M Is FOR MASHUP - March 13th, 2013
The Mashup Adventures Of DRA'man
By DJ Useo
DRA'man gets around in the mashup scene. He hits a lot of forums and bootleg sites. He brings with him strongly-produced pairings able to leap the most demanding listener. I know he likes to be sociable too, since I've heard him contribute to many an excellent mashup comp. Now, in a powerhouse drive of inspiration, DRA' man strikes with four incredible new 'ep' collections. Each hits the pinnacle of perfection that so few collections achieve.
01-'The DRAck Keys ep'- The Black Keys mashed in inventive and varied styles. DRA'man clicks on each mix with hit after hit.
( official.fm/playlists/qo5i )
02-'MamaShup'-On this 'ep' DRA'man grafts the twelfth studio album by Genesis into 'MamaShup', DRA'man's revisited "Genesis" mashed into a fantastic tribute.
( official.fm/playlists/aXpK )
03-DRA'man's 'John Lennon - e mash in EP' astonished me the most. John Lennon is such a fave of mine, and on each mix here, there's a splendid twist that reveals even more of the joy of John Lennon's music.
04-'Jimi Hendrix-The DRA'Experience' is so stinking great. Not only for the peaked level of quality in each track, but also for the fact that this one has TWELVE tracks! Hendrix is GREAT already ,but in the hands of DRA'man, new nuances appear that are irresistible.
( official.fm/playlists/qmV2 )
We're mighty fortunate to have the experience of hearing these collections. He doesn't HAVE TO share them, after all. Thanks,
DRA'man.
( official.fm/draman )
Mix Of The Week
Mixmag
( www.mixmag.net/ ) picks a
Mix Of The Week every week just like me, so I present to you their finestkind choice 'Jay Shepheard'. It has great beats mixed with talent and enough appeal to lure out a sasquatch. Stream or download here-
( soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/mixmag-mix-of-the-week-jay )
Mashup Tip
Seriously, check out torrent sites for new acapellas. It wouldn't hurt if some of you would post some yourselves. No pressure, though.
Latest Useo Thing
'Trip To Heaven' (Depeche Mode vs Minicut) takes the brand new Depeche Mode song and clubs it up even more.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/02/depeche-mode-vs-minicut.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You will hear your first mashup today. It will be be by DRA'man. You will love it.
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David DeWitt: Who takes them down? (Athens News)
In urban areas they can be an advertisement for a nearby crack-house or a sign of gang activity. In the city of Athens [Ohio], shoes hanging from power lines likely don't have such nefarious implications. But until recently, examples of so-called shoefiti were abundant around town, especially in student rental neighborhoods. In fact, more than 100 power, cable and/or phone lines around town were decorated with footwear.
Stuart Jeffries: Sex, lies and teenage girls (Guardian)
Today's girls are reluctant victims of an intensely sexual culture - right? Wrong, says one American sociologist who claims our moral panic is based on urban myths that bear no relation to reality for most teens.
Seth Stevenson: Mob Justice (Slate)
Why did a bunch of people on the Internet donate $700,000 to a bullied bus monitor?
Kira Cochrane: Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love (Guardian)
The author of the wildly popular vampire romance series talks exclusively to the Guardian about why she finds traditional romance novels too 'smutty' and why she loves working with other women.
Simon Doonan: David Bowie Taught Me How to Tart Up (Slate)
And it saved me from losing my mind.
Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition (YouTube)
Mike Mika hacks Donkey Kong so his three-year-old daughter can play as Pauline and rescue Mario.
e-Mnozil Brass, Lonely Boy (YouTube)
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David Bruce: Wise Up! Death (Athens News)
Jan Murray was a funny comedian, but he was a klutz around the house. Whenever anything went wrong with the electrical wiring or plumbing, Mrs. Murray fixed it. When his friend the comedian Buddy Hackett's father died, Jan telephoned Buddy to give his condolences and to find out about the funeral. Ever the comedian, Buddy joked, "Don't come. You'll fall in the hole."
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American Academy of Arts and Letters
Bob Dylan
If he lived in England, he'd surely be Sir Bob Dylan.
The most influential songwriter of his time has become the first rock star voted into the elite, century-old American Academy of Arts and Letters, where artists range from Philip Roth to Jasper Johns and categories include music, literature and visual arts. According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn't decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.
On Monday, the academy announced three other honorary choices, all from overseas: Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, South African writer Damon Galgut and Belgian artist Luc Tuymans. Voted into the academy's core membership were the novelist Ward Just, known for his stories set in Washington, D.C.; the influential minimalist artist Richard Tuttle and the acclaimed painter and printmaker Terry Winters.
Excluding honorary picks, the academy consists of 250 artists, musicians and writers. Openings occur upon a member's death, with current inductees nominating and voting in new ones. Members have no real responsibilities beyond agreeing to join, although some become active in the academy, which awards prizes worth as much as $200,000.
Bob Dylan
Haiti Charity
Sean Penn
An aid group run by Hollywood actor Sean Penn announced Tuesday it is receiving $8.75 million from the World Bank to help move Haitians off of a golf course where many have been living since the January 2010 earthquake.
A statement from a public relations firm for Penn said that the money will go for rent subsidies or for new housing units.
Some 14,000 people still live at the Petionville Club in plywood shacks still living in the camp. Sixty thousand lived there at one point.
The number of people displaced by the quake has dropped from a high of 1.5 million people to more than 347,000 now, according to the International Organization for Migration, an aid group that seeks to help people displaced by disaster and conflict.
Sean Penn
Cyclorama Building Demolition Begins
Gettysburg
Demolition is under way at Gettysburg National Military Park on a building situated at the center of what were once the Union Army's battle lines.
Work to tear down the Cyclorama Building began a month ago with asbestos removal and is expected to last until late April, park spokeswoman Katie Lawhon said Monday.
The removal is part of the National Park Service's longstanding efforts to restore the park to conditions more closely mimicking 1863, when the property was engulfed by a pivotal battle in the American Civil War.
"Anyone who studies the Battle of Gettysburg learns about the Union fishhook, and it's the shape that the battle lines of the Union Army took," Lawhon said. "This building was right in the middle of the fishhook, and it blocked people's ability to kind of connect the dots."
The Cyclorama Building opened in 1962 as the park's headquarters and visitor's center, though the visitor's center later moved to another building - which has also been torn down.
Gettysburg
'Best Obituary Ever'
Mississippi
Harry Weathersby Stamps drank buttermilk from a martini glass garnished with cornbread. And as the Sun Herald reports, that's just one of the many eccentric details included in a loving and entertaining obituary written by his daughter that has gone viral across social media.
"I kept thinking of things-there are a lot of things I just couldn't put in there-and I thought, 'Mama's not going to let me run that.' But she read it and said, 'That's him,'" daughter Amanda Lewis told the Sun Herald.
The obituary, which appeared in Monday's edition of the Sun Herald, included several memorable passages, including the following:
"Harry excelled at ... living within his means, outsmarting squirrels, never losing a game of competitive sickness, and reading any history book he could get his hands on. ... His signature every day look was all his: a plain pocketed T-shirt designed by the fashion house Fruit of the Loom, his black-label elastic waist shorts worn above the navel and sold exclusively at the Sam's on Highway 49, and a pair of old school Wallabees."
Stamps was a teacher of government and sociology at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College's Jefferson Davis campus. Former students told the paper their beloved professor was a member in a bacon-of-the-month club, referred to daylight saving time as "the devil's time," and crowed like a rooster during phone calls with his grandchildren.
Mississippi
Judge Vacates Heir's 124-Year Prison Term
Andrew Luster
A California judge threw out a 124-year prison term handed down a decade ago to an heir to the Max Factor fortune for raping three women and related crimes, ruling on Monday that the original sentencing had been improper.
But the judge declined to give 49-year-old Andrew Luster a new trial. Luster was convicted in 2003 in absentia of 86 counts including rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person and sexual battery. He fled to Mexico during the trial.
Luster's grandfather is the late Max Factor, whose make-up was used by screen actors during the early years of Hollywood. Max Factor & Company later expanded to the consumer market and became of the nation's largest cosmetics brands.
In the months following Luster's conviction, bounty hunter Duane Lee "Dog" Chapman captured him in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, in a development that helped propel Chapman to fame and his own reality TV show.
Luster ultimately sought a new sentencing hearing, and Ventura County Superior Court Judge Kathryne Stoltz ruled on Monday that the judge who sent him to prison for 124 years "failed to state specific reasons for imposing full consecutive sentences" rather than having them run concurrently.
Andrew Luster
Lawsuit Settled
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
The people behind "50 Shades of Grey" and porn video company Smash Pictures have come to a mutually pleasing arrangement.
Fifty Shades Limited - the company that owns the rights to E. L. James' steamy mommy-porn "Fifty Shades" book trilogy - and Universal City Studios have reached a settlement with porn company Smash Pictures and other entities, in a lawsuit filed over the porn video "Fifty Shades of Grey: A XXX Adaptation," as well as an accompanying "play kit" consisting of various erotic accouterments.
The suit says that the settlement was reached upon "payment of a confidential sum by Smash Pictures to Plaintiffs and upon entry by the Court of a Stipulated Judgment for Permanent Injunction with respect to Plaintiffs' claims for copyright and trademark infringement."
In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Central California in November, Fifty Shades Limited and Universal City Studios claimed that "Fifty Shades of Grey: A XXX Adaptation" was virtually a beat-by-beat knockoff of the "Fifty Shades" books, from the dialog to the storylines, and even the main characters' names, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele.
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
Artists Ask For New Investigation
Bolshoi
Artists at Russia's Bolshoi ballet asked Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to order a new inquiry into the acid attack on the troupe's artistic director, fearing the dancer arrested for the assault was only a pawn in the case.
Three hundred performers said in a letter to Putin they believed Bolshoi star Pavel Dmitrichenko had only confessed to plotting the January 17 attack that almost blinded Sergei Filin because of police pressure.
The Moscow police declined to comment, but the letter suggested there could be many more twists in a case that has shocked Russia and shone a spotlight on bitter rivalries at one of its most respected institutions.
A symbol of Russian culture since the time of Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi Theatre, which opened last year after a multi-million dollar renovation, has seen its share of scandal.
Bolshoi
4 Arrested
Freeway Stunt
Four men - including the would-be groom - have been arrested for a marriage proposal stunt in which hundreds of motorcycles blocked a Southern California freeway.
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports four people were arrested last week on suspicion of being a public nuisance and taking part in an unlawful assembly. Three were released on bail and one remains jailed Tuesday.
As many as 250 motorcycles blocked the eastbound Interstate 10 in West Covina on Jan. 27 so that a biker could propose to his girlfriend. She accepted. At one point, a bike sent up a cloud of pink smoke.
The stunt was captured on video and went viral on the Internet.
Freeway Stunt
Lifts Lid On Nazi History
Vienna Philharmonic
The world-famous Vienna Philharmonic orchestra will publish details of its history during the Nazi era on Sunday, responding to years of accusations of a cover-up.
Austria took several decades after World War Two to acknowledge and voice regret for its central role in Hitler's Third Reich and Holocaust. The country will solemnly mark the 75th anniversary on Tuesday of its annexation by Nazi Germany.
One of the world's premier orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic is most popularly known for its annual New Year's Concert, a Strauss waltz extravaganza that is broadcast to an audience of more than 50 million in 80 countries.
Less well known is the fact that the concert originated as a propaganda instrument under Nazi rule in 1939. The orchestra rarely played the music of the Strauss family, known for the "Blue Danube" and numerous other waltzes, before this period.
Vienna Philharmonic
US-Based Propaganda
'Pope TV'
A global broadcasting operation based in Alabama is offering a different kind of news coverage of the election of a new pope.
Nestled among the Protestants and pine trees of suburban Birmingham, Eternal Word Television Network isn't just talking about Vatican politics or the church sex scandal in its run-up to the papal vote. Rather, "Pope TV" is airing shows about how the new man may affect church liturgy, teachings and Vatican diplomacy.
While other media explained the basics of the smoke signals used at the Vatican to signal the vote outcome - white puffs mean there's a new pope, dark smoke means there isn't yet - EWTN analysts discussed the pontiff's influence on the use of candles and crucifixes during worship. In a live Mass aired Tuesday, a priest asked viewers to pray for the conclave in Rome.
Started by a nun in a cramped garage more than three decades ago, EWTN now produces television broadcasts available in 225 million households in more than 140 counties and territories. The network, with 336 total employees, has about 50 staffers in Rome working on conclave coverage being aired in English, Spanish and German, said chief executive Michael Warsaw.
The network operates on a nonprofit basis and neither sells ads nor accepts money for its programming, yet it brings in millions annually. Federal tax forms filed by nonprofit groups show EWTN took in $36.3 million in 2011, nearly all of it in donations, and ended the year with more than $40 million in assets.
'Pope TV'
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 4-10. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 20.81 million.
2. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.63 million.
3. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16.24 million.
4. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.57 million.
5. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.54 million.
6. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 13.12 million.
7. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 12.84 million.
8. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 11.72 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.58 million.
10. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 11.46 million.
11. "The Bible," History, 10.82 million.
12. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.72 million.
13. "Survivor: Caramoan," CBS, 9.58 million.
14. "The Mentalist," CBS, 9.52 million.
15. "Golden Boy," CBS, 9.4 million.
16. "Amazing Race 22," CBS, 9.27 million.
17. "The Good Wife," CBS, 9.21 million.
18. "The Following," Fox, 8.81 million.
19. "Elementary," CBS, 8.7 million.
20. "The Bachelor," ABC, 8.53 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Sybil Christopher
The woman Richard Burton left to marry Elizabeth Taylor has died. Theater producer and nightclub founder Sybil Christopher was 83.
The Bay Street Theater on Long Island has posted an obituary for Christopher on its website. The New York Times has reported she died Thursday in New York City.
The Welsh-born Christopher was Sybil Burton when Richard Burton, her first husband, left her for Taylor, in 1963.
She left California for New York where she opened a nightclub in 1965 with backing from famous friends like Julie Andrews and Leonard Bernstein.
The club, called Arthur, became a celebrity hangout and turned Christopher into a post-divorce success story.
She married Jordan Christopher, the lead singer of the club's house band, in 1966.
Christopher founded the Bay Street Theater in 1991 with two partners and was its artistic director for 22 years.
She is survived by three daughters, including actress Kate Burton.
Sybil Christopher
In Memory
Peter Banks
Peter Banks, a founding member of the British progressive rock band Yes and its original guitarist, has died at his home in London. He was 65.
A statement on Banks' website said he died on March 7 and was found in his home after he failed to show up for a recording session.
Widely considered a pioneer of progressive rock guitar, his loss was mourned in a statement by fellow band members from Yes, which was formed in 1968. "We are deeply saddened to learn about the passing of fellow bandmate and founding Yes member, Peter Banks," the statement said.
According to an official press release, Banks performed on the first two albums from Yes, which was known for its symphonic style and complex instrumentation.
Banks went on to form Flash and released three well-received albums with that group before forming another new band called Empire.
He released five solo albums over the course of his career.
Peter Banks
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