M Is FOR MASHUP - August 29th, 2012
Having A Ball
By DJ Useo
In case you were wondering, I'm still releasing one new mashup album a month all this year of 2012. It takes a lot of advance planning, but as you can tell from this latest collection's title, it's very rewarding for me. Perhaps it's a bit too many records for you to keep up with currently, but I've noticed from the numbers that many of you get around to sampling them eventually. There's been albums of dance mashups, funny mashups, variety, & even a sequel tribute to
SPARKS
( www.allsparks.com/ ) . Now, the fun continues with '
HAVING A BALL', a new collection of 17 Useo-style mashups.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/08/having-ball-variety-mashup-album.html )
The main theme I strove to adhere to on this assortment was my own tastes in tunes. It doesn't hit on every type of music I love, but it hits most of the highlights. Techno, metal, punk, new wave, pop, & rock with touches of others as well. As I usually do, I mixed up way more tracks than I needed, then with the learned assistance of my fan club, the Useoettes, we pared the release down from 29 tracks to only 17. A splendid one disc collection.
The great news about this, is it means there's plenty of enjoyable mixes left over for any future single, or album posts. Just checking quickly, I see among the not-used tracks ones like 'People Are Creeque Alley' (The Mamas & The Papas vs The Doors), 'King Kong Deal' (They Might Be Giants vs Bare & Datsik), & 'I Love The Rock 'n Roll Beat (The Go-go's vs Joan Jett & The Blackhearts). To tell the truth, that Doors/Mamas one is so good, I'm saving it for a special occasion. Preview listeners tell me they're still singing it days later. Ni-ice to hear. But don't think this means I slighted you on this full album. Check out this full playlist
DJ Useo-Having A Ball
Playlist
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01 - Rock It For Me Bloodlines
(Dethklok vs Caravan Palace vs Regular Show)
02 - Skin Deep Every Day
(The Stranglers vs Tony Thomas vs Jon-Eindustry)
03 - Monolith In The Margins
(T.Rex vs Echo and The Bunnymen)
04 - Kiss This Charming Man For Me
(Siouxsie & The Banshees vs The Smiths)
05 - Cold As Wheels
(Paul McCartney And Wings vs Foreigner)
06 - My Synchrony Sensation
(Nina Hagen vs Davide Cali vs Oliver Lieb)
07 - What Does Do It Again Mean To Me
(Steely Dan vs Human Sexual Response)
08 - Still Life In Silicon Sound
(Japan vs Silicon Sound)
09 - Wowshit Requiem
(Doors vs Killing Joke vs Karmon)
10 - Raspberry Bite
(Nine Inch Nails vs Prince)
11 - Pop Will Eat Itself -There is No Love Between us Anymore
(DJ Useo WGG Remix)
12 - What Do I Get Children of The Grave
(The Buzzcocks vs Black Sabbath)
13 - Party Angst
(Sparks vs Loudnessboy)
14 -Boogie Woogie Satellite
(XTC vs A Tihovsky)
15 - Get Down PDA Make Love
(Queen vs Interpol)
16 - Eminence Drums
(The Who vs Adam Port)
17 - Let's Have A Pirates Kiki
(Scissor Sisters vs Caravan Palace)
Here's a link to preview/stream the first track
( official.fm/tracks/aE4S )
Here's the full post on my blog where you can find multiple links for the
full 152 MB file.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/08/having-ball-variety-mashup-album.html )
If you like it, & I suspect you will, please tell your friends. Remember, there's already been 7 previous mashup albums from me this year. All are on my blog, & there's even more Useo & Useo-related mashup albums
here
( djuseomashupalbums.blogspot.com/ )
More good news now. There's 4 more already-completed mashup albums from me coming during the last 4 months of 2012. Next up is CENSORED. Meanwhile, have the day of good.
Mix Of The Week
DJ A MAC Mash Up Mix 8.26.12 is HIPHOP, RAP, HOUSE, & DUB STEP & plays wonderfully over 24 minutes.
Stream or download here
( soundcloud.com/dj_a_mac1/dj-a-mac-mash-up-mix-8-26-12 )
Mashup Tip :
Oftentimes you can find acapellas posted on YOUTUBE ( www.youtube.com ) . Grab them while you can.
Latest Useo Thing
Well. Recently I gifted y'all a yodelling dubstep mix that is currently my most-listened-to mix. If you like that one, try an earful of this novelty fidget blend. '
Mr Apollo Swagga' (The Bonzo Dog Band vs Excision & Datsik)
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/08/bonzos-vs-excision-datsik.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Obama mashups will ultimately prove more popular than Romney mashups, although the system for counting the final numbers will be in grave doubt.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Laura J. Nelson: "[Neil] Armstrong: a never-read eulogy recalls danger of his feat" (LA Times)
"The most dangerous part of the moon mission was to get that lunar module back up into orbit of the moon and join the command ship," Safire told Tim Russert in 1999 on an episode of "Meet the Press," just after the memo was released. "If they couldn't, and there was a good risk that they couldn't, then they would have to be abandoned on the moon - left to die there."
Jacqueline Tresl: "A GOOD DEED." (The Jeffersonian)
Last December my mom paid off someone else's layaway: It was kids' Christmas toys. She didn't know them. I asked her why she did it and she said it's something really cool she's heard about; where you do a good deed for a person you don't even know.
Kurt Vonnegut's rules of writing (Sandscriber)
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Megan Seling: Pop Punk Puberty (The Stranger)
Everything I Know About Being a Woman I Learned from Boys Singing Songs About Girls.
Roger Ebert's Journal: Let's Have a Meeting
It was Gene Siskel who introduced me to the concept of Lip Flap. By this he meant the practice of speaking without saying anything of use. Its primary purpose, he explained, was to allow people to sneak up on the moment when they would sooner or later have to actually engage their minds. Siskel was an impatient man. In that and other ways we were allies.
Clive James: A Critic and a Poet (Atlantic)
Pauline Kael showed us how to talk about popular art and fall in love with movies.
Shirley MacLaine: the new dame in Downton (Guardian)
Shirley MacLaine is about to join the hit series Downton Abbey. She tells Emma Brockes about money, men and why the cast were too afraid to ask her for Hollywood gossip.
Richard Lea: "László Krasznahorkai interview: 'This society is the result of 10,000 years?'" (Guardian)
The Hungarian writer behind the formally experimental Satantango talks punctuation, inspiration and money-motivation.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
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."
"Doug's Most Shared Facebook Post" Today
wrote:
took the day off.
Reader Suggestion
Michelle in AZ
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Hot with intermittent swarms of ants.
Re-Affirms "AGT" Exit
Sharon Osbourne
Despite the fact that she's leaving "America's Got Talent," Sharon Osbourne is a big fan of the show and her co-stars.
The "AGT" judge - who has stated her intention to leave the show after the current season - restated her intention to depart on "Late Show With David Letterman" Monday night.
"I've done for six years; this show is the most fabulous show to work on," Osbourne told show host David Letterman. "But it's just time. You know when your gut tells you; time to move on to other things."
Asked if the fond feelings extended to NBC, Osbourne offered a not-so-cryptic reference.
"Wasn't it terrible about the Titanic?" Osbourne asked. "Shame, wasn't it?"
Sharon Osbourne
Bobblehead
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop, the permanently shirtless singer and frontman of legendary protopunk band The Stooges, is getting his own bobblehead.
The 65-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is being honored with a limited edition 7-inch bobblehead--or "throbblehead"--that looks just as frightening as the leathery singer himself. Thankfully, Aggronautix, the company behind the figurines, is producing just 1,000 of the poly-resin bobbleheads, which will retail for $24.95 a, uh, pop. (They're now taking preorders for shipping in early October.)
Pop--whose given name is James Newell Osterberg Jr.--is not the first rocker to receive the Aggronautix "throbblehead" treatment.
Dinosaur Jr. guitarist J. Mascis, Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, GG Allin and Andrew W.K. are among dozens of punk and post-punk notables to be reproduced as bobbleheads.
Iggy Pop
Facebook Users Salute
Prince Harry
Whatever the royal family may think of his exploits in Las Vegas, many Britons can barely hide their support for Prince Harry, posting naked pictures of themselves online in tribute.
A Facebook group entitled "Support Prince Harry with a naked salute!" -- featuring people posing in various states of undress saluting the third-in-line to the throne -- has won 13,000 members and is still growing.
The group sprang up after Harry, 27, was photographed naked with a mystery woman during a game of "strip billiards" in a Las Vegas hotel suite.
The online show of support for Harry came as it was announced that he will be the patron of a charity race to the South Pole between three teams of wounded servicemen from around the world.
Prince Harry
MLB TV Contract Extended
ESPN
Major League Baseball and ESPN extended their television contract through 2021 on Tuesday, a deal that almost doubles the amount of money the network will pay annually for baseball content while also all but eliminating blackouts of local broadcasts of ESPN games on Monday and Wednesday nights.
The deal was announced on Tuesday. It combines rights for TV, radio, digital and international that had been separate. The new single contract adds new rights to air a wild-card game, along with additional rights to highlights and digital content. It also gives the network more flexibility to show games involving popular teams.
The previous contracts were worth close to $360 million a year combined. A person with knowledge of the new combined deal says it will be worth about $700 million a year over eight years. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the financial figures were not released.
The deal also gives ESPN the rights to a wild card game, which will rotate between the AL and NL every other year, the ability to air live look-ins on "SportsCenter" and increased the number of times it can schedule a team on Sunday night baseball from five to six.
ESPN
Flight Attendant In Guinness Book
Ron Akana
A flight attendant is landing in the Guinness Book of World Records after his 63 years of moving about the cabin ended in his home state of Hawaii.
Eighty-three-year-old Ron Akana finished his career as the longest-serving flight attendant for any U.S. carrier over the weekend on a United Airlines flight from Denver to Kauai.
The Honolulu-born Akana says he's been told he will go into the record book in October. He plans to spend the rest of his retirement traveling.
Akana decided to retire when he was offered a buyout. He was one of the first male flight attendants at United.
Ron Akana
Childhood Home Bought, Museum Planned
John Updike
John Updike's childhood home in Pennsylvania has been purchased by a group that plans to restore it and turn it into a museum.
The John Updike Society bought the home in Shillington, about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, for $180,000 on Monday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author lived there until he was 13.
The society hopes the 1900 house can be preserved and re-created how it would have looked in Updike's youth. The Reading Eagle (http://bit.ly/Pn498I ) reports organizers will seek donated materials for display.
Best known for his novels chronicling the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Updike won Pulitzers for two of those stories, "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." He died in 2009 at age 76.
John Updike
Israeli Court Rejects Lawsuit
Rachel Corrie
An Israeli court on Tuesday cleared the military of wrongdoing in the death of a young American activist who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest in the Gaza Strip nearly a decade ago, rejecting claims by her parents that the driver acted recklessly.
The verdict came after a seven-year legal battle waged by the family of Rachel Corrie, whose death remains a powerful symbol on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For pro-Palestinian activists, Corrie has become a rallying cry and vivid image of what they say is Israel's harsh repression of the Palestinians. In Israel, she is viewed as a tragic, manipulated figure who naively put herself into harm's way in a fit of idealism.
Corrie, who was 23, was crushed to death in March 2003 as she tried to block an Israeli military bulldozer in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. The incident occurred at the height of a Palestinian uprising, a time of heavy fighting between the military and Palestinian militants.
Corrie's parents filed their civil suit two years later after an internal army investigation ruled the death an accident and said the bulldozer driver and other military personnel in the area acted properly. Corrie's supporters have said the investigation was poorly handled and the driver acted recklessly, perhaps even intentionally running her over.
Rachel Corrie
Special Absolution For Archbishop-Elect
Salvatore Cordileone
The Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of San Francisco has apologized for his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, behavior that he said brought "shame" and "disgrace" on himself and the church, though legal experts said was unlikely to derail his promotion.
The Rev. Salvatore Cordileone said in a statement issued Monday by his office that he was driving home from a dinner with friends in San Diego with his mother and a visiting priest friend early Saturday when he was pulled over at a DUI checkpoint near San Diego State University.
The statement said a sobriety test showed his blood-alcohol level to be above the legal limit, althoughCordileone did not reveal by how much.
Cordileone, 56, currently serves as bishop of Oakland and is scheduled to be installed as San Francisco archbishop on Oct. 4, five days before his first court date.
Cordileone, one of 11 people arrested at the checkpoint that night, identified himself as a priest, said McCullough. An officer did an Internet search and learned he was archbishop-elect.
Because Catholic bishops are answerable only to the pope, any potential discipline would have to come from the Vatican, said Michael Ritty, a canon lawyer in private practice in upstate New York.
Salvatore Cordileone
Suspected Burglar Pleads Not Guilty
LL Cool J
A man who allegedly broke into the home of rapper and TV actor LL Cool J and was overpowered and held by the star until police arrived, pleaded not guilty to a burglary charge on Tuesday.
Jonathan A. Kirby, 56, was being held in jail and a new hearing was set for September 10 in Los Angeles to decide if enough evidence exists for him to stand trial.
The criminal complaint against Kirby alleges at least two prior convictions in California, meaning that if he is found guilty of this break-in, it would be a "third strike" under California law and he would face 38 years to life in prison.
Kirby, who police said appeared to have been homeless, was taken to a local hospital to treat a broken nose, jaw and ribs, police said.
LL Cool J
Orthodox Activists Interrupt Play
Pussy Riot
Russian Orthodox Church activists burst into a theatrical show about the Pussy Riot feminist punk band late Monday, shouting "Repent!" and "Why do you hate Russians," as they were filmed by a national channel.
The dramatic twist came as a cutting-edge theatre put on a documentary show about the three jailed singers' stunt performance against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral, with the women's lawyers and supporters on stage.
The show was the latest from a Moscow theatre praised for its fearless criticism of the authorities, with previous shows mocking Putin and detailing the death in jail of the whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Audience members packed the black-painted Teatr.doc cellar theatre for the free show named after the trial venue, "Khamovnichesky Court. The Sequel."
Pussy Riot
"Galley Slave"
Putin
Vladimir Putin once compared ruling Russia to being a "galley slave", but four yachts that come with the job, as well as a string of palaces and a wealth of luxury perks help explain his refusal to quit the presidency, leading critics said on Tuesday.
Listing 58 planes and helicopters and 20 homes with opulent fittings worthy of the tsars, not to mention 11 watches which alone are worth several times Putin's annual salary, a report published under the ironic title "The Life of a Galley Slave" by opposition leader Boris Nemtsov denounced the lavish spending as an affront to millions of Russians living in dire poverty.
The Kremlin, which has long portrayed the 59-year-old president as a man of simple tastes with a liking for popular sports and active outdoor pastimes, did not immediately comment.
Intended to foster faint stirrings of opposition to Putin's recent re-election for a further six years, the report may struggle for attention. In a mark of the reluctance of Russians to challenge the Kremlin, Nemtsov said he had struggled to find a printer willing to produce the booklet. And after publication, it was largely ignored by the country's major media outlets.
Many ordinary Russians seemed indifferent to opponents who revelled in eye-catching details, such as the $75,000 (47,400 pounds) toilet on a presidential jet. The authors also identified from photographs a total of 11 luxury timepieces on the wrist of the head of state and calculated their total value at some $700,000, while noting Putin had declared an annual income less than $115,000.
Putin
Actor Arrested
"The Walking Dead"
"The Walking Dead" actor Scott Wilson, who plays alcoholic farmer Hershel Greene on AMC's hit zombie drama, is facing DUI charges after being arrested last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Wilson, 70, was pulled over at 2 a.m. on August 18 by Peachtree City, Ga., police after they observed his black PT Cruiser traveling at about 70 miles per hour - "well above the posted speed limit" for the area, according to officials. Police also noted that his car "swerved back and forth" several times.
Wilson was administered field sobriety tests, which he failed. The actor complained to police that the roadway was too "slanted" and offered to perform "yoga moves" in lieu of the traditional tests, according to the paper.
A breathalyzer test administered at the scene put Wilson's blood alcohol concentration at 0.143, well above the legal limit of .08, while tests at the Fayette County, Ga. jail where Wilson was booked registered a 0.151 and 0.155, the paper said.
"The Walking Dead"
Criticizes Media
Jon Voight
Republican Conventioneer Jon Voight is letting fly with some strong commentary about President Obama, Mitt Romney and what he believes to be a formidable liberal bias in the American media.
Representing a relatively small faction of openly right-leaning celebrities in Hollywood, the actor was the featured speaker at a breakfast meeting of Virginia delegation members in Clearwater on Monday as his "first job" at the GOP summit.
He also took the opportunity to offer his off-the-cuff critique of the U.S. mainstream media, claiming "this media has been overtaken by this administration in no less a way that Cesar Chavez has taken over the media in Venezuela. It's as strong as that."
And according to the actor, the left-leaning media is picking and choosing - and liberally editing - its footage from the Republican convention, whittling coverage down to an hour. "What will they edit out?" he said. "What story will they tell? It's propaganda, pure and simple. And everyone - every citizen - should be up in arms."
Jon Voight
Faked Sighting Leads To Death
Bigfoot
A man dressed in a military-style "ghillie" suit and apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwest Montana was struck by two cars and killed, authorities said.
The man was standing in the right-hand lane of U.S. Highway 93 south of Kalispell on Sunday night when he was hit by the first car, according to the Montana Highway Patrol. A second car hit the man as he lay in the roadway, authorities said.
Flathead County officials identified the man as Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell. Trooper Jim Schneider said motives were ascertained during interviews with friends, and alcohol may have been a factor but investigators were awaiting tests.
Ghillie suits are a type of full-body clothing made to resemble heavy foliage and used to camouflage military snipers.
Tenley was struck by vehicles driven by two girls, ages 15 and 17, who were unable to stop in time, authorities said.
Bigfoot
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Aug. 20-26:
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.9 million.
2. NFL Exhibition Football: Carolina vs. N.Y. Jets, NBC, 9.82 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 8.6 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.58 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 8.09 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.44 million.
7. "Big Brother 14" (Sunday), CBS, 7.37 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.15 million.
9. "The Mentalist" (Tuesday), CBS, 6.29 million.
10. "Big Brother 14" (Thursday), CBS, 6.28 million.
11. "Hell's Kitchen" (Monday), Fox, 6.23 million.
12. "Master Chef" (Tuesday), Fox, 5.99 million.
13. "Two and a Half Men" (Thursday), CBS, 5.95 million.
14. "20/20," ABC, 5.93 million.
15. Auto Racing: NASCAR at Bristol, ABC, 5.91 million.
16. "Big Brother 14" (Wednesday), CBS, 5.86 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.77 million.
18. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.61 million.
19. "The Mentalist" (Sunday), CBS, 5.57 million.
20. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 5.47 million.
Ratings
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