gay.” (The woman’s husband quickly accepted his son’s homosexuality, saying simply, “He’s a nice boy, and I love him.”)
• In 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the United States Supreme Court ruled against allowing a nondenominational prayer to be recited in New York Public Schools. It was a controversial decision, but many people supported it. President John F. Kennedy expressed the opinion that children could learn about prayer much more meaningfully at home and in church. Many religious leaders expressed the opinion that nondenominational prayers, such as the one that had been recited in the New York City schools, were bland, vague, and almost meaningless — hardly the stuff of real prayer.
• For much of his political career, Alabama politician George Wallace was a strict segregationist, but eventually he changed and admitted that he had been wrong about segregation. In 1987, Reverend Jesse Jackson went to Mr. Wallace’s home, and Mr. Wallace asked, “Would you pray for me?” They joined hands, and Reverend Jackson prayed for him. According to Mr. Wallace’s son, both Mr. Wallace and Reverend Jackson had tears in their eyes. At the end of the prayer, Mr. Wallace told Reverend Jackson, “Jesse, I love you.” Reverend Jackson replied, “Governor, I love you, too.”
• In 1982, Lebanon and Israel were in conflict. Mother Teresa traveled to Lebanon, where she asked to be allowed to take care of disabled children still present in hospitals that had been bombed. The authorities did not see what she would be able to accomplish during a time of fighting, so they asked her to wait for a ceasefire to start doing her good works. Mother Teresa prayed, and the very next day a ceasefire was declared. She then took the disabled children to East Beirut, where the Missionaries of Charity had a home and could take care of them.
• In the first half of the 20th century, Ed Diddle coached the football team of Western Kentucky State Teachers College — the Praying Colonels. Mr. Diddle once coached his team captain in how to say a prayer properly — one should ask for one’s team to give a good performance on the playing field, but one should not ask for victory. Before the game, the team captain started to pray, but in the middle of the prayer, Mr. Diddle interrupted: “Damn it! I told you not to ask for victory!”
• Rabbi Bunam prayed quietly, but in his youth Rabbi Hanokh of Alexandria prayed loudly with many gestures. Rabbi Hanokh was praying loudly when Rabbi Bunam entered the synagogue. Immediately, Rabbi Hanokh grew quiet, then he told himself that he should be concerned about God, not about Rabbi Bunam, so he began to pray loudly again. After Rabbi Hanokh’s loud prayer, Rabbi Bunam told him that the prayer especially pleased him.
• Comedian George Burns was not an observant Jew as an adult because of something that happened when he was a child. His grandmother died, and his family needed to have a minyan — a group of 10 Jews to pray and hold services. Unfortunately, his family was able to get only seven Jews — so they had to pay three other Jews to pray in the minyan. Mr. Burns says, “That stuck with me all my life. I couldn’t imagine anyone getting paid for praying.”
• In 1933, an earthquake struck Los Angeles. Two members of the New York Giants organization — manager Bill Terry and club secretary Jim Tierney — were rooming together. When the quake struck, Mr. Tierney, a devout Catholic, knelt and prayed. Mr. Terry, who was not a devout Catholic, also knelt, saying, “I don’t know what you’re saying, Tierney, but it goes for me, too.”
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Michael Egan
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In memory.
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION
BANDCAMP MUSIC
BRUCE'S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC
Music: "Surf Burglar"
Album: TWANGY SURF & SPY THEMES
Artist: The Exotics
Artist Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Info: “Formed in 1994, The Exotics have kept the sound of the Sixties Go-Go beat alive. Touring in support of their 1996 debut GO GO GUITARS & 2009's LOST ALBUM, they've traveled the nation from coast to coast. The band’s TWANGY SURF & SPY THEMES is an all-original retrospective containing new, remixed, & favorite tracks.”
t. red, a fan, “Are you kidding me? Who doesn't dig the whole surf guitar scene? Just one classic track after another. Favorite track: ‘Enchanted Interrogation Room.’”
“Exotics’ Twist” is also on the album.
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $7 (USD) for 14-track album
Genre: Surf
Links:
TWANGY SURF & SPY THEMES
The Exotics on Bandcamp
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Notes To Auction
Isaac Newton
Handwritten notes that show one of history’s greatest scientific minds in action are going up for auction in London.
Pages containing Isaac Newton’s jotted revisions to his masterwork, the “Principia,” are expected to sell next month for between 600,000 pounds and 900,000 pounds ($850,000 and $1.3 million), auctioneer Christie’s said Tuesday.
Published in 1687, Newton’s “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” — “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” — set out the laws of gravitation and motion and is considered a scientific watershed. A first edition of the book sold at auction for $3.7 million in 2016.
The page and a half of notes for a planned second edition includes comments and diagrams by Scottish mathematician and astronomer David Gregory. The two scientists met and corresponded while Newton worked on revising the “Principia” in the 1690s.
The document will go under the hammer at Christie’s in London on July 8.
Isaac Newton
‘Our Society Is Totally Nuts’
Fauci
As Anthony Fauci, the US’s leading infectious diseases official, grappled with the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, he was pulled in many directions.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s White House, which was downplaying the dangers, was demanding he portray the outbreak on their terms; the media was hungry for answers; and Fauci’s email inbox was constantly full with officials, the public and celebrities offering advice and seeking information about the world’s deadliest health crisis for a century.
Insight into the pressure that was heaped upon Fauci, the head of the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases, comes from thousands of pages of his communication records obtained by the Washington Post and the BuzzFeed news site, separately, and published on Tuesday.
As Fauci, kept on as a leading Covid adviser to Joe Biden, recently told the Post: “I was getting every single kind of question, mostly people who were a little bit confused about the mixed messages that were coming out of the White House and wanted to know what’s the real scoop.
Among the emails obtained by the Post is one in which he speaks of the “crazy people in this world”, whom Fauci appeared to blame for politicizing the crisis, and who ultimately led to him receiving a full-time security team amid threats from extremist critics.
Fauci
Contributes To Anti-Recall Effort
Paramount
Paramount Pictures is the latest industry donor to chip in on an effort to defeat the recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
According to records from the California Secretary of State, the studio donated $40,000 to Stop the Republican Recall of Governor Newsom, a committee set up to fight the pending effort to oust Newsom from office. The studio also gave $5,000 in March to the California Democratic Party, one of the sponsors of the anti-recall committee, and contributed to Newsom’s 2018 election campaign.
A spokesperson for the studio said that the donation actually was made by ViacomCBS, the studio’s parent company, even though the contribution record lists Paramount.
The recall is not officially on the ballot for later this year, but it is expected to qualify after Secretary of State Shirley Weber said that proponents had passed the signature threshold. Newsom and his allies have been raising money in the meantime. The Stop the Republican Recall committee got a big boost last month when Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gave $3 million, the most of any single donor.
Newsom’s reelection campaign, meanwhile, has drawn recent contributions from J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, Tom Rothman, Jeff Shell, Jay Sures, Dana Walden and Chuck Lorre.
Paramount
Album Returned 48 Years Late
Bob Dylan
After nearly five decades of blowin’ in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an Ohio library 48 years after it was supposed to be returned.
Howard Simon recently sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologizing for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland.
Simon checked out Dylan’s “Self Portrait” album in 1973 as an eighth-grader at a University Heights middle school. Simon says he found it between two other Dylan albums in his personal vinyl collection.
“As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to turn my attention to some of the many vignettes of life that by dint of career and family have been neglected these many years,” Simon wrote. “I am returning with the letter an overdue item by my count, approximately 17,480 days overdue as of this writing.”
Simon also sent the library a $175 replacement fee for “Self Portrait” along with an album he recorded, “Western Reserve,” for possible inclusion in the library’s collection.
Bob Dylan
In Mortal Danger
Democracy
Republican efforts to restrict voting across the US are posing an existential threat to democracy in the US, over 100 scholars of democracy warned in a new statement released by the New America think tank on Tuesday.
"We, the undersigned, are scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of US elections and liberal democracy with growing alarm," the statement said. "Specifically, we have watched with deep concern as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have in recent months proposed or implemented what we consider radical changes to core electoral procedures in response to unproven and intentionally destructive allegations of a stolen election."
"Our entire democracy is now at risk," the scholars said. "History will judge what we do at this moment."
Over the past few years, and particularly since the fatal insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, top scholars have repeatedly said that the GOP has morphed into a fundamentally antidemocratic party determined to win elections by any means.
Republican efforts to whitewash the events of January 6 and shield former President Donald Trump from blame for the riot have increased alarm in this regard. Trump provoked the deadly insurrection and was impeached as a result, but Republican leaders have continued to kowtow to the former president.
Democracy
Visiting Homes
Opportunist
Texas Senator Rafael "Ted" Cruz (R-Israel) is facing renewed criticism of his travel habits after spending the weekend in Israel touring damage from Hamas rocket strikes.
The firebrand Republican senator, who earlier this year was embroiled in controversy after it was reported that he traveled to Mexico for a family vacation amid a devastating winter storm that left millions in his state without power, now faces similar criticism after tweeting a video of himself inside an Israeli home damaged by rocket fire.
In the video, Mr Cruz discussed the death of an elderly woman’s caretaker in Ashkalon, Israel, resulting from a Hamas rocket strike that hit a residential home. Mr Cruz gives a brief tour of the damage in the home, and explains how the elderly resident was able to make it out of the home in time.
Under the video, the senator was excoriated by angry Texas residents who demanded to know why he had not reacted similarly to the devastation wrought by the winter storms that largely shut down the state’s power grid in February.
“How much is this photo op costing us, Rafael? Did I miss the tour of frozen Texas homes?” wrote one commenter, who referred to the senator’s given name.
Opportunist
World's Oldest War Monument?
Syria
A huge burial mound holding the corpses of at least 30 warriors in Syria could be the oldest war memorial ever discovered, dating back at least 4,300 years at the now submerged site of Tell Banat, said a team of archaeologists.
The memorial is also the first example of a particular type of monument described in ancient inscriptions from Mesopotamia in which the bodies of either enemies or local battle dead are piled up to form a highly organized structure.
The memorial looks a bit like the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt except that the layers of the monument are made of dirt and gypsum instead of stone, the archaeologists wrote in the paper, published May 28 in the journal Antiquity. The people who lived in the area in modern times called the mound the "white monument" because the gypsum causes the monument to glisten in sunlight, the archaeologists wrote.
The remains are fragmentary and in many cases the age and sex of the deceased could not be identified. Those that could be identified were male and ranged from grown adults to as young as 8 to 10 years old. Why someone between 8 and 10 years old would be placed in the war memorial is not clear.
The bones appear to have been dug up and reinterred at the memorial. "The bones could have come from an old battleground, or from a cemetery. Regardless, they were selected, arranged and ultimately monumentalized with care, long after death," the archaeologists wrote in their paper.
Syria
Unusual Story
Donated Kidney
Ten years after their first date, Debby Neal-Strickland put on a cream-colored lace gown and married her longtime sweetheart at their Florida church. Two days later, she put on a hospital gown and donated a kidney to Mylaen Merthe — her new husband’s ex-wife.
An unusual story? Yes. But the tale of Jim Merthe and his two wives is a testament to how love and compassion can triumph over division.
Mylaen, 59, had long struggled with kidney disease. By last year, she was ghostly pale with dark circles under her eyes, dragging herself through the workday with no energy. By the time she was admitted to the hospital in November, her kidneys were only functioning at 8%.
Jim and Mylaen have been divorced nearly two decades, but they got along well as they raised their two children, and as Jim fell in love with 56-year-old Debby. The women were friendly at family gatherings, though not especially close.
And Debby knew that Mylaen was about to become a grandmother for the first time — her daughter was pregnant.
Donated Kidney
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