M Is FOR MASHUP - May 26th, 2010
Mash-Up Your Bootz Anniversary
By DJ Useo
This month we party the 3rd Anniversary of Mash-Up Your Bootz (
www.mashupyourbootz.com/ ). Back in May 2007,
DJ Morgoth (
www.djmorgoth.com/ ) started his little Mash-Up Club, called Mash-Up Your Bootz in Germanys Capital City, Berlin. As time passed, he released regular monthly Mash-Up Your Bootz Party Samplers to the world, one for each Party. In these Samplers he compiled & presented Mash-Up Artists of the whole world with their latest high quality tunez or classic Bastard Pop hits. So after 3 Years, these Sampler Compilations have a wide fan base and thousands of Downloads per month. And Mash-Up Your Bootz presents nowadays the monthly BOOTIE Berlin Party, Berlin's edition of the biggest Mashup-Party worldwide. They also have their own Internet Radio Show:
MASH-UP YOUR BOOTZ RADIO, hosted by Dr.Waumiau (
www.myspace.com/dr_waumiau ), aired 5-times from Thursday to Sunday Night. When it comes to mash-ups, this is the real scene!
The best part of this celebratory time are the fantastic 3 (!) Mash-up Your Bootz albums released for your pleasure, MASH-UP YOUR WORLD, MASH-UP YOUR GERMAN BOOTZ & MASH-UP YOUR BOOTZ : TOP 15 PRODUCERS. The first Birthday present for you is MASH-UP YOUR WORLD - "16 Mashup Trackz in Around 14 Different Languages". As they have a lot of followers worldwide, Mash-Up Your Bootz has been asked for tips of international mashups, with origins in Asia, Brazil, France, Spain, etc., because normally they only serve the English speaking regions, with some German boots on top. So they had the idea at MUYB, why not do a complete Special Compilation with only international Mashups, and nearly no English at all.
The 2nd Special deals only with German Vocals, or mainly German Vocals. All the tracks on MASH-UP YOUR GERMAN BOOTZ have been never released before on a MUYB Party Sampler. So look on this to have all the fun of going through the Bastard Pop Collection of the last 3-4 years of Mashup history. It is one massive collection. The 3rd & final special collecion is MASH-UP YOUR BOOTZ : TOP 15 PRODUCERS. They thought it would be nice, to have a kinda review of the Top 15 Producers, who had the most Trackz & Spins on the MUYB Party Samplers. And what a surprise it's the Austrian MegaMasher: DJ Schmolli. The interesting thing about this Sampler is that they only collected Golden Oldies & Forgotten Hits by top producers. No tune has been released on a MUYB Party Sampler before. You'll bop till the night ends with this astonishing collection.
All this glory falls at the feet of DJ Morgoth who organized & compiled these 3 records. Bookmark
& enjoy the over 35 other Mash-Up Your Bootz collections ( www.mashupyourbootz.com/ ). More will surely flow from that font of bootlegging,
BOOTIE BERLIN (
www.bootieberlin.com/ ) .
Mix Of The Week
Since you all were so good over the last week, here's a trio of spankin'-new USEO mixes. You can choose from
DJ Useo-Hot, an hour of tightly-mixed club tunes,
FrikkenMix, a live mix of crazy useo mashups, or
6Teez,a sixties psychedelic rock mix. I figgered with this trio of variety, there'd be something for nearly everyone.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/dj-useo-hot-club-mix100.html )
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/dj-useo-frikkenmix-strange-mashups.html )
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/dj-useo-6teez-sixties-rock-mix10551.html )
Mashup Tip : Water your mashups in the morning before the heat of the day
Latest Useo Thing
'Cracked Music' (Rihanna vs David Bowie) (
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/cracked-music-rihanna-vs-david-bowie.html ) is a combination of Rihanna's 'Don't Stop The Music'
& David Bowie's 'Cracked Actor'. Two great sounds that sound great together.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/05/cracked-music-rihanna-vs-david-bowie.html )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF: Moonshine or the Kids? (nytimes.com)
On the annual win-a-trip journey, finding families without enough money to pay school fees, but with plenty for booze and cigarettes.
Scott Burns: A Tale of Three (Or Maybe Four) Tax Bills (assetbuilder.com)
Which of these tax bills would you rather pay?
RICHARD ROEPER: Military fakers a slap in the face to the real heroes (suntimes.com)
It's spring in America and the scamsters are blooming everywhere, from high school to college, from morning television shows to the political arena.
Chris Erskine: An enchanted diorama in the 'burbs (latimes.com)
I really like dioramas, the little handcrafted scenes first-graders create inside a shoe box. With dioramas, the important thing is to keep them simple.
Associated Press: Martin Gardner, 95, math and science writer, dies
Prolific mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner, known for popularizing recreational mathematics and debunking paranormal claims, died Saturday. He was 95.
Christopher Hitchens: 'I was right and they were wrong' (guardian.co.uk)
Hero of the left, neocon turncoat, and still battling on: Christopher Hitchens talks to Decca Aitkenhead about old arguments and his new memoir.
Jennifer Havenner: eBooks Have Resurrected the Printed Book (huffingtonpost.com)
What does a printed book have that eBooks don't? Permanence. The role of the printed book is still critical, if not for the publishing industry, but for the human race.
Grandmother's footsteps (guardian.co.uk)
'A foolish story, such as is told by garrulous old women' is how the Oxford dictionary defines an old wives' tale. Despite being treated with contempt over the centuries, these narratives served not only to amaze and appall children but to teach them coded lessons about the realities of life, from toilet training to pregnancy, argues Germaine Greer.
Irene Lacher: Ephron sisters weave clothes into the fabric of women's lives (Los Angeles Times)
Lo these many years later, Delia Ephron still pines for her first love.
roger ebert's journal: Wall Street's dirty, rotten scoundrels
I am but a naive outsider. I don't fully understand the working of the "derivatives" and "credit swaps" that we have heard so much about in recent months. I'm not alone. But I'm learning. I gather that these are ingenious computer-driven trading schemes in which good money can be earned from bad debt, and Wall Street's Masters of the Universe pocket untold millions at the same time they bankrupt their investors and their own companies.
Roger Ebert: "Uncle Boonmee" wins Cannes Palme d'Or
The hypnotic Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" has won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival. The film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul traces the dreamlike final days of a man dying of kidney failure as the ghost of his dead wife returns to tend him, and his long-lost son comes home in the form of a jungle spirit.
Casey Affleck: Killer instincts (guardian.co.uk)
His older brother is a romcom heart-throb. But Casey Affleck would rather play the violent psychopath in Michael Winterbottom's new film. Interview by Emma Brockes.
David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing a Progress Report" (Lulu.com)
Free download at http://stores.lulu.com/bruceb. This free pdf download describes a composition assignment that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University.
The Sounds - Rock 'n' Roll (youtube.com)
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Remake (Mistake?)' Edition
Is CBS seriously taking on a remake? Hawaii 5-0 Remake?
Apparently so. According to the Hollywood Reporter,
CBS has the rights to the original show which aired from 1968 to 1980, and CSI: NY writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will be taking a stab at developing the show and writing the pilot.
And so it goes...
Are there any TV series that you'd like to see resurrected with a 'Remake'?
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and cooler than seasonal.
Gas is under $3/gal for the first time in a couple years.
It had been creeping up last month (to about $3.26/gal), but shortly after BP's Earth Day celebration, it started to drop.
Mark Twain Prize
Tina Fey
"30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live" actress Tina Fey is to receive the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor -- one of nation's highest honors in the world of comedy, the Kennedy Center said on Tuesday.
Fey, whose popularity soared in 2008 with her impersonations of Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, will be presented the award on November 13 on a night of humor featuring other comic stars.
Fey is only the third woman to have won the honor in 13 years, after Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg.
The Mark Twain Prize, established in 1998, recognizes people who have had an impact on society comparable to the 19th century satirist and writer of novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
Tina Fey
Living In Wasilla
Joe McGinniss
Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to complain about her new neighbor - a writer penning a book about her.
Author Joe McGinniss has taken up residence in a house next to Palin's lakeside home in Wasilla.
McGinniss previously wrote a critical expose on Palin and her natural gas pipeline plan for the Conde Nast publication Portfolio last year, and is planning a book about the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. It's tentatively titled, "Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously" and could be on the shelves in the fall of 2011.
"Yes, that Joe McGinniss. Here he is about 15 feet away on the neighbor's rented deck overlooking my children's play area and my kitchen window," Palin posted on Facebook late Monday, hours after returning from a trip to the Lower 48 and learning of McGinniss' presence.
Joe McGinniss
North American Tour
U2
U2 frontman Bono left hospital in Germany on Tuesday after undergoing emergency surgery on his back, but the injury has forced the Irish band to postpone the entire North American leg of its world tour.
It also means the band will not be appearing at Glastonbury, one of the biggest live music events of the annual pop calendar.
Bono has been told to recuperate for at least eight weeks and band manager Paul McGuinness, speaking to Reuters outside the Munich hospital where the operation was performed on Friday, said the 50-year-old singer "feels awful" about the tour changes, which will affect over a million fans.
As well as the band and fans, the injury will also hit Live Nation, the music concert company which signed a 12-year deal to handle merchandising, digital and branding rights and touring for one of the world's most successful bands.
U2
Wrong Wheaton
Ann Curry
When "Today" show news anchor Ann Curry delivered the commencement speech at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, she named a list of distinguished alumni, including the Rev. Billy Graham, Wes Craven and Dennis Hastert.
The problem is the evangelist, the horror movie director and the former U.S. House Speaker all attended the Wheaton College in Illinois, not the one in Massachusetts.
The NBC newswoman on Monday sent an apology letter to Massachusetts school's president, Ron Crutcher, and the college community.
"I am mortified by my mistake," she wrote, "and can only hope the purity of my motive, to find a way to connect with the graduates and encourage them to a life of service, will allow you to forgive me."
Ann Curry
'Sopranos' Actor Supports School's Jazz Program
Michael Imperioli
Actor Michael Imperioli is supporting a New York City school jazz program led by older musicians struggling with the recession.
The "Sopranos" actor was at Manhattan's Claremont Preparatory School recently for a concert featuring the veteran musicians with the students - including his 11-year-old son, Vadim, on trumpet.
Imperioli says the older artists' "energy and mystique" help the kids relate to others in the world.
Henry Butler is a blind musician who survived Hurricane Katrina. Claremont headmaster Irwin Shlachter says students saw Butler bring out "the magic of the piano" instead of feeling sorry for himself.
Michael Imperioli
Script In Auction
Life Of Brian
A signed script of the classic movie Life Of Brian is set to go under the hammer.
John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have signed the script, which will be auctioned at the Great British Comedy Event.
Gilliam and Palin are attending the do, alongside the likes of Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.
Palin said: "This is one of the most important working scripts of Life Of Brian. It belonged to our heroic, and very funny, first assistant director Jonathan Benson (A Fish Called Wanda, Local Hero) whose job it was to keep cast, crew and John Cleese happy every day of the shoot in Tunisia. Hence the blood sweat and tears in which it is drenched."
Life Of Brian
Hospital News
Mindy McCready
Mindy McCready, the country singer who battled drugs and legal woes but recently declared herself clean after a stint on "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew," was back home Tuesday from the hospital, according to her brother, after police responded to an overdose call at a Florida home.
The overdose report came at 10:38 a.m. at a North Fort Myers home, said the Lee County Sheriff's Office. The property is owned by McCready's mother, records showed.
Cape Coral Hospital spokeswoman Karen Krieger would not say why McCready was taken to the hospital.
In an e-mail, McCready's publicist confirmed the singer was in the hospital, and said the diagnosis has not been confirmed.
Mindy McCready
Baby News
Leonie Cassel
Italian actress Monica Bellucci and her French actor husband Vincent Cassel have become the parents of a baby girl named Leonie, born Friday in Rome, the actress announced on the Italian edition of Vanity Fair website.
Leonie weighed 3.2 kilogrammes (seven pounds), said the new mother who has been married to Cassel, 43, since 1999 and with whom she has a daughter Deva, now five years old.
She said it took "courage to have children late because of the risks for yourself and for the child."
But she added that she considered herself "very lucky" to have had a healthy first child "by natural birth like a peasant woman from Umbria", the region of Italy where the actress was born.
Leonie Cassel
Iran Releases
Jafar Panahi
Iran released an internationally renowned filmmaker and opposition supporter on bail Tuesday after more than two months in custody, state TV reported.
Jafar Panahi, who has won awards at the Chicago, Cannes and Berlin film festivals, was freed on bail of about $200,000, but the report said his indictment would be sent to a revolutionary court for future action.
The decision came about a week after the 49-year-old filmmaker began a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. He also demanded to be allowed to see his family, meet with a lawyer and be set free pending trial.
It was unclear what charges Panahi faces. Cases referred to revolutionary courts are usually security related.
Jafar Panahi
Another Oopsie For BP
Alaska Pipeline
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil, drastically cutting supply out of Alaska's oilfields.
The shutdown followed a series of mishaps that resulted from a scheduled fire-command system test at Pump Station 9, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co, the operator of the 800-mile oil line.
The power outage triggered opening of relief valves, causing an unspecified volume of crude oil to overflow a storage tank into a secondary containment. There were no injuries, but the approximately 40 people at the work site were evacuated, Alyeska spokeswoman Michele Egan said.
Alyeska is a consortium owned by five oil companies. Major owners are BP, ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil. Unocal and Koch hold minor shares.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which runs from Prudhoe Bay to the tanker port of Valdez, normally ships about 667,000 barrels of oil daily.
Alaska Pipeline
Seeks To Resolve Case
Rip Torn
An attorney for Rip Torn said he has been talking with prosecutors about keeping the Emmy-winning actor out of prison as they try to resolve criminal charges that he broke into a bank while drunk and armed.
Torn, 79, appeared briefly Tuesday in Litchfield Superior Court, where he has pleaded not guilty to trespassing, carrying a weapon while intoxicated, carrying a weapon without a permit, burglary and criminal mischief.
His attorney, A. Thomas Waterfall, said they hope Torn can apply for accelerated rehabilitation, a form of probation in which first-time offenders can have their record cleared if they meet certain court-ordered requirements. Avoiding prison time is "absolutely" their goal, either through the accelerated rehabilitation program or some other kind of plea agreement, Waterfall said.
Torn did not speak during his court appearance, but smiled and gave a thumbs-up gesture to onlookers as he entered the courthouse with his son, Tony.
Rip Torn
Sue Drug Maker
Quaids
Actor Dennis Quaid has sued the pharmaceutical company that makes the blood thinner heparin following the overdoses that threatened the lives of his newborn twins three years ago.
Quaid, on behalf of his twins Zoe and Thomas, sued Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter Healthcare Corp. in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and alleges that packaging caused the drug mix-up at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The lawsuit says heparin and a lower-dose version called Hep-Lock are both packaged in similar blue vials with small print on the labels.
The couple sued Baxter in Illinois over the drug's packaging, but that case was dismissed in 2008.
Quaids
Secretly Authorized
Covert U.S. Operations
A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, officials said on Monday.
Issued last September by General David Petraeus, the order authorized an escalation that included boosting military and intelligence assistance to help Yemeni forces strike al Qaeda targets, as well as deployment of more unmanned aerial drones to collect information and track high-value targets.
The order also authorized U.S. Special Operations units to work with local security forces to counter al Qaeda and other threats, a goal Pentagon officials have made no secret of.
As the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, Petraeus oversees U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and plays a major role in planning for any possible military action against Iran over its nuclear program.
Covert U.S. Operations
Sue Big Ticket Fans
Dodgers
Comic Jon Lovitz and others are being sued by the Los Angeles Dodgers over claims they failed to pay nearly US$100,000 for season tickets for the 2010 baseball season.
Delaware-based Dodger Tickets LLC filed the breach-of-contract lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles.
The lawsuit claims Lovitz and 100 other individuals entered into a written agreement in March 2008 to buy three dugout club seats for all baseball games played at Dodger Stadium in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The company is seeking $95,400 and other unspecified damages in the lawsuit
Dodgers
US Cable Service Unhur
SES World Skies
The owner of a satellite that transmits programming to all U.S. cable systems says it avoided interference from another, out-of-control satellite that was drifting into its path.
SES World Skies says programming transmitted by its AMC 11 satellite was not affected by the Galaxy 15 satellite, which is drifting out of control thousands of miles above the Earth and had threatened to wander into AMC 11's orbit.
Galaxy 15 was expected to move into the second satellite's orbit around May 23. SES had been weighing whether to move AMC 11 in its orbit, along with other protective measures it declined to specify.
Various U.S. cable companies contacted Monday by the Associated Press, including Comcast, Time Warner and Cablevision Systems Corp., said they had had not experienced any disruption or outages.
SES World Skies
House For Sale
'Amityville Horror'
The house made famous in the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror" is up for sale in New York - ghosts not included.
The five-bedroom Dutch Colonial went on the market Monday for $1.15 million.
The Oscar-nominated film is based on the story of the Lutz family's brief stay in the house in 1975 after six members of the DeFeo family were shot and killed as they slept in the home. Eldest son Ronald DeFeo Jr. was convicted of the murders.
The crime spawned a book and a series of movies that chronicled various supernatural horrors, including visions of walls oozing slime, moving furniture and a visit from a demonic pig named Jodie. The original film stars James Brolin and Margot Kidder.
'Amityville Horror'
Plans Anti-Bullying Campaign
Cartoon Network
Next fall, when millions of kids tune into Cartoon Network to watch Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo and other favorites, they'll encounter something new - an ambitious campaign to enlist them as foot soldiers in the fight against bullying.
Unlike many bullying programs, this one is geared toward middle school, where experts say bullying is most common. It also targets not bullies nor the bullied, but kids who witness bullying, giving them appropriate techniques to intervene.
The anti-bullying campaign includes content in the cartoons themselves, in public service ads, in an online curriculum and on CNN, which will include complementary programming for parents.
The idea for the campaign arose last summer, when Cartoon Network polled children from its audience on their worries. War and the economic woes of their parents topped the list, but the children said they were powerless to resolve those problems. Bullying, in contrast, surfaced as a problem children felt they could help combat.
Cartoon Network
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 17-23. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 19.04 million.
2. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 19 million.
3. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 18.68 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 15.96 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.32 million.
6. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 15.24 million.
7. "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.22 million.
8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.02 million.
9. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 14.35 million.
10. "Lost: The End," ABC, 13.57 million.
11. "Two and a Half Men" CBS, 13.28 million.
12. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 13.25 million.
13. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 13.19 million.
14. "The Good Wife" CBS, 12.04 million.
15. "Glee," Fox, 11.47 million.
16. "CSI: NY," CBS, 11.3 million.
17. "House," Fox, 11.06 million.
18. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 10.52 million.
19. "Lost," ABC, 10.47 million.
20. "Brooks & Dunn: The Last Rodeo," CBS, 10.15 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Howard Post
Howard Post, whose syndicated comic strip "The Dropouts" ran in more than 100 newspapers during the 1970s, has died in New Jersey. He was 83.
Post's comic strip ran from 1968 to 1982. It followed the misadventures of a pair of castaways and other inhabitants of a desert island.
His daughter Andee Post says her father drew much of his inspiration from things that happened around their Leonia, N.J., house, which was frequented by artists and musicians.
Post's career included animation work for Paramount Pictures and Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Post also drew "Casper the Friendly Ghost," "Popeye" and DC and Marvel comics.
Howard Post
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