M Is FOR MASHUP - September 5th, 2012
What Do People Say About Mashups?
By DJ Useo
Here're some images with captions to display what people say about mashups. Now it's your turn to view them. More words follow after. (I like words. They let me order food at restaurants.)
Wasn't that fun? Next week I have an article for you about a new 3-disc collection of 80s mashups.
Mix Of The Week
Was there ever a flood of new long mixes this week! Too hot to pick one to feature. Maybe next week.
Mashup Tip
Go to FRANK
( hotdogscoldbeer.com/ ) for inspiration in mixing. Even if you can't think of a good mashup, the drinks are amazing!
Latest Useo Thing
I got a request for an Elvis Presley mashup. Here's how it ended up. Actually, very nice. '
The Good, The Bad, & The Burning Love' (Elvis Presley vs Erasure). Y'know, when you check his tunes, that Elvis was mighty fine.
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/08/elvis-vs-erasure.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
People are still mashing sex! Lust keeps on bootlegging.
Recommended Reading
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Matt Kennard: "The modern US army: unfit for service?" (Guardian)
In the relatively halcyon days of the first Gulf war in 1990, the US military blocked the enlistment of felons. It spurned men and women with low IQs or those without a high school diploma. It would either block the enlistment of or kick out neo-Nazis and gang members. It would treat or discharge alcoholics, drug abusers and the mentally ill. No more. While the Bush administration …
As told to Chris Broughton: "Richard Miles: I dug up £10m of iron age coins" (Guardian)
'I only had to dig down about three inches, and as my fingers closed around that first coin, I recognised its size and shape immediately.'
What I'm really thinking: the woman priest (Guardian)
'I smile brightly, and look forward to the moment when I can return to my empty vicarage, smoke a cigarette and drink a cup of coffee alone.'
What I'm really thinking: the cleaner (Guardian)
'I can understand people leaving bank statements lying around, but vibrators?'
I Wish My Mother had Aborted Me (Role Reboot)
An abortion would have been best for me because there is no way that my love-starved trauma-addled mother could have ever put me up for adoption. It was either abortion or raising me herself, and she was in no position to raise a child. She had suffered a traumatic brain injury, witnessed and experienced severe domestic violence, and while she was in grade school she was raped by a stranger and her mother committed suicide. She was severely depressed and suicidal, had an extremely poor support system, was experiencing an unplanned pregnancy that resulted from coercive sex, and she was so young that her brain was still undeveloped.
John Cheese: 5 Simple Things That Every Bad Cook Does Wrong (Cracked)
Quite a few of you reading this are just now entering a phase in your life when you're expected to be able to actually prepare food that doesn't involve simply combining water with some kind of powder. Due to a lack of practice, most of you will be terrible at it.
CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA: The Marquise Went out at Five O'clock: On Making Sentences Do Something (The Millions)
… my professors and classmates sometimes picked out isolated sentences that they believed contained enough life and interest to suggest some promise on my part. You may have already guessed that the sentences they picked were never - I'm not exaggerating: not once - those I'd labored over.
Bill Gifford: Will Starving Yourself Help You Live Longer? (Slate)
A major new study says what you eat may matter more than how much you eat.
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Last Night
Hotter, but less humid.
Dear old dad's 'kid' brother made the front page of the hometown newspaper for having donated another pint of blood when the Bloodmobile made its last stop.
It was his 208th pint, and doing the math, that means Uncle Rich has donated 26 Gallons(!) of blood.
Moves Up Awards Show
MTV
MTV has moved up the start of its annual Video Music Awards so its fans won't have to choose between pop stars and President Barack Obama.
The show is airing Thursday, the night Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for another term as president. But MTV says it's running the show an hour earlier than it usually does to not conflict with Obama's speech.
The show will run from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time. The president is scheduled to speak after 10 p.m.
The video awards are a considerable draw for young viewers and usually run around Labor Day. Last year's show was seen by 12.4 million people, more than anything on the broadcast networks that week and likely MTV's largest audience ever.
MTV
The New Regis
Michael Strahan
The only worry on Michael Strahan's mind when he made his entrance Tuesday as the new co-host of "Live!": "Don't trip," he summed up after the show.
When Kelly Ripa introduced him, the gap-toothed former football player jogged onto the morning show set and gathered her up in a bear hug, lifting her off her feet.
The rest of the hour was clearly a snap for him and for Ripa, who was getting a permanent partner nine months after Regis Philbin was retired from the show and after having welcomed Strahan and 58 other guests in the chair beside her.
Strahan's hiring has been an open secret for the past two weeks. His selection was made official a couple of minutes into what, since November, had gone by the stripped-down title "Live! With Kelly" and now rechristened "Live! With Kelly and Michael."
Or rather, "live! with kelly and michael." Eyeing the brand-new all-lowercase logo during a commercial break, the co-hosts pondered whether the first letters of their names would look better capitalized.
Michael Strahan
Sold To Highest Bidders
Dick Clark Productions
Private equity firm Guggenheim Partners together with media companies Mandalay Entertainment and Mosaic Media Investment Partners will buy Golden Globes telecast producer Dick Clark Productions for $370 million.
Guggenheim and Mandalay Entertainment, headed by Hollywood veteran Peter Guber, were also part of a group that agreed in March to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team for a record $2 billion.
Clark sold his majority stake in the company in 2002 but continued to appear on the company's "New Years Rockin' Eve" show despite illness. Media personality and "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, who withdrew as a bidder in the past few weeks, has hosted the New Year's Eve show in recent years.
The independent production firm, set up by Clark in 1957, had been put up for sale by Red Zone Capital, the private equity firm of Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder.
Dick Clark Productions
Excluded From 'TPIR' Special
Bob Barker
Bob Barker hosted "The Price Is Right" for 35 years, but he wasn't invited to participate in the game show's 40th anniversary special.
The 88-year-old TV personality says the show's producers "chose to ignore me, which is fine."
The 40th anniversary special episode aired Tuesday morning and featured returning contestants from the past 40 years. Barker is shown in several clips but was not invited to appear on the program or attend the taping.
Barker announced his retirement in 2006 and hosted his final show in 2007. He was replaced by Drew Carey.
Bob Barker
London Museum To Open Exhibition
David Bowie
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit will be among some 300 items shown at a London exhibition that traces the singer's career through five decades.
The retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum will also feature Bowie's instruments, 60 costumes, sketches, hand-written lyrics, diary entries and album artwork.
The items on display are from the David Bowie Archive in New York. The exhibition opens in March 2013.
The 65-year-old Bowie, who now lives in the U.S., was born David Robert Jones in 1947 in south London. He adopted his stage name in 1965.
David Bowie
Tells Secrets, No BFD
"No Easy Day"
A former Navy SEAL's insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contains classified information, the Pentagon said Tuesday, and the admiral who heads the Naval Special Warfare Command said details in the book may provide enemies with dangerous insight into secretive U.S. operations.
Rear Adm. Sean Pybus told his force Tuesday that "hawking details about a mission" and selling other information about SEAL training and operations puts the force and their families at risk.
At the Pentagon, press secretary George Little said that an official review of the book, "No Easy Day," determined that it reveals what he called "sensitive and classified" information. He was not more specific but said the author was required to submit the book to the Pentagon before publication for a formal review of potential disclosures of such information.
He told reporters during a briefing that the Pentagon is still reviewing what legal options should be taken against the author.
"No Easy Day"
Quincy In The Middle
Wynn v. Francis
Steve Wynn and porn producer Joe Francis faced off before jurors Tuesday, with the casino mogul denying that he threatened to kill the "Girls Gone Wild" founder and saying the accusation is threatening his upscale casinos.
Jurors listened to wildly varying accounts of whether Wynn threatened to hit Francis over the head with a shovel and have him buried in the desert, with the soft-porn producer insisting he heard about the threats from record executive Quincy Jones. Francis testified that Jones told him Wynn made the threats in conversations and emails, but Wynn denies it.
Wynn is suing Francis for slander, the latest legal fight in ongoing battles between the two men that include gambling debt that Francis racked up in one of Wynn Resorts Ltd.'s casinos.
Jones, who is Francis' next-door neighbor and a close friend of Wynn's, is expected to testify during the trial.
Wynn, who said he had never threatened anyone in his life, said he was concerned that Francis' allegations will hurt his reputation with his thousands of employees in Las Vegas and harm future casino projects.
Wynn v. Francis
Estate Settles Copyright Case
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's estate and a businessman working with the singer's mother settled a copyright infringement lawsuit for $2.5 million on Tuesday, shortly before a trial in the case was scheduled to begin.
The settlement also restricts Howard Mann and his companies from using Jackson's likeness without permission in the future. It ends a year and a half of legal fighting over Mann's use of Jackson's name and likeness on a website used to promote unreleased songs, photographs and a book written by Katherine Jackson filled with recollections of her superstar son.
Mann is the CEO of Vintage Pop Media, which operated the website www.michaeljacksonsecretvault.com until it was ordered shut down last month by a federal judge who ruled the site violated copyrights controlled by the singer's estate.
Under the terms of the settlement, announced in court by estate attorney Zia Modabber, Vintage Pop Media Group is responsible for $2 million of the judgment, while the entity Vintage Associates LLC is responsible for the remainder. Vintage Associates is the custodian of the items that were at issue in the case.
Michael Jackson
Puddle of Mudd Singer Arrested
Wes Scantlin
Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin has been arrested in Texas and charged with public intoxication after being removed from a cross-country flight.
Police in Austin say the pilot of a JetBlue flight requested an emergency landing Tuesday to remove an unruly passenger creating a disturbance. Details about the incident weren't immediately available, though the plane was traveling from Boston to Los Angeles.
The public intoxication charge is a Class C misdemeanor, similar to a parking citation.
Police say it isn't clear if the 40-year-old singer for the multi-platinum rock band has an attorney. Contact information for a publicist couldn't be found, and a message to the band's website wasn't immediately returned.
Wes Scantlin
Three More Years
Rupert
Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business could face scrutiny for three more years after the officer heading a police inquiry into phone-hacking and illegal payments to public officials said she expected it to last that long.
The police investigation into criminal activities at Murdoch's News International unit has already forced him to close the News of the World tabloid and end a deal to acquire the whole of the pay-TV group BSkyB, which would have been the biggest deal in News Corp's history.
Speaking at a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said London's police force had budgeted for three more years ofinquiries into the illegal activities of British journalists.
Those investigations have broadened from an initial focus into allegations that News of the Worldreporters hacked into voicemail messages left on the mobile phones of celebrities, politicians and crime victims and now includes probes into corrupt payments to officials and computer hacking.
A total of 79 people have been arrested across all three inquiries, about half of which are current or former journalists who mostly worked for Murdoch's papers.
Rupert
Chinese Company Buys Chain
AMC Theaters
Chinese conglomerate Wanda says it has closed on the acquisition of AMC Entertainment Holdings, one of the largest movie theater chains in the U.S.
The $2.6 billion deal is the largest takeover yet of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm. It also makes Wanda the world's largest owner of cinemas.
The Beijing-based company said it will invest an additional $500 million in AMC and keep its headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
AMC operates 338 cinemas. It's owned by a group of private-equity firms.
AMC Theaters
Suit Sold For $39,670
Margaret Thatcher
A turquoise wool suit that Margaret Thatcher wore on the day she was confirmed as Conservative Party leader has sold at auction for 25,000 pounds ($39,670).
An anonymous bidder bought the dress suit, by British designer Mansfield, at a Christie's auction in London late Monday.
Separately, a buyer in South Korea snagged six other striking outfits on auction, all of which were worn by Thatcher in the 1970s before she became prime minister.
In total, the outfits fetched a little more than 73,000 pounds - far exceeding the initial estimates of 1,000 to 1,500 pounds for each outfit.
Margaret Thatcher
New Music Release
Charlie Manson
A vinyl album with a "raw country" sound and spoken-word poetry has been flying off the shelves at a Hollywood, Calif., boutique, never mind that the artist is convicted mass murderer Charles Manson.
Manuel Vasquez, 26, co-owner of the Beauty Is Pain boutique, told ABCNews.com he has so far sold a "couple hundred" copies of the vinyl recording, which retails for $18 and includes never-before-heard tracks of Manson playing guitar. Some of the material, which Vasquez said he obtained from an "old friend" of the convict, dates back to the 1980s.
"It's him singing and playing guitar and also reciting some poetry and spoken word type stuff," Vasquez said. "[He] sounds like an old blues man or a raw country singer."
Manson will not receive any profits or royalties from the sale of the album.
Vasquez, who was not alive when the "Manson family" terrorized Southern California in the late 1960s with its "Helter Skelter" killing spree, said he wanted to produce the album because he believes Manson's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated.
Charlie Manson
Drawing Up For Sale
Raphael
A major drawing by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael will go on sale in December with an estimated price between 10 million and 15 million pounds ($16 million and $24 million), auction house Sotheby's said on Tuesday.
The 16th-century "Head of an Apostle" is a study for the Raphael's last painting, "Transfiguration", which is on display at the Vatican Museum in Rome. Measuring roughly 15 inches by 11 inches, the picture was drawn in black chalk.
Only two other Raphael drawings of the same caliber have been auctioned off in the last 50 years, Sotheby's said. In 2009, Raphael's black chalk "Head of a Muse" sold for 29.2 million pounds at Christie's London.
Currently part of the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth, the "Head of an Apostle" is one of the greatest drawings by Raphael to remain in private hands, said Sotheby's. It is now on show at the Prado Museum in Madrid as part of an exhibit of late Raphael works.
Raphael
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