M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - August 7th, 2019
RadioClash Brings The Classic Comps
By DJ Useo
Last week I told you about "E.T.K.'s Mash Like Teen Spirit EP"
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-073119.index.html ) .
This week I found for you a batch of classic mashup collections hosted from RadioClash
( www.radioclash.com/ ) .
Aside from over 300 awesome podcasts, the site maintains links to great early mashup compilations
( www.radioclash.com/archives/2009/10/31/know-your-history-part-3-parkspliced-blur-remix-project/ ) .
In the RadioClash "Know Your History" posts, you can find tremendous early mashup collections like "PARKSPLICED BLUR REMIX PROJECT", "GYBO'S I CREATED A MONSTER", & "MUTANT POP ONE 2002 MASHUP COMPILATION".
Simply check the reference links at the bottom of the pages, & you'll find many more past releases, all with working links. ( If you get a dead link, reload it again, as they will normally refresh as useable links )
RadioClash
( www.radioclash.com/ ) is one cool site. Show your support, & also feel the benefit.
Meanwhile, enjoy the hottest Earth Summer ever.
DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Christmas
• Opera singer Leo Slezak’s wife received money each month to pay for the household accounts. Whenever Christmas or a birthday rolled around, Mr. Slezak would have his son steal her moneybox and its key and take them to him. He would put extra cash in the moneybox, then have his son return the moneybox and key to their proper places.
• In the family of Quaker humorist Tom Mullen, as part of the Christmas tradition the youngest child opened her presents first. The youngest child was Ruthie, who was not as materialistic as her siblings. For Ruthie a great part of the pleasure of Christmas lay in making her siblings wait a long time to open their presents.
• During the Christmas season of 1889, Jane Addams discovered the seriousness of child labor when several little girls refused the candy she offered them. The little girls explained that they worked in a candy factory from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., and they “could not bear the sight” of candy.
• On December 20, before the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, the Canadian women’s hockey team lost 3-0 to the American team at the Three Nations Cup. Canadian coach Shannon Miller was so angry that she commanded her players not to drink alcohol during the Christmas holiday.
• In the 1940s, African-American singer Marian Anderson threw a big Christmas party where she bought dolls for all the girls and footballs for all the boys. She stored all of the leftover toys in the basement of her nephew James DePreist, so he never ran out of footballs.
• Bass Fyodor Chaliapin and tenor Beniamino Gigli became friends during an engagement in Vienna, where they often ate risotto in an Italian restaurant. Thereafter, they sent each other Christmas cards signed “Risotto.”
• The family of Quaker humorist Tom Mullen had a Christmas tradition of hanging a stocking and wrapping gifts (rubber bones and dog biscuits) for their pet dog, a mutt named Terry.
• When Ohio sportscaster Jimmy Crum was getting his start in radio in the early 1940s, he used to frequently play “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole during the summer.
• One Christmas, writer Donald Ogden Stewart gave his wife an all-expenses paid vacation in a maternity ward, to be used the following September 25.
• Deaf children sometimes have a difficult time communicating with Santa Claus — his bushy beard and mustache can make it impossible to lip read.
Church
• One way to protest segregationist businesses is to stop spending your money there. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus company, people started walking. For those people who had to go long distances, car pools sprang up. Donations flowed in to the boycott movement, and Dr. King used the money to buy several station wagons to use for car-pooling — because of the righteousness of the boycott movement, these station wagons became known as “rolling churches.” When the bus company had been hurt in the pocketbook long enough, it ceased to segregate. Riding on the first desegregated bus together were Dr. King, Ralph David Abernathy, E.D. Nixon, and white minister Reverend Glenn Smiley.
• A. Monroe Aurand, Jr., used to attend an inter-denominational church meeting, where members of the Reformed church were asked to stand, then sit, and then the members of the Lutheran church were asked to stand. The chair of the meeting asked Mr. Aurand why he had stood up both times. Mr. Aurand said that he had stood up the first time because he had been born and raised in the Reformed church, and he had stood up the second time because after he had gotten married he had started to attend the nearest church and had become a Lutheran. The chair replied, “I guess it’s OK. I always had a hunch that one had to be reformed before he could become a Lutheran.”
• Mexican artist Diego Rivera hardly ever went to church when he was a child. One day, he attended a church service with an aunt, where he saw people praying before statues. Not realizing that the statues were symbols, young Diego thought that the people believed that the statues themselves had power. He grew very angry, and he ran to the altar, then he started shouting, telling the worshippers that they were stupid. Several worshippers thought that he was possessed by the devil; eventually, his aunt was able to get Diego out of the church. (Much later, as an adult, Mr. Rivera announced that he was a Catholic.)
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Presenting
Michael Egan
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In memory.
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Album: SHADOWS OF SOUND
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Artist Location: Switzerland
Info:
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Lead Vocals, Guitar – Jackie Brutsche
Produced by Jorge Explosion
Price: 1 CHF (Swiss Franc) for track; 8 CHF (Swiss Franc) for 11-track album
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Genre: Rock.
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Reader Comment
Current Events
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, extra hot, and way too humid.
Four-Month High
Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returned to the studio with all the bells and whistles last night.
There were hugs, a raucous audience and an admittedly slightly strange appearance from Jon Stewart.
The bonanza also helped the CBS in the overnight ratings. The return to the Ed Sullivan Theater episode scored 2.32M viewers in live+same day ratings, which was its largest audience since Tuesday May 11 – the night that Michelle Obama appeared.
The network also estimates that when the live+3 ratings come in this will rise to 3.18M, which would make it the show’s best performance since Monday February 8, the night after the Super Bowl, which featured The Equalizer’s Queen Latifah and Minari’s Steven Yeun.
Colbert
'Don't Do That'
Harley Quinn
Heroes like Batman and Superman routinely go above and beyond to save random strangers on the street. But when it comes to a little reciprocity in the sack? Executive producers of HBO Max’s Harley Quinn say DC Comics would rather have its superhero characters dance with the devil in the pale moonlight than show them engaging in oral sex.
In a recent interview with our sister site Variety, co-creators/EPs Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker said that the iconic comic company nixed a Season 3 Harley Quinn scene that depicted one of its legacy characters bestowing some highly specific special attention upon another.
“We had a moment where Batman was going down on Catwoman. And DC was like, ‘You can’t do that. You absolutely cannot do that.’ They’re like, ‘Heroes don’t do that,'” Halpern told Variety. “So we said, ‘Are you saying heroes are just selfish lovers?’ They were like, ‘No, it’s that we sell consumer toys for heroes. It’s hard to sell a toy if Batman is also going down on someone.'”
Harley Quinn, with its titular character voiced by The Flight Attendant‘s Kaley Cuoco, is an animated series for adults that follows the outspoken queenpin’s exploits in Gotham City — and its plots focus mainly on DC villains doing outlandish things. Indeed, Schumacker and Halpern also noted that DC has allowed the series’ storytelling to push its limits many times; a source close to the series says that the EPs are often incredulous about what they have been able to get away, plot-wise, in the first two seasons.
Harley Quinn
Continues Promoting Misinformation
Clapton
At age 76, Eric Clapton still wants to make the world worse. After producing an oeuvre of some of the most lukewarm blues rock imaginable, the three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer (who in 1976 told a live audience that he wants to “Keep Britain white”) is still spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories. Still not tired of this shit after a year and a half, Clapton sat down with something called Oracle Films. This loosely defined filmmaking team promotes free speech and open debate, meaning they’ve produced a couple of slick videos about how the lockdowns are bad, actually.
Clapton’s 25-minute interview is a map of his radicalization. Like many people who fell down the Qanon rabbit hole, old “Slowhand” details being disillusioned with the government during Brexit and turning to, you guessed it, YouTube. He discovered lockdown skeptics promoting “focused protection,” a widely criticized theory that would mean lockdowns for the most vulnerable and free and open spread for everyone else. As the pandemic continued, Clapton found himself frequenting COVID-skeptic channels on the encrypted chat app Telegram, where he found a community more welcoming to his distorted worldview and, in turn, alienated him from friends and family. It’s a tale as old as time (or, at least, the last five years or so).
“I would try to reach out to fellow musicians and sometimes I just don’t hear from them anymore,” Clapton said. “My phone doesn’t ring very often. I don’t get that many texts and emails any more. It’s quite noticeable.”
For his part, Clapton, once again, tells of his vaccination story, which he says left him bedridden for two weeks. Exacerbated by his pre-existing medical conditions, such as emphysema and nerve damage, the Astra-Zeneca (AZ) vaccine, he says, gave him many of the well-reported symptoms like chills, fever, and aches. Nevertheless, the experience he outlines was undoubtedly a little more intense than others:
Last year, Clapton decided to do one of the worst things a musician can do at the current moment: He released a single with Van Morrison. The latter unleashed an album of vague conspiratorial ramblings in 2020. And despite featuring a track entitled “They Own The Media,” Van Morrison’s Latest Record Project Volume 1 (an ominous title if there ever was one) is still available on all platforms, which is just great.
Clapton
Emails Show Alarm
DOJ
Senior officials at the Justice Department expressed deep frustration and alarm with top Trump officials' fixation on the election results in the final days of Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)'s presidency. One such interaction left the acting attorney general so shaken that he decided to contemporaneously document the episode.
According to a trove of emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, repeatedly asked Justice Department officials to investigate claims of purported voter and election fraud.
In a January 1 email to then-acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen, Meadows asked the department to look into a YouTube video in which a retired CIA intelligence officer named Brad Johnson made broad, unverified claims that the US embassy in Rome somehow switched votes from Trump to Biden during the election. The baseless conspiracy theory, dubbed "ItalyGate," caught fire in right-wing circles in the days and weeks after the election, and Johnson was one of its key promoters.
Rosen forwarded Meadows' email to then-acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, to which Donoghue replied, "Pure insanity."
Rosen responded to Donoghue saying, "Yes."
DOJ
"Putin's Favorite Congressman"
Dana
An ex-congressman from California confirmed he participated in the January 6 march to the Capitol that preceded the deadly insurrection, after internet detectives discovered him in video footage from the scene, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Pro Taliban), a Republican who represented California in the US House of Representatives from 1989 to 2019, told the outlet he participated in what started as a "peaceful" march, but denied entering the Capitol and said he discouraged his fellow protesters from doing so as well.
"I marched to protest, and I thought the election was fraudulent and it should be investigated, and I wanted to express that and be supportive of that demand," Rohrabacher told the Press Herald. "But I was not there to make a scene and do things that were unacceptable for anyone to do."
The polarizing figure, who has been called "Putin's favorite congressman" due to his prominent pro-Russia opinions and an unusual friendship with the Russian president, is one of the most high-profile figures to be outed as a rally attendee thus far.
Rohrabacher, who fashioned himself as a Trump ally, was the longest-serving House member to lose reelection in 2018 and moved to Maine shortly after.
Dana
Officially A Lizard
Amber
Last year, a tiny fossil became big news. Trapped inside ancient amber, scientists thought they'd found the skull of a minuscule, hummingbird-like dinosaur with pointy teeth, bulging eyes, and surprisingly robust bones.
It was like no ancient bird or dinosaur ever discovered before. That's because it was actually neither.
A similar skeleton found in the same area now suggests the so-called "eye tooth bird" (Oculudentavis khaungraae) is, in reality, a lizard. Its long snout had simply been squashed over time so that it resembled more of a beak.
Even with such a beak-like snout, some experts remained unconvinced by the discovery. In 2020, shortly after the tiniest known dinosaur was announced, scientists in the field began disputing the classification.
While some early bird fossils have been found with mouths full of teeth - a remnant of their dinosaur heritage - these gnashers are usually nestled in sockets, not directly attached to the jaw bone; and no early bird has ever possessed such lizard-like eyes.
Amber
3 Woolly Mammoths
Yukon
Gold miners have discovered three partial skeletons of three woolly mammoths, which may have been part of the same family, at Little Flake Mine near Dawson City, Yukon, in Canada.
They turned over the bones to the Yukon government. "We seem to have one large full-grown mammoth, one younger adult and one juvenile," said Grant Zazula, the head paleontologist for the Yukon government.
Some of the bones are still articulated (connected) with each other, Zazula told Live Science in an email. The way the bones were found suggests "that these three mammoths were probably living together and died together very close to where the fossil bones were found," Zazula added. Even if they weren't family members, they may have been part of a larger herd, he said.
The miners found the mammoth skeletons near a layer of volcanic tephra that likely dates to around 29,000 years ago when a volcano on the Aleutian Islands erupted, Zazula said. The mammoths therefore likely lived around the time of the eruption. At that time, much of Canada was covered in glaciers, with the area around Dawson City being one of the few areas that was ice-free, Zazula said.
"The mining region in the interior of the Yukon was part of the unglaciated landscape called Beringia, which connected with Alaska and Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge," Zazula said. "The climate was incredibly cold and dry, likely treeless, leading to the prevalence of grazing mammals," Zazula noted. From about 35,000 to 18,000 years ago, woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) crossed that land bridge into North America, according to the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Yukon
Suffering For Fashion
Bunions
As many as one in three Americans suffer from bunions, those painful bumps that form on the outside of the big toe. Wearing high heels or ill-fitting shoes that cramp the toes can make the pain even worse, since constrained spaces increase pressure on the big toe joint. That doesn't deter people from wearing them, however. It's a well-established maxim that sometimes one must suffer in order to be fashionable.
According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, people in the European Middle Ages also endured pain in the name of fashion—in this case, with shoes with exaggerated pointed toes. University of Cambridge archaeologists studied skeletal remains excavated from Cambridge and found evidence that bunions were far more prevalent in remains from the 14th and 15th centuries than in those from earlier centuries, when more pragmatic footwear was popular. This may have increased the risk of suffering fractures from falls.
The shoes in question are known as crackows because they were thought to originate in the capital of Poland. They are also called pikes or poulaines (which can also refer just to the long pointed toe instead of the entire shoe). They came into fashion around 1382, when Richard II married Anne of Bohemia. Both men and women wore them, although the aristocratic men's shoes tended to have the longest toes, sometimes as long as five inches. The toes were typically stuffed with moss, wool, or horsehair to help them hold their shape. There is evidence in the literature from that period that people sometimes tied the toes up to the leg in order to walk more freely, although no archaeological evidence of the practice has been found.
It was a controversial fashion choice, with one 1388 English poem lamenting that men could no longer kneel in prayer because of the long beaks on their shoes. Charles V of France banned poulaines in Paris outright in 1368. And by 1463, English King Edward IV was so annoyed by the trend that he passed a law restricting anyone who was not nobility from wearing poulaines of more than two inches. The shoes were banned altogether two years later, and the trend died out completely by 1475 in favor of wide box-toed shoes.
Bunions
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