M Is FOR MASHUP - October 20th, 2021
The Monster Mashup That Wouldn't Die (2021)
By DJ Useo
The “Monster Mashup” series from Jeremy Girard continues again this 2021 Halloween season with a new set featuring tracks from many returning Bootleg producers. Featuring top notch mashers like Dr. Snik, Tatertraps, DJ Cummerbund, Voicedude, & more, this new volume in the long-running series maintains the high quality of the previous releases.
On this new collection, you get pairings like Burt Reynolds’ “Weird Busters” ( Ray Parker, Jr. vs Oingo Boingo ) , Tatertraps’s “I Don't Wanna Be Buried In A Hot Hot Sematary” ( Buster Poindexter vs The Ramones ), & Stevo In Yr Stereo’s “Halloween Dub”. The seasonal fun continues throughout the many mixes contained.
Monster Mashup Co-Creator Stevo In Yr Stereo
( www.youtube.com/user/siys ) brings 2 enjoyable videos that enhance his audio contributions.
01 - “Halloween Dub”
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egf0lgb_Awc )
02 - “Real Scary”
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNHyXmyFYM )
In addition to the tunes, you’ll recieve chills, thrills, & goosebumps that go well with large bags of candy. Count Girard continues well the themed comps begun by Cheekyboy. Grab the zip file of “The Monster Mashup That Wouldn't Die (2021)” here
( www.facebook.com/monstermashupalbum/ )
( Accessible to non-Facebook members, also )
Always one of the best-recieved mashup collections every year, you can find past volumes linked further down the same linked page.
This comp is perfect for staying indoors this Halloween & also will alert your neighbors to the fact that you want them to know you’re in the Samhain spirit. Check back here next week for another swell Halloween mashup comp. The bootleg hayride continues!
Have the day of good.
DJ Konrad Useo
from Bruce
Anecdotes
Children
• Gilligan’s Island is very popular with children. Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, tells this story: One small child ran inside after playing in her backyard every afternoon just in time to watch the show. Her mother asked how she knew Gilligan’s Island was on — after all, the little girl didn’t know how to tell time yet. She replied that when the sun touched the top of the big tree, it was time to watch “Giggle’ns Island.”
• Eve Arden, star of Our Miss Brooks, once had a problem because Liza, her older — but still very young — daughter, kept hitting Connie, Ms. Arden’s even younger daughter. Hoping that Liza would transfer her anger in another direction, Ms. Arden bought a Bozo the Clown punching doll for her to hit. Unfortunately, the plan didn’t work. Liza complained, “I don’t want to hit poor Bozo. I’m not mad at him. I’m mad at Connie.”
• When actor Patrick Macnee, star of The Avengers, went away to a boarding school, he and the other small boys were leery of changing their clothes where others could see them, and so they changed under sheets and behind curtains. One boy even climbed out the window and slid down a drainpipe, changed clothes outdoors, then climbed back up the drainpipe and in through the window.
• Nancy Cartwright’s children grew up knowing that their mother supplied the voice of TV’s Bart Simpson, and sometimes they let other kids in on this fact. One day, Ms. Cartwright found herself surrounded by a bunch of Cub Scouts, who begged her, “Do Bart! Do Bart!” She obliged, and then she heard her son say, “See, I told you my mom was Bart Simpson!”
• Lloyd Bridges was a rugged action hero in movies for many years. One day Sandy, his young daughter, appeared on Art Linkletter’s House Party. Mr. Linkletter, who is famous in large part because of his interviews with children, asked Sandy, “Who’s the real boss in your family?” She answered, “Daddy’s the boss in the movies. Mom’s the boss at home.”
• An early home movie of TV’s Mister Rogers shows him as a toddler. His father keeps putting a hat on his head, and the young Mister Rogers keeps grabbing the hat. Mister Rogers uses this anecdote to illustrate what a Dr. McFarland calls “hungry hands.” Toddlers have a need to touch things and explore them with their hands.
• Even in the 4th grade, Jay Leno was funny. During class, his teacher showed slides of an Egyptian mummy. On the slide of the mummy appeared the caption, “2050 BCE.” When the teacher asked if anyone knew what the caption meant, Jay replied, “That’s the license number of the truck that hit him.”
• Judy Pioli Ervin, a producer of the TV sitcom Laverne and Shirley, used to perform when she was a child for her parents’ friends. She would sit at an organ and play Lawrence Welk music, while her younger sister sat hidden behind the organ and blew bubbles. She always got the laughs she wanted.
• As a child, TV’s Mister Rogers occasionally became angry, but he wasn’t allowed to stomp around the house to work out his anger. However, he was allowed to play his emotions on the piano. He usually began by banging out single notes, but after a while, he started to play calm music.
• As a child, Carol Burnett used to pretend to be an entire radio show. She would open her window wide, then shout out all the parts of the pretend show — announcer, guest singer, etc. One day, she felt complimented when a neighbor shouted, “Turn that d*mn radio off!”
Clothing
• Bill D’Arcy, the first assistant director on Gilligan’s Island, got a big break when he was asked to direct an episode of the TV sitcom. He had been very easy going as an assistant director, but on his first day of work as a director, he showed up dressed as an autocratic Austrian-German director (think of Erich von Stroheim, Fritz Lang, and Otto Preminger) with beret, riding crop, monocle, riding breeches, knee-high boots — the works. With an Austrian-German accent, he announced that the set would have no fooling around while he was the director. Then he set up everything for the first scene. Everything was ready and the actors waited for him to say “Action!” Unfortunately, his nerves got the better of him, and he yelled “Cut!” instead. After that mistake, and a lot of teasing from the crew and cast, Mr. D’Arcy of course jettisoned the joke of the autocratic Austrian-German director, and he became a fine director.
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Michael Egan
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Music: "Walk Don’t Run, Perfidia, Pipeline"
Album: LUNATICO SR. YAMAGUCHI
Artist: Lunatico Sr. Yamaguchi
Artist Location: Santa Fe, Argentina
Info:
Kahuna Cole, a fan, wrote, “The mellow side of surf! Some nice tracks with sweet reverb that evoke a day at the beach just enjoying the warm clear sunshine, warm air, warm water, seagulls wheeling overhead, and the sound of the surf gently lapping the shoreline! Favorite track: ‘Plastic Island.’”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $5 (USD) for seven-track album
Genre: Surf Instrumental
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Reader Comment
Theme Song
Hey M - You had a trivia question recently about "Kazoos". I took advantage of you raising the subject,
& recorded a short theme song for your page. Then, I forgot to send it. Lol.
I finally remembered it, & here you go! -
Bartcop E Theme song
DJ Useo
Thanks, Konrad!
I meant to use this image of one of my kazoos - from Christo's Umbrella exhibit back in the early 90s.
Bonus Links
Jeannie the Teed-Off Temp
Reader Comment
Current Events
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Thanks, Linda!
that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Gas holding steady at $4.09/gal at the no-name, cash-preferred gas station ($4.19/gal for credit).
Prime Time Ratings
NFL Football
CBS won its first week of the new television season, primarily by being the network of choice for people who wanted to watch something other than sports.
CBS had 14 of the 20 most-watched non-sports shows on network television last week, while NBC had the other five and Fox had one. ABC was shut out, the Nielsen company said.
With baseball playoffs in full gear, TBS led the cable networks in prime time, averaging 3.1 million viewers. ESPN had 2.5 million, Fox News Channel had 2.26 million, MSNBC had 1.17 million and HGTV had 924,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.6 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 4.9 million.
For the week of Oct. 11-17, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. NFL Football: Seattle at Pittsburgh, NBC, 16.28 million.
2. NFL Football: Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, Fox, 14.42 million.
3. “NFL Pregame” (Sunday), NBC, 12.03 million.
4. NFL Football: Indianapolis at Baltimore, ESPN, 11.34 million.
5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.02 million.
6. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 8.94 million.
7. “NFL Postgame” (Sunday), Fox, 8.93 million.
8. “NFL Pregame” (Thursday), Fox, 8.9 million.
9. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.66 million.
10. “Equalizer,” CBS, 7.3 million.
11. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.25 million.
12. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 7.01 million.
13. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.94 million.
14. “FBI,” CBS, 6.75 million.
15. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.55 million.
16. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.54 million.
17. Baseball: Division Series, Game 5: L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, TBS, 6.5 million.
18. Baseball: ALCS, Game 1: Boston at Houston, Fox, 6.14 million.
19. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.98 million.
20. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.95 million.
NFL Football
Dead Sea
Spencer Tunick
Over 200 people covered only in white body paint modelled for American artist Spencer Tunick across a desert in southern Israel to raise awareness for the deteriorating condition of the Dead Sea.
Volunteers, of ages between 18 and 70, lined up across the desert near the Dead Sea in rows of 10 on Sunday and awaited instructions from the artist, who was perched on a ladder with a megaphone and a camera.
The volunteers, both men and women, stood barefoot on brown hills overlooking the sea. Mr Tunick said he chose to cover the models in white paint to evoke the Biblical story of Lot’s wife, who allegedly turned into a pillar of salt.
The project was a part of an initiative to support the establishment of the planned Dead Sea Museum in Israel’s Arad city.
This was the 54-year-old photographer’s third nude art project on the shores of the world’s most saline water body. During his first project in 2011, he featured 1,200 people, while only 15 people modelled for him in 2016.
Spencer Tunick
World's Oldest Map Of Stars
British Museum
The British Museum will display what it says is the world’s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle.
The 3,600-year-old “Nebra Sky Disc,” first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations of the cosmos in the world and has never before been displayed in the U.K., the London museum said Monday.
The 30 centimeter (12 inch) bronze disc features a blue-green patina and is decorated with inlaid gold symbols thought to represent the sun, the moon and constellations.
The “World of Stonehenge” exhibition planned for next year will be the first time the disc has been loaned out from Germany for 15 years. The U.K. is only the fourth country the disc has travelled to after it was discovered buried in the ground in eastern Germany.
It will feature alongside an extremely rare 3,000-year-old sun pendant described by the British Museum as the most significant piece of Bronze Age gold ever found in Britain.
British Museum
Received Help From Turd Blossom
Lieberwhore
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut details in a new book how aid from top Republicans — including strategist Karl Rove — helped him win reelection against a more left-leaning Democrat and a Republican.
Lieberman ran as an independent in 2006 after losing the Democratic primary to now-Gov. Ned Lamont, who unlike Lieberman opposed the Iraq War. Lieberman writes in his book “The Centrist Solution,” scheduled to be released on Tuesday, that Rove called him on the day of the primary and offered his help in the tight race, the Hartford Courant reported.
The former senator quotes Rove, then-President George W. Bush’s top strategist, as saying “the ‘Boss’ asked me to call you ... he knows that the political problems you are having are because you have stayed strong on the war in Iraq. So, he wanted me to tell you that if you lose today and run in November, we will help you in any way we can.”
Lieberman, 79, also writes about help from former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, another prominent Republican and a family friend.
Lieberwhore
Plotters Hid In Closet
6 January
As the US Capitol was under siege on 6 January, about a dozen Republican senators hid in a storage closet – not from the intruders, a new report says, but from their Democratic colleagues.
According to a Washington Post interview with Senator Tommy Tuberville, the GOP lawmakers were already in a secure room when they decided to huddle in the closet. What they were seeking was not safety, but privacy, so they could plot their next move in light of the insurrection.
For these senators, the original plan that day was to challenge the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in several states, in support of Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to overturn the results.
But now that hundreds of violent marauders were demanding the same thing, the Republicans in the closet worried that solidarity with the mob might not be a good look.
Besides, the senators knew they didn’t have the votes to stop Mr Biden from becoming president.
6 January
Remote Permafrost Thaws
Russia
The old airport in the Siberian settlement of Churapcha has been unusable for years, its runway transformed into a swampy field of puffed-up mounds and reliefs.
Like cities and towns across northern and northeastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built.
"There isn't a single settlement in Russia's Arctic where you wouldn't find a destroyed or deformed building," said Alexey Maslakov, a scientist at Moscow State University.
Homes are becoming separated from sinking earth. Pipelines and storage facilities are under threat. Roads are increasingly in need of repair.
As Russia warms 2.8 times faster than the global average, the melting of Siberia's long-frozen tundra is releasing greenhouse gases that scientists fear could frustrate global efforts to curb climate-warming emissions.
Russia
Scab Bourbon?
Heaven Hill
Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky.
Union leaders responded that they're willing to continue negotiations and accused the company of wanting to replace longtime employees with non-union workers.
About 420 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D have been on strike for more than five weeks They voted overwhelmingly last month to reject a new five-year contract offer and formed picket lines at Heaven Hill’s operations in Bardstown.
Family-owned and operated Heaven Hill produces Evan Williams, one of the world’s top-selling bourbons. Other brands of Kentucky-based Heaven Hill include Elijah Craig, Henry McKenna, Old Fitzgerald, Larceny and Parker’s Heritage Collection.
The dispute has revolved around health care and worker scheduling issues. The schedule dispute was a sign of the bourbon industry’s growing pains as it tries to keep up with increasing global demand.
Combined U.S. sales for bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey rose 8.2%, or $327 million, to $4.3 billion in 2020, despite plunging sales from bars and restaurants because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States reported early this year.
Heaven Hill
Glaciers Soon To Disappear
Africa
Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that contributes least to global warming but will suffer from it most.
The report from the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies, released ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Scotland that starts Oct. 31, is a grim reminder that Africa’s 1.3 billion people remain “extremely vulnerable” as the continent warms more, and at a faster rate, than the global average. And yet Africa’s 54 countries are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The new report seizes on the shrinking glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda as symbols of the rapid and widespread changes to come. “Their current retreat rates are higher than the global average. If this continues, it will lead to total deglaciation by the 2040s,” it says.
Estimates of the economic effects of climate change vary across the African continent, but “in sub-Saharan Africa, climate change could further lower gross domestic product by up to 3% by 2050,” Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko with the African Union Commission writes in the report. “Not only are physical conditions getting worse, but also the number of people being affected is increasing.”
Despite the threats ahead to the African continent, the voices of Africans have been less represented than richer regions at global climate meetings and among the authors of the crucial Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessments. African participation in IPCC reports has been “extremely low,” according to Future Climate for Africa, a multi-country research program.
Africa
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