M Is FOR MASHUP - July 31st, 2013
INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA - Eighth Anniversary
By DJ Useo
So here I am again, telling you for the seventh time that I didn't expect to make another INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA mashup album. I did it for the same reason, too. Because people asked me for MORE! I even heard it mentioned that they felt it should be more intense and more psychedelic. So here you are, a free album of intensely psychedelic mashups '
INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 8".
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/intense-psychedelia-8-mashups.html )
I went down the same creative path as before and mixed up about 30 tracks. That's more than I need, so I ran them by a few pals, and whittled them down to just one discs' worth. I sure had a great time mixing. The lesser intensely psychedelic tracks got bumped off, but
you can hear one of them here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/elvis-vs-led-zeppelin.html )
It's Elvis singing over Led Zeppelin. A fine cut, but more mellow than the pre-release listeners preferred for this collection.
I know what the normal mashups around the bootleg scene sound like, and this isn't it. For one thing, there's no club fodder mashed among these. It's a wide assortment of psychedelic-oriented bands ranging from the oldies like Velvet Underground, the Beatles, and King Crimson, that also includes more modern acts like the Verve, Super Furry Animals, and Lush. There's tons more intriguing, and satisfying combinations here. I get big pleasure from hearing Soundgarden singing over House Of Love. I sure enjoy the sound of the Flaming Lips vocals atop the Glove. I don't even say no to the Who howling over Sigue Sigue Sputnik. There's a couple mellower moments for counterpoint, but this assortment is highly aggressive overall.
I arranged a preview of track 17, 'Dream House In Bloom' ( Nirvana vs Deafheaven vs DEENK ) because I feel it represents well the general tone of the record. I started by sampling guitars from Deafheavens' new record, then I added rhythms sampled from DEENK's new single, and lastly, I extracted the Nirvana vocals and with a tempo, arrangement, and effects adjustment placed them over all.
Preview here
( official.fm/tracks/hs9n )
I deffo would'a done it somewhat different if I was shooting for the mainstream audience, but the folks that enjoy this psychedelic series like me to make them a little wilder than mainstream allows. btw-
here's the animated gif version of the cover
( i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/useo8/DJ%20Useo%20Covers%202/djuseo-intense-psych-8_zpsf9864d79.gif )
Now that's trippy, eh!?
For me, the entire project has been a huge hoot and a holler. Like any mixer, you hear them later, and wish you'd made changes, but hindsight is a cruel mistress. The fact is, I get big kicks out of the earlier
INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA albums, and this new one even more so. Having no deadline was a treat. Crate digging through my old records left me well happy, and experiencing the reactions of people who sampled it early left me with plenty of smile-oriented memories. So, do me a favor, and give it a listen, then drop me a line at
useo8@yahoo.com . You could even go to the lesser done effort of leaving a comment at the blog post.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/intense-psychedelia-8-mashups.html )
All seven previous INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA albums are available here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/http://djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
As a reminder, my deejay slogan has always been "Not Mandatory", so don't feel pressured. It's all for fun, after all.
More new bootleg activity reported next week. Happy birthday to BARTCOP E!
Podcast Of The Week
My July mashup podcast is really late, so I just consider this a show good for all Summer long. In it, I play you tons of classic mashups from around 2004-2005. It's all cuts that have proven to be audience faves through the years. I deliberately chose mixes from lesser-known names, but that doesn't affect the quality. I'm really proud of this edition. It's a killer listen. My cat Jammi agreed wholeheartedly, so she dropped in while I was recording the live show. You can hear her a good bit during the hosting, plus I got her sampled when she spoke and had more fun with that. We named her "Jammi" because she doesn't mind loud music like the other cats do.
Stream, or download the podcast from here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/dj-useo-summer-mashup-podcast-2013.html )
Mashup Tip
Don't let robots eat you while you're mixing. It can seriously degrade your work.
Latest Useo Thing
Well, obviously, the afore-mentioned IP8 album and Summer podcast are from me, but I did post what I consider a finest kind new 2013 remix. Kodaline- 'One Day' ( DJ Useo Spa Fon Remix ) has heart, beats, and sampling. Dig in for a tasty treat.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/07/kodaline-one-day-dj-useo-remix.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Today you will discover how wonderfully mashups and milkshakes go together. Yum!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Beverly Donofrio: Rape Myths (Slate)
I was raped at 55. Here is how I responded.
Andrew Tobias: Banning Nipples
UPDATE: The North Carolina legislature passed the anti-voting bill, to make it as hard as possible for students and the poor and working poor, many of them African American, to vote.
Interview by Laura Barnett: A psychopath expert's view on Dexter (Guardian)
Michael C Hall makes a convincingly charming and cunning serial killer in Dexter, says psychopath expert Kevin Dutton, but why is he so nice to his family?
Sam Merrill: "Playboy Interview: George Carlin"
Playboy: Back in the early Sixties, when you were still a disc jockey and just beginning to do comedy in small clubs, Lenny Bruce supposedly selected you as his heir-
Video: Well, That was Odd
A couple in Kostroma, Russia, arrive all decked out for their wedding and are recorded entering the church. But then comes an unexpected interruption. It's obviously nothing personal, but could you blame them for thinking it might be an omen?
Video: The Bubble Wrap Bike
Eric Buss rides around on his bubble wrap bike. Can't you imagine that the noise woke up every child in the neighborhood, who all ran outside and excitedly began to stomp the rest of the bubbles.
Video: Robert T. Gonzalez: Throng of Theremin Players Performs Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (io9)
Here now are 167 musicians playing the absolute hell out of 167 matryomins, to the tune of a boogie-tastic Beethoven's 9th. Be apprised: "matryomin" is a portmanteau of matryoshka (as in nested matryoshka doll) and theremin. It's... basically exactly what it sounds like.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (Athens News)
Charlie "Bird" Parker was a genius while playing the saxophone, but far from a genius while attending school. He once said that he had "spent three years in high school and wound up a freshman."
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Rick Santorum Files for Divorce, Blames the Gays
"Unfortunately the homosexuals have ruined my marriage," he explained to reporter Bruce Nolan. "Every year more and more of them get married, and every year the relationship with my wife gets worse."
Rick Santorum Files for Divorce, Blames the Gays
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
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Handwritten Poem Sells For $300K
Edgar Allan Poe
An original manuscript of a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe has sold for $300,000 at an auction in Massachusetts.
The Standard Times of New Bedford reports that the handwritten poem with Poe's signature was purchased Saturday in Marion, about 50 miles south of Boston, by a collector who was given 10 days to verify its authenticity.
The item had been owned by a Rhode Island family since the 1920s.
The poem, "The Conqueror Worm," is believed to have been written in the 1830s and is among more than 100 published by the author.
Auctioneers had expected the item to fetch no more than $20,000.
Edgar Allan Poe
Prison Practices
California
Celebrities including Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem have condemned the isolation of inmates to control gang violence at California prisons - a practice that sparked a hunger strike by hundreds of inmates.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Coyote and Noam Chomsky also signed a letter sent Monday to Gov. Jerry Brown that calls isolation units "extensions of the same inhumanity practiced at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay," the Los Angeles Times reported.
Families of some of the inmates being held in isolation also held a demonstration outside the state Capitol on Tuesday, where they said they delivered a petition to Brown bearing 41,000 signatures calling for an end to solitary confinement.
Meanwhile, prisoners continued a three-week-old hunger strike. Prison officials on Monday said 385 inmates have refused to eat since July 8, while 176 more are on shorter protests.
The protesters are demanding an end to indeterminate sentences and for alternative ways to leave the units other than "debriefing," which the prisoners say is an agreement to inform on gang members and a risk to their safety from reprisals for "snitching."
California
Shuttlecraft Galileo to Be Unveiled
Star Trek
After close to 50 years in disarray, an iconic piece of restored "Star Trek" memorabilia is about to boldly go on display in its new home.
On Wednesday (July 31), Space Center Houston - the visitor's center for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas - will unveil the new permanent display for the Shuttlecraft Galileo, a life-size spaceship prop from the original 1960s "Star Trek" TV series.
The Galileo's restorer, "Star Trek" superfan Adam Schneider, thinks that the space center - which is next to NASA's home base for Mission Control and the astronaut corps. - is the ideal place for the shuttlecraft.
The Galileo's road to Houston has been a long one. Before Schneider won it at auction in June 2012, the shuttlecraft was in shambles. Schneider and his wife Leslie employed the help of craftsman Hans Mikaitis and his team of ship restorers at Master Shipwrights in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. to help return the shuttlecraft to its former glory.
The finished 23 foot (7 meter) long Galileo was revealed for the first time in late June before a crowd of more than 350 "Star Trek" fans and friends of the restorers before being shipped via truck to Texas for tomorrow's opening.
Star Trek
Holding NJ Fundraiser
Cory Booker
Oprah Winfrey is holding a fundraiser for Democratic Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker's bid for the U.S. Senate.
Tickets for Thursday's event in Jersey City range from $1,000 to $2,600. Booker's campaign says about 200 people are expected to attend.
Winfrey dubbed Booker a "rock star mayor" on her show, and the two are friends.
Polls show Booker is the front-runner in the race to replace the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who was the oldest member of the Senate and died last month at age 89. The primary election is scheduled for Aug. 13.
Cory Booker
1983 Duets Could Get Release
Mercury-Jackson
Queen guitarist Brian May says he's working to complete duets recorded 30 years ago by the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson.
May wrote on his blog this month that he was working on the tapes with producer William Orbit. He said the project was "exciting, challenging, emotionally taxing. But cool."
Mercury and Jackson recorded together at Jackson's California home in 1983, but the material was not released.
May said in 2011 that he had been given permission by the Jackson estate to release the recordings. This month he wrote that "we will have something for folks to hear in a couple of months' time, hopefully."
Mercury-Jackson
Returning With Sirius XM Show
Art Bell
Art Bell, radio's master of the paranormal and outward edges of science, will return to the microphone on Sept. 16 with a new nighttime show on Sirius XM Radio.
Bell was one of radio's top syndicated voices in the 1990s before walking away from his nightly show in 2002 due to family issues. He worked occasionally after that but hasn't been on the air since Halloween 2010.
"I missed it terribly," said Bell, 68, whose weeknight show will air live from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. ET. Sirius is building a studio at Bell's rural Nevada home where he will work.
A Sirius representative contacted Bell through social media a few months ago, leading to the formation of his show, "Art Bell's Dark Matter." He'll talk about things like UFOs, ghosts, near-death experiences and weird aspects of science. He'll do interviews and take calls from viewers.
There's also a potential rivalry with George Noory, who replaced Bell on the syndicated show. Bell isn't a fan, saying he considers Noory "not edgy enough." Noory's program is on later at night, so the two will not compete directly live.
Art Bell
Soon-To-Be-Ex-Wife Lawyers Up
Rupert
The wife of News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), Wendi Murdoch, has switched lawyers in a move signaling that their divorce proceedings could take an acrimonious turn, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce in June. He married the former Wendi Deng, 44, in 1999 in his third and her second marriage. They have two young daughters.
The newspaper said Deng has hired William Zabel, a New York trusts and estates lawyer who has represented several women in divorce cases involving wealthy businessmen, including Jane Beasley Welch, the ex-wife of former General Electric chief executive John Welch.
Deng had been represented by attorney Pamela Sloan, chair of the Family Law section of the New York State Bar Association.
Rupert
Pay Monkey Bill, Or Else
Biebs
German authorities have posted a public notice urging Justin Bieber to get in touch with them about an unpaid bill for his former pet monkey Mally.
Bieber failed to produce the necessary vaccination and import papers for the monkey when he arrived for a European tour in March. Mally became the property of the German government in May when the Canadian singer failed to claim his pet.
A spokesman for the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation says Bieber has one week to pay 1,130 euros ($1,500) for the monkey's care.
Bieber is already on the hook for a separate 5,000-euro bill from Munich customs.
Biebs
Alaskans Agree She Shouldn't Be Senator
Mrs. Palin
No matter how much you may hope for it, it seems unlikely that you'll be using the phrase "Senator Sarah Palin" with any great regularity in 2015. A new poll indicates that the former Alaska half-term governor is about as popular in the state as Barack Obama - which is to say, not very popular at all. But even more surprising, while the former vice presidential candidate has made Alaska a central part of her public image, the state's residents split on the question of whether Palin is all that Alaskan.
Conducted by Public Policy Polling, the survey is the first to evaluate Palin's chances in challenging the sitting Democrat, Sen. Mark Begich. Palin obliquely referred to a run earlier this month, immediately energizing her base / pundits. (The pundits then moved on to Anthony Weiner.)
Here's how it looks: Begich, who narrowly defeated longtime incumbent Ted Stevens in 2008, is up for reelection for the first time. Several Republicans have announced their intention to run in the primary. Among those candidates, Palin comes in first.
Which is where the good news ends. In a head-to-head match-up with Begich, Palin - despite having much wider name recognition - trails by twelve points. Begich wins moderates by a three-to-one margin.
Mrs. Palin
UK Police Recover
Stradivarius Violin
British police say they have recovered a 1.2 million pound ($1.84 million) antique violin that was stolen from an acclaimed musician in 2010 when she stopped for a snack in London.
South Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym was eating inside a sandwich shop in November 2010 when she noticed that her black violin case containing the 300-year-old Stradivarius was missing.
The violin, made in 1696, is one of only around 400 in the world. It was stolen along with two bows, valued at more than 67,000 pounds.
British Transport Police said Tuesday that officers recovered the instrument intact with minor damage in its case along with the bows at a property in central England last week.
Stradivarius Violin
Launch Propaganda Website
GMO Companies
A group of biotech seed companies on Monday launched an online forum to combat mounting opposition to genetically modified foods among consumer groups and activists.
The website, www.GMOAnswers.com, is designed as a "central online resource" for information on genetically modified organisms and their use in agriculture and food production, the Biotechnology Industry Organization said.
The website is backed in part by Monsanto, DuPont, Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical, and other companies whose products include seeds that have been genetically altered in ways the companies say improve food production.
The website launch is part of a broad campaign by the biotech industry to try to beat back growing calls for GMO food labeling and for tighter regulation of the biotech seed industry in the United States. European opposition to GMOs is so strong that Monsanto this month said it would withdraw all pending requests to grow new types of GMO crops.
GMO Companies
Intoxicated Sacrificial Children
Incas
She was killed at the age of 13 and placed in a mountaintop shrine in the Argentine high Andes--a sacrifice to the gods. There she lay for some 500 years until 1999, when archaeologists recovered her frozen body along with those of two other separately entombed children, a boy and a girl both between four and five years old. Researchers have long recognized that the three youngsters--the so-called Llullaillaco Maiden, Llullaillaco Boy and Lightning Girl--were victims of the Inca ritual of child sacrifice, or capacocha. A new study of their naturally mummified remains further illuminates the events leading up to their interment.
Chemical analyses of the hair of the children show that all three received coca leaves (from which cocaine is derived) and alcohol before they died. Twelve months before the 13-year-old maiden was killed, her consumption of coca surged. Meanwhile, her intake of alcohol--probably in the form of chicha, which is typically made from maize--peaked in her last weeks. And computed tomographic (CT) scanning revealed a large wad of coca leaves in her mouth that she had been chewing in her final moments. Andrew S. Wilson of the University of Bradford in the U.K. and his colleagues describe the findings in a report to be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
The exact nature of the event or events that led to the sacrifice of these children is unknown. It could have been an annual Incan occasion, or it might have been an unscheduled incident, such as the death of a ruler or a natural disaster. Whatever the case, the maiden received significantly more of these substances than the younger children did, possibly suggesting "a greater need to sedate her," the researchers report. They observe that the posture of the girl's body and the undisturbed arrangement of her garments and surrounding ceremonial artifacts indicate that she was heavily sedated or dead when she was placed in the shrine.
"Coca and alcohol were substances that induced altered states interpreted as sacred, and which could suggest to victims and those associated with them the proximity of the divine beings whose continued benevolence was underwritten by these rites," Wilson and his co-authors write. "From a cross-cultural perspective, the psychologically deadening, disorienting, and mood-modifying effects of these psychoactive compounds on young victims, for whom any kind of informed consent to their own deaths cannot be unproblematically presumed, should not be downplayed."
Incas
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 22-28. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "Under the Dome," CBS, 11.6 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 10.64 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.34 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.36 million.
5. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.07 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 7.18 million.
7. "Unforgettable," CBS, 7.15 million.
8. "Big Brother 15" (Thursday), CBS, 6.9 million.
9. "Big Brother 15 (Sunday), CBS, 6.81 million.
10. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 6.79 million.
11. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 6.65 million.
12. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 6.52 million.
13. "Big Brother 15" (Wednesday), CBS, 6.44 million.
14. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.19 million.
15. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 5.88 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.82 million.
17. "Amores Verdaderos" (Tuesday), Univision, 5.82 million.
18. "Rookie Blue," ABC, 5.63 million.
19. "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 5.61 million.
20. "Master Chef" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), Fox, 5.58 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Eileen Brennan
Eileen Brennan, who went from musical comedy on Broadway to wringing laughs out of memorable characters in such films as "Private Benjamin" and "Clue," has died. She was 80.
Brennan's managers, Jessica Moresco and Al Onorato, said she died Sunday at home in Burbank after a battle with bladder cancer.
Brennan got her first big role on the New York stage in "Little Mary Sunshine," a musical comedy that won her the 1960 Obie award for best actress. Along with her "excellent singing voice," her performance was "radiant and comic," said a New York Times review.
But it was a series of sharp-tongued roles that won her fans on television and in movies, including gruff Army Capt. Doreen Lewis in 1980's "Private Benjamin," aloof Mrs. Peacock in 1985's "Clue" and mean orphanage superintendent Miss Bannister in 1988's "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking."
"I love meanies, and this goes back to Capt. Lewis in 'Private Benjamin,'" Brennan said a 1988 interview with The Associated Press. "You know why? Because they have no sense of humor. People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean."
"Private Benjamin" brought her a supporting actress nomination for an Oscar. She also won an Emmy for repeating her "Private Benjamin" role in the television version, and was nominated six other times for guest roles on such shows as "Newhart," ''thirtysomething," ''Taxi" and "Will & Grace."
Brennan's "Private Benjamin" role led to an enduring friendship with the movie's star, Goldie Hawn. A couple of years after they filmed the movie, Brennan and Hawn had dinner one night in 1982 in Venice, Calif. As they left the restaurant, Brennan was struck by a car. Her legs were smashed, bones on the left side of her face were broken, her left eye socket was shattered. Brennan said she fought her injuries with rage.
"I was no saint," she said in an interview with Ladies Home Journal. "I was angry, and anger is a powerful emotion. It increased my determination not to go under, to get well."
Brennan was a member of the original company of "Hello, Dolly" on Broadway. From the New York stage, she moved to the screen in "Divorce American Style" and "The Last Picture Show"; a pair of appearances on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and TV guest shots on everything from "All in the Family" and "McMillan & Wife" to "Kojak," ''The Love Boat," ''Murder She Wrote" and "Mad About You."
Brennan was born Verla Eileen Regina Brennan in Los Angeles. She was educated in convent schools and studied at Georgetown University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
She is survived by her two sons, Sam and Patrick Brennan.
'Clue' actress Eileen Brennan
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