M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - from May 27th, 2008
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By DJ Useo
As often as I hear the words "MASHUPS ARE DEAD" (they aren't), I hear people say "Beatles mashups are played out" (not by a long shot). It's not hard at all to direct your attention to tons of great new tracks that feature the four lads from Liverpool. Elocnep ( www.elocnep.com/Bootlegs/2009/ ) has managed a very popular track with his 'Queens Of The Stone Age vs The Beatles'. Titans of bootleg Loo And Placido ( www.looandplacido.com/home.php?lang=en ) rocked everyone's world with 'Safari Love' (The Beatles vs Elton John vs Aretha Franklin vs Placido singing The Pixies). Even Masters of mashup Team9 ( www.team9.net/ ) have veered into the world of the Fab Four using The Beatles 'Back in the USSR' vs. Digitalism's 'Zdarlight'. These top mixers all enjoy an occasional use of the Beatles, but there's an entire site where only Beatles Mashups dwell.
The Beatles' Remixers forum claims a good community of posters where every track has at least one of the Beatles in it & generally all four. I've even heard a few with Yoko Ono. :) Reigning from his position of experience with Beatles' mashups is MP3J ( mp3j.podomatic.com/ ). Through his dedication & endlessly-inspired creativity he has thrilled countless with a large back catalogue & even provided a fine home to like-minded mixers. None of them claim any rights to the tunes they produce, instead allowing them to stand as examples of mixing skill, while consistently touting the thrill of the Beatles' releases. Many is the time I heard from a mashup fan who, once exposed to their music through a mashup, proceeded to pick up the official releases.
MP3J began his lengthy bootleg career in the early days of GET YOUR BOOTLEG ON ( www.gybo5.com ) & mainly confined himself to tracks that cut & sampled the Beatles while contrasting them with modern artists like Eminem, Bloc Party & Coldplay. Despite the passage of time, he continues to provide amazing examples of his advanced ability to hear the commonalities between the Beatles' output & other artists. The clearest examples of his success in the genre is his outstanding 'WTF' series, which has reached the astonishing number of 55! The 'WTF' series brings you over an hour of MP3J Beatles' boots combined into one long sequence & manages to get better & better as they continue. Rather than becoming rehashes of played-out music as some naysayers have said to me, the series never lets up in it's finely-mixed & inspired pairings.
Sometimes it's intimidating to follow in his large footsteps, but he has lured many other talented mixers of the Beatles to the Beatles' Remixers forum. Upon arriving at BR (as many call it) you will bear witness to the regular posts of BDJ ( bdj.podomatic.com/ ) , Patamixical Science ( patamixicalscience.podomatic.com/ ), & Phatbuzz ( phattbuzz.podomatic.com/ ) amongst others. Other great mixing members include Voicedude, Phil Retrospector, & DJ Not-I. It's a good close-knit community with over 150 members. None of it would exist without the pioneering mixing of MP3J. To tell the truth, there doesn't look to be any let-up in the Beatles' mashing anytime soon.
An active part of MP3J's site is the monthly Beatles' track challenge where a single track is chosen & the members are encouraged to try their hands at it. It's not easy to be assigned a track to mix. Many bootleggers never even attempt it. It's hard enough to do a GYBO challenge where the type of music is determined for you. With the BR challenge, you have to use a specific track.
This recent month the track is harder than most. Mixers must employ the unreleased Beatles' track, 'Sour Milk Sea'. I barely knew the track existed, let along entertained dreams of mashing it. Check out the variations for yourself with a visit to the forum. You can even find a link to my new track 'Sour Milk Relax' (Beatles vs Mika).
It's a never-ending parade of Beatles' chocolate goodness wrapped up in marshmallow mashup madness at BR. I firmly believe if you try one Beatles' mashup, you will look back after a few years to find you have enjoyed a lot of them & even picked up some classic Beatles' records from the fine folks at Apple Corps.
mp3j.synthasite.com/
mp3j.podomatic.com/
mp3j62.blogspot.com/
beatlemixmp3j.multiply.com/
mp3j.proboards.com/index..cgi?
Mix Of The Week - MP3J's latest 'WTF' is a mighty fine 72 minute piece & even comes with a bonus set of 24 more minutes. It's got all new mashups by MP3J including 'Imagine A Bow' (Rhianna vs John Lennon), 'If 6 Were Electronic' (Jimi Hendrix vs George Harrison), & 'Jet and the Walrus' (Wings vs The Beatles). Get yours now before it vanishes forever!!!!
beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/wtf-55-t351.html
Mashup Tip : A child of five would understand how to mash. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Carrie Rickey: Steven Spielberg to be honored not as a filmmaker, but as a philanthropist (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
This week acclaimed director Steven Spielberg, maker of "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List," will return to Philadelphia, his boyhood playground, to collect another award for a crowded mantel.
Jon Michael Varese: Why are we still reading Dickens? (guardian.co.uk)
The great Victorian is probably even more ubiquitous now than he was in his lifetime. How he remains such vital reading is an intriguing question.
Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do' (guardian.co.uk)
Claims of crazy diva demands, her unhappy first marriage and that spat with Eminem - in a frank interview, the singer tells all to Emma Brockes.
ZACH HINKLE: "20 Questions: Vic Chesnutt" (popmatters.com)
Chesnutt talks to PopMatters 20 Questions about his upcoming work with Jonathan Richman, taking advice from Michael Stipe, and how his copy of Number One Hits of the Sixties is still the greatest album of all time.
Randy Lewis: Keeping up with Exene Cervenka (latimes.com)
The songwriter, artist and X frontwoman is back in L.A. after a four-year sojourn in Missouri, with a new solo album out Tuesday.
Steve Appleford: "Live review: Marianne Faithfull at Royce Hall" (latimes.com)
Marianne Faithfull has lived a life of reinterpretation. She began as a pretty young face with a sweet voice, scoring her first hit with the precocious Jagger-Richards ballad "As Tears Go By," a 1964 Brit-pop single that might have suggested a career as Kiki Dee or Petula Clark. But she had other ideas, and a more dangerous path to follow in life and art.
Robert W. Butler: 'Chinatown' screenwriter Robert Towne takes us behind the scenes (McClatchy Newspapers)
It's now regarded as one of the great films of the '70s, as one of the best examples ever of film noir and for featuring Jack Nicholson at his cocky best.
Kevin Maher: Viggo Mortensen v the apocalypse (timesonline.co.uk)
The actor Viggo Mortensen talks about 'The Road,' a post-apocalyptic story about survival and death.
Wendy Ide: Ewan McGregor, Scot Free (timesonline.co.uk)
George Clooney's co-star on 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' tells Wendy Ide about goats, ghosts and LA living.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Good Deeds (athensnews.com)
In a letter to the editor of the 'Naples News' in Naples, Fla., Nancy Pritchard wrote, "As we are all aware, good deeds go unreported and bad deeds fill the news." However, she quickly did something to rectify the situation by writing about a good deed that had been done for her. She had bought groceries at the Naples Walk Publix Supermarket, and had driven away leaving her purse in the shopping cart. After 20 minutes had passed, she realized what she had done and so she returned to the supermarket. Fortunately, Joanna Schrenko of John R. Wood Realtors had found the purse and had turned it in to an employee of Naples Walk Publix. Ms. Pritchard closed her letter by writing, "Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
The Weekly Poll
Current Question
The 'Afghan Options' Edition
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama is not considering a strategy for Afghanistan that would withdraw U.S. troops from the eroding war there.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said "I don't think we have the option to leave. That's quite clear," ( White House: Leaving Afghanistan Not An Option | CommonDreams.org )
That being the case, what options would you recommend to the President?
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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
BadtotheboneBob
Boom
Downtown streets were brimming with excitement Monday as camera crews and movie extras filled Griswold and Clifford to shoot scenes for the upcoming movie
'Red Dawn', a remake of the 1984 film that starred the late Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen...
You can see who the Bad Guys are this time...
Film crew's fiery explosion rattles downtown | detnews.com | The Detroit News
I'm not sure of the story line, but maybe those 'evil' Chinese have decided to forcibly collect on loans we've defaulted on, haha...
BadtotheboneBob
Thanks, B2tbBob!
Link from RJ
Caught In The Web
Another link if you would like to take a look.
A little macabre perhaps!
Reader Comment
TV listings
Marty,
I've noticed recently that you're been referring to the schedule on MY tv as:
MY recycles an old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by another old 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', then an old 'Deal Or No Deal', followed by another old 'Deal Or No Deal'.
Actually, neither of these programs is a regurgitation of a previously run program, although they may be regurgitations of something else or cause regurgitation among regular viewers. They are new, syndicated, half-hour versions of the prime-time network programs. "5th Grader" is almost painful to watch, as celebrities and "normal" people demonstrate amazing ignorance of subjects everyone should be familiar with.
"Deal," on the other hand, puts on display the same obnoxious behavior as the network program, as well as the identical need for greed that motivates people to cast aside logic and statistics and end up with $1 in their case instead of the half mil they knew was inside.
All that being said, both programs, while painful to watch, are less of a chore than watching Fox "News." I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster daily that there are people who are paid to watch Fox daily in order that I may view only the snippets of insanity shown each night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachael Maddow Show, and the Daily Show and Colbert Report. I only hope these fine people are well compensated for the mental distress and anguish they must feel at the end of the work day.
Keep up the good work, my friend. For I count on BC Entertainment for my daily dose of news. I enjoy your page every morning, along with my coffee and Pop Tarts.
Roy inTyler, TX
Thanks, Roy!
I refer to them as 'recycled' because they have been previously syndicated, like the 'Deal or No Deal's, or
whittled down from an hour format like '5th Grader'.
Cutting down shows is an old trick and it's recycling, as in trying to wring every view from a tired product.
But in this case, it's closer to drying sheets of used toilet paper.
It's also a good example the old LOP theory - Least Objectional Program.
People will watch something, and if there's nothing but crap, they will settle with what the LOP is to them.
Some days, even a whittled down version of '5th Grader' could have potential.
But, MY is another Rupert property.
Consolidation and capitalism at it's finest.
Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still on the cool side.
Just after we got done planting Winnie the kittie, a suicidal bee landed on the kid's head, and when he swatted it, was stung on his index finger.
Holy crap.
He had a couple of bad reactions when he was younger and we ended up at the ER.
Tonight, we got lucky.
Didn't need the epi, and there was only minimal swelling. Whew.
Kentucky. Honors Native Son
George Clooney
Kentucky is honoring native son George Clooney with an award from the governor.
Clooney's parents, Nick and Nina Clooney, were at the Kentucky State Capitol on Tuesday to receive the award on their son's behalf. The actor won the "national award" category in the 2009 Kentucky Governor's Awards in the Arts.
The award is given each year to a Kentucky-born artist who has gained national or international recognition.
Clooney was born in Lexington, Ky., and graduated from high school in Augusta in northern Kentucky.
George Clooney
Honored And Not
Dalai Lama
Lawmakers honored the Dalai Lama with a human rights award Tuesday even as President Barack Obama faced harsh criticism for delaying a meeting with the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.
The Dalai Lama and Obama will not meet until after Obama visits Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing in November. China reviles the Dalai Lama and pressures foreign governments not to meet with him. The Obama administration, which needs Chinese support for crucial foreign policy, economic and environmental goals, wants to establish friendly ties between Hu and Obama during next month's visit.
While the Obama administration was accused of "kowtowing" to Beijing's wishes, supporters of the Dalai Lama gathered at the Capitol as the Tibetan monk was given an award in memory of the late Rep. Tom Lantos of California, a Holocaust survivor and longtime champion of human rights.
The Dalai Lama said the award encourages him, at 74, to dedicate the rest of his life to the "promotion of human affection and compassion, and equality and basic human rights in Tibet, or in mainland China, or everywhere."
Dalai Lama
18 Finalists
American Mustache Institute
Two baseball players and hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger are among 18 finalists for the American Mustache Institute's top honors. The tongue-in-cheek St. Louis-based institute announced the finalists Monday for the "Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year."
The winner will be selected through an online vote and announced at the "'Stache Bash" on Oct. 30. Proceeds from the event benefit Challenger Baseball, a baseball league for those with disabilities.
Sullenberger, who sports a neatly groomed white mustache, gained fame after safely landing a disabled US Airways jetliner in New York's Hudson River in January.
St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Brendan Ryan and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Clay Zavada are the two ballplayers among the finalists.
American Mustache Institute
Thurber Prize
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier is a funny man. Officially.
The author and frequent New Yorker contributor won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his lighthearted book on parental guidance, "Lamentations of the Father." Frazier, who in 1997 received the inaugural Thurber award, will receive $5,000, prize organizers said Monday.
Other previous Thurber winners include David Sedaris, Christopher Buckley and Jon Stewart and the co-authors of "America (The Book)." The prize is named for the late humorist and cartoonist James Thurber and is sponsored by Thurber House, a nonprofit literary center based in Thurber's former residence in Columbus, Ohio.
Ian Frazier
Keeping Print Magazine
Playboy
Playboy Enterprises Inc on Tuesday named an 11-year veteran of the adult entertainment company as president, while its chief executive vowed to keep printing its namesake magazine.
Alex Vaickus will serve as the company's president, a new position, and will oversee all of its businesses including print, television and digital media, Playboy said in a statement.
He will report to Playboy Chief Executive Scott Flanders, who joined the company earlier this year from Freedom Communications, publisher of U.S. newspapers including the Orange County Register in California.
Vaickus joined Playboy in 1998 as a vice president of strategic planning. He later became president of Playboy's global licensing business, which helps the company make money from its Bunny Ears logo and other aspects of the adult entertainment magazine's storied history.
Before Playboy, Vaickus was a vice president at ConAgra and held several jobs at Sara Lee Corp.
Playboy
Two Down
'Dancing With The Stars'
Politicial embarrrassment Tom DeLay (R-Corrupt) and actress Debi Mazar have turned in their last dance. Both are leaving "Dancing With the Stars."
DeLay withdrew from the ABC dance-off Tuesday after being diagnosed with stress fractures in both feet, while Mazar was eliminated the traditional way: low scores and insufficient fan support.
Each performed the samba on Monday's show. DeLay earned 15 points out of 30 for his performance with partner Cheryl Burke. Mazar and her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, finished with 17.
Fan votes kept DeLay afloat, but doctors and show producers advised him to quit the competition because of his injuries.
'Dancing With The Stars'
Hospital News
Elizabeth Taylor
Actress Elizabeth Taylor said Tuesday she was going into a hospital for heart surgery and asked for prayers.
Taylor, 77, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure five years ago and also has endured severe back problems and a benign brain tumor operation. She made the announcement on her Twitter page, saying she wanted to break the news herself before the media found out.
"Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart," Taylor wrote.
"It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better. Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate. I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth," she said.
Elizabeth Taylor
DUI Conviction Expunged
Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson
Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson's criminal record was cleared on Tuesday when a California judge expunged his drunken driving conviction from a 2006 arrest that led to accusations of anti-Semitism over the actor's comments to a policeman.
Gibson, the Oscar-winning actor and director of "Braveheart," fulfilled his court-ordered obligation to attend meetings for recovering alcoholics and perform public service work as part of his conviction for driving under the influence.
Gibson's 2006 arrest in Malibu gained massive media and public attention after a leaked police report quoted him as making anti-Semitic statements to the arresting officer, who is Jewish.
Following his 2006 arrest, Gibson admitted to driving 87 miles per hour with an open bottle of tequila in his hand. He had a 0.12 percent blood alcohol content, and the legal limit is .08.
Mel 'Sugar Tits' Gibson
Loses First Round
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski lost the first round Tuesday in his battle to avoid extradition to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
Already locked in a Zurich cell for the last dozen days, Polanski learned he will remain incarcerated for an extended period as the Swiss Justice Ministry rejected his plea to be released from custody.
Swiss authorities expressed fear he might flee the country if freed from prison. The director of such film classics as "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" has been wanted by U.S. authorities since fleeing sentencing 31 years ago.
Polanski looks set to remain in prison for months as his case in the Swiss courts progresses. The criminal court has said it will rule on the filmmaker's request in the "next weeks," and a verdict in either direction can be appealed to the country's highest judicial body, the Federal Tribunal.
Roman Polanski
PI Pleads No Contest
Bradley Miller
A private investigator who once worked for A-list defendants such as Michael Jackson and Winona Ryder has pleaded no contest to charges that he tried to pay off a suspected rape victim.
Bradley Miller entered his plea Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and three counts of bribing a witness. He faces up to five years in prison when he's sentenced in April.
Miller's attorney, Mark Werksman, said his client wants to put the case behind him and move on with his life.
Prosecutors say Miller and two other men plotted to prevent the live-in girlfriend of Alex Izquierdo from testifying against him. Izquierdo was charged in 2006 with rape, torture and other crimes. He later pleaded guilty to three counts and was sentenced to 22 years in state prison.
Bradley Miller
30 Years Without Spanking
Swedish Children
When celebrating the 30th anniversary of the world's first national ban on corporal punishment of children last month, Sweden's social affairs minister, Göran Hägglund, claimed a dramatic success over something many Swedes now consider a scourge.
Sweden was the first of 24 countries to introduce a ban on smacking children in 1979. At the time traditionalists said it would lead to unruly kids, and other critics say the ban would be largely unenforceable. But according to official figures, just 10 percent of Swedish children are spanked or otherwise struck by their parents today. More than 90 percent of Swedish children were smacked prior to the ban.
It is held up as a model by child rights campaigners lobbying for wider adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, on which the Swedish law is based. The campaign experienced a setback last month when New Zealanders voted to repeal their anti-smacking law in a hotly contested referendum. The law places a legal obligation on teachers, day care workers, and health care professionals to report any suspicion of abuse. This has led to a surge in the number of reported cases, yet the proportion of serious cases of abuse has decreased.
Polls show the ban has near universal support in Sweden. However there is a vocal international movement against the Swedish model.
Swedish Children
Reproduces Shroud Of Turin
Luigi Garlaschelli
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.
The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ.
"We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday.
A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and the accompanying comparative photographs.
Luigi Garlaschelli
Getting Proper Funeral
Edgar Allan Poe
It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth.
Fewer than 10 people attended Poe's funeral when he died in October 1849 at age 40. His cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced the great writer's death publicly.
Because of intense interest, Baltimore will host two funerals. Each is expected to draw about 350 people to Westminster Hall, the former church adjacent to Poe's grave. Actors will portray Poe's friends and contemporaries as well as writers and artists who cited Poe as an influence.
The Poe House and Museum will also host a viewing of a replica of Poe's body on Wednesday.
Edgar Allan Poe
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Sept. 28-Oct. 4. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "NCIS," CBS, 21.37 million viewers.
2. (2) NFL Football: San Diego vs. Pittsburgh, NBC, 18.42 million viewers.
3. (3) "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 17.4 million viewers.
4. (4) "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.03 million viewers.
5. (8) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.94 million viewers.
6. (9) "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.75 million viewers.
7. (5) "Grey's Anatomy" ABC, 15.69 million viewers.
8. (6) "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.84 million viewers.
9. (6) "House," Fox, 14.71 million viewers.
10. (12) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.64 million viewers.
11. (11) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.24 million viewers.
12. (12) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.96 million viewers.
13. (16) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 13.86 million viewers.
14. (16) "The Good Wife," CBS, 13.69 million viewers.
15. (12) "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.41 million viewers.
16. (18) "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 13.27 million viewers.
17. (12) "CSI: New York," CBS, 13.16 million viewers.
18. (18) "Dancing With the Stars Results", ABC, 13.02 million viewers.
19. (20) "The OT", Fox, 12.01 million viewers.
20. (26) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 11.63 million viewers.
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