M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN from August 25th, 2010
Totally Trippy Mashups
By DJ Useo
Here we are again. Just as every year before this one, I've mixed up an entire albums' worth of way psychedelic mashups. Also, just as before, I did it because of the influence of people like you. Don't think it was a hardship though, it was truly a labor of love. I took my time over the past year & even replaced many of the tracks as the album evolved.
As before, it has a wide range of material going from sixties' psych-rock to goa to rave and more. I took pity on your ears a couple times with an actually mellow track, but most live up to the 'intense' part of the name. I got the chance to run nearly all the tracks past some top names in the bootleg field, so these are already tested tracks that passed the exam. I'm powerful confident you'll find plenty to enjoy. Here's the playlist -
DJ Useo - Intense Psychedelia 4 playlist
01 - Poison Kryptonite (3 Doors Down vs The Prodigy)
02 - Tambo For A Ride (Bob Dylan vs The Wildflowers)
03 - 14th St. Comes Today (Gorillaz vs Beastie Boys)
04 - Beyond The World Destruction (Time Zone vs Indica)
05 - The Only Disease I Know (The Charlatans vs Breakbeat Era)
06 - She Blinded Me With Wirdo Birdo (Thomas Dolby vs Flyby)
07 - Bright Green Color (The Heartthrobs vs PTX vs Onyx)
08 - Beat Temptation (DJ Useo Backmask Remix)
09 - The Waiting Drop (Cornelius vs Genesis)
10 - Date With The Computer Virus (Twilight vs Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
11 - Kinky Jingo (Happy Mondays vs Fatboy Slim)
12 - Kidney Bingos Zoo (Wire vs Razors Edge)
13 - Nights I Dont Miss You (The Shoes vs Psytour)
14 - Narcosis Traits (Robyn Hitchcock vs Bill Nelson)
15 - Ah Ha Children Of The Sun Ha Ha Haaaa (The Time & Space Machine vs Bubbleena vs Alright Matey)
16 - Rainbows Awapowa (Modern English vs Activate Morlock)
17 - Breathe & Realize (The Flaming Lips vs Prodigy)
18 - No Motorcycle (Pete Shelley vs Love And Rockets)
DJ Useo - Intense Psychedelia 4
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Here's the animated version of the cover
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There's also a 23-minute mix of the whole album for those who want to check out IP4 first before committing to the entire file. I yielded to peer pressure and raised the mp3 bitrate to the max for the album cuts. Hope you find favour in the album. Tell your friends!
Mix Of The Week
Eve Massacres' 'No Sleep Till Xanadu' is 84 minutes of variety mixed by the practiced hand of a top bootleg mixer. She shares her love of music with tracks by Timo Maas, Peter Horrevorts, Jason Taylor, Noisettees and many more. A splendid listen.grab it
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Eric Lach: Dan Maes Disaster Could Leave The Colorado GOP A Minor Party (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes' disaster of a 2010 campaign could turn into a four-year embarrassment for state Republicans.
New Figures Detail Depth Of Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy (huffingtonpost.com)
One out of every 34 Americans who earned wages in 2008 earned absolutely nothing -- not one cent -- in 2009.
Tom Petruno: Fed's 'Plan B' for economy: Talking inflation up (latimes.com)
Stop being so worried about economic apocalypse. Get out there and spend. And take some of your money out of the bank and invest in something that might actually produce a decent return. If Federal Reserve officials could be completely honest, that's how they'd explain what they want from many Americans under the policy shift they're now debating.
Clarence Page: Punished for being too honest (chicagotribune.com)
Juan Williams' unfortunate firing by National Public Radio raises a question: Can we admit to having our own prejudices while arguing against other people's?
Andrew Tobias: Reasons to Vote Republican
That Joe plumbers earning $30,000 and $130,000 a year are eager to sacrifice so much for folks making $3 million and $13 million a year is something relatively new. I don't remember hearing a huge outcry in the Fifties among the middle class that the top federal tax bracket under Eisenhower was 90%.
What I'm really thinking: The coffee shop barista (guardian.co.uk)
'Yes, our drinks are pretentious, and no, I will never judge you for adding whipped cream to a skimmed latte. Well, maybe a bit.'
Emine Saner: A new film presents a revealing portrait of the comedian Joan Rivers (guardian.co.uk)
Hard work and insecurity drive outspoken comic with a career that spans five decades.
Lesley Goldberg: "Margaret Cho on 'Dancing With the Stars': Week 4"
After rebounding from a challenging Week 1 reception from the judges on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, out funnywoman Margaret Cho rebounded, and kicked things up a notch with a high-energy Jive set to Blondie's "Dreaming." But it was her Week 3 performance - which sadly wound up being her last on the reality competition show - that was the most poignant. We checked in with Cho about what the performance meant to her, how she plans to continue dancing and if she has any regrets.
Roger Ebert: Review of "The Circus" (A Great Movie)
Charlie Chaplin was a perfectionist in his films and a calamity in his private life. These two traits clashed as he was making "The Circus," one of his funniest films and certainly the most troubled. When he sat down to write his autobiography, he simply never mentioned it, perhaps because he wanted to sidestep that entire period. Yet a delightful movie emerged from the turmoil.
Roger Ebert: The Films of Charlie Chaplin
It used to be said that Charlie Chaplin was the most famous living person in the history of the earth. You could make a good argument for that. He was the first great star of motion pictures, he made silent films so everyone could understand them, and his films penetrated to th e most distant corners of the globe.
Bill Stamets: The Keystone Chaplin on DVD (suntimes.com)
How did Charles Chaplin get his start on the screen? In 1913 the English comic was on a U.S. tour with a vaudeville troupe when the Keystone Film Company offered him $150 per week. Chaplin signed a contract and took the train to Los Angeles. He acted on camera for the first time in "Making a Living." A critic at The Moving Picture World gushed that the newcomer was "a comedian of the first water, who acts like one of Nature's own naturals."
Amy Kaufman: Col Needham's film database IMDb.com informs millions (Los Angeles Times)
IMDb founder and Chief Executive Col Needham is a confessed movie nerd. Growing up in Manchester, England, his earliest memories were formed in movie theaters - seeing "Star Wars" when it was released in 1977, he recalled, when the cinema was "so full that people had to sit in the aisles." So when at age 12 he got his first computer - a do-it-yourself kit - he began using the new technology to keep track of the movies he had seen.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
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The Weekly Poll
Current Question
The 'Call it as ya See it' Edition...
The 2010 Mid-term Elections. No media intro or links are needed, I'm thinkin'...
We all know what's at stake here... So, gaze into yer Crystal Ball, break out the Ouija board, shuffle the Tarot cards, read yer tea leaves or just take a wild-ass guess and make yer prediction on the outcome, if'n ya dare...
The Democrats will:
1.) Retain the majority in both the House and the Senate
2.) Lose the House, but retain the Senate
3.) Retain the House, but lose the Senate
4.) Worse case scenario... and you know what that is, dagnabbit!
Predictions will be posted the morning of November 2nd.
... and may The Force be with us!
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Hello BCE Fans,
I'm out here working 7 days a week running phone banks, precinct walks, media events, and everything else I can think of to elect the "good guys" next week. In California we are poised to actually make our state a better place to live-the main thing I am working on is Prop 25, the On Time Budget Act. It is polling between 15% and 30% ahead and it will mean our schools will have fewer layoffs and public employees will have paychecks instead of IOU's. The rest of the country looks to be a Big Bad Bowl of Stupid.
No rest for the weary. Keep doing everything you can to remind people to vote. We can win if we simply get our people to be responsible and vote. If you or anyone you know don't know where your polling place is,
use this link ( maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/voter-info/voter-info.xml ) and type in your address. It will even give you a map of how to get there.
Now go out there and VOTE!!!
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Named Most Influential Man Of 2010
Jon Stewart
Talk show host Jon Stewart was crowned the most influential man of 2010 on Tuesday, heading a list of 49 men who all swayed public opinion and were described as rule-breakers to some degree in a time of recession.
Stewart, who will host President Barack Obama on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" this week before holding a "Rally to Restore Sanity" at the weekend, claimed the No. 1 spot in an annual survey of about 500,000 readers of AskMen, a men's lifestyle website.
He was followed by Microsoft's Bill Gates while Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of social networking site Facebook, came in third place. Apple co-founder and chief executive officer Steve Jobs came fourth.
U.S. President Barack Obama fell to 21st place from the top five last year.
Jon Stewart
Heads Back To Beachfront
Indie Spirit Awards
The Spirit Awards honoring independent film are going back to the beach.
Organizers said Tuesday the honors next Feb. 26, the day before the Academy Awards, will once again be handed out at an afternoon ceremony along the beach in Santa Monica.
The Spirit Awards had moved to an evening event in downtown Los Angeles last winter to mark the 25th anniversary of the show, which honors lower-budgeted films made outside the Hollywood studio system, such as 2009's big winner, "Precious."
The Feb. 26 ceremony will air later that night on IFC.
Indie Spirit Awards
NY Public Library Getting Papers
Maya Angelou
More than 300 boxes of Maya Angelou's personal papers, including letters from Malcolm X and James Baldwin and several scribbled revisions of the poem she wrote to celebrate President Bill Clinton's inauguration, will be made public at a New York library, the author said.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture plans to announce the papers' acquisition this week.
Angelou, 82, said she sought out the Harlem institution - a research unit of the New York Public Library - as a home for works that include notes for her acclaimed autobiography "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and the 1993 inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning."
Deciding to put her collection at the Schomburg was a "no-brainer," Angelou said.
Maya Angelou
Donates $1M
George Soros
Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalization measure with a $1 million donation a week before the vote. The contribution reported Tuesday by The Sacramento Bee is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19's main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee.
Soros, a high-profile liberal and philanthropist, has long backed drug law reform. He was one of the top financial backers of California's first-in-the-nation measure that legalized medical marijuana in the state in 1996.
But Soros held off on openly endorsing the current measure until writing an op-ed published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. In the piece, Soros said legalizing and taxing marijuana would save taxpayers the costs of incarceration and law enforcement while raising revenue for the state.
"Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws," Soros wrote.
George Soros
Soon To Be Top U.S. Broadcast Network
Univision
With double-digit ratings growth this season, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is off to a better start than any of the major English-language networks, and the future is promising as well.
The new census is expected to show a nearly 45% increase in the number of Hispanic Americans since 2000, to a total of 50 million. This couples with continuing audience erosion at the major networks and Univision's recent deal with Mexican programer Grupo Televisa, which locks up the source of much the network's popular programing for at least another decade.
Just a few years ago, the notion of Univision catching and surpassing them would have had mainstream network executives rolling with laughter. They're not laughing now.
And they're not talking publicly about it either: When asked to comment, the Big Four nets refused. But a couple of executives talked on background and indicated that they take the threat from Univision seriously.
Univision
Wins Kafka Prize For Literature
Vaclav Havel
Czech playwright and former president Vaclav Havel on Tuesday received the annual international Franz Kafka literary prize for his plays and essays.
An international nine-member jury picked Havel out of 14 authors as the 10th winner of the prize accompanied by a 10,000-dollar (7,200-euro) cheque, bestowed by the Franz Kafka Society commemorating the Prague-born author.
Jury member Oldrich Kral said at the ceremony on Tuesday the prize honoured "artistically exceptional literary work by a contemporary author, appealing to readers regardless of their origin or nationality."
Previous recipients of the prize include American writer Philip Roth, British playwright Harold Pinter, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, French poet Yves Bonnefoy and Czech authors Ivan Klima and Arnost Lustig.
Vaclav Havel
Celebrates 20 Years Of Mayhem
Jerry Springer
Thanks to Jerry Springer, the idea of a midget standing on a table to start a food fight or passionately kissing her sister on a daytime TV show doesn't seem so shocking anymore.
Springer's theater of the absurd is like video wallpaper now, as he celebrates his 20th season on the air Wednesday with an episode filmed in New York's Times Square that plays back some of the memorable wig-pulling, chin-smacking and turkey-tossing moments of the past.
"It's become an institution," Bill Carroll, an analyst of television's syndication market for Katz Television, said.
Springer's show doesn't get high ratings, not like in the early 1990s when he briefly challenged "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for supremacy. But it is a dependable performer, Katz said, and owner NBC Universal said this week it had already sold the show to stations in key markets such as New York and Los Angeles through mid-2014.
Jerry Springer
Rose Parade Grand Marshal
Paula Deen
Food Network star Paula Deen plans to cook up some fun as grand marshal of the 2011 Rose Parade.
The Tournament of Roses made the announcement Tuesday.
The 63-year-old chef and cookbook author will ride in the 122nd parade and toss the coin before kickoff of the 97th annual Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1, 2011.
Deen says the parade and game have been longtime New Year's traditions at her house, and serving as grand marshal is a dream come true.
Paula Deen
Court Shuts Down Music-Sharing Site
LimeWire
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday granted the music industry's request to shut down the popular LimeWire file-sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement.
The ruling by Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan federal court halts one of the world's biggest services for letting consumers share music, movies and TV shows for free over the Internet.
Saying that LimeWire's parent Lime Wire LLC intentionally caused a "massive scale of infringement" involving thousands of works, Wood issued a permanent injunction that requires the company to disable its "searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality."
The signed ruling was made available by The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music companies. It has said Lime Wire has cost its members hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. A copy of the ruling was not immediately available on the public court docket.
LimeWire
Lucky Bastard Skates Again
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen was briefly hospitalized Tuesday after security at the Plaza Hotel called police to report he was disorderly and had broken furniture in his room, police said.
His publicist blamed an allergic reaction to medication, and said the actor was discharged Tuesday evening and on his way back to Los Angeles.
Sheen appeared highly intoxicated when officers arrived to his room around 1:30 a.m., and a woman with him said they had been out drinking and partying that night, according to a law enforcement official. She said he was yelling and tossing furniture when they returned to the room, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the encounter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said hotel security reported Sheen was disorderly. The actor voluntarily went with authorities for a psychiatric evaluation.
Charlie Sheen
Cameraman Sues
Sacha Baron Cohen
A cameraman has sued Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming he was roughed up by a film crew shooting the comedian's "Bruno" character at a gay marriage rally nearly two years ago.
The lawsuit filed by Mike Skiff in Los Angeles on Tuesday seeks more than $25,000 in damages for alleged physical and emotional pain and suffering.
Skiff claims he recognized Baron Cohen during a pro-gay marriage rally in downtown Los Angeles in November 2008. He says he was shoved, pulled and threatened with wooden signs as he filmed Baron Cohen, who was in character as gay Austrian fashion journalist Bruno.
Skiff claims the crew was upset he was filming the comedian.
Sacha Baron Cohen
Remain In Canadian Jail
Quaids
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, remain in a Canadian jail despite being granted a release from custody last week after they were arrested on outstanding warrants in California, a Canadian border official said Tuesday.
The Quaids were arrested last Thursday in a shopping area of a posh Vancouver, British Columbia, neighborhood and were jailed on outstanding U.S. warrants related to vandalism charges. The Quaids are wanted in Santa Barbara, where they missed a court hearing Monday on felony vandalism charges.
The pair were ordered released from custody the next day during a detention review hearing on $9,750 bail and a promise to appear for their next hearing Thursday.
However, Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Shakila Manzoor told The Associated Press the Quaids remain in detention but would not disclose further details.
Quaids
Court Rejects Father's Appeal
Michael Jackson
A California appeals court rejected a bid Tuesday by Michael Jackson's father to challenge the administration of his son's lucrative estate.
A three justice panel of the California Second District Court of Appeal unanimously affirmed a probate judge's ruling that Joe Jackson didn't have standing to intervene in his son's estate.
Despite being excluded from his son's 2002 will, Joe Jackson had been seeking a say in the financial affairs.
Michael Jackson
Urges South African Opera Not To Tour Israel
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who earned a Nobel for his peaceful opposition to apartheid, on Tuesday urged Cape Town's renowned opera troupe not to tour Israel until what he calls discrimination there ends.
In a statement, Tutu compared Cape Town Opera's planned visit next month to international artists performing in apartheid South Africa, when it was "a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity.
He added it would be "unconscionable" to perform "Porgy and Bess," which he says has a "universal message of nondiscrimination."
Tutu charges that by bringing international artists to perform, the Tel Aviv Opera House "advances Israel's fallacious claim to being a 'civilized democracy.'"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
ABC Cancels
"The Whole Truth"
ABC canceled its Maura Tierney legal drama "The Whole Truth" on Monday, while giving full-season orders to a pair of other rookies.
A new episode of the drama, which co-stars Rob Morrow, is still scheduled to air Wednesday, but it's unclear how many new episodes will air beyond that. Work on the show's initial 13-episode order will continue until mid-December, Reed added.
Earlier in the day, it picked up nine additional episodes each of superhero drama "No Ordinary Family" and comedy "Better With You." "Family" recently came in fourth place in its time period, and "Better" is the lowest-rated performer in the ABC's Wednesday comedy block.
It also ordered five episodes of struggling Tuesday crime drama "Detroit 1-8-7," as well as four episodes of "Brothers & Sisters" (that latter giving the Sunday veteran a full 22-episode season).
"The Whole Truth"
Slashes Price For Ranch
Val Kilmer
Actor Val Kilmer has dropped the asking price of his Pecos River Ranch by $10 million.
The 5,328-acre ranch includes a 10-bedroom, 10-bathroom, 11,573-square-foot house. Located about 22 miles southeast of Santa Fe, it went on the market in early 2009 for $33 million, but a Craigslist ad last week lowered the price to $23 million.
Real estate agents say the market for high-end ranches, like other housing, remains soft.
The advertisement describes the ranch as having two miles of direct frontage on the Pecos River and phenomenal fishing.
Val Kilmer
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Oct. 18-24. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Minnesota at Green Bay, NBC, 25.68 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 19.41 million.
3. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 19.34 million.
4. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 19.33 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 16 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.79 million.
7. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.53 million.
8. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 14.96 million.
9. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 14.46 million.
10. "The Mentalist," CBS, 14.42 million.
11. "Football Night in America," NBC, 13.69 million.
12. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.54 million.
13. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 13.05 million.
14. "Survivor: Nicaragua," CBS, 12.26 million.
15. "The Good Wife," CBS, 12.17 million.
16. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 12.16 million.
17. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 12 million.
18. "Modern Family," ABC, 11.97 million.
19. Baseball: San Francisco vs. Philadelphia, Game 6, Fox, 11.64 million.
20. "Amazing Race 17," CBS, 11.42 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Emperor of Exmoor
It's a photo of animal majesty that has turned into a murder mystery: Who shot the Emperor? Nature lovers on Tuesday were mourning a red stag dubbed the Emperor of Exmoor - a 9-foot (2.75-meter) giant reported to be the biggest wild animal in the British Isles. He was found dead days after his picture appeared in the national press.
The Emperor's size set him apart from the herd, but may also have made him prize prey for hunters willing to pay handsomely for such a majestic trophy.
"With a set of antlers such as this deer had, it was basically going to kill him in the end," said Richard Austin, the photographer whose images appeared in newspapers - inevitably accompanied by the word "majestic."
For the 12 years of his life, the Emperor roamed Exmoor in southwest England, a wild swath of heath and woodland that has drawn hunters for 1,000 years. At 300 pounds (135 kilograms), he towered over the other stags around him, and during the autumn mating season he easily kept smaller animals at bay as he attracted a harem of female deer.
Austin photographed the stag during last year's mating season and again this year, publishing photos that expanded the animal's renown. The photos, first published Oct. 5, showed the Emperor standing regally in a field, his dramatic antlers held high, and roaring as two female deer looked on.
Mystery surrounds the stag's demise. Douglas Batchelor, head of the anti-hunting group League Against Cruel Sports, said he was shot two weeks ago near a place called Rackenford Moor. Local and national media including the BBC gave a similar location, close to a main road between the towns of Barnstaple and Tiverton.
The Emperor's body is long gone - his head possibly to a taxidermist, the rest probably to a butcher.
Austin said he deliberately did not reveal the Emperor's exact location, but some wondered whether the attention his images drew to the animal may have helped bring about its death.
A former royal hunting ground, Exmoor is popular with local hunters and wealthy outsiders, who jet in to stalk red deer - Britain's largest land animal. The Emperor was a big representative of his species, though not the largest ever recorded. Red deer can be bigger - anywhere between 130 pounds (60 kilograms) and 420 pounds (190 kilograms), according to the British Deer Society.
Emperor of Exmoor
In Memory
Paul
Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany's soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.
English-born Paul made headlines across the globe after he correctly forecast how Germany would fare in seven matches, before his psychic powers were tested again for the final.
After Germany's semi-final defeat, Paul tipped Spain to beat the Netherlands in the final, which prompted one news agency to report he had spurred a jump in demand for Spanish government bonds. Paul's prediction duly came to pass: Spain won.
Staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Center in western Germany said in a statement they were "devastated" to learn of Paul's death when they returned to work on Tuesday.
"He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes, and we are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life," said the centre's manager Stefan Porwoll.
Paul will be kept in cold storage until the center decides how to mark the mollusc's extraordinary life, Porwoll added.
"We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine," he said.
Paul
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