M Is FOR MASHUP - January 30th, 2013
The Joy Of Mashing
By DJ Useo
Hi, I've been the main moderator of SoundUnsound mashup forum for over five years. That's about the same amount of time I've written "M Is For Mashup" here at BARTCOP ENTERTAINMENT. I've been posting mashups around since 2004. During that entire time, no matter what I've posted, good or bad, there's always been FIZZY DOUCHES dogging my tracks with unreasonable hatred. It's not difficult at all to find idiots on the web who fixate on you with their own personal, unresolved issues. (What we call 'Coo-Coo') Recently, I was informed some online 'friends' have been trying to stir up resentment towards me and SoundUnsound for no other reason than building their own reputation up. I say "go for it!". If you think you can inspire people to support you with lies, and negativity, you're a fool I want no part of. Here's a representative letter I received that was posted publicly. Privately, people told me they were disgusted with it's content. Here's the actual letter, censored for language.
"You pathetic piece of CENSORED, you absolute low life CENSORED peon CENSORED. I thought I had seen pretty much the worst excess of people disappearing up their own CENSORED that CENSORED had to offer but you take the CENSORED. In fact, you don't just take the biscuit, you take it, smash it into pieces, call it art and then email a bunch of people to come and agree with you because you are so CENSORED desperate for your biscuit related endeavours to recieve (sic) some credibility.
You want to know why CENSORED has a rep for the way some people get treated? It's because we don't like CENSORED like you. CENSORED who roll up into a weekend challenge that has been running for over 30 weeks and don't even take a nanosecond to gauge the spirit of the thing. For if you did then you might have noticed it was just a bunch of people CENSORED about with stuff as something to do for a weekend, nothing too serious and definately nothing worth shouting about. CENSORED like you though just see another opportunity to CENSORED yourself around like the CENSORED attention CENSORED that you are and bringing in more votes in a couple of hours than even the biggest runaway winner has gathered in a week.
You don't feel like participating in anymore challenges now that your ridiculous displays have been exposed for the absolute utter acts of unfathomable patheticness that they are? Boo CENSORED Hoo. Here's an idea, why don't you just CENSORED off from CENSORED completely? Mashups are dead. The Forum is CENSORED, killed by CENSORED like you. Not Americans, Not Europeans, just people so up their own CENSORED backside that they are unable to get 'it'. 'it' being the tone, spirit and intent of the community they are visiting. Plenty of people have gotten 'it' over the years. It's not something you can only get if you are a certain age or gender or race or sexuality. It's just something you can only get if you have the slightest bit of empathy, even the teeniest tiny bit and the ability to not take yourself too seriously. Even a pompous CENSORED like CENSORED can get it. If you haven't by this point then chances are you never will. So do yourself a favour and CENSORED off.
While we're talking about people being treated with palpable viciousness...CENSORED, you can CENSORED off too. Who the CENSORED do you think you are? Do you have even the slightest notion of the irony involved in your suggestion that CENSORED be banned because he is ruining something that you enjoy? Did it never occur to you over the past couple of years that the reasons your off topic threads garnered less replies than any others was because you were an insufferable bore? Did anybody ever point this out to you? No. Why? Because we're basically nice people and you weren't doing any harm other than making the off topic forum a far less enjoyable place to visit.
Which is fair enough, I mean it's not like the people in off topic were driven there by the CENSORED like CENSORED who demanded that their glorious creations and news of their spectacular upcoming events moaning about people daring to have conversations about things other than how CENSORED super their CENSORED new mashup was. So we were all rounded up and confined to off topic and then as a final indignity, they throw us you to bore us to CENSORED death with 'hey heres a 21 second outtake from a john waters film performed by a muppet or something' and other hits too numerous to mention.
Did anyone mention it though? Did anyone suggest you tone it down or ask for you to banned because you were boring the CENSORED CENSORED out of us? No we didn't...and so to then have you turn around and suggest that another member of this forum be banned, not only goes against the spirit of the CENSORED forum but is such a CENSORED slap in the face to the people who have silently tolerated you and other irritants over the many years of CENSORED that it was pretty much the last straw for me. The CENSORED worm has turned. There is something rotten in the state of Denmark and it aint CENSORED Johnny.
So as far as I'm concerned, you can CENSORED off with CENSORED to CENSORED or CENSORED or CENSORED I don't give a CENSORED CENSORED anymore. This being CENSORED, some CENSORED apologist will appear in a minute and give it all the 'no but CENSOREDS a good guy really', well CENSORED it. I can't be arsed anymore. CENSORED is a CENSORED and he can CENSORED my CENSORED CENSORED. He might as well learn how to CENSORED a CENSORED CENSORED if all he really wants is acclaim because he's got more chance of getting it with a CENSORED in his CENSORED than with his CENSORED mashups. Don't worry though, you don't need to leave really, i'll leave because I can't stand the CENSORED sight of this place anymore. This just saves the 'hey wheres CENSORED?' posts in six months from now when people realise I've been gone longer than usual.
To those that got it, it's been fun on occasion. Good luck with the rest of your lives."
-Name removed to spare a fool.
Hahahahahha. Sorry, I need a second to catch my breathe. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Ok, I think I can continue now. Ain't that letter something? The bad part of it is it's REAL! The good part of it is it would've been swell evidence at his trial. LMAO.
Next week, I have a fantastic article for you with no nastiness. Have the day of good.- DJ Useo.
Mix Of The Week
Lemonhead's new 'ELECTRO MIX Jan 2013' is the real thing. It has great tunes, a skilled mix, and fantastic sound production. Enjoy streaming it, or downloading here-
( soundcloud.com/djlemonhead/lemonhead-electro-mix-jan-2013 )
Mashup Tip
Get a guitar and practice tuning it. It really sharpens up the ear for pitching your mixes.
Latest Useo Thing
'Give Self Esteem Away' (Red Hot Chili Peppers vs Offspring vs Fatboy Slim) is RHCP singing over killer Offspring music with a Fatboy Slim synth garnish. Mashup for demonstration purposes only.
( official.fm/tracks/VmU8 )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/01/offspring-vs-red-hot-chili-peppers.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
By 2015 the only country that will still allow mashups will be Vatican City. The Pope really likes his Avicii vs PSY mashups.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest? (Guardian)
Activists in Berlin are teaming up to trash surveillance cameras. Points are given, with bonus scores for the most innovative modes of destruction.
George Dvorsky: Why you should starve yourself a little bit each day (io9)
Most people associate fasting with juice cleanses or religious rituals - a torturous affair that lasts an entire day if not longer, and the sort of thing that should only be done a couple of times each year. But fasts can encompass any number of different strategies, including routines that simply limit the times when you eat each day, or on certain days of the week.
Amy Bowen: Six decades later, St. Cloud man receives an all-around nutty apology (Saint Cloud Times, Minnesota)
Dave Bell won't share his Pearson's Salted Nut Roll. Don't even ask. That's because it took him 60 years to collect on a complaint he sent to the Pearson's Candy Co. in St. Paul.
BRAD LEITHAUSER: WHY WE SHOULD MEMORIZE (New Yorker)
His own biography provided a stirring example of the virtues of mental husbandry. He'd been grateful for every scrap of poetry he had in his head during his enforced exile in the Arctic, banished there by a Soviet government that did not know what to do with his genius and that, in a symbolic embrace of a national policy of brain drain, expelled him from the country in 1972.
Tom Lamont: "Jenna-Louise Coleman: 'I couldn't get auditions'" (Guardian)
The new Doctor Who assistant on how she struggled after Emmerdale, and why she could be telling bad jokes about dingoes in a parallel universe.
Painting the Town (Facebook)
"Members of the art collective Dihzahyners painted seventy-three stairs Beruit. After seven hours of work, they produced this beautiful addition to the city's color. As you can see from the gallery, this is typical of Dihzahyner's flair."--Neatorama
Will Ellsworth-Jone: The Story Behind Banksy (Smithsonian)
On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down.
Our Story in Two Minutes (YouTube)
Five billion years condensed into two minutes.
The Best of Times (YouTube)
The Fifties without polio, Joe McCarthy, etc., but with lots of good music and cars.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Etiquette (Athens News)
"RSVP" is French for "Répondez, s'il vous pla t." Translated, this means, "Either let me know whether you're coming to the event, or I'll send someone over to break both your arms."
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Last Night
Sunny, clear and cold (for these parts).
Tonight, what passes for news treated us to the spectacle of another 'High-Speed Chase' - well, except the guy was doing 40 mph on I-10.
They shut down the freeway, he had a trail of 7 chippies, all lights a-flashing, plus air support.
His offense?
Suspicion of drunk driving.
Just suspicion.
When he pulled over, 5 more cop cars appeared.
12 freaking cop cars and a helicopter for a suspected drunk driver?
What an effective use of manpower. < /sarcasm>
Competition Forced Sale
Current TV
Al Gore said on Tuesday that tough competition from major U.S. television networks forced him to sell Current TV, a struggling progressive cable channel, to Al Jazeera, and he praised the Arabic news broadcaster's coverage of climate change.
Gore, a former vice president who won a Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about the problems with climate change, said on NBC's "Today" show that he was proud of the channel and had never thought of it as simply a monetary investment.
"As an independent network ... we found it difficult to compete in this age of conglomerates," he said.
Earlier this month, Qatar-based Al Jazeera announced it was buying Current TV, a move that could enable it to better compete with American news networks like CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
Current TV
Leaving ABC News For CNN
Chris Cuomo
Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC News to host a new morning show at CNN, where new boss Jeff Zucker is moving fast to try to turn around the cable news pioneer that has fallen on hard times.
Network managing editor Mark Whitaker announced he was quitting Tuesday, officially Zucker's seventh day on the job as CNN Worldwide president. Longtime political consultants and commentators James Carville and Mary Matalin also are leaving.
Cuomo is expected to be paired with current evening anchor Erin Burnett in the mornings. CNN said Tuesday it was discussing other job options with Soledad O'Brien, who will be ending her second stint as morning show co-host.
Cuomo, the "20/20" co-anchor, is the second big defection from ABC to CNN in a little more than a month, the other being Jake Tapper.
Both men found their paths to higher-profile jobs at ABC blocked. Cuomo, who was news anchor at "Good Morning America" from 2006 to 2009, was passed over for George Stephanopoulos as co-host of that show while Tapper twice didn't get a shot at the anchor job on "This Week," first when Stephanopoulos left and then when he returned to the Sunday show.
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Wedding News
Nabors - Cadwallader
The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years.
Hawaii News Now reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, travelled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15.
The 82-year-old Nabors says you've got to solidify something when you've been together as long as they have.
They couple met in 1975 when Cadwallader was a Honolulu firefighter. Cadwallader is 64.
Nabors says he's been open about his homosexuality to co-workers and friends but never acknowledged it to the media before.
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Animal Shelters Are The Real Winners
'Puppy Bowl'
There will be a winner and a loser every Super Bowl Sunday. But at the "Puppy Bowl," it's always a win for animal shelters.
The show provides national exposure to the shelters across the country that provide the puppy athletes and the kittens that star in the halftime show, and introduces viewers to the different breeds and animals that need homes, animal workers say. Many shelters see bumps in visits from viewers who are inspired to adopt a pet.
"It raises awareness for our shelter and others that take part," said Madeline Bernstein, president and CEO of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles. "It shows dogs in a happy, playful, fun way, which makes people think, 'Gee, I could play with a dog too.' You hope it will also stimulate adoptions, and if not, at least a positive attitude toward dogs, rather than they are just hairy and smelly."
The "Puppy Bowl," an annual two-hour TV special that mimics a football game with canine players, made its debut eight years ago on The Animal Planet. Dogs score touchdowns on a 10-by-19-foot gridiron carpet when they cross the goal line with a toy. There is a Most Valuable Pup award, a water bowl cam, a new lipstick cam (it's in the lips of the toys), slow-motion cameras, hedgehog referees, a puppy hot tub and a blimp with a crew of hamsters. Bios on each puppy player flash across the screen during close-ups of the action, letting viewers know how to find each animal for adoption.
'Puppy Bowl'
New Book And Film
J.D. Salinger
A new J.D. Salinger film and biography are being billed as an unprecedented look into the mysterious life of the author of "The Catcher In the Rye."
Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that it had acquired "The Private War of J.D. Salinger," an oral biography compiled by author David Shields and filmmaker-screenwriter Shane Salerno, whose screenplay credits include the Oliver Stone film "Savages." Salinger's own books have been published by Little, Brown and Co.
Salerno has been working for several years on his documentary, which PBS will air next January for the 200th of its "American Masters" series. According to Simon & Schuster, the book and film draw upon interviews "with over 150 sources who either worked directly with author J.D. Salinger, had a personal relationship with him, or were influenced by his work."
Salinger's longtime literary agent, Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates Inc., declined to comment Tuesday.
J.D. Salinger
Home From Hospital
Barbara Walters
ABC says Barbara Walters is out of the hospital and recovering from chicken pox at home.
ABC said Tuesday that the 83-year-old host on "The View" is resting comfortably and "getting stronger." There was no indication of when she might return to work.
Walters was hospitalized after falling and cutting her head at a pre-inaugural party in Washington on Jan. 19. The news veteran later was diagnosed with chicken pox, which typically hits people when they are children.
Barbara Walters
Released From Hospital
Burt Reynolds
American actor Burt Reynolds has left a Florida hospital after a battle with the flu, a representative for the "Smokey and the Bandit" star said on Tuesday.
"Burt has been released from the hospital," said Reynolds' manager, Erik Kritzer.
Reynolds, 76, was admitted to an unidentified hospital last week with dehydration and was later placed in intensive care.
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A&E Strikes Back
'Storage Wars'
A&E says in a legal filing that former "Storage Wars" star David Hester concocted a "tabloid-worthy drama" when he claimed the series was faked. In response to a lawsuit he filed last month in Los Angeles Superior Court, A&E said the complaint was groundless and a "transparent attempt to distract from the issues."
Hester alleged unfair business practices, among other claims. He said the show sometimes planted objects in the storage units that contestants bid on in hopes of finding discarded treasures.
A&E's response focused on its defense that the unfair business practices portion of Hester's complaint cannot go forward, partly because he cannot prove a probability of winning the suit. The network says he also cannot prove he suffered sustained injury.
Hester claimed in his suit that he was fired after he complained that elements of the show were staged. His lawsuit claims that, in one instance, A&E planted a stack of newspapers reporting singer Elvis Presley's death. In another instance, Hester said, a BMW minicar was found under a pile of trash.
In Thursday's motion to strike, however, A&E says that Hester was let go after the network complained that he improperly used its trademarks, and after Hester attempted to renegotiate his contract.
'Storage Wars'
Italians Seek Return Of Remains
Antonio Salieri
Residents of a provincial city in northern Italy are seeking to reclaim the remains of its best-known son, composer Antonio Salieri.
Salieri left his birthplace of Legnago, south of Verona, as a teen in 1766 to pursue his musical ambitions in Vienna, where he mostly remained until his death in 1825. He was one of the Habsburg court's favorite composers, and is perhaps best remembered in popular culture as Mozart's chief rival.
A group called "Legnago for Salieri" is asking the city to use diplomacy to recover his remains from Vienna's largest and most important cemetery, Zentralfriedhof, where such musical luminaries as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert also have been buried.
In Vienna, state broadcaster ORF quoted an unnamed spokesperson for Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vienna's alderman for culture, as saying any repatriation request would be considered but it was "relatively unlikely" it would be granted.
Antonio Salieri
Broca's Brain
Monsieur Louis Leborgne
The identity of a mysterious patient who helped scientists pinpoint the brain region responsible for language has been discovered, researchers report.
The new finding, detailed in the January issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, identifies the famous patient as Monsieur Louis Leborgne, a French craftsman who battled epilepsy his entire life.
In 1840, a wordless patient was admitted to the Bicêtre Hospital outside Paris for aphasia, or an inability to speak. He was essentially just kept there, slowly deteriorating. It wasn't until 1861 that the man, who came to be known as Monsieur Leborgne, or "Tan," for his only spoken word, came to the famous physician Paul Broca's ward at the hospital.
Shortly after the meeting, Leborgne died, and Broca performed his autopsy. During the autopsy, Broca found a lesion in a region of the brain tucked back and up behind the eyes.
After doing a detailed examination, Broca concluded that Tan's aphasia was caused by damage to this region, and that the particular brain region controlled speech. That region of the brain was later renamed Broca's area in honor of the doctor.
Monsieur Louis Leborgne
Academy Gets Collection
B-Movie Posters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has received a gift of 1,088 original film posters, many of them "B movies" from Hollywood's golden age, the organization announced Tuesday.
The donated posters, from Chicago real estate developer Dwight Cleveland, document the studio era of "B movies" in the first half of the 20th century and are mainly from Twentieth Century-Fox. The posters from the "B movies" - so named because they played in theaters on the bottom of double feature bills - represent a wide variety of genres, including westerns, war films, musicals, biblical tales, and social issue films.
The gift, which will be housed in the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, fills a gap in the Academy's collection, an official said.
Cleveland began collecting in 1977 while still in high school, inspired after seeing film posters in an art teacher's classroom. After moving to Los Angeles, Cleveland scoured the once-plentiful collector's shops on Hollywood Boulevard for high-quality memorabilia and continues to collect today.
Posters in the library's collections are stored in climate-controlled vaults in Beverly Hills and may be accessed by filmmakers, historians, journalists, students and the general public. They are frequently shown at the Academy's own exhibitions and loaned to cultural institutions worldwide.
B-Movie Posters
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 16.07 million.
2. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 15.65 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 12.86 million.
4. Pro Football: Pro Bowl, NBC, 12.16 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 11.93 million.
6. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.84 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.65 million.
8. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.56 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 11.49 million.
10. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.46 million.
11. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 10.89 million.
12. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.83.
13. "The Big Bang Theory" (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), 10.5 million.
14. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.49 million.
15. "The Following," Fox, 10.42 million.
16. "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 10.07 million.
17. "Person of Interest," CBS, 10.01 million.
18. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 9.85 million.
19. "The Good Wife," CBS, 9.35 million.
20. "Pro Bowl Pre Game," NBC, 9.26 million.
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