I haven’t seen DJ Morgoth
( djmorgoth.blogspot.com/ )
posting anything new lately, but he sure left a lot of reminders about when he did. Morgoth is a famed bootlegger/DJ from Germany whose work reached a very large audience. He started
BOOTIE BERLIN
( www.bootieberlin.com/ )
which thrived in his care. A favorite thing of mine that he did was to release the massive comp series
“MASH-UP YOUR BOOTZ”
( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com/ ) , a series that reached a stunning 103 volumes. All are still hosted, so stock up while they are.
The MUYB series has Morgoth’s mashups on them, sure, but for me the bigger lure is his own personal best ofs,
“Mash Up Your Bootz” vol. 1-7
( djmorgoth.blogspot.com/p/dj-morgoth-mashup-albums.html ) .
From his earliest bootleg mixes, DJ Morgoth displayed the mixing skills, music awareness, & overall drive to succeed in the difficult dj market. On top of that, we all found him to be a sharing, thoughtful individual, while still maintaining his “rough” persona.
Now with these Morgoth comps, I expect even the most ardent mashup fan will be satis5d (sic). If you get into any of these series, you’ll discover tunes that combine your favorite music artists into a satisfying, & complimentary parallel experience to mainstream music. I listen to a lot of music, personally, but un-mashed tunes maintain a steady 60% of my regular listening habit. Listening to mashups actually inspires me to hear the source artists, & I’m confident you’ll experience a similar reaction.
• Meindert DeJong was born in Friesland, a province of the Netherlands, and he had the blond hair of his countrymen. During World War II, having moved to America, he joined the United States Air Force and was stationed in the Chungking area of China. There, his blond hair fascinated the Chinese. Many wanted to touch it — but some women were so frightened by it that they ran away from him. Later, Mr. DeJong became the renowned author of such children’s books as The House of the Sixty Fathers, a story about a Chinese boy struggling to survive in wartime.
• Basho, the famous writer of haiku, decided to visit a place that was famed for its beautiful flowers. While traveling there, he heard about a peasant girl who was famed for her tender devotion to her parents. Basho visited the peasant girl, and he discovered that her devotion to her parents had not been exaggerated. Basho then gave her all the money he had saved for his trip and returned home, saying, “This year I have seen something better than flowers.”
• In 1922, E.B. White and a friend drove across the country in a Model T they named Hotspur (from a character in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1), eventually ending up in Seattle, but not before watching the Kentucky Derby. Mr. White lost $5 (approximately $40 in today’s money) betting on the race, but recouped his loss by writing a poem about the winner of the race and selling it to the Louisville Herald.
• While visiting the cathedral at Milan, Italy, Mark Twain and a friend wished to go aloft. A sacristan told the party “to go up one hundred and eighty-two steps and stop till he came.” According to Mr. Twain, “It was not necessary to say stop — we should have done that any how. We were tired by the time we got there.”
• Johanna Hurwitz, author of Busybody Nora, usually writes in her study, although while traveling, she occasionally writes elsewhere. During an airplane trip, a flight attendant asked her if she wanted a beverage. Ms. Hurwitz looked up from her writing and wondered, “What is this lady doing in my study?”
• James Boswell said about a well-known tourist destination that the pleasure of seeing it wasn’t worth even half a guinea. His friend, Samuel Johnson, replied, “But, sir, there is half a guinea’s worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it.”
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• Jonathan Swift once traveled with a lazy servant. One night, he gave his boots to the lazy servant to clean and shine, but the next morning they were still dirty. When Dean Swift asked for an explanation, the lazy servant said that he had not cleaned them because Dean Swift was going to ride again today, and what was the use of cleaning them if they were just going to get dirty again. Hearing that, Dean Swift told the servant to get ready immediately to continue their journey. The servant protested, “But I haven’t eaten breakfast yet!” Dean Swift responded, “What is the use of feeding you breakfast if you are just going to get hungry again?” After that, Dean Swift had his boots cleaned and shined each night, and the servant ate breakfast each morning.
• In Roughing It, Mark Twain wrote about working as a common laborer in a quartz mill, where he refined silver ore into silver bricks. After a week of backbreaking labor, he went to his employer and said that although he had come to love the work, he felt that he could not continue working without a raise. The employer countered by saying that he was paying Mr. Twain $10 a week, which he felt was a fair sum, and just how much of a raise did Mr. Twain want? Mark Twain replied that $400,000 a month, and board, was all he could reasonably ask, considering the hard times. Of course, Mr. Twain was then ordered off the premises of the quartz mill.
This single by Warren Zevon, his only top 40 US hit, mentions Lon Chaney, drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's, and a big dish of beef chow mein. What is the title of this song?
This electronic musical instrument, originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, was the product of Soviet government-sponsored research into proximity sensors. Often associated with eerie situations, what is the name of this instrument?
The theremin (originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
The sound of the instrument is often associated with eerie situations. Thus, the theremin has been used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, Bernard Herrmann's The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Justin Hurwitz's First Man, as well as in theme songs for television shows such as the ITV drama Midsomer Murders. The theremin is also used in concert music (especially avant-garde and 20th- and 21st-century new music), and in popular music genres such as rock.
The theremin was the product of Soviet government-sponsored research into proximity sensors. The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeyevich Termen (known in the West as Leon Theremin) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian Civil War. After a lengthy tour of Europe, during which time he demonstrated his invention to packed houses, Theremin moved to the United States, where he patented his invention in 1928. Subsequently, Theremin granted commercial production rights to RCA.
The Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations"—though it does not technically contain a theremin—is the most frequently cited example of the instrument in pop music. The song actually features a similar-sounding instrument invented by Paul Tanner called an Electro-Theremin. Upon release, the single prompted an unexpected revival in theremins and increased the awareness of analog synthesizers. In response to requests by the band, Moog Music began producing their own brand of ribbon-controlled instruments which would mimic the sound of a theremin.
Star Trek did not use a theremin. The Alexander Courage theme music composed for and employed on the original series was performed by a mixture of instruments with vocals to get "unearthly" sound. The theremin-like sound theme was actually provided by renowned studio soprano Loulie Jean Norman until her voice was removed in later seasons. Soprano Elin Carlson sang part of the theme when CBS-Paramount TV remastered the program's title sequence in 2006.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Theremin.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Theremin
Randall wrote:
Theremin
Alan J answered:
Theremin.
Jacqueline responded:
Theremin. Played with hand movements near its antenna, never touching the instrument.
Mac Mac replied:
theremin
Cal in Vermont wrote:
It's a theremin, named after a Soviet scientist doing research on proximity sensors.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Oh, do you mean the theremin? The instrument used to play the original “Star Trek” theme music? I only know because of “The Big Bang Theory.” On at least one episode a theramin was featured.
Kenn B said:
Theremin
David of Moon Valley wrote:
welllll....
…i didn’t know this one so i headed over to the wiktionary…and it tells me the Theremin?! and/or the reminophone?! i guess i still don’t know…but, hey, at least i have the answer….High Fives all around!
John I from Hawai`i says,
Theremin
Jim from CA, retired to ID, answered:
Theremin
Daniel in The City responded:
Theremin.
Dave in Tucson (Where the skies have been hazy for days.) replied:
That instrument is named a theremin. The good vibrations effect in Good Vibrations.
A thereminist and her theremin.
DJ Useo said:
That'd be the "Theremin". I used to be an Orchestra manager, & it afforded me access to all musical instruments.
It's great fun to play the theremin. I liked to play Mozart's "Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, 2nd movement".
Michelle in AZ answered:
Theremin
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
Why that's the famous Theremin, made famous by Sheldon Cooper. The fact is Sheldon is the only person in the entire world I ever heard play it.
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Sumo has been very entertaining - the big dogs sat this one out (due to injuries), so some new rikishi are filtering up.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Jeff Daniels and Yusuf/Cat Stevens.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Sharon Stone and Alicia Keys.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Millie Bobby Brown, Colin Quinn, and Anitta featuring Cardi B & Myke Towers.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Sarah Paulson and H. Jon Benjamin.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (R 4/8/20) is Ron Funches.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Riz Ahmed and Tim McGraw.
The CW offers a FRESH'The 100', followed by a FRESH'Coroner'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'I Can See Your Voice'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
AMC offers the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'US Marshals'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - MOVE ALONG HOME
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE NAGUS
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - VORTEX
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - BATTLE LINES
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE STORYTELLER
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PROGRESS
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - FUTURE IMPERFECT
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - FINAL MISSION
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE LOSS
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DATA'S DAY
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE WOUNDED
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DEVIL'S DUE
[6:00PM] SPACEBALLS
[8:00PM] SPACE COWBOYS
[11:00PM] SPACE COWBOYS
[2:00AM] WE WERE SOLDIERS
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - DATA'S DAY (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', another 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'South Park' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Greatest Showman', followed by the movie 'Bad Moms'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Judges Cut'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1203: Lords Of The Deep
[7:45am] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
[9:45am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[11:45am] Zookeeper
[2:00pm] Crocodile Dundee II
[4:30pm] The Dukes Of Hazzard
[6:45pm] Get Hard
[9:00pm] This Is 40
[12:00am] Parks And Recreation
[12:30am] Parks And Recreation
[1:00am] Parks And Recreation
[1:30am] Parks And Recreation
[2:00am] Parks And Recreation
[2:30am] Parks And Recreation
[3:00am] Parks And Recreation
[3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - Yongary (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 - Requiem For A Falling Star
[1:15pm] columbo - A Stitch In Crime
[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 - TV Directors
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'RIPD', followed by the movie 'Skyfall'.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver scooped its fifth consecutive Emmy Award in the Variety category Sunday, with the Brit comedian saying the hard work of staff on all late night shows made them possible during the pandemic.
Clad in a Liverpool FC hoodie, Oliver beat The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category.
In fact, Oliver has won every year, apart from 2015 when The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won, since the Outstanding Variety Series was separated into two categories.
Former Daily Show correspondent Oliver thanked the usual people, his staff, HBO as well as his wife. “My wife, who has kept a two year old and a four year old out of this room as I’ve been trying to do the show. My four year old at one point did burst in and said ‘Dad, who are you talking to?’. I said ‘Nobody’. He said what are you talking about and I said ‘police brutality’. He said ‘That doesn’t sound fun’ and he wasn’t wrong about that,” he said.
His parting words were for his crew – “I haven’t seen my staff in six months and I honestly can’t wait until we’re in the same space together whenever that is.”
For the first time in 17 years, the cast of The West Wing will reunite, along with creator Aaron Sorkin and executive producer/director Thomas Schlamme, for a special benefit stage presentation of a 2002 episode on HBO Max. The Oct. 15 reunion will support When We All Vote, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization co-chaired by Michelle Obama.
Cast members Rob Lowe, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Anna Deavere Smith and Martin Sheen will reprise their roles from the third-season episode “Hartsfield’s Landing.”
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote also will include act breaks with guest appearances from Michelle Obama, President Bill Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Emmy-winning composer W.G. Snuffy Walden will perform The West Wing score on guitar, and folk rock band The Avett Brothers will close out the special.
“Hartsfield’s Landing” originally aired February 27, 2002 on NBC, and, in HBO Max’s description, finds Sheen’s President Bartlet engaging both Sam (Rob Lowe) and Toby (Richard Schiff) in intricate chess matches that mirror the wily game of brinksmanship that Bartlet is playing with the Chinese, who are conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese threaten real war if Taiwan begins test firing its new U.S.-made Patriot defense missiles. Meanwhile, Josh (Bradley Whitford) is nervous about the 42 votes in a remote New Hampshire town’s election, which are counted immediately and always predict the winner of that state’s primary. Mischievous C.J. (Allison Janney) tries to upset Charlie (Dulé Hill) by hiding his copy of the President’s top-secret daily schedule — prompting a spate of playful tricks. The episode was written by Sorkin and directed by Vincent Misiano.
Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller are becoming quite the double act as the Escape at Dannemora collaborators have reteamed on a half-hour comedy for Apple starring Arquette and directed by and exec produced by Stiller.
Apple TV+ has ordered High Desert, created and written by Nancy Fichman (Nurse Jackie), Katie Ford (Miss Congeniality) and Jennifer Hoppe (Grace and Frankie).
The series follows Peggy, played by Arquette, a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, and makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.
Arquette will also exec produce alongside Stiller, who will direct the first episode and will exec produce through Red Hour Films alongside Nicky Weinstock. Molly Madden and Tom Lassally executive produce on behalf of 3 Arts Entertainment with Fichman, Ford and Hoppe also EPs.
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky has said the Trump administration scares her more than the government led by former president Bill Clinton.
In a message posted to Twitter on Monday afternoon, Ms Lewinsky wrote: "Just realized I am more scared of our government now than I was in 1998."
She added: "And that’s saying a lot. A. LOT."
It was not immediately clear what Ms Lewinsky, 47, was specifically referring to in her comments, but recently she has been vocal in criticising president Trump's decision to replace the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday.
The White House defended Donald Trump (R-Fraud) as the number of confirmed coronavirus deaths passed 200,000, saying administration officials were expecting 2m from “the Covid.”
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (R-Master Liar) made the claim even though the largest number the president had used publicly was 200,000. Mr Trump has faced a backlash over comments he made in private to journalist Bob Woodward that described the disease in more stark terms than he used in public.
Asked about what he told Mr Woodward about young people being affected by it in February and what he said about young people at a campaign rally on Monday night, Ms McEnany said “we know a lot more about” Covid-19 now. She noted the president said that the previous night.
“The president has never downplayed critical medical information,” she contended, even though he was recorded by Mr Woodward appearing to do just that.
A neon sign blaming Donald Trump (R-Ghoul) for 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the US was placed outside the White House.
The pointed message reading “Trump lied, 200,00 died” was held up by a group of Democrat politicians and paid for by the Democratic National Convention.
They lit the sign on Sunday night as the death toll from Covid-19 continues to grow dramatically in the US.
The death toll in the US reached 200,087 on Tuesday morning, according to the New York Times.
The US now accounts for 21 per cent of all confirmed Covid-19 deaths despite having just 4 per cent of the world’s population, according to CNBC.
The Los Angeles Police Department has on numerous occasions over the years downplayed its use of facial recognition technology, publicly claimed that the department doesn't use it at all, and denied the existence of related documents that, if they exist, the public is legally entitled to see.
But new records obtained by the Los Angeles Times revealed that the department has used the technology widely for more than a decade: 29,817 times between November 6, 2009, and September 11 of this year — including 3,750 instances since February.
While the LAPD doesn't have its own facial recognition software, 330 people within the department currently have access to the Los Angeles County Regional Identification System (LACRIS), a platform operated by LA county that relies on technology from DataWorks Plus, according to the LA Times.
The extent to which the LAPD uses facial recognition, according to these new records, contradicts what the department has said publicly, both when questioned by reporters and when asked to turn over documents via public records requests.
Glowing auroras shimmered in skies over the northern Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 — the night the RMS Titanic sank. Now, new research hints that the geomagnetic storm behind the northern lights could have disrupted the ship's navigation and communication systems and hindered rescue efforts, fueling the disaster that killed more than 1,500 passengers.
Eyewitnesses described aurora glows in the region as the Titanic went down, with one observer testifying that "the northern lights were very strong that night," Mila Zinkova, an independent weather researcher and photographer, reported in a new study, published online Aug. 4 in the journal Weather.
Auroras form from solar storms, when the sun expels high-speed streams of electrified gas that hurtle toward Earth. As the charged particles and energy collide with Earth's atmosphere, some travel down magnetic field lines to interact with atmospheric gases, glowing green, red, purple and blue, NASA says. These charged particles can also interfere with electrical and magnetic signals, causing surges and oscillations, according to NASA.
A solar storm (also called a geomagnetic storm) powerful enough to produce an aurora may also have affected compasses and wireless communication on the Titanic, and on nearby ships trying to come to her aid. Even a small disruption might have been enough to doom the vessel, Zinkova said in the study.
And the northern lights were highly visible when the Titanic sank. James Bisset, second officer of the RMS Carpathia (the ship that would rescue Titanic survivors) wrote in his log on the night of April 14, 1912: "There was no moon, but the Aurora Borealis glimmered like moonbeams shooting up from the northern horizon." In an entry made five hours later, Bisset noted that he could still see "greenish beams" of the aurora as the Carpathia neared the Titanic's lifeboats, Zinkova reported.
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