M Is FOR MASHUP - April 23rd, 2014
New April Mashups
By DJ Useo
MC's Are Gon'na Be Happy
( soundcloud.com/amoraboy/amoraboy-draman-lenny-kravitz#new-timed-comment-at-234970 )
I Am The Egg Man
( hearthis.at/chocomang/i-am-the-egg-man-hello-byebye-vs-the-beatles/ )
Join In The Chant
( soundcloud.com/djtripp/nitzer-ebb-join-in-the-chant-dj-tripps-incinterate-mix )
My Love On The Run
( soundcloud.com/bootox/my-love-on-the-run )
Mixed Business Abomination
( soundcloud.com/rsremix/beck-mixed-bizness-rhythm-1 )
New Stuff Great Job
( soundcloud.com/partyben/sets/party-ben-new/ )
Rampus Flows With Prince
( soundcloud.com/djprince/rampus-flow-dj-prince-remix )
Mashup Weapons
( djjess.bandcamp.com/releases )
Space Girls On FIlm
( soundcloud.com/g3rst/space-girls-on-film )
Bootie Top 10 Podcast
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/dj-useo-bootie-top-10-podcast )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Chronic Gamer Girl: "SEX: A JOURNEY OF LOVE" (YouTube)
Somebody out there wants you.
Rebecca Rose: Honey Maid Tells Homophobes to Take a Hike in Best Response Ad Ever (Jezebel)
I love this so much, and so will you. This is the absolute best way to respond to trolls who have nothing better to do but write dumb comments to companies that make honey graham crackers.
Josh Feldman: 'God Did It': Funny or Die Unveils the Creationist Answer to Cosmos (MEDIAite)
Some creationists aren't too happy about the new Cosmos reboot on Fox and have demanded equal time. Well, Funny or Die created a Creationist Cosmos short to assuage their concerns, hosted by none other than Timothy Simons, known best as Jonah on HBO's Veep.
Kristi Harrison: 4 Shocking Psychological Dark Sides of Being Funny (Cracked)
#4. Comedians Are Sadder Than Everyone Else
Interviews by Nancy Groves: "Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill: how we made Boléro" Guardian)
'It was a volcano erupting - we had to climb to the very top before throwing ourselves into eternity.'
Torvill & Dean - 1984 Olympics - Bolero - HQ (YouTube)
The quintessential ice dance, the only one to score 6.0 from all judges, the legendary Torvill & Dean. Bolero from 1984 Olympics where they won gold.
W.P. Kinsella: Reflections from the man who wrote the book that became "Field of Dreams" (ESPN)
The book came first. Actually, the story came first. I wrote a 20-page short story that eventually became Chapter 1 of my novel "Shoeless Joe." The story was published in an anthology, and a young editor at the publishing house Houghton Mifflin in Boston, Larry Kessenich, read not the story but a review of the anthology in Publishers Weekly. On the strength of that, he wrote to me at Desolate U. in Alberta, where I was teaching bonehead English, to suggest that if the story was part of a novel, he wanted to see it, and if it wasn't, it should be.
Jennifer M. Wood: 30 Things You Might Not Know About Cheers (Mental Floss)
When character actor Jay Thomas wasn't portraying Carla's Bruin-turned-ice-show-performer husband Eddie LeBec, he was the host of a popular morning radio show in Los Angeles. Which is exactly what led to his character being killed off rather prematurely by way of Zamboni. "A few episodes of recurring bliss and then one day on Jay's radio show, a caller asked him what it was like to be on Cheers," recounts writer Ken Levine. "He said something to the effect of, 'It's brutal. I have to kiss Rhea Perlman.' Well, guess who happened to be listening ... Jay Thomas was never seen on Cheers again."
David Bruce: Wise Up! Names (Athens News)
Sometimes, male audience members would yell "Show us your tits!" at the all-female San Francisco band Frightwig. They always yelled back, "Show us your d**ks!" Soon, they began inviting a male audience member to come on stage and strip and dance as they played the song "A Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do." Once, four young fans asked if they could dance on stage to the song. They danced in their underwear and then turned around and mooned the audience. Frightwig member Deanna Ashley remembers that they had FRIGHTWIG written on their buttcheeks. She said, "It was so cute."
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Thanks, Dave!
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
So - to let you know what's going on, the guestbook on bartcop.com is
still open for those who want to write something in memory of Bart.
I did an interview on Netroots Radio about Bart's passing
( www.stitcher.com/s?eid=32893545 )
The most active open discussion is on Bart's Facebook page.
( www.facebook.com/bartcop )
You can listen to Bart's theme song here
or here.
( www.bartcop.com/blizing-saddles.mp3 )
( youtu.be/MySGAaB0A9k )
We have opened up the radio show archives which are now free. Listen to
all you want.
( bartcop.com/members )
Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate
button on bartcop.com
But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note
isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost
it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we
figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just
over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So
here's the signup link for this email list.
( mailman.bartcop.com/listinfo/bartnews )
Marc Perkel
Thanks, Marc!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lot like the middle of summer.
Mount Everest
Discovery Network
With its dream of covering a daredevil's attempt to jump off Mount Everest over, the Discovery network is instead making a documentary on last week's avalanche that killed more than a dozen mountain guides.
Discovery President Eileen O'Neill said Tuesday the network hopes to air the film within the next few weeks. Discovery will encourage viewers to donate to a relief fund for families of the Sherpa guides killed in the disaster.
Several of the Sherpas killed were helping prepare for American Joby Ogwyn's planned jump from the summit in a wingsuit. Discovery planned to show the stunt on live television on May 11.
Ogwyn said Tuesday he agreed with Discovery's decision not to go forward, but hopes to jump off Everest sometime in the future.
Discovery Network
Returning To Its Spying Roots
'Archer'
The Archer crew are spies once more. This season's radical change of Archer from a show about a group of spies to a show about a group of cocaine-peddling drug dealers (who used to be spies) was just a one-season experiment, the show revealed on last night's Season Five finale.
While the personality quirks and dynamics of Archer, Lana, Mallory, and the rest of the gang remained largely the same this season, the story arc switched from an assortment of spy missions to an assortment of attempts to sell cocaine in South America. On the finale last night, that plot was revealed to be an undercover CIA mission. The details aren't that important, but the resolution means that Archer will be back in the ISIS spy offices for next season.
That return to where the season began was always the plan, too, show creator Adam Reed told The Daily Beast. "I thought Archer: Vice would be a fun yet temporary change, and always envisioned returning to 'regular' Archer once this season's storyline was finished," he said. That's likely to be a disappointment for the many fans that loved the big plot changes this season.
'Archer'
'Rock in Rio' Site
Vegas
A group including casino company MGM Resorts announced plans Monday to build a 33-acre open-air music venue on the Las Vegas Strip to host a four-day Rock in Rio USA festival beginning in May 2015.
MGM Resorts International officials said the "City of Rock" development to be built between the Circus Circus resort and Sahara Avenue would serve as home to what they expect will be one of the largest concert festival events in the world.
Rock in Rio began in 1985 in Brazil, where 600,000 tickets for the event last September sold out in four hours, according to organizers. Headliners included Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Metallica and Bruce Springsteen. The organization also produces festivals in Portugal and Spain.
Rock in Rio founder Roberto Medina said he was excited to partner for the first Rock in Rio USA event in the heart of Las Vegas with casino giant MGM Resorts, multiple Las Vegas show producer Cirque du Soleil and developer Ron Burkle of the California-based Yucaipa Companies LLC.
Vegas
Baby News
Frankie Barrymore Kopelman
Drew Barrymore is now a mommy of two.
The 39-year-old actress and her 36-year-old husband, Will Kopelman, are welcoming their second daughter.
Barrymore's rep, Chris Miller, confirms Frankie Barrymore Kopelman was born Tuesday.
Barrymore and Kopelman's first child, daughter Olive, is 19 months old.
Frankie Barrymore Kopelman
Coulson Denies Hearing Hacked Message
Rupert
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson on Tuesday denied a claim that he listened to a hacked voicemail left by actress Sienna Miller for James Bond star Daniel Craig.
Coulson and six others are on trial on charges stemming from the revelation in 2011 that the News of the World regularly eavesdropped on the voicemails of people in the public eye. The scandal led Rupert Murdoch to shut the newspaper and pay millions in compensation to hacking victims.
Ex-reporter Daniel Evans, who has pleaded guilty to phone hacking, testified earlier this year that he played Coulson the message from Miller in 2005.
Coulson said the meeting Evans described had not taken place. He added that he was "absolutely not" aware of phone hacking by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was employed by the newspaper.
All seven defendants deny wrongdoing. Coulson, who served as Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief after leaving the News of the World in 2007, denies conspiring to hack phones and conspiring to pay a police officer for a royal phone directory.
Rupert
Summer Face Off?
Militarized Sea Creatures
The tense East-West standoff in Ukraine could reach a new level of escalation: underwater. According to a report from the Russian newspaper Izvestia, the United States Navy's marine mammal unit will be deployed to the Black Sea this summer, where American dolphins and sea lions could find themselves nose-to-nose with their Russian counterparts.
The paper reports that according to a statement by Tom LaPuzza, spokesman for the U.S. Navy's marine mammals program, twenty dolphins and ten sea lions will be in the Black Sea for one-to-two weeks this summer, conducting NATO exercises in a body of water that is traditionally been dominated by the Russian navy.
The dolphins will be testing a new anti-radar system, created to "disorientate enemy sonars", said LaPuzza. While the dolphins are doing that, the sea lions will be trained to "look for mines and naval divers." According to the paper, they also allegedly plan to test out new dolphin armor developed at the University of Hawaii. This will be NATO's first use of militarized sea creatures.
This trip could also mark the first meeting of Russian and American sea creatures. Russia and the United States are the only countries known to have militarized dolphins at this time. Crimean dolphins, which were owned by Ukraine before Russia recently acquired (well, stole) them, have trained in the Black Sea previously. Since Russia is revamping the Sevastopol dolphin training center, it is extremely likely the Black Sea will be home to both sea creature units at the same time this summer.
Militarized Sea Creatures
Fighting Piracy
Sheet Music
By now, some young musical theater fans have received an email from Stephen Schwartz asking them to stop illegally downloading sheet music from any of his shows. Or anyone's show, for that matter.
The award-winning composer of the Broadway smash, "Wicked," wants people to know that it's stealing.
"You wouldn't walk into a music store and walk out with a piece of music under your arm. So why would it be acceptable to do it online," Schwartz told The Associated Press Monday at an anti-piracy awareness event hosted by the Dramatists Guild.
The event proved to be a summit of musical theater composers that included Jason Robert Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green, Stephen Flaherty, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, and others. Many of them sat in a room across the hall from the organization's headquarters hunched over computers, writing letters to offenders as a projection screen showed the organization's Twitter activity.
Sheet Music
Grieving Borrowers Told To Repay
Student Loans
Some student loan borrowers who had a parent or grandparent co-sign the note are finding that they must immediately pay the loan in full if the relative dies.
The Consumer Financial Protect Board says lenders have clauses in their contract that explain this could happen, but many borrowers are not aware of them.
The agency's ombudsman, Rohit Chopra, said complaints related to this issue are growing more common because the practice is catching so many consumers by surprise. Some borrowers told to pay back the loan in full have been making timely payments, Chopra said.
While it's unclear how prevalent it is; Chopra said it appears to be the practice among many private student loan lenders. It has affected borrowers not just when the co-signer has died, but when the co-signer has declared bankruptcy.
Student Loans
Castrillo Matajudios
Spain
The tiny Spanish village of Castrillo Matajudios, whose second name means "Kill Jews," will hold a referendum next month to decide if it should change the name that offends outsiders and embarrasses some residents, its mayor said Tuesday.
The village's 56 registered voters will be asked on May 25 whether they want to keep the name or change it to the similar, but non-offensive name the town once had, Mayor Lorenzo Rodriguez Perez said.
Historical studies show the town's original name was Castrillo Motajudios. The second name of that translates to "Jews Hill" and dates back to 1035 when 66 Jews were killed in a nearby town and those expelled settled on the hill.
The earliest records found with the name changed to "Kill Jews" is from 1627, more than a century after the 1492 edict by Spain's royalty that required Jews to leave the country, convert to Catholicism or face being burned at the stake during the Spanish inquisition.
Although Jews were killed in the area, researchers believe the town got its current name from Jewish residents who converted to Catholicism and wanted to convince Spaniards they opposed Jews, Rodriguez said. Others think it might have simply come from a slip of the pen.
Spain
Drones Unearth More Details
Chaco Culture
Recently published research describes how archaeologists outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico.
The discovery of the structures hidden beneath layers of sediment and sagebrush is being hailed as an important step that could help archaeologists shed light on mysteries long buried by eroding desert landscapes from the American Southwest to the Middle East. The results of the research were published earlier this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Since the 1970s, archaeologists have known that aerial images of thermal infrared wavelengths of light could be a powerful tool for spotting cultural remains on the ground. But few have had access to million-dollar satellites, and helicopters and planes have their limits.
Now, technology is catching up with demand.
Archaeologists can get quality images from very specific altitudes and angles at any time of day and in a range of weather using inexpensive drones and commercially available cameras that have as much as five times the resolution of those available just a few years ago. A basic eight-rotor drone starts at about $3,700.
Chaco Culture
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 17.12 million.
2. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 14.78 million.
3. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.69 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.85 million.
5. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.82 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), CBS, 10.91 million.
7. "Person of Interest," CBS, 10.74 million.
8. "Scandal," ABC, 10.57 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 9.69 million.
10. "Survivor," CBS, 9.35 million.
11. "The Good Wife," CBS, 9.15 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.88 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 8.65 million.
14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.54 million.
15. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 8.53 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 8.45 million.
17. "20/20," ABC, 8.43 million.
18. "Castle," ABC, 8.14 million.
19. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 7.97 million.
20. "The Amazing Race," CBS, 7.65 million.
Ratings
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