Certainly,there's a lot of music available nowadays, but when I'm feeling low, no ones tunes pick me up faster than Devos. For a big Devo fan like me, there's never enough new Devo tunes, so it's no wonder I regularly dip into their catalog & work up something on my own that's 'new'. When I was asked to do a track for Envision's annual '
Smash The Genre' compilation
( www.envisiondesign.com.au/ ) awhile back, nothing struck me as being such strong opposites as Devo's 'Whip It' & Creedance Clearwater Revival's 'Bad Moon Rising'. When I was called upon to do a track for '
2012 SUMMER BOOTY - The Summer Mashup Album'
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/summer-booty-2012-summer-mashup-album.html ) , the tunes that had that eternal Summer vibe together for me were Devo's 'Through Being Cool' and The Godfathers' ' She Gives Me Love'. It's only natural for me to ponder how Devo would sound paired with some other cool music.
Similar circumstances appeared during my years of making mashups until I had a swell batch of them using Devo. I applied a bit of effort over the last few months & came up with enough new Devo mashups so I can now release them all as a full disc collection. Among the new tracks are 'Roof Rack Hadron Collider' (Devo vs Mokushi), 'Peek-A-Bop' (Devo vs The Ramones), & 'Experienced Jeepster' (Devo vs T.Rex). I even included a trio of remixes represented by 'Snowball', 'Pity You', & 'Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA'. Devo might not be the most well-known band about, but whenever I make a mashup with them, a significant amount of their fans emerge to enjoy them.
I was speaking to a pal from the far north of Europe who'd never heard of Devo. Apparently, the only song they'd ever hit big with in his part of the world was 1990's '
Post Post-Modern Man'
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNdSTV-aRg ) , a representative track from the group who brought us synthed-up rock & roll with a de-evolutiionized sound, yet one that he'd missed. I hope those of you who already love the Devo brand dig this collection, but I hope even more that many of you will discover an exciting band with a rich discography. I figure the more of us listening, the more music they'll give us.
So, whether you know Devo or not, on this mashup tribute record you'll find exciting Devo music paired up with other music you're sure to be familiar with. Regular Bartcop E contributor Podgornio, The Mashup Pyschic told me you'll all love it, each & every one.
Mix Of The Week
Mr Lovley has released '1990 909 Side B - Oscillations & Reflections' as his latest excellent long piece on the ever-popular mix site
BMBX
( www.bmbx.org/2012/09/1990-909-side-b-oscillations-reflections/ ). Mr Lovley says "Earlier this year I posted a bleepy mix of early 1990s electronica (1990 909) that went down well on bmbx, and so I was encouraged to do side B. Instead of just more of the same, I opted to do a Side B consisting of a selection of electronica and chillout tracks that I used to listen to at the same time, cut with a few samples from some of the artists involved. I was a bit hampered by my vinyl being in a loft a few thousand miles away, so there may be a sequel at a later date! This mix is dedicated to anyone who ever went to the legendary Oscillate club nights in Birmingham, where I was fortunate enough to hear many of these tracks for the first time in the perfect setting."
Mashup Tip
Don't take making mashups too seriously. It's only monging.
Chris Francescani: Boy Scouts Face Release Of Damaging Child Sex Abuse Files (Reuters)
The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the U.S. organization are expected to be released in coming weeks. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported the organization failed to report allegations of sex abuse of scouts by adult leaders and volunteers to police in hundreds of cases from 1970 to 1991. In some cases, the Boy Scouts helped the accused "cover their tracks," the paper said.
Chick-fil-A or Chemical-Fil-A?
I honestly can't believe that there are 18 (if I counted right and didn't miss one) added chemical preservatives to this sandwich. The FDA allows food companies to add these preservatives in limited quantities, however, they do not prohibit companies from adding different preservatives all together by letting them combine different food items that make one big whopping dose.
Susan Estrich: Peter Michael Ulikhanov (Creators Syndicate)
It is a strange experience to go to your healer's funeral, and it is especially strange when he was only 58 and died from a disease that might well have been cured by Western medicine.
David Bruce: Wise Up!! Children (Athens News)
Charles Schulz said that his children had given him a total of three lines that he had used in "Peanuts." At dinner, Amy, his daughter, was talking quite a lot, and Mr. Schulz asked her, "Couldn't you be quiet for just a little while?" Shortly afterward, she was buttering a piece of bread and asked, "Am I buttering too loud for you?" Craig, his son, often had dirty fingernails. One day, they were clean and his parents asked how he had gotten them so clean. Craig answered, "I used toothpaste." And when Monty, another son, was in kindergarten, Mr. Schulz read him a bedtime story and tried to get him to go to sleep, and Monty said that he didn't want to close his eyes. Why? "Because it's dark in there."
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor (26 November 1878 - 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship-after Canadian boxer George Dixon .
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Marshall Taylor
Charlie wrote:
Being a cyclist myself, and a fan of bike racing, I should have known this offhand, but I had to be reminded.
It was the great track cyclist Marshall "Major" Taylor (1878 - 1932). who won the 1899 1 mile track cycling championship.
BttbBob responded:
Jack Johnson, World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion, 1910... One tough dude... (Although I've always considered boxing to be barbaric)
Sally said:
Sorry, I don't know the answer to today's question, and we are braced for a big storm which is blowing in right now...
I did want the send my birthday wishes to you, and tell you that my pledge is in the E-mail!
PS: Maybe it's time for you and the kid to pack up and head for B2BB's camp for some R&R. (You will be so happy to get back to civilization, your problems will have faded away...)
Have a wonderful day! :)
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
George Dixon
Marian responded:
Jack Johnson
Adam answered:
Marshall Taylor for cycling.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
I thought that it was Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, who became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). The very first was Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor who was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion. Wow, I learned something new today!!!
MAM wrote:
Marshall "Major" Taylor ~ was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination.
And, Joe S answered:
My first thought was Jack Johnson, but I looked it up to make sure and sure enough, I was wrong. It was Marshall Taylor an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination.
Aaargh! It be talk like a pirate day Mateys, and it be Marty's birfday. Aaargh. Timber me shivers. Yo ho ho. Rum..
Somehow I missed litebug's response to yesterday's question.
Of course, she was correct with 'Reddy Kilowatt'.
It has been added to the archived page.
Checked in with jury duty and got a pass for day 3. The stench has subsided, no thanks to the incense.
And, the car is rolling again - turned out to be a stripped alternator belt.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Michael Strahan, Arthur Meyer, and Band of Horses.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is Sophia Bush.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Animal Practice', followed by a FRESH'Guys With Kids', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Amy Poehler, Joe Scarborough, and Big & Rich.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Maya Rudolph, Dave Annable, Elmo, and the Avett Brothers.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/24/12) are James Van Der Beek, Mike D, and Kasabian.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'The Middle', followed by a RERUN'Suburgatory', then a RERUN'Modern Family', followed by another RERUN'Suburgatory', then a RERUN'Revenge'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Julie Bowen, Nate Parker, and Afghan Whigs.
The CW offers a FRESH'Oh Sit!', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'The X Factor'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', 'Storage Wars Texas', another 'Storage Wars Texas', still another 'Storage Wars Texas', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then a FRESH'American Hoggers', followed by another FRESH'American Hoggers'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken', then the movie 'The Shakiest Gun in the West'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 10 - Madonna, Andrea Riseborough, James D'Arcy, Emeli Sande
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 8 - Ep 3 - Johnny Knoxville, Joan Rivers, Catherine Tate, Pet Shop Boys
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Planet of the Ood
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Sontaran Strategem
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 4 - La Riviera
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 4 - Ep 5 - The Curry Lounge
[3:00PM] ALEXANDER
[6:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
[9:00PM] LUTHER - Season 1 - Episode 5
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[11:00PM] LAW & ORDER: UK - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Buried
[12:00AM] LUTHER - SEASON 1 - Season 1 - Episode 5
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 5 - La Tempete
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07
[5:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Top Chef Masters', followed by a FRESH'Top Chef Masters'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Chappelle's Show', 'Key & Peele', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Pink.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Itzhak Perlman.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', followed by the movie 'The Karate Kid'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Cajun Pawn Stars', another 'Cajun Pawn Stars', still another 'Cajun Pawn Stars', yet another 'Cajun Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'American Restoration', and another 'American Restoration'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Bunk
[6:30AM] My Best Friend
[8:30AM] Diminished Capacity
[10:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Blue Jacket & Red Socks
[11:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jon Hamm Wears a Light Blue Shirt & Silver Watch
[11:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants
[12:00PM] My Best Friend
[2:00PM] Diminished Capacity
[4:00PM] The Ringer
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Smunday
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Water Park
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Traffic Jam
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Halloween Approximately
[8:00PM] Little Miss Sunshine
[10:15PM] The Brothers Grimm
[12:45AM] Little Miss Sunshine
[3:00AM] Sexy Beast
[5:00AM] Action-The Last Ride of the Elephant Princess
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Michael Cera Wears a Blue Denim Shirt & Red Pants (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] THE DAY BEFORE - Sonia Rykiel (Season 1, Episode 1)
[7:00A] This Is Not A Robbery
[8:15A] Shooting Fish
[10:00A] Made in China
[11:30A] This Is Not A Robbery
[12:45P] Made in China
[2:15P] Kate! The Making of an Icon
[3:15P] ICONOCLASTS - Ron Howard + Steve Nash (Episode 5, Season 5)
[4:15P] Lipsett Diaries
[4:30P] Shooting Fish
[6:15P] Summer Hours
[8:00P] Volver
[10:00P] Volver
[12:00A] Enter the Void
[2:25A] The Overbrook Brothers
[4:00A] Don't Look Back (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Paranormal Witness', 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', then a FRESH'Paranormal Witness'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Simon Helberg, Anna Kendrick, and Delta Rae.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) introduces Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, September 18, 2012. Suu Kyi opened a two-week tour of the U.S. on Tuesday with talks with Clinton in the latest step of a rapid normalization of U.S. ties with the former pariah state.
Photo by Jason Reed
Randy Newman is weighing in on the presidential election, and he's playing the race card through a song he wrote called "I'm Dreaming."
The piano tune features the refrain: "I'm dreaming of a white president." It is full of satirical, sarcastic - and signature - Newman anecdotes about someone who votes for the president because he is white.
Newman, who is white, is openly supporting President Barack Obama. He says he wants the public to find comedic relief in the song, but to also know he's serious about his thoughts that racism is well and alive in the world - and in the current presidential race. He called racism "the great issue of this country."
The song will be released as a free download Tuesday and Newman is encouraging listeners to donate to the United Negro College Fund.
"I'm Dreaming" features lyrics like: "He won't be the brightest, perhaps, but he'll be the whitest, and I'll vote for that." He said as he wrote the song the lyrics "didn't come that easy."
Newman believes Obama will be re-elected in November and feels that Republican contender Mitt Romney isn't a "serious candidate for president."
Actress Gillian Anderson arrives for the presentation of the Mulberry Spring/Summer 2013 collection at London Fashion Week September 18, 2012.
Photo by Suzanne Plunkett
Sergei Baranov keeps his clerical robes hanging neatly in his closet, but he believes he will never again wear them inside a Russian Orthodox Church.
Baranov, who had led a quiet life as a deacon in the small city of Tambov, became an Internet celebrity last month when he asked to be defrocked in an open letter to the Moscow patriarchate, saying he was outraged by the church's stance against three members of the punk band Pussy Riot.
The feminist rockers were sentenced to two years in prison after singing a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral, a stunt that divided Russians.
Even some of the devout who did not approve of the women's high kicks at the cathedral's pulpit in February spoke out against the trial and what appeared to be the church's heavy-handed involvement. Baranov gave them a strong public voice - and gave up his calling in order to back up his beliefs.
"Everyone prays as they can," Baranov said of the Pussy Riot members. "And with their act they exposed the ills and blisters of society. We should have done that a long time ago."
Pick your pundit when Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart face off for a special 90-minute debate about the 2012 presidential race.
The host of Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" and the anchor of Comedy Central's fake newscast "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" have announced they will clash in the event, dubbed "The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium."
This live debate will be streamed online on Oct. 6 from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The price is $4.95, with one-half of the profits donated to a number of unspecified charities.
In a statement, Stewart quipped that "The Rumble" will be entertaining for all, including "people who just enjoy yelling."
The Scottish singer-songwriter's publicist confirms Lennox married Mitch Besser in a private ceremony Saturday in London.
Several reports in the British press over the weekend described the ceremony, which was held aboard a boat on the Thames River. Lennox's two daughters served as bridesmaids.
Lennox is best known as the singer for the multiple Grammy-winning duo The Eurythmics. Besser is an American doctor and founder of the charity mothers2mothers.
Byron Allen's plan to make a biographical movie out of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s life has hit a bum note with a man claiming to already own the rights to the story, and now Allen is being sued to the tune of $35 million.
In a complaint filed at Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, Rick Appling claims that he had acquired the rights to make a movie out of "The Candy Man" singer Davis' life from his daughter,Tracey Davis, in Feb 2011.
According to Appling, he paid to maintain the rights to the story for three years, and teamed with Invasion TV and Ampersand Media to develop the project, even attracting the interest of Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way.
However, in December of that year, Appling read that Allen's Entertainment Studios had acquired the rights to the story from Davis in order to make a movie as well, and since then Appling's partners have cooled on the project, saying that two different companies claiming ownership of the rights to Davis' life would be a deal-breaker.
Appling claims that, during a phone call, Byron acknowledged to Appling that Davis told him that she had already sold the rights to Appling when she and Allen executed their own agreement.
Women sing and dance at the Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu September 18, 2012. The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting.
Photo by Navesh Chitrakar
The British government must hand over confidential letters to ministers from Prince Charles, judges ruled Tuesday - a decision that could shed light on the opinionated heir to the throne's attempts to lobby politicians.
Three judges on a freedom of information tribunal decided that it is in the public interest "for there to be transparency as to how and when Prince Charles seeks to influence government."
The ruling comes in response to requests by The Guardian newspaper, which has been asking for seven years for the letters to be released.
Several government departments had refused to divulge them, arguing it might breach unwritten constitutional rules on the relationship between the monarchy and the government, and that it would discourage the prince from speaking frankly.
But critics accuse Charles of overstepping boundaries and meddling in political decisions. The 63-year-old prince has strong views on issues including ecology, alternative medicine - both of which he supports- and modern architecture, of which he takes a dim view.
Sukhbeer, 5, walks on a rope with an aluminium rim as she performs at a road show in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad September 18, 2012. Sukhbeer, along with her mother and brother, earn nearly 500 rupees ($9) a day entertaining pedestrians.
Photo by Krishnendu Halder
Arnold $chwarzenegger, James Cameron and Ron Meyer will join a line-up of Hollywood, media and political heavyweights at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute'sinaugural symposium on Sep. 24, according to an invitation sent Monday and obtained by TheWrap.
The day-long, invite-only think tank begins at 10 a.m. with a discussion on post-partisanship led by former California governor $chwarzenegger, former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, former Florida governor Charlie Christ and other political figures
NBC4 Los Angeles reporter Conan Nolan (R-Palinesque) will moderate the symposium's second panel - a conversation about environment, energy and climate - between Bob Foster, the mayor of Long Beach, and Dr. R.K. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The last event, moderated by Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, features $chwarzenegger, Cameron, Meyer, Lionsgate co-chair Rob Friedman and Imagine Entertainment chairman Brian Grazer sharing experiences and opinions in a segment titled "The Power of People and Innovation - Media/Hollywood Leaders' Perspectives."
An Occupy Vancouver protester, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, stands on the steps of the Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia September 17, 2012. About 100 protesters gathered to mark the one-year anniversary of their occupation of the Art Gallery grounds, as Occupy Wall Street in New York marked its one-year anniversary on Monday with a day of demonstrations.
Photo by Andy Clark
Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase "Totally saucesome!"; and he is the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the nation's first pizza museum.
The quirky but unassuming establishment that Dwyer just opened with three partners in Philadelphia is part art gallery, part eatery. It's a place to enjoy a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at pizza-related photos, records, knickknacks and videos.
"We thought it was a funny idea, and we started doing some research," Dwyer said. "And when we discovered that nowhere on earth was there a physical place, a monument built to pizza, we said, 'This is going to be huge.'"
One wall is covered with framed pizza-related photos and magazine covers; another boasts dozens of vinyl records, like the soundtrack to "Mystic Pizza" and a holiday album from Domino's. Display boxes are scattered throughout the eclectic space - including built into the floor - to show off pizza-bearing figurines from Homer Simpson and Spider-Man to the Tasmanian Devil and Pillsbury Doughboy. A cluster of small TVs plays pizza-related shows, while a huge pizza mural surrounds the back patio.
This photo provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Jeff Koons' porcelain "Michael Jackson and Bubbles," in the museum's new exhibition "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years." The exhibition begins Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, and runs through Dec. 31.
NFL Films President Steve Sabol, half of the father-son team that revolutionized sports broadcasting and mythologized pro football into the country's favorite sport, died Tuesday from brain cancer. He was 69.
In March 2011, Sabol was diagnosed with a tumor on the left side of his brain after being hospitalized for a seizure.
His father, Ed, founded NFL Films, and Steve was there working beside him right from the start in 1964. They introduced a series of innovations now taken for granted today, from slow-motion replays to blooper reels to sticking microphones on coaches and players. And they hired the "Voice of God," John Facenda, to read lyrical descriptions in solemn tones.
Ed Sabol was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame last year. The two received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2003.
Steve Sabol received 35 Emmys for writing, cinematography, editing, directing and producing. No one else had ever earned that many in as many different categories.
He began his career as a cinematographer under his father. Steve was the perfect fit for the job: an all-Rocky Mountain Conference running back at Colorado College majoring in art history.
The Sabols' advances included everything from reverse angle replays to filming pregame locker room speeches to setting highlights to pop music.
An accomplished collage artist, Sabol exhibited at the ArtExpo in New York, the Avant Gallery in Miami, the Govinda Gallery in Washington, the Milan Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Garth Davidson Gallery in Moorestown, N.J.
It was Steve's high school football games in Philadelphia that gave Ed his only experience filming sports before he won the rights to chronicle the 1962 NFL championship game.
Nine-day old male Indian rhinoceros Jari stands behind his 18-year old mother Quetta (R) in an outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Basel September 18, 2012. Jari was born last Monday weighing around 60 kilos (132.3 pounds).
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann
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