M Is FOR MASHUP - November 2nd, 2011
Mashups You Can Watch
By DJ Useo
Mashups are great when you want to hear the Rolling Stones & Madonna, but there isn't enough time for both. Having two songs (or more) coming at you at once can be a real hoot. So, imagine how overstimulated your brain will get if the experience is expanded beyond the realm of sound by adding the additional world of visuals. I'm not talking about your screensaver, your mp3-player's visualizer, or you rubbing your eyes too hard. No! A goodly number of mashup folk actually supplement their musical pilfering by scrounging up some great material into a video. The thing to remember about mashup videos is they can be very fleeting. Imagine if you had a tube that showed mashup videos, but when you clicked the link your cousin from Cleveland sent you, the video was already removed for some bizarre legalese reason called 'copyright infringement'. Spare yourself the heartbreak disappointment by experiencing the following excellent mashup videos before some busybody reports them.
01 - The B-52s vs The Atlantics star in the first vid. A Music Mashup by Rillen Rudi with a Video from the master himself, BorisB. The track is taken from the mashup compilationSound-Unsounds' 'Mash A Wave', the surf mashup album. It's not only full of flickering images of the artists used, you get the additional experience of watching the images through a mock antique tv screen. You'll be sending the link around to all your pals before you can say 'bah doo da wop!'.
vimeo.com/30975313
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qymJztZYkxQ&feature=player_embedded
borisbvideos.webs.com/
02 - My big fave Cheekyboy sez 'One of the new tracks I did for the Monster Mashup Halloween 2011 CD now has a video! Thanks to Gonzojam Mindless Productions! Rob Zombie Vs Prodigy = Living Dead Temper Baby (is it's name). Hope you enjoy, don't forget to check out the new collection @
www.MONSTERMASHUPS.CO.UK "
click the link here
( www.vimeo.com/29862174 )
03 - TitusPrime has done a wonderful thing & made a video for the mashup '
Love Exploder' (Tenacious D vs Jefferson Airplane). TitusPrime says :"It has been a long time so I threw a vid together because I was missing you all so much. Not my best or most inspired work for sure, but it was fun to make and I have always loved this mashup."
I say if this is a lesser work of his,his other stuff is glorious! See for yourself here
( vimeo.com/29906378 )
04 - By order of the Management...(here's) 'Killing Kids' (Echo & The Bunnymen vs MGMT) as imagined by Phil RetroSpector. Everyone loves this MGMT track (except Beavis & Butthead in their return episode, apparently) but with the vocals of the 80's greats E&TB this will be in your head for ages!
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhpYMcfkviw&feature=player_embedded )
05 - DJ LeClown may have started his own record company, but he still drops a wonderful mashup video with the best of them. '
Bootz Criminal' (Michael Jackson vs Daft Punk) is all that & a bag of salty, vinegar crisps. Great blend of music with a cool as hell video full of porn!
(Not really, no porn in it at all, but there is some great Hitchcock footage)
( vimeo.com/30902813 )
06 - The Reborn Identity informs us -"I've been spectacularly uncreative of late but I'm finally getting back into the saddle with a couple of new videos. Here's the latest." The first is '
Pressure Hurts' (- Hurts vs Queen & David Bowie vs Muse)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGBzmfCx62A&feature=player_embedded )
The second is 'Weekend Support' (Vampire Weekend vs DeadMau5)
( ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-cuKeZiSo&feature=player_embedded
Now, remember, the cool thing about these vids is you can have the mp3 for free. If we take money for our mashups, the government assumes we're with Al Qeuda (sic) & we're never seen again. Have fun with the mashup vids.
Mix Of The Week
'The Last Dance' is 18 new mashstep tracks from Colatron. On it, the final part of his mix trilogy he rocks your world with certainty of purpose. You can have one full track or grab it as indy tracks
here
( www.colatron.com/2011/10/last-dance.html )
or here
( soundcloud.com/colatron22/the-last-dance )
Mashup Tip : Add some gunpowder to your tracks for extra KICK!
Latest Useo Thing
'I Might Slap My Pitch Up' is a mashup using new songs from Wilco and Sander Van Doorn, mixed for demonstration purposes only. No copyrights claimed. I thought I'd throw y'all a modern bone & mash only the latest stuff. Not heard one word of feedback yet, but the varied download links are sure humming.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/10/wilco-vs-sander-van-doorn.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
I will miss my deadline for this weeks prediction.
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David Bruce: Halloween (Athens News)
One Halloween, basketball player Michael Jordan had to play an out-of-town game for the Chicago Bulls. Since he didn't want the neighborhood children to miss out on any Halloween candy, he put this sign on his apartment door: "Dear Kids, I'll Be Back In Three Days If You Want Trick Or Treat."
MONA SIMPSON: A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.
Jonathan Jones: Leonardo da Vinci - in your living room (Guardian)
A private viewing of the Renaissance genius's works will be broadcast and shown in cinemas. Is this the start of something beautiful?
JENNIFER BOWEN HICKS: The Rumpus Interview with Steve Almond
Americans didn't invent loneliness but we've got a pretty strong franchise on it. I think that's related to the kind of decisions we've made, as a culture, about the pace of our life and the importance of mobility. Look at our lust-I say this of myself as well-to be connected to Facebook and email and twitter; most of it is driven by a ravenous loneliness. People are trying so hard to feel some kind of connection.
Rosanna Greenstreet: "Q&A: Margaret Atwood" (Guardian)
'How do I relax? What is this "relax" of which you speak, Earthling?'
Michelle Kerns: The plagiarism paradox and 10 famous authors accused of plagiarism (Examiner)
Every doctor's nightmare is to be hit with a malpractice lawsuit. Every politician's worst fear is to be caught red-handed with a dead girl or a live boy. And the boggart hiding in every author's closet is the fear that -- someday, somehow -- they will end up branded with the scarlet P -- Plagiarist.
Roger Ebert: Review of "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (R; 3 stars)
[Wes] Craven will never advance in the Hollywood establishment until he embraces more respectable projects, and yet he has a sure touch for horror and the macabre, and "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is uncanny in the way it takes the most lurid images and makes them plausible.
Bill Gibron: 'Pooh' Is Perfect... Almost (PopMatters)
With its genuine pleasures and gentle approach, Disney's 51st animated feature is one of its very best.
Roger Moore: With 'The Rum Diary,' Johnny Depp seeks 'closure' with an old friend (The Orlando Sentinel)
Like everyone who knew him, Johnny Depp collected Hunter S. Thompson stories.
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Donating Instruments
Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys is heading back to high school.
The Grammy-winning singer will visit the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan on Tuesday and donate music instruments to its students.
Keys says her alma mater is underfunded and oversubscribed, "and I hope to make this better for them."
She will also launch an online contest where people can share how they would use $1,000 "to make the world a better place." It is part of the global campaign, "World of Betters."
Alicia Keys
First Philbin Fill-In
Jerry Seinfeld first
Departing morning TV host's Regis Philbin's chair on "Live!" won't have time to cool off before Jerry Seinfeld arrives as the first guest host of the post-Regis era.
The popular weekday talk show is announcing that Seinfeld will join continuing co-host Kelly Ripa for three days, airing Nov. 21-23.
The show said Tuesday that guests scheduled to join Ripa and Seinfeld are actor Jason Segal, actress Kim Cattrall, comedian-host Howie Mandel, "Naked Chef" Jamie Oliver and that fabulous Muppet, Miss Piggy.
Philbin is departing the show Nov. 18 after 28 years as its host. There are no plans to immediately announce a permanent successor.
Jerry Seinfeld
White House Correspondents Dinner
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel is going to be cracking jokes for the president.
The White House Correspondents' Association says the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host will be the featured comedian at its 98th annual dinner next year.
Association president Caren Bohan said Tuesday that the 43-year-old entertainer was chosen because his "humor is sophisticated and edgy while appealing to a wide audience."
The White House Correspondents' Association dinner is traditionally attended by the president and first lady, along with various government officials and members of the press corps. Proceeds from the event fund scholarships and awards to support and recognize excellence in journalism.
Jimmy Kimmel
Grand Marshal
Rose Parade
J.R. Martinez, the "Dancing With the Stars" contestant, "All My Children" daytime soap opera star and Iraq War veteran seriously burned when his Humvee hit a land mine, was picked Tuesday to lead Pasadena's 123rd Tournament of Roses.
He also will toss the coin before kickoff of the 98th Rose Bowl Game in honor of all wounded military personnel.
The Tournament of Roses Association said Martinez was a perfect fit for the "Just Imagine ..." parade theme celebrating the power of imagination, inspiration and determination to encourage people to reach higher and try harder.
The parade and football game are being held on Jan. 2 rather than New Year's Day, which falls on Sunday. The association has a never-on-Sunday rule.
Rose Parade
Baby News
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant has become a father for the first time after a brief fling, his spokesman said Tuesday - but the identity of the baby's mother is not being disclosed.
Publicist Carrie Gordon said Grant "is the delighted father of a baby girl."
She said Grant and the mother "had a fleeting affair and while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive."
"He and the mother have discussed everything and are on very friendly terms," Gordon said.
Hugh Grant
Documents Add Heat
James Murdoch
News Corp agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to an early phone-hacking victim because it recognized that evidence from the case was 'fatal' to its claims of innocence, new details released on Tuesday showed.
Briefing notes and emails exchanged between News Corp lawyers and handed over to the British parliamentary committee investigating the scandal indicated senior figures were aware of the problem in 2008 and were working to keep the issue private.
"There is a powerful case that there is (or was) a culture of illegal information access used at NGN (News Group Newspapers) in order to produce stories for publication," News Corp's senior outside counsel Michael Silverleaf told his clients.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has been fighting mounting claims that its News of the World tabloid hacked the phones of thousands to secure exclusive stories, and then orchestrated a corporate cover-up when allegations started to emerge.
James Murdoch
Decision Day
Julian Assange
A London court will rule on Wednesday whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who angered the government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, can be extradited from Britain to Sweden for questioning over alleged sexual crimes.
Swedish authorities want to quiz the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two former female volunteers for his WikiLeaks organization.
The case has cast a shadow over Assange and his whistle-blowing website which published a cache of more than 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables last year and caused a media sensation.
A British judge approved the Swedish request for the computer expert's extradition in February, but Assange appealed against that decision.
Julian Assange
Vanessa Hessler
An American model who has appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and L'Oreal lost her biggest client Monday after she defended boyfriend Mutassim Gadhafi and the Gadhafi family in an interview with Italian media.
Vanessa Hessler, a blonde, long-legged 23-year-old Italian-American model, said that she had shared a "very beautiful love story" of four years with Mutassim Gadhafi, the 36-year-old son and heir of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi who died with his father in a last stand outside the Libyan city of Sirte on Oct. 21.
Hessler also said that the West had made a mistake in backing the rebels who ended Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year reign. "We, France and the United Kingdom, financed the rebels but people don't know what they are doing," Hessler told Italian magazine Diva e Donna, adding that she is disgusted by what is happening in Libya and that "the Gaddafi family is not how they are being depicted, they are normal people."
On Monday, Telefonica Germany fired Hessler from a job that had made her instantly recognizable to television viewers across Germany, France and Italy. For several years, Hessler had been known to the public as "Alice," the onscreen spokeswoman for the company's "Alice" internet service, but Telefonica declared an immediate end to the relationship with a Tweet. Telefonica said the model's romantic relationships were "private business," but the company "cannot accept her comments on the Libya conflict."
Vanessa Hessler
Pleads Not Guilty
Christopher Chaney
A Florida man has pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court to hacking into the email accounts of Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johansson.
Christopher Chaney has been indicted in California on 26 counts, including wiretapping, and faces up to 121 years in prison if convicted.
Federal prosecutors say Chaney hacked into email accounts belonging to Aguilera, Johansson and Mila Kunis. Some nude photos taken by Johansson of herself were posted on the Internet.
Authorities say they 35-year-old offered some material to celebrity blog sites but there isn't any evidence that he profited from his scheme.
Christopher Chaney
More Wrangling Over Estate
James Brown
Trustees who say they were unjustly removed from the charitable trust of the late soul singer James Brown urged South Carolina's Supreme Court on Tuesday to strike down the estate settlement.
The justices questioned an attorney for former trustees Adele Pope and Robert Buchanan about their contention that then-South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster didn't have the authority to push through the deal that ended years of fighting among Brown's heirs. Pope and Buchanan asked that the settlement be reorganized by a lower court.
The dispute began shortly after the Godfather of Soul died of heart failure on Christmas Day 2006 at age 73. The performer's death touched off years of bizarre headlines, beginning with his widow Tomi Rae Hynie being locked out of his 60-acre estate and photographers capturing her sobbing and shaking its iron gates, begging to be let in.
McMaster, who ultimately brokered a settlement in 2009, said the dispute over the estate would have continued without his intervention. Half a dozen of Brown's adult children had bickered for years after their father's death before agreeing to the settlement. They said they support the deal and want the litigation to end so that the trust can be put to its intended use: funding education for needy children in South Carolina and Georgia.
But Pope and Buchanan, who were removed as trustees by a circuit judge who approved the deal, sued over the 2009 deal.
James Brown
TopLlots Go Unsold
Christie's
Almost all of the top-priced works at Christie's auction of Impressionist and modern art failed to sell Tuesday as collectors did not respond to what turned out to be aggressively priced works by Degas, Picasso and Giacometti.
The sale, the first of two weeks of critical fall auctions at Christie's and rival Sotheby's, took in $141 million, against a pre-sale estimate of $210 million to $300 million. Less than two-thirds of 82 works on offer found buyers.
After several seasons of the art market defying unstable financial markets, officials were chastened by Tuesday's sale where the expected highlight, an iconic Degas sculpture of a teenage dancer expected to sell for about $30 million, drew no bids higher than $18.5 million.
A pair of Picasso portraits expected to sell for $12 million to $18 million and two Giacomettis in the $10 million range were all casualties.
Christie's
Price Falls Below $8
Movie Tickets
It's getting a little cheaper to go to the movies.
The average ticket price fell to $7.94 over the third quarter, the National Association of Theater Owners announced on Tuesday.
That's down from the $8.06 ticket buyers spent on average during the second quarter of this year.
That passed the previous high of $8.01, set in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Movie Tickets
Newly Deciphered Diary Muddles Legend
Dr. David Livingstone
He is one of history's most famous explorers, and his first-person account of a 19th-century massacre in Africa helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave markets.
Now researchers say they have evidence Dr. David Livingstone may not have been telling the whole truth. An international team of academics used spectral imaging technology to decode Livingstone's long-illegible field diary and say it hints that his own men may have participated in the atrocity.
"Livingstone's party might have been involved in the massacre," said Adrian Wisnicki of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who directed the project. But he advised caution: "We're only beginning to analyze the evidence."
It's an explosive claim, because Livingstone's account of the horror seen in the African village of Nyangwe galvanized British authorities to shut the slave market in Zanzibar, a critical hub for East Africa's human traffickers.
Dr. David Livingstone
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. World Series Game 7: Texas at St. Louis, Fox, 25.4 million.
2. Sunday Night Football: Dallas at Philadelphia, NBC, 22.99 million.
3. World Series Game 6: Texas at St. Louis, Fox, 21.07 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 19.43 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 18.56 million.
6. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 17.22 million.
7. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.17 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.89 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15.29 million.
10. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 14.54 million.
11. World Series Game 5: St. Louis at Texas, Fox, 14.32 million.
12. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 14.1 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 12.42 million.
14. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 12.16 million.
15. "The X Factor" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Fox, 12.09 million.
16. "Football Night in America," NBC, 11.89 million.
17. "Survivor: South Pacific," CBS, 11.79 million.
18. "Once Upon a Time," ABC, 11.74 million.
19. "Person of Interest," CBS, 11.62 million.
20. "Modern Family," ABC, 11.31 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Dorothy Rodham
Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton's mother-in-law, died Tuesday at age 92 after an illness.
The family said Rodham died shortly after midnight, surrounded by her family at a Washington hospital. The secretary of state had cancelled a planned trip to London and Istanbul to be at her mother's side.
Dorothy Rodham was a witness to her daughter's political victories and defeats. She avoided the spotlight and rarely gave interviews about herself or her daughter and son-in-law, the former president.
A notable exception was her daughter's 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination for president. She appeared with her daughter in primary states, particularly at events focusing on women's issues.
Clinton cited her mother in at least one ad during the campaign, saying that her mother had taught her to stand up for herself and to stand up for those who needed help.
As Clinton battled Barack Obama for the nomination in April 2008, Rodham joined her daughter and granddaughter at a campaign event at Haverford College, Pa. Then 88, Rodham didn't speak at the event, but Hillary Clinton noted that her mother lived with her and "always has a lot of great ideas about what we need to be doing," drawing chuckles from the audience.
When Clinton ended her campaign during a speech in June 2008 at Washington's National Building Museum, her mother watched from off stage and wiped a tear as Clinton conceded the nomination to Obama. The following February, Rodham was on hand as her daughter was sworn in as Obama's secretary of state.
Dorothy Howell Rodham was born in Chicago in 1919, the daughter of a city firefighter. In her autobiography, "Living History," Hillary Clinton described her mother's childhood as lonely and loveless.
The Howells shuttled Dorothy and her younger sister, Isabelle, among relatives and schools. She was 8 when her parents divorced in 1927 and she was sent with her sister to live with their paternal grandparents in Alhambra, Calif. Her grandmother could be cruel when not ignoring young Dorothy, Clinton wrote.
Rodham left her grandparents' home at 14 when she found room and board as a mother's helper to another family. After graduating from high school, she returned to Chicago on her mother's promise of helping to pay for a college education if she lived with her and her new husband. After that promise was unfulfilled, Rodham supported herself with a job in an office.
"I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman," Clinton wrote.
She met Hugh E. Rodham, a native of Scranton, Pa., who had found work in Chicago as a traveling salesman. They courted for several years before marrying in 1942. Besides their daughter, they raised two sons, Hugh and Tony.
Dorothy Rodham was a homemaker in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge but for years took a variety of college courses even though she never completed a degree. A Democrat, she was a counter to the conservative Republicanism of her husband, who became a successful businessman.
The Rodhams moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1987, to be near their daughter and her husband, then the state's governor, and their granddaughter, Chelsea. Dorothy Rodham's husband died in 1993. A Washington Post profile in 2007 noted that she moved to Washington to live with her daughter's family after Hillary Clinton's election to the Senate in 2000.
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The Clinton family plans a private memorial service. The family statement said any donations should be made to George Washington Hospital, where Rodham "received excellent care and made terrific friends over many years"; or to the Heifer Project , her Christmas gift of choice in 2010.
Dorothy Rodham
In Memory
Beryl Davis
British-born big band singer Beryl Davis, who made her U.S. debut on Bob Hope's radio show and later performed with Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman, has died in Los Angeles at 87.
Family spokesman Greg Purdy tells the Los Angeles Times she died Friday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
She was daughter of British band leader Harry Davis.
During World War II, she sang with Stephane Grappelli and pianist George Shearing in a group that performed in London clubs throughout the Blitz. She sang with Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band near the end of the war.
After Hope's radio show, Beryl Davis appeared with Sinatra on the "Your Hit Parade" radio show.
In the 1950s, she formed a vocal quartet with Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Della Russell.
Beryl Davis
In Memory
Gilbert Cates
Producer and director Gilbert Cates, who oversaw a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies and founded the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, has died. He was 77.
Cates collapsed on the UCLA campus Monday evening. Emergency personnel responded but were unable to revive him, officials said Tuesday. The cause of death was not immediately known.
Cates last produced the Oscar telecast in 2008, when the ceremony was almost sidelined by the Writers Guild strike.
Cates founded the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. He was its dean from 1990 to 1998 and remained on the faculty as a professor.
Cates twice served as president of the Directors Guild of America and was on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He produced and directed films, television shows and plays on and off Broadway. His film credits include 1970's "I Never Sang for My Father" with Gene Hackman, and 1980's "Oh God! Book II" with George Burns.
Cates is survived by his wife, Dr. Judith Reichman, four children, two stepchildren and six grandchildren.
Gilbert Cates
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