M Is FOR MASHUP - September 29th, 2021
September Mashup Crop
By DJ Useo
Well, I’ve been out in the bootlegging fields, picking the ripe new mashups. As always, the variety is startling. I thought I’d select a few of the ones I suspect you’ll love, & share them with y’all. For me, a large part of the appeal are the tracks using songs I know already. I hope you have a similar experience.
01 - DJ Schmolli - (Don't Stop) Titanium 500
( David Guetta ft. Sia vs USAI & Dirty Ducks vs The Proclaimers vs Journey )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24204/dj-schmolli-dont-stop-titanium-500 )
02 - Bastard Batucada - The Sade Witness ( Ame ft Karynn vs Enigma )
( Bastard Batucada Testemunhatristeee Mashup )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24173/ame-ft-karynn-vs-enigma-the-sade-witness-bastard-batucada-testemunhatristeee-mashup )
03 - DAW-GUN - Everybody Party Everybody Rock ( LMFAO vs Black Box ) [2021 Remaster]
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24171/daw-gun-everybody-party-everybody-rock-lmfao-vs-black-box-2021-remaster )
04 - Chocomang - Larsen Encore ( Gérald de Palmas vs Zazie )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24134/chocomang-larsen-encore-gérald-de-palmas-vs-zazie )
05 - Dj Chicco - Joel Corry & Mnek - Head & Heart ( Chicco X Dani B. Bootleg Mix Radio )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24130/joel-corry-amp-mnek-head-amp-heart-chicco-x-dani-b-bootleg-mix-radio- )
06 - dj Adry19 - Haddaway & Madonna ( What Is Love Vs Like A Virgin ) ( DJ Adry19 version 2 )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/24132/haddaway-amp-madonna-what-is-love-vs-like-a-virgin-dj-adry19-version-2 )
Well, that’s a fine sampling to give you an idea of what’s current on the mashup scene. These featured tracks were all mixed in the last week, & posted over the last three days. I reckon you’re sated now, but I’m only getting started. Consider me gone now, as I’m off checking out even more new mashup posts.
Bonus Mashup Mix - DJ Useo - “Retro Club Mashups Mix (1:47:08)”
26 selected bootleggers’ releases from the early days of mashups. All sure to keep you dancing.
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-retro-club-mashups-mix/ )
Have the day of good.
DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Mishaps
• Actor Esmé Percy had only one eye, the unfortunate result of an attack on him by a Great Dane he had petted. While he was playing a drunken tinker in the final act of The Lady’s Not for Burning, his glass eye fell out, shocking the other actors. Fortunately, one of the actors recovered himself enough to pick up the glass eye and hand it back to Mr. Percy, who was murmuring, “Don’t step on it, for God’s sake! They’re so expensive!”
• Some anecdotes need not be completely told to be funny; after all, some things are best left to the imagination. In 2007, when playwright Edward Albee was 80 years old, his beloved cat died of cancer. While the cat’s grave was being dug, Mr. Albee put the cat in a freezer. He says about his cat, “I put her in plastic and forgot to tell the cleaning ladies. One of them went in there, saw a dead cat and, well ….”
• Fanny Brice was persistent. Once she was singing her big number in a show when her voice cracked — something no one could believe. She made the orchestra begin the song again, and she sang again, and her voice cracked again. So she told the audience, “Just stay in your seats. We’ll get it this time.” And she did get it, and she received a huge ovation from the audience.
• While acting in a play with Ethel Barrymore, Madeline Lee, who was Jack Gilford’s future wife, cut her finger as she sliced lemons in a scene. She brought the lemons to Ms. Barrymore. Ms. Barrymore was supposed to ask for some parsley, but instead, staring at the blood on the plate of lemons, she said, “Go in the garden and get me a plate of blood.”
• While performing on Broadway in My Fair Lady, British actor Rex Harrison narrowly missed being killed by a huge and heavy piece of scenery that fell to the floor; however, Mr. Harrison ignored the near disaster and continued acting and singing. A stagehand watched Mr. Harrison and then said, “Now I know why the British won the war.”
• Early in her career, choreographer Agnes de Mille danced in the play The Black Crook. One night, her partner accidentally kicked her and broke her nose. Ms. de Mille reported, “The sound, a kind of wet scrunch, carried to the back of the theater, but, I am proud to say, neither of us missed a step.”
• Sir John Gielgud, the actor, was known for a habit of saying absolutely the wrong thing. Once a close friend showed him a newly acquired city apartment. Sir John started off well, complimenting his friend on his sense in moving to town, but he added, “Mind you, I couldn’t bear a pokey little place like this.”
Money
• Impresario James W. Morrissey once ran low on funds in Galveston, Texas, because the play he was producing was not popular. For a few weeks, it seemed as if his troupe would be unable to leave town because of a lack of money to pay off the hotel bill and to buy train tickets — and to pay the actors their salaries. However, Mr. Morrissey hit on the idea of having his troupe give a singing concert. The concert was well attended, but the audience began to howl when the leading comedian, Owen Fawcett, who did not have a good singing voice, announced that he would recite Shakespeare’s “Seven Ages of Men.” Fortunately, Mr. Fawcett knew how to control an audience. He waited for the hooting and hollering to die down, then he began an impressive recitation that spellbound the audience. He finished by declaiming, “The last scene of all in this strange, eventful history is second childishness and mere oblivion: sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything — including salary.” After that joke, the concert went exceedingly well, and the actors earned enough money to get back home to Broadway.
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Danish Auction
John Lennon
A cassette tape with a 33-minute audio recording of John Lennon being interviewed by four Danish teenagers 51 years ago as well as an apparently unpublished song by the late Beatle fetched 370,000 kroner ($58,240) Tuesday at an auction in Denmark.
The tape, recorded on Jan. 5, 1970, chiefly consists of Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, speaking about being in Denmark and world peace. It also has the couple singing two songs: 1969's “Give Peace a Chance” and “Radio Peace,” which was made for a radio station in the Netherlands but never released.
The cassette was put up for sale by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneer in Copenhagen, together with 29 still photos and a copy of the school newspaper for which the teenagers had interviewed Lennon and Ono. The pre-sale estimate for the lot was 200,000 kroner to 300,000 kroner ($31,481 to $47,222).
“I thought it was extraordinary that it went above the estimate,” Alexa Bruun Rasmussen of Denmark’s main auction house told The Associated Press. “Unfortunately it is confidential who the buyer is but I can reveal that it went abroad.”
John Lennon
Internet Duped By Fake TikTok Account
Dolly Parton
Fans of Dolly Parton were thrilled to find the country music superstar had joined TikTok...only to discover it was all a clever prank by someone on the internet.
The queen of country music appeared to make her debut on the video-sharing app Sunday.
“Woohoo!” the beloved entertainer exclaims in a clip that had more than a million likes before its removal. “Well hello, I guess I’m on TikTok!”
“I just dropped in to say everything’s gonna be OK,” she continued. “You keep the faith.”
A spokesperson for the country singer explained to TODAY that an unverified user had taken an old video from Parton's Imagination Library website and "doctored it."
Dolly Parton
Korean Original Series On Netflix
‘Squid Game’
During a Q&A at the International TV Academy this past spring, Netflix’s Head of Global TV Bela Bajaria was asked whether a non-English-language series could top the list of the streamer’s most-watched programs one day. She sounded confident that it could happen. The milestone now might be within reach as the new Korean drama Squid Game is taking Netflix by storm, raking in viewership globally at a rate that might surpass current record holder Bridgerton.
The addictive, violent survival drama, which premiered September 17 on Netflix, has transcended cultures and language barriers to reach No. 1 in 90 countries in 10 days — from Qatar and Oman to Ecuador and Bolivia.
Fueled by word of mouth, Squid Game entered the U.S. Top 10 list on September 19 at No. 8. It climbed to No. 2 the next day, and hit No. 1 on September 21 — the first Korean original series ever to do so — where it has stayed since, crossing the one-week mark today. Its staying power in the top spot is comparable to such Netflix global hits as Bridgerton, Shadow and Bone, Ginny and Georgia and Who Killed Sara?
Lupin, which earlier this year became the first French series to reach no. 1 in the U.S., currently is tied as Netflix’s second-most-watched original series with 76 million households who watched at least two minutes within the show’s first four weeks of release. Aided by the ever-expanding Netflix subscriber base, Squid Game is on track to surpass that to become the biggest non-English-language Netflix series — and possibly even top Bridgerton’s record 82 million households.
‘Squid Game’
Star Wars Toy (Again)
George Lucas
George Lucas has joined the Galactic Empire. It’s tragic, but it must be true, since he’s the newest figure in Hasbro’s beloved Star Wars: The Black Series toyline, sporting Stormtrooper armor and a E-11 Blaster Rifle, the standard-issue weapon for the Emperor’s soldiers. I doubt this turn to the Dark Side will prevent collectors from picking the figure up, though.
Lucas’ newest plastic incarnation will arrive next year, just in time for Lucasfilm’s 50th anniversary, in commemoration of the founder of the company that gave us Star Wars. In addition to the blaster, he comes with a removable helmet and a likeness that is not particularly flattering, but what can you do. (Spoiler: He’s only disguised as a Stormtrooper. Phew!)
This isn’t the director’s first action figure, however! That honor goes to a 3.75-inch toy released as an exclusive at the 2002 Star Wars Celebration, making it quite the sought-after figure. Weirdly and/or delightfully, he was labeled as X-Wing pilot Jorg Sacul, who was said to have grown up on Tatooine, nearly died in a T-16 Skyhopper crash (much as Lucas nearly did in a car crash in his youth), joined the Imperial navy, became top of his class, defected to the Rebels, and became a renowned flight commander and instructor. Oh, and he was “probably” Force-sensitive, too.
There were other figures after that, although not nearly so wonderfully accompanied by biographies. He was similarly decked out in Stormtrooper armor for the Saga Collection series in 2006, which was only available as a Hasbro mail-in. He had a mainstream release when Hasbro made a figure of Baron Papanoida, the alien Lucas himself played in Revenge of the Sith as his only cameo in the films. But if you ever wanted a figure of George in his regular clothes, you’d need to go back to 2002, when Hot Toys—yes, that Hot Toys—made an extremely unlicensed figure of Lucas, calling him only “The Director.”
George Lucas
Soothing Show Tunes
Toadstool Dicks
Stephanie Grisham never held a press briefing during the nearly 10 months she served as President Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s press secretary, but in her new book I’ll Take Your Questions Now, she’s delivering what appears to be a pretty damn unvarnished account of her time in the White House. In it, Grisham details a president who leered at female staffers, required live show tunes to calm his nerves, and who once called Grisham to defend his penis after it had been called into question by Stormy Daniels, the porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair.
“Uh, yes sir,” Grisham writes of her reply when Trump called her while aboard Air Force One to defend the size and shape of his penis. Daniels wrote in her 2018 book that Trump’s penis was shaped like “the mushroom character in Mario Kart,” Toad, who is shaped like a toadstool.
Perhaps even more bizarre than the call to defend his penis is the revelation that Trump’s aides designated a White House official, known as the “Music Man,” to calm the president’s nerves by playing his favorite show tunes, including “Memory” from Cats. (In all fairness, it is pretty soothing.)
According to The New York Times, the “Music Man” is Max Miller, an ex-boyfriend of Grisham’s who is running for Congress in Ohio with Trump’s support. Politico reported on Miller’s history of aggressive behavior this summer, including slapping Grisham. “Great guy,” Trump said of Miller at a rally in June.
Grisham also writes that Trump only acted tough toward Putin — on the rare occasions that he did — to placate the media. Trump told Putin as much during the 2019 G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. “Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes,” Grisham overheard Trump tell the Russian president. “But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand.”
Toadstool Dicks
Wins Arbitration Case
Omarosa
An arbitrator ruled in favor of Omarosa Manigault Newman in a case brought by Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s presidential campaign, claiming that she violated a confidentiality agreement with the publication of her book Unhinged and in other public appearances.
The arbitrator, T. Andrew Brown, concluded that the agreement was invalid under New York contract law, finding that it was “vague and unenforceable.”
“Defining confidential information as ‘all information (whether or not embodied in any media) of a private, proprietary or confidential nature or that Mr. Trump insists is private or confidential’ is so indefinite that there is no way for [Manigault Newman] to know what information should be kept confidential under the Agreement,” Brown wrote in his decision. He also awarded attorneys fees and costs.
Manigault Newman, who appeared on The Apprentice and later served in the Trump White House, published Unhinged in 2018. The highly critical account of her former boss drew condemnation from Trump and the White House. The Trump campaign claimed that she violated an agreement signed in 2016.
Her attorney, John Phillips, said, “We’ve won in Donald Trump and the Trump Campaign’s chosen forum. They now owe attorney’s fees. Whether the Campaign tries to bankrupt out of this ruling or it energizes more people to come forward and blow the whistle on corrupt government, it’s a win we can all be proud of. Kudos to Omarosa Manigault Newman for coming forward and taking this on.”
Omarosa
Boiling Bear Urine
Fawn Fire
According to court documents, the Bay Area woman accused of starting the Fawn Fire in Shasta County last week was boiling bear urine so she could drink it when she allegedly set off the destructive blaze.
In a bizarre turn of events, charging documents said 30-year-old Palo Alto resident Alexandra Souverneva accidentally started the fire as she boiled bear urine to drink.
Souverneva pleaded not guilty to arson charges Friday. It wasn’t immediately known if she has an attorney who could speak on her behalf.
The Cal Fire officer who arrested her also said he believes there is a high possibility that she additionally started a separate vegetation fire the night before the Fawn Fire broke out in the city of Shasta Lake.
Fawn Fire
May Be More Hunger-Inducing
Artificial Sweeteners
New research this week may make diet soda lovers a bit less confident in their habit. The small experimental trial found that some groups of people seemed hungrier and consumed more calories after drinking something with artificial sweetener than they did after drinking a sugary beverage. In particular, those with obesity and women appeared to display more hunger cues, while women ate more food afterward.
Diet sodas and other artificially sweetened beverages have long been a popular alternative for those who want to avoid the empty calories of regular soda but still want that sugary experience. For about as long, though, people have been worried that the artificial sweeteners used to create this illusion are themselves harmful—perhaps even more so than sugar. Diet sodas have been blamed for raising the risk of everything from cancer to blindness to dementia.
The evidence for some of these claims is pretty weak and based on limited observational research, while others have been thoroughly investigated and not validated so far, such as the fear that aspartame causes cancer. Regulators including the Food and Drug Administration continue to insist that artificial sweeteners are generally safe to eat. But other health concerns possibly linked to diet sodas, such as an increased risk of weight gain or type 2 diabetes, are less easily dismissed, with conflicting data on either side.
This new research, conducted by scientists at the University of Southern California, is one of the relatively few studies to experimentally test the effects of diet beverages on the body and the brain. Experimental studies in the world of nutrition are generally rare, partly because they can be very expensive and harder to conduct than a typical drug trial. The data comes from the researchers’ existing project, known as the Brain Response to Sugar study, which tested how the brain responds to eating different types of sugars as well as the artificial sweetener sucralose.
Artificial Sweeteners
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