M Is FOR MASHUP - May 12th, 2010
Bootlegging a Mashup Column
By DJ Useo
If your life is anything like mine, you don't have time for this column. I hope you enjoy it anyway.
To get this done & keep it 'new' I appropriated sections from other mashup posts. Let's begin -
From Mashuptown
The first BOOTIE Rio happens this Friday, 14 May, in the club Fosfobox, in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio, with the pair A + D, creators of BOOTIE, as headliners, along with the Brazilian BOOTIE Rio resident, Lucio K, and the boy Andrew Paste, only 18 years, who began producing mashups at 17 and was nominated for best producer for the DJ Mag Brazil this year. The man behind the party is Fabiano Moreira, he works as journalist, and is a big fan of Mashups for long time. DJ Faroff, of BOOTIE Boston, is Brazilian too, and he built a bridge between Fabiano and A + D, thinking of bringing the party to Brazil. And they are all totally in love with A + D and whole BOOTIE family around the world.
PIZZA SAMBA MIXTAPE
The guys from the Brazilian Mashup Scene made a special mixtape with all this producers/boys at Carnival, you can download the material
here.
( gemagema.tv/blogs/agemda/?p=16372 )
To read more about this,go here -
( www.mashuptown.com/2010/05/bootie-rio-the-first-bootie-party-under-the-equator-line.html )
From Paste Magazine.com
There's that old saw about a whole being greater than the sum of its parts. That's definitely the modus operandi when you're crafting a single-song mashup, but what happens when you're crafting a longer-form mashup-say, an entire album? It's no easy task, the dustbin of history is probably littered with too many failed attempts at mashup albums. Here are six of them that go beyond simple success and into the superlative. 1. The Hood Internet - Yes, I'm cheating right out the gate here-The Hood Internet is a duo who create mashups. But their four mixtape-albums are so damn spectacular, choosing only one is impossible.
To read more about this,go here -
( http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/04/six-amazing-mashup-albums.html )
From Beatles Remixers
Beatles Song Of The Month Challenge. A monthly task - to remix a specific song! Post subject: May 2010 - Drive My Car.Site Admin-TJT. Since no one has chosen one yet, I will choose "Drive My Car" for the song challenge of the month. Mainly because I already have a track for it! :lol: :wink: Maybe One Virgin will give us a good introduction for it! :D
To read more about this,go here -
( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/may-2010-drive-my-car-t785.html )
From MashStix
Dan Mei Dj Submitted - Added 05/07/10 ''If You're Not Human' (The Killers vs Daniel Bedingfield)
Rating: 3.9/5 (14 votes cast)Stix Review By: Eddie Pedalo
Pros:
Theres only one thing I hate more than the whining drone of Daniel Bedingfield, that's the MOR pop rubbish that is the music of the Killers...
...That said, I was instantly impressed by Dan's mashup. Mashed to perfection, Dan has created something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Every 14 yr old girl should have this on her iPod.
Cons:
Maybe not cool or challenging, but apart from that subjective minus, flawless. Tips: Bust a move!
To read more about this,go here -
( www.mashstix.com/ )
From Blentwell
Mix Of The Week
We lost one of the greats on April 20th. Guru had a voice like an oak barrel of Bushmill's lined with fine grade sandpaper. He wasn't bling, or gangsta, or mystical or polemical. He just dropped gems on our melons. He was a solid MC, and one of the best. Musicians' deaths always seem tragic, especially when they're young, but even when (as with Guru) they haven't put out anything good for a while - because although they only cut the record once, every time we play it it's new again; every time we play it, we're back to the first time we listened to it. Music defeats time in a way other art does not. And because music is timeless and eternal, we infer immortality for musicians. So how can Guru be dead? Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is. The music will live forever, as long as we keep listening. Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal [Guru Tribute] is...
To read more about it,go here and
here
( http://elmattic.podbean.com/mf/web/sywqrk/GiftedUnlimitedRhymesUniversal.mp3
( http://www.blentwell.com/ )
Mashup Tip
- Take credit for your mix, but not the music.
Latest Useo Thing
Surfin Noize (The Trashmen vs Antoine Clamaran Pres. Differe).The bird is the word!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/surfin-noize-trashmen-vs-antoine.html )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
President Obama: Remarks by the President at University of Michigan Spring Commencement (whitehouse.gov)
You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
Terry Savage: Why Greece Matters (creators.com)
Why do the world financial markets care so much about what happens to Greece and their financial situation?
Scott Burns: "The Hard Search: Paradise on a Budget" (assetbuilder.com)
BELIZE. Comfortable on our mooring just off uninhabited Cary Caye, I scan the horizon from the ample deck of the King Caye Lady, our chartered Lagoon 46 sailing catamaran . With a visual horizon of 7 miles and nothing in sight but open water and a few Cayes, I figure the six of us are the only people in about 150 square miles.
Stephanie Coontz: Stop Blaming Betty Friedan (slate.com)
No, she is not responsible for all of our unhappiness.
CHRISTINE ROSEN: Life in an Awkward Position (wsj.com)
How an eccentric guru and charming hustler made yoga popular in America.
"Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With Additional Material from a Thesaurus of Old English" by Christian Kay: A review by Benjamin Moser
Just when I was starting to fear that the sun had set for the reference book, all fourteen and a half pounds, three hundred and ninety-five dollars, three thousand eighty-four pages, and forty-four years in the making of Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, $395) thumped into my Netherlandish post office box.
THEO ANDERSON: Springsteen's Salvation (inthesetimes.com)
A new book reveals The Boss' enduring allure.
Dennis McLellan: Lena Horne dies at 92; singer and civil rights activist who broke barriers (latimes.com)
Horne achieved a place in the pantheon of female jazz vocalists and broke ground in Hollywood as an African American star in the '40s. She also won acclaim on Broadway and as a cabaret performer.
Craig McLean: Why Stornoway are Britain's most exciting nu-folk band (timesonline.co.uk)
They sing, they play, they check out the local wildlife... Britain's most exciting nu-folk band is a rare breed.
Roger Ebert: Review of "VINCENT: A LIFE IN COLOR (UNRATED; 3 1/2 stars)
You have never heard of Vincent P. Falk, but if you've been near Marina City, you may have seen him.
Gerardo Orlando: A Chat with Hugh Hefner (bullz-eye.com)
Hef discusses a new film project about his life being written by Diablo Cody and mentions that Robert Downey, Jr. has expressed interest in the role. He's also excited about a new documentary about his life that will be widely released soon.
Troy Patterson: Boy Candy (slate.com)
Why the youngsters love 'Generator Rex' and 'Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.'
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children (athensnews.com)
On her very first day of kindergarten, ballerina Jillana confided a secret to her teacher: "Don't tell anyone, but I'm really a princess." As a ballerina, Jillana has danced many regal roles, including that of the Princess in "Firebird." By the way, Jillana's real last name is Zimmerman, and as a pretty teenager, she was known as Jill-bait.
David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing an Employee Manual" (Lulu.com)
Free download at http://stores.lulu.com/bruceb. This short pdf document describes a composition project that I have used during my years of teaching at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Teachers may download this short document and decide if they want to use this assignment in their own courses.
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Sympathy for the Devil' Edition...
Glen Beck(-elzebub) - or perhaps some unearthly entity clothed in Glenn Beck's skin - on Faux and Fiends, discussing the Miranda Rights of alleged Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad said… "He is a citizen of the United States, so I say we uphold the laws and the Constitution on citizens… If you are a citizen, you obey the law and follow the Constitution. He has all the rights under the Constitution… We don't shred the Constitution when it is popular. We do the right thing"...
You weren't expecting that, were you? I don't think anybody was...
Quote Unquote: Glenn Beck on Faisal Shahzad's Rights | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central
and Huff Post
Sooooooo....
Who among you has the courage to stand with Beck(-elzebub) and for the record
state that you agree with him on this issue?
(haha! This too delicious!)
I am SO Bad... totheboneBob
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
More like fall than spring.
Threatens US Cable Programming
Drifting Satellite
A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites' owners said Tuesday.
Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 8, possibly because the satellite's systems were knocked out by a solar storm. Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications satellite that serves U.S. cable companies.
Galaxy 15 continues to receive and transmit satellite signals, and they will probably block or otherwise interfere with signals from the second satellite, known as AMC 11, if Galaxy 15 drifts into its orbit as expected around May 23, according to AMC 11's owner, SES World Skies.
AMC 11 receives digital programming from cable television channels and transmits it to all U.S. cable networks from its orbit 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the equator, SES World Skies said. It operates on the same frequencies as Galaxy 15.
Drifting Satellite
Press Conference Tapes To Auction
Beatles
The only known audio recording of a 1966 Beatles press conference, in which John Lennon is grilled about saying the band was more popular than Jesus, is expected to sell for about $20,000 at auction in June.
Auction house Bonhams & Butterfields said the 14 minute reel-to-reel tape recording was the only known surviving audio record of the August 17, 1966 press conference by the Fab Four at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.
It includes John Lennon and Paul McCartney joking about how long The Beatles would stay together.
"We're obviously not gonna go around holding hands forever," Lennon is heard to say. McCartney adds "...it would be a bit, you know, embarrassing at (age) 35..."
Beatles
Fox and CBS Return
National Association of Broadcasters
The CBS and Fox television networks have rejoined the National Association of Broadcasters after a decade-long breakup.
The reunion comes as the industry faces a raft of regulatory issues and commercial disputes with the Federal Communications Commission, cable TV providers and recording companies.
Fox left the NAB in 1999 and CBS followed in 2001 after disputes with local stations over federal rules on ownership restrictions. Large broadcasters wanted looser restrictions, while smaller stations worry that would give larger networks too much leverage over them.
NBC and ABC also left but have since returned.
National Association of Broadcasters
Physicist Spots Dictionary Error
Stephen Hughes
An Australian physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.
University of Queensland academic Stephen Hughes found that entries for the word 'siphon' incorrectly said atmospheric pressure is the force that allows the device to move liquids from one place to another.
"It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon, with the water in the longer downward arm pulling the water up the shorter arm," he said.
"An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon," he added.
Stephen Hughes
3-D Centerfold
Playboy
Playboy readers are going to need glasses for a close look at the upcoming issue of the magazine -- 3-D glasses.
The centerfold picture in the June edition of Playboy will be in 3-D, Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said Tuesday.
A pair of 3-D glasses like those that helped the film "Avatar" shatter box office records will be included with the issue of the magazine which hits US newsstands on Friday.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said he "wanted to create a 3-D pictorial for the very first issue of Playboy, but didn't have enough money to include the 3-D glasses.
Playboy
H.S. Band Wins Ellington Competition
Seattle
Seattle's Garfield High School has won Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition for the second straight year.
The first-place trophy and a $5,000 award were presented by JALC artistic director Wynton Marsalis to Garfield High School Jazz Band director Clarence Acox at Monday night's awards ceremony and concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.
The Dillard Center for the Arts of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., took second place. Third place went to Foxboro High School from Massachusetts.
The three-day competition featured 15 finalist bands performing selected compositions by Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams.
Seattle
Stops Divorce
Larry King
Television personality Larry King and his seventh wife have reunited and called off their divorce, and the 76-year-old CNN broadcaster has moved back to the family home, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
King and 50-year-old Shawn Southwick, a singer with whom he has two children, both had filed for divorce in Los Angeles last month after 13 years of marriage.
"They have stopped the divorce proceedings," spokesman Howard Rubenstein told Reuters. "He has moved back home."
Larry King
Controversial Cross Disappears
Mojave Desert
Thieves have stolen a cross in the Mojave Desert that was built to honor Americans who died in war, less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the religious symbol to remain on federal land.
The 7-foot-high cross was stolen late Sunday or early Monday by thieves who cut the metal bolts that attached the symbol to a rock in the sprawling desert preserve, National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Slater said.
Authorities had no immediate motive for the theft but Slater said possible suspects range from scrap metal scavengers to people "with an interest in the case," Slater said.
The cross had been covered with plywood since the early 2000s while the courts decided whether it was legal, but vandals tore off the wooden cover over the weekend. Maintenance workers went out to the rock to replace the cover and discovered the cross was missing, Slater said.
Mojave Desert
Ankle Monitor
Fernanda Romero
Agents for a Mexican-born actress accused of having a sham marriage say her court-ordered ankle monitor is hurting her career.
Five agents for Fernanda Romero, who is facing a charge of marriage fraud, filed letters Tuesday to a federal judge requesting the removal of the monitor. Their reason - the bracelet clashes with her wardrobe for auditions, photo shoots and other gigs.
A hearing on whether the ankle monitor stays or goes will happen May 17 in Los Angeles.
Romero pleaded not guilty Monday to federal marriage fraud charges and could face five years in federal prison if convicted.
Fernanda Romero
Punks TV Stations
Fake Yo-Yo Master
Here's a cunning variation on the old yo-yo maneuver "around the world": Go to a series of local TV stations professing to be a master yo-yo practitioner, and when they have you come in for a live studio sequence, go through a comically botched series of tricks. In other words: Ron Burgundy, meet your worst nightmare!
The trickster in question goes by the names Kenny Strasser and Karl Strassburg - K-Strass for short. In his local interview segments, he poses as a twice-divorced recovering addict with family issues so severe that he's sometimes forced to take calls from his father in the middle of live broadcasts. According to WSAW in Wausau, Wis, and other reports, the duped television stations each received an email from someone named Joe Guehrke claiming to be the agent for K-Strass, a "master yo-yo artist," and a representative of ZimZam Yo-Yo, the world's first green nonprofit toymaker.
In making his pitch, Guehrke informed the stations that K-Strass uses his "zany sense of humor" and an assortment of yo-yo and juggling tricks to promote an environmentally friendly message to children. The email solicitation also reels off a laundry list of fictional accomplishments, such as a nomination for the (nonexistent) "Walt Greenberg Award" for yo-yo excellence.
Then, once producers have booked him as a guest, K-Strass shows up for his studio spot wearing green coach's shorts, a yellow cap and suspenders. It doesn't take long to see that he is anything but a yo-yo master.
Fake Yo-Yo Master
Fake Yo-Yo Trickster Fools Every TV Station Everywhere - Yo-Yo - Deadspin
55% Jump In 2Q Earnings
Disney
The Walt Disney Co. is still getting mixed messages from consumers.
They love "Alice in Wonderland," a 3-D blockbuster that has brought in $962 million in worldwide box office sales. The film helped boost Disney's net income 55 percent in the first three months of 2010, compared with last year's quarter.
But vacationers have not flocked back to the company's amusement parks and resorts. Taken together, attendance at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., and Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., was roughly flat from last year as the company tried to wean customers off of discounts.
Meanwhile, the recovery in advertising sales that is showing up across the media industry failed to lift profits at Disney's TV segment. As usual, ESPN took in more ad revenue and fees from cable providers, but the ABC broadcast network suffered from lower ratings and ad sales.
Disney
'Flag' Auction Could Set Record for
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns' iconic painting of the American flag, in the collection of the late best-selling author Michael Crichton, could set a new auction record for the artist at a sale Tuesday evening at Christie's.
"Flag" has a pre-sale estimate of $10 million to $15 million, but art dealer Richard Feigen said he believes "it'll go through the roof," fetching upward of $30 million.
The seminal work by the living American artist has never before been on the public market. Johns' previous auction record was $18 million for "Figure 4," in 2007.
A 1960 encaustic and paper collage rendition of the Stars and Stripes, Crichton bought it from Johns in 1973 and hung it in his Beverly Hills bedroom. It has been exhibited only once, for a pop art survey at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1992-1993.
Jasper Johns
14th-Century Aqueduct Found
Jerusalem
Archeologists said Tuesday they have uncovered a 14th-century aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem for almost 600 years along a route dating back to the time of Jesus - but unlike most such finds, this time the experts knew exactly where to look.
Photographs from the late 19th century showed the aqueduct in use by the city's Ottoman rulers, nearly 600 years after its construction in 1320. The photo shows an inscription dating back to the aqueduct's early days.
It was uncovered during repairs to the city's modern-day water system. Public works projects here proceed in cooperation with antiquities officials in a city where turning over a shovel of dirt anywhere can turn back the pages of time, said Yehiel Zelinger, the archeologist in charge of the excavation.
The team has found two of nine arched sections of a bridge about nine feet (three meters) tall on the west side of Jerusalem's Old City, Zelinger said.
Jerusalem
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 3-9. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 19.64 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 19.58 million.
3. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 17.5 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 15.1 million.
5. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.85 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles, CBS, 14.34 million.
7. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 14.15 million.
8. "Survivor: Heroes vs Villains," CBS, 13.06 million.
9. "The Good Wife," CBS, 12.88 million.
10. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.39 million.
11. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 12.04 million.
12. "The Big Bang Theory" (Monday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 11.63 million.
13. "Glee," Fox, 11.62 million.
14. Movie: "Jesse Stone: No Remorse," CBS, 11.49 million.
15. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 11.36 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 11.03 million.
17. "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.93 million.
18. "Castle," ABC, 10.69 million.
19. "Amazing Race 16," CBS, 10.58 million.
20. "The Big Bang Theory" (Monday, 9:30 p.m.), CBS, 10.31 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Doris Eaton Travis
Doris Eaton Travis, last of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies Girls, the chorus girls who wore elaborate costumes for the Ziegfeld Follies series of Broadway theatrical productions in the early 1900s, died Tuesday at age 106, public relations firm Boneau/Bryan-Brown said. It didn't say where or how she died.
Travis, who was from West Bloomfield, Mich., also was a supporter of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising organization and appeared often in its annual Easter Bonnet Competition.
Travis continued to work long after her Follies days ended, with annual appearances on Broadway, a small role in a Jim Carrey movie and a memoir, "The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family From Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray and Beyond."
Interest in the 5-foot-2 centenarian piqued after a 1997 reunion with four other Ziegfeld Follies Girls for the reopening of the New Amsterdam Theatre, where she danced about 80 years earlier.
"I was the only one who could still dance," she said then.
Travis was born March 14, 1904, one of seven children to newspaper linotype operator Charles Eaton and his wife, Mary, in Norfolk, Va.
Some of the children, who became known as The Eatons of Broadway, got their first break when a stock company production of "Blue Bird" appeared in Washington, D.C., in 1911. Travis and her sisters, Pearl and Mary, had only small roles, but it led to steady work in other local plays and lead roles when "Blue Bird" returned to Washington three years later.
Doris Eaton Travis
In Memory
Frank Frazetta
Pioneering fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died Monday in a Fort Myers, Fla., hospital, a manager said. He was 82.
Frazetta had been out to dinner with his daughters Sunday but suffered a stroke at his Boca Grande home later that night and was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital, manager Rob Pistella said. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed the death, as did his daughter Heidi Frazetta Grabin.
Frazetta created covers and illustrations for more than 150 books and comic books, along with album covers, movie posters and original paintings. His illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, Vampirella and other characters influenced many later artists.
His children have fought over an estate estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars, filing lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Florida.
His son, Alfonso Frank Frazetta, 52, was charged in December with using a backhoe to break into the artist's museum in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and trying to remove 90 paintings insured for $20 million. The charges were dropped late last month after two days of mediation produced a truce.
Grabin and her sister, Holly Frazetta Taylor, dined out with their father Sunday to celebrate Mother's Day, then walked with him on Englewood Beach.
"We had a lovely time, and he just talked about how beautiful the sunset was, and how his next studio was going to have windows around it overlooking the Gulf," Grabin said.
Frank Frazetta
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