M Is FOR MASHUP - August 11th, 2010
Five Red Hot Mashups
By DJ Useo
Howdy y'all. I hope you're enjoying all the fine mashups coming down the pike. It's a veritable tidal wave of new tracks this summer. The flood of swell mashups has become a torrent with many more mashups posted than one person can keep up with. There's even some new forums & blogs appearing as a reflection of the amount of mixes released. To help sort out the cream of the crop, I've picked the 5 best new tracks I could find. These are all bootlegs that'll have you re-playing them LOUD!
01 - One of the exciting moments of Mashup Summer 2010 is the dramatic return of the most popular Beatles masher, CCC. There was a thread at the Beatles Remixers forum asking for his return, & darned effen he didn't show up soon after. Now with his past works re-posted & 3 great new pieces posted, CCC rules again over the other not-untalented fab four home producers. His latest, just-posted track is 'Clavinet Together' (The Beatles vs Stevie Wonder) & gives wide pleasure through it's ingenius combo of 'Superstition' & 'Come Together'.
( www.mashups.blogspot.com/ )
02 - Party Ben is already one of the top mashers on earth. He's doing so well he eschews the forums & simply posts to his own site. Proof of his ongoing talent has manifested in his new post, 'This Tightrope's Made for Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra vs Janelle Monáe). This is just the kind of mash that makes you say 'Why didn't somebody think of this pairing before now?' .After you hear it, you'll no longer need to play it again, as it'll be stuck firmly in your cerebral cortex, forever in replay. Find it & many more
here
( partyben.com/ )
03 - Mashup-Germany's new multi-track mashup 'I Love The Way You Mix (Lie)' is still tearing up the airwaves with it's splendidly-mixed combo of more artists than you would believe. Honestly, this single track has sections of 15 different songs in it. You'll actually hear Eminem, Glashaus, Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, The Lion King, Chiddy Bang, David Guetta, Major Lazer, Elvis Presley, Bobby Valentino, Sean Kingston, Hard-Fi,& Disturbed in one seamless mix. Under the accomplished hand of Mashup-Germany these seemingly unrelated tracks reveal amazing similarities that make for an unforgettable bootleg song.
( www.mashup-germany.com/2010/mashup-germany-i-love-the-way-you-mix-lie/ )
04 - Michmash has come up with a track that really inspires not only listening, but comments. A rarer thing than you would expect with presumably every listener possessing a keyboard. 'Sultans On The Moon' brings together Dire Straits' 'Sultans Of Swing', The Police's 'Walking On The Moon' & Blondie's 'Call Me' into a vastly appealing number sure to put a smile on your face. Many more fine Michmash mashups
here
(
michmash.over-blog.com/article-sultans-on-the-moon-54446843.html )
05 - mARKYbOY has been on a killer run of new mashups for longer than I can recall, & now he cranks it up to 11 with 'Walking for 25 Miles'(Smashmouth vs Edwin Starr). mARKYbOY is well-known for his gift of placing tracks together in such a manner that you hear them in an entirely new & appealing way. He's done it again with this new track as displayed by the HUGE response in downloads & comments. At this rate, he'll have us camped out on his porch awaiting his future tracks!
( markyboymashed.blogspot.com/2010/07/walking-for-25-miles.html )
I could easily go on with this article as there're so many excellent new tracks. I'll spare your eyes for now though & simply bid you adieu till next week.
Mix Of The Week
My own 'DJ Useo-Old Skool Rock 2 - Mashup Mix' contains altered rock like Rush, AC/DC & Lynyrd Skynyrd by mashers like DJ Z-Trip, Fettdog & Go Home Productions all brought together by yours truly. Don't miss the cover. I drawed it myself.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-skool-rock-2-mashup-mix.html )
Mashup Tip : Don't insult a mashup mixer unless you've done better yourself. :)
Newest Useo Thing
'Walrus In The U.S.A.' (The Beatles vs John Mellencamp vs Pimprock) is going gangbusters in it's initial week of release. It even has a
damn funny video by LEENAVEN (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2tO6yXyn4 ) to display it just right.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/08/walrus-in-usa-beatles-vs-john.html )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
The love of the high-end heist (telegraph.co.uk)
As a book thief and air hostess are found guilty of theft, prison doctor Theodore Dalrymple examines the allure of the high-end heist.
Laura Shapiro: Shirley Jackson's Wifely Witchcraft (slate.com)
Take a house, add a homemaker, and, presto, she conjured up horror.
Mitchell Landsberg: Anne Rice discusses her decision to quit Christianity (latimes.com)
The novelist says she still believes in God, but she couldn't find a basis in Scripture for some positions taken by churches. And she rejects the persecution of gays and women.
MUSIC: John Timpane: Rufus Wainwright's rich voice on sober subjects (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Having a voice like mine is like having a rabid dog you have to muzzle - or release against your enemies."
Christie D'Zurilla: John Goodman on losing 100 pounds (latimes.com)
He quit drinking three years ago, hired a health coach, exercises six days a week now and doesn't eat sugar.
Germaine Greer: Chained Aborigines helped make this cattle road. Can art now tell its story? (guardian.co.uk)
A flashy new exhibition tells the story of western Australia's Canning Stock Route, but it's a quieter artwork that speaks most loudly
Jack Jones: "Obituary: Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress" (latimes.com)
The actress, who won an Academy Award for her role in the 1963 film 'Hud,' persevered through a life that was marked by a succession of tragedies.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Vengeance"
There's an audacious scene in "Vengeance," a Johnny Hallyday thriller set in Hong Kong and Macao, that may remind you of Burnham Wood advancing on Macbeth's castle. In the play men carried shrubbery to hide behind. In Johnnie To's movie they hide behind huge bales of scrap paper. A fierce wind fills the air with flying paper. The bales advance across a field as a wall -- thump, thump -- on Hallyday and the three local hit men he's hired to obtain revenge on the killers of his grandson and son-in-law, and a grave wound to his daughter.
George Varga: "Rock Solid: Health Problems Haven't Stopped Bret Michaels" (creators.com)
Keeping busy is easy for self-described "passion-aholic" Bret Michaels. Staying alive has been more of a challenge for this veteran rock star turned TV-fueled pop-culture sensation ("Celebrity Apprentice," VH1's "Rock of Love With Bret Michaels"). Indeed, his multiple near-death experiences this year only seemed to slow him down momentarily before he sprang - well, limped - back into action.
David Bruce: The Coolest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
A Kindle Book: $1.
The Weekly Poll
Update
I'll be back August 17th with a two week long Emmy Contest with a prize! Yes! A nice one, too! Details will be posted beforehand to whet yer interest, so stay tuned! Until then, thanks to all... Yer the Best!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The fabulous unseasonal marine layer burned off a bit before noon.
Band Can Rewrite Pink Floyd Song As Anthem
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters has no qualms about giving a Canadian band permission to tinker with his band's classic "Another Brick in the Wall" for use as an anthem for young Iranians.
Toronto-based band Blurred Vision, fronted by two exiled Iranian brothers, has reworked the lyrics to express the resentment felt by young people toward the government of Iran, where it's illegal to play rock music. One well-known verse was changed to "Hey, Ayatollah, leave those kids alone!"
Waters said he encourages artists to use the song to resist all forms of oppression. He said in a statement that he sees the band as playing a vital part in "the resistance to a regime that is both repressive and brutal."
The video for the song includes footage from the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Many Iranians feel the footage was altered for television by the government's cleric leadership. The video, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Babak Payami, has been seen by more than 235,000 viewers on YouTube.
Roger Waters
Dominate September Magazine Covers
Over-40 Actresses
When the September issues of fashion magazines -- typically their biggest of the year, ad-wise -- hit newsstands this month, the three most prestigious ones will feature actresses in their 40s on the cover.
Vogue has booked Halle Berry, who turns 44 on Saturday; Harper's Bazaar will have 41-year-old Jennifer Aniston, promoting "The Switch"; and Elle has landed 42-year-old Julia Roberts, promoting her new film, "Eat Pray Love."
Putting these actresses on the cover of arguably the most important issue of the year sends a message that though we live in a youth-obsessed culture, there's still something to be said for the enduring appeal of women who have been in the public eye for nearly 20 years.
Data released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that single-copy sales of magazines dropped by 5.6% in the most recent six-month period measured. So it's ever more important for editors to select cover models who will appeal to people buying mags at newsstands, grocery stores and airports, where, of course, they pay full price. And in that context, older women can seem a safer bet, appealing to a wider audience -- and a wider magazine-buying audience -- than, say, a younger reality show star, singer or actress.
Over-40 Actresses
Captain Underpants' Return
Dav Pilkey
As a superhero Captain Underpants may lack muscles but he's proven to have the power to get children reading with his creator, Dav Pilkey, hoping four new books with the same potty humor will nab more young readers.
Pilkey, 44, an author and artist based near Seattle, said he came up with the idea of Captain Underpants while at school where he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and spent long periods in the hallway on his own, drawing and making up stories.
Since winning a writing contest at age 19 he has been penning children's books full of poopypants and wedgie jokes with Captain Underpants flying from the presses in 1997. Since then 45 million copies have been published in 19 languages.
After a few years away from writing to care for his terminally ill father, Pilkey signed a deal in March this year with Scholastic for four new books with the first released this week with a worldwide printing of 1 million copies.
Dav Pilkey
Hospital News
Fantasia Barrino
"American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino overdosed on aspirin and sleeping pills after finding herself in the middle of an ugly divorce involving a married man, celebrity website TMZ reported on Tuesday.
Fantasia, 26, a single mom who won the popular TV singing contest in 2004, was hospitalized in North Carolina on Monday but is stable and is expected to be released soon, her manager said in a statement to TMZ.
The R&B singer was named earlier this week in divorce papers filed by the wife of her long-time boyfriend. Paula Cook also said she believed her husband Antwuan and Fantasia had made a sex tape.
"Yesterday, she was totally overwhelmed by the lawsuit and the media attention. Last night, Fantasia was hospitalized. She took an overdose of aspirin and a sleep aid," the statement to TMZ said.
Fantasia Barrino
More Hospital News
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the actress has developed an infection that will keep the 93-year-old hospitalized indefinitely as she recovers from a broken hip.
Doctors had hoped to release Gabor on Monday, but Gabor's publicist John Blanchette says an infection changed those plans. He had no further details.
Gabor has been hospitalized at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center since she broke her hip July 17 while trying to get into her wheelchair. The Hungarian-born actress' condition began to deteriorate after hip-replacement surgery days later.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Parole Hearing For Killer Postponed
John Lennon
The parole hearing for John Lennon's killer has been postponed for a month.
Mark David Chapman was scheduled to be interviewed this week at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
A spokesman for the Division of Parole now says Chapman was told Tuesday that his interview has been rescheduled for early September.
The parole board says it's awaiting more information so that it has a complete record. It didn't specify what.
John Lennon
She Said, She Said
Naomi Campbell
Actress Mia Farrow told a war crimes court on Monday that she had heard Naomi Campbell say she had been given a "huge diamond" by Charles Taylor, contradicting the British supermodel's testimony last week.
Campbell told the Special Court for Sierra Leone she had been given "dirty looking pebbles" after a 1997 dinner in South Africa, but did not know if they were diamonds from the then Liberian president, on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In court on Monday, Farrow said the model had joined a group of guests at breakfast after the charity dinner, hosted by South African president Nelson Mandela, and had started relating something that had happened overnight.
Farrow told the court Campbell had said she would give the diamond to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, adding that "it was a sort of an unforgettable moment".
Naomi Campbell
Judge Unsticks Velcro Lawsuit
"Bruno"
Sacha Baron Cohen has escaped yet another lawsuit.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a copyright claim brought by a writer who claimed that a scene in last year's "Bruno" was too similar to one in his original script called "Himbos."
John Musero filed suit in March against Baron Cohen, director Larry Charles, producers Mosaic Media Group and MRC and others claiming that a scene involving the "mayhem" that ensues when Bruno dons a Velcro suit in the 2009 fashion farce was ripped from Musero's script, which had been pitched to Mosaic and later rejected by the company.
The court ruled that the general idea of a man in a Velcro suit isn't subject to copyright and that the two works were not really that similar anyway.
"Bruno"
Benefit Bike Stolen
2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster
A motorcycle autographed by county music stars has been stolen in central Kentucky, where it was to be auctioned to benefit breast cancer research and prevention.
The 2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster was inside a locked trailer, which was secured with chains in the parking lot of the Lexington affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported the cycle had been signed by several country stars, among them Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and Dolly Parton.
Komen chapter Executive Director Penny Gilbert says the group had hoped to raise about $100,000 Oct. 16 by auctioning items including the donated motorcycle.
2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster
Facing Bankruptcy Next Month
MGM
Things are going so badly with MGM's restructuring review that a forced bankruptcy is a real possibility by September 15.
Then again, lenders don't want to lose control of the studio's lucrative James Bond movie rights. So one of them could still dig deeper to provide enough new equity capital to make a voluntary restructuring feasible. Or if that option fails, the Century City studio could obtain a seventh extension of its debt forbearance agreement with its 100-plus lenders.
In any case, little more than a month before $400 million-plus in owed debt and interest payments come due, this much is certain: Frustration has never been higher with the more than yearlong effort to heal the ailing Lion.
The studio has secured six forbearance agreements, or delays of the deadline for paying principal and interest on its senior bank debt. Strapped by almost $4 billion in total corporate debt, MGM repeatedly has gotten lenders to postpone recoupment of a $250 million revolving credit facility and $200 million or so in related interest payments.
MGM
Time To Repair The Curtains
Scarlett O'Hara
It's time to find out if fans of "Gone With the Wind" frankly give a damn about the fabulous dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in the multiple Oscar-winning Civil War drama.
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin is trying to raise $30,000 to restore five of Scarlett O'Hara's now tattered gowns from the 1939 film.
The Ransom Center is planning an exhibit to mark the movie's 75th anniversary in 2014, but at the moment most of them are too fragile to go on display, according to Jill Morena, the center's collection assistant for costumes and personal effects.
The Ransom Center acquired the costumes - including O'Hara's green curtain dress, green velvet gown, burgundy ball gown, blue velvet night gown and her wedding dress - in the mid-1980s as part of the collection of "Gone With the Wind" producer David O. Selznick. By then, they had already been through decades of traveling displays in theaters and had been on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Scarlett O'Hara
Renews "Shark Tank," Adds Jeff Foxworthy
ABC
"Shark Tank" fans rejoice: ABC is renewing the business-reality cult-favorite for a second season, and adding comedian Jeff Foxworthy to the show's judging panel of sharks for three episodes.
ABC is ordering eight hours total from executive producer Mark Burnett ("Survivor") and Sony Pictures TV. Production will resume in the fall for a premiere sometime in 2011.
The five Sharks from the first season are all back: real-estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, infomercial pioneer Kevin Harrington, technology expert Robert Herjavec, fashion owner Daymond John and financial expert Kevin O'Leary.
Foxworthy is an unusual addition, not being a name that leaps to mind when you think about business savvy. But ABC points out he has his own line of beef jerky and BBQ sauces, in addition to expanding his comedy career to albums, books and forays into TV (including hosting Burnett's game show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader").
ABC
Saudis Set Giant Clock
'Mecca Time'
Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Mecca.
Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.
The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA.
It boasts four glimmering 46 metre-across (151 feet) faces of high-tech composite tiles, some laced with gold, sitting more than 400 metres (1,320 feet) over the Holy Haram compound.
'Mecca Time'
If The 'Sugar Tit' Fits...
Narcissistic Men
Ever met a guy who talks only about himself, thinks he's superior to everyone and who tends to view women as little more than playthings?
That man may very well have narcissistic personality disorder, a condition marked by an inflated sense of self-importance and a profound lack of empathy for others.
And new research suggests the anger, hostility and short fuse that accompany a man's narcissism tend to be directed toward straight women.
"Heterosexual, narcissistic men become enraged at people who deny them gratification, whether it's social status, having a trophy partner or sexual gratification," said lead study author Scott Keiller, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychology at Kent State University Tuscarawas in Ohio.
Narcissistic Men
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Aug. 2-8. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 11.74 million.
2. NFL Exhibition Football: Cincinnati vs. Dallas, NBC, 11.44 million.
3. "The Bachelorette: After the Rose," ABC, 11.32 million.
4. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.37 million.
5. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 10.06 million.
6. "NFL Pregame Show," NBC, 9.62 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.4 million.
8. "NCIS," CBS, 8.95 million.
9. "Wipeout" (Tuesday), ABC, 8.91 million.
10. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.52 million.
11. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 8.21 million.
12. "Big Brother 12," (Sunday), CBS, 7.56 million.
13. "NCIS: Los Angeles, CBS, 7.31 million.
14. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 7.18 million.
15. "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 7.15 million.
16. "Big Brother 12" (Thursday), CBS, 7.14 million.
17. "The Mentalist," CBS, 7.03 million.
18. "Big Brother 12" (Wednesday), 6.97 million.
19. "Rookie Blue," ABC, 6.87 million.
20. "Minute to Win It" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.8 million.
Ratings
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