M Is FOR MASHUP - June 13th, 2012
How To Dance To Mashups
By DJ Useo
Howdy ever'body. Yup, I'm still posting one new Useo mashup album a month for all of 2012. Of course, one mashup album a month would be too much under normal conditions, but I've been varying up the styles so it's not likely that all of my releases will appeal to the same audience. This latest collection is strictly dance mashups, altho' there's different styles of tunes onnit. I double-checked with my fan club, 'The Useoettes', & they approved each track as an inspiring dance mix. We started with 27 tracks & whittled them down to only 15, so you know these are the more appealing works.
With a name like 'HOW TO DANCE TO MASHUPS'
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-dance-with-mashups-15-tracks.html )
you might get the impression it's some sort of audio instruction manual, lol. Nope, the title is merely my attempt to get your attention through marketing slogans. The record has an
animated gif cover
( i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/useo8/DJ%20Useo%20Covers%202/djuseo-how-to.gif ) of cartoon animals getting down on the dancefloor. It's amusing in its way even though one listener pointed out he expected funny mashups after seeing the cover. Oops! Lol.
The collection strictly adheres to beats perfect for laying them down in the club. (Your feet) It starts with 'Staying Precinct Alive' (The Beegees vs Stanton Warriors vs Plump DJs), veers into fidgety D & B like 'Not Welcome In Reason' (Squeeze vs C2K vs Cytekk) & ends up with the mellow 'All Is Boy' (Book Of Love vs The Animals). It's got mashups employing bits of Tori Amos, Alice Cooper, Bentley's Rhythm Ace & the Fugees, among plenty more. You can tell when I say 'dance mashups' I mean that term to express a wide swath of music styles.
I hope you'll find vast enjoyment among the 'grooves' of this digital release. You'll notice my tracks have little in common with most other mashers other than that they were created with mixing software. I mean, who other than me would mix Human Resources' 'Dominator' with Blue Oyster Cults' 'Dominance & Submission'. There are no acapellas or instrumentals for these songs, I just cut, looped and extracted a new arrangement. It's a real treat, though, so please give it a listen. There's a preview link to listen to the first track to see if it's your 'thing'.
Meanwhile, more DJ Useo albums are ready. (By means of far-in-advance mixing) Next month I can pick from 3 completely finished collections that include tributes to Depeche Mode, Devo & a second Sparks tribute album.
Which will it be? It's entirely up to my mood, but since I love all 3 bands, any will please me. While we wait for next months new Useo collection, you can remain rapt in anticipation of this years 'SUMMER BOOTY 2012 : The Summer Mashup Album'. I've heard nearly every song, & I know the album is gon'na blow you away. It's got many of the worlds' greatest mashup producers on it. Read about it here next Wednesday.
Mix Of The Week
I'd feel bad about choosing another of my mixes for mix of the week, except I'm confident it'll be a thrill for you. After a long absence from BMBX, the long mix site, (due to spine injury)
I've managed to get a nice new live mix of dub-oriented club fare posted. '
In Session With DJ Useo' contains well-mixed artists like Spooky, Lionrock & A Guy Called Gerald. There's only a few vocal phrases, as for the most part it's wordless rhythm & melody. Available for
streaming or download here
( www.bmbx.org/2012/06/in-session-with-dj-useo/ )
Mashup Tip : Remember, mistakes are your friend, & even if you screw up, all mixing programs have some form of 'undo' button.
Latest Useo Thing
I love the band XTC, & as they're on the rise again in popularity, I picked one of my favorite XTC tracks & redid it for dancing. '
Boogie Woogie Satellite' (XTC vs A Tihovsky) takes an extraction for their 'Skylarking' record & pairs it up with energetic techno from A Tihovsky. You don't hear mixes like this often.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/06/xtc-vs-tihovsky.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Mashups will survive an attempt at banning them next year by turning out to be legal.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
David Bruce: Wise Up! Problem-Solving (Athens News)
Jane Austen wrote such novels as "Pride and Prejudice" at Chawton Cottage, and she tried to keep her writing secret from people other than family and close friends. Leading to the room where she wrote was a door that creaked. The door was never fixed so that it would not creak - Ms. Austen used the creak as a warning that someone was coming, and she hid her writing before her visitor arrived.
[Lying] Ad says stimulus tax credits funded a solar company building a Mexico plant (PolitiFact)
The ad strings together alarming-sounding tidbits about actual stimulus projects to create the impression of something else entirely - in a way that's ultimately ridiculous. And that earns our lowest rating, Pants on Fire.
"Strength in a Union (Readers Respond)" (Talking Points Memo)
So while I appreciate the sentiment of the author, and believe it is pervasive in our society toward teachers and union members in general. I do believe it is based on jealousy that we have kept benefits, salary, working conditions over the past 30 years while the rest of society has lost these things. But we have kept them because we have a union.
Connie Schultz: If Everyone Knew a Steelworker (Creators Syndicate)
Most of us have no idea what goes into making the things we take for granted in this country. Everything we use comes from somewhere and is made by somebody. If we knew more about the process and the men and women behind it, we'd be less likely to fall for partisan attempts to dehumanize Americans who still work with their hands.
Gail Collins: Everything's Bigger About Texas (Slate)
Not just in 2012! In 50 years, we may all be Texans-or Texans might not even be Americans.
Scott Burns: What Las Vegas Can Teach Us About Mutual Fund Investing (AssetBuilder)
When you go to Las Vegas one of the important things to know is what the "vig" is for whatever game you choose to play. The vig, or "vigorish," is the amount the house takes out of the pot.
Paul Constant: "Free Will at the End of the World: It's a Good Year for Nancy Kress's High-Viscosity Apocalyptic Fiction" (The Stranger)
But like the best science fiction, the science isn't necessarily the point, and even when the science is disproved or made to look wildly conservative in comparison to whatever comes, Kress's works will endure. Underneath everything, Kress's books are about the battle between free will and control, a battle that will persist as long as there are people. Kress quotes a line from Ecclesiastes: "Time and chance happeneth to them all."
CYRIAQUE LAMAR: The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar (io9)
On Twitter, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats has compiled nuggets of narrative wisdom she's received working for the animation studio over the years. It's some sage stuff, although there's nothing here about defending yourself from your childhood toys when they inevitably come to life with murder in their hearts. A truly glaring omission.
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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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny afternoon, foggy night.
Backs Tammy Duckworth
Joe Walsh
An Iraq war veteran from Illinois hoping to limit tea party-backed Republican Rep. Joe Walsh to a single term in Congress was endorsed Tuesday by none other than ... Joe Walsh. Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, that is.
The six-time Grammy-winning rocker said he's "the real Joe Walsh" and that he's proud to back Democrat Tammy Duckworth in her bid for the suburban Chicago congressional seat. The musician, who lived in Evanston for a few years as a child, will hold a fundraising concert for her in July, with tickets priced at $100 to $2,500.
The endorsement in one of the most closely-watched U.S. House races nationwide is a first for the Democratic musician. He held a concert for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, but said he hasn't endorsed anyone else.
Duckworth, who was an Army helicopter pilot, lost her legs in a 2004 rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq. She later served in the Obama administration.
Walsh the musician said his endorsement has nothing to do with sharing the congressman's name. He said Duckworth's service record and sacrifices to the country show she's the best candidate for the job.
Joe Walsh
"A Capitol Fourth"
Matthew Broderick
Actor Matthew Broderick, country singer Josh Turner, composer John Williams and a dozen U.S. Olympic athletes will be among the headliners for this year's July Fourth celebration on the National Mall.
Broderick and Kelli O'Hara will perform songs from the Tony-winning Broadway musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" during the program, known as "A Capitol Fourth," organizers said Tuesday.
The performers will take the stage on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol ahead of the annual Independence Day fireworks display in Washington, which typically draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the country.
Williams will conduct a performance of his "Olympic Fanfare" alongside Olympians competing in this year's Summer Games, including archer Khatuna Lorig, fencer Daryl Homer and weightlifter Sarah Robles. Gold medal-winning speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno will host that portion of the program, while Tom Bergeron of "Dancing With the Stars" will serve as the main host.
The show airs from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will be broadcast live on PBS and NPR. The fireworks will begin at 9:10 p.m. and last for about 20 minutes, the National Park Service said.
Matthew Broderick
Pardons Soldiers
Ireland
The Irish government on Tuesday pardoned thousands of servicemen who deserted to fight for the Allied forces during World War Two after the Irish state decided to remain neutral in the war against Adolf Hitler's Germany.
Ireland maintained its neutrality throughout the war, saying any other course would have threatened its independence, secured from Britain in 1921, and President Eamon DeValera signed a book of condolences on the death of Hitler in 1945.
About 60,000 people from the Irish state fought in the British Forces during the war, including some 7,000 servicemen who deserted from the Irish armed forces.
The Irish government summarily dismissed all of those who deserted and disqualified them from state employment for seven years. Relatives say the deserters were stigmatized for decades.
Some former Irish officers have objected to the decision, saying pardoning deserters, whatever the circumstances, undermines the Irish armed forces.
Ireland
Town OKs $20 Fines
Swearing
Residents in Middleborough voted Monday night to make the foul-mouthed pay fines for swearing in public.
At a town meeting, residents voted 183-50 to approve a proposal from the police chief to impose a $20 fine on public profanity.
Officials insist the proposal was not intended to censor casual or private conversations, but instead to crack down on loud, profanity-laden language used by teens and other young people in the downtown area and public parks.
The measure could raise questions about First Amendment rights, but state law does allow towns to enforce local laws that give police the power to arrest anyone who "addresses another person with profane or obscene language" in a public place.
Swearing
Dispute Over Will Heads To Court
Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade's widow and girlfriend took their dispute over the late painter's estate to court on Tuesday as handwritten notes allegedly written by Kinkade that could be central to the clash were made public for the first time.
Amy Pinto-Walsh was living with Kinkade and found his body when the 54-year-old accidentally overdosed on alcohol and Valium in April. She asked a judge to allow arguments over the artist's contested will to be heard in open probate court.
Lawyers for Kinkade's wife of 30 years, Nanette Kinkade, and for his company, want the terms to be decided in secret binding arbitration. The couple had been legally separated for more than two years when Kinkade died.
Pinto-Walsh has submitted handwritten notes allegedly written by Kinkade bequeathing her his mansion in Monte Sereno and $10 million to establish a museum of his paintings there, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Nanette Kinkade has painted Pinto-Walsh in court papers as a gold-digger who is trying to cheat the artist's rightful heirs. After Kinkade's death, she obtained a restraining order prohibiting the other woman from talking publicly about the artist.
Thomas Kinkade
Granted Restraining Order
Jeff Goldblum
A judge ordered a woman who has repeatedly tried to contact Jeff Goldblum for the past decade to stay away from the actor for the next three years.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson issued the order Tuesday in Los Angeles against Linda Ransom after a contentious hearing in which the woman repeatedly raised her voice to the judge. Ransom claims she is trying to pursue a case against one of Goldblum's employees, but Goodson told her that didn't give her the right to repeatedly go to the actor's home and try to meet him at public performances.
"Mr. Goldblum is being harassed because the legal system is negligently violating my rights," Ransom said.
"This harassment is going to stop," Goodson told Ransom. As she explained the terms of the order - that Ransom must stay 100 yards away from Goldblum and his home, and refrain from contacting him for three years - Ransom continued yelling.
Goodson issued her order without attorneys for Goldblum having to say a word. She relied on declarations from Goldblum, police and security officials in which they described Ransom's conduct in recent years.
Jeff Goldblum
Ate The Baby
Dingo
The dingo really did take the baby.
Thirty-two years after a 9-week-old infant vanished from an Outback campsite in a case that bitterly divided Australians and inspired a Meryl Streep film, the nation overwhelmingly welcomed a ruling that finally closed the mystery.
A coroner in the northern city of Darwin concluded Tuesday that a dingo, or wild dog, had taken Azaria Chamberlain from her parents' tent near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru.
That is what her parents, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and Michael Chamberlain, had maintained from the beginning.
Dingo
Papers To Auction
Mahatma Gandhi
A huge archive of letters, papers and photographs that shed new light on Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi and his time in South Africa will be auctioned in London next month and is expected to fetch 500,000-700,000 pounds ($800,000-$1.1 million).
The documents, numbering several thousand and arranged in 18 files, belonged to Hermann Kallenbach, who became arguably Gandhi's closest friend after they met in Johannesburg in 1904.
Although relatively few are in Gandhi's own hand, the wealth of material from family, friends, associates and Kallenbach himself make the collection a key biographical source for one of the 20th century's most revered figures.
The documents will go under the hammer as a single lot on July 10 at the English Literature and History sale.
Sotheby's also handled the sale in 1986 of the main series of Gandhi's letters to Kallenbach, when they raised 140,000 pounds. Together, the two batches represent the vast majority of the Kallenbach family's Gandhi collection.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for June 4-10. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 12.55 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Monday), NBC, 12.22 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 8.67 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.22 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.1 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.46 million.
7. "Person of Interest," CBS, 6.99 million.
8. "America Ninja Warrior," NBC, 6.78 million.
9. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.774 million.
10. "Concert for the Queen," ABC, 6.77 million.
11. "So You Think You Can Dance," Fox, 6.66 million.
12. "The Mentalist," CBS, 6.61 million.
13. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.57 million.
14. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 6.56 million.
15. "2 Broke Girls" (Thursday), CBS, 6.13 million.
16. "Tony Awards," CBS, 6.01 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.99 million.
18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.93 million.
19. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 5.92 million.
20. "48 Hours Mystery" (Tuesday), CBS, 5.63 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Ann Rutherford
Ann Rutherford, the demure brunette actress who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O'Hara's youngest sister in "Gone With the Wind," has died. She was 94.
A close friend, Anne Jeffreys, said she was at Rutherford's side when the actress died Monday evening at home in Beverly Hills. Rutherford died of heart problems and had been ill for several months, Jeffreys said.
"She was a dear person, a very funny lady, wonderful heart, was always trying to do things for people," said Jeffreys, a leading lady of many films of the 1940s and a star of the 1950s TV sitcom "Topper."
She was also known for the Andy Hardy series, a hugely popular string of comical, sentimental films, that starred Lewis Stone as a small-town judge and Mickey Rooney as his spirited teenage son.
Rutherford first appeared in the second film of the series, "You're Only Young Once," in 1938, and she went on 11 more. She played Polly Benedict, the ever-faithful girlfriend that Andy always returned to, no matter what other, more glamorous girl had temporarily caught his eye. (Among the other girls: Judy Garland and Lana Turner.)
It was said she won the part of Carreen - the youngest of the three O'Hara sisters in "Gone With the Wind" - because Judy Garland was filming "The Wizard of Oz."
Rutherford plays the sister who, early in the film, begs to be allowed to go to the ball at Ashley Wilkes' plantation. "Oh, Mother, can't I stay up for the ball tomorrow? ... I'm 13 now," she says in a sweet voice.
Rutherford was born in 1917, according to the voter records reviewed by The Associated Press. Some sources give other dates. The daughter of an opera tenor and an actress, she began performing on the stage as a child.
She launched her movie career in Westerns while still in her teens, often appearing with singing cowboy hero Gene Autry and sometimes with John Wayne.
She joined MGM in 1937, playing a variety of roles for several years before leaving the studio to freelance.
Among her other films: "Whistling in the Dark," with Red Skelton, 1941, and its two sequels, "Whistling in Dixie" and "Whistling in Brooklyn"; "Orchestra Wives," with bandleader Glenn Miller, 1942; and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," with Danny Kaye, 1947.
She largely retired from the screen in 1950, but appeared in a couple of films in the 1970s, "They Only Kill Their Masters," 1972, and "Won Ton Ton - The Dog Who Saved Hollywood," 1976.
Her first marriage, to David May in 1942, ended in divorce; they had two children. In 1953, she married producer William Dozier, a union that lasted until his death in 1991. He was best known as the producer of the "Batman" TV series.
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, died in 1967. Evelyn Keyes, who played the middle O'Hara sister, Suellen, died in July 2008.
Rutherford recalled that the night of the "Gone With the Wind" premiere in Atlanta, author Margaret Mitchell invited the cast, including Leigh and co-star Clark Gable, to her home for scrambled eggs. Gable and Mitchell disappeared.
"Clark Gable and Margaret were hiding in the bathroom, Clark on the edge of the tub and Margaret you know where, just talking," she chuckled. "They had to get away from the photographers."
Ann Rutherford
In Memory
Georges Mathieu
The French artist Georges Mathieu, who from the 1940s pioneered the movement known as lyrical abstraction, has died aged 91, his family said Tuesday.
Georges Victor Mathieu d'Escaudoeuvres, who in the 1950s and 1960s was one of France's best known artists on the international scene, died Sunday in a hospital in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.
He launched the movement in 1947 with an exhibit entitled "Lyrical Abstraction" featuring paintings characterised by expressions of movement and emotion, in contrast with the geometric abstractionof Piet Mondrian.
The movement drew other artists including Hans Hartung, Gerard Schneider, Wols and Jean-Paul Riopelle.
Born on January 27, 1921 in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the northern Pas-de-Calais region, Mathieu studied law and English, which he taught as he took up painting in 1942.
Mathieu painted directly with tubes of paint and was known for organising outdoor performances where he would work on huge canvases, including one in 1956 where he painted for 20 minutes before 2,000 people, using a 12-square-metre (129-square-foot) canvas and 800 tubes.
He was well known in Japan, where in 1957 he painted 21 canvases in three days in such performances.
Later in his career Mathieu turned his hand to graphic design and architecture, designing a 10-franc coin, postage stamps, Air France posters and jewellery.
Georges Mathieu
In Memory
J. Michael Riva
Oscar-nominated production designer J. Michael Riva, whose film credits include "The Amazing Spider-Man," ''A Few Good Men" and "The Color Purple," has died after suffering a stroke in New Orleans. He was 63.
In a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sony Pictures spokesman Steve Elzer said Riva, who lived in Los Angeles, was in New Orleans working on the Quentin Tarantino film "Django Unchained" and was preparing to head to the set when he suffered a stroke June 1.
Riva earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on 1985's "The Color Purple." His other production design work include three of the "Lethal Weapon" films, "Scrooged," ''The Goonies," ''Dave" and "Iron Man."
The family has asked that contributions be made to either H.O.P.E. for Haiti or A Place Called Home, a South Central Los Angeles haven for at-risk youth that offers programs in education and the arts.
J. Michael Riva
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