M Is FOR MASHUP - June 13th, 2022
Mash Of The Titans 11 vs Fanzilla
DJ Useo
Panos T says “Mash of The Titans 11"
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans-11/ ) ,
the penultimate album is here! As we get closer to the end of the “Titans” chapter, we celebrate the art of mashups with another collecton. MOTT11 features 26 brand new iconic mashups in a two part music experience!”
He knows what he’s saying, too. This latest volume is tremendous. It contains highly skilled blends using music from only the best. All are mixed by finest kind producers like Robin Scouters, Kill_mR_DJ, Shahar Varshal, & ToToM, plus many more. This release is a great way to catch up with the modern mashup scene.
An even bigger treat is you can still nab all the
previous 10 volumes
( panost.net/mash-of-the-titans/ ) . for the affordable price of gratis. Altogether, that’s 22 (!) discs of killer tracks, sure to leave you stunned with joy. Panos T really blesses us with tunes. He’s also one of the best video crafters. Here’s one of the vids. It’s FrenchFriMashups track called
“Get Back 4 Minutes” [Britney Spears VS Madonna & Justin Timberlake]
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc8vcurPkzo&list=PLvaOvRp3_h2R2pEFtiFuEA9hVxsf7zTki&index=4 )
All 4 videos here
( www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvaOvRp3_h2R2pEFtiFuEA9hVxsf7zTki )
Panos T will be doing one more volume in this series next year. Then, I expect he’ll retire & begin fishing like the rest of us. ;)
Your reaction to listening to this comp is welcome. Send it along & I’ll run them here next week. In the meantime, more Committee hearings!
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Death
• Ann Weeks of Lexington, Kentucky, suffered the loss of her husband. Unfortunately, for weeks following the funeral, people kept telephoning and asking for her husband because they were unaware that he had died. One day, a salesman called and asked for him. Ms. Weeks replied, “I’m sorry, Paul is deceased. I’m his wife. May I help you?” The salesman didn’t say anything about her husband’s death, but he did tell Ms. Weeks that he was with the Appliance Warranty Center and was calling to remind her that a warranty on an appliance had run out and she needed to renew it. Ms. Weeks replied that she had decided not to renew that warranty. The salesman, annoyed, said, “Well, I’m sure your dead husband would want you to renew.” Not liking to be manipulated, Ms. Weeks replied, “Funny you should mention it, but just hours before Paul died he said, ‘Honey, whatever you do, don’t renew the appliance warranty!’” The salesman hung up.
• Near the end of his life, Al Capp, creator of Li’l Abner, was confined to a wheelchair. One day he asked his wife if she had any silver candlesticks and plain white candles in the house. She did, so he asked, “Would you light those candles and put them on the mantelpiece. Tonight, I mean. This is Friday, isn’t it, Catherine?” It was Friday, and Catherine did as her husband requested. Later, Elliott Caplin, Al’s brother, explained the significance of the candles. In their family, the person who most revered the Sabbath and lit the candles and said the prayers had been their mother. As Al Capp sat in his apartment, knowing that he was dying, he was thinking about his mother.
• Comedian Beatrice Lillie once visited her mother’s grave and saw that a small, freshly dug grave was nearby. Filled with pity at the death of an infant, she spent a few weeks tending the grave and planting flowers — originally intended for her own mother’s grave — all around it. Later, a friend asked her if she was still tending the grave. She replied that she had discovered that it was the grave of an 85-year-old man, so “I dug up every god*mn plant and put them back on my mother’s grave.”
• Philosopher Richard Watson’s father knew that he was dying of cancer. He told his son, “I’m dying. Don’t give me any of that crap I’m not.” His son replied, “OK, so you’re dying. Now what?” In reply, he just grinned. Just before he died, one of his favorite nieces and her husband visited him. At the end of their visit, the husband said, “I want you to be sitting up in a chair next time I see you.” He replied, “You don’t see too many people buried sitting up.”
• A man once drew up a will in which he left everything to his wife and three sons. He then asked the Chafetz Chaim to look over the will and criticize it. After looking over the will, the Chafetz Chaim pointed out that the man had overlooked an important beneficiary: his soul. The will made no provision for charity, and the man’s soul deserved to be considered in the will.
• At a funeral, brightly colored clothing is regarded as inappropriate, but not even family members are required to wear black, although many do. Etiquette expert Grace Fox knows a woman who wore a lovely blue dress at the funeral of her husband and touchingly explained that it was her husband’s favorite dress.
• After her grandmother died, track superstar Mary Decker ran a race on an indoor track in Los Angeles, California. She cried the entire distance and finished last.
• In his will, comedian Jack Benny made the provision that his wife, Mary Livingstone, be given a perfect red rose every day for the rest of her life.
Easter
• As a teenager, Connie, the daughter of the Rev. Frederick L. Haynes, liked sunrise Easter services even more than Christmas. Now a mother with three sons, each Easter she drags her sons out of bed before sunrise to get ready for the sunrise service. Sometimes they ask her, “Why, Mom?” She replies, “We are Easter people.”
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Track: "Snow Surfer"
Album: SURF BRITANNIA 3
Artist: The Screaming Seagulls
Artist Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Record Company: Sharawaji Records
Record Company Location: UK-registered, Asia-based
Info:
“Sharawaji Records presents … 20 hot acts ripping up 20 killer surf tunes. We got trad surf, baaad surf, lizard surf, equine surf, horror surf, death surf, punk surf, secret surf, atomic surf and of course SURF ROCK! From all corners of the UK, from fresh, breaking bands to established surfers and cult favourites, there is something for everyone who likes a bit of drip and a lot of twaaannggg!”
“Sharawaji Records is a UK-registered, Asia-based independent record label and publisher. We manufacture, publish and promote various types of instrumental guitar music, eg surf music, instro [instrumentals], surf rock, surf punk, spaghetti western, spy surf, rockabilly, garage rock, and punk.”
Price: £6 (GBP) for 20 tracks by various artists.
Genre: Surf
Links:
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Last Night
Bought some apricots that looked picture perfect but were crunchier than a Granny Smith apple.
Changes Lyrics
Lizzo
Fans spoke and Lizzo listened.
The "Truth Hurts" singer has updated and released a new version of her song "Grrrls" after receiving backlash over a lyric in the original version that fans said was considered an "ableist slur."
"It’s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song 'GRRRLS,'" Lizzo wrote in a statement shared to social media on Monday.
"Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language," she continued. "As a fat Black woman in America, I’ve had many hurtful words used against me, so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally, or in my case, unintentionally)."
Lizzo first released "Grrrls," the promotional single from her forthcoming album "Special," on Friday, June 10. The song's original lyrics included the line, "Hold my bag, b****, hold my bag / Do you see this s***? I'm a spaz."
Lizzo
Dress Damaged
Marilyn Monroe
Kim Kardashian and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! have been accused of “irreparably damaging” Marilyn Monroe’s iconic sheer dress after the company loaned it to Kardashian to wear to this year’s Met Gala.
Despite the great lengths Ripley’s and Kardashian said they went through to preserve the dress, photos taken of the gown at Ripley’s Hollywood location on Sunday shows the dress with significant damage compared to images taken at its auction in 2016 and in a Ripley’s behind-the-scenes video of Kardashian having her first fitting. (Rolling Stone has confirmed the legitimacy of the recent photos, reviewing metadata of when and where the images were taken.)
In the 2016 auction photos, there are one to two hand-sewn crystals decorating the back of the dress that are missing, while Ripley’s recent video shows a few more gems gone. But Sunday’s photos show even more beading had fallen off, some jewels hanging by a thread and damage to one of the straps.
There is also noticeable tearing in the delicate silk souffle fabric near the zipper and clasp enclosures. The ripped portions of the dress are all but certainly unrepairable, as the specialty French-made silk weave fabric is no longer produced and is banned in the United States due to its highly flammable nature.
Visual artist and creative director ChadMichael Morrisette, who previously worked with the dress in 2016 when it went up for auction, was the one who took the photos when he visited Ripley’s on Sunday. “It literally broke my heart to see the damage that she did to that,” he says. “She stole that moment of history and I’m so mad about it.” (Representatives for Kardashian and Ripley’s did not return requests for comment.)
Marilyn Monroe
Most Would Do It Again
Journalists
Journalists face harassment, fight against misinformation and are keenly aware of the industry’s financial troubles and the dim view many Americans have of them.
Despite all that, most love their jobs and wouldn’t trade it for something else.
Those were among the findings in a survey of nearly 12,000 journalists conducted by the Pew Research Center and released on Tuesday.
More than three-quarters of the journalists (77%) said that if they had the chance to do it all again, they would pursue a career in the news business. Three-quarters of journalists over age 65 say the job has a positive impact on their emotional well-being, although these numbers get smaller for those who are younger.
More than 9 in 10 journalists said they considered made up or false information to be a significant problem for society. A third of respondents said they come across falsehoods on a regular basis, Pew said.
Journalists
Browser Retires Today
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture.
As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.
IE’s demise was not a surprise. A year ago, Microsoft said that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, pushing users to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015.
Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. Its launch signaled the beginning of the end of Navigator: Microsoft went on to tie IE and its ubiquitous Windows operating system together so tightly that many people simply used it by default instead of Navigator.
Internet Explorer
Political Power Is More Important
Gun Safety
While the Senate may be drawing up a framework for new gun control legislation, one Republican senator made it clear on where his priorities stand on Tuesday afternoon.
“I think we’re more interested in the red wave than we are in red flags, quite honestly,” Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said after learning of the framework, according to Igor Bobic of HuffPost.
Even Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he was “comfortable” with the framework that a group of 20 of his colleagues announced over the weekend. The Kentucky senator said he’d back the resulting legislation as long as it “ends up reflecting what the framework indicates.”
When the plan was first announced, 10 Republican senators backed it — enough to overcome the Senate filibuster. The plan does not go as far as what many gun control activists want, however. It does not, for instance, prohibit teenagers from buying semi-automatic assault rifles. (A bill doing so was first introduced three years ago.)
But even when it comes to the modest changes the framework proposes, Cramer apparently isn’t on board. He probably should be, even if all he cares about is a “red wave” in November. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll recently found that 60 percent of Republicans, 61 percent of gun owners, and 73 percent of all Americans support red-flag laws.
Gun Safety
'Proud' To Harass Families
Kelley Watt
"Prove to the world you've lost your son," Kelley Watt wrote under the username "gr8mom" to Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old, Noah, was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
A suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma, grandmother of two, Watt has spent the greater part of the past decade "researching" mass shootings — which she says she considers false-flag operations intended to push gun-control legislation through the US government, despite the fact that no significant legislation has been passed in response to such shootings.
Her "research" involves sending harassing messages to surviving family members of people who have died in mass shootings, including the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 first-grade students and six adults dead.
"I just had a strong sense that this didn't happen," she said in an interview with Elizabeth Williamson. "Too many of those parents just rub me the wrong way."
But nothing, not even proof that she's wrong, has dissuaded Watt from her theories, which are in line with those pushed by the likes of the "InfoWars" host Alex Jones — who was found liable in at least four defamation cases for spreading lies that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax.
Kelley Watt
Runs Way Hotter
Human Brain
From the engine in your car to the components in your laptop, mechanical systems tend to heat up when they're working harder. Now new research has revealed that the same can be said of the brain – and it runs hotter than was previously thought.
Some parts of the deep brain can get up to 40 °C (104 °F), a new study shows, though this varies by sex, time of day, and various other factors. Compare that with the average oral temperature in human bodies, which is typically under 37 °C (98.6 °F).
The average brain temperature was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) the researchers found, more than 2 degrees higher than under the tongue. Variations were noted based on the time of day, the brain region, and the participant's age, sex, and menstrual cycle.
Female brains were on average around 0.4°C (0.72° F) warmer than male brains, most likely due to the menstrual cycle, while the highest brain temperature recorded was 40.9 °C (105.6 °C). Daily variations averaged around 1 °C (1.8 °F), with the outer parts of the brain generally cooler.
Human Brain
Cats’ Reaction
Catnip
Cats love catnip. They go weird for it. Even the most dignified and solemn felines go daffy in the presence of this plant – rubbing themselves in it, rolling on it, chewing it, dancing deliriously around it, and even licking it aggressively.
But while it has long been understood that catnip, and the similar Asian plant silvervine, have intoxicative properties, new research has found that cats’ instinctive response to the presence of catnip could be unwittingly helping the plant release chemicals which act like an insect repellent and could benefit cats.
Lead author of the research Masao Miyazaki, an animal expert at Iwate University in Japan who specialises in how chemicals drive animals instinctual behaviours, said cats’ reaction to catnip and silvervine was so universal across the world that he "had to know what was going on".
Catnip and silvervine leaves both contain the compounds nepetalactol and nepetalactone, from a chemical group called the iridoids that protect the plants from pests.
Catnip
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