M Is FOR MASHUP - July 17th, 2019
oki Struts His Stuff
By DJ Useo
For rather a number of lucrative years,
oki
( sowndhaus.audio/profile/oki )
has provided impressive bootleg tracks in voluminous numbers. His blends display the advanced taste of a skilled Deejay, along with the software training of a veteran bootlegger.
I've interacted with him many times, & have found him to be an intelligent, & aware person. Beyond his mixing, oki has shown sensitivity, & compassion that I find rare in the present world. I've called upon him countless times to be featured on various mashup compilations. He's perfect for comps because he is almost always currently creating, & he has the ability to deliver.
On
oki's Sowndhaus account
( sowndhaus.audio/profile/oki )
, you can find 120 swell tracks. They begin primarily with proper mashups, including a generous sampling of "Crumplbanger" (silly) style cuts, & progressively offers more original Electronic tracks. Currently, oki's in a wonderful period of self-composed music that matches the work of any charting artist.
You can find his complete new album "Post Trancematic Acid Syndrome"
here on Bandcamp
( okiacid.bandcamp.com/album/post-trancematic-acid-syndrome )
I've been enjoying the sneck out of the entire release. Decide for yourself soon.
I found the album so killer, I released a
new mashup of the first track from oki's album vs Barbra Streisand
( sowndhaus.audio/track/13464/dj-useo-woman-in-post-trancematic-acid-syndrome-barbra-streisand-vs-oki- ) .
Here's a great Crumplbanger style oki mix with video by YiTT
Sesame Street vs. The Who - Sesamy Generation (oki mashup)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy76e_Ur_Bk )
You'll find oki's output a satisfying catalogue, plus, he regularly adds more. Join in the oki strutting, & increase your Summer happiness.
Now, go put on more sunscreen lotion.
Have the Summer of good -
DJ Konrad Useo
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The dog whistle days are apparently over.
Garrett Epps: Can't Impeach Trump? Go After His Cabinet. (The Atlantic)
The story of William Belknap provides a way forward for Democrats.
Daniella Greenbaum Davis: The brief bravery of Scarlett Johansson (Spectator)
Perhaps the actress would be better off playing a tree than a person with convictions.
Michael Hann: "'Everyone is welcome to the party!': the B-52s on 40 years of new wave" (The Guardian)
'We never thought of ourselves as pop stars," says Kate Pierson, reflecting on the B-52s' 40 years of twisting the detritus of American popular culture into new shapes. They were so opposed to the notion, in fact, that when the band were nominated for best pop performance at the 1989 Grammys, for their single Love Shack, their singer Fred Schneider - part of an unorthodox vocal trident alongside Pierson and Cindy Wilson - wasn't happy. "Incensed!" Pierson recalls.
Luke Buckmaster: "Dead Poets Society: 30 years on Robin Williams' stirring call to 'seize the day' endures" (The Guardian)
From its enthusiasm for literature to its rousing finale, Peter Weir's film is a salute to inspiration itself.
Jonathan Jones: Banksy is the Brits' favourite painter of all time - is this status deserved? (The Guardian)
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Anecdotes
• B.B. King got a lucky break early in his career in Memphis. Bluesman and radio host Sonny Boy Williamson made a mistake and agreed to sing at two different clubs at the same time, an obvious impossibility. Therefore, he decided to let B.B. sing at one of the clubs-the one that paid less. However, he knew that the owner of that club, Miss Annie, was tough and would not let B.B. play at her club unless he could bring in some customers. No problem. Sonny Boy knew how to make B.B. a celebrity in a hurry-he simply put B.B. on his radio show and had him play some music. Miss Annie and lots of potential customers were listening, and B.B. brought in a bunch of customers when he played at Miss Annie's club. Another early job that B.B. had at about the same time was selling a popular all-purpose tonic called Pepticon. He played his guitar and sang and then sold Pepticon. For a long time, he wondered why Pepticon was so popular, and then he discovered that it was 12 percent alcohol.
• Chris Tucker, comedian and actor, once visited Ethiopia, where he talked with two nuns about their work running an orphanage. The two nuns admitted to growing discouraged occasionally. However, one nun had worked with Mother Teresa, and Mother Teresa's words comforted them: "You know how an ocean gets filled up? One drop of rain at a time." The nun identifies the lesson these words teach: "So you just keep doing what you can do."
• In 2007, at age 81, actor Dick Van Dyke starred in the mystery movie If Wishes Were Horses on the Hallmark Channel. The movie also featured Barry, Mr. Van Dyke's son, as well as Shane, Mr. Van Dyke's grandson. Of course, Mr. Van Dyke has a very good reason for giving work to his young relatives. He points out, "I found that one way to see my children is to give them work." Of course, members of the Van Dyke family do see each other outside of work, although family get-togethers happen mainly at holidays. As Mr. Van Dyke says, "They have very busy lives, these young people."
• Henri Landwirth was very ambitious. He worked in a New York City hotel, and he studied hotel management. He once bribed a night accountant with a bottle of whiskey. Why? Not to get out of work. Instead, Mr. Landwirth wanted to do the night accountant's work for him. Mr. Landwirth ended up learning every job in that New York City hotel. He became very wealthy, and he founded Give the Kids the World in 1985. This hotel and recreation complex in Florida gives a fun experience to kids with life-threatening illnesses and to the kids' families.
• Actors Eli Wallach and his wife, Anne Jackson, once appeared on TV in a light comedy called "Lullaby" on the program titled Play of the Week. Afterward, TV mover-and-shaker David Susskind told them, "I think 'Lullaby' can be developed into a series. I'll own a third, you'll own a third, and the network will own a third. And if it's successful, your children will never have to work again." Eli and Anne discussed the offer, and Anne asked, "Why shouldn't the children work?" The two decided they didn't want to do the series.
• Mack Sennett made a lot of comedies in the silent-film days, including the famous Keystone Cops comedies. Mr. Sennett liked to keep an eye on his employees, so he had a tower built in the middle of his movie studio. That way, he could look out and see what everyone was doing. Mr. Sennett also loved taking baths, so he had a huge marble bathtub built in the tower. When he wasn't spying on his employees or doing real work such as planning a comedy, he was often either taking a bath or getting a massage.
• Bob Hope made some very good movies and some very bad movies during his career. One of his very bad movies was a short titled Going Spanish which he made early in his career. Mr. Hope joked to columnist Walter Winchell about how bad the movie was: "When they catch [bank robber] John Dillinger, they're going to make him sit through it twice." Mr. Winchell printed the joke in his column, and Mr. Hope's movie company fired him.
• Robin Williams found out that his TV sitcom Mork and Mindy had been cancelled when he read about it in the trade newspapers-the studio did not even show him the courtesy of calling him on the telephone first before releasing the news to the media. At the time, he was working with fellow comedian Eric Idle in The Tale of the Frog Prince, and he says, "I was so angry and hurt-and I was dressed as a frog!"
• Behind the scenes of the hit sitcom Roseanne, a power struggle raged as star Roseanne wrestled control of the show away from executive producer Matt Williams. In the turmoil, many writers either quit or were fired, and one former writer for Roseanne paid for an advertisement in Variety that announced that he was planning a vacation "in the relative peace and quiet of Beirut."
• Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops (for popular, rather than pop, music), lived by the personal motto, "He who rests rots." Long after most people retire, he was still at work bringing music to other people. Of course, one piece of advice that he gave other people was "to make your life's work something that you really enjoy."
• Caryll Householder, author of This War is the Passion, once worked as a cleaning lady, but unfortunately she was afraid of mice. Part of her job was to take dead mice out of traps, but rather than do that herself, she paid the cooks to do it. The bribes took up most of her salary, so she quit her job.
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'Game of Thrones' Breaks Record
Emmy Nominations
The divisive final season of "Game of Thrones" smashed the record for most Primetime Emmy nominations by a drama series in a single year, earning a whopping 32 nods Tuesday.
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" -- Amazon's story of a 1950s housewife-turned-stand up comic -- was a distant second with 20 nominations.
"Thrones" is the most decorated fictional show in the awards' seven-decade history, and now has 161 nominations overall -- including 47 wins.
HBO claimed 137 nods to Netflix's 117 -- a record for each, meaning the pair tighten their joint stranglehold on the prestigious awards.
Amazon Prime also enjoyed a stellar year, more than doubling its haul to reach 47 nods, just behind NBC with 58.
Emmy Nominations
666th Episode
'The Simpsons'
Premiering in 1989, Matt Groening's seminal animation series The Simpsons, just missed inclusion in Netflix's Stranger Things universe (which takes place in 1985). So, since Stranger Things couldn't swallow The Simpsons in its mouthful of '80s TV and film references, The Simpsons, retaining its hold on all things cultural allusion, has finally come for Stranger Things.
The poster for the series' 30th installment of "Treehouse of Horror," its seasonal Halloween anthology, parodies the first season of the Netflix sensation: Lisa looms as Eleven, the Van Houten (Milhouse) family stands nervously as the Byers clan (with Chief Wiggum as Hopper), and Martin, Bart, and Nelson ride as Lucas, Will, and Dustin, respectively.
Treehouse of Horror XXX will premiere October 20th on FOX, and will be The Simpsons' 666th episode ("as we planned from the beginning," they joke at the top of the poster).
The first "Treehouse of Horror" aired in 1990 and spoofed The Twilight Zone. Since then, the series has rolled for some 28 seasons, and featured just about every cultural allusion one can imagine. The show became so iconic and so enmeshed in America's cultural, beer-stained fabric that a celebrity appearance (a person becoming Simpsonified, with the classic yellow animated skin and drooping upper jaw) came to be seen as an honor.
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Built Using Buckets Of Lard
Stonehenge
It's the great mystery of Stonehenge - how did ancient people carry the huge stones used to build the site from more than 100 miles away?
New research suggests that ancient people may have relied on a rather surprising kitchen ingredient... lard.
Scientists at Newcastle University have suggested that pig fat was used to lubricate massive wooden sledges to drag the stones of Stonehenge into position.
Previously, fat residues on shards of pottery at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge, were assumed to be related to feeding the people who came to build the monument.
But researchers now believe that the fragments are from dishes the size of buckets - meaning they could have been used to collect and store tallow, or animal fat.
Stonehenge
Climbed Barefoot
Mt. Rushmore
With family members watching, a woman from Nebraska climbed over a railing, ignored warning signs and illegally climbed Mount Rushmore, reaching as high as 15 feet from the top of the sculpture between Washington and Jefferson.
She climbed the iconic monument last Friday barefoot and without a rope.
On Monday in federal court in Rapid City, S.D., Alexandria Incontro learned the cost of her ill-advised climb. She pleaded guilty to the crime and was fined $1,000 and a $30 fee, as reported by the Rapid City Journal.
Charges of trespassing on property not open to the public, violating a closure of public use limit and failure to obey a lawful order were dropped by prosecutors.
A report said she began climbing just after 7 p.m., prompting a federal officer and park ranger to respond. When told to come down, Incontro responded by saying something like "do you want me to come down fast or slow?" according to the Journal. But she did neither at first, continuing to climb even higher.
Mt. Rushmore
'Most Racist President In American History'
Now Tied
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian says President Don-Old Trump (R-Pendejo) is now tied for number one in a category he may not want to brag about.
"He has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president in American history," Jon Meacham said on MSNBC on Monday, referring to the leader who routinely finishes at or near the very bottom of presidential rankings by historians.
Meacham said that "Johnson, in a state message, said that African-Americans were incapable of self-government and relapsed into barbarism if they weren't closely supervised."
Meacham said that America has never been about the concept of birthright but rather the belief that "all men are created equal," as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
"We didn't apply it that fully then, we haven't applied it fully now," he said. "But that journey toward a more perfect union is the story of the country."
Now Tied
World's Northernmost Settlement
Alert
Temperatures hit a record 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit in Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited spot on the planet less than 600 miles from the North Pole, the Canadian meteorology service said Tuesday.
"It's quite phenomenal as a statistic, it's just one example among hundreds and hundreds of other records established by global warming," Armel Castellan, a meteorologist at the Canadian environment ministry told AFP.
The temperature -- 21 degrees on the Celsius scale -- was recorded on Sunday at Alert, a permanent military base on the 82nd parallel which intercepts Russian communications and which has been home to a weather station since 1950.
The temperature was marked at 69.8 F on Sunday and 68 F the following day. "It's an absolute record, we've never seen that before," said Castellan.
The average daily temperature in Alert in July is 38 F, with average maximum temperatures of 43 F.
Alert
Prehistoric City
Motza
A huge prehistoric settlement discovered near Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists offers new insight into how civilizations developed around the end of the Stone Age.
The 9,000-year-old metropolis, uncovered during a survey before the construction of a new highway, is one of the biggest ever found, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday.
The team estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people lived there, which would parallel a city by modern standards. It covered dozens of acres near what is today the town of Motza, some five km (three miles) west of Jerusalem.
Before the discovery, it was widely believed the entire area had been uninhabited in that period, during which people were shifting away from hunting for survival to a more sedentary lifestyle that included farming.
The excavation exposed large buildings, alleyways and burial places, evidence of a relatively advanced level of planning, the antiquities authority said in a statement.
Motza
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 9.81 million.
2. MLB All-Star Game, Fox, 8.15 million.
3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 6.35 million.
4. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.05 million.
5. "Bring the Funny," NBC, 5.97 million.
6. "Home Run Derby," ESPN, 5.41 million.
7. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 5.044 million.
8. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 5.041 million.
9. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 4.5 million.
10. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 4.2 million.
11. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 4.16 million.
12. "To Tell the Truth," ABC, 4.058 million.
13. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 4.055 million.
14. "Holey Moley," ABC, 3.96 million.
15. "ESPY Awards," ABC, 3.87 million.
16. "The Code," CBS, 3.85 million.
17. "Bull," CBS, 3.84 million.
18. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 3.76 million.
19. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 3.739 million.
20. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 3.738 million.
Ratings
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