Many mashup-makers make money mixing music. Personally, I do them for the love of it. Don't mind cash if it happens, but I'd make tracks even if it was just for me. The reward is the tune itself. The icing on the cake, though, is the feedback posting the tracks often earns. Posting my tracks to a forum, or even my blogs, often induces a positive comment. I've been fortunate to receive response from around the globe. UK, India, Panama, it's a thrill unmatched by the standard paycheck from the same place once a week. Here's a comment left for me from Thailand"..." Oops, I translated it & it was an advertisement for virility medicine. Lol!
I've managed to get some tracks & even several long mixes in radio shows before, but the newest thrill for me is having exclusive tracks featured in podcasts before I've even posted them. It started when radio presenter, Nutronic ( http://nutronic.net/ ) was winding up his recent podcast show with a special finale program. He was looking for a mashup of "Farewell, Auf Wiedersehn, Goodbye", a track from the famous musical, "The Sound Of Music". He preferred it to be paired up with a nice 80's song, so I chose Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight". I called it "Everybody Farewell Tonight". Lol. To my glee, he liked it & it was featured in February's RadioTron Podcast 10 - The Goodbye Edition. (Don't fear the loss of Nutronic's show, he moved it to www.sinefm.com/ & you can hear him every Wednesday, with an mp3 of each show available, as well.)
With that feat lifting my mixing spirits, I applied myself & came up with a good handful of new, appealing tracks. I submitted them directly to www.ramdomthoughts.co.uk/ the splendid podcast from DateableScotty that I wrote about last week. Was I ever thrilled to have almost all accepted! After that, for the next several weeks, in addition to the killer mashup show I never miss, I also experienced the joy of hearing Scotty play my tracks.
A standard deal with exclusives on Ramdom Thoughts is you wait a week after the show is out to post them around, giving the show a chance to lure listeners with tracks unavailable elsewhere. Now, I 'm making all the podcast tracks available in a handy zip file guaranteed to have you humming, or tapping your foot along. Here's the playlist of relevant songs.
01 - Where's Your Eighties At? (Basement Jaxx vs Killing Joke)
02 - Get This Epic Started (Faith No More vs Pink)
03 - Spam Roam (B-52's vs Monty Python's Flying Circus)
04 - Dance This Spam Around (B-52's vs Monty Python's Flying Circus)(Unreleased B-Side to "Spam Roam".)
05 - Everybody Farewell Tonight (Wang Chung vs Sound Of Music 'sdtk')
06 - Land Of A 1000 Money (Scissor Sisters vs Tigarah vs Busta)
Of course, you can hear the full shows, & Ramdom Thoughts generously provides individual links to all tracks in the liner notes. As more icing on further cake, word has reached me that 2 additional tracks of mine will appear shortly in upcoming Ramdom Thoughts shows. I also made up another exclusive for Nutronic, so it's onward & upward for more Useo mashups. Thanks for indulging me with all this self-promotion. Maybe I should make myself available as a download! Lmao!
Link for the Podcast Exclusives zip file here -
http://groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/
Mix Of The Week - What an incredible piece I have for you this week in Alex C's "A DFRNT Dubstep Mix". This one is an hour long studio mix with unsigned tracks, commercial ones and an exclusive new track from Alex C that will be released shortly on his new EP. They don't get much better than this one. Check it out
here -
http://dfrnt.alex-c.com
Mashup Tip - Avoid mashing tracks after dark. Pellas attract vampire bats.
Robert Gottlieb: The Rescue of John Steinbeck (nybooks.com)
The extraordinary thing about John Steinbeck is how good he can be when so much of the time he's so bad. There are talented writers who grow into their full maturity and then decline, slowly or precipitously. But that isn't Steinbeck. You can divide his work up into coherent periods, but there's no coherent trajectory of quality.
20 QUESTIONS: Jim White (popmatters.com)
Jim White is a traveler, a Renaissance man, and a candid musical chronicler of the South. He pauses from his busy, restless artistic life to answer PopMatters' 20 questions.
Cole Smithey: Scorsese Shines a Light on the Stones
On a cold Sunday at Manhattan's Palace Hotel, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts joined a throng of anxious journalists so we could pepper them with questions. Needless to say, Marty and the Stones looked marvelous, laughed a lot, and cracked wise to everyone's delight.
What was the last US movie made about mankind landing on the moon before mankind landed on the moon?
A: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
B: Moontrap (1989)
C: The Phantom Planet (1961)
D: They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
E: Way... Way Out (1966)
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mj was first, but wrong, with:
Without checking release and production dates
I know I saw 2001 the night in July of 69 that the first moon landing took place, but it had already been in circulation a while, so I'll guess another one sneaked in. I'll guess E
Alan J was second, and correct, with a succinct:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Charlie replied:
Assuming it qualifies as a US movie, it must be
A: 2001: A Space Odyssey
DanD responded:
Well initially, I thought it was (A) 2001: A Space Odyssey. After all,
it had been timed almost perfectly for America's moon landing.
Now, I must admit, I'm one of those nutjobs who believe that men did not
really land on the moon ... or at least the way it was advertised way
back in '69. My conspiracy mindset is motivated mostly by two things,
the thinness of the space module's skin, the masive broad-band strength
of the extremely deadly radiation being broadcast from the sun BEYOND the
Van Allen Belts, and the fact that no astronomy focus (at least I don't
remember an astronomy focus beyond the overpowering Earth shots) was --
well -- focused upon during that whole moon trip episode.
THEY DIDN'T USE ANY CAMERAS THAT COULD SHOW STARLIGHT, or star-groups in
the sky, and such. But because they couldn't know back then exactly what
the star groupings would look like from some mock-up set AS PROJECTED
FROM SOME FANTASY MOON-LANDING SIGHT, to show alleged groupings that
would later be patently disprovable just wouldn't do. So instead, NASA
simply used intentionally inferior photographic technology while
completely eschewing virtually all photographic stargazing.
THERE, my "Conspiracy Theory" inner child has once again been assuaged.
And then I thought, "Naw, NOW Marty's gonna screw with us again and
SOMEHOW, turn this seemingly innocuous quiz into a trick question. So I
Googled each of the options and discovered that: (A), 2001: A Space
Odyssey, is the answer ... I think.
Now, where's my frickin' TIN FOIL HAT (tm), NOT Aluminum, which can't
deflect shit ... .
Sally said:
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (A) appears to be the last US movie made about mankind landing on the moon before mankind landed on the moon. (July 20, 1969)
Technically, of course "A" is the answer. But, my personal favorite is "D." In the 1967, "They Came from Beyond Space, " we saw that a group of scientists' minds had been taken over by unseen aliens. Only one man (who has a silver plate in his head due to a car accident) is immune to their control. He, single-handedly, fights the aliens (when they release a deadly plague on earth) and in the course of his quest, he manages to get into one of their rocket ships which ends up on the Moon. Once there, he meets the alien leader and finds out exactly what the alien's intend to do to Earth. And, he then saves the day.
Gee, I wonder if anyone else, occasionally, enjoys a really, really bad movie beside myself? :)
Marian the Teacher answered:
My guess is A... one of my favorite movies!!
pgw responded:
I'm guessing here. Way Way Out is my guess. I remember seeing this film on TV when I was a kid.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Big Brother 9', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are George Clooney and Norah Jones.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Marg Helgenberger and Kylie Minogue.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Steve Carell, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Ani DiFranco.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is The Bravery.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 3/13/08) are Wayne Brady and Brett Dennen.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a FRESH'Supernanny', then a FRESH'Men In Trees'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Randy Jackson, Julie Bowen, and Back Door Slam.
The CW offers a FRESH'America's Next Top Model', followed by a RERUN'Pussycat Dolls Present'.
Faux has a FRESH'Moment Of Truth', followed by a FRESH'American Idol'.
MY has 'Whacked Out Videos', another 'Whacked Out Videos', and 'Masters Of Illusion'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'South Park', and a FRESH'Lewis Black's Root Of All Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is William Safire.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report are Susan Jacoby and R.E.M.
FX has the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', followed by the movie 'Supercross: The Movie', then the movie 'Supercross: The Movie', again.
History has 'World's Strongest 2', 'Modern Marvels', 'MonsterQuest', and a FRESH'UFO Hunters'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Cleo from 5 to 7;
[07:40 AM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[08:05 AM] Melinda and Melinda;
[09:50 AM] Passion in the Desert;
[11:35 AM] Cleo from 5 to 7;
[01:15 PM] Melinda and Melinda;
[03:05 PM] IFC News Special: 2008 Elections;
[03:35 PM] Passion in the Desert;
[05:15 PM] Cleo from 5 to 7;
[06:50 PM] Moondance;
[08:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #208;
[09:00 PM] Liam;
[10:35 PM] Millions;
[12:15 AM] Liam;
[01:50 AM] IFC In Theaters;
[02:00 AM] Millions;
[03:45 AM] Moondance;
[05:25 AM] The Children of Paradise. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Ghost Hunters', another 'Ghost Hunters', followed by a FRESH'Ghost Hunters', and a FRESH'Destination Truth'.
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] It's All Gone Pete Tong;
[07:00 AM] King of the Hill;
[09:00 AM] Episode 4;
[10:00 AM] Georgi and the Butterflies;
[11:00 AM] Air Guitar in Oulu;
[12:00 PM] Bodies, Rest & Motion;
[01:40 PM] Conte de Quartier;
[02:00 PM] Donnie Darko;
[04:00 PM] King of the Hill;
[05:45 PM] Cotton Mary;
[08:00 PM] Autism Everyday;
[09:00 PM] Break on Through;
[10:00 PM] Forty Shades of Blue;
[12:00 AM] Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen;
[01:00 AM] Episode 3;
[01:30 AM] Orgazmo;
[03:15 AM] Buried in the Backyard;
[04:00 AM] Episode 2;
[05:00 AM] Emile. (ALL TIMES EST)
When he was a boy, teachers couldn't get Robert Redford to stop staring out the window and drawing sketches in class. It wasn't until third grade that a teacher realized he was trying to express himself - albeit in a different way, the Academy Award-winning director and actor told a congressional committee Tuesday.
Redford, Grammy-winning singer John Legend and actress Kerry Washington, who appeared in the movie "Ray," joined arts supporters from across the nation Tuesday for Arts Advocacy Day in Congress. They urged lawmakers to restore funds for the National Endowment for the Arts to the high of $176 million received in 1992.
Republican leaders in Congress slashed arts funds in the mid-1990s and tried to dissolve the NEA. The agency survived, but its budget has not yet rebounded.
Roger Ebert will resume writing reviews later this month, but will not rejoin his syndicated TV show because he's still unable to speak.
In a letter published in Tuesday's Chicago Sun-Times, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic and co-host of TV's "Ebert & Roeper" said surgery in January ended in complications, and his ability to speak was not restored. He said the return of speech would require another surgery.
Ebert, 65, said he's looking forward to his annual film festival starting April 23.
"I will resume writing movie reviews shortly thereafter," he said.
Actress Jane Fonda attends a Cinema Society screening of 'Smart People' at Landmark Sunshine Theater, Monday, March 31, 2008 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Media mogul Ted Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," announced on Tuesday he was joining forces with two Christian organizations to combat malaria in Africa.
Together with the United Methodist Church and Lutheran World Relief, Turner's United Nations Foundation will try to raise $200 million to fight the disease.
Turner was asked why he had decided to team up with the churches after once dismissing Christianity as "a religion for losers" and suggesting observers of Ash Wednesday were "Jesus freaks."
"I don't know," he said. "As I get older ... I get, you know, more tolerant."
A British spy who helped lead the French Resistance during World War II outfoxed the Nazis by concealing secret messages in the hem of her skirt, according to records unsealed Monday.
Britain's National Archives opened its records on Pearl Cornioley, who parachuted into France posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to deliver coded messages to Resistance members. The release follows her death on Feb. 24.
Cornioley, whose nom de guerre was Genevieve Touzalin while in France, had been educated in Paris. She escaped France ahead of the Nazi invasion and returned to Britain via Spain.
Upon returning to Britain, she worked briefly at the Air Ministry but used her French to gain a slot as a Special Operations Executive agent - one of about 40 women to serve. The Special Operations Executive evolved into today's Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6.
It looks like a typical National Geographic cover with the signature yellow border. So what's Paris Hilton doing on there?
The folks at Harvard Lampoon persuaded employees of one of the nation's most respected magazines to help them ensure their April Fool's parody - with satire on Mongolia's wildest waterparks and "Native Girls Gone Wild" - looked authentic.
The issue, coming out Tuesday, is the latest in a string of Harvard Lampoon magazine parodies. But the undergraduate group had never done National Geographic, which quickly responded when contacted by the students last summer.
"My guess was they were just extremely bored and they were tired of working with animals and scientists and wanted to hang out with college students," said Hayes Davenport, who edited the magazine with fellow Harvard senior Ross Arbes.
An Aboriginal painting titled "Water Dreaming Ceremony" by Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, one of seven paintings stolen from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, is seen in this undated handout photograph obtained April 1, 2008.
Adam Sandler broke his ankle over the weekend while playing basketball - but still won the game - according to a statement sent to The Associated Press from Sandler's representative.
Sandler, who starred in "Happy Gilmore" and "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," is currently shooting Walt Disney Pictures' "Bedtime Stories." In the film, due out later this year, Sandler plays as a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories magically come true. The statement said the injury will not affect production.
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.
He leaves behind a trail of unanswered questions about whether he tilted the Department of Housing and Urban Development toward Republican contractors and cronies.
In announcing that his last day at HUD will be April 18, Jackson said only, "There comes a time when one must attend more diligently to personal and family matters."
Jackson's problems began in 2006, when he told a group of commercial real estate executives that he had revoked a contract because the applicant who thanked him said he did not like resident Bush. Jackson later told investigators "I lied" when he made the remark about taking back the contract.
A member of the First Church of the Last Laugh blows a horn while marching in the 30th Annual St. Stupid's Day Parade down the streets of the financial district in San Francisco, California, April 1, 2008. The parade occurs every year on April Fools' Day and pokes fun at the political and financial events in the United States.
Photo by Kimberly White
A recently discovered parachute could not have been used by D.B. Cooper in 1971, says the man who packed the four chutes that were given to the mysterious skyjacker.
The torn, tangled parachute - found about a month ago by children along a dirt road near Amboy - was probably made around 1945, said Earl Cossey, who examined the chute for the FBI on Friday.
Cossey, who sold parachutes at a skydiving operation in Issaquah in the 1970s, had provided the chutes that the FBI gave Cooper. He told The Columbian of Vancouver that the newly found chute "absolutely, for sure" could not have been one of the four that he provided.
"The D.B. Cooper parachute was made of nylon," he said. "This 1945 parachute was made of silk."
Four founding members of the rock band Velvet Revolver said on Tuesday they were splitting with the group's troubled singer, Scott Weiland, citing his "increasingly erratic" behavior.
The announcement came in a terse statement from the group's management company as Weiland, 40, and his recently reunited original band, Stone Temple Pilots, were set next week to announce plans for a highly anticipated summer tour.
The Pilots, also known by their acronym, STP, already have confirmed a handful of upcoming dates, beginning with the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, on May 17-18.
For Weiland, whose career has long been overshadowed by heroin addiction, Rock on the Range will mark his first show with STP since the band played 13 concerts to promote its last album of new material, 2001's "Shangri-La Dee Da."
A boy points at a sundog or a parhelic circle seen around the sun from Kannur, Kerala, India, Thursday, March 27, 2008. A sundog or a parhelic circle is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals.
Photo by S.K.Mohan
Three works by guerilla artist Banksy failed to sell at auction.
Morons, a screenprint that pokes fun at the art establishment, fetched £5,250, around £1,000 more than its estimated value.
Napalm, based on the Pulitzer prize-winning image of a Vietnamese girl fleeing her village following a napalm attack, fetched £11,000, and CND Soldiers went under-the-hammer for £3,750.
But prints Bomb Hugger, of a girl hugging a missile, as well as Toxic Virgin, and Soup Can (Green), both estimated at £4,000-to £6,000, failed to sell.
The CBS News network will cut about 1 percent of its 1,200-employee work force, CBS Corp said on Tuesday, amid a tough media environment and declines in television and print news outlets.
Local news operations owned by CBS also began laying off employees to cut costs, according to a source familiar with the plans, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The cuts at the network will not include overpaid on-air talent.
A CBS spokesman said the actions at the network and the local news operations were unrelated.
High-school cheerleaders from team ' FAIRIES' perform at the All Japan Cheerleading and Dance Championship in Chiba, east of Tokyo, March 30, 2008.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
Three teenagers have been accused of holding up a train for nearly 50 minutes by placing a garden dwarf on a high-speed rail track in France, police sources said.
A train from Paris to the eastern city of Strasbourg had to stop near Saverne in the lower Rhine region at around 2230, after running over a ballast and a garden dwarf on the tracks.
The source said the 15 and 16 year-olds admitted to the offence and will be tried before a juvenile court shortly.
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 25.74 million viewers.
2. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.75 million viewers.
3. (4) "Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 20.52 million viewers.
4. (8) "Dancing With the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 17.49 million viewers.
5. (17) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 16.07 million viewers.
6. (X) "NCAA Basketball Post-game" (Sunday), CBS, 14.36 million viewers.
7. (20) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.23 million viewers.
8. (17) "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.36 million viewers.
9. (17) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12.96 million viewers.
10. (48) "Celebrity Apprentice," NBC, 12.13 million viewers.
11. (X) "Deal or No Deal," NBC, 11.40 million viewers.
12. (26) "Oprah's Big Give," ABC, 11.36 million viewers.
13. (73) "How I Met Your Mother," CBS, 10.67 million viewers.
14. (85) "Dateline" (Friday), NBC, 10.63 million viewers.
15. (X) "Dancing With the Stars-Recap," ABC, 10.50 million viewers.
16. (X) NCAA Basketball Championship - Louisville vs. UNC (Saturday), CBS, 10.42 million viewers.
17. (20) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 10.14 million viewers.
18. (11) "Moment of Truth," Fox, 10.05 million viewers.
19. (X) "'Til Death" (Tuesday), Fox, 10.00 million viewers.
20. (73) "Primetime: What Would You Do?," ABC, 9.92 million viewers.
Two six-week old offspring Red Bellied Tamarin (Saguinus labiatus) sit on the back of an adult animal in the small zoo of Gettorf, north of Kiel, northern Germany, on Monday, March 31, 2008.
Photo by Heribert Proepper
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