M Is FOR MASHUP - October 24th, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
Halloween Booootie Times Three!!!
By DJ Useo
In case you weren't aware, 'BOOTIE' is the biggest mashup party in the world. Started back in 1863 (according to Spookipedia) 'BOOTIE' has grown under the tender care of famed mashers
A Plus D
( bootiemashup.com/aplusd/ ) from shows in San Francisco to shows around the globe. A Plus D have brought their brand of bootleg joy to people from Paris to Munich to Hong Kong to Helsinki & many more great cities. In addition to their love of mashups & the mashup deejay scene, A Plus D have a deep affection for Halloween. Twice before they've assembled best of Halloween mashup albums to large acclaim.
Now, in 2012, the year of the mashup album, they rise again from their finely decorated crypt to offer up a third collection in the series. 'HALLOWEEN BOOOOTIE 3' is comprised of 13 of the eeriest, yet enjoyable mixes you'll find available. Compiled & mixed specifically to provide the seasonal vibe you crave, it's also a great reminder to book your trip to the nearest Halloween BOOTIE right away. I mean, why waste your way-cool, frightening costume at your Aunt Ednas when you can shake & bake it at the always excellent BOOTIE. Sure, Edna has those spider cookies with the green frosting, but she doesn't have live deejay sets from A Plus D themselves, Dada, DJ Tyme & Nathan Scott, & more.
The BOOTIE parties will be all that & a bag of mummies, but of course there won't be enough room for all of us. This is where 'HALLOWEEN BOOOOTIE 3' comes in the handiest. Invite your best pals to attend your own party, (in costume, of course) then slap this new Halloween mashup collection on the nearest audio device, & crank it up! Thirteen tracks surely won't be enough to sustain you through the entire evening, but A Plus D have that covered, too, because the first two 'HALLOWEEN BOOOOTIE'S' are also still obtainable.
Grab all three 'HALLOWEEN BOOOOTIE'S' here
( bootiemashup.com/halloween/ ) . For the
full Halloween BOOTIE experience check this link for full info on the live shows
( www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2012/10-27.html ) . Look for me at the SF show dressed as Doctor Frankenfurter. I'm the somewhat stocky one. ;)
More Halloween mashups next week!
Podcast Of The Week
'DJ Useo & DJ Petrushka Halloween 2012 Podcast' is just over an hour & a half of the best new Halloween mashups. It's evenly divided between tracks from '
THE CURSE OF MONSTER MASHUP'
'YOU CAN'T MASH THAT VOL. 31: BEATLEWEEN'
& my own
5th Annual 'DJ USEO HALLOWEEN EP'
. Me & Petrushka host it as a team, & even perform an original skit of the Frankenstein Monster taking a word association test. ROFL.
Grab your mp3 of it here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/10/useo-and-petrushka-halloween-2012.html )
& be sure & tell your friends.
Mashup Tip
Make your Halloween mashup even scarier by sneaking up behind people & yelling "BOO!" when they're playing it.
Latest Useo Thing
I have a double-sided release out with 'Midnight Train Echo From The Past' (Darden Smith vs Robert Babicz) as the a-side of the 45 vinyl release. 'Echo In The Bud' (The Dinner Ladies vs Robert Babicz) is the b-side of the 45 vinyl release. I had that Babicz track stuck in my head for weeks. I hope you get that now. Great fun!
Links here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/10/darden-smith-vs-robert-babicz-vs-dinner.html ).
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Cheekyboy, the premiere Halloween mashup mixer, will be charged with mass murder after his track 'It's Halloween!' scares an entire audience to death!
Recommended Reading
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Andrew Tobias: Scientists and Mormons for Obama
The Salt Lake Tribune has endorsed Obama, as have 68 Nobel Prize winners.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Barack Obama (Athens News)
On Sept. 1, 2012, President Barack Obama attended a last-minute rally at the Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa. A wedding was scheduled one hour after the rally, and President Obama left a few presidential gifts and this note for the happy couple: "Congratulations on the wedding. Michelle and I wish you a great life together!"
Paul Krugman: The Secret of Our Non-Success (New York Times)
Look, economics isn't as much of a science as we'd like. But when there's overwhelming evidence for an economic proposition - as there is for the proposition that financial-crisis recessions are different - we have the right to expect politicians and their advisers to respect that evidence. Otherwise, they'll end up making policy based on fantasies rather than grappling with reality.
Xan Brooks: "Martin Landau: From North by Northwest to Frankenweenie" (Guardian)
He was friends with James Dean, dated Marilyn Monroe and made his movie debut with Hitchcock: Martin Landau, the voice of Mr Rzykruski in Frankenweenie, talks about his 60-year acting career.
Epic Remote-Control Car Race (Neatorama)
Growing up, I loved pretty much anything that was remote controlled. I would race cars, play this video game where you pretended to have a remote control airplane, even tried to turn my model boat into a r/c racing ship (alas, she sunk within seconds of launch). So excuse me for loving this video.
The Truth About Periods and Advertising (Neatorama)
The British company Bodyform, which manufactures "towels," or what Americans now call maxi pads or mini pads, or sanitary napkins to those of an age to no longer need them. Richard Neill left a message on the firm's Facebook page, which is a basic retelling of an old joke. … We are always grateful for input from our users, but your comment was particularly poignant. If Facebook had a "love" button, we'd have clicked it. But it doesn't. So we've made you a video instead. Unfortunately Bodyform doesn't have a CEO. But if it did she'd be called Caroline Williams. And she'd say this.
Lucy Mangan: My home is at Mum and Dad's (Guardian)
'If your parents still live in the house in which you grew up, anywhere you live after that is just temporary accommodation.'
Rosanna Greenstreet: "Q&A: John Cleese" (Guardian)
"'The worst thing anyone's ever said to me? 'Are you Michael Palin?'"
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Butterfly Whisperer
Of interest to any 'butterfly whisperer' like you, Marty. A Cecropia Moth, the largest species in North America. The wings are probably 4.5 inches tip to tail. Photo taken by my friend, John Hagen, on Martha's Vineyard.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Rained overnight, but not enough to wash the dust off the leaves.
Seems a kitten was dumped in the yard. Think she'll be called 'Sweetie'.
Recognized By Hollywood High School
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett is being honored by her alma mater.
Hollywood High School's Performing Arts Center announced Tuesday that it is naming an annual award after Burnett and that the 79-year-old entertainer will be its first recipient.
She will receive the Carol Burnett Honor of Distinction Award on Jan. 10 at the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, just around the corner from the high school she graduated from in 1951.
Other famous alumni of the Sunset Boulevard campus include Judy Garland, Rudolph Valentino, Cher, Laurence Fishburne, John Ritter, Russell DiNapoli and Mickey Rooney.
Carol Burnett
Biggest Readers
U.S.
The most likely book readers in the United States are high-school students, college-age adults and people in their 30s, with e-book use highest among 30-somethings, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
Seventy-eight percent of Americans had read at least one book in the previous 12 months, with the rate 83 percent among those aged between 16 and 29, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.
The highest percentage of readers by age was 88 percent, among the 18-24 age group, followed by 86 percent in the 16-17 range. Readers in the 30-39 group trailed at 84 percent.
The lowest percentage of readers was among people older than 65, at 68 percent. The survey covered books in print, in electronic formats and audiobooks.
Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).
U.S.
Full-Season Orders
"Vegas," "Elementary"
CBS's freshman dramas "Vegas" and "Elementary" have received full-season orders.
Though NBC's new "Revolution" is beating both in the 18-49 demographic, the CBS shows are thriving in total viewers.
"Vegas," a period gangster drama starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis, averages 14.9 million viewers and a 2.7 rating/8 share in the demo. It is up 8 percent in viewers in its Tuesdays-at-10 timeslot.
"Elementary," starring Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson, averages 14.3 million viewers and a 3.5/10 in the demo. It is up 17 percent in adults 18-49 in its Thursdays-at-10 slot.
"Vegas," "Elementary"
Viewership Record Set
3rd Debate
The third debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney stands as the most-watched telecast ever on Fox News Channel.
The Nielsen company said Tuesday that an estimated 11.5 million people watched Obama and Romney tussle Monday night on foreign policy on Fox. The network's previous record was the 11.1 million who watched the second presidential debate last week and the Joe Biden-Sarah Palin vice presidential debate in 2008.
Nielsen did not immediately have an estimate on the total viewership for the debate on all the networks that showed it. Those are usually released later in the afternoon.
The debate ran in competition with Game 7 of baseball's National League Championship series and a Monday Night Football game.
3rd Debate
4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
Doorstop
The doorstop on Donna and George Lewis' porch traveled a long way to get there.
The 33-pound rock, something of a family heirloom, was found in a cow pasture near Tazewell, Tenn., in the 1930s by Donna Lewis' grandfather, the late Tilmon Brooks.
The object of curiosity, which long served as a doorstop and a garden ornament and had even been painted green, turns out to be a very rare and very real meteorite, possibly 4.5 billion years old.
It wasn't until George Lewis put a metal detector to the object-and it read off the charts-that the couple realized this was no ordinary rock.
When the Lewis family brought the object to Jerry Cook, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Eastern Kentucky University, he suspected it was special.
Doorstop
Corporate Culture Aided Abuser
BBC
The BBC has become the latest large institution to find itself accused of failing to stop sex abusers in its midst, with its chief acknowledging Tuesday that a "cultural problem" within the broadcaster had allowed the late TV host Jimmy Savile to molest children and teenagers for decades.
BBC director-general George Entwistle told British lawmakers that it is too early to say whether sexual abuse had been endemic within Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster. But he acknowledged there had been "a problem of culture within the BBC ... a broader cultural problem" that allowed Savile's behavior to go unchecked.
Entwistle's testimony before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee came a day after the BBC aired a powerful documentary about the corporation's role in the expanding sex abuse scandal involving Savile, who died a year ago at age 84.
Since Savile's death, scores of women and several men have come forward to say the entertainer - a longtime host of music and children's programs including "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It" - abused them when they were children or teenagers. Police have identified more than 200 potential victims.
The BBC, one of the world's largest and most respected broadcasters, is under fire for failing to stop the abuse and for pulling an expose on Savile from TV schedules at the last minute in December. The sex allegations were later aired on the rival ITV network.
BBC
Qualifying H8
Log Cabin Republicans
A prominent gay Republican group offered Mitt Romney its "qualified endorsement" on Tuesday, calling it the right decision for the nation even as it slammed Romney's opposition to gay marriage.
Rather than offer the Republican presidential nominee its full support, Log Cabin Republicans said it will focus its efforts instead on Republican candidates for House and Senate who favor equality for gays and lesbians.
"If LGBT issues are a voter's highest or only priority, then Gov. Romney may not be that voter's choice," the group said in its endorsement, adding that its members value a diverse set of issues. "We believe Gov. Romney will make cutting spending and job creation his priorities, and, as his record as governor of Massachusetts suggests, will not waste his precious time in office with legislative attacks on LGBT Americans."
A lengthy explanation released by Log Cabin Republicans under the banner "We Are Americans First" was part endorsement, part rebuke to a Republican Party whose standard-bearers the group said "appear to be caught up in an outdated culture war." The group argued that Americans of all sexual orientations have suffered financially under President Barack Obama, and while Romney may not share all of their views, he could be worse.
Log Cabin Republicans
Op-Ed Jumps To Top Of NYT's 'Most Viewed' List
Romney
Mitt Romney's 2008 op-ed "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" soared to the top of The New York Times' online "Most Viewed" list Tuesday, following a testy exchange between the former governor and President Barack Obama over the auto bailout at Monday night's debate.
Romney referenced the editorial after Obama said that if he had taken Romney's advice on not bailing out Chrysler and GM, "we'd be buying cars from China instead of selling cars to China."
Romney countered that Obama was mischaracterizing his plan. He said he'd written that the auto industry could get "government help and government guarantees" in exchange for restructuring in bankruptcy. Obama interrupted, saying it wasn't true that Romney said the companies could get government help.
The Obama campaign has repeatedly flagged Romney's op-ed while campaigning in the battleground state of Ohio, which could end up deciding this election and where one in eight jobs is connected to the auto industry. Romney did not write the headline of the op-ed, but has said he didn't have a problem with it.
Romney
A Gift From God
Richard Mourdock
Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape, "that's something God intended."
Mourdock, who's been locked in one of the country's most watched Senate races, was asked during the final minutes of a debate with Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Donnelly whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
"I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Mourdock said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to Indianapolis for a fundraiser Monday, and Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned for Mourdock last week. New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is due in the state Wednesday.
Romney's coattails carry special significance in deeply conservative Indiana, where Mourdock has underperformed Romney by 12 points in most public polls. Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS also has bought another $1 million of airtime in Indiana, making his group the biggest player in Indiana's Senate race. A message left for Crossroads GPS spokesman Nate Hodson was not immediately returned.
Richard Mourdock
Repeatedly Arrested
Todd Akin
Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin was repeatedly arrested during anti-abortion protests in the 1980s, including at least once when police had to carry him away, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Akin, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the Nov. 6 election, acknowledged last month during a campaign event that that he had been arrested about 25 years ago as part of an anti-abortion protest. But Akin has repeatedly declined to discuss additional details.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its website Tuesday that its newspaper archives include at least three accounts of Akin being arrested in March and April of 1985 for criminal trespass and resisting arrest at abortion clinics in the St. Louis area. He apparently never was charged.
The St. Louis police department also confirmed in response to an open-records filed by a representative of the liberal advocacy group People For the American Way that Akin was arrested May 9, 1987, but it said records of the arrest were closed under state law because Akin never convicted.
The newspaper said it had missed the 1985 arrests in previous searches of its archives because the news stories had listed Akin by his first name, William. Akin went by his middle name, Todd, when he began his political career by running for the state House in 1988. He has continued to go by Todd Akin since winning election to Congress in 2000.
Todd Akin
Lawsuit Continues
Britney Spears
Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007 because she was afraid her hair could be tested for drugs and used against her in a child custody battle against her ex-husband, the singer's former friend and confidante testified on Tuesday.
Sam Lutfi, who claims he was Spears' manager and is suing her for a chunk of her earnings from 2007 and 2008, told a Los Angeles jury during a civil trial against Spears and her parents that he met the superstar in a nightclub in the middle of her 2007/2008 personal and career meltdown.
The trial has torn the veil off Spears' struggles during her meltdown when she was twice hospitalized, lost custody of her children, and photographs of her shaving her head and swinging an umbrella made international headlines.
Lutfi is suing Spears' mother, alleging she libeled him in her 2008 book, "Through the Storm", in which she claimed Lutfi destroyed Britney Spears' telephone lines, may have drugged her food and tried to cut off the singer from her family. He is suing Spears' father for assault
Lutfi became a member of Spears' inner circle and moved into her Los Angeles home in 2007. Spears' attorneys argue that he was never her manager.
Britney Spears
World's Top Oil Producer
US
U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer.
Driven by high prices and new drilling methods, U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951.
The last year the U.S. was the world's largest producer was 2002, after the Saudis drastically cut production because of low oil prices in the aftermath of 9/11. Since then, the Saudis and the Russians have been the world leaders.
Whether the U.S. supplants Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer will depend on the price of oil and Saudi production in the years ahead. Saudi Arabia sits on the world's largest reserves of oil, and it raises and lowers production to try to keep oil prices steady. Saudi output is expected to remain about flat between now and 2017, according to the International Energy Agency.
But Saudi oil is cheap to tap, while the methods needed to tap U.S. oil are very expensive. If the price of oil falls below $75 per barrel, drillers in the U.S. will almost certainly begin to cut back.
US
Mimics Human Speech
Beluga Whale
It could be the muffled sound of singing in the shower or that sing-songy indecipherable voice from the Muppets' Swedish Chef.
Surprisingly, scientists said the audio they captured was a whale imitating people. In fact, the whale song sounded so eerily human that divers initially thought it was a human voice.
Handlers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego heard mumbling in 1984 coming from a tank containing whales and dolphins that sounded like two people chatting far away.
It wasn't until one day, after a diver surfaced from the tank and asked, "Who told me to get out?" did researchers realize the garble came from a captive male Beluga whale. For several years, they recorded its spontaneous sounds while it was underwater and when it surfaced.
An acoustic analysis revealed the human-like sounds were several octaves lower than typical whale calls. The research was published online Monday in Current Biology.
Beluga Whale
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 15-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati, NBC, 17.47 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.86 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.73 million.
4. "Person of Interest," CBS, 13.93 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.64 million.
6. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.6 million.
7. "The Voice," NBC, 13.01 million.
8. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 12.92 million.
9. "Modern Family," ABC, 12.28 million.
10. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 12.039 million.
11. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.036 million.
12. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.81 million.
13. Presidential Debate Analysis, NBC, 11.37 million.
14. "Castle," ABC, 10.94 million.
15. "Elementary," CBS, 10.91 million.
16. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.63 million.
17. "Survivor: Philippines," CBS, 10.43 million.
18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.29 million.
19. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.02 million.
20. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 9.89 million.
Ratings
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