M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - July 22nd, 2020
5 Cool New Mashups
By DJ Useo
Well, the ongoing lockdown has provided bootleggers with way more time than we need to mix new tracks. Sadly, this also grants anti-bootleggers more time to boycott mashups. If you know where to get them, you can find tons of super new tracks. If you're trying to locate them through search engines, that can be problematic. One producer pal I know recently lost his hosting membership, & even got booted off the top social media site. All for making & posting tracks that are legal as long as you don't sell them.
I, myself, find my audience shrinking around the rest of the world, but growing in the Americas. I'm sure glad I'm not in it for money, or fame. The fun is satisfying enough for me. Most bootleggers want cash & large audiences, as you can tell from these 5 cool new mashups I chose as demonstration examples. Now, let's take a look at these ambitious new audio blends. They're all tremendous appealing, imho.
01 - satis5d - Les Cake Roses ( SAINt JHN vs. Kylie Minogue vs. DNCE )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/17336/les-cake-roses-saint-jhn-vs-kylie-minogue-vs-dnce )
02 - Chocomang - People in C ( Lilly Wood & The Prick vs Depeche Mode )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/17328/chocomang-people-in-c-lilly-wood-amp-the-prick-vs-depeche-mode )
03 - YITT And Star Man - Push It Through The Fire And Flames ( Paul Engemann vs. Dragonforce )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/17303/paul-engemann-vs-dragonforce-push-it-through-the-fire-and-flames-yitt-mashup )
04 - DAW-GUN - Am I Roses ( Nico & Vinz vs SAINt JHN vs Imanbek )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/17069/daw-gun-am-i-roses-nico-amp-vinz-vs-saint-jhn-vs-imanbek )
05 - Marc Johnce - Blinding Mama ( The Weeknd vs Genesis )
( sowndhaus.audio/track/17289/marc-johnce-blinding-mama )
Sure, it's only 5 tracks, but the quality is solid. My advice regarding mashups is find out which producers you like, & sign up to follow them.You might not like every thing they mix, but the odds are good you'll love many of them.
Best wishes beating the heat. Have a fine Summer.
- DJ Konrad Useo
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Anecdotes
Writers
• Some of the plots and dialogue on The Dick Van Dyke Show came from real life. The episode “A Bird in the Head Hurts!” was about a bird stalking Ritchie to get locks of his hair for her nest. (This actually happened to a neighbor of series creator Carl Reiner.) The advice given to Laura Petrie in the episode — “Let him wear a pith helmet” — was actually spoken by an ASPCA officer. In the episode “Never Name a Duck,” the Petrie family acquires two ducks as pets for Ritchie. (In real life, the Reiner family had acquired two ducks as pets for the children.) One duck died and the other duck soon appeared to be ill. The line about the ill duck — “He looks pale!” — was spoken in real life by Mr. Reiner’s wife, Estelle.
• For a while, Marc Cherry, the openly gay creator of TV’s Desperate Housewives, named every episode after a song title by Stephen Sondheim. This got Mr. Sondheim’s attention, and Mr. Sondheim sent him this note: “Next time you’re in town, give me a call and you can tell me how much you like my work.” (Mr. Sondheim can get away with messages like that because he is so successful and because he is over 75 years old.) In fact, Mr. Cherry did get to have dinner with and spend five hours talking to Mr. Sondheim.
• During the McCarthy era, and for a while after it, many excellent writers were blacklisted, meaning that they could not work in the entertainment industry. In practice, however, many of these writers continued to work, but their work appeared under the names of other people. For example, a blacklisted writer wrote an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, but the writer’s name listed on the credits was chosen at random from the Los Angeles phone book.
Actors and Acting
• Actors often know their own limitations. Early in his career, E.A. Southern tried to act the roles of tragic heroes but discovered that he was not very good at them and so performed other kinds of roles on the stage. He once told theatrical critic John Rankin Towse about a conversation that he had had with fellow actor Edwin Booth: “We were talking, among other things, of Will Stewart, the old dramatic critic, and his capacity for apt and cutting definition. By way of illustration I quoted his remark about my Claude Melnotte, that it ‘exhibited all the qualities of a poker except its warmth.’” Mr. Southern then added, “I suppose that my performance was about as bad as anything ever seen upon the stage.” Mr. Booth chuckled and then asked, “You never saw my Romeo, did you?”
• Early in his acting career, Sheldon Leonard competed for parts with Sam Levene because they played similar characters. In a road production of Three Men on a Horse, Mr. Leonard played a comedic part that Mr. Levene had originated on Broadway. During a dress rehearsal, Mr. Levene stopped by — not to watch Mr. Leonard, but to time his laughs to see if Mr. Leonard was getting bigger laughs than he had gotten. After an especially long laugh, Mr. Levene turned to Mr. Leonard’s wife, who was also standing in the back of the theater, and snarled, “What did he do? Drop his pants?
• When British actor Hugh O’Brian was visiting in New York City and feeling prosperous and famous, a woman said to him, “Excuse me, but would you be kind enough to tell me your name?” Mr. O’Brian also felt mischievous, so he replied, “Certainly, madam, my name’s Natalie Wood.” The woman turned to her companion and said, “There you are — I told you I was right.”
• Filmmaker John Waters once received a resume from a 16-year-old boy whose only acting experience was playing the Easter Bunny in a grade-school play. He offered the boy an acting job, but the boy’s parents vetoed his acting career.
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COVID-19
Misinformation
A new poll has found that Americans who consume more right-wing media are far more likely to believe misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccine against it.
In a survey released Monday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, respondents were asked about eight different misconceptions about the pandemic, ranging from “The government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths” to “The COVID-19 vaccines can change your DNA.” The survey found that 78 percent of Americans either believe or aren’t sure about at least one of the statements. However, the numbers varied greatly depending on party affiliation, vaccination status and source of news.
Some 64 percent of unvaccinated respondents believed or were unsure about four or more of the false statements, compared with 19 percent of the vaccinated. Only 6 percent of Republicans surveyed believed or were unsure of none of the statements, versus 22 percent of independents and 38 percent of Democrats.
Some of the largest discrepancies came from where Americans got their news. Those who received their information from the right-wing outlets Newsmax, One America News Network and Fox News were far more likely to believe or be unsure about the false statements than those who received their news from local TV news, NPR, MSNBC, network news or CNN. Only 12 percent of those who considered Fox News a trusted news source believed none of the false statements, versus 40 percent of those who trusted CNN, 38 percent who trusted network news and 32 percent who trusted local news.
The misinformation about the virus and vaccine has proved increasingly deadly. On Monday, the New York Times published data showing that the gap in deaths between counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) in 2020 versus those that voted heavily for Joe Biden has continued to grow. In October, the death rate in the Trump counties was three times that of the Biden counties, the fifth straight month the gap had widened. The partisan gap between new COVID cases, however, has shrunk from its high earlier this year as cases across the country decline
Misinformation
Prime Time Ratings
NFL Football
Fox News Channel’s prime-time lineup gets plenty of attention, but, lately, the network’s viewers have been drawn to an early-bird special.
In October, Fox’s “The Five” eclipsed every show on cable news in popularity for the first time ever, the Nielsen company said. That’s highly unusual for a program that airs at 5 p.m. Eastern and in the midafternoon on the West Coast; the number of people watching television typically increases in prime time after the workday is done.
Behind a Thursday night NFL game and the Atlanta Braves’ World Series-clinching win, the Fox broadcast network won the week in prime time. Fox averaged 6.9 million viewers, with NBC at 5.2 million, CBS at 4.9 million, ABC at 2.8 million, Univision at 1.3 million, Ion Television at 890,000 and Telemundo at 820,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” won the evening news ratings race, averaging 8 million viewers last week. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 6.9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5 million.
For the week of Nov. 1-7, the top 20 programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. NFL Football: Tennessee at L.A. Rams, NBC, 14.21 million.
2. World Series: Atlanta at Houston, Game 6, Fox, 13.97 million.
3. NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, ESPN, 11.96 million
4. NFL Football: N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, Fox, 11.65 million.
5. “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 11.37 million.
6. “The OT,” Fox, 10.97 million.
7. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 8.69 million.
8. “Yellowstone” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Paramount, 8.38 million.
9. “Yellowstone” (Sunday, 9:13 p.m.), Paramount, 7.84 million.
10. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.53 million.
11. “NFL Pregame,” Fox, 7.31 million.
12. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.28 million.
13. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.12 million.
14. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7 million.
15. “FBI,” CBS, 6.99 million.
16. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.67 million.
17. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.64 million.
18. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 6.55 million.
19. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.2 million.
20. “Ghosts,” CBS, 5.94 million.
NFL Football
Marriage News
Malala Yousafzai
Nobel Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai announced her marriage on Twitter on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old Pakistani human rights campaigner who was shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education posted images on Twitter of her celebration on Tuesday with Asser Malik and her family.
“Today marks a precious day in my life,'' Malala wrote. “Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life. We celebrated a small nikkah ceremony at home in Birmingham with our families. Please send us your prayers. We are excited to walk together for the journey ahead.''
Her Twitter feed was flooded with expressions of goodwill.
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Glastonbury 2022
Diana Ross
Diana Ross has been confirmed to play Glastonbury 2022 where she’ll appear in the coveted legends slot.
The Supremes star will appear on Sunday 26 June at the festival, tackling the traditional teatime legends slot that has previously played host to the likes of Barry Gibb, Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie.
The appearance will mark Ross’s Glastonbury debut. She was due to play the 2020 edition of the festival for its 50th anniversary until the event was cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic.
Ross, who released her brand new album Thank You last Friday (5 November), will follow on from Kylie Minogue’s popular legends slot in 2019. As well as being one of the most attended slots of the weekend, it also went on to become the BBC’s most-watched Glastonbury performance of all time after 3.9 million viewers watched the performance.
Diana Ross
Atacama Desert
Chile
A mountain of discarded clothing including Christmas sweaters and ski boots cuts a strange sight in Chile's Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion.
The social impact of rampant consumerism in the clothing industry -- such as child labor in factories or derisory wages -- is well-known, but the disastrous effect on the environment is less publicized.
Chile has long been a hub of secondhand and unsold clothing, made in China or Bangladesh and passing through Europe, Asia or the United States before arriving in Chile, where it is resold around Latin America.
Some 59,000 tons of clothing arrive each year at the Iquique port in the Alto Hospicio free zone in northern Chile.
Clothing merchants from the capital Santiago, 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) to the south, buy some, while much is smuggled out to other Latin American countries. But at least 39,000 tons that cannot be sold end up in rubbish dumps in the desert.
Chile
“Murder Hornet” Alarm
Asian Honeybees
Asian honeybees (Apis cerana) produce a unique alarm sound to alert hive members to an attack by giant "murder hornets," according to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. For the first time, scientists at Wellesley College have documented these so-called "anti-predator pipes," which serve as clarion calls to the hive members to initiate defensive maneuvers. You can hear a sampling in the (rather disturbing) video, embedded above, of bees under a hornet attack.
“The [antipredator] pipes share traits in common with a lot of mammalian alarm signals, so as a mammal hearing them, there's something that is instantly recognizable as communicating danger,” said co-author Heather Mattila of Wellesley College, who said the alarm signals gave her chills when she first heard them. “It feels like a universal experience.”
There are other species of Asian giant hornets, too. They are apex predators and sport enormous mandibles that they use to rip the heads off their prey and remove the tasty thoraxes (which include muscles that power the bee's wings for flying and movement). A single hornet can decapitate 20 bees in one minute, and just a handful can wipe out 30,000 bees in 90 minutes. The hornet has a venomous, extremely painful sting—and its stinger is long enough to puncture traditional beekeeping suits. And while Asian honeybees have evolved defenses against the murder hornet, North American honeybees have not, as the slaughter of McFall's colony clearly demonstrated.
Mattila has been studying honeybees for 25 years, fascinated by their organization and ability to communicate, and she turned her attention to Asian bees in 2013. "They have evolved in a much scarier predator landscape," she told Ars, pointing to the 22 known species of hornets worldwide for whom Asia is a particular hot zone. Many of these species rely on insects like honeybees to grow their colonies, so they are among the bees' most relentless predators. The deadliest of all are the giant hornets (aka, "murder hornets") because they coordinate in groups to attack beehives.
Asian Honeybees
Diamond Bracelets At Auction
Marie Antoinette
A pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the famed wife of French King Louis XVI who met her fate at the revolutionary guillotine, sold for 7.46 million Swiss francs ($8.34 million) on Tuesday.
The opulent bracelets, among the rare pieces of jewelry from the ill-fated French royal that are still up for public sale today, were among standout features to a Christie’s auction in Geneva.
They feature 112 diamonds and each weighs 97 grams (3.4 ounces) and include silver and gold.
The pair sold for much more than the presale estimate of between 2 million and 4 million Swiss francs. The final price included taxes and fees on top of the hammer price. The buyer was not identified.
Marie Antoinette
Fetches $400,000 At Auction
Apple-1
An original Apple computer built by firm co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976 has fetched $400,000 (£294,990) at auction in the US.
The rare Hawaiian koa wood-cased Apple-1 - still functioning - is one of only 200 made and sold in kit form.
The computer has only had two owners, a college professor and his student to whom he sold the machine for $650, said John Moran Auctioneers in California.
The sale included user manuals and Apple software on two cassette tapes.
The koa wood case of the auctioned model was added by a pioneering early computer retailer, ByteShop, in California, which took delivery of around 50 of the Apple-1 machines.
Apple-1
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