M Is FOR MASHUP - October 17th, 2018
Fear The Fright Album
By DJ Useo
By AtoZ
( DJ Useo here, once again turning over the narration \ scare-nation to guest contributor AtoZ.
Setting us up for this years "The Fright Album"
( dmrofatoz.blogspot.com/2018/10/fright-album.html )
, where I was pleased and thrilled to be a guest contributor myself )-
This comp has been nearly returned to for completion and release every year since 2015 . . .
but life and other projects were not quite allowing the time necessary .
One upside of that is --- most of my tracks here have been slowly coming along the whole time, so a couple months of building it from the hallowed ground up wasn't the approach . . it was slow-roasted & ghostly toasted ! ( so it's mostly more mosted . . and I'm sorry I've boasted )
> ';' The Fright Album ';' <
( dmrofatoz.blogspot.com/2018/10/fright-album.html )
The whole time I sort'a figured it was to be an AtoZ collection, with maybe 3 or 4 from DJ Useo.
But August 20th of 2018, I shared a hopefully exciting folder of 33 isolated vocals . . isolated for the first time ( far as I know ) via Phonic Minds. And offered for everyone's fun and participation.
DJ Rudec
( www.facebook.com/rui.carpelho )
, who at first claimed to have little European affinity for Halloweening, soon succumbed to the nefarious spell I'd cast and got into the more universal / global mood of creepy ominous forebodery . . gracing and cursing us with 3 submissions !!
DJ Spider
( www.facebook.com/djspideruk )
and
DJ DAW-GUN
( www.facebook.com/djdawgun )
also joined our digital coven.
DJ Useo
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
provides the preview track with his mix "
Vampire Smoke" ( Fabulous Poodles vs Deep Purple )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/11250/halloween-track-vampire-smoke-fabulous-poodles-vs-deep-purple- )
Concept & Cover: well folks, "The Fright Album" is quite the natural title for a bunch'a spooky tunes, right ?
But them Beatles aren't the theme thruout . . not like 2012's "You Can't Mash That #31 - BeatleWeen"
( www.tapatalk.com/groups/beatlesremixers/you-can-t-mash-that-volume-31-for-oct-31st-beatlew-t1362.html )
, nope.
Rather, they am our hosts behind the overall concept . . . and do indeed feature on AtoZ's track - "A Stranger Day" . . so there !
The initial response to "The Fright Album" has been overwhelmingly positive, so I'm positive you'll all love it.
Recommended Reading
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Presenting
Michael Egan
took the day off.
has returned to semi-retired status.
In memory.
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
Bonus Links
Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp
from Bruce
Anecdotes
• A nobleman deeply loved his garden of chrysanthemums. In fact, he loved the flowers more than he loved his wife, and he used to severely punish anyone who accidentally broke off a blossom while walking in his garden. Zen master Sengai learned of the nobleman's behavior, so he walked into the nobleman's garden one day with a sickle. Hearing a noise in his garden, the nobleman went to investigate - and discovered that Sengi had cut down every chrysanthemum. Sengai told the nobleman, "Even weeds like this become rank if they are not cut." The nobleman realized that he had been wrong and began to treat people with more respect.
• Margaret Webster was called on to play Lady Macbeth at short notice because of an emergency, and during her airplane trip to the theater she closed her eyes and tried hard to remember the business she must perform on stage that evening. A man noticed her and offered, "I have some airsickness tablets, if you would like one." She declined, and after that evening's performance she found a huge bouquet of flowers waiting for her at her hotel, with the note, "Never again will I mistake a rehearsal of the sleepwalking scene for airsickness."
• When George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova were keeping house together and working for Sergei Diaghilev, they participated in the Monte Carlo premiere of Le Bal. Unfortunately, all of the soloists except Ms. Danilova received flowers at the curtain. This made Mr. Diaghilev angry, and he spoke to Mr. Balanchine about it. At the next performance, Mr. Balanchine sent Ms. Danilova 100 roses at the curtain - there were so many that she couldn't carry them all, and she gave many of them away to other members of the company.
• Marie Curie's name was Marya Sklodowska when she was born in Poland. As a child, she concentrated on her books. One day, as she sat, absorbed in reading, her siblings built an arch of chairs over her. She finished reading, stood up, and toppled the chairs. Her siblings laughed, but she said merely, "That's stupid," before walking out of the room. When she went out on her first date with Pierre Curie, he didn't give her candy or flowers - instead, he gave her a copy of a scientific article that he had authored.
• Ruth St. Denis cared little for flowers and would throw them away after a performance. Her husband, Ted Shawn, would often rescue the flowers and put them in water after reading the card that came with them. Sometimes, a visitor came backstage to visit her, and Mr. Shawn would whisper to her something like, "Mrs. Jones - red roses." Ms. St. Denis would then say, "Mrs. Jones. Those beautiful red roses. They went right to my heart. Oh, my dear, thank you. Thank you so much."
• After witnessing a particularly good performance, balletomanes often throw flowers - which sometimes leads to problems. A balletomane once threw a "remarkably solid and heavy water lily" which hit Margot Fonteyn in the chest. Another regular ballet-goer discovered that flowers were easier to throw when they were weighted, so Ms. Fonteyn quickly learned to keep an eye in his direction whenever she came out for bows after a performance.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
"THERE IS NO GOD"
TRUMP HAS SHIT FOR BRAINS!
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS SHIT FOR BRAINS! PART TWO.
FASCISM IN AMERICA.
DUMB FUCK DONALD STRIKES AGAIN!
DUMBER THAN DOG DUMP!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Many thanks to James in Alhambra for his generosity.
Literary Group Sues
PEN American Center
In the three years that Donald Trump (R-Compromised) rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech and an enemy of free expression.
It has published studies, organized petitions and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund.
Now the literary and human rights organization, which includes thousands of authors and journalists, is taking a more direct step: PEN is suing the president.
In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the center, also known as PEN America, alleges that "official acts" by Trump have "violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution." PEN cites such examples as reports that Trump has meddled in the proposed merger of AT&T and CNN, a frequent target of Trump's anger (the Justice Department has sought to block the merger).
The suit also notes Trump's comments on Washington Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Trump, unhappy with the Post's coverage, has threatened antitrust action against Amazon and suggested raising its shipping costs. According to the Post, he has pressured U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rates. (Last week, the U.S. Postal Service proposed some hikes for 2019, among them increases that would affect Amazon. Shipping costs have been raised several times over the past decade.)
PEN American Center
"Tales Of The City" Reboot
Armistead Maupin
Paul Gross will reprise his role as Brian Hawkins from the original Maupin miniseries for "Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City," based on the much-loved series of books about a woman living in 1970s San Francisco.
Maupin's novels were previously adapted into a 1993 TV miniseries, with Laura Linney as Mary Ann and Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, her quirky, marijuana-growing landlady.
"Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City" will be set in the present day, and will follow Mary Ann (Linney, reprising her role from the original miniseries) as she returns home to San Francisco after twenty years, and is reunited with her daughter Shawna (played by Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian.
Barbara Garrick and Olympia Dukakis will also return for the reboot, playing DeDe Halycon Day and Anna Madrigal respectively.
Other series regulars for the new show include Murray Bartlett as Mary Ann's best friend Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, Charlie Barnett as Mouse's boyfriend Ben Marshall, Josiah Victoria Garcia as transgender man Jake Rodriguez, and May Hong as Jake's girlfriend, Margot Park.
Armistead Maupin
The "Hammaconda"
Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm showed up on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday night to promote his participation in the movie Bad Times at the El Royale. While he was there, he played the show's ever-popular "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts," a game in which both Hamm and Corden ask each other difficult questions, and the cost of not answering one is ingesting some awful concoction.
On the menu this week were blended chili-cheese-dog smoothies, dried-up tarantulas, hot-sauce shots, and bull penis. Poor Jon Hamm had to try a lot of them. He refused to name the person he would never work with again (though he did have an answer, he said) and wouldn't even rank Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney for their Batman performances.
Then Jon Hamm was inevitably asked about the size of his dick. The "Hammaconda," as Corden put it, has been an Internet legend for years, up there with speculation on what other celebrities, like Justin Timberlake and Justin Theroux, are packing. Anyway, Jon Hamm chose to eat bull dick rather than spill the beans on his own, and was very gracious when James Corden told him his least favorite Jon Hamm movie was Tag. A perfect gentleman all around.
Jon Hamm
Network Cuts Back on Live News
HLN
CNN's sister news channel HLN is rejiggering its programming lineup, cutting back on live news shows that will see the departure of Ashleigh Banfield, Carol Costello and Michaela Pereira.
"The current cable news landscape is dominated by politics. Our live news shows have not benefitted from this trend given our story mix," said Ken Jautz, the CNN executive VP who heads up HLN, in a staff memo that was obtained by TheWrap. "However, HLN's longform programs have been performing very well."
The shift will see Robin Meade's "Morning Express," expand to six hours, from 6 a.m. to noon, with the last two hours being a mix of live and taped. The early-afternoon news show, "On the Story" will expand to three hours from noon to 3 p.m., featuring a roundtable of anchors as hosts. The rest of the lineup will be made up of documentaries and other pre-taped programming. "Weekend Express with Lynn Smith" will remain in its current 7 a.m.-noon time slot on the weekends.
"It's with deep regret that we will have to end production of 'Across America with Carol Costello,' 'Michaela' and 'Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield,'" Jautz continued.
Additionally, HLN will centralize its news production in CNN's Atlanta headquarters, closing down its live news hubs in Los Angeles and New York. Meade's "Morning Express" is filmed in Atlanta.
HLN
Shells Dissolve
Sea Snails
Shelled marine creatures living in increasingly acidified oceans face a fight for survival as the impacts of climate change spread, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large predatory "triton shell" gastropod (Charonia lampas).
They found those living in regions with predicted future levels of CO2 were on average around a third smaller than counterparts living in conditions seen throughout the world's oceans today.
However there was also a noticeable negative impact on the thickness, density, and structure of their shells, causing visible deterioration to the shell surface.
Writing in Frontiers in Marine Science, scientists say the effects are down to the increased stresses placed on the species in waters where the pH is lower, which reduce their ability to control the calcification process.
Sea Snails
Last Man to Walk on the Moon
Harrison Schmitt
A former NASA astronaut who was the 12th person to walk on the moon may have seen Earth from space - but he doesn't see that human actions are shaping global climate change.
Today (Oct. 15), Harrison Schmitt, a geologist who flew on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and who is the last living person to have visited the lunar surface, told a roomful of science journalists that he did not believe climate change is caused by human activity, despite overwhelming evidence and scientific consensus to the contrary.
Schmitt is known for denying scientifically proven aspects of climate change, Discover Magazine reported in 2011; in an article Schmitt co-wrote for the Wall Street Journal in 2013, he claimed that increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) would actually benefit humanity. Schmitt recently doubled down on these views while at the Science Writers 2018 conference in Washington, D.C., during an appearance in a panel about the past, present and future of the U.S. space program.
At a Q&A after the panel "Apollo Plus 50," New York Times reporter Nicholas St. Fleur asked Schmitt about his documented denials of human-influenced climate change. Schmitt countered by saying that he "saw no evidence" that global warming was taking place as a result of human activity, and that climate change wasn't happening as quickly as reported, audience member and astrophysicist Adam Becker wrote in a thread on Twitter.
According to Becker, St. Fleur first read aloud from a 2009 article in the New York Times that quoted Schmitt bemoaning the stubborn denial of conspiracy theorists who claim astronauts never visited the moon. St. Fleur then asked if Schmitt saw the irony in denying climate science, after speaking out about people who claimed that the moon landing was a hoax.
Harrison Schmitt
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 8-14. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Kansas City at New England, NBC, 21.11 million.
2. NFL Football: Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, Fox, 14.76 million.
3. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 13.68 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.95 million.
5. "NFL Post-Game," CBS, 12.63 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 12.37 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.73 million.
8. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 11.19 million.
9. NFL Football: Washington at New Orleans, ESPN, 10.74 million.
10. "Football Night in America," NBC, 9.85 million.
11. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 9.58 million.
12. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.22 million.
13. "FBI," CBS, 9.18 million.
14. "Thursday Night Pre-Kick," Fox, 9.04 million.
15. "This is Us," NBC, 8.92 million.
16. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.41 million.
17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.31 million.
18. "Mom," CBS, 8.21 million.
19. "Chicago Med," NBC, 8.15 million.
20. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 7.91 million.
Ratings
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