M Is FOR MASHUP - June 19th, 2013
SUMMER BOOTY 2013 Previews A'Comin' !
By DJ Useo
Now we're cooking, baby! The red hot Summer mashups are flying in from all around the world! It's the 7th year I've compiled the SUMMER BOOTY Mashup albums. Looks to be the best year ever! I planned for two new discs with maybe 30 bootleggers, but it got out of control sometime last week.
When the invites went out for new contributors, the responses seemed perfect for the aforementioned two disc concept. Then, the Summer vibe hit BIG TIME! I found myself receiving as many as five or six tracks from many of the mixers. When the tracks sound as great as what I got, you don't say "NO", either.
01-Let me skip the extra words and just let you at the early preview tracks. First up we have
VOICEDUDE
( official.fm/voicedude ) Americas' most popular masher. His track immediately shows you why. 'Lucky Suit' ( Daft Punk & Pharrell vs Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z ) is so marvelous, the only way to improve it would be to have the video. (pending) Please do yourself a favor and listen.
( official.fm/tracks/hgwC )
02-You've heard how great minds think alike? Well, they do! DJ Spider 's SUMMER BOOTY masterpiece 'Get Lucky In The Good Time Disco' ( Daft Punk vs Gusto vs Chic ) begins with the Daft Punk that Voicedude mined, but it takes it somewhere else completely. A Summer place that hits the ear just as marvelously as Voicedudes track. Now hear the preview of DJ Spider's dream mix. ( If you love these like I think you will, consider that both fellas have two additional tracks on SUMMER BOOTY 2013 also. )
( official.fm/tracks/5SLT )
03-The next SUMMER BOOTY 2013 previews come to us through the nimble mind and fingers of DJ Flashard. He has blessed us with 4 ( ! ) incredible previews!
A-'What Makes You Imagine'
(One Direction vs David Guetta)
B-'Lies Greed Hair'
(Linkin Park vs Willow Smith)
C-'Whip My Misery'
(Willow vs Linkin Park)
D-'Diamonds Tonight'
(Rihanna vs Bruno Mars)
All can be streamed here
( soundcloud.com/flash11flash )
Slap some sunscreen on, and turn up the jams!
04-More mashup mysticalness in the way of SUMMER BOOTY 2013 previews is Mumdy's ''
The Way I Used Hello Sunshine Get My Groove Back' ( PSB vs She's Excited ) . Mumdy has mad skills and also three killer mixes on SUMMER BOOTY 2013. This PSB one is only one of THREE!
Enjoy them early here
( soundcloud.com/mumdy/mumdy-feat-shes-excited-good )
05-You'll be glad Envision's ''Starshipping Down Here' ( Nicki Minaj vs Lene Marlin ) can be heard by your ears, but the video will satisfy your eyes for years! Not only does this track contain the real thing when it comes to Summer vibe, but the video is essential viewing. Thanks, Envision.
Feast your peepers here
( vimeo.com/68457187 )
Now you might be thinking " Hey! He gave us the whole album as previews." Well, that isn't the case a'tall ! These genius mixes are only the tip of the iceberg. There's so many more incredible tracks to come. I'll release the whole shebang on June 21st, the SUMMER SOLSTICE. Pardon my enthusiasm, but I've a strong acquaintance with the content, and damn I'm hepped!
Before I let you go, here's a link for my new DJ Useo SUMMER BOOTY podcast in which you can hear tracks from all seven years of SUMMER BOOTY albums.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/06/dj-useo-summer-booty-podcast-2013.html )
More words on the comp next week after it's posted! SUMMER!! :D
ps. The IT IS TO LAFF funny mashups album is still available.
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Wed-060513.index.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
In October 2014 McDonalds will begin to add mashups to their menu, after they are found to be delicious.
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Selma Blair
Selma Blair is making a sudden exit from the Charlie Sheen sitcom "Anger Management."
In a statement Tuesday, producer Lionsgate says the actress won't be returning to the FX comedy. The company says it wishes her "the very best" but has no further comment.
Blair's departure comes while the comedy is about halfway through completing its 90-episode order from FX.
Blair played a therapist and colleague to Sheen's character on the show. Sunday is her 41st birthday.
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Chastises 'Morning Joe' Hosts
Russell Brand
MSNBC got more than it bargained for on Monday when Russell Brand hijacked a segment on Morning Joe, chastising his interviewers for being rude.
After several minutes of giggles, quips at Brand's expense and, eventually, calling him by the wrong name, Brand appears to tire of the shenanigans and takes the interview into his own hands.
"Is this what you all do for a living?" he asks co-host Mika Brzezinski and panelists Katty Kay and Brian Shactman. "You convey news to the people of America? People of America, we're gonna to be OK. Everything's alright. These are your trusted anchors."
Looking on sheepishly, the hosts watch as Brand hijacks their segment and begins delivering news to the camera himself. But in typical Brand fashion, he also takes the opportunity to call Brzezinski a "shaft grasper," drawing attention to the water bottle she holds in her hands.
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Seeks $500,000 In Crowd-Funding
James Franco
Following crowd-funding campaigns from "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff, James Franco is trying to raise $500,000 to bankroll a trilogy of movies.
Franco on Monday night started a campaign on Indiegogo, a crowd-funding alternative to Kickstarter that allows people to keep the money they raise even if the project doesn't come to fruition. Franco isn't trying to direct the films; he's raising money so that a collection of young filmmakers can adapt his 2011 short story collection, "Palo Alto."
Franco pledges to donate any profits from the films to Art of Elysium, a nonprofit that encourages entertainers to visit children with serious medical conditions. Levels of contribution range from $10 for copies of the screenplays to $10,000, which gets dinner with Franco and an executive producer credit.
The campaign didn't immediately take off like those did for "Veronica Mars" and Braff's film. As of late Tuesday morning, it had pulled in $22,000, with 30 days to go before the campaign closes on July 17.
James Franco
About To Be Sent
The Last Telegram
India is the last country with regular telegraph service. And the final message will be sent next month
On July 14, someone somewhere in India will tap out what is being called the world's last telegram. India's state-owned telecom company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, has been holding out as other countries around the world retire their antiquated telegraph services. Now, after delaying the move for two years, the business operating what is considered to be the world's last telegraph service is finally ready to pull the plug, saying telegrams are no longer commercially viable in the age of digital communications.
India's telegram service had been upgraded in recent years - clerks now type up messages on computers to be sent via telegraph, instead of using Morse code. But it still didn't work. "We were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because [text messaging] and smartphones have rendered this service redundant," Shamim Akhtar, general manager of BSNL's telegraph services, tells The Christian Science Monitor. There are still some private companies that offer telegram-style message message services. But the closing of India's state service is being called the end of the telegraph era.
India's telegraph service is still sending about 5,000 messages a day, but the service - with just 75 offices and 998 employees - is a shadow of its former self. At its peak in 1985, the service was relaying 60 million telegrams a year from 45,000 offices, employing 12,500 people. In the U.S., Western Union shuttered its telegram service seven years ago.
The Last Telegram
Protesters Decry Republican Shift
North Carolina
A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ground.
In the latest of the "Moral Monday" demonstrations, dozens of clergy members, doctors, teachers and environmentalists trampled paper copies of legislation before being handcuffed by police officers when they refused to leave the statehouse as an act of civil disobedience.
Nearly 500 people have been jailed in seven weeks of protests at the state legislature. The 84 people arrested on Monday were all released by early Tuesday, according to organizers.
The protests have gained momentum since spring, when a few dozen people first rallied against the political shift to the right in a state that Barack Obama won in the 2008 presidential election but lost in 2012. The demonstration on Monday drew about 1,000 people.
Protesters argue Republican lawmakers are pushing measures that benefit the rich and hurt the vulnerable. Republicans took control of both legislative chambers in North Carolina in 2010 and were buoyed by the election last fall of the state's first Republican governor, Pat McCrory, in 20 years.
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More Hacking
Rupert
A stunt double for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has sued News Corp over allegations its British newspapers hacked her phone, the first lawsuit in the United States against the company since the scandal broke two years ago.
The lawsuit, filed on June 13 by professional stunt double Eunice Huthart, said reporters from News Corp's tabloids The Sun and the defunct News of the World, hacked her mobile phone while she was working for Jolie on location in Los Angeles.
Huthart's lawsuit said the hacking occurred in 2004 and 2005 while she was in the United States and Britain and resulted in lost voice messages that she never received. It said the London police have a file of Huthart's phone logs demonstrating the times when representatives from News of the World called her mobile.
The missing voice mails provided information later used in news reports, according to the court document in U.S. District Court in California.
The case is Eunice Huthart v. News Corporation et al in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Western Division - Los Angeles) No. 13-04253
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Mayhem in the AM
The cast of an Atlanta sports radio show has been fired after mocking a former NFL player who has Lou Gehrig's disease, a station official said Monday.
The show, Mayhem in the AM, was broadcast on 790 The Zone Monday morning. In a statement, General Manager Rick Mack said the station regrets comments made about ex-New Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason.
The 36-year-old suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS patients lose the ability to speak and move, which has happened to Gleason.
The station lists the hosts as Nick Cellini, Steak Shapiro and Chris Dimino. But Mack didn't give the names of those fired.
All three took to Twitter Monday evening to apologize to fans and others who criticized the segment. Listeners and critics turned to the station's Facebook page to call for the hosts' termination.
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Charged With Assault
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'Terminator 2' star Edward Furlong has been charged with assault after a May 21 incident in which his girlfriend called police and reported he attacked her.
Deputy District Attorney Linda Loftfield says Furlong pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday.
Furlong already has two pending misdemeanor battery cases. He allegedly violated a restraining order when he returned to the victim's West Hollywood home. He's also accused of damaging a laptop and photo equipment.
In March, the 35-year-old actor was sentenced to six months in jail for violating his probation in a 2010 case for violating a similar restraining order.
He is being held on $100,000 bail.
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Playmate Aided Criminal Boyfriend
Colleen Shannon
A former Playboy Playmate has admitted helping her Canadian boyfriend after he illegally entered the United States in northern New York last summer.
Syracuse's The Post-Standard newspaper says Colleen Shannon pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a felony charge and faces a sentence ranging from no jail time to 10 months.
Federal agents say the 35-year-old Los Angeles resident and her boyfriend were arrested after he illegally crossed the border and rendezvoused with her in Fort Covington. Officials say the boyfriend has a criminal record in Canada.
Shannon was the centerfold for Playboy's 50th anniversary edition in 2004. She works as a disc jockey and calls herself the world's sexiest DJ. She declined to comment after the court appearance.
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Grave Mistake
Ed Koch
The man who engraved former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's tombstone has apologized for putting on the wrong birth date.
Tommy Flynn, the owner of Flynn Funeral and Cremation Memorial Services, told NBC's New York affiliate that he inadvertently listed Koch's birth year as 1942 instead of 1924. Flynn says he feels "terrible" and has vowed to correct the grave error, which was discovered over the weekend.
Koch, 88, died in February of congestive heart failure. He was buried in Trinity Church cemetery in Manhattan.
According to Koch's former Chief of Staff Diane Coffey, the Democratic mayor, preparing for his death in the 1980s, had planned "every detail of [his] burial," including the headstone.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 10-16. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Sunday), ABC, 16.27 million.
2. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Thursday), ABC, 16.23 million.
3. NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Tuesday), ABC, 14.05 million.
4. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.85 million.
5. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.52 million.
6. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.66 million.
7. "NCIS," CBS, 8.67 million.
8. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.62 million.
9. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.43 million.
10. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.14 million.
11. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7 million.
12. "Person of Interest," CBS, 6.52 million.
13. NHL Stanley Cup Final (Wednesday), NBC, 6.36 million.
14. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 6.34 million.
15. "Winner Is," NBC, 6.31 million.
16. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.23 million.
17. "Master Chef" (Wednesday), Fox, 6.20 million.
18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.89 million.
19. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 5.76 million.
20. "Dateline NBC" (Friday), NBC, 5.73 million.
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In Memory
Albert White Hat
The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters.
Albert White Hat, who was instrumental in teaching and preserving the American Indian language and translated the Hollywood movie "Dances with Wolves" into Lakota for its actors, died last week surrounded by loved ones at a South Dakota hospital. The 74-year-old had prostate cancer and other health issues, according to family and friends.
White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, authored several books on writing and reading Lakota, a language fluently spoken by fewer than 6,000 people. The average age of those speakers is 60, and less than 14 percent of the Lakota population in South Dakota and North Dakota - where the vast majority of Lakota speakers live - speak their native tongue.
The first native Lakota speaker to publish a Lakota textbook and glossary, White Hat was considered an activist for traditional ways of living, according to his daughter, Emily White Hat. He even created an orthography for the language, which he had taught since 1975, and was head of the Lakota Studies Department at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
She said her father believed in sharing the Lakota way of life with both tribal members and non-Native Americans.
He believed "there was always an opportunity to educate," Emily White Hat said. "Even though some questions may be off the wall, he believed it was better to take the opportunity than to be misled about who we are."
One of those opportunities came when White Hat provided the translation for the Lakota dialogue in the 1990 film "Dances with Wolves."
Wilhelm Meya, executive director of the Lakota Language Consortium, a nonprofit seeking to revitalize the Lakota language, called White Hat a "warrior" for the language. Meya said he hopes White Hat's legacy lives on and that more young people will decide to study the language and work to retain its importance.
White Hat was born on the outskirts of St. Francis, S.D., on the Rosebud reservation. He spoke only Lakota until his teens, when he started learning English in school. His grandfather, Chief Hollow Horn Bear, was a leading chief in many of the Plains Indians Wars against settlers in the 1800s and was involved in treaty negotiations with the U.S.
Rosebud Sioux Tribal President Cyril Scott called White Hat a great teacher, spiritual leader and friend. He noted that White Hat was known all over the powwow circuit and was awarded numerous awards for his dedication to preserving the Lakota language and culture.
White Hat is survived by his wife, seven children and many grandchildren.
Albert White Hat
In Memory
Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings, the award-winning journalist whose explosive 2010 Rolling Stone profile of U.S. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal ("The Runaway General") led to McChrystal's resignation, died in an early morning car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the magazine said. He was 33.
"Hard-charging, unabashedly opinionated, Hastings was original and at times abrasive," Rolling Stone, where he was a contributing editor, said in an obituary. "He had little patience for flacks and spinmeisters and will be remembered for his enthusiastic breaches of the conventions of access journalism."
Hastings, who covered the 2008 presidential election for Newsweek, was hired by Buzzfeed last spring to cover President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
"We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone," Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith said in a statement. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael was also a wonderful, generous colleague and a joy to work with and a lover of corgis-especially his Bobby Sneakers."
The Los Angeles Police Department would not release the name of a male driver killed in one-car crash at approximately 4:25 a.m. in Hollywood. According to the Los Angeles Times, the vehicle crossed the median, slammed into a tree and burst into flames; the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. According to KTLA, coroner's officials said the body was too badly burned to make an immediate identification. Video purportedly taken from the scene posted on LAWeekly.com shows the vehicle engulfed in flames.
Hastings, a native of Burlington, Vermont, is survived by his wife, Elise Jordan, a journalist and former speechwriter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"Great reporters exude a certain kind of electricity," Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana said in a statement. "The sense that there are stories burning inside them, and that there's no higher calling or greater way to live life than to be always relentlessly trying to find and tell those stories. I'm sad that I'll never get to publish all the great stories that he was going to write, and sad that he won't be stopping by my office for any more short visits which would stretch for two or three completely engrossing hours."
Hastings' "hallmark as a reporter was his refusal to cozy up to power," the magazine said, pointing to an email exchange he had last fall with Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines in the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks:
Hastings' aggressive line of questioning angered Reines. "Why do you bother to ask questions you've already decided you know the answers to?" Reines asked. "Why don't you give answers that aren't bullshit for a change?" Hastings replied.
Hastings was the author of two books: 2012's "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" based, in part, on his coverage of McChrystal; and 2008's "I Lost My Love In Baghdad," detailing two tumultuous years covering the war in Iraq for Newsweek. (Hastings' then-girlfriend, Andi Parhamovich, was killed in a botched kidnapping after joining him in Baghdad.)
He also authored a recent e-book, "Panic 2012: The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Obama's Final Campaign."
Michael Hastings
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