I was the head moderator for the SoundUnsound mashup forum for over five years. During that period, I directed the release of many themed mashup albums. You can find all the SUS mashup comps
down the page here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
The owner of SoundUnsound decided to close the place for private reasons. I can only guess why, because he never said. Instead of a loss, I saw it as an opportunity. The other SUS admin,
Chocomang
( chocomang.org/ ), actually constructed a new site, christened it
AudioBoots
( audioboots.com/ ) , and we were back in business.
Now, approximately three months after opening, we present to you the first all-new AudioBoots mashup collection. "
80s MASHED 3"
( audioboots.com/80smashed3/ )
came about because everyone was very interested in mashing more 80s tunes. It makes a great trilogy when added to the two "SoundUnsound 80s Mashed" volumes. Many of the same skilled bootleggers from volumes one and two return on this latest release. I don't know how familiar you are with the eighties music, or the modern mixers, but the results are getting huge praise immediately. The former two volumes are much in demand again as well.
Listen and hear the music of superb eighties artists like the Clash, Talking Heads, Gary Numan, The Cure, Miami Sound Machine, and Blondie mixed with tons of modern artists like Bruno Mars, The Flaming Lips, Korn, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mary J. Blige, and Sum 41. You get the best of both worlds with the previously unheard takes from mixers like AtoZ, chocomang, DJ MXR, DJ Petrushka, DJ Rudec, DJ Useo, DRA'man, Eternal Khaos, Fieesto, g4gorilla, Jarod Ripley, Jesus Cadena, Leigh Scratch Fenlon, mARKYbOY, Michmash, Mixcut, Oki, pomDeter, rillen rudi, Sjoerjse, song49, Spider, & ToToM. You might not know the names, but you'll find deep satisfaction with the tracks they produced.
If you liked last weeks' featured "M IS FOR MASHUP" album "
SUMMER BOOTY 2014 The Summer Mashup Album"
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-062514.index.html ) , you'll certainly enjoy this even newer collection. Behind the scenes, I've been having fascinating discussions with other mixers regarding which collection is better. Summer or Eighties. I don't see the harm in enjoying both!
I did the mastering of the audio tracks for
80s MASHED 3 . AtoZ did most of the artwork ( included ). Chocomang did EVERYTHING else. Big props to him! Check out the super cool website Chocomang constructed single handed - http://audioboots.com/80smashed3/ Simply click on the "cassettes" and you can hear the two streams of the entire album. There's mirror links so you can get the downloadable zip files in your preferred method. Best of all is theres no charge! We can't charge for our tracks, so you feel the benefit.
( audioboots.com/80smashed3/ )
In a few months we'll be starting the newt AudioBoots mashup project. Next time it's punk rock mashups! Woot! I love punk rock.
Incredibly, it's 99 bootleg versions of Nena's "99 Luft Balloons", a one hit wonder song from the eighties, mixed by 99 different bootleggers. Assembled by RadioClash, it's an experiment in overkill, but I've heard a bunch of the tracks so far, & they were each much fun. See how many you can play, before you hit the enjoyment wall. Send me your reactions, & I'll run them here next week.
Have fun listening to all the new mashups. You'll find they make you want to hear the originals.
• Being a commercial artist has its perks. Elmer Lehnhardt was hired to create the artwork used to decorate a children’s lunchbox featuring scenes from the TV series Land of the Giants, starring a crew of American astronauts who land on a planet of giants. One side of the lunchbox showed the American space crew being menaced by a giant man — the face of the giant was a self-portrait by Mr. Lehnhardt.
Theater
• Despite his profession, 19th-century cartoonist Bernhard Gillam took a serious view of life. Eugene Zimmerman, a friend and fellow cartoonist, once took him to see a comic play. While the other members of the audience laughed, Mr. Gillam scowled. After the play was over and they were leaving the theater, Mr. Gillam turned to Mr. Zimmerman and said, “If you ever dare to take me to see such rot again, I’ll kill you.”
• For a Sunday newspaper, Sam Norkin once created a caricature for the opening of a play titled All You Need is One Good Break. Unfortunately, the critics hated the play, and it closed Saturday night. Sy Peck, editor of the New York Compass, decided to run the caricature anyway, with the heading “All You Need is One Good Break got no break from the critics.”
• When children’s book illustrator Denise Fleming was a young girl, she and the neighborhood kids sometimes put on plays, charging other kids buttons for admission. Her young neighbor Charlie once tore all the buttons off his shirt so he could pay for himself and his friends to attend one of the plays.
• Fire inspectors in the world of dance can terrify art lovers. For example, fire inspectors test scenery for fireproofing by attempting to set it on fire. Ballet dancer Frank Moncion moaned when he saw the fire inspectors test the setting for the ballet Firebird — it had been designed by Marc Chagall.
Travel
• Joseph H. Meyers, at one time an English instructor at Purdue, was annoyed by bad guides when he toured Europe. He and his wife were able to get rid of the guides by being annoying. When a guide tried to tell the Meyers about Raphael’s Wedding of the Virgin, Mrs. Meyers said, “Raphael was an American.” The guide, of course, said, “No, no!” However, Mr. Meyers backed up his wife: “Raphael was born in Philadelphia.” His wife then added, “We knew him personally.” Eventually, the guide decided to leave them alone.
• Late in life, Spanish painter Francisco Goya lived for a while in France. Of course, for long periods of time — including during much of Mr. Goya’s lifetime — France and Spain have not been friendly, and the French police watched Mr. Goya for a time. Eventually, they decided that he was not a spy because he was so deaf and he was not able to cause trouble because his command of the French language was so poor.
• Toller Cranston is both a Canadian figure skater and an artist. Once, he was performing in Wichita, Kansas, where he stayed in a hotel room with okra and mustard paintings on the wall. However, before he could sleep there, he demanded that the paintings be removed from his room. Why? He told the management, “I simply couldn’t spend the weekend with them.”
• MAD publisher William M. Gaines used to take the MAD writers and artists on a trip every year or two. One year, he took everybody to Rome, and they visited the Sistine Chapel, where a tour guide informed them that Michelangelo had spent 15 years painting the ceiling. MAD writer Dick DeBartolo explained why: “Yeah, but it was two coats!”
This love ballad with part of its lyrics sung in French, won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1967, against competition from "Born Free", "The Impossible Dream", "Somewhere My Love" and "Strangers in the Night". What is the title of this song?
John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian) and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio, and the Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center in Ashland County, Ohio. The Fort Wayne TinCaps, a minor league baseball team in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Chapman spent his final years, is named in his honor.
The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, built fences around them to protect them from livestock, left the nurseries in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares, and returned every year or two to tend the nursery. He planted his first nursery on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania. Next, he seems to have moved to Venango County, along the shore of French Creek, but many of these nurseries were in the Mohican River area of north-central Ohio. This area included the towns of Mansfield, Lisbon, Lucas, Perrysville, and Loudonville.
Author Michael Pollan believes that since Chapman was against grafting, his apples were not of an edible variety and could be used only for cider: "Really, what Johnny Appleseed was doing and the reason he was welcome in every cabin in Ohio and Indiana was he was bringing the gift of alcohol to the frontier. He was our American Dionysus."
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FWIW, my grandfather, who was born in 1894, always pointed out 2 apple trees on the edge of the woods in Glen Hazel, and said they were Johnny Appleseed trees, brought down from Warren.
The apples were small and motled green and sour - not good for eating, but the deer sure liked them.
One of the trees, or more likely, an offshoot, was still there, 2 years ago.
Don't really know if it's a Johnny Appleseed tree, but Gramp wasn't one to make up stories, especially if local history was involved.
Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Johnny Appleseed.
Randall wrote:
Johnny Appleseed
Billy in Cypress U.$.A. answered:
Johnny Appleseed
Jacqueline responded:
Johnny Appleseed
Cal in Vermont replied:
Johnny Appleseed. Not to be confused with Johnny Potseed.
mj wrote:
He wandered the Northern Midwest
Planting the fruit trees from which he drew his name, Johnny Appleseed.
Alan J answered:
Johnny Appleseed.
Dave responded:
Johnny Appleseed. Land speculator, nurseryman, and missionary. He was a kindly man who got on well with Native Americans on a personal level, although his promotion of whites moving west was not in the best long term interests of the natives. At the time of his death, Chapman owned about 1,200 acres of nurseries. One bit of trivia I read was that Chapman’s apples weren’t the kind you eat, but very tart apples that were used to make hard cider and applejack, products craved by the alcohol loving pioneers, so his trees were in demand. Apples are not native to the Americas.
Photos: John Chapman | For some reason people imagined that Chapman wore a metal cooking pot on his head and had small animals following him around | there wasn’t any part of American history that Disney couldn’t trivialize
zorch replied:
Johnny Appleseed.
Mac Mac said:
Johnny Appleseed
Harry M. wrote:
Johnny Appleseed
Daniel in The City answered:
Johnny Appleseed
David of Moon Valley replied:
a WTF guess
…not even had my early morning covfefe yet….so i’m going with Johnny Appleseed…if i’m right, high fives all around…and if not…well then…the heck with it, not the first time, nor probably the last….
Kenn B responded:
Johnny Appleseed
John I from Hawai`i says,
Johnny Appleseed
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Johnny Appleseed
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
That name sounds familiar…it’s Johnny Appleseed, of course.
Two fires started about 30-ish miles west of here, in Napa County, yesterday. The thunderstorms in the area caused lightning strikes, the rain never materialized, and at one point in the afternoon the ash was drifting through the streets and yards like fine, dry snow. Fire season is here.
DJ Useo said:
I remember this from like, 3rd grade. Johnny Appleseed. In memory of him, I ate an apple pie. Yum!
Roy the (now retired) hoghead (aka 'hoghed') still checks in ( Without music to decorate it,
time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines
or dates by which bills must be paid. ~Frank Zappa ) writing:
Without using Google, I think the answer is
"Johnny Appleseed"
I think he influenced another pioneer, "Johnny Hempseed",
who did pretty much the same thing.
Have a nice evening.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
Johnny Appleseed, all us history majors know that.
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Took a couple drives around the neighborhood - the car has AC, the house doesn't.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Tough As Nails' then LIVE'Dem Convention'.
CBS starts the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Tough As Nails', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Danny DeVito, and Chris Tomlin featuring Florida Georgia Line & Thomas Rhett.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'Ellen's Game Of Games', then LIVE'Dem Convention'.
NBC opens the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent', then a RERUN'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Tyler Perry, Maisie Williams, and Trevor Daniel.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Sandra Oh, Gayle King, and Thomas Land.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 10/10/19) are Nikki & Brie Bella.
ABC begins the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'United We Fall', then a RERUN'United We Fall', followed by a RERUN'The Conners', then a RERUN'American Housewife', followed by LIVE'Dem Convention'.
ABC begins the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a FRESH'United We Fall', then a RERUN'United We Fall', followed by a RERUN'The Conners', then a RERUN'American Housewife', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Ben Platt, are Zendaya, and MUNA & the Knocks.
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 recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fast & Furious', followed by the movie 'I, Robot', then the movie 'Demolition Man'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rejoined
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Starship Down
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Little Green Men
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Our Man Bashir
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Homefront
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Paradise Lost
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Chain of Command
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ship in a Bottle
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Aquiel
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Face of the Enemy
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Tapestry
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright
[8:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[11:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Ship in a Bottle
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Aquiel
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Face of the Enemy
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Tapestry (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', and 'Real Housewives Of Potomac'.
Comedy Central has 3½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Corporate'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'Happy Death Day', followed by the movie 'Get Out', then the movie 'Get Out', again.
History has 'Forged In Fire', another 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[7:00A] Sherman's Showcase - The Ladies of the Showcase
[7:30A] Sherman's Showcase - July 8, 1995
[8:00A] The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
[10:00A] Galaxy Quest
[12:30P] Kick-Ass 2
[3:00P] Walking Tall
[4:45P] K-9
[7:15P] Ghostbusters
[9:30P] Ghostbusters II
[12:00A] Parks and Recreation
[12:30A] Parks and Recreation
[1:00A] Parks and Recreation
[1:30A] Parks and Recreation
[2:00A] Parks and Recreation
[2:30A] Parks and Recreation
[3:00A] Parks and Recreation
[3:30A] Parks and Recreation
[4:00A] Walking Tall
[5:45A] The Three Stooges (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] columbo - Publish Or Perish
[12:45pm] columbo - An Exercise In Fatality
[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] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actors
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Gods Of Egypt', followed by the movie 'Law-Abiding Citizen'.
Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj has come to an end on Netflix.
Minhaj made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter. “What a run. @patriotact has come to an end,” Minhaj wrote. “I got to work with the best writers, producers, researchers, and animators in the game. My 2 babies were born and grew up with the show. TY to @Netflix and everyone who watched. Now it’s time to return these screens to Best Buy ??
In all, Netflix released 39 episodes of the series across six cycles from October 2018- June 2020. The initial order of 32 episodes, which ran through December 2019, was extended by seven additional episodes in 2020. The final episode aired on June 26. These episodes will continue to be available on Netflix.
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj won an Emmy for Outstanding Motion Design and also received a Peabody Award in 2019. Hasan also won a Peabody for his Netflix comedy special Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King and hosted the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, leading to his Netflix talk show.
Anderson Cooper lost patience Tuesday afternoon while interviewing MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, who has been pushing a coronavirus therapeutic he describes as a "cure" without evidence.
"Sir, just for our viewers: You have no medical background. You're not a scientist," Cooper told Lindell.
"A guy called you in April and said he had this product," Cooper continued. "You are now on the board and are going to make money from the sale of this product. The reason he reached out to you is you have the ear of the president ... How do you sleep at night?"
"Anderson, that's your narrative," Lindell said, before accusing "the media" of trying to deny the treatment to the American people out of an animus toward President Trump.
"I think my platform stands by itself," Lindell said. "I have a platform that God gave me of integrity and trust."
Conservative Black vloggers Diamond and Silk have suggested that Fox News was racist after they were sacked for airing COVID-19 conspiracies that were also proliferated by white hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, according to The Daily Beast, which obtained a copy of their upcoming book.
The duo, whose real names are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, were hired by Fox News in November 2018 to produce videos for the network's Fox Nation subscription platform.
The pair — who are also sisters — used their platform to debate conspiracy theories, like whether the coronavirus was "man-made," if 5G technology was being used to infect people, and that the US death toll was being fabricated to damage President Donald Trump.
"Here is the crazy thing, y'all," Richardson wrote in the book, according to The Daily Beast. "Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham were questioning the same things we were questioning about the virus and pandemic. The very same questions we had raised were being discussed openly on Fox News."
Hardaway added, according to The Daily Beast: "How in the hell was it OK for the white show host to ask the same questions and talk about the same things that we were speaking about, but our video content was dialed back for being overly political? We were all asking the same questions and talking about the same thing."
The woman at the center of NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer’s abrupt exit is the same actress whose involvement with Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara led to the executive's ouster last year.
Sources say Charlotte Kirk, the actress whose affair with Tsujihara had been detailed in a March 2019 Hollywood Reporter story, also had been in a romantic relationship with Meyer. In the case of Tsujihara, text messages showed that he lobbied for Kirk to be considered for a number of Warners movies, an abuse of power that led to his ouster 11 days after THR first reported on the relationship. With Meyer, Kirk’s professional trail leading back to Universal was not apparent.
It is unclear why Meyer recently disclosed the relationship to his bosses, but, according to his own statement, “other parties learned of the settlement [between Meyer and the unnamed woman] and have continuously attempted to extort me into paying them money or else they intended to falsely implicate NBCUniversal, which had nothing to do with this matter, and to publish false allegations about me.” NBCU CEO Jeff Shell broke the news to staff regarding Meyer’s ouster on Tuesday, saying that Meyer “acted in a manner which we believe is not consistent with our company policies or values.”
In his own statement, Meyer admitted he had a consensual affair with a woman and that it was brief. Sources say Kirk did work for a charity that involved autism that Meyer backed (Kirk, herself, identifies as on the autism spectrum).
Meyer's accusation of extortion mirrors that of Brett Ratner, who in a series of text messages that THR revealed in March 2019, suggested she was shaking down Tsujihara. Ratner, who was involved in the Tsujihara coverup and tried to run interference as Kirk's demands for auditions became more urgent, texted her, “You can’t take back the extortion u have committed because u have sent text and emails asking for these auditions and jobs.” By contrast, Meyer implies that a third party is involved in extracting money in exchange for silence.
Donald Trump (R-Unfit) admitted his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was made largely for Evangelical Christians, a community staunchly supportive of his presidency.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on Monday, the president also suggested that ”the evangelicals” were more enthusiastic about his decision than Jewish people.
“And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals,” Mr Trump told supporters at Wittman Regional Airport on Monday, as Democrats prepared for the first night of the party’s virtual convention.
“You know it’s amazing ... the evangelicals are more excited about that than Jewish people. That’s really right, it’s incredible,” the president added, to raucous applause from the crowd.
There is a small but not insignificant group of evangelical Christians in the US who believe Trump has been chosen by God to advance the kingdom of God on Earth; Israel is a key issue for many of these voters.
There has been outrage in Brazil after the personal details of a 10-year-old rape victim were published online.
The girl's name was posted by an anti-abortion activist seeking to stop her from having a termination.
Following the online post, abortion opponents gathered outside the hospital where the girl was due to have the procedure.
The case has caused widespread anger in Brazil and a judge has ordered Google, Facebook and Twitter to remove the personal details of the 10-year-old from their sites.
If you've ever looked up during a thunderstorm and glimpsed a red jellyfish sitting high in the sky, you weren't hallucinating.
These tentacle-like spurts of red lightning are called sprites. They're ultrafast bursts of electricity that crackle through the upper regions of the atmosphere – between 37 and 50 miles (60 and 80 kilometres) up in the sky – and move towards space, according to the European Space Agency.
The phenomenon is a rare sighting: It lasts just tenths of a second and can be hard to see from the ground since it's generally obscured by storm clouds. But Stephen Hummel, a dark-skies specialist at the McDonald Observatory, captured a spectacular image of one of these sprites on July 2 from a ridge on Mount Locke in Texas.
On the night he snapped this photo, he'd recorded 4 1/2 hours of footage before capturing the sprite on film.
When you see a face in a cloud, in the slots of a power point, or on the side of a house, there's a term for it: face pareidolia. This strange perception phenomenon makes lifeless, inanimate objects appear to have facial features – the basic shapes of two eyes and a mouth is often all it takes to imagine a face gazing back at you.
This common apparition can be seen anywhere we mistake these rudimentary facial features to exist: even galactic-scale phenomena can make us do the same weird double-take.
"This basic pattern of features that defines the human face is something that our brain is particularly attuned to, and is likely to be what draws our attention to pareidolia objects," says behavioural neuroscientist Colin Palmer from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia.
One thing we do know is that not only people see faces where there are none. A study from 2017 found that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) also appear to perceive illusory faces on inanimate objects, and numerous other studies have explored the neural mechanisms that could be behind the phenomenon in humans.
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