M Is FOR MASHUP - July 28th, 2010
Top Ten Mashup Covers
By DJ Useo
Powerful hot today innit? I've even been mixing Chill tracks to keep cool.
How about some nice pictures & not much reading? Ok, good.
Then here's the top 10 mashup covers for July along with links to hear the mashups.
01 - Pheugoo - Stylish White Walls
(Arctic vs Gorillaz)
( audioporncentral.com/2010/07/pheugoo-stylish-white-walls.html )
02 - DJ Schmolli - Big Booty Bitches In Miami
(Bombs Away vs LMFAO vs Busta Rhymes vs Sir Mix-A-Lot)
( www.mashup-industries.com/ )
03 - G3RSt - Thunder Jack Flash
(The Rolling Stones vs AC/DC)
( www.mashuptown.com/2010/07/g3rst-thunder-jack-flash-the-rolling-stones-vs-acdc.html )
04 - Marc Johnce - Dancing On Love Drugs
(Ke$ha vs Robyn)
( www.mashupciti.com/2010/07/19/dancing-on-love-drugs/ )
06 - Chocomang-Song 2 Don't Go
(Blur vs Yazoo)
( cheekyboy.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1169 )
07 - mARKYbOY-I Love Singles Ladies
(Beyonce vs Joan Jett vs Soul System)
(www.sound-unsound.com/forums/mashup-forums/5432-joan-jett-vs-beyonce-vs-soul-system.html )
08 - MadMixMustang-Simplicious Minds
(Elvis Presley vs Simple Minds)
( www.gybo5.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1707 )
10 - Yigytugd - Cosmic Muzik
(Full Mashup Album)
( yigytugd.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/yigytugd-cosmic-muzik-release-2/ )
Well, the heat seems to have steamed away my beverage. I'm off to find some shade. See you next week.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
David Bruce: Wise Up! Beauty (athensnews.com)
For several months, Albert E. Kahn photographed Soviet ballerina Galina Ulanova, but he is aware that his photographs record only a small part of her career - a career that has not been much recorded in photographs. He asked a Soviet photographer why more photographs were not taken of her, and the Soviet replied, "You know how it is when you are very close to something beautiful, so close that you can reach out and touch it with your hand? You sometimes tend to take that beauty for granted, as if it will always be there."
roger ebert's journal: BP's tree fell on my lawn (suntimes.com)
Help me out here. There's something I've been spending a couple of months trying to get my head around. Why does BP enjoy such a peculiar immunity after having apparently been culpable in the Gulf oil spill? What is the nature of its invisible protective shield?
Scott Burns: Interest Rates Can Go Lower, But You Won't Like It (assetbuilder.com)
If Lacy Hunt had to fight a duel, he would arrive armed with an arsenal of very powerful charts. In his role as economist for Hoisington Investment Management, an Austin firm that manages over $5 billion in fixed income assets for major institutions, Mr. Hunt goes to meetings with a virtual barrage of economic charts, and builds his case.
DAVID BROOKS: The Moral Naturalists (nytimes.com)
Scientific research is showing that we are born with an innate moral sense.
Susan Sisko Carter: Blues and the Abstract Truth (huffingtonpost.com)
I saw Harvey Pekar, just a few months ago. Harvey's presentation consisted of -- Harvey. Not a single frame of his work was displayed. Not even a cover of "American Splendor."
Decca Aitkenhead: "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'" (guardian.co.uk)
The American author on how pain is the inspiration for all his books, getting off drugs and telling the truth.
Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all (guardian.co.uk)
The celebrity biographer claims to have had astoundingly eventful friendships with Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and a host of other stars. Some of their relatives, however, are not impressed, writes Tim Adams.
Scarlet Cheng: Herb Alpert's sculptures, like visual jazz (latimes.com)
The famed trumpet player's abstract works are on display in Beverly Hills.
Germaine Greer: It's clunky and full of stereotypes - but Bran Nue Dae still deserves a UK release (guardian.co.uk)
Critics have lambasted Bran Nue Dae, but it's just using the resistance tactics of much modern Aboriginal art.
Roger Ebert: Review of "MYSTERY TRAIN" (R; 1989; A Great Movie)
The two Japanese kids in Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989) have the right idea. They're on a train to Memphis. With one suitcase suspended on a pole between them, they wander the bedraggled streets until passing by accident the door of the Sun record studios, which is a shrine for them.
David Bruce: "The Funniest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes"
A Kindle Book: $1.
The Weekly Poll
Current Question
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The 'Mad Mel' Edition...
Mel Gibson has been called a religiously insane, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, racist by a great many people. His actions and words certainly point to that as being the case. However, he has made movies that have been very popular and, in some instances, awarded and/or critically acclaimed...
So...
What is your view of Gibson as an actor and are there any of his movies that you have enjoyed?
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and cooler than seasonal.
Negatives Verified As Lost Work
Ansel Adams
A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for US$45 have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday.
A team of experts concluded after an exhaustive, six-month examination that the 65 negatives are Adams' early work, which were believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite National Park studio, Arnold Peter said.
"These photographs are really the missing link," he said. "They really fill the void in Ansel Adams' early career."
Rick Norsigian, a construction worker and painter, said he bought the negatives 10 years ago at a Fresno garage sale after bargaining down the seller to $45.
Ansel Adams
Opposes Parole
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono will again oppose the release of the man who nearly 30 years ago killed her husband, former Beatle John Lennon, and who comes up for parole next month, her lawyer said.
Ono has consistently opposed parole for Mark David Chapman and has again sent a letter to the parole board, her lawyer, Peter Shukat, told the Daily News.
"Her position has not changed," Shukat said in an article published Tuesday.
Chapman -- now 55 and serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for the slaying -- is scheduled to be interviewed by a three-member parole board panel during the week of August 9. It will be his sixth bid for parole.
Yoko Ono
Traverse City Film Festival Honors
John Hughes
The late writer and director John Hughes is being honored at the Traverse City Film Festival.
The Lansing native died last year at the age of 59 and is this year's recipient of the Michigan Filmmaker Award. It's given to Michigan natives for their contributions to the art of cinema.
The award is to be dedicated posthumously to Hughes during the festival's opening night on Tuesday.
His wife Nancy and sons James and John III say they "appreciate the opportunity to acknowledge how Michigan ... helped shape his humor and storytelling."
John Hughes
Wards Off Grizzly With Pepper Spray
Jack Hanna
TV host and zookeeper Jack Hanna says he took his own advice and used pepper spray on grizzlies headed toward him.
The Columbus Zoo keeper and frequent David Letterman guest says he was with his wife and other hikers in Montana's Glacier National Park on Saturday when they saw the mother bear and two large cubs coming toward them. Hanna and the others moved slowly back up the trail to a clearing and stood still while the mother and one cub passed by.
Hanna says the other cub, weighing about 125 pounds, charged toward the hikers. Hanna sprayed the bear in the face, and it fled.
Hanna had recently filmed a message for the National Park Service encouraging hikers to carry pepper spray.
Jack Hanna
First To Sell One Million Kindle Books
Stieg Larsson
Sweden's Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the online retail giant said Tuesday.
Amazon said its Kindle store has sold over one million digital copies of the books in Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."
Amazon said all three books are among the top 10 best-selling Kindle books of all time.
Hachette Book Group, publisher of US thriller writer James Patterson, said earlier this month that he had become the first novelist to sell more than one million e-books, a figure that includes other e-book sales besides Kindle.
Stieg Larsson
Settles Iraq Kickback Charges
GE
General Electric Co. will pay $23.4 million to settle federal charges that some of its subsidiaries paid illegal kickbacks to the Iraqi government in order to win contracts under a U.N. program.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint filed Tuesday in federal court that GE subsidiaries gave cash, computers, medical supplies and other goods worth $3.6 million to the Iraqi health and oil ministries from 2000 to 2003.
The SEC alleged the kickbacks were in return for contracts to supply medical and water purification equipment under the United Nations' oil-for-food program, which provided humanitarian aid to prewar Iraq.
GE agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and give up about $22.5 million in profit and interest earned from the transactions. The company does not admit or deny wrongdoing under the settlement. GE also said that the Department of Justice has closed its own investigation into the matter.
GE
Programming Chief Abruptly Resigns
ABC
ABC programming chief Stephen McPherson has abruptly resigned from the network after a six-year tenure in which the network aired such provocative series as "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" but ended last season in third place among the big four networks.
McPherson submitted his resignation as ABC Entertainment Group president and the company accepted, the Disney-ABC Television Group said in a brief statement Tuesday. His replacement will be announced soon, according to the statement, in which McPherson was quoted as thanking the people with whom he'd worked.
His departure from the top programming job at ABC comes just days before the network's presentation of its fall schedule to a meeting of TV reporters and critics. The network is set to bring the cast and producers of new and returning shows to the Television Critics Association gathering Aug. 1 in Beverly Hills.
When he started in 2004, McPherson had helped turn the network around after an over-reliance on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" by his predecessors had severely cut into ratings and advertising revenues.
ABC
Sentenced In Hawaii
Lance Kerwin
Former child TV star Lance Kerwin has been placed on five years probation after pleading guilty to a theft charge.
Kerwin, who played the title role in "James at 15" on NBC in the 1977-78 season, was given credit during last Thursday's sentencing for 90 days served and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service.
Kauai County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Lauren McDowell says the 49-year-old Kerwin was caught falsifying documents to obtain state medical assistance and food stamps.
Defense attorney Craig De Costa says when Kerwin applied for the benefits, he omitted in the application that he owned three properties on the mainland.
Lance Kerwin
Gave Viacom Stock To "Bi-Curious" Rocker
Sumner Redstone
Viacom Inc executive chairman Sumner Redstone gave the lead singer of a struggling female rock band some of his own company stock as a personal gift, according to a copy of the regulatory filing obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
A spokesman for Redstone declined to say why the 87-year-old mogul made the gift to 29-year-old Heather Naylor, who sold about $100,000 worth of Viacom stock in March.
Redstone has taken an unusual interest in Naylor's band, the Electric Barbarellas, pressuring executives at Viacom's MTV unit to create a reality show following the group's attempt to break into the music business. Such a show is now in development despite the objection of MTV executives, who felt the band lacked talent.
According to a March 2 paper filing, Redstone gave Naylor 3,250 shares of Viacom's nonvoting Class B common stock, which were to be sold for her benefit "ASAP." Under the section "nature of acquisition transaction," the filing lists the reason: "gift from Sumner Redstone." The stock traded between about $29.65 and $34.38 in March. It closed on Monday at $33.55.
Sumner Redstone
Bail Set At $10M
The 'Other' Ken Starr
A jailed financial adviser to the stars can get out on bail if his two brothers change their minds and put up their houses as collateral, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.
At a brief hearing, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin decided Kenneth Starr could leave jail and be put under house arrest at his Manhattan apartment if he posted a $10 million bond secured by his brothers' homes and other property.
Prosecutors allege Starr's Ponzi-like scheme from January 2008 through April cheated elderly and wealthy clients out of $59 million. He's been behind bars since his arrest in May on securities fraud.
Starr, 66, has worked with Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese, though there's no indication they were victims.
The 'Other' Ken Starr
Catalonia On Verge Of Banning
Bullfighting
Bullfighting in Spain could suffer its biggest setback to date on Wednesday when the Catalonia parliament votes whether to ban the practice in the separatist-minded northeastern region.
The vote comes after animal rights activists campaigning under the platform "Prou!", or "Enough!" in the Catalan language, collected 180,000 signatures in Catalonia on a petition calling for the assembly to decide on a motion on the ban.
The most recent indications are that a majority of the 135 regional lawmakers are in favour of the motion, which tightens Catalonia's animal protection law to remove an exception for bullfights from a ban on the killing or mistreating animals in shows.
If approved, Catalonia -- home to Spain's second-largest city, Barcelona -- would become the first region in the country outside of the Canary Islands to ban bullfighting, and others could follow its example.
Bullfighting
More German, Bitte
"Denglish"
The word "Ruckizuckifutti" is not only a mouthful -- it doesn't evoke a sense of American lifestyle like its English equivalent "fast food," either.
But when the German Language Foundation called on Germans to find an alternative for the English term, "Ruckizuckifutti" was one uniquely German suggestion.
The campaign is one of several by advocacy groups who are intensifying their fight against the massive use of English and "Denglish" -- a hybrid of the two languages -- in Germany's advertising, television and everyday parlance.
Another advocacy group, the German Language Club, has called on telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom to stop using terms like "Blackberry Webmail" and criticized national rail operator Deutsche Bahn for similar misnomers.
"Denglish"
Tour Offered In Klingon
Jenolan Caves
Staff at the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney have added a new out-of-this-world attraction -- a tour in the Star Trek language Klingon.
Currently a self-guided audio tour at the caves in the Blue Mountains is offered in eight languages, but staff came up with the idea of adding the fictional language Klingon as the caves did once feature in the popular TV series.
"In the Star Trek universe, Jenolan Caves was first immortalized in the Next Generation episode 'Relics,' through the naming of a 'Sydney Class' Starship - the USS Jenolan," the Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust said in a statement.
"Now, this relationship will be developed further, when Jenolan Caves adds the language of Star Trek's great warrior race to a tour of their most popular cave."
Jenolan Caves
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for July 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.48 million.
2. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 10.01 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 10.00 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 9.81 million.
5. "Wipeout" (Tuesday), ABC, 8.34 million.
6. "Wipeout" (Thursday), ABC, 7.87 million.
7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.81 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.77 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 7.67 million.
10. "The Mentalist," CBS, 7.32 million.
11. "Big Brother 12" (Sunday), CBS, 7.20 million.
12. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.06 million.
13. "Hell's Kitchen (Tuesday)," Fox, 6.98 million.
14. "Big Brother 12" (Thursday), CBS, 6.74 million.
15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.67 million.
16. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.57 million.
17. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.498 million.
18. "Rookie Blue," ABC, 6.496 million.
19. "20/20," ABC, 6.25 million.
20. "Minute to Win It" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.16 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin, a mainstay of Canadian film and television who established himself through such iconic roles as a faded rock star in "Whale Music," has died at age 61.
The Gemini and Genie Award-winning actor died Tuesday morning after battling kidney problems, said Mark McKinney, who produced Chaykin's most recent series, the HBO Canada sitcom "Less Than Kind."
Chaykin was born July 27, 1949 in New York to an American father and a Canadian mother before later moving to Toronto.
His extensive resume spanned 35 years, his legacy as one of Canada's most beloved performers cemented with a celebrated turn as a has-been music star in 1994's "Whale Music."
Other roles included a memorable turn in "Dances with Wolves," as well as the eccentric TV detective Nero Wolfe, and an acerbic movie studio honcho in "Entourage." Other appearances on U.S. shows included "C.S.I.," and "Boston Legal."
His role in "Whale Music" earned him a Genie for best performance by an actor in a supporting role in 1994, while he picked up Geminis for guest spots on "La Femme Nikita" in 1998 and "At the Hotel" in 2006.
In "Less Than Kind," Chaykin played a diabetic father who struggled to run a driving school in Winnipeg.
Chaykin is survived by Susannah Hoffmann, and their daughter, Rose.
Maury Chaykin
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