Something strange happened on the way to my latest new mashup collection, “DJ Useo - That Fresh Mashup Sound”
( audioboots.org/Albums/TFMS/ )
. My own personal musical tastes collided fully with the rest of the world’s more mainstream tastes. These are all “Useo” tracks contained herein, but for the most part people might not identify them as such.
All the music mixed into this collection comes from the files I’ve remastered because I like them so much. There’s a heavy influence of techno, & dubstep, but with bits of Metal, Rock, Hip Hop & Pop amongst the various musical inflections. This is how I hear music inside my head, before I deliver it to any of you inclined to partake of them.
I played some of them for DJ Petrushka & she said they made her feel like jamming them while driving pleasurably in a car. I like the idea of that, having myself accomplished that fine vibe many times previously. I was wondering how people would take to this assortment after the big success of my last album “
DJ Useo - Halloween ep 2020”
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-100720.index.html )
, a Surf Monster Mashup album that sounded very unique. Any pre-release jitters I had vanished though, once I began sharing it around.
Now, it’s up to y’all to say whether it’s a worthy effort, or not. I feel confident in your collective judgement. It’s a pleasure to bring you “That Fresh Mashup Sound”
( audioboots.org/Albums/TFMS/ )
, the 90th DJ Useo album to this date. (!!!) Big thanks to all the source artists.
• Children’s book author Peg Kehret started her writing career at age 10 with a self-published newspaper titled the Dog Newspaper. The first issue mainly told the story of her dog, B.J. (short for Big Job). B.J.’s story was exciting. He had been born in Germany during World War II. Peg’s uncle was an American soldier there, and he and his company discovered a mother dog with some puppies. The mother dog and all of her puppies except for one was dead, and the American soldiers decided to take care of the one puppy that was still alive. This was a Big Job in wartime conditions, hence the dog’s name, but the dog survived and thrived. When the war was over, the soldiers decided to pay for the dog’s transport to the United States, and they drew straws to determine who would get the dog. Peg’s uncle won. The first issue of the Dog Newspaper was a big success, and Peg sold 12 copies at a nickel each (and wrote in longhand 12 copies of the issue). Unfortunately, the newspaper quickly folded after a few more issues because the dogs in Peg’s neighborhood simply weren’t that interesting. Of course, Peg tried to get interesting copy; she even interviewed all of her neighbors about their dogs. Unfortunately, she learned only things such as this: “All Fluffy does is eat, sleep, and bark at the mailman.” Like an investigative reporter, Peg tried to dig more deeply, and she asked, “If your dog could talk, what do you think he would say?” Unfortunately, the answers to that question were almost always “Feed me” and “Let’s play.”
• Children’s book author and illustrator Denise Fleming believes that the title “Maker of Things” is appropriate for her. Besides making books, she, together with her husband and daughter, made a garden, complete with a small pond, designing it to be very friendly and inviting to wildlife. Living in or visiting the garden have been bats, bees, box turtles, bugs, chipmunks, fish, frogs, moles, possums, rabbits, raccoons, shrews, snakes, squirrels, toads, and woodchucks — even a skunk! Many of these animals have appeared in her books, including some visitors who made their home under her porch, resulting in a book titled Mama Cat has Three Kittens.
• H. Allen Smith wrote Rhubarb, a novel about a cat that is the fortunate inheritor of a professional baseball team. While writing the novel, he started to make the mistake of neglecting the cat and focusing instead on the human characters. One way to keep the cat involved in the story was to have the cat jerk its tail — so Mr. Smith put a sign over his writing desk to remind him to keep the cat in the story. Later, he wondered what would have happened if he had died during the writing of the novel and people saw his sign: “Jerk That Tail!”
• Jane, a daughter of children’s book author Sid Fleischman, grew up loving all living things. As a young woman, she wanted to make a garden where a family of snails lived. Rather than kill the snails, she gathered them up and put them in coffee cans, then she took them to a park and let them loose.
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• When he was a child, L.A.-based artist Gronk spent a lot of time in a public library. At one point he even decided to read all the books in the library, beginning with the books with titles that started with A and going through the alphabet to the books with titles that started with Z. Of course, a librarian figured out what he was doing, and she suggested a different approach, saying, “I know what you’re doing — you are trying to read A to Z. But you need to start with the Greeks.” He did read about the Greeks, and the Greeks had an impact on his art. In the mid-1980s, he created the character of La Tormenta, who has appeared in many of his works of art. Gronk says, “The Greeks had Medusa, Medea, Electra. Well, I created my own: Tormenta. It’s an American mythological character. She’s in thousands of pieces from print work to live stage. I even did her as a cookie at a Chicago art fair. She’s a very strong woman but glamorous at the same time.”
Funeral March of a Marionette (French: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette), a short piece by Charles Gounod, is best known as the theme music for what TV series?
"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" is a popular song composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion. The song is the most popular song from the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and is also featured in the 1972 film of the same name starring Peter O'Toole.
During Robert F. Kennedy's long shot campaign for the presidency in 1968, Senator George McGovern introduced him before a South Dakota stump speech by quoting from "The Impossible Dream". Afterwards Kennedy questioned McGovern whether he really thought it was impossible. McGovern replied, "No, I don't think it's impossible. I just... wanted the audience to understand it's worth making the effort, whether you win or lose." Kennedy replied, "Well, that's what I think." It was actually Robert Kennedy's favorite song. One of Kennedy's close friends, Andy Williams, was one of many vocal artists of the Sixties that recorded the song.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
The Impossible Dream.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
"The Impossible Dream"
Mark. answered:
The Impossible Dream (The Quest).
Randall wrote:
The Impossible Dream
zorch replied:
“Dream the Impossible Dream.”
Jacqueline responded:
The Impossible Dream I think. Man, I hope we're not dreaming the impossible dream today to rid us of the mentally ill tyrant in the White House.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Impossible Dream
Dave wrote:
The Impossible Dream. For some reason I knew that. Although many performers have recorded the song, the first recording was Richard Kiley’s from the Man of La Mancha Broadway soundtrack album. Kiley was renowned for his “sonorous baritone” voice. A versatile actor, Kiley twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and enjoyed a 50 year long career on the stage, in films and television. He also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
My dream isn’t so impossible but it is that Trump suffers a humiliating defeat.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
To Dream the Impossible Dream
Kevin in Washington DC replied:
“To Dream the Impossible Dream”?
Daniel in The City responded:
(To Dream) the Impossible Dream. I always liked the Jim Nabors’ version, which he sang once in character during an episode of Gomer Pyle, USMC (4:00 min. in).
Michelle in AZ said:
The Impossible Dream
mj wrote:
Like a sane America
The Impossible Dream.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is "The Impossible Dream."
Mac Mac responded:
The Impossible Dream
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Of course it’s “The Impossible Dream” and not “Dulcinea” (I saw the play in high school).
Spent a couple of hours Monday and Tuesday morning at busy intersections, waving a sign and ringing a cowbell with a dozen other supporters for a friend running for City Council.. I was asked if I was available for volunteering at the polls but evidently I wasn’t needed. I’ve cleaned my kitchen, gone through toiletries and make up and tossed what’s old or no longer used, and now…the wait.
DJ Useo said:
The Impossible dream. I must have played string bass in that musical's pit orchestra, like 15 times.
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“It’s the essence of the Beach Boys, Rockpile, and The Ramones all rolled into one.
“Tommy and The Rockets are the 1963-65 Beach Boys reborn in 2016 Denmark — armed with supremely infectious melodies, harmonies to die for, and a stack of Ramones singles. If you remember rock ’n’ roll radio, this is your new favorite band!”
“This shit rocks!” - Ed Stasium (producer/engineer The Ramones, The Smithereens, The Talking Heads, Mick Jagger)
“10 blasts of melodic sunshine seamlessly melding The Ramones, The Beach Boys and bubblegum. Play it loud!” - John M. Borack, Goldmine Magazine
“[T]he songs are...the essence of the Beach Boys, Rockpile and The Ramones all rolled into one.” - Richard Rossi, www.powerpopnews.com
Price: €1 (EURO) for track; €8 (EURO) for 10-track album
The local 7-11 has boarded up the windows, and the city has k-rails piled up at a bunch of intersections, ready to roll out.
It's been really quiet - haven't heard a single helicopter - living near an airport and a major hospital, that's kinda out of the ordinary.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'The Amazing Race', followed by another FRESH'The Amazing Race', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Shepard Smith.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Henry Winkler and the Kills.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Wall', followed by a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sarah Silverman, Dua Lipa, Steve Kornacki, and Common featuring Black Thought.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers is Leslie Jones.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/25/19) are Thomas Middleditch, Martin Starr, Zach Woods, Amanda Crew.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Goldbergs', followed by a FRESH'American Housewife', then a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'The Con'.
Jimmy Kimmel are Kanye West and Gregory Porter.
The CW offers a FRESH'Devils', 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'.
A&E has the movie 'Back To The Future', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future Part II'.
AMC offers the movie 'Footloose', followed by the movie 'Pretty Woman', then the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - VALIANT
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - PROFIT AND LACE
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TIME'S ORPHAN
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE SOUND OF HER VOICE
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - TEARS OF THE PROPHETS
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - IMAGE IN THE SAND
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A MATTER OF HONOR
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE MEASURE OF A MAN
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE DAUPHIN
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - CONTAGION
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - THE ROYALE
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIME SQUARED
[6:00PM] HANCOCK
[8:00PM] THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
[12:00AM] AMERICAN HUSTLE
[3:00AM] I AM NUMBER FOUR
[5:30AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - THE SPANISH INQUISITION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', another 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'A Quiet Place', followed by the movie 'The Predator'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Judges' Cut'.
IFC -
[6:00am] 30 Minutes Or Less
[8:00am] Gladiator
[11:30am] The Green Mile
[3:30pm] RV
[5:30pm] Warm Bodies
[7:45pm] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[10:00pm] Date Night
[12:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - I've Got A Date With A Gnome And He Is Hawt!
[12:30am] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[2:45am] Warm Bodies
[5:00am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - I've Got A Date With A Gnome And He Is Hawt!
[5:30am] Baroness Von Sketch Show - Did An Eagle Steal Your Baby? (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 10am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] 2012
[2:00pm - 10pm] criminal minds
[11:00pm] the a word
[12:22am - 2:24am] criminal minds
[3:25am] deutschland 89 - Kyrie Eleison
[4:35am] deutschland 89 - November Nights
[5:45am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones', followed by the movie 'The Last Witch Hunter', then the movie 'Tomb Raider'.
Stephen Colbert told Showtime viewers to “hold on tight” as the presidential election remained in the balance.
The host of Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand: Building Back America Great Again Better 2020 oversaw a slightly chaotic live show with Zoom guests, a live spot on CBS News and a five-minute version of Our Cartoon President entitled “Election Knight Rises.”
The Late Show host joked that the latter might now get another season if President Donald Trump wins another four years.
“I’m happy to be on Showtime, [but] holy sh*t, this is a weird f*cking election,” he said at the top of the show, which ran for an hour and 15 minutes on the premium cable network.
The show opened with the Our Cartoon President segment, including a naked Bill Barr and a fight between Trump and Joe Biden. “You lose, Joe,” said the animated President. “What happened to our democracy?” replied the former vice president. “I’m immune,” Trump added.
The Grammy Awards have changed the name of their best world music album category to the best global music album, an attempt to find “a more relevant, modern and inclusive term.”
The Recording Academy said in a statement that the new name “symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk and ‘non-American’ that the former term embodied.”
The step comes some five months after the Academy made changes to several Grammy Awards categories, including renaming the best urban contemporary album category to best progressive R&B album.
It also follows a similar recent step made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which changed the name of its best foreign language film Oscar to best international feature film.
Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corp., said Fox News would welcome the arrival of a rival news and opinion brand led by Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) if he is no longer president.
“We love competition,” Murdoch said in response to a direct question from an analyst about Trump’s future during the company’s quarterly earnings call. “We have always thrived with competition. … The only difference today versus some years ago is as our audience has grown and our reach has grown, we see our competition as no longer only cable news providers but also as the traditional broadcast networks.”
From Labor Day to Election Day, Murdoch noted, Fox News was the top network in broadcast or cable in terms of total audience. Prior to the call, Fox Corp. reported so-so results for its fiscal first quarter, exceeding analysts’ estimates but revealing a major toll from COVID-19.
Few concrete details have emerged about a potential Trump news initiative, but it wouldn’t be a big leap to imagine him drawing on longstanding ties to the television business and as a public figure for decades. The field of conservative TV news outlets has grown more crowded in recent years, even before Trump’s election in 2016, with newer players like NewsMax and One America News in the mix. A Vanity Fair report in the spring said the Trump family had held discussions with OAN about taking a stake, though a spokesperson denied it.
Russian oligarch Vladimir Marugov, also known as the "Sausage King" because he owned several meat-processing factories, was killed in his sauna with a crossbow after masked intruders broke into his estate near Moscow.
According to Reuters, Marugov was at home, in a sauna with his partner, when two intruders tied them up and demanded money before shooting him with a crossbow on Monday.
The woman was able to flee out a window and alert police, the BBC reports. By the time police arrived, 54-year-old Marugov was dead.
According to the Guardian, one of the alleged suspects was taken into custody and has refused to speak with police. The man “acquired the crossbow in a shop in Moscow and was directly involved in the attack on the businessman,” the Investigative Committee said, the Guardian reports.
In a strange twist, police allegedly searched the suspect’s apartment on Tuesday and found an elderly man there, handcuffed to a bedpost. The man was allegedly being held captive and forced to sign over his apartment in Moscow, the Guardian reports. At the scene, police took a person into custody who was allegedly guarding the handcuffed man.
A new study conducted in Germany has found that there’s potentially a low risk of spreading the coronavirus at indoor concerts, so long as significant safety precautions are taken, The New York Times reports.
Back in August, a group of researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg conducted a study centered around a show by the German pop singer Tim Bendzko at an arena in Leipzig. About 1,400 people were in attendance — most of them volunteers — and the study ultimately found that the risk of spreading Covid-19 at such an event was “low to very low” if there’s good ventilation, strict hygiene rules, and a limited audience.
The researchers who conducted the study boosted their findings, with Dr. Michael Gekle saying, “There is no argument for not having such a concert. The risk of getting infected is very low.” However, before the ailing live music industry gets too excited, the study has not been peer-reviewed, and one critic suggested to the Times that while the findings may be “useful,” it may not be possible to replicate the controls deployed in the study at an actual concert.
To conduct the study, participants were given masks and tracking devices. Over the course of 10 hours, they were asked to simulate different concert scenarios, one with no social distancing, one with some social distancing, and one with strict social distancing. Volunteers were treated to a set from Bendzko during each round, while, in between, researchers tracked the movement of attendees as they visited food vendors and bathrooms. The study found that contact between people was highest during these breaks and as people entered the venue.
Furthermore, volunteers were given a fluorescent disinfectant, which was used to track and examine which surfaces were touched most over the course of the day. Researchers also employed a fog machine to calculate the potential spread of aerosol droplets, finding proper air circulation and bringing as much clean air into the venue as possible was the best way to decrease the likelihood of exposure.
States across the U.S. are poised to take big steps toward legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana and other drugs.
Both New Jersey and Arizona are projected to approve ballot measures legalizing recreational marijuana, The New York Times and The Associated Press project. Meanwhile Oregon is expected to take a completely unprecedented step, decriminalizing the possession of some illegal drugs and establishing treatment to help people with drug addictions.
Several drug-related measures were on ballots across the country, and all those that would loosen drug restrictions seem to be winning as election night wears on. Arizona is projected to approve the legalization of recreational marijuana for people over 21, and to expunge marijuana offenses. New Jersey is projected to legalize the use and possession of recreational marijuana by those 21 and up. Meanwhile South Dakota is projected to overwhelmingly approve a measure to let people with "debilitating medical conditions" to posses 3 oz. of marijuana, per the Times.
In Oregon, voters have opted to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, Oxycodone and methamphetamine, per Oregon Public Broadcasting. Possessing a small amount of those drugs would be redefined as a civil offense similar to a traffic violation. The measure would also fund treatment and harm-reduction efforts for those with drug addictions, paid for by a tax on marijuana.
Mississippi's proposal to legalize medical marijuana, Montana's measure to legalize recreational marijuana and set its legal age at 21, and South Dakota's proposal to legalize recreational marijuana are still uncertain, but early results point in their favor.
With an estimated 300 active volcanoes on Earth, the challenge is how to monitor them all to send out early warnings before they erupt. Measuring volcanic gas emissions is also no easy task.
Now researchers have designed specially-adapted drones to help gather data from an active volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The drones could help local communities monitor nearby volcanoes and forecast future eruptions. Their measurements could also tell us more about the most inaccessible, highly active volcanoes on the planet and how volcanoes contribute to the global carbon cycle.
The Manam volcano is located on an island just 10 kilometres (6 miles) wide that sits off the northeast coast of PNG. The island is home to over 9,000 people and Manam Motu, as it's known locally, is one of the most active volcanoes in the country. In 2004, a major eruption from Manam forced the entire island to evacuate to the mainland and devastated people's crops and homes.
Scientists have a few ways of forecasting when a volcano is going to blow. They can monitor earthquake activity in the area to detect tremors which almost always precede eruptions, and look out for bulging in the volcano's sloping walls as magma builds up underneath.
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren't our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel.
Neanderthals fascinate us because of what they tell us about ourselves – who we were, and who we might have become. It's tempting to see them in idyllic terms, living peacefully with nature and each other, like Adam and Eve in the Garden.
Biology and palaeontology paint a darker picture. Far from peaceful, Neanderthals were likely skilled fighters and dangerous warriors, rivalled only by modern humans.
Predatory land mammals are territorial, especially pack-hunters. Like lions, wolves and Homo sapiens, Neanderthals were cooperative big-game hunters. These predators, sitting atop the food chain, have few predators of their own, so overpopulation drives conflict over hunting grounds. Neanderthals faced the same problem; if other species didn't control their numbers, conflict would have.
This territoriality has deep roots in humans. Territorial conflicts are also intense in our closest relatives, chimpanzees. Male chimps routinely gang up to attack and kill males from rival bands, a behaviour strikingly like human warfare.
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