M Is FOR MASHUP - October 23rd, 2013
A Horrifyingly Good Collection Of Halloween Mashups
By DJ Useo
'Monster Mashup 2013 - The Haunted Mashion' is a stunning ninth return to the world's scariest mashup theme series. Jeremy Girard joins The COunt to bring us a truly fine Halloween bootleg album. Not too surprising actually, given the past track record of this frightening achiever, The Count. Among the past eight volumes you'll find memorable and irresistible scary mixes from many of the best on the scene.
This latest edition has fantastic talent like G3rst, AtoZ, Cheekyboy, Voicedude, and G4Gorilla. Pilchards onnit as well., plus more super mixers. Along with the others, he's a large fave of mine. In fact, I can easily be persuaded to vouch for every track on this rekkid. I've heard them all twice now, and there's no stinkers in this batch. Now, personally, I will admit that I'm burned out a touch on Thriller, and Ghostbusters mashups, but I made a point of playing those cuts for some folk less exposed to such fare and they loved them.
You'll surely adore the Smash mix of Rocky Horror Picture Show vs Jet. There's so many instant classics on this latest assortment that it's nearly impossible to pick my favorites from this set since they only become more enjoyable with familiarity. There's so much fun in these already great mashups that when you combine in the additional horror elements, you end up with pure treat! I get the extra kick of admiring the production sounds they all employed. Damn impressive results, or perhaps in this case "damned impressive results." Lol.
An extra feature of this Halloween mashup release are all the extras. There's bonus tracks, video versions, links to many other Halloween bootleg releases, and not a single piece of that horrid candy corn in sight! ( Thanks to Lewis Black ;) )
Please avail yourself of all the swell posts up and down this facebook page
( www.facebook.com/pages/Monster-Mashup/155997127818809 )
In case you can't find it, here's the actual current download link
( www70.zippyshare.com/v/84037316/file.html )
You don't have to join, you don't have to log in, you can just thrill to the FEAR! If you are a registered Facebook user, your likes and comments are most welcome, I'm sure. I'd be commenting there now, but I'm writing this article.
One last thing I must mention is that Mr. Girard has established an incredible new online streaming radio station. 'Mixed Mashed' is its name and as you'd expect, it's a solid 24 hours a day of mashups! As an extra perk to get you listening, they'll be spinning only Halloween mashups till the new month. Also, be there for the Halloween battle of the DJ's on October 25th. More info on that as it develops.
Listen here
( mixedmashed.iferadio.com/ )
Now get back to work on your costume! Remember, the scarier, the better!
Mix Of The Week
Thanks to Warvadal of that excellent long mix site, BMBX
( www.bmbx.org )
for posting my new Halloween mix up in time for this article. 'Halloween Scare ( 1:32:04 )' is a long mix of 23 all new tunes never played
for Halloween before. I messed with each track so you can enjoy that part also, if that interests you. Listen for plenty of familiar and also new bands. It's a fair bit of metal like Soulfly and Black Label Society with some occasional techno like Gary Numan and The Prodigy to ease the passage.
Full playlist, and links
to stream or download here
( www.bmbx.org/2013/10/halloween-scare-2/ )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/10/dj-useo-halloween-scare-13204.html )
Mashup Tip
Practice on live turntables. It's one of the best ways to develop new ideas.
Latest Useo Thing
'You Don't Know How Moar Feels' ( Tom Petty vs Foreverkid ) is a techno'ed up classic rock mashup bootleg remix. Does what it says. No Halloween elements in it, sad to say.
Listen or
d/l from these links:
www.hulkshare.com/7oj8k71z21hc
www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/10/tom-petty-vs-foreverkid.html
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
DJ Sloppy Joe will accidentally be eaten when he performs at a college cafeteria. Yum!
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Greg Ray: The Ocean is Broken (Newcastle Herald, Australia)
Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line. "There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled. But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.
Katy Waldman: Young People in Japan Have Given Up on Sex (Slate)
bizarre demographic chill has stolen over the Land of the Rising Sun. According to a fascinating and bewildering investigation in the Guardian by Abigail Haworth, Japanese young people are losing interest not just in marriage but in romantic relationships. Some have even given up on sex. The national press is calling it sekkusu shinai shokogun, or celibacy syndrome.
Paul Krugman: Attack of the Sock Puppets (New York Times)
I think one can safely assume that Fox News wasn't the only organization employing sock puppets. Some commenters on various blogs, including this one, are pretty obviously professional trolls. I've banned some of them - and banned what were obviously the same people coming back under a variety of names.
Andrew Tobias: From $898 A Month Down To Just … $22?
Jim S. continued: 'My own health insurance costs next year will go down from $898 per month for a high-deductible plan with Kaiser to $22 per month for a similar plan with Kaiser under the Affordable Care Act which I purchased through the California health exchange last week.' Come again? I assumed $22 was a typo, but when I asked, Jim replied: 'It was not a typo….'"
James Hamblin: Look Inside a Chicken Nugget (Atlantic)
Doctors at the University of Mississippi dissected two chicken nuggets, looked at them under a microscope, and were "astounded."
Aditya Chakrabortty: Loneliness is an inevitable result of Britain's economic model (Guardian)
The health secretary wants adults to look after their elderly parents to combat loneliness, as Asian people do. But Jeremy Hunt is wrong on who loneliness affects, wrong on what causes it, and wrong on what's happening in Asia.
Michele Hanson: "Housework makes you fat! Good -- I always said a tidy house is a wasted life" (Guardian)
The news is that cleaning and tidying isn't intense enough activity to count as proper exercise - so the bed-making, dusting and laundry can wait.
Interviews by Phil Hoad: "Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean: how we made The Sandman" (Guardian)
Writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean recall the reinvention of a DC character who went on to outsell Batman and Superman and reinvigorate the comics industry.
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Alan Grayson
Controversial Democrat Alan Grayson has set off a flurry of criticism from conservatives after the Florida congressman sent out a fundraising email to supporters in which he compared the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan.
Grayson's original comments came during a recent appearance on MSNBC's "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton." Grayson was discussing the tea party's influence on the Republican Party when he said, "At this point, the tea party is no more popular than the Klan."
And rather than shy away from that comment, Grayson included them in bold letters on his website with the quote taking readers directly to a fundraising page for Grayson's re-election campaign.
Despite the criticism over his KKK comparison, Grayson has stood by his comments and subsequent fundraising effort. He pointed to offensive comments and signage that appeared at past tea party rallies to justify his own comments.
"Tea Party members have circulated countless altered pictures depicting President Obama and the First Lady as monkeys. Tea Party members also called my fellow Member of Congress, civil rights hero John Lewis, a 'n***ger,' and Rep. Barney Frank a 'faggot,'" Grayson said in a statement. "One could go on and on, because there is overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation. If the shoe fits, wear it."
Alan Grayson
Tribal Law
Oklahoma
A same-sex couple successfully applied for a marriage license in Oklahoma despite the state's strict rules against gay marriage. The pair used a legal loophole to get the license last Friday under tribal law, which doesn't fall under the state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as occurring only between a man and a woman. They plan to wed Oct. 31.
Darren Black Bear, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, was able to get a marriage license to wed his partner of nine years, Jason Pickel, because the tribe's legal system does not specify two people must be of different genders to be wed.
Rosemary Stephens, the editor in chief of the tribes' Tribal Tribune, told Yahoo News another gay couple in the tribe wed in December 2012 under the law, but did not make their union public. At least one person in the couple must be an enrolled member of the tribe in order to get a marriage license, however.
Stephens said no one in the tribe has raised any objections to the practice of giving out marriage licenses to both straight and gay couples. "They're held in high esteem," Stephens said of Black Bear and Pickel.
Oklahoma
Stratford Festival Legacy Award
William Shatner
Freshly bestowed with the Stratford Festival's prestigious legacy award, stage and screen actor William Shatner is demurring any suggestion he's reached the pinnacle of show business, slyly insisting he's merely "a legend in the making."
The "Star Trek" hero regaled a Toronto audience with tales of his early acting days at the southern Ontario theatre company as he accepted the annual honour from actor Colm Feore.
Before Shatner became known as Captain James T. Kirk, the Montreal-born performer was a member of the Stratford Festival company for three seasons, beginning in 1954.
His tenure included a celebrated turn as understudy for Christopher Plummer in "Henry V" in 1956.
William Shatner
Sean Combs All-Music Network
Revolt
Sean Combs' new Revolt channel launched with a nod to big dreams and its founder's musical past, bringing a new outlet for music to television.
Despite some technical glitches in its opening Monday, Combs aspires to nothing less than making Revolt the ESPN of music, with well-curated playlists and a strong focus on industry news.
Most fans watch videos online or on demand these days, despite the existence of MTV's networks, Fuse and BET. The struggling music industry doesn't spend as much producing flashy videos as it did in MTV's heyday. Networks that have started out primarily with videos moved on, primarily because the format is unattractive to advertisers.
"We're just going to do it better," said Val Boreland, Revolt's chief programming executive. Combs said he wants a network where people program from the gut instead of sales charts, citing legendary DJ Frankie Crocker and "Soul Train." His executive team is heavy on industry experience, with former ESPN executive and Vibe magazine president Keith Clinkscales, former Warner Bros. and MTV executive Andy Schuon and Boreland, who worked at Comedy Central.
Revolt
Rabbis Helping Palestinians
Olive Harvest
On Sunday, four people were attacked by masked Israeli settlers wielding iron bars and stones as they picked olives in the West Bank village of Burin, resulting in light injuries - a common occurrence during the annual olive harvest in the West Bank.
While most of the settler violence is directed at Palestinians, two of those hurt in the latest attack were Israeli volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), an organization comprised of rabbis and rabbinical students which has, for more than a decade, sought to protect Palestinians and their trees during the olive harvest. Olive trees are not only a major source of Palestinians' livelihood, but a mainstay of the West Bank landscape and a symbol of their roots in the land.
According to RHR, the situation has improved somewhat in recent years, but more than 1,600 olive trees have been vandalized by settlers in the past two months alone, including 100 trees destroyed in Qaryut near Nablus this weekend, and 400 olive trees burned down in Jalud a week before.
"Non-Jews have property rights in the Land of Israel, and protecting the ability of farmers to safely access and make a living from their lands is part of honoring the image of God in every human being," says Arik Ascherman, the president and senior rabbi.
Olive Harvest
Admit Stealing Art
Romanians
Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid that shocked the art world.
Radu Dogaru, Alexandru Bitu and Eugen Darie, told a Bucharest court on Tuesday that they took the multimillion-dollar paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in October 2012. They were charged with the theft and of bringing the paintings into Romania.
In their depositions to prosecutors, the suspects, who were arrested in January, said they brought the paintings to Romania, tried to sell them on the black market, then left them with Dogaru's mother, Olga Dogaru.
Olga Dogaru, who is charged with handling stolen property, had told investigators she burned the paintings, but later denied it. Six Romanians have been put on trial in the case, including one who is being tried in absentia and another who is not under arrest.
The stolen paintings were: Pablo Picasso's 1971 "Harlequin Head"; Claude Monet's 1901 "Waterloo Bridge, London" and "Charing Cross Bridge, London"; Henri Matisse's 1919 "Reading Girl in White and Yellow"; Paul Gauguin's 1898 "Girl in Front of Open Window"; Meyer de Haan's "Self-Portrait," around 1890; and Lucian Freud's 2002 work "Woman with Eyes Closed."
Romanians
Report Slams Continued Antibiotic Use
U.S. Livestock
U.S. regulators and livestock producers have failed to curb the use of antibiotics in cattle, pigs and poultry despite concerns that excessive use in meat production will reduce the drugs' effectiveness in humans, a panel of experts said.
"Meaningful change is unlikely in the future," concluded the 14-member panel, assembled by Johns Hopkins University, in a report released on Tuesday that quickly drew protests from livestock industry groups.
The Johns Hopkins' report said "additional scientific evidence has strengthened the case that these (non-therapeutic) uses pose unnecessary and unreasonable public health risks" of allowing bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics.
More than 2 million Americans are sickened by antibiotic-resistant infections each year and 23,000 of them die, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control And Prevention.
U.S. Livestock
Temple Fresco 'Restored'
China
Chinese authorities have "restored" centuries-old Buddhist frescos in a temple by painting them over with cartoon-like figures from Taoist myths, reports said Tuesday, prompting outrage online.
It is the latest example of controversial heritage preservation in China, where many ancient structures have been destroyed in recent decades, sometimes to be replaced by replicas of the original.
The temple in Chaoyang, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, was built more than 270 years ago and the delicate original paintings had survived, albeit crumbling, until the "refurbishment".
The new paintings are bold, simplistic, and of completely different subjects, pictures showed.
China
Cemetery Removes Iraq Vet's Headstone
SpongeBob Gravestone
Officials at a cemetery that removed a slain Iraq war veteran's towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone say the woman's family is considering alternate solutions.
The two sides met Tuesday, and cemetery President Gary Freytag says Kimberly Walker's family members reiterated their desire to restore the headstone but are considering other options.
Freytag says that could include a more traditional headstone bearing the cartoon character's likeness. He says the massive headstone featuring a smiling SpongeBob in an Army uniform will not be reinstalled.
Walker's family says they spent $13,000 on the headstone and got copyright and cemetery approval for what they call the only fitting tribute for the huge SpongeBob fan.
SpongeBob Gravestone
Egg-Carrying Female
Oarfish
A 14-foot oarfish that washed ashore in Southern California last week was ready to become a mommy.
The serpent-like fish - one of two discovered along the coast last week - was dissected Monday and marine biologists found that the healthy female was ripe to spawn, H.J. Walker of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said Tuesday.
The silvery fish's 6-foot-long ovaries contained hundreds of thousands of eggs that were nearly ready to be released, Walker said.
The fish had lost its tail somehow while alive and it had disc-shaped wounds from cookiecutter sharks, but those injuries wouldn't have been deadly, Walker said.
In fact, it's unclear why the creature died, although Walker said it was possible the deep-water fish came too close to the surface, where it may have been knocked around by waves.
Oarfish
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Denver vs. Indianapolis, NBC, 26.94 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 18.83 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.8 million.
4. "Football Night in America," NBC, 15.29 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.95 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.64 million.
7. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 13.95 million.
8. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 13.78 million.
9. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 12.99 million.
9. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.99 million.
11. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.69 million.
12. "The Millers," CBS, 12.27 million.
13. NFL Football: Indianapolis vs. San Diego, ESPN, 11.95 million.
14. "Castle," ABC, 11.11 million.
15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.06 million.
16. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.94 million.
17. "Blacklist," NBC, 10.93 million.
18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.56 million.
19. "Toy Story of Terror," ABC, 10.55 million.
20. "Survivor," CBS, 10.11 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Noel Harrison
British singer and actor Noel Harrison, known for the Oscar-winning 1960s song "The Windmills of Your Mind", has died aged 79, his friends and family said on Tuesday.
Harrison was reported to have suffered a heart attack at his home in Devon in southwest England last Saturday after performing at the nearby village of Black Dog.
His co-star in the 1960s spy-fi TV series "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E", Stefanie Powers, announced his death on Twitter.
"Let us all light a candle to speed him on his way - he deserves to fly with the angels," she wrote.
Harrison, the son of the six-times-married movie star Rex Harrison, was born in London, raised in Cornwall in southwest England, and lived in Switzerland, the United States and Canada.
He developed a passion for skiing and competed for Britain in the giant slalom in two Olympic games in the 1950s.
In the 1960s he moved to the United States where he had chart hits with "A Young Girl" by Charles Aznavour and "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen.
His best known work, "The Windmills Of Your Mind", won the Academy Award for best original song of 1968. It was the theme to the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair".
But Harrison, who married three times and has five children, said he never enjoyed celebrity life and headed to Canada in the 1970s for a life on the land where he quickly became broke.
He moved back to Los Angeles in the 1980s where he was greeted with "great disinterest", he said, and his second marriage failed. But he stayed, working in construction, performing some live gigs and met his third wife, Lori Chapman, a former fashion stylist.
The couple moved to England about a decade ago where they settled in a two-bedroom terraced house.
Noel Harrison
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