M Is FOR MASHUP - July 20th, 2022
The New Rillen Rudi Collection
DJ Useo
Since 2009 Rillen Rudi has been creating & posting superb mashups. He also favors us by compiling them into regular collections. Now, RR may not be one of the most prolific bootleggers, but he is one of the most skilled. He maintains a prized ability to do pairings that highly elevate the source material, resulting in rock solid, unforgettable tracks.
Now, he has released the 18th volume in the “Rillen Rudi Collection”
( sowndhaus.audio/profile/mrrillenrudi ) simply titled “The Rillen Rudi Collection 18”. I can personally recommend every track on this gem of a comp. My current three favorites are Sum 41 vs Aerosmith, Underworld vs A-Ha, & Weezer vs Faith No More. The rest are all just as good, but you know how personal our individual reactions can be.
You can find vol 18, ( plus many of the previous collections )
posted by the track here
( sowndhaus.audio/profile/mrrillenrudi ) If you love the content, ( & you will ) feel free to
contact Rillen Rudi here
( sowndhaus.audio/messages/mrrillenrudi/6143 ) Tell him you saw him written about here.
RR continues to mix & post, so I expect more volumes in this fine series. He also has
a great batch of videos here
( www.youtube.com/user/rillenrudi ) Oh crud, I see they removed all but two of his videos at that link. But, you can find many others by him by employing a simple search.
01 - Lobster Freaks ( B-52’s vs The Atlantics )
[ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qymJztZYkxQ ]
02 - Hooo Boys ( Moses Pelham vs Beastie Boys )
[ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtJPwlupl8 ]
03 - I Survived 1993 ( Souls of Mischiefs vs Mobb Deep )
[ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLQbOP-ZdA ]
Wow, is it hot here. If the Governor keeps the power on, I’ll be back with more mashups next Wednesday. Keep cool.
Have the day of good - DJ Konrad Useo
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Husbands and Wives
• Benjamin Disraeli once complimented his wife by saying, “Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife.” She was pleased with the compliment.
• When Wilson Mizner sued his wife for divorce, he was asked on which grounds he wanted the divorce. He replied, “Marriage is sufficient.”
Language
• Martha, the daughter of Quaker humorist Tom Mullen, married a Japanese man and moved to Japan. She learned the language and adjusted to the differences in cultures well. When her parents, Tom and Nancy, visited, they tried to learn a few phrases of Japanese. However, Martha sometimes laughed at their attempts to speak the language, telling them that they had invited some people to eat lunch in the bathroom or had called someone a train station.
• When Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades married Lisa Lebenzon, an Anglo (a white American not of Spanish descent) non-Spanish speaker, he asked her to learn Spanish so he could speak his native language at home. She finished in only seven months a Spanish course that normally took three years.
Mishaps
• Arturo Toscanini loved music so much that if something went wrong at a concert, he would tear his dressing room apart—and sometimes the offending musicians. At a performance of La Bohème, the brasses entered a little too soon at the conclusion. Only a professional could tell, but Mr. Toscanini was a professional. After retiring to his dressing room and kicking it to pieces (despite the immense applause of the audience), he sent for the brasses, who were still waiting because they knew Mr. Toscanini would want to talk to them. The brasses walked into the Maestro’s dressing room with their heads hanging down. Mr. Toscanini inspected them, then said, “I hang my head in shame. After what happened tonight, my life is finished. For me it is impossible to look in the face of anybody. I can live no more.” Mr. Toscanini then focused on the main offender, the leader of the brasses: “But you—you will sleep with your wife tonight as if nothing happened. I know you.”
• Lady Georgina Coleridge had a Great-Aunt Christine who was very absent-minded. One day, Great-Aunt Christine and her son John were riding in a train when it suddenly came to an emergency stop—Great-Aunt Christine had somehow hooked her umbrella into the emergency cord and pulled it. There was a great commotion and her son John ended up paying a fine. The train started again, and Great-Aunt Christine mulled over the incident. Finally, she said to her son, “Darling, I cannot understand why those men made such a fuss. All I did was this”—and she hooked her umbrella into the emergency cord and pulled it again. The result? Both Great-Aunt Christine and her son spent the night at a police station.
• When Ohio University student Nathaniel Sturgil was a child, an alarm clock caused a major panic in his family. The alarm was set very loud to allow the family to wake up to music, but one morning a radio drama was playing on the station. The radio drama was about a house fire, and the crackling of the flames could be heard very clearly. His mother ran screaming through the house, waking up her children and making them go outside until she realized her mistake.
• Lord Charles Beresford once enjoyed a visit to an English house in the country. That night, he made his way in the dark to what he thought was the door to his lover’s bedroom. Unfortunately, he had missed his way. Entering what he thought was the right bedroom, he cried “Cock-a-doodle-doo,” and jumped into bed—only to land in between the Bishop of Leicester and the Bishop’s wife.
• Many families have stories about how the parents met, fell in love, got engaged, then married, and started raising a family. For example, when the father of Ohio University student Emily Kresiak proposed to her mother, it was April Fool’s Day, although he didn’t realize that. It took a long time for her mother to realize that her father was serious in proposing to her.
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Track: "Surfnado"
Album: TRIPLE AGENT RECORDS Vol. lI
Artist: Toxic Riders
Artist Location: Barcelona, Spain
Record Company: Triple Agent Records
Record Company: Mexico City, Mexico
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“Triple Agent Records: SURF / GARAGE Indie Record Label from Mexico City.”
Price: Name Your Price (Includes FREE) for 22-track album by various artists.
“Surfnado” is also the Toxic Riders album TURBO SURF. Price: Name Your Price (Includes FREE) for 12-track album.
Genre: Surf. Garage.
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Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. and Tracy Beth Høeg M.D., Ph.D.: U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren't ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say
“It's like a horror movie I'm being forced to watch and I can't close my eyes,” one senior FDA official lamented. “People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.” That particular FDA doctor was referring to two recent developments inside the agency. First, how, with no solid clinical data, the agency authorized Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers, including those who already had Covid. And second, the fact that just months before, the FDA bypassed their external experts to authorize booster shots for young children.
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Recalls First Miscarriage
Cher
Cher is recalling how she experienced multiple miscarriages as a young bride to Sonny Bono.
In a tweet on Monday night, the pop star said she had a total of three miscarriages, the first when she was just 18.
"I was alone in our house," she wrote in a tweet, adding that her then-partner, Sonny Bono, had come home to find her "sobbing & rocking on our floor."
She said that when she got to the doctor, she was "screaming in pain" and the doctor sent her straight to the hospital and into the operating room.
"WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 2 ME TODAY," she asked.
Cher
Polaroid To Auction
Andy Warhol
A polaroid Andy Warhol took of Mick Jagger and a woman touching tongues is one of several original photographs and pieces being auctioned off by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
The original Jagger polaroid — which has a starting price of $10,000 — comes from a photo session Warhol spearheaded for the Rolling Stones’ 1977 album, Love You Live. As the Warhol Foundation noted, “Many of the photos from this session depicting band members and other people touching tongues or biting one another were incorporated into the album design, creating a surprising and somewhat controversial collage that coincidentally mirrored feelings between band members during the making of the album.”
Along with the Jagger snapshot, the Warhol Foundation auction features additional polaroids and photos of numerous folks in Warhol’s orbit. These include Grace Jones, Diane von Furstenberg, Jackie Curtis, Debbie Harry, Dennis Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Truman Capote, and Simon Le Bon.
Other auction lots include an array of original and vintage posters from Warhol’s collection, a signed first edition of his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), and a variety of hand-drawn illustrations and lithographs. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Warhol Foundation and its various efforts to support the visual arts.
Andy Warhol
Farted in Her Face
Miriam Margolyes
“Harry Potter” actor Miriam Margolyes revealed on the “I’ve Got News For You” podcast that she disliked working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the 1999 supernatural action movie “End of Days.” Schwarzenegger allegedly farted on Margolyes’ face in between filming takes. Margolyes said Schwarzenegger “deliberately” did it and she still hasn’t forgiven him.
“He’s a bit too full of himself and I don’t care for him at all. He’s a Republican, which I don’t like,” Margolyes said of Schwarzenegger. “He was actually quite rude. He farted in my face. Now, I fart, of course, I do — but I don’t fart in people’s faces. He did it deliberately, right in my face.”
“I was playing Satan’s sister and he was killing me, so he had me in a position where I couldn’t escape and lying on the floor. And he just farted,” Margolyes continued. “It wasn’t on film, it was in one of the pauses, but I haven’t forgiven him for it.”
“End of Days” was directed by Peter Hyams and starred Schwarzenegger as an ex-cop hunting for Satan before he can bring about the Antichrist. Margolyes, known to many for playing Professor Sprout in the “Harry Potter” movies, appeared as one of Satan’s assistants. The cast also included Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak and Rod Steiger.
Miriam Margolyes
Prime-Time Ratings
“America’s Got Talent”
For the week of July 11-17, the top 20 prime-time shows, their networks and viewerships:
1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.4 million
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6 million
3. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 4.2 million
4. “Press Your Luck,” ABC, 3.7 million
5. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.5 million
6. “Big Brother,” (Wednesday), CBS, 3.46 million
7. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 3.45 million
8. “Generation Gap,” ABC, 3.44 million
9. “FBI,” CBS, 3.44 million
10. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 3.33 million
11. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News Channel, 3.31 million
12. Jan. 6 Committee Hearing, MSNBC, 3.3 million
13. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 3.2 million
14. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Wednesday), Fox News Channel, 3.18 million
15. “The $100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 3.15 million
16. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday), Fox News Channel, 3.15 million
17. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News Channel, 3.14 million
18. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.12 million
19. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 3.1 million
20. “FBI: Most Wanted,” 3.05 million
“America’s Got Talent”
What Pregnancy and Childbirth Do
Young Girls
After the account a 10-year-old Ohio girl crossing state lines to get an abortion drew national attention last week, some prominent opponents of abortion suggested the child should have carried her pregnancy to term.
But midwives and doctors who work in countries where pregnancy is common in young adolescent girls say those pushing for very young girls to carry pregnancies to term may not understand the brutal toll of pregnancy and delivery on the body of a child.
“Their bodies are not ready for childbirth and it’s very traumatic,” said Marie Bass Gomez, a midwife and the senior nursing officer at the reproductive and child health clinic at Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Gambia.
The critical issue is that the pelvis of a child is too small to allow passage of even a small fetus, said Dr. Ashok Dyalchand, who has worked with pregnant adolescent girls in low-income communities in India for more than 40 years.
The phenomenon of young girls having babies is relatively rare in the United States. In 2017, the last year for which data was available, there were 4,460 pregnancies among girls under 15, with just under half ending in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and surveys clinics regularly.
Young Girls
New Rush to Buy
Composers’ Catalogs
For the past several years, high demand for intellectual property and deep pockets have fueled a catalog acquisition boom that’s inspired Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen and more to sell off their lifetime musical legacies for record-setting cash returns in the hundreds of millions. Now the trend is making its way beyond commercial pop and rock to film scores.
The composers behind the music for iconic films and TV shows such as The Dark Knight, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jason Bourne and Glee have all sold their works in recent months, fetching millions of dollars as music-makers take an immediate cash payout rather than roll the dice on what their music will earn in the coming years.
Among those at the forefront of these deals: Multimedia Music, a six-month old music acquisition and production company whose owners say they want their business to become “the biggest film and TV music company in the world.”
“Composers are seeing the same incentives as the commercial songwriters. The market to sell is similar,” says Phil Hope, Multimedia Music’s co-founder and CEO. “It’s a few years behind [the pop sales], but the buying space in the commercial world has certainly triggered a response from the film and TV community to say, ‘why don’t we start thinking about this too? If big pop writers can do this, why can’t I?’”
Composers’ Catalogs
Clogged California Ports
Trucking
Truck drivers choked traffic at the Oakland, California, seaport on Monday protesting a state law that makes it harder for independent contractors to transport goods and could limit labor at the state's already clogged seaports, threatening to worsen the nation's pandemic-fueled supply chain jams.
California's ports handle about 40% of container goods that enter the United States. Trucking disruptions come at a time when unions and West Coast port employers are also negotiating a high-stakes labor contract.
The law, known as AB5, or the "gig worker" law, sets tougher standards for classifying workers as independent contractors. Independent truckers who now operate under the authority and insurance of companies that hire them for jobs would be shouldered with the hefty costs and red tape of taking that on when the law is enacted.
California's port trucking work practices trace back to the 1980s, when the United States deregulated trucking. That transformed the business from one dominated by large, unionized companies to the current model in which most firms rely on independent drivers, many of whom are recent immigrants.
Port driver pay is now one-half to two-thirds less than what it was before deregulation, according to an estimate from Wayne State University economics professor Michael Belzer. It is difficult to derive accurate data on compensation because government data, particularly on hours worked, is incomplete, he said.
Trucking
East Pacific
Hydrothermal Field
A massive field of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor in the dark depths of the East Pacific ocean is the hottest and largest discovered in the region yet.
Not only that, but it's in a place scientists didn't expect to find active vents, never mind an entire system of them, hundreds of meters from the axis of a volcanic ridge.
The field was discovered by a team of scientists using autonomous underwater vehicles to map the seafloor at depths inhospitable to human explorers.
In data obtained from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's AUV Sentry, the team saw a region of huge spires, standing up to three stories tall at depths of 2,560 (8,400 feet) meters below the surface – in the silent, permanently dark bathypelagic depths.
"We were astounded that not only was the field very active, but it is larger in area and hotter in origin temperature than any other hydrothermal vent field known along this portion of the East Pacific Rise that has been studied for the past 30 years," says marine geologist Daniel Fornari of WHOI.
Hydrothermal Field
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