M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - October 25th, 2017
How To Enjoy YiTT
By DJ Useo
If you're aware of modern mashups, you're no doubt familiar with the excellent bootleg blends of YiTT. In fact he had swell some tracks on last weeks' "M Is For Mashup" Halloween mashup album, "
Monster Mashup The 13th"
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-101817.index.html ).
YiTT regularly releases excellent singles like "Elvis vs. Justin Bieber - Can't Help Loving Yourself", "Aerosmith vs. Blink 182 - I Don't Want To Miss You", & "Here Comes The Light (Pilotpriest/Beatles/Green Day/System Of A Down)". There's many superb tracks of his
located here
( sowndhaus.com/profile/yitt )
You'd almost expect that to be enough to satisfy any YiTT fan, but he gives us much more than that.
A regular feature of the YiTT experience are his track packed mashup albums. By simply
navigating the web to yitt.bandcamp.com/
( yitt.bandcamp.com/ )
you can obtain a large collection of his full releases. All are set to "Buy Now, name your price, & Send as Gift". If you're familiar with Bandcamp hosting, you already know all tracks can be streamed, or d/l'ed. It's a great system, & even better when the material is YiTTs.
I'm signed up to "follow" Yitt's releases, & does it ever pay off. Recently, I got a notice that YiTT's new album, "
Semi Automatic" was ready to access
( yitt.bandcamp.com/album/semi-automatic ).
I grabbed it straightaway, & found it was up to the highest standards of the bootleg community. Honestly, I found every track to be an "A" mix, with most of them rising up to"A+" territory.
You'll love this collection, & will no doubt go for the other past YiTT releases. As I mentioned, all his albums are
found here
( yitt.bandcamp.com/ )
Well worth adding a tip, I think. Tell Yitt Useo sent you.
P.S. I did a lo-o-ong live set composed of the entire "Monster Mashup The 13th" album. You can
find it here
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/monster-mashup-the-13th-mix/ )
Perfect for frightening the kiddies as you pass out goodies this Halloween. Kudos to all the contributors.
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Paul Krugman: Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi? (NY Times)
So this seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pelosi is by far the greatest speaker of modern times and surely ranks among the most impressive people ever to hold that position. And it's interesting to ask why she gets so little credit with the news media, and hence with the general public, for her accomplishments.
Cameron Joseph: Donald Trump's Trade Wars Are Roiling Wisconsin GOP (TPM)
But North admitted that plunging dairy prices, which have dropped 4 percent this year partly because of Mexico's retaliatory tariffs on dairy in the trade wars Trump has kicked off, have put farmers in a tough position. "Are we seeing things that we like in the short term? Obviously, lower prices aren't anything any farmer wants to see. But we're all looking at this with a very long-term mindset," he said.
Jonathan Chait: Donald Trump Hires the Worst People, According to Trump (NY Mag)
It is not the first time Trump has accused himself of hiring terrible people. He accused his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, of having lost a crucial Senate seat for his party, "leaking false information to the media," and having "lost his mind." All in all, a reprehensible person to pick as your chief political strategist. After former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg told the New York Times that Trump mistreated Michael Cohen, Trump attacked Nunberg as a "drunk/drugged up loser." Trump also insisted at the same time that Michael Cohen is "a fine person."
Jonathan Chait: Trump Foreign Policy Held Back by Struggle to Grasp Time Zones, Maps (NY Mag)
Traditional world leaders have busy schedules, and use phone calls to focus on specific points of negotiations. Trump just calls world leaders for no reason. He especially likes to stalk French president Emmanuel Macron. Trump has developed "what one former Trump national security official calls a 'bizarre' fascination with calling French President Emmanuel Macron," reports Lippman. "He wanted to talk to him constantly … Macron would be like: 'Hey what are we talking about?'"
Jonathan Chait: Omarosa Is Leveraging Her Tapes Against the Trump Administration (NY Mag)
The $15,000-per-month retainer has been confirmed by the Washington Post, which reviewed a copy of the offer. This lends veracity to her other charges; after all, nobody is going to pay her $15,000 a month to keep quiet unless they know she possesses some damaging information.
Jonathan Chait: Why Does Trump Get More Credit Than Obama for the Same Economy? (NY Mag)
A party dedicated to representing the disenfranchised might have an unavoidable allergy to economic triumphalism. Indeed, this impulse might be a necessary spur for its leaders to demand more inclusive growth for those left behind. But the ease with which Trump has made the economy his principal political asset shows how the Democrats' superior economic performance over the last quarter-century has done frustratingly little to boost their outcomes at the ballot box.
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Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
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THE GANGSTERS IN THE WHITEHOUSE.
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Louisiana
John Legend
Singer John Legend is lending his Grammy Award-winning voice to Louisiana's debate over split juries.
In November, Louisiana voters will decide whether to join 48 other states in requiring unanimous jury verdicts in all felony trials. Oregon is the only other state to allow felony convictions when just 10 out of 12 jurors agree.
Legend wrote an editorial in the Washington Post stating in part, "The 10-2 jury rule has sharply diminished the participation of African American jurors. It's hard to have faith in a criminal justice system that treats members of the community differently based on race."
Legend writes, "We are at a crossroads, with an opportunity to right this long-standing wrong. It's time to come together, reject prejudice in all its forms."
State Attorney General Jeff Landry declined to be interviewed, but has come out against the referendum.
John Legend
Cuts Musical Performances
Conan
In the past few months alone, acts including Neko Case, Johnny Marr, Ben Gibbard, the Breeders, Natalie Prass, and Margo Price have all performed live on Conan. But soon, no one will be singing or playing instruments on Conan - except maybe James Comey.
Since 2010, Conan has aired as an hour-long program on TBS. But earlier this year, Conan O'Brien announced that starting in 2019, his flagship late-night show will shift into a half-hour format focused more on comedy. "I was looking for something more lean and agile," Conan said at the time. "I've been pushing for something that fits the modern landscape, certainly fits the way I interact with my fans more."
And as part of that new direction, Variety reports, the show is cutting its regular musical performances. Producer and music booker Roey Hershkovitz, who's been with the Conan franchise for nearly 20 years, is also departing the show, although he may still do consulting work on on the occasional special music episode or online content. "This is going to be me doing comedy as you've seen me doing, and an interview, probably, with a celebrity every night instead of two or three," Conan explained in May. "Everything else beyond that we're going to find it by doing it."
Conan
'70s Music Documentary
'Imagine'
John Lennon's last directing project is finally coming to theaters, almost 38 years after the Beatles co-founder's death. In December 1972, American television audiences got their first look at "Imagine," the autobiographical film he and wife Yoko Ono made in England and New York City. Eagle Rock Entertainment will bring a restored and remastered version to cinemas next month, featuring 15 minutes of previously-unaired material, including performance footage from the couple's Plastic Ono Band.
"Imagine" shares its name with both Lennon's 1971 solo album and its title track, ranked third on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs. Decades later, in 2016, the National Music Publishers Association awarded Ono a songwriting credit on the pacifist anthem. Now 85 years old, Ono lent her voice to Wes Anderson's 2019 Best Animated Feature Oscar hopeful, "Isle of Dogs," and will release her next album, "Warzone," in October. "Warzone" includes a track that covers "Imagine."
Months before music fans first heard the original version, Lennon and the rest of the Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) received the Best Original Score Academy Award for their studio-set documentary, "Let It Be." After Lennon was murdered in 1980, Ono commissioned yet another documentary, "Imagine: John Lennon" (1988) from writer/director/producer Andrew Solt.
Lennon and Ono's film, once criticized as the vainglorious "most expensive home movie of all time," has been updated with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack mix from three-time Grammy-winner Paul Hicks. Celebrity cameos include Harrison, Fred Astaire, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance, plus fellow filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol.
'Imagine'
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Another Reboot
Designing Women
Another classic US sitcom from the '80s is being rebooted - and this one has the potential to be great.
For seven seasons, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's Designing Womendocumented the lives, loves and foibles of a group of quirky co-workers at Atlanta's leading design firm Sugarbaker & Associates.
Now, 32 years after the series premiered on September 29, 1986, Bloodworth-Thomason is at work on a reimagining of the series that would introduce the concept to a whole new generation (via TVLine).
The outlet notes that it's not yet known if any of the original cast - like Annie Potts, Jean Smart or Delta Burke - would be involved to link the two versions, but the reboot is to be pitched to channels soon.
Sadly, original Designing Women mainstays Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks and Meshach Taylor have all passed away since the sitcom ended back in 1993.
Designing Women
Announces Tour Dates
Lindsey Buckingham
The 40-plus-year saga of the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks incarnation of Fleetwood Mac took another turn today, when Buckingham - who recently parted ways with the band - announced not just a three-disc compilation of his solo material but a tour to support it… which will begin four days after the Fleetwood Mac tour that he didn't want to be on.
To be fair, according to Nicks, Buckingham said he didn't want to be on the road for a year, and his tour lasts just two months (and in a deft bit of routing, does not visit any city at the same time as the Mac tour). Buckingham's tour launches in Portland, OR on Oct. 7 and wraps in Pennsylvania on Dec. 9. Fleetwood Mac's tour begins Oct. 3 in Oklahoma and is scheduled through April.
"This team wanted to get out on the road, and one of the members didn't want to go out on the road for a year and we just couldn't agree," Nicks said in April. "And when you're in a band it's a team, I have a solo career and I love my solo career and I'm the boss. But I'm not the boss in this band."
Buckingham's role in the band will be filled by longtime Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and former Crowded House frontman Neil Finn. In January, the group was honored by the Recording Academy's MusiCares charity during Grammy Week, a concert in which multiple artists covered the band's songs - and they were inducted by former President Bill Clinton - and then played a brief set that represents their last performance with Buckingham.
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Mineral Created In Lab
Magnesite
Scientists have found a way to produce a mineral, known as magnesite, in a lab that can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, offering a potential strategy for tackling climate change.
By reducing a process that normally takes thousands of years to a matter of days, the research could boost the burgeoning field of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
As the world struggles to cut spiralling greenhouse gas emissions, experts broadly agree that technologies that suck CO2 from the air will be an essential tool to curtail global warming.
Magnesite is a naturally occurring rock used in jewellery and for various industrial processes, and its carbon-storing capacity was already known to scientists.
However, while previous studies have explored the potential of storing polluting gases in underground rock formations, the potential of these activities is hampered by the time it takes for new minerals to form.
Magnesite
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 6-12. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 11.04 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.21 million.
3. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.72 million.
4. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 5.79 million.
5. "Big Brother" (Sunday), CBS, 5.74 million.
6. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 5.64 million.
7. "NCIS," CBS, 5.26 million.
8. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 5.15 million.
9. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 5.02 million.
10. "World of Dance," NBC, 4.75 million.
11. "CMA Fest," ABC, 4.71 million.
12. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.63 million.
13. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 4.61 million.
14. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 4.57 million.
15. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 4.42 million.
16. "Bull," CBS, 4.26 million.
17. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 4.19 million.
18. "Making It," NBC, 4.15 million.
19. "Mom," CBS, 4.1 million.
20. "Dateline NBC" (Monday), NBC, 4.04 million.
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