As all of you now know, staying home all the time is tougher than you might think. There's still lots of blessings, though. A major one for me is "Randsta's LockDown Mashed" mix series. Randsta https://hearthis.at/randsta/ reveals his deep knowledge of mashup music throughout this genius multi-volume set.
Each of these superb sets has the welcome ability to take your mind off the pandemic lockdown by stealthy deployment of refined bootleg material. Also a highlight is Randsta's fine production, & passage through the included material. All of these volumes are over 2 hours long, yet the high quality is maintained throughout. Quite a trick to accomplish once, let alone over 10 separate sets.
Randsta shared his thoughts on the subject -
"I decided that the lock-down was the perfect chance to go back through my collection of mashups (From the last 10 - 15 years) and trim the fat. I have been into mashups for a long time ever since GYBO really got me into them, so have amassed a large collection of mashups.
I then decided to make a mix series featuring the "best of the best" in the loosest possible sense of the word, would be a good idea to keep me occupied during this lockdown period. The hardest part was deciding what tunes I wanted to include in the mix; I had over 1,000 tunes that I managed to cut down to 600 odd.
I started and decided to do one mix a week (TBH I didn't think that lock down would last that long). Well after 8 weeks I expanded the 'lock down series best of' to include a throw back to one of the first year mixes that I did in 2010 this
looking back was pretty ropey and much like the early episodes of the Sixx Mixx where I had got my taste for mashup mixes.
To expand upon them I decided to do Trance mixes, as I love trance and never did a full mashed Trance mix :) I had so many trance bangers that I just thought f**k it and ran with it. Who knows what is next for lock down but I was thinking of doing a bass mix to include drum and bass and brakes. Keep watching this space.
• Garth Brooks goes to great lengths to keep his concerts exciting. Near the end of a long tour that tired out pretty much everyone except the fans, Mr. Brooks livened things up by offering $500 to any band member who could knock him down that night. A band member asked what that meant: "Impress you with a guitar lick or …." Mr. Brooks replied, "No, I meant physically knock me flat on my butt." That night, all the band members tried to knock him flat on his butt, to the delight of Mr. Brooks - and his fans, who that night happened to be Canadian. During the final song, the entire band rushed him and knocked him flat on his butt - and split the $500.
• While Johnny Cash was attending Dyess High School, Charlie and Ira Louvin - aka the Louvin Brothers - performed there. Johnny arrived two hours early, and he saw his heroes arrive. Charlie even spoke to him - to ask where was the bathroom. Johnny saw Charlie eating soda crackers - and thereafter Johnny ate soda crackers. The concert was fantastic, and when the Louvin Brothers drove away in their limousine, Charlie even waved to Johnny. It was a magical night.
• In 1980, the parents of Plácido Domingo celebrated their 40th anniversary. He invited them to attend Mass with him in a church in Mexico City, and when they arrived they found many friends and relatives there, as well as a symphony orchestra, which provided the music as their famous son sang for them.
• Vladimir de Pachmann, a classical pianist, enjoyed performing a joke on stage. He would walk on stage, sit on a stool that was too low, then call for a book to sit on. He would then sit on the book, grimace, stand up, tear out one page from the book, sit down on the book again, smile, and begin playing.
• When giving a concert, Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin used to give the audience a long numbered list of songs. He would look at the list during the concert, decide what to sing next, then announce the number of the song to his audience. (His accompanist must have carried around a huge pile of sheet music!)
• During his career, African-American actor/singer Paul Robeson frequently entertained audiences by singing spirituals such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Early in his career, he sang a concert of 16 spirituals in Greenwich Village - then he sang 16 more spirituals as encores.
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• Singer-songwriter Baby Dee wrote and recorded a song titled "The Dance of Diminishing Possibilities," which is described by celebrity interviewer Len Righi as "a Bowiesque cabaret number [that] uses a smashed piano as a metaphor for love let loose and the possibility of rebirth." In the song, a couple of friends smash a keyboard with an axe on a sidewalk. Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss, the friends in the song, are real; they were neighbors of Baby Dee when she was young and living in Cleveland, and they really did use an ax to smash a keyboard on a sidewalk. Baby Dee says, "They were bums, guys in their 30s, dumb and harmless," she says. "They really wanted not to have a piano. That was their dream. So the whole neighborhood got together to make their dream come true."
• Avant garde composer John Cage once created a music piece titled 4'33" in which the pianist sat at a piano for exactly four minutes and 33 seconds without playing a note. The music consisted of the sounds that the audience heard while the pianist was not playing.
Released in 1971 on the Motown subsidiary Tamla, this Marvin Gaye hit was originally inspired by a police brutality incident. What is the title of this song that charted on both the Hot Soul Singles and the Billboard Hot 100?
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson intended. A posthumously released version by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. Jerry Lee Lewis also released a version reaching number 1 on the country charts in 1971. Billboard ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971.
Other recordings of the song include those by Waylon Jennings, Grateful Dead, Loretta Lynn, Kristofferson himself, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Gordon Lightfoot, Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Olivia Newton-John, Vicki Britton and Johnny Cash.
Joplin recorded the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Kristofferson had sung the song for her, and singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her. Kristofferson did not know she had recorded it until after her death. The first time he heard her recording of it was the day after she died. Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and in 2004, her version of this song was ranked No. 148 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Me and Bobby McGee.
Micki said:
Me and Bobby McGee.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
"Me and Bobby McGee" It probably wouldn't have done so well if it was titled "Bobby McGee and I".
Alan J answered:
Me and Bobby McGee.
Randall replied:
Me and Bobby McGee
Dave responded:
Me and Bobby McGee. Written by Kris Kristofferson, the song was first released as a Roger Miller single in 1969 and hit #12 on the country chart. In 1970, Gordon Lightfoot's version was a local hit in Canada. Other artists, including Kristofferson, had recorded it prior to Joplin, but those weren't released as US singles. Kristofferson and Joplin dated for a while, and he sang the song for her. Joplin recorded it just a few days before her death in October 1970 without Kristofferson's prior knowledge. Janis' heroin overdose came just 3 weeks after Jimi Hendrix's death, and less than a year before Jim Morrison died. All three were only 27 years old I think.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC Hiding from the COVID in WV, replied:
"Me and Bobby McGee".
Like Yogi Berra said: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
Jacqueline responded:
I think Me And Bobby McGee came out before she died, so it's probably the Mercedes Benz song.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Me and Bobby McGee
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
I'm going with "Me and Bobby McGee" because as much as I loved Janis Joplin, she wasn't everyone's jam, and her songs weren't always a fit for Top 40 radio.
We joined our local peaceful protest yesterday. There wasn't much social distancing, but there were lots of masks, chants, a friendly visit from the cops (in front of whose station we gathered), passersby honking horns in support, and lots of peace and respect. Water and snack and extra signs were provided. I got choked up a few times (as a mother of adult children I canNOT imagine George Floyd's mother's grief. Mostly that gathering made me proud of out little burg, and tired at the same time - I've been protesting police brutality and racism since the late 60s. Does one ever retire from this?
Ah, I see what you did there: Yesterday's answer -pearl - is also the name of one of Janis Joplin's albums, probably the one today's answer is on. Nice one, Marty!
John I from Hawai`i says,
Mercedes Benz
Dave in Tucson answered:
Janis' only number one hit was the Kris Kristofferson penned song "Me &
Bobby McGee"
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
1. What was Janis Joplin's only number one single?
"Me and Bobby McGee"!
2. Who does tAnus think he is?
If it is King George III, at least he got the INSANITY part correct for a change!
DJ Useo wrote:
Why, that would be "Me & Bobby McGee." I didn't like that song for many years, but I sure dig it now. It sure is a good thing tastes evolve.
Here's the link for my mashup of Janis - "Heart Sickness" ( Janis Joplin vs Donner Party vs Wailing Souls ) konrad useo - Janis Joplin vs Donner Party vs Wailing Souls | SowndHaus
Mac Mac said:
Me and Bobby McGee
Daniel in The City answered:
Me and Bobby McGee
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Info: "UK singer-songwriter, musician and recording artist Venus has, through her live streaming site www.twitch.tv/venusworld, become a 'Twitch' music phenomenon. Recording artist Venus has grown a fanbase that currently stands at over 20,000, and she has performed live for over 400 hours. Venus was previously known as Sophie Janes."
Price: £1.35 (GBP) for track. £4 for three-track album. The other two tracks are an acoustic mix and an instrumental mix of "Fuck It I Miss You."
Offended Protestants--check. Offended Catholics--check. Offended Mormons--check. What's on the schedule tomorrow, boss--a synagogue or Buddhist shrine?
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Left my cocoon and headed to the grocery store - had no idea of how much damage was done Sunday night in Wrigley and Bixby Knolls.
From the grocery stores to the drug stores to the pot shops to the pizza place and the taco joint - all the doors and windows are now plywood.
Wow. Just wow.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Game On!', followed by a RERUN'SEAL Team', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Charlamagne Tha God.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Dakota Johnson and Eric Garcetti.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sen. Kamala Harris, Talib Kweli, and Sia.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Amanda Peet, Ramy Youssef, Patrisse Cullors, and Tim McGraw.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 1/7/20) are Adam Rippon and Iliza Shlesinger.
ABC begins the night with the movie 'Up', followed by a FRESH'Mavel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel is Regina King.
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'.
AMC offers the movie 'Man On Fire', followed by the movie 'Rambo', then the movie 'Fury'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Time Squared
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Icarus Factor
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Pen Pals
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Q Who
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Samaritan Snare
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Up the Long Ladder
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Manhunt
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Emissary
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Peak Performance
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Shades of Gray
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evolution
[5:00PM] ROBIN HOOD
[8:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[11:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[2:00AM] RUN ALL NIGHT
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Dirty John'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'South Park', followed by the movie 'South Park Imaginationland: The Trilogy', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
On a RERUNThe Daily Show (from 5/18/20) is Madeleine Albright.
Lights Out with David Spade
FX has the movie 'World War Z', followed by the movie 'The Dark Tower', then a FRESH'What We Do In The Shadows', and another 'What We Do In The Shadows'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Beat The Judges', followed by a FRESH'Counting Cars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] That '70s Show
[6:30A] That '70s Show
[7:00A] That '70s Show
[7:30A] Bad Words
[9:30A] The Heartbreak Kid
[12:00P] That '70s Show
[12:30P] That '70s Show
[1:00P] That '70s Show
[1:30P] That '70s Show
[2:00P] That '70s Show
[2:30P] That '70s Show
[3:00P] Parks and Recreation
[3:30P] Parks and Recreation
[4:00P] Parks and Recreation
[4:30P] Parks and Recreation
[5:00P] Parks and Recreation
[5:30P] Parks and Recreation
[6:00P] Parks and Recreation
[6:30P] Parks and Recreation
[7:00P] Parks and Recreation
[7:30P] Parks and Recreation
[8:00P] Parks and Recreation
[8:30P] Parks and Recreation
[9:00P] Parks and Recreation
[9:30P] Parks and Recreation
[10:00P] Parks and Recreation
[10:30P] Parks and Recreation
[11:00P] Parks and Recreation
[11:30P] Parks and Recreation
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Coneheads
[3:00A] Real Genius
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Crash Goes the Hash (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[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] thinner
[12:30pm] along came a spider
[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] along came a spider
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'.
John Legend, Common, the Weeknd, Lizzo, Jane Fonda, and others have signed a new open letter urging local governments to decrease police budgets in favor of spending more on health care, education, and other community programs. Others to sign the letter include Megan Rapinoe, Yada Shahidi, and Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU.
The letter was released by activist Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter and a founding member of the Movement 4 Black Lives, a coalition of more than 100 black-rights organizations. The letter arrives in conjunction with #BlackOutTuesday and #TheShowMustBePaused, a grassroots campaign within the music industry to pause work today, June 2nd, and "reconnect with our community." Talib Kweli, Natalie Portman, America Ferrera, Brie Larson, and Taraji P. Henson also signed on to support the letter.
The open letter ties the deaths of unarmed black people like George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others to the disproportionately devastating effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on black communities. "The COVID-19 deaths and the deaths caused by police terror are connected and consequential to each other," it states. "The United States does not have a national healthcare system. Instead, we have the largest military budget in the world, and some of the most well-funded and militarized police departments in the world, too. Policing and militarization overwhelmingly dominate the bulk of national and local budgets. In fact, police and military funding has increased every single year since 1973, and at the same time, funding for public health decreased every year, crystallized most recently when the Trump administration eliminated the U.S. Pandemic Response Team in 2018, citing 'costs.'"
Noting, for instance, that state and local government spending on police and corrections jumped from $60 billion to $194 billion between 1977 and 2017, the letter lays out an array of different ways that money could be used. "It could go towards building healthy communities, to the health of our elders and children, to neighborhood infrastructure, to education, to childcare, to support a vibrant Black future. The possibilities are endless."
Seth Rogen posted a Black Lives Matter logo on his Instagram on Monday with the caption, "If this is a remotely controversial statement to you, feel free to unfollow me."
The Hollywood star's post showed his support of the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. Almost immediately, Rogen began to receive comments from people who were opposed to his view and began to use the hashtag #AllLivesMatter and post racist comments.
The star then proceeded to reply back to some of those commenters telling them to "f--- off," unfollow him, and that "you don't deserve my movies anymore."
Rogen was one of the celebrities who has recently donated to a Minnesota-based nonprofit called Minnesota Freedom Fund, which helps pay bail for low-income people who have been detained while protesting.
George Clooney has written an essay about the death of George Floyd, calling anti-black racism "America's greatest pandemic" and urging people to vote for change.
In the Daily Beast piece, the actor and activist wrote, "There is little doubt that George Floyd was murdered," while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. "We watched as he took his last breath at the hands of four police officers."
Of the subsequent protests across the country, some of which have turned violent, he wrote, "Now we see another defiant reaction to the systemic cruel treatment of a portion of our citizens like we saw in 1968, 1992, and 2014. We don't know when these protests will subside. We hope and pray that no one else will be killed. But we also know that very little will change."
He called for "systemic change in our law enforcement and in our criminal justice system," pointing out the racial disparity. And said the country needs "policymakers and politicians that reflect basic fairness to all of their citizens equally. Not leaders that stoke hatred and violence as if the idea of shooting looters could ever be anything less than a racial dog whistle," a dig at President Trump and his "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" tweet.
Clooney added that Bull Connor, an Alabama politician with close ties to the KKK, who opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960 "was more subtle."
Score one for team Big Cat Rescue. A federal judge granted Carole Baskin control of the zoo formerly owned by Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic from Netflix's "Tiger King."
"The Courthouse News" reports that Baskin and Big Cat Rescue will soon have full control over Exotic's former zoo properties in Oklahoma.
The imprisoned star of the docuseries spent a large part of his career harassing Baskin in a brutal rivalry captured on camera. After escalating from video theatrics to threats, Exotic was arrested for two counts of murder-for-hire. Before he went to prison, Baskin sued Exotic for trademark infringement in 2013 after he repurposed and manipulated the Big Cat Rescue logo. Exotic was ordered to pay roughly $1 million. However, that money never fully made it to Baskin or her cats.
Officially titled the G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park, the zoo has currently been under the leadership of another "Tiger King" player, Jeff Lowe. According to the judge, the current tenant has 120 days to vacate and remove all the animals from the premises.
US riot police were broadcast live on air using aggressive force to push and knock down an Australian reporter and her cameraman as they covered the Black Lives Matter protests in Washington DC, prompting an investigation by the Australian embassy.
Amelia Brace, a reporter for Australian television network Channel 7, was broadcasting from the White House with cameraman Timothy Myers when police plouged into the crowd with riot shields, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them.
Footage of the police barrelling at the camera and shoving the news team was viewed over a million times in a matter of hours. In another angle of the incident filmed by a protester, an officer can be seen hitting Ms Brace on the back with a baton.
News anchors back in the studio can be heard asking Ms Brace if she and her cameraman are okay, and she later replies: "We've just had to run about a block as police moved in, we've been fired at with rubber bullets, my cameraman has been hit.
Craig McPherson, the network's director of news and public affairs, said in a statement: "The attack on our reporter and cameraman in Washington today is nothing short of wanton thuggery.
Israel's defense minister urged the military on Monday to hasten preparations for the country's planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, in apparent anticipation of what could be fierce Palestinian protests against the move.
The statement by Benny Gantz came as Israeli media reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed annexation on Monday in a call with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser who stands behind a White House Mideast plan that largely favors Israel.
In a statement sent by his office, Gantz appeared to command the military to prepare for the fallout from annexation, asking the military chief of staff to "speed up the (military's) preparedness ahead of political steps on the agenda in the Palestinian sphere." The statement gave no further details.
Beyond the protests that any step toward annexation could spark, the move also risks unraveling burgeoning Israeli ties with Gulf Arab states.
Ancient artists used several techniques to paint images on rock. Sometimes they drew by hand, but other times they would place an object like a hand, a leaf, or a boomerang against the wall and spatter it with paint, leaving behind a spray of color surrounding a silhouette of the object. This may sound like a simple way to produce art, but there's new evidence that it could be a fairly complex process. People in northern Australia seem to have used beeswax to shape miniature stencils to paint on the walls of Yilbilinji Rock Shelter in Limmen National Park.
The miniature images are part of a veritable gallery of rock art on the roof and rear walls of Yilbilinji. Over thousands of years, people came here to paint people, animals, objects, tracks, dots, and geometric motifs in striking red, yellow, black, and white. There's even a European smoking pipe in the mix, which shows that at least some of the paintings must have been created after the colonists arrived.
Out of 355 images painted on the walls, only 59 are stencils-outlines of full-sized hands and forearms surrounded by sprays of white pigment (probably made with local kaolin clay). But 17 of those stencils are too small to have been done the usual way, by spattering an actual object with paint to leave a life-sized outline on the wall. They depict people-sometimes holding boomerangs and shields or wearing headdresses-crabs, echidna, at least two species of turtle, kangaroo pawprints, and geometric shapes.
And those miniature stenciled paintings are some of the only ones of their kind in the world, except for a tiny human figure stenciled on a cave wall in Indonesia and one in a rock shelter in New South Wales, Australia.
The Universe is not a structureless mish-mash of space stuff, but there's still a lot we don't know about how it's put together.
Although we know that everything is connected by a vast, filamentary web, we tend to operate under the assumption that the distribution of galaxies among those filaments is somewhat random.
In other words, if you pick a patch of sky, scientists generally think that the spin directions of all the galaxies in that patch will be more or less evenly distributed.
Well, it turns out that that assumption may be incorrect.
Computational astronomer Lior Shamir of Kansas State University has conducted a survey of 200,000 galaxies, and found that the distribution of spin direction forms a pattern that is distinctly not random after all.
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