Just to keep you up on what mixes I've been posting, here's a handy review chart of recent releases. As is normal for me, the styles employed vary widely in genres, while still maintaining a complimentary result. I like music from the late 50s up to now, & that shows in the tracks I make available. Truth to tell, I make way more blends than I post. I literally have hundreds of unposted, but top-notch tracks sitting in a bin where only I hear them.
Sometimes, I play them out, or even in, ( lol ), & I get motivated to share them with the public. Of course, I strive each week to post two mainstream-y cuts, & two silly, or weird ones. The surprise is that it's always been the case for the strange ones to be wildly more successful. I attribute this disparity to the fact that there's thousands of mainstream bootleggers, but almost none that create unusual ones, leaving that niche audience wide open for my releases.
This is a new quirky blend called ""Mercury Heat" ( Don Tiki vs Kevin Jagdeo )
It's Modern Exotica vs Modern Dubstep. I wasn't going to even post it publicly, but those who heard it urged me to. My thinking is most listeners won't give a track like this a chance, since they don't know the artists, but if they do, they'll re-play it often.
( sowndhaus.audio/track/14519/dj-useo-mercury-heat-don-tiki-vs-kevin-jagdeo- )
I'm working up a special Terminus J. Threnody all-unreleased tracks podcast, but it won't be done till next month. Meanwhile, I did perform a new live podcast that features one killer TJT mashup. "November 2019 Rock Mashups Mix (1:17:31)" is all classic mixes from the 00's, each remastered into wav format, & then mixed with decks. The music is mostly familiar to you, but the DJ enhancements are pronounced. Still, it's a superb show. Give it a try, your ears will thank you.
( hearthis.at/vxmfxz7w/dj-useo-november-2019-rock-mashups-mix/ )
For the full Useo experience, simply head to my long-serving blog "Groovy Time With DJ Useo"
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/ )
& enjoy mashups like The Avett Brothers vs Michael Mayer, Jimi Hendrix vs The Alohas, Nine Inch Nails vs Led Zeppelin, Elton John vs Starsailor, Deee-Lite vs Big Audio Dynamite, & The Hondells vs The Ramones.
Among the goofy mashups found on Groovy Time, there's Queen vs Hugo Montenegro, Burl Ives vs Mr. Bong vs Liver, Journey vs Axel Stordahl, Simon & Garfunkel vs Mick Vickers Moog, & Hall & Oates vs Frank Zappa.
Upcoming albums from me include "DJ Useo In Las Vegas", "Intense Psychedelia 14", "Best Of DJ Useo 8" & "Frikkenfrack 11- Useo's Strangest Boots". I hope you enjoyed this rather lengthy diatribe on my modern emergents. Catch you next Wednesday.
Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of highly vesicular rough textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals. It is typically light colored. Scoria is another vesicular volcanic rock that differs from pumice in having larger vesicles, thicker vesicle walls and being dark colored and denser.
Pumice is created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. The unusual foamy configuration of pumice happens because of simultaneous rapid cooling and rapid depressurization. The depressurization creates bubbles by lowering the solubility of gases (including water and CO2) that are dissolved in the lava, causing the gases to rapidly exsolve (like the bubbles of CO2 that appear when a carbonated drink is opened). The simultaneous cooling and depressurization freezes the bubbles in a matrix.
Pumice is composed of highly microvesicular glass pyroclastic with very thin, translucent bubble walls of extrusive igneous rock. It is commonly but not exclusively of silicic or felsic to intermediate in composition (e.g., rhyolitic, dacitic, andesite, pantellerite, phonolite, trachyte), but basaltic and other compositions are known. Pumice is commonly pale in color, ranging from white, cream, blue or grey, to green-brown or black. It forms when volcanic gases exsolving from viscous magma form bubbles that remain within the viscous magma as it cools to glass. Pumice is a common product of explosive eruptions (plinian and ignimbrite-forming) and commonly forms zones in upper parts of silicic lavas. Pumice has a porosity of 64-85% by volume and it floats on water, possibly for years, until it is eventually waterlogged and sinks.
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Baffled people after volcanic eruptions
Pumice, effectively a silicate sponge, has sufficient holes of adequate
size to make the density of the structure less than that of an equal
volume of water. Therefore, it floats.
Cal in Vermont responded:
Pumice, which is the secret ingredient in Lava Soap. "Only one kind of soap can get these hands clean, mister! Lava!"
zorch said:
Pumice floats in water.
Roy, the Never Trumper in Tyler, TX wrote:
Pumice is the only rock that floats in water. Perhaps this is what makes pumice so convenient for smoothing those rough feet. The darn thing is hard to lose when it's floating right there in the bathtub with you.
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"Pumice."
Daniel in The City answered:
Pumice
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, responded:
Pumice floats. So do witches, ducks, and other very small rocks.
Michelle in AZ replied:
pumice
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
pumice
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
Pumice
DJ Useo answered:
That'd be PUMICE. I was rather interested in geology at a young age, so my parents bought me a rock kit. It contained a piece of floating pumice.
If I remember correctly, pumice was invented by Jordan Q. Pumice, hence the name. ;)
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Pumice
Joe S replied:
Pumice. When I was a kid we lived at the edge of a swamp near the edge of Black Lake. The swamp was pretty much drained into deep ditches. There were about five or six rocks that kids kept throwing into the ditches because they floated. They kept showing up on the baks of the ditches, and whoever found them would throw them back in the water to watch them float. Great fun, and very mysterious. I mean, floating rocks?
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Bob Ferguson owned a shoe-repair shop in Akron, Ohio, and his shop was notable for its window displays. When a friend suggested that he put a bunny in the window for Easter, Mr. Ferguson displayed a mannequin dressed (undressed?) as a Playboy Bunny.
Education
Comedian Buster Keaton spent exactly one day in school. At age six, he was already a veteran comedian in vaudeville, thanks to his vaudevillian parents, and he treated school simply as another stage on which to make other people laugh. After disrupting the taking of attendance, the teaching of geography, and the teaching of grammar, he was sent to the principal, who sent Buster back home to his parents with a note pleading with them to keep Buster at home. His parents thought the note was funny, and his mother started teaching Buster at home (and on the road, since they continued their vaudeville act).
Comedians Jimmy Durante and Don Knotts once co-hosted a Kraft Music Hall special on TV. During rehearsal, the director said that when they were introduced, he wanted both of them to walk onstage doing the famous Jimmy Durante strut. In other words, Mr. Durante was supposed to be himself and Mr. Knotts was supposed to imitate Mr. Durante. However, Mr. Durante was forced to ask Mr. Knotts to show him the famous Jimmy Durante strut. He requested, "Hey, Don, do me! I don't know what I do!"
One way that comedian Bill Cosby helps predominantly black schools is through non-intrusive kinds of advertising. On The Cosby Show, his character, Cliff Huxtable, frequently wore a sweatshirt that bore the name of a predominantly black college. By the way, when Mr. Cosby hosted You Bet Your Life, the duck that dropped down when a contestant said the secret word wore a sweatshirt bearing the name of the university that Mr. Cosby had attended: Temple.
Comedian Richard Pryor had an understanding teacher named Miss Marguerite Yingst when he was in the 6th grade. He often came to school late, and she made a deal with him. If he came to school on time each day for a week, she would let him get in front of the class and perform for 10 minutes Friday afternoon. She remembers, "It was great for Richard. The other pupils loved him. And Richard kept his promise - got to school on time."
Garry Moore and Jimmy Durante worked together in radio. They were both comedians, and Mr. Moore was Mr. Durante's chief writer. For one show, Mr. Moore wrote a malapropism for Mr. Durante: "It's a catastastrope!" He also told Mr. Durante, "You know, Jimmy, if you don't mispronounce this, we won't get a laugh." Mr. Durante thought for a moment, then replied, "Yeah. Educate me, and we'll both be out of a job."
A young Dick Van Dyke and the other students in his class sometimes took advantage of one of their teachers who was hard of hearing. Sometimes, she asked, "When did Columbus discover America?" They would reply with a deliberately wrong date such as "1776" because she would think that they had given the correct date and nod her head approvingly.
Comedian Chris Rock has made it big in the risky and difficult business of show business, but that doesn't mean that he wants his relatives to try to accomplish what he has accomplished. Whenever a family member wants help in getting established in show business, he offers to pay their college tuition instead.
The first book Sam Levenson ever checked out of the library shocked the librarians - it was called What Every Girl Should Know. (Sam's cousin Sophie was too embarrassed to check it out, so she asked Sam to check it out for her to read.)
What a wall of Bloomberg commercials! At least 1 every half hour, all night.
Tonight, Wednesday:
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by a FRESH'Seal Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are LL Cool J and Josι Andrιs.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Evan Rachel Wood, Melissa Benoist, Mike Birbiglia, and Bloc Party.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by the sorta-FRESH'SNL Thanksgiving Special'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are John Boyega, Abigail Spencer, and JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Jeff Goldblum and Jacqueline Novak.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Esther Povitsky and Brenda Song.
ABC begins the night with the chestnut 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving', followed by a RERUN'Modern Family', then another RERUN'Modern Family', followed by a RERUN'Stumptown'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel: (from 11/12/19) are Patrick Stewart, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Underwood, and Old Dominion.
The CW fills the night with a RERUN'iHeartRadio Music Festival Night 1'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'Almost Family'.
AMC offers the movie 'Four Christmases', followed by the movie 'Fred Claus'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 11-Data's Day
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 12-The Wounded
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 13-Devil's Due
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Clues
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 15-First Contact
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 16-Galaxy's Child
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 17-Night Terrors
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 18-Identity Crisis
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 19-The Nth Degree
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 20-Qpid
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 21-The Drumhead
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 22-Half a Life
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 23-The Host
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 24-The Mind's Eye
[8:00PM] THE KARATE KID (1984)
[11:00PM] THE KARATE KID PART II (1986)
[1:30AM] THE KARATE KID (1984)
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 11 - EPISODE 1-The Woman Who Fell to Earth (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 3 hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
On a RERUNThe Daily Show (from 11/19/19) is Lin-Manuel Miranda.
On a RERUNLights Out with David Spade (from 11/14/19) are Jeff Ross, Brad Williams, and Annie Lederman.
FX has the movie 'Daddy's Home', followed by the movie 'Baywatch'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Bladesgiving', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Kings Of Pain: Biting Deeper'.
IFC -
[7:15A] X-Men: The Last Stand
[9:45A] Tropic Thunder
[12:15P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - -Whither Canada?
[12:58P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
[1:40P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Full Frontal Nudity
[2:22P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Ant: An Introduction
[3:04P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Naked Ant
[3:47P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Dinsdale!
[4:29P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Spanish Inquisition
[5:11P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Buzz Aldrin Show
[5:53P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Spam
[6:36P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
[7:18P] Monty Python's Flying Circus - -Salad Days
[8:00P] Life of Brian
[10:00P] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[12:00A] Baroness von Sketch Show - My Instagram is Suffering
[12:30A] Baroness von Sketch Show - Those Chickens Won't Clean Themselves
[1:00A] Fleabag
[1:35A] Tropic Thunder
[4:00A] Baroness von Sketch Show - My Instagram is Suffering
[4:30A] Baroness von Sketch Show - Those Chickens Won't Clean Themselves
[5:00A] Monty Python's Life of Brian (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] Dances With Wolves
[12:00pm] Cliffhanger
[2:00pm] Heist
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] The Sum of All Fears
[3:30am] Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo - Pie a la Mojo
[4:30am] Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo - No Mo' Mojo
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Beast & Where To Find Them'.
Tina Turner is celebrating her 80th birthday in style!
The legendary singer and actress looked happy and healthy in a video message shared with her fans in honor of her milestone birthday on Tuesday.
"Yes, I'm 80," Turner began. "How did I think I would be at 80? Not like this."
"How is this?" she continued, laughing. "Well, I look great, I feel good, I've gone through some very serious sicknesses that I'm overcoming. So it's like having a second chance at life. I'm happy to be an 80-year-old woman."
In her recent memoir My Love Story, Turner revealed that she suffered a stroke in 2013, and was diagnosed with intestinal cancer just three years later. Eventually, her condition got worse and she faced total kidney failure. Her husband and longtime love Erwin Bach donated a kidney for an operation in April 2017.
Mariah Carey may have dropped "All I Want for Christmas is You" back in 1994, but 25 years later the holiday hit is still raising the bar.
The Guinness World Records organization announced on their website Monday that the pop diva has set three world records with her Christmas classic.
The song broke the record for highest-charting holiday (Christmas/New Year) song on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 by a solo artist. The song also set the bar for most-streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours by a female artist, with 10,819,009 streams last December, as well as the record for most weeks in the U.K. singles Top 10 chart for a Christmas song at 20 weeks.
On Saturday, Carey was presented copies of her pages from the "Guinness World Records 2020 Edition," along with her record title certificate, by an official adjudicator from the organization. Guinness World Records' Michael Empric gave Carey the documents onstage during her show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
The American Federation of Musicians failed to achieve its main goal in its recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract - winning residuals for musicians' work on episodic TV shows made for streaming services. Even so, the 80,000-member union says it will keep fighting for those payments when the contract comes up for renewal in two years.
The negotiations with management's AMPTP concluded with a tentative agreement on Friday, but terms of the deal weren't released until today.
The new two-year contract, which still must be ratified by the union's members, "includes many substantive improvements and no significant concessions," the AFM said, "yet still does not include residuals for work on films and episodic TV shows made for streaming."
The union added: "For the first time in history, musicians will receive screen credits when they perform on theatrical and streamed film scores. Also for the first time, the proposed deal establishes fair wages and conditions for high-budget shows made for streaming platforms."
Other economic improvements include an increase in musician residual payments for shows rented and purchased online, as well as 3%-a-year wage increases. According to the union, "Musicians successfully resisted attempts by the studios to impose unjustified concessions, including those that would allow studios to score more TV shows and films abroad."
Former CNN mainstay Nancy Grace is signing up for a crime show on Fox Nation, an illustration of how Fox News' streaming service has evolved counter to expectations one year into operation.
Cameras will show her delivering her podcast and SiriusXM radio show, "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace," five days a week. The program is modeled after her popular television series that ran on the HLN network for many years.
Fox Nation, the streaming service available for $65 a year, will begin offering "Crime Stories" in January.
The on-demand service recently announced that former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan will host a documentary series on media bias, immigration and other issues, and said more signings are in the works.
When Fox Nation began late last year, it was positioned as a place where potential subscribers could go if they didn't feel they were getting enough opinion programming on Fox News Channel. Instead, users were apparently getting their fill.
An increasing number of Americans are dying in the prime of their lives, a trend not observed in other wealthy nations, according to research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
These "excess deaths" - that is, people who die years and even decades before they're expected to - tend to be clustered in the nation's Rust Belt, where economies once boomed with a thriving steel industry, but have been in decline since the 1970s.
"That's when the U.S. began losing pace with other countries," said Dr. Steven Woolf, lead author of the new report and the director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"This is a distinctly American phenomenon," he added.
Woolf's study analyzed nearly 60 years of data, from 1959 through 2017, collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Police in the US have been quietly testing a highly-advanced robot dog alongside officers, prompting an urgent response from a civil liberties group
The American Civil Liberties Union made a public records request to robotics firm Boston Dynamics after the Massachusetts State Police published a video demonstration of the Spot robot dog.
It is believed the robotic dogs, which are capable of opening doors and navigating obstacles, have already been used during live incidents.
The lease agreement between Boston Dynamics and the police reportedly includes the condition that it is not used to "physically harm or intimidate people".
Boston Dynamics announced earlier this year that it would begin selling the canine-inspired machines at some point in 2019, though no date or price was provided.
When archaeologists excavated an unusual Viking grave site in Norway, they dug up two bodies along with the remnants of two massive boats.
After hundreds of years underground, only remnants of the wooden vessels remained, but the excavation team could tell the two boats had been stacked atop each other. Viking burial sites often feature boats, with some even boasting two buried near each other; but boats buried inside each other are "essentially an unknown phenomenon," Raymond Sauvage, an archaeologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology University Museum, said in a statement.
The top boat, a vessel about 24 feet (7 to 8 meters) long, contained the remains of a woman surrounded by a collection of ornaments, including a pearl necklace, two pairs of scissors, part of a spindle and an entire cow head. The woman's remains were adorned with two shining brooches, one shell-shaped and one in the shape of a crucifix.
The crucifix "decoration and the design itself tell us that it came from Ireland, and that it was once part of a harness fitting," Aina Heen Pettersen, a researcher in the NTNU Department of Historical Studies, said in the statement. Vikings who took part in voyages and raids often collected harness fittings as jewelry, Petterson added. Based on the goods recovered from the woman's grave, the archaeologists determined that she had died during the second half of the ninth century.
But remarkably, the man whose body had been buried in the boat below died in the century prior, they discovered. The man's boat measured about 30 feet (9 to 10 m) long and contained a shield, a spear and a single-edged sword. "Sword styles change through the centuries, which means we can unambiguously date this grave to the eighth century, the period that is known as the Merovingian era in Northern Europe," Sauvage said.
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