It's actually time again for another volume in my "DJ Useo - INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA" series. It's been done for a while now, but I didn't want to post it too soon after my recent "FRIKKENFRACK 11-DJ Useo's Strangest Mashups" album
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-070820.index.html ) . I'm sure the wait only heightened your sense of anticipation. I got the chance to run the album by other bootleggers, & they all said it was good to go, & what took me so long. lol.
It's a huge boost to my motivation to have people write & ask for more. Well, that's just what happened with this IP series. Through the entire mix process, I consistently had friends, & strangers contacting me about this series. They all wanted more, & urged me to keep them very psychedelic, & as intense as possible. Still, I did throw in a few mellow psychedelic tracks to assist the flow.
There's plenty of genre clash on this volume with tracks like R.E.M. vs The Doors, Heart vs The Dukes Of Stratosphere, Soul Vision vs David Tort & DJ Ruff vs Spirit, & Queen vs The Cosmic Dead, plus 16 more. It required mixing over about 3 months to bring this to a full discs' worth of length.
At this point it's likely there'll be more in this series. Get your requests to me for featured artists & I'll more than likely use them. Now, dig into the music. It'll do you good.
• Carl Fabergé created many works of art for the Russian Imperial family, including his famous Easter eggs, but working for royalty did have its disadvantages. Alexandra, wife of Czar Nicholas, occasionally wanted Mr. Fabergé to create a piece of jewelry for her, so she would send a drawing to him along with a statement of how much she was willing to pay to have the artwork created. Unfortunately, she did not know much about goldsmithing, so Mr. Fabergé was often obliged to alter her drawing and her piece of jewelry. In addition, Mr. Fabergé sometimes took a loss in manufacturing one of her pieces of jewelry - no one would dare to suggest that the Czarina pay a higher price than the one she had suggested! Fortunately, Mr. Fabergé was able to make up the losses with the other work that he created for the Russian imperial family. (For example, Nicholas once gave Alexandra a diamond necklace that cost 166,500 rubles, and his parents once gave her a 267-pearl necklace that cost 171,600 rubles. Mr. Fabergé made both necklaces, and each necklace cost the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars.)
• While growing up, country comedian Archie Campbell liked to draw, and he quickly discovered that he enjoyed creating art a whole lot better than doing heavy farm work. As a youngster, he once worked an entire day pulling hay for 75 cents. The next day, he was so sore that he couldn't go to work and pull hay. That turned out to be a lucky break, because a neighbor lady asked him to paint a picture on her wall. Archie painted the picture in three hours, and the neighbor lady was so pleased that she gave him $3 - a lot of money in those days. Archie raced home and told his mother that he had made in three hours as an artist what he would have made in four days as a hay puller. He also said that he was going to make his living as an artist. Things didn't quite work out that way, as Archie first became a country musician, then made it big as a country comedian, but he kept on painting - mostly as a hobby but occasionally as a source of income.
• One would expect that the owner of an art gallery would be very aware of how much money a customer has available to spend on art, but it doesn't always work out that way. Before World War II, Lucy Carrington Wertheimer ran an art gallery that concentrated on the work of then-modern artists. One day, a well-dressed woman expressed interest in a work of art by L.D. Rust - a drawing of a horse, which she wanted for her little son's room. Ms. Wertheim named the price, but the well-dressed woman returned the drawing to the portfolio. Because Ms. Wertheim thought that the price had been too high for the woman, she reduced it, and the well-dressed woman bought the drawing. Ms. Wertheim then discovered that the well-dressed woman was Barbara Hutton, Countess Reventlow, who at the time was the richest woman in the world.
• Edna Hibel showed much talent early in her career, and of course people wanted to buy her paintings early in her career, causing a kind of crisis because she did not want to sell them. However, she talked to her art teacher, Professor Karl Zerbe, who gave her good advice. He told her that if she thought she could paint a better painting, then she ought to sell a painting she had already created, but if she thought she could not create a better painting, then she ought to hold on to the painting she thought was best. Of course, Ms. Hibel always thought she could create a better painting, so she began to sell her paintings. She says, "I hope I can always do better! Letting go of what I consider my best work is much easier when I remember Karl Zerbe's remarks."
The 1960 Grammy Award for Record of the Year went to a pop song based on a 1928 German music drama about Mackie Messer. What is the title of this song?
Kokomo is a city in Indiana and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Howard County, the Kokomo-Peru CSA, which includes Howard and Miami counties, as well as the North Central Indiana region compromising of 6 counties anchored by the city of Kokomo. Kokomo's population was 45,468 at the 2010 census but after multiple rounds of successful annexation along with regular population growth the city had grown to approximately 58,020 by 2019 marking it as Indiana's 8th-largest city outside the Indianapolis MSA and the Chicago MSA.
Named for the Miami Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo who was called "Chief Kokomo", Kokomo first benefited from the legal business associated with being the county seat. Before the Civil War, it was connected with Indianapolis and then the Eastern cities by railroad, which resulted in sustained growth. Substantial growth came after the discovery of large natural gas reserves, which produced an economic boom in the mid-1880s. Among the businesses which the boom attracted was the fledgling automobile industry. A significant number of technical and engineering innovations were developed in Kokomo, particularly in automobile production, and, as a result, Kokomo became known as the "City of Firsts." A substantial portion of Kokomo's employment still depends on the automobile industry.
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Gonna call this one a 'can of worms'.
Springfield didn't come up in my search, but it was 4am, I was tired, and just wanted to call it a day.
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Kokomo, IN
Mark. answered:
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Randall wrote:
Springfield, MA
zorch said:
Kokomo, Indiana, which, Beach Boys, is not in the Caribbean.
Dave responded:
According to Google, several cities claim that title so I used wiki as the tiebreaker and I declare Springfield, Massachusetts as the unofficial "City of Firsts." Other claimants for the title are Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Lynn, and Kokomo. A few miles from me there is a Springfield, Michigan but that is just a First Class Shit Hole, completely surrounded by another shitty town called Battle Creek. If you are driving past Battle Creek, my advice is to keep going.
Cal in Vermont replied:
A bunch of them, apparently.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Kokomo, Indiana.....though I also saw Springfield listed as well
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
I thought I answered yesterday's TQ, because I knew the answer, but I guess I dreamed it.
A cursory search for today's answer yields several U.S. cities, and I don't really know which one is the real city of firsts, so I'm going with "you got me, Marty." Well played.
Adam answered:
Kokomo, Indiana.
Alternately Springfield, Massachusetts claims the name.
Daniel in The City replied:
Kokomo, IN
Billy in Cypress U$A responded:
It seems to be a PR battle between Springfield, MA and Kokomo, IN. I will side with Kokomo because I like the name. If it were a question about "The Simpsons", I would nave chosen Springfield.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
That depends on what web page you're looking at. It's either Springfield, MA, or Boston ,MA, or Baltimore, MD, or Philadelphia, PA, or Lynn, MA. Take your pick.
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Thick marine layer rolled in, didn't burn off til late afternoon.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 6/18/20) are Sherrilyn Ifill and Mike Birbiglia.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 6/18/20) are David Tennant, Jodie Whittaker, and Leon Bridges featuring Terrace Martin.
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
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/25/20) is Karen Gillan.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'United We Fall', followed by a RERUN'The Goldbergs', then a RERUN'The Conners', followed by a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/16/20), with guest host Sebastian Maniscalco, is Alex Rodriguez.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a RERUN'MasterChef', followed by another RERUN'MasterChef'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Goonies', followed by the movie 'Independence Day'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Shadowplay
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Playing God
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Profit and Loss
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Blood Oath
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Maquis
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Devil's Due
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Clues
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - First Contact
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Galaxy's Child
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Night Terrors
[5:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[8:00PM] THE GREEN MILE
[12:00AM] THE GREEN MILE
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - First Contact
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Galaxy's Child (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Furious 7', followed by the movie 'Jurassic World', then the movie 'Jurassic World', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - Heavenly Daze
[6:45A] Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Blood Waters of Dr. Z
[9:00A] Pompeii
[11:30A] Kick-Ass 2
[2:00P] Semi-Pro
[4:00P] Grandma's Boy
[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] Kick-Ass 2
[3:30A] The Original Kings of Comedy (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] 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] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] columbo - Dead Weight
[1:15pm] columbo - Blueprint For Murder
[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] the andy griffith show
[3:30am] the andy griffith show
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Tomb Raider', followed by the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow'.
Neil Young filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump (R-Dolt)'s campaign to his Archives site Tuesday, claiming the President and his campaign does not have a proper license to play his songs "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Devil's Sidewalk" at rallies.
The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a long spat between Young and Trump that dates all the way back to June 2015, when Trump played "Rockin' in the Free World" immediately after announcing his intention to run for president. Young expressed his displeasure then and did so again after Trump played the song at a 2018 rally - he expressed the same sentiment most recently after Trump played the Freedom cut at events in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mount Rushmore.
Young's lawsuit states: "The Campaign does not now have, and did not at the time of the Tulsa rally, have a license or Plaintiff's permission to play the two Songs ['Rockin' in the Free World' and 'Devil's Sidewalk'] at any public political event." Young is seeking "statutory damages in the maximum amount allowed for willful copyright infringement."
The suit claims that the Trump campaign has "willfully ignored [Young] telling it not to play the Songs and willfully proceeded to play the Songs despite its lack of a license and despite its knowledge that a license is required to do so." However, in a section right above that, the Young suit acknowledges that following the first dust-up over "Rockin' in the Free World" in 2015, "the Campaign issued a statement stating that it had procured a license to do so, thus acknowledging that it knew a license is required."
Jonathan Swan's interview with Donald Trump (R-Addled) for Axios on HBO is getting a lot of attention for what the president says about the rising number of coronavirus cases, claims of Russia funding of the Taliban and what he thinks of the late John Lewis, among other things.
What also stands out, though, is Swan's willingness to challenge Trump on some of his most common pronouncements. Watch the interview below.
The president has a gift for repeating exaggerated, misleading and false claims, to the point where they have become just a routine part of discourse. He often answers questions with a fusillade of assertions, making it difficult for any reporter to know how and when to interrupt and when to just let him speak.
Swan, though, countered Trump on some of his oft-repeated lines at some key moments. Example: Trump's frequent attacks on mail-in voting as fraudulent.
The Simpsons actor Harry Shearer, who gives voice to characters ranging from elderly miser Mr. Burns to the unflappable African-American physician Dr. Julius Hibbert, isn't quite in agreement with the long-running show's recent decision to stop using white actors for non-white characters.
"I have a very simple belief about acting," Shearer said Monday during an interview on Times Radio. "The job of the actor is to play someone who they're not."
Though Shearer pointed out that he was not "opining" on whether the producers' recent decision was a mistake, the actor said about playing a range of characters, "That's the gig. That's the job description."
Shearer also explained that his opinion is not one of self-interest: "We don't get paid by the voice."
In addition to Mr. Burns and Dr. Hibbert, Shearer voices the show's Principal Skinner, Reverend Lovejoy, Ned Flanders and Waylon Smithers.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is one of the most mysterious organizations in the entertainment industry, if only because nobody seems to know what the organization even does (if anything) beyond handing out the Golden Globe awards every year, but a new lawsuit filed by a Norwegian journalist named Kjersti Flaa (via The Hollywood Reporter) is trying to shed a rather unflattering light on the "culture of corruption" fostered by the HFPA. Unlike the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences (which grows every year), the HFPA consists of only 87 members-many of whom are at least in their 70s-and the lawsuit accuses the organization of establishing rules that are specifically designed to ensure that those 87 people (and only them) continue to get special treatment from movie and TV studios in the form of invitations to exclusive events and opportunities to interview big stars.
Furthermore, the suit says that members are barred from competing against other members, so global markets are divided up among the members and no one is allowed to write for an outlet that another member writes for or an outlet that competes with an outlet that someone else writes for. So let's say, hypothetically, that you're an entertainment reporter from Country A. The HFPA already has a member who covers the movie industry for The Country A News, so you can't join the HFPA if you also write for Country A News or if you write for its competing outlet, The Country A Tribune.
According to the suit, this has given the HFPA the ability to reject potential members-who would like to be given the access and benefits that HFPA members enjoy-based solely on whether or not they could conceivably impact another member's ability to write about going to fancy events, to interview celebrities, or to (hypothetically) get payola from filmmakers and movie studios who want to bolster their project's Oscar chances. After all, a Golden Globe win is a big deal, and if you're the person who gets to choose who wins a Golden Globe, that makes you a big deal.
Variety puts a pretty fine point on this in it's write-up, referring to what Flaa is describing as "a cartel" based on the way the HFPA is supposedly stifling competition illegally. The allegations in the suit also go further, saying that there's no clear system in place for rejecting or approving members and that there's no emphasis whatsoever given to an applicant's body of work. Instead, their potential membership is supposedly based entirely on whether or not they could be a threat to another member.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. territory access to three federal welfare programs in a major decision cheered by many.
Legal experts warned that they expect the U.S. government to appeal the ruling, and if unsuccessful, to take it as far as the U.S. Supreme Court given the millions of dollars at stake.
In a 70-page ruling, Judge William G. Young called it a discriminatory policy to deny Puerto Ricans Supplemental Security Income, which provides extra income for the elderly, blind, or disabled; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps; and Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy, which helps cover the cost of a prescription drug plan.
Young noted that the U.S. territory of 3.2 million people has a 43% poverty rate, and that the nine plaintiffs are poor enough to qualify for at least one of the three federal welfare programs.
President Donald Trump (R-Inadequate) apparently doesn't know how to pronounce the name of one of America's most famous national parks.
During a speech at the White House on Tuesday following the signing of the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, Trump twice pronounced Yosemite as "yo-Semites."
"When young Americans experience the breathtaking beauty of the Grand Canyon, when their eyes widen in amazement as Old Faithful bursts into the sky, when they gaze upon yo-Semites, yo-Semites, towering sequoias, their love of country grows stronger, and they know that every American has truly a duty to preserve this wonderous inheritance," Trump said.
Yosemite National Park is one of the country's most visited tourist destinations - 4.5 million people traveled to the park in 2019, according to the National Park Service.
More than 4,000 new laptop computers bound for an Alabama school district are being held by customs due to human rights concerns, weeks before the school year is set to begin with increased online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to education officials.
Etowah County Schools Superintendent Alan Cosby said Tuesday that his district ordered the Chromebook computers in June through a reseller called Trinity3 Technology, which helps supply schools with remote learning technology.
The laptops were scheduled for delivery to his system this week, but the company informed district officials that the computers were being held by the U.S. Department of Commerce in customs because they involved an electronics manufacturer accused of involvement in human rights violations in China, Cosby said.
Cosby said his district, which surrounds the city of Gadsden, was told it might not receive the products until October.
A tourist broke the toes of a famous sculpture that dates back to 1804 at Italy's Museo Antonio Canova on Friday, according to a Facebook post shared by the museum.
Multiple reports, including one from Artnet News, say the tourist was attempting to take a selfie while sitting on Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova's plaster "Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix" at the museum in Possagno, just over an hour outside of Venice, when the mishap occurred.
The sculpture displayed in the northern Italy museum is a plaster cast for the marble version, "Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix," which is currently in Rome's Galleria Borghese.
This won't be the first time the statue has been restored. As Artnet News points out, citing Italian newspaper la Repubblica, the plaster cast lost its head after a Christmas bombing raid in 1917 during World War I and was restored years later in 2004.
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