M Is FOR MASHUP - May 18th, 2011
Latest Mashups Tips
By DJ Useo
For many reasons the mashups scene always slows down during this time of the year. No doubt it's mainly that people find better things to do offline for a while. Even I find myself on the net less these days. So, to catch you up on some must-not-miss mashup things, I will now give you a handy list of cool bootleg links. (& may I remind you these tunes are all gratis!)
01 - DJ Zebra honors Bob Marley on the 30th year Anniversary of his passing with four marvelous reinterpretations of his work. These tracks are the best find of mashups you can hear, done with great skill & fond love. There's even awesome videos. Don't hesitate to hear them
here
( www.zebramix.fr/musique/albums/bob-marley-vs-dj-zebra/ )
02 - Mashuptown
( www.mashuptown.com/ ) has been running a terrific mashup blog for long enough to do it better than anyone else. The selection of tracks is stunning, & here's the kicker. You merely suscribe to the rss feed or podcast & the newest mashups come over as soon as they're posted. It's a guaranteed hoot!
03 - BorisB has been granting us fantastic video versions of classic mashup tracks by the likes of Go Home Productions,Lionel Vinyl,& the afore-mentioned DJ Zebra.BorisB has THE TOUCH when it comes to COOL video-making.Don't miss these!
( borisbvideos.webs.com/ )
04 - DJ Nerd42 may be a 'newbie' to the mashup game, but he turns in one fine collection of interesting & satisfying blends. He comes through with his own mix identity in this set, & it's a strong one. For tracks with Beatles vs AC-DC, Daft Punk vs Shark Tale, Weird Al vs Harold Faltermeyer & Linkin Park vs Kanye West, this album can't be beat. Obtainable
here
( getsomerecords.pcriot.com/releases/tdc032.html )
05 - Mashup & music team The Frunt Room continue their incredible run of excellent, clever podcasts. Each show is warmly hosted & personable with a stunning brevity of generally 15 minutes of eclecticly pleasing music. It's a sure winner, & I advise signing up for the podcast. It'll bring sunshine to your existence & leave you feeling uplifted.
( www.fruntroom.tv/ )
06 - The long mix & Mixtape site B00MB0X continues to provide finestkind dj sets by dedicated musical diehards. Once you've heard any of the mixes posted on their site, you'll only be too happy to sign up for the podcast of each new work. Listen for long mix joy from the likes of Bong, Swampmaster, & Briscoe. They even let me hang out there. Do ye ken, noo? The podcast is a new long mix by a cool dj nearly every day. All doing every style of music imaginable.
Go here now!
( www.bmbx.org/ )
07 - I don't want to forget to tell that BLENTWELL The People's Mix Click Collective is for sure back! They feature 1000's of links to long mixes of every breed & stripe. They even let me...lol. I said that already.
So worth checking out here
( www.blentwell.com/ )
08 - The LAPTOP PUNK Mashup Forum never did actualy go anywhere.(That I noticed.) I heard it had closed, but it actually continued to slowly thrive. They even...oh crud. (See above.) Lots to hear & view at the LTP! CLue yourself in
here
( cheekyboy.proboards.com/index.cgi? )
There's so much more available, even with the reported slowdown in attendance. My best advice is to go to my site or some other bootlegger & go through their links to other mashup DJ's. None of us can charge for our tracks, so your thanks in the guest boxes at our sites are welcome.
Mix Of The Week
See above for your choice of MANY!
Mashup Tip : Dancing to mashups makes you look cooler than dancing to plain top forty!
Latest Useo Thing
Bigfoots' Remix Mix' is modern techno remix, all recent bootleg releases. This mix will have you dancing!
I worked hard to do you up a normal, but great, danceable mashup that is somehow familiar,yet uses the latest tunes. By George I've done it with '
Staying Precinct Alive' (The Bee Gees vs Stanton Warriors vs Plump DJs) .This sucker is made for LOUD BASS & delivers! An instant classic from what I've heard personally.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/05/beegees-vs-stanton-warriors-vs-plump.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
No mashups will be posted for one week after the passing of beloved DJ MC EmmSey early next month.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Wells Fargo Flash Mob -- Times Square (YouTube)
Or maybe a PR stunt-but a good one.
Paul Krugman: Inflation and Economic Hooliganism (New York Times Magazine)
In a way, I miss the months that followed Lehman's failure. O.K., not really - but if it was a time of terror, it was also a time of clarity. The whole world was going to hell in a handbasket, and policy makers everywhere shared a common goal: stopping the plunge.
Paul Krugman's Blog: Means-Testing Doublethink (New York Times)
On one side, we have a steady barrage of articles about how it would be cruel to raise taxes on everyone making more than 250K, even though that puts you in the top 2 percent of the income distribution, because 250K isn't really rich. And on the other side we have confident assertions that we can curb entitlement spending by means-testing, by not giving full Social Security and Medicare benefits to people who don't really need them.
Jim Hightower: "AND THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IS: [BLANK]"
Nothing personal, my Republican friends, but - Good God! - is this all there is?
Jim Hightower: A CORPORATE LOBBYIST RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
Oh, happy day - The Newt is in! Move over, Donnie Trump, the contest for Goofiest Guy in the GOP Presidential Primary just got goofier with Newt Gingrich's leap into the fray.
Bill Press: No, No, Not Newt!
This is the guy who shut down the government in 1995. This is the guy who whined because President Clinton wouldn't let him sit up front on Air Force One - only to have the White House release a photo of Newt actually chatting with the president, up front, on Air Force One. This is the guy who was reprimanded by the House of Representatives, 395 to 28, and ordered to pay a $300,000 fine for violating House ethics rules - when he was Speaker! And this is the guy who was forced to resign as Speaker after Republicans lost five seats in the 1998 midterm elections.
Paul Constant: The Future Is Fluid (The Stranger)
Red Lemonade Might Be Where Books Are Going.
Clive James: "Hollywood: A Love Story" (The Atlantic)
The entry for Teresa Wright starts with the information that she died in 2005 and ends with the observation: "She has not done too much lately…" And that would be because?
Elaine Lipworth: "Jack Black: My family values" (Guardian)
It took me years to build up the courage to talk to my wife, Tanya, because I knew her in high school 20 years ago. But I never spoke to her and I was afraid to ask her out until many years later. It was crazy that it took me so long. She was always in the back of mind.
Eva Wiseman: "This much I know: John Waters" (Guardian)
The director, 65, on psychiatry, sex and death.
Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth' (Guardian)
Randy Newman might be one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation, but that hasn't stopped many of his best-known songs from being misunderstood, he tells Tim Lewis.
Lady Gaga: Lording it (Guardian)
She is the biggest pop star in the world, who doesn't have fans so much as disciples. But has Lady Gaga's Jesus complex gone too far? Simon Hattenstone finds out.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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WTF
Santorum: McCain doesn't understand interrogation
Santorum has the gall to tell a man who spent years in a vietnamese prison camp anything about torture?
WTF!
some guy
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
First time it's ever rained here on 17 May since they started keeping records.
Launches Disaster Donation Channels
DISH Network
Satellite network DISH is launching on-demand channels to allow viewers to click a button from their remotes to donate to the Red Cross to aid disaster relief efforts in the U.S. and Japan.
Specialty channels labeled "Donate Storm Relief" and "Donate to Japan Here" will be available on the DISH Network menu through July 31, 2011. By following on-screen instructions, customers can add a $5 donation to their monthly bill.
The money will be sent to the American Red Cross to boost emergency relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Japan and in areas of the U.S. affected by recent deadly tornadoes.
"We're pleased our technology can be used to assist the American Red Cross," says Dave Shull, senior vice president of programing for DISH Network, in a statement. "We look forward to using this unique approach to aid other causes in the future."
DISH Network
Chavez's Guitar Among 6
Shakira
The Colombian singer Shakira says she learned after the fact that one of six guitars she signed at a concert in Venezuela made its way to President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez had thanked Shakira for the red guitar over the weekend, suggesting he believed it was a gift.
But Shakira's press office says in a statement that during her March concert, the artist "signed 6 guitars at the request of the event's organizers." It added she learned Monday that "one of them was sent to the President's office."
Shakira's office says it hopes "acts like this contribute to continue uniting the citizens" of Colombia and Venezuela.
Shakira
Out Of `House'
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein is checking out of Fox TV's "House."
In a statement Tuesday, the actress said she is leaving the medical series after seven years as Dr. Lisa Cuddy.
The decision followed much consideration and brings mixed feelings, Edelstein said: She's disappointed at leaving a character she loved playing but is excited about the opportunities in acting and producing that are ahead.
Edelstein didn't offer details on her plans.
Lisa Edelstein
Bosnia Movie Gets December Release
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie's directorial debut -- a controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia -- has a name and a release date.
"In the Land of Blood and Honey" will be released in the United States on December 23, producers said in a statement on Monday, just in time for Oscar consideration.
Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, last year described the then untitled movie as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict, in which 100,000 people died.
But it caused controversy in Bosnia with some female victims of sexual violence objecting to details in the plot and Bosnian authorities canceling a filming permit. As a result, some scenes scheduled to be shot in Sarajevo were moved to Budapest, Hungary.
Angelina Jolie
Orders 13 Shows
ABC
ABC introduced an overhauled prime-time TV schedule for next season that will feature eight new dramas, highlighted by a remake of "Charlie's Angels," the 1960s throwback "Pan Am" and a dose of workplace romance.
ABC will also roll out five new comedies in the most drastic change to a schedule by any of the major broadcast networks. The prime-time lineup, unveiled on Tuesday, is the first from new Entertainment President Paul Lee, whose mandate is to reverse several years of viewership declines.
Among the most anticipated of the ABC's new shows is "Pan Am," which will anchor the 10 p.m. time slot on Sunday just after the returning soap "Desperate Housewives." Set in the 1960s, "Pan Am" follows a cast of pilots and stewardess in what is portrayed as the golden, glamorous age of travel.
ABC will also go retro with "Charlie's Angels." The update of the 1970s classic will feature former soap star Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly of "Friday Night Lights," and Rachael Taylor from "Grey's Anatomy" as the three sexy, crime-solving detectives. The show will kick off critical Thursday nights, ahead of solid performers "Grey's" and "Private Practice."
ABC
Network Cancels
'Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'
With the clock ticking, executives at U.S. network CBS made the decision to only keep only one of its two bubble crime dramas Tuesday.
While hard on loyal viewers, the decision to lose at least one of the two franchise offerings, "CSI: NY" and "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior," was expected given the No. 1 network's lack of holes -- as well as its decision to order a fourth drama, Patrick Wilson's "A Gifted Man," to series midday Monday.
"Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior": The spinoff from Ed Bernero, which starred Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the chief of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, averaged only 9.3 million viewers since its midseason launch. Despite a high-profile -- and thus costly -- star, the series failed to deliver the buzz or ratings that other offshoots, such as "NCIS: Los Angeles," have generated.
The news follows the recent axing of "S#!* My Dad Says," "The Defenders" and "Mad Love," which were canceled on Sunday.
'Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'
Profane Circus Circus
Feld Family
The feud between the scions of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus erupted into profane shouting inside a federal courthouse Tuesday over an attorney's repeated use of the wrong courtesy title.
The boiling animosity between circus CEO Kenneth Feld and his sister, Karen, led U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle to post a security officer in the courtroom during their civil trial and to order plaintiff and defense teams to leave her court separately to avoid another confrontation.
Karen Feld is suing her brother for $110 million because she says his security guards assaulted and injured her when they forcibly removed her from their aunt's shiva, or Jewish memorial service, in September 2007. Kenneth Feld is countersuing for trespass. He says she tried to sneak into an off-limits room and launched into an obscenity-filled tirade when guards barred her way and then escorted her out.
Karen Feld has said her brother has long been hostile toward her because he was afraid she would reveal unflattering details about their family that would hurt the wholesome reputation of their entertainment business empire. But Kenneth Feld denied that he was concerned she'd reveal their family secrets, which he testified were covered long ago in news articles and were being revived in news coverage of the court case.
She testified that her father believed women didn't belong in business and should get married, and arranged for Karen to wed a young man who lived in their apartment building when she was a college student. She testified she was able to call off the engagement after she walked in on her father and her betrothed having sex during a family vacation to Europe.
Feld Family
Internet Traffic Overtakes Web Surfing
Netflix
Move over, Web surfing. Netflix movies now take up more of the Internet pipes going into North American homes.
A study published Tuesday by Sandvine Inc. shows that Netflix movies and TV shows account for nearly 30 percent of traffic into homes during peak evening hours, compared with less than 17 percent for Web browsing.
Only about a quarter of homes with broadband subscribe to Netflix, but watching movies and TV shows online takes up a lot of bandwidth compared with Web surfing, email and practically every other Internet activity except file sharing and videoconferencing.
As late as last year, both Web surfing and peer-to-peer file sharing - mainly the illegal trading of copyrighted movies - were each larger than Netflix's traffic.
Netflix
'Wire' Actress Pleads Not Guilty
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
A woman who played a Baltimore drug gang assassin in HBO's "The Wire" has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to sell heroin.
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson entered the plea Tuesday morning during an arraignment in Baltimore Circuit Court. An Aug. 9 jury trial date was set.
Pearson is one of 64 people charged in March in "Operation Usual Suspects," a joint state-federal prosecution of an alleged east Baltimore drug gang. She is charged in an indictment with conspiring with two men to distribute heroin.
The 30-year-old Pearson was released weeks later on $50,000 bond with electronic monitoring that has allowed her to leave the state to pursue her acting career.
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
Exploiting bin Laden Killing?
Disney
The Mouse House reportedly filed trademark applications on "SEAL Team 6" just two days after commandos killed the terrorist kingpin. Some nerve...
It didn't take long - just two days! - for Disney to reportedly file trademark applications for the phrase "SEAL Team 6," the name of the secret commando squad that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1. The potential trademark, which would cover apparel, toys, games, "entertainment and education services," and other items, has commentators reeling. Is this a good business move, blatant exploitation, or both?
"SEAL Team 6 has proven its marketing potential, and Disney, wisely, was the first to jump on the opportunity to profit," says Nick Carbone at TIME. I can hardly fault them for that. As long as they don't get so trademark-crazy that I have to pay royalties just for mentioning SEAL Team 6, I'll "let this one slide with nothing more than a begrudging eye roll."
This is disturbing... and uniquely American: I can't decide if Disney's move shows "galling cynicism about the nature of the American consumer, or almost Jedi-like insight about America's penchant for hero narratives," says Alex Moore at Death + Taxes. Regardless, it takes nerve to see "merchandising opportunity in this murder." But hey, maybe the best way to wake up from the collective "bin Laden nightmare" once and for all is to Disney-fy it. And "what's more American" than getting rich exploiting bin Laden's death?
Disney
Literary Hangout Closing
Elaine's
Elaine's is shutting its doors.
For decades, Elaine Kaufman held court at the restaurant bearing her name with a hand-picked selection of favorite regulars, literary luminaries and celebrities.
After Kaufman died in December, longtime manager Diane Becker inherited the restaurant. She announced Tuesday that the Upper East Side restaurant will shut its doors for good on May 26.
The place is filled with history - both real and imaginary.
Woody Allen opened his movie "Manhattan" with a scene set there. Billy Joel immortalized it in the song "Big Shot." Stuart Woods, author of dozens of popular mysteries, begins almost every book with his hero having dinner at Elaine's.
Elaine's
China Farm Fiasco
Watermelons
Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of "land mines."
About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 115 acres (45 hectares) of melon, China Central Television said in an investigative report.
Prices over the past year prompted many farmers to jump into the watermelon market. All of those with exploding melons apparently were first-time users of the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron, though it has been widely available for some time, CCTV said.
Chinese regulations don't forbid the drug, and it is allowed in the U.S. on kiwi fruit and grapes. But the report underscores how farmers in China are abusing both legal and illegal chemicals, with many farms misusing pesticides and fertilizers.
Watermelons
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 23.05 million.
2. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 22.45 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 20.74 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 17.62 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 17.54 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.74 million.
7. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.07 million.
8. "Survivor: Redemption Island Finale," CBS, 13.3 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.29 million.
10. "Castle," ABC, 12.6 million.
11. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.24 million.
12. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.79 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.77 million.
14. "The Good Wife," CBS, 11.73 million.
15. "Dancing With the Stars" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), ABC, 11.28 million.
16. "Survivor: Redemption Island Reunion," CBS, 10.91 million.
17. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.78 million.
18. "Survivor: Redemption Island," CBS, 10.77 million.
19. "Bones," Fox, 10.49 million.
20. "The Voice," NBC, 10.45 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Edward Hardwicke
Edward Hardwicke, who played the faithful Dr. Watson opposite Jeremy Brett's "Sherlock Holmes" in the famed Granada Television series of the 1980s and '90s, died Monday, the Telegraph in London reported. He was 78.
Hardwicke replaced David Burke and appeared as Watson in 11 hourlong episodes in Granada's "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" from 1986-88; in two-hour versions of "The Sign of Four" (1987) and "The Hound of The Baskervilles" (1988); and then in seasons broadcast as "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" (1991) and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1994). He also handled the role on the West End stage with Brett in 1989's "The Secret of Sherlock Holmes."
The Granada adventures were exceeding faithful to the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, so Hardwicke played Watson not as a bumbler of the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce era but as a dashing, stately former military doctor.
The son of actors Cedric Hardwicke and Helena Pickard, the London native appeared in his first movie at age 10, "A Guy Named Joe" (1943), which starred Spencer Tracy. Other film credits include "The Day of the Jackal" (1973), "Shadowlands" (1993), "Richard III" (1995), "The Scarlet Letter" (1995), "Elizabeth" (1998) and "Love Actually" (2003).
Hardwicke was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theater in the 1960s and had regular roles in the British TV series "Colditz" (playing a character based on real-life war hero Pat Reid); "My Old Man;" "Tycoon;" and "Strangers and Brothers."
He is survived by daughters Kate and Emma.
Edward Hardwicke
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