M Is FOR MASHUP - October 19th, 2011
Diary Of A Mashup Vampire
By Count Boromir Vladimir (With several Ghostwriters)
Dear Diary,
Today I slept very well. The fresh dirt from my homeland really helped with my sciatica.
I woke with the biggest thirst of the decade. Had my eye on that peasant with the freckles, maybe today is the day.
I realized how close Halloween is now, and it made me want to hear Halloween Mashups.
I went over to Cheekyboy's Halloween mashup site, and the scamp has done it again.
There was two whole discs of Halloween mashups mixed up by many of the usual suspects.
It's called "Texas Chainsaw Mashacre" ( www.monstermashups.co.uk/ ) .
I wish I had thought of that. Maybe I will.
I worked up such an appetite dancing to them that I called ahead and reserved a table at
"Le Peasant", that new restaurant that doesn't use garlic.
There was a mashup at the site that used my favorite movie, "Young Frankenstein".
"Put the candle back!" Hahahahaha! That Mel Brooks, I can't believe he is one of us.
My favorite track had "The Monster Mash". I can't wait to tell Frankie, he will be so happy, he will rip a stitch! (note to self-remember to take sewing kit.)
As if I wasn't happy enough with the new mashups, my favorite long mixer, Budtheweiser, has mixed up the entire new album, both discs into one track. Perfect for the Halloween Ball.
I'll show that Mr Hyde who's better at providing the hippest monster tunes.
OMG! I almost missed at the bottom of the page
DJ Useo has his new Halloween Ep on
the same site
( www.monstermashups.co.uk/ ).
It's called
DJ Useo's Halloween EP 2011. I always like how he calls it that simple direct name, he's so sensible that way.
This must be the fourth year he has made one, I'm so glad. I just love Halloween mashups, almost as much as AB Negative.
I bet some fools didn't see Useo's record in all the excitement of the main Halloween album.
I can't believe he was able to mash the B-52's vs Kiss, and it even sounds Halloweeny. I'm going to have to listen to the rest of it later. There are some peasants outside, apparently with some complaints about Wolfie using their yards.
(Darned if I'm going to pick it up!)
Back now. Suddenly there's ten less villagers, and I'm ready for dessert. lol.
While I was gone I see Useo has added a Halloween mix! OMG!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-with-useo-2011-techno-long_6460.html )
It's a Halloween Techno mix, never thought I'd see that.
It'll be perfect for my Halloween after Party, when we play "Bobbing for Locals".
Just a moment, diary, the phone is ringing.
Back now, it was Mom. How did she know I hadn't filed my fangs yet?
While I was on the phone, I see Useo has added a Halloween Podcast.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/10/dj-konrad-useo-2011-halloween-mashup.html )
OMG! It's all Halloween mashups! What is this? Christmas? LMAO!
More later diary, I'm going to file my fangs.
Mashup Tip : Do not ask Larry of the Three Stooges for mashup advice - he's dead.
Latest Useo Thing
Can you resist a new scary mashup of INXS vs Happyboxx? It's really dancey, & accessible!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/10/dj-useo-halloween-ep-2011_01.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You will have your best Halloween party ever when you play the music
mentioned in the article above. (Bit obvious, really.)
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman's Blog: Legends Of The Rentiers (New York Times)
I don't want to go all Chomsky here, but this sort of thing really can radicalize you.
Annie Lowrey: Why Wall Street Hates Obama (Slate)
The explanation is surprisingly simple.
Charlie Brooker: Everyone knows David Cameron is a lizard. So why does the 'Telegraph' continue to deny the truth? (Guardian)
Don't just take my word for it. Ask all those who have seen the reptilian demon in action.
What young people are really thinking (Guardian)
The Art of Protest is a pop-up exhibition organised that will take place in empty shops on Manchester's Market Street from 19 to 27 October. The charity Noise sent photographers Liam Carter, Sebastian ?Heise, Lucia Zapata and Marta Julve out on the streets of Manchester, Madrid, Valencia and Berlin, to ask young people the question: 'What would make you protest?'
SEAN H. DOYLE: "Albums of Our Lives: The Stooges' Fun House" (The Rumpus)
As an acne-faced and awkward wannabe punk rock teenager, I knew who Iggy Pop was. I knew who he was because a lot of the Goth girls I would meet at parties and teen dance clubs were way into his newest album, 'Blah Blah Blah,' which was kind of okay, but wasn't hard or fast enough for me right then. I knew who he was because I made out in the back seats of cars while that album was playing. I had no idea who Iggy Pop really was until I heard 'Fun House.'
Sam Wolfson: Professor Green: 'Lily Allen put me back on my feet' (Guardian)
The former 'angry yoot' has swapped rap battles for chart hits, street life for TV. So has Professor Green grown up?
Decca Aitkenhead: "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'" (Guardian)
On a visit to his former school in Sheffield, the Pulp frontman talks about youth, fame and the changing face of pop.
June Thomas: "'Talk To Her,' 'All About My Mother,' 'Broken Embraces' …" (Slate)
Pedro Almodóvar's films, ranked from best to worst.
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."
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Reader Contribution
Red Admirals
Hi Marty
I caught these 2 red admiral butterflys enjoying the sun and ivy flowers
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Thick marine layer rolled in and hunkered down.
NJ University To Hold Collection
Bruce Springsteen
A New Jersey university will be the new home for nearly 15,000 documents associated with Bruce Springsteen.
Books, concert programs, magazines and newspaper articles formerly kept at the Asbury Park Public Library will be moved to Monmouth University in West Long Branch on Nov. 1.
The material has outgrown the library, which offered viewing by appointment only.
The university's Bruce Springsteen Special Collection will be accessible to anyone and have enough space for it to grow to include recordings, film footage and other documents.
Bruce Springsteen
Country Stars Raise $500K
Texas
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines told a thunderous crowd Monday night that "there was zero hesitation" when the band was asked to perform with fellow country stars to raise money for victims of recent wildfires in her home state of Texas.
She and her band mates joined Willie Nelson, George Strait and other musicians during a mega-concert in Austin that raised more than $500,000. A fire that started Sept. 4 in Central Texas' Bastrop County destroyed at least 1,500 homes and killed two people, marking the most devastating of the numerous fires that have scorched about 6,000 square miles in Texas in the last year.
Nelson was joined onstage by folksy newcomers The Avett Brothers and, backed up by Asleep at the Wheel, they roused the crowd with rowdy versions of Nelson's classic "On the Road Again" and the gospel "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."
Asleep at the Wheel front man Ray Benson, who helped book the performers, said he seldom asks his friends for favors but thought this cause was important enough.
The concert started with Christopher Cross. Eleven acts were scheduled to perform, and helping emcee was actor Kyle Chandler, who won an Emmy last month for his role as a Texas high school football coach in "Friday Night Lights."
Texas
Actress Sues
IMDb
An actress is suing Amazon.com in federal court in Seattle for more than $1 million for revealing her age on its Internet Movie Database website and refusing to remove the reference when asked.
The actress is not named in the lawsuit filed Thursday that refers to her as Jane Doe. It says she lives in Texas and is of Asian descent and has an Americanized stage name.
The lawsuit accuses IMDb of misusing her personal information after she signed up for the industry insider IMDbPro service in 2008. Shortly thereafter, she noticed her legal date of birth had been added to her public acting profile. She requested that it be removed and IMDb refused, the lawsuit says.
"If one is perceived to be 'over-the-hill,' i.e., approaching 40, it is nearly impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the plaintiff, to get work as she is thought to have less of an 'upside,' therefore, casting directors, producers, directors, agents-manager, etc. do not give her the same opportunities, regardless of her appearance or talent," the lawsuit states.
IMDb
Auctioning Iconic Stage Costumes
Bette Midler
Bette Midler's famous mermaid stage costume, the Valentino gown she wore to the 1992 Oscars and a collection of headdresses are all going up for auction in November, Julien's Auctions said on Tuesday.
The singer and actress also is selling several stage costumes designed by Bob Mackie and outfits she wore on album covers dating back to the 1970s.
Top items include a glittering pink-and-purple mermaid costume that Midler wore during her recent two-year residency "The Showgirl Must Go On" in Las Vegas, which is expected to sell for $1,000 to $1,500.
Midler, 65, who has sold more than 30 million records over a 40-year career, is donating a portion of the auction's proceeds to the nonprofit organization she created in 1995 to restore small parks and community gardens in New York City.
Bette Midler
Actor Sues "Hangover 2"
Michael Alan Rubin
Why anyone would publicly admit that "The Hangover 2" was based on his own life is a mystery, but that's exactly what's happened in a lawsuit filed by an aspiring actor and filmmaker who claims the movie's makers lifted the plot from his life experiences.
Michael Alan Rubin filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California Wednesday against, Warner Bros., director Todd Phillips, the "Hangover 2" writers and his (now presumably ex-) wife, Tamayo Otsuki, alleging that they conspired to steal the movie's plot from Rubin's own experiences, as well as a movie treatment he was working on.
According to Rubin, he and Otsuki traveled to Japan in 2007 to get married in a traditional Japanese ceremony, but soon had a falling out during their honeymoon in Thailand and India, after Otsuki started complaining about Rubin's financial condition.
The friction came to a head when Otsuki refused to share her hotel room with him, so Rubin took off for the vacation spot of Goa, where he scored acting jobs and worked on a movie treatment, "Micki and Kirin," about his experiences with his wife.
Rubin's suit goes on to state that, when he saw "Hangover 2," the similarities between the movie's plot and his own story were too numerous to mention.
Michael Alan Rubin
Rapper Jailed
Soulja Boy
Rapper Soulja Boy was arrested on drug and weapons charges on Tuesday after a traffic stop in Georgia, police said.
The 21-year-old entertainer, whose given name is DeAndre Cortez Way, and four crew members traveling in a Cadillac Escalade were pulled over in Temple, Georgia on Interstate 20 near the Alabama line, police spokeswoman Dana Rampy said.
Police discovered marijuana, pistols and cash inside the car after a "routine traffic stop," Rampy said. She declined to disclose the amount of marijuana or money.
The rapper, three bodyguards and a driver each were arrested on felony charges of possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm, Rampy said.
All five men were booked into the Carroll County jail.
Soulja Boy
Another Bar Fight
Shia LaBeouf
At this point, if someone tells you a joke that starts, "So, Shia LaBeouf walks into a bar," you can pretty much figure out the punchline.
According to multiple reports, the hot-headed "Transformers" star got into a skirmish in Vancouver over the weekend, throwing down with a couple of bar patrons while partying in the city's Granville Street club district.
A witness told website RadarOnline that LaBeouf was "obviously pretty intoxicated," and that the ugliness began at approximately 12:30 a.m. Friday, when LaBeouf and a fellow patron -- identified only as "Mike" -- had a heated verbal exchange at the Cinema Public House.
Nightclub security separated the pair before things could get physical. However, according to reports, when Mike emerged from the club, he saw the 25-year-old actor heading for a cab. At which point, he did the only reasonable thing, ripping his shirt off and pummeling the 25-year-old actor to the ground.
Shia LaBeouf
New Record
Deportations
Immigration authorities announced today that they deported 396,906 people in the 2011 fiscal year, the highest number of deportations in the agency's history.
Forty-five percent of those deported had no criminal records. Immigration chief John Morton praised his agency
The Obama administration announced earlier this year that it would use "prosecutorial discretion" to avoid deporting illegal immigrants who have not committed a crime. The government treats most immigration violations as civil, not criminal matters--with the exception of non-citizens who re-enter the country after they've already been deported. The policy change drew fire from the right as a form of "backdoor amnesty," while Obama's allies on the left have expressed outrage that he has presided over an increase in deportations.
The immigration advocacy group National Immigration Forum says it costs $23,000 on average for one person to go through the deportation process. "The record level of deportations...is a nightmare for millions of people and their families going about their daily lives and facing the prospect that a simple traffic stop may lead to the breakup of their family and the end of their American Dream," the group's leader Ali Noorani said in a statement.
Deportations
University Studies
Crowdsourcing
Maybe you've got a hunch Kim Jong Il's regime in North Korea has seen its final days, or that the Ebola virus will re-emerge somewhere in the world in the next year.
Your educated guess may be just as good as an expert's opinion. Statistics have long shown that large crowds of average people frequently make better predictions about unknown events, when their disparate guesses are averaged out, than any individual scholar - a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds.
Now the nation's intelligence community, with the help of university researchers and regular folks around the country, is studying ways to harness and improve the wisdom of crowds. The research could one day arm policymakers with information gathered by some of the same methods that power Wikipedia and social media.
In a project that is part competition and part research study, George Mason professors Charles Twardy and Kathryn Laskey are assembling a team on the Internet of more than 500 forecasters who make educated guesses about a series of world events, on everything from disease outbreaks to agricultural trends to political patterns.
Crowdsourcing
Factory Jobs As Education
Cultural Exchange Visa
A Moldovan student on a State Department foreign exchange program wrote the department a pleading e-mail complaining of the working conditions at a Hershey packing factory, The New York Times' Julia Preston reports .
"Pleas hellp," Tudor Ureche, a college student who was participating in the U.S. government's J-1 visa program, wrote in the email. He added that he was suffering from severe back pain from the work, and that his bosses said his temporary visa would be revoked if he complained.
Ureche never received a response. But two months later, at least 200 foreign exchange students walked out of the Pennsylvania factory in protest , saying they spent thousands of dollars to pay for their cultural exchange visa only to end up in grueling factory jobs. (The factory packed Hershey's candy, but was operated by a subcontractor.)
Cetusa, the group that the government paid to organize the students' stay in America, responded to the negative attention garnered by the protest by "arranging for students to have a paid week off from the plant and by paying for two trips to historic sites in Pennsylvania," Preston writes. "The Hershey Company hosted a daylong visit to its headquarters so students could learn about its business strategies."
Cultural Exchange Visa
Election-Year Goals
Dominionists
of Christian group
In the 1940s, an argument erupted among a group of American Christians far from the mainstream.
Pentecostals, the spirit-filled worshippers known mostly for speaking in tongues, were at a crossroads, divided over the extent of God's modern-day miracles. If God made apostles and prophets during the New Testament era, did he still create them today? Most Pentecostals said no, and went on to build the movement's major denominations.
A minority disagreed - and amazingly, their obscure view is now in the crosshairs of a presidential race. Some critics, fearing these little-known Christians want to control the U.S. government, suspect that Republican Rick Perry is their candidate.
The Texas governor opened the door to the discussion with a prayer rally he hosted in August, a week before he announced his run for president. Organizers of the Houston event, such as Lou Engle, leader of The Call prayer marathons, and Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, had for several years been under the watch of mostly liberal writers alarmed by the preachers' rhetoric.
The end of the world is an intense focus of many of the religious leaders involved in the rally. Engle has said that the tornado that leveled Joplin, Mo., last May was evidence of God's judgment on the country over abortion. Bickle views acceptance of same-sex marriage as a sign of the end times.
Dominionists
Coalition Ramps Up Support
PROTECT IP Act
Political action group Creative America on Tuesday announced a new campaign to raise awareness about "rogue" websites that illegally distribute movies and television programs, as well as aggressively lobby for passage of the PROTECT IP Act and Commercial Felony Streaming Act.
To accomplish its goals, Creative America, a grass-roots consortium of labor unions, guilds, studios and networks, has built a website intended to help the public lend support to the new legislation, which is expected to be introduced to the House of Representatives shortly.
The organization will also communicate via Facebook and Twitter. Its online petition has garnered more than 18,000 signatures in its first two weeks, and a public service announcement is set to air on NBC Universal television.
Creative America's membership includes the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, CBS Corporation, the Directors Guild of America, IATSE International, NBC Universal, the Screen Actors Guild, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.
Organizations offering support to the campaign include The AFL-CIO, the Association of Talent Agents, the Copyright Alliance, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., FilmL.A., the National Association of Theater Owners, the Producers Guild of America and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
PROTECT IP Act
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 10-16. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 18.98 million.
2. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 16.89 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 16.79 million.
4. NFL Football: Minnesota at Chicago, NBC, 16.57 million.
5. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 16.2 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.4 million.
7. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.39 million.
8. "Modern Family," ABC, 13.65 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 13.58 million.
10. "Last Man Standing," ABC, 13.19 million.
11. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.87 million.
12. "The OT," Fox, 12.77 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 12.39 million.
14. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), CBS, 12.1 million.
15. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.04 million.
16. "Unforgettable," CBS, 11.72 million.
17. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.65 million.
18. "The X-Factor" (Thursday), Fox, 11.24 million.
19. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.19 million.
20. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.02 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Pete Rugolo
Pete Rugolo, an Emmy- and Grammy-winning composer and arranger who worked with greats such as Miles Davis and Benny Goodman, has died. He was 95.
A family spokeswoman says Rugolo died Sunday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles.
Rugolo was chief arranger for Stan Kenton's orchestra after World War II, helping develop its progressive jazz sound.
He later was musical director for Capitol Records, where he signed Peggy Lee, Mel Torme and others. He produced the Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool" sessions and Harry Belafonte's first singles.
In the 1950s, he got into the movie and TV business while also recording his own albums. He co-wrote the theme for TV's "The Fugitive" and wrote themes or other music for many shows, including "Run for Your Life."
Pete Rugolo
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