M Is FOR MASHUP - June 5th, 2013
The Mashup Jokes On You!
By DJ Useo
Years ago, I arranged and released two albums of funny mashups. Stuff like Spongebob singing over Michael Jackson, Lenny Kravitz singing over Futurama, or Monty Python singing over Jimi Hendrix. They did really, really well, but still, I never thought to make another. It's very much a niche style that many won't give the time of day. Or so I thought. As time passed, I found that various mashup producers would send me a hilarious mix, and inquire when the next LAFF comp would post. Lol.
I started accepting the tracks, because they were so stinking funny, with the thought in mind that eventually, we'd have a discs' worth of tracks to make up volume three. My expectations were exceeded however, and I'm proud to say volume three is 2 full discs! On top of that, the mixes are all totally mad ; sure to break you up or perplex you into a state of total mirth. As each mix arrived, I would be stunned at how goofy, cheesy, or completely inspired the cuts were.
Just to mention a few of the source artists, there's tracks with the Beatles, Mr. Ed, the Doors, Professor Frink, Celine Dion, the Muppets, and it continues! I could mention the mixers too, but we're all using fake names for the initial release, then we'll tell you the actual dj names next week. This lends an air of mystery to the project that goes great with the humor. The names the guys picked are too snecking funny. There's tracks credited to Paddy Teeth, Tiddles, The Dregs Of Humanity, Soulwhacker, and many more. Some of us like our fake names so much, we're tempted to switch to them permanently.
I asked a dj familiar with the unreleased LAFF 3 tracks, and she offered the following statement. DJ Petrushka - "This comp is great. I love novelty music, it makes a person laugh and lightens their life. Funny mashups are even better, as I love the familiar made ridiculous." Well, we've got that covered to the max. Dmr Of AtoZ, who did an enormous amount of work with the packaging, and releasing of this project, was motivated to do each disc up as a seamless long mix with mega-extra samples. I actually prefer the long mix versions because of his attention to funny details. When you look at the covers file, you'll see many examples of his image work, along with the covers the rest of us did. (not as many).
So, please enjoy this crazy, whacked-out nuttiness before someone in the government bans laughter.
Links for both discs, and the two long mixes are found here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/06/it-is-to-laff-3-funny-mashups.html )
Preview track of Hoyven Maven by AtoZ available for streaming here
( official.fm/tracks/972L )
You can still find the first two LAFF albums here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
Be warned! Drink milk while listening at your noses' peril! ROFL.
Mashup Tip
Try using more than one mix program when you do your tracks. It pays off with a richer sound, and a fuller arrangement.
Latest Useo Thing
'Piranha Cola' (Eagles Of Death Metal vs The Prodigy) is exciting pop vocals over rollicking electronics. Just try and sit still for this one. Mashup for demonstration purposes only.
( soundcloud.com/dj-useo/piranha-cola-eagles-of-death )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/06/piranha-cola-eagles-of-death-metal-vs.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts - DJ Isoptope will create the world's heaviest mashup next week by mashing plutonium with Meat Loaf.
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Children's Cancer Center Rebrands Chemotherapy As "Superformula" (BuzzFeed)
They also redesigned the cancer ward to look like a Super Friends Hall of Justice. An amazing idea.
Matthew Yglesias: Netflix's Race To Become A Content Producer Before The Producers Swallow Netflix (Slate)
… I think they realize that they'll have to move fast. In some ways the worst case for Netflix would be for House of Cards and Arrested Development to be successful enough to work as proof of content that they induce HBO to swoop in and gobble up this market after all. Netflix's best shot is to scale up very quickly while "bundle original content and distribute it to subscribers via broadband" still looks marginal enough for others to ignore.
Xan Brooks: Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus (Guardian)
The actor talks about marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, his role in Behind the Candelabra and why he's fortunate to be alive.
Adam Wears and Karl Smallwood: 6 Spectacularly Bad Ideas Movies Convinced You Are Badass (Cracked)
Hollywood has a way of making things that are stupid or terrible in real life look like they're awesome, like smoking, or fedoras, or Nicolas Cage. Well, this goes for most of the cool shit you see during action scenes, too -- turns out that if you tried to pull off some of the sweet-ass moves every movie hero does, even if you were a highly trained professional, you'd just end up making a clown of yourself. Or a corpse. Most likely a corpse.
James Ball: "Microlives: the key to living longer and more healthily?" (Guardian)
… once you hit adulthood (or, being more precise, 22 for a man and 26 for a woman) you can expect to live for around 500,000 more hours - or a million half-hours. Each of those 30 minutes of life is a "microlife". By working out the average effect of, say, smoking or eating red meat, we can figure out a cost in microlives for different habits. A portion of red meat, for example, costs you a microlife - in the words of Blastland, it's "a 30-minute chip off your stock of adult life".
Jon Henley: "Oksa Pollock: everything you need to know about the 'French Harry Potter'" (Guardian)
A self-published children's book, which took France by storm, has arrived in Britain. Will it have the same impact here?
Lucy Mangan: "Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time" (Guardian)
And A Traveller in Time - the story of a girl who goes to stay in a country farmhouse where the Babington family once lived and finds herself able to slip back in time to Elizabeth's reign and becomes involved with the plot to liberate Mary Queen of Scots from the nearby Wingfield Manor - was one of those books that seemed to have been written specifically to please me, so perfectly did it meld with my tastes.
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Real-Life 'Lizard King'
Jim Morrison
A lizard the size of a German shepherd once roamed Myanmar, a new fossil analysis reveals.
The lizard, one of the largest ever known, has been dubbed Barbaturex morrisoni in honor of The Doors' singer Jim Morrison, who once wrote a song that included the lyrics, "I am the lizard king/I can do anything."
"This is a king lizard, and he was the lizard king, so it just fit," said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who led the study and gave the ancient lizard its musically inspired moniker.
The lizard fossils were first collected during expeditions in the 1970s, but they sat unanalyzed in a museum collection for more than 30 years until Head and his colleagues decided to study them.
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'Family Guy' Episode
Conan O'Brien
With "The Simpsons" on his writing resume and a generally goofy persona, Conan O'Brien has always been pretty animated. But now he's actually being illustrated.
The late night talk show host will appear on an upcoming episode of "Family Guy," a representative told TheWrap Monday.
In the episode, a bee frightens Peter and Quagmire, who scream simultaneously - the result of which is perfect harmony. The neighbors decide to channel their previously unknown musical compatibility as singing duo "Griffin and Quagmire." Off the heels of a music festival, the two get a shot to perform on "Conan," which does not quite go according to plan.
Conan O'Brien
Broadway To Dim Lights
Jean Stapleton
Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights Wednesday night in memory of Jean Stapleton, the actress who played the sweetly naive Edith in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family."
The Broadway League said the lights will be dimmed for one minute at exactly 8 p.m. EDT. Stapleton died Friday in New York at 90 of natural causes.
The theater was Stapleton's first love and she compiled a rich resume, starting in 1941 as a New England stock player and moving to Broadway in the 1950s and 60s.
In 1964, she originated the role of Mrs. Strakosh in "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand. Others musicals and plays included "Bells Are Ringing," ''Rhinoceros" and "Damn Yankees."
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Pays Detroit Masonic Temple's Tax Bill
Jack White
Musician Jack White has played springtime Santa, paying a $142,000 back tax bill for Detroit's historic Masonic Temple. The move prevents a threatened auction of the famed venue where The Who and the Rolling Stones once played.
Last Thursday, a then-anonymous donor paid off the famed music venue's entire 2010-2012 tax delinquency. The 14-story Masonic Temple was days away from being put up for sale.
The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. It takes up an entire block and has more than 1,000 rooms, as well as a theater that has featured top performers for decades.
The Detroit Free Press reports that temple President Roger Sobran says his group is renaming the 1,586-seat theater in its benefactor's name as the Jack White Theater.
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The Face Of Russian Weapons Industry
Steven Seagal
Russia is looking at Steven Seagal to be the face of its weapons industry as it guns for first place on the world arms market.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the action movie star may head up an international marketing campaign to promote the Degtarev arms plant, Russian news agencies reported. He accompanied Seagal on a visit there Tuesday.
"You're ready to fight American (manufacturers) with your teeth and your intellect, and if Americans are prepared to promote and support you, that says we're learning new ways to work on corporate warfare markets," Rogozin said.
Russian officials are big fans of Seagal, who met President Vladimir Putin in March and claimed to have set up a meeting with Rogozin for a Congressional delegation last week.
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Kansas Wheat Farmer Sues
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A U.S. wheat farmer has sued Monsanto Co, accusing the biotech seed giant of gross negligence for not containing an experimental genetically modified wheat discovered in an Oregon field that has put U.S. wheat export sales at risk.
Farmer Ernest Barnes, who grows wheat in Morton County in the southwest corner of Kansas, filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, Kansas, alleging that he and other wheat farmers have been hurt financially by the discovery of the unapproved biotech wheat that Monsanto said it stopped testing and shelved nine years ago.
It is not known how widespread the unapproved wheat is, or if it has contaminated food supplies. But some buyers of U.S. wheat have backed away from purchases. South Korea and Japan immediately suspended their U.S. wheat purchases and European Union officials have said they want to test all incoming shipments and block any containing genetically modified wheat.
Monsanto tested the wheat in many states, including Kansas, the top U.S. wheat-producing state, but did not disclose to farmers in those states that it was testing the controversial wheat there, the petition states.
The wheat was developed by Monsanto to withstand treatments of the Roundup weed killer, but the firm never commercialized the product because of widespread industry opposition. International buyers threatened to boycott U.S. wheat if the biotech wheat was introduced to the marketplace, and Monsanto said in 2004 that it would discontinue testing and efforts to commercialize the "Roundup Ready" wheat.
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Archdiocese Expected To Appeal
Ohio
A jury found an Ohio archdiocese discriminated against a teacher fired after becoming pregnant via artificial insemination, leaving legal experts expecting an appeal they say could have a much wider legal impact.
Christa Dias, who was fired from two schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in October 2010, was awarded more than $170,000 Monday after winning her federal anti-discrimination lawsuit against the archdiocese.
Dias' attorney, Robert Klingler, argued she was fired simply because she was pregnant and unmarried, a dismissal he said violated state and federal law.
Steven Goodin, the attorney for the archdiocese and the schools, contended Dias was fired for violating her contract, which he said required her to comply with the philosophies and teachings of the Catholic church. The church considers artificial insemination immoral and a violation of church doctrine.
The case, viewed as a barometer on the degree to which religious organizations can regulate employees' lives, is the second lawsuit filed in the last two years against the archdiocese over the firing of an unmarried pregnant teacher.
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Smoggy Air Losing Its Bite
L.A.
Those of us who live in L.A. suffer through a lot of bad jokes at our city's expense. Vapid celebutants. Shattered dreams. Horrible traffic. And of course, smog.
Except it looks like now all you L.A. haters might have to retire your smog jokes, because a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded a significant drop in smog and air pollution in Southern California since the 1960s. And that's despite the fact that we Angelenos are still married to our cars-according to the BBC there's been a three-fold increase in the number of vehicles on the road.
Well, it looks like our strict vehicle-emissions laws are actually working. (Take that, California Nanny State haters!)
Not only has air pollution dropped significantly over the past several decades, but the composition of the air has actually changed too. There's now a lot less of the eye irritant peroxyacetyl nitrate, which used to give SoCal's air its famous "sting."
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Piloted By Human Thoughts
Tiny Helicopter
You may have had remote controlled airplanes growing up, but they probably weren't as cool as the quadcopter. This tiny helicopter looks a lot like a toy, but it's really a high-tech robot controlled exclusively by human thought.
Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota, the four-blade helicopter, or quadcopter, can be quickly and accurately controlled for a sustained amount of time using the electrical impulses associated with a subject's thoughts.
The team used a noninvasive technique known as electroencephalography (EEG) to record the electrical brain activity of five different subjects. Each subject was fitted with a cap equipped with 64 electrodes, which sent signals to the quadcopter over a WiFi network.
The subjects were positioned in front of a screen that relayed images of the quadcopter's flight through an on-board camera, allowing them to see the course the way a pilot would. The plane, which was driven with a pre-set forward moving velocity, was then controlled by the subject's thoughts.
By imagining that they were using their right hand, left hand and both hands together, subjects controlled the flight path of the plane. If they imagined raising their left hand, for example, the plane turned left. If they imagined raising their hands together, the plane lifted higher in the air.
Tiny Helicopter
IMAX 3D Re-Release
'Wizard of Oz'
Fans of "The Wizard of Oz" will be able to see those ruby red slippers and the iconic Yellow Brick Road in 3D and in IMAX, Warner Bros. said Tuesday.
Seventy five years after Dorothy crash-landed in Munchkinland, the 1939 film classic will be re-mastered and released in U.S. theaters for a special one-week engagement on September 20, 2013.
Following the IMAX release, Warner Bros. will release a five-disc anniversary collector's edition of "The Wizard of Oz" that will feature a 3D copy a making-of documentary, bonus features and various collectibles, such as ruby slippers and a map of Oz.
That edition will cost $105.43, but there will also be cheaper Blu-ray and DVD options for between $16.95 and $35.99.
'Wizard of Oz'
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 27-June 2. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11 million.
2. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.81 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 9.25 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 8.89 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.77 million.
6. NBA Playoffs: Indiana vs. Miami (Thursday), TNT, 8.54 million.
7. "Oklahoma: Healing Heartland," NBC, 8.4 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," NBC, 8.28 million.
9. NBA Playoffs: Miami vs. Indiana (Saturday), TNT, 8.23 million.
10. NBA Playoffs: Miami vs. Indiana (Tuesday), TNT, 8.12 million.
11. "Mike & Molly" (Thursday), CBS, 8.01 million.
12. "Body of Proof," ABC, 7.64 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.17 million.
14. "Person of Interest," CBS, 6.84 million.
15. "Dateline NBC" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.77 million.
16. "The Voice" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 6.49 million.
17. "Dateline NBC" (Friday), NBC, 6.46 million.
18. "The Revolution," NBC, 6.32 million.
19. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 5.99 million.
20. "Rookie Blue," ABC, 5.91 million.
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