M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - July 1st, 2020
Pride Time Mashups The Album
By DJ Useo
Now, I can't swear for certain when I first heard a mashup by E.T.K. ( aka Eternal Khaos )
( eternalkhaos.bandcamp.com/ )
, but I'm sure it was after 2007. From the beginning of my exposure to his output, I found a common theme of satisfaction in his mixes. His tracks made their way into my head, & into my set lists.
Nowadays, E.T.K. continues a familiar pattern of infrequent, but impressive new posts & contributions to many popular themed mashup albums. He's thrilled us again & again over the course of comps like "
Mashups To Knock Your Teeth Out! (100% Punk, Rock, Metal)"
( audioboots.com/M2KYTO ) ,
"80's Mashed"
( audioboots.com/80smashed3/ ) ,
& "Audioboots Presents Mashers Choice"
( audioboots.org/Albums/MashersChoice/ )
His newest release is a superb 10-track album titled "Pride Time : An LGBTQ+ Mashup Album".
( eternalkhaos.bandcamp.com/album/pride-time )
I've listened to it already for you, & I assure you it's got the goods that'll make you happy, with pairings like Diana Ross vs Dead Or Alive, Eurythmics vs Lipps, Inc, Talking Heads vs Belinda Carlisle, plus 7 more.
To put it in his own words, here's E.T.K.'s own words - "This album is a compilation of works I made for a while and with a theme which is songs focusing on the LGBTQ+ community.
The tracks are either based upon anthems or songs that's involved to the community or are tracks made by someone that's part of it, it's something I wanted to present given that I'm myself am part of the group.
I also include two previously-released tracks as well as a new mix of a old track I made back in 2012. The only thing I have anything else to say at this point is hope you enjoy this album and Happy Pride Month 2020 to everyone."
You'll be playing these tracks repeatedly all Summer, so be sure & get started now, so as to increase your bliss. This comp has a fine theme that's celebrated with high bootleg appeal. Big thanks to E.T.K. .
- DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Family
• Comedian Jerry Lewis was born Joseph Levitch, and both of his parents were professional entertainers: His father sang, and his mother played the piano. At age 15, Jerry began working at the Majestic Hotel in the Catskills. To prepare himself for his job as an entertainer, he developed a record pantomime act. Of course, his parents, who were working elsewhere, were dying to know how their son’s act went on opening night, but they didn’t want to embarrass their son if things had gone badly. So father Danny decided to disguise his voice and call his son, figuring he could tell by his son’s voice how the act had gone over. When Jerry came to the telephone, his father (disguising his voice) told him how much he had liked his act. “Gee, thanks a lot, mister,” Jerry replied. “But how can you like my act? I haven’t been on yet.”
• Comedian Joe E. Brown once learned that his mother was coming to see him work in a burlesque show. Mr. Brown always worked clean, but the other acts were pretty dirty. When Mr. Brown’s mother wrote him a letter saying that she would see the show in Detroit, he was ready to collapse because he “knew that two minutes of burlesque would kill her.” So Mr. Brown went to his boss, Frank Murphy, and the whole company worked together to clean up the show — which meant pretty much rewriting it. Their effort worked — Mr. Brown’s mother was “charmed,” and Mr. Brown wrote in his autobiography that “the laughs were just as loud.”
• Actress Judi Dench frequently played Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. During the balcony scene, as Romeo stood hidden beneath Juliet’s balcony, she recited, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” An audience member called out, “Down there, Ducks, underneath yer balcony.” At a performance that was attended by her parents, when Ms. Dench came to the scene where the Nurse tells her that Tybalt is dead, she recited, “Where is my father and my mother, nurse?” From the audience came the answer, “Here we are, darling. Row H.”
• In 1955, Jane Fonda, after finishing her first year at Vassar, performed in a play with her famous father, Henry Fonda. In the play, she was required to enter onto the stage while crying, something that is difficult even for many experienced actors and actresses to do. After performing the scene extremely well, she asked her father, “How’d I do?” Mr. Fonda later said, “She didn’t understand that she’d done what many professionals couldn’t do in a lifetime.”
Flops
• Max Beerbohm and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree were half-brothers. One day, some friends invited Max to a play, but he was dismayed when he arrived at the theater and discovered that the play was Hamlet and that his half-brother was starring in the title role. Max disappeared during the play, and his host eventually found him in a corridor, sleeping on a pile of overcoats. Max apologized, saying, “I always enjoy Herbert’s Hamlet this way.”
• When performance artist Nicky Paraiso was in his third year at New York University, he played the part of a homicidal maniac in the play Boy in the Straight-Backed Chair by Ronald Tavel. As his character killed actors on stage, he could hear his father in the audience telling people, “That’s my son! He’s the star!”
• One of Orson Welles’ rare flops occurred in a spectacular fashion in 1946 when he brought to Broadway the extravaganza Around the World, which was based on Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Forty Days. Cole Porter wrote the songs, and the musical featured four mechanical elephants, circus interludes, and a cast of 70. Critics disliked it, and Mr. Welles was aware that they disliked it. When one critic said that it had everything but the kitchen sink, Mr. Welles appeared in the next performance with a kitchen sink.
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'Family Guy' PSA
Seth MacFarlane
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane joined Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday, where he premiered a new Family Guy vaccination public service announcement set to be released Tuesday morning. In the PSA, Stewie and Brian discuss Peter’s vaccine hesitancy while appearing to be floating in a vein.
“What Peter might ask is, what if the vaccine makes him sick?” Brian said. Stewie answered, “The common side effects from the COVID vaccines are generally mild and last a few days. But do you know what can have serious long-term side effects? COVID.” “Well, you know he says he just figures everyone else is gonna get it, so why does he have to?” Brian retorted. “What he should understand is, getting the shot not only protects him but also the people around him,” Stewie said. “But even more importantly, if the virus is allowed to spread through an unvaccinated population, it could mutate into a variant that the vaccines might not protect against, and then we're right back where we started: Gal Gadot singing ‘Imagine.’ We cannot let that happen again!”
Kimmel was shocked to learn that the same parent company that allows Fox News hosts to spread crazy conspiracy theories about the vaccine, like Tucker Carlson saying earlier in the night that the military vaccine mandate is an attempt to target “Christians,” “free thinkers” and “men with high testosterone,” is the same company that signed off on the PSA.
“Do you go to Fox and you tell them you want to do this, and they’re for it?” Kimmel asked. “Yeah,” MacFarlane said. Taken aback, Kimmel replied, “Interesting.” “It’s very civil of them,” MacFarlane quipped. “I don’t quite know what the — look, it’s two halves of the same person. It’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
“You see on the news side, they obviously are in, you know, their imaginary fairyland,” MacFarlane said. “And then you have the entertainment side that’s like, ‘Alright, we gotta exist with these people, so let's be political and let’s make the best of it.’”
Seth MacFarlane
Vastly Underrepresented In Media
Latinos
Latinos are perpetually absent in major newsrooms, Hollywood films and other media industries where their portrayals — or lack thereof — could deeply impact how their fellow Americans view them, according to a government report released Tuesday.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate last October.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, has made the inclusion of Latinos in media a principal issue, imploring Hollywood studio directors, journalism leaders and book publishers to include their perspectives.
Castro says the lack of accurate representation, especially in Hollywood, means at the very best that Americans don’t get a full understanding of Latinos and their contributions. At worst — especially when Latinos are solely portrayed as drug dealers or criminals — it invites politicians to exploit negative stereotypes for political gain, Castro said.
The report found that in 2019, the estimated percentage of Latinos working in newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishers was about 8%. An estimated 11% of news analysts, reporters and journalists were Latino, although the GAO used data that included Spanish-language networks, where virtually all contributors are Latino, and those employed in other sectors of news, not just necessarily news gatherers. That could inflate the figures significantly.
Latinos
Bronze Bust Unveiled
Burt Reynolds
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds.
That's why a bronze bust, mustachioed of course, and sporting his “Smokey and the Bandit” cowboy hat, were unveiled on Monday, three years after his death.
“Anybody else want to touch him?” Loni Anderson, Reynolds' wife from 1988 to 1994, asked the small crowd that gathered around the sculpture after the unveiling at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Anderson and Quinton Reynolds spoke jointly at Monday night's ceremony.
She opened by acknowledging that she wasn't, in the eyes of many, the most likely person to be offering fond remembrances of Reynolds, given the sometimes rocky relationship that played out constantly in the tabloids.
Burt Reynolds
Prime Time Nielsens
NFL Football
The Nielsen company, increasingly under fire from the television industry, on Tuesday said it would soon incorporate homes that have cut off cable in favor of broadband in its viewing measurements for local TV markets.
Nielsen estimates some 20% of American homes are now broadband only for onscreen entertainment. The company already includes these homes in its national TV measurements but in January will do so for local markets, giving TV stations a more complete picture of who’s watching in order to sell ads.
Football dominated the ratings, otherwise. One notable game came Saturday afternoon, CBS’ college telecast of Alabama against Florida. With 7.86 million viewers, and a peak of 11.59 million just before its conclusion, it was the network’s most-watched SEC season-opener since 2013.
NBC was the most popular network in prime time, averaging 5.3 million viewers. ABC had 4.9 million, CBS had 4.4 million, Fox had 1.8 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.07 million and Ion Television had 1.06 million.
For the week of Sept. 13-19, the 20 most-watched shows in prime time, their networks and viewerships:
1. NFL Football: Kansas City at Baltimore, NBC, 19.81 million.
2. “NFL Pregame” (Sunday), NBC, 14.72 million.
3. “NFL Postgame” (Sunday), CBS, 14.5 million.
4. NFL Football: Baltimore at Las Vegas, ABC, 14.46 million.
5. “NFL Postgame” (Sunday), Fox, 11.37 million.
6. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.3 million.
7. “NFL Pregame” (Monday), ABC, 8.44 million.
8. “Emmy Awards,” CBS, 7.83 million.
9. College Football: Auburn at Penn State, ABC, 7.61 million.
10. NFL Football: Baltimore at Las Vegas, ESPN, 7.57 million.
11. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 7.43 million.
12. NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Washington, NFLN, 7.33 million.
13. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 6.39 million.
14. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 4.46 million.
15. “NFL Pregame” (Monday), ESPN, 4.33 million.
16. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 4.13 million.
17. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 4.05 million.
18. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 3.91 million.
19. “Football Night in America, Part 2,” NBC, 3.91 million.
20. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.78 million.
NFL Football
Knew Claims Were Baseless
Campaign
Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Trump.
But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released Monday evening.
By the time the news conference occurred Nov. 19, Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue.
The court papers, which were initially filed late last week as a motion in a defamation lawsuit brought against the campaign and others by a former Dominion employee, Eric Coomer, contain evidence that officials in the Trump campaign were aware early on that many of the claims against the companies were baseless.
The documents also suggest that the campaign sat on its findings about Dominion even as Sidney Powell and other lawyers attacked the company in the conservative media and ultimately filed four federal lawsuits accusing it of a vast conspiracy to rig the election against Trump.
Campaign
Wiped Out Ancient City
Tall el-Hammam
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph).
Flashing through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground. The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
The shocked city-dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly. Air temperatures rapidly rose above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius). Clothing and wood immediately burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks and pottery began to melt. Almost immediately, the entire city was on fire.
Some seconds later, a massive shockwave smashed into the city. Moving at about 740 mph (1,200 kph), it was more powerful than the worst tornado ever recorded. The deadly winds ripped through the city, demolishing every building.
About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the biblical city of Jericho. Jericho's walls came tumbling down and the city burned to the ground.
Tall el-Hammam
East Coast
Ghost Forests
Shawn LaTourette sees a warning on the coast of New Jersey in the miles of Atlantic white cedar trees that have devolved into what researchers call ghost forests.
It’s a term that points to the visceral changes of the landscape — going from lush green to a pale white — and the destruction of the area’s crucial role as a biodome and coastal buffer. These once-thriving forests are a direct result of climate change as the trees are suffocated by saltwater intrusion sparked by sea level rise and an uptick of hurricanes and superstorms.
“If we pay close attention to our environment, we often see that it sends us signals,” LaTourette, the state’s commissioner of environmental protection, said while walking along a ghost forest spanning more than 300 acres in southern New Jersey. “This is a signal about that risk that we all face from saltwater intrusion from storm surge.”
The Atlantic white cedar forests are seen as the first line of defense on New Jersey’s coast. They thrive in freshwater wetlands — swamps so thick that extreme caution and a good pair of wader boots are necessary in order to walk through them. As sea levels rise, these trees are hit first, and the saltwater intrusion is killing them due to their sensitive nature. That water will then move on to inundate farm fields, peoples’ homes, drinking water and businesses.
Along much of the Eastern Seaboard, the once-healthy coastal woodlands are dwindling rapidly — to the extent that if the rate of decline continues, these forested wetlands will reach the “point of no return within the century,” according to University of Virginia and Duke University researchers focused on studying the ecosystems. Ghost forests are already a problem all along the East Coast and in states along the Gulf Coast, such as Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Ghost Forests
Unveiled In New York
1,175-Carat Diamond
In a bid to drum up investor appetite for rough, natural diamonds, mining company Lucara Diamond Corp and manufacturer HB Antwerp on Monday unveiled a 1,175-carat diamond in New York City.
The companies are billing the stone as the largest rough diamond to be shown in the United States, and the third-largest to be discovered. Reuters could not independently verify these claims.
The massive diamond was unveiled at the Whitby Hotel in upper midtown Manhattan, kicking off a week of viewings.
The uncut stone was one of three diamonds of over a thousand carats extracted from the Karowe Mine in Botswana in recent years. In 2020, the two companies teamed up with Louis Vuitton to show the Sewelo diamond, also from the Karowe Mine, with each of the three parties taking ownership.
The mining company started using x-ray technology in 2015 to help locate and identify diamonds. "We do expect that we will recover more exceptional diamonds in excess of a thousand carats in size - but on a global basis, this is still an extremely rare and unusual event,” said Lucara's chief executive, Eira Thomas.
1,175-Carat Diamond
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