M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - November 21st, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
A Feast Of New Mashups
By DJ Useo
It's very easy this time of year to gorge yourself on too many mashups. Nowadays there's such an extensive banquet, you can fill up on new mixes practically as long as you can stand to refill your mp3 player. Normally, I urge moderation, but in the spirit of gluttony, I'm giving you ten new mashups by ten fantastic deejays.
01 - DRA'man- 'Somethings Wrong In The Air' (Phil Collins vs Pretty Lights)
( official.fm/tracks/MTOc )
( soundcloud.com/draman/somethings-wrong-in-the-air )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2kS5Sqr_o&feature=youtube_gdata )
02 - DJ Morgoth-'We Made it Still Swinging' (Busta Rhymes vs Papa Roach)
( www.djmorgoth.blogspot.com/2012/11/dj-morgoth-we-made-it-still-swingin.html )
( soundcloud.com/darkmorgoth/dj-morgoth-we-made-it-still-swingin )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMenkNG3D3g&feature=player_embedded )
03 - G4Gorilla-'Heaven's Exotic That Way' (The Cure vs Backstreet Boys)
( www.g4gorilla.blogspot.com/2012/11/heavens-exotic-that-way.html )
04 - Luke DB- 'Vivaldi & Dada' (Marco Fratty & Juan Serrano vs Dada Life)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWihDNKL2M )
( official.fm/tracks/6Vax )
05 - Lizzart-'25 Miles All Right' (Barry Manilow vs Edwin Starr)
( soundcloud.com/lizzart/25milesallright-barrymanilow )
06 - Luca Rubino-'Don't Wake Platinum Blonde' (No Doubt vs Chris Brown)
( soundcloud.com/idjrub/no-doubt-vs-chris-brown-dont )
07 - Mashy & Scratchy- 'Tick Boom Style' (Psy vs The Hives)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NIVuPta94 )
( official.fm/tracks/5Bei )
08 - Colatron-'Nightsoul' (Kavinsky vs UNKLE vs Taste Tester)
( soundcloud.com/colatron22/nightsoul )
09 - MichMash-'Close To Fall' (Queen vs Donny Hathaway)
( official.fm/tracks/wABg )
10 - Fissunix-'Sing Perfect' (Pink vs My Chemical Romance)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgWH9t18FOA&feature=g-upl )
( www.themashupradio.com/2012/10/01/mash-of-the-titans-compiled-by-panos-t/ )
I'm sure your ears are stuffed to the gills now.
Allow me to be giving you thanks for reading & listening.
Podcast Of The Week
I took a ton of the most recent excellent mashups that my SOUNDCLOUD contacts had posted & hosted them into a fantastic new hour and twenty minutes show called 'DJ USEO NOVEMBER MASHUP PODCAST 2012' . So far the response has been over the top. Grab a copy for your personal enjoyment here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/11/dj-useo-november-mashup-podcast-2012.html )
Mashup Tip
You can tell when your mashup is done because the little plastic doohickey pops up.
Latest Useo Thing
I cut & looped a favorite 80's song by the Plastics called 'Good'. Adding vocals from Queen & Groucho Marx resulted in a wildly quirky mix I titled 'Calling All Good Girls' (Queen vs The Plastics vs Groucho Marx). Listen or download here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/11/queen-vs-plastics-vs-groucho.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
At least 14 mashup dj's will make new tracks for Thanksgiving about 'TURDUCKY'.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPedoSSE_Yw )
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Meet the Press: Deval Patrick compares Obamacare with his state's health program
Jonathan Capehart: Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov (Washington Post)
"Although the statute provided plenty of money to help states build their own insurance exchanges, it included no money for the development of a federal exchange - and Republicans would block any funding attempts. According to one former administration official, [Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius simply could not scrounge together enough money to keep a group of people developing the exchanges working directly under her." - Washington Post
Andrew Tobias: Health Care
"Needless to say, the Republicans are no more focused on the 95% or 98% who will be better off under Obamacare, now that they are out of power, than they were focused - when for six years they controlled the White House, House and Senate - on the tens of millions with no coverage at all. Or the tens of millions more with coverage that left them exposed to financial ruin in the event of a serious illness." - Andrew Tobias
Stuart Heritage: Richard Dawkins's honey and other high-profile airport confiscations (Guardian)
Dawkins tweeted 'Bin Laden has won' after his jar of honey was confiscated by airport security. Which other items of celebrity baggage have famously fallen foul of airport regulations.
David Batty: Robert Webb rebukes Russell Brand for urging people not to vote (Guardian)
Peep Show actor says fellow comedian's essay led him to rejoin Labour party and accuses Brand of political 'timidity'.'
Interview by Jack Watkins: "Tom Baker: how I made Doctor Who" (Guardian)
Timelord Tom Baker recalls introducing jelly babies to the Doctor's diet, how the Daleks were darlings, and why his scarf kept getting longer.
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Not Invited
Dan Rather
CBS News hasn't invited Dan Rather back to participate in its 50th-anniversary coverage of the Kennedy assassination, but images of the longtime anchor who parted bitterly with the network will be a part of its upcoming documentary on how the story unfolded that day.
Rather helped organize CBS' plans for President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and as a young reporter was a key component of assassination coverage. Now 82, with his own show on AXS-TV, he's one of the few reporters on the story that day still active in journalism.
Rather, who later became CBS News' top anchor for 24 years, will appear on NBC's "Today" show on Nov. 22 this year.
"I held off doing anything for anybody else for a while, thinking I may be asked to do something (for CBS)," Rather said. "I can't say I had any reason for that hope."
CBS Washington bureau chief Bob Schieffer, who as a newspaper reporter in 1963 gave the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald a ride to Dallas after the assassination, will anchor a Nov. 16 special on that day's coverage. CBS' announcement of the special recently said viewers will relive the day with anchor Walter Cronkite and reporters Charles Collingwood, Harry Reasoner, Charles Kuralt and Mike Wallace. All of those men are now dead; Rather went unmentioned.
Dan Rather
History Network To Remake
'Roots'
A remake of the groundbreaking television miniseries "Roots" is in the works at the History network.
The network said Tuesday that it had reached a deal with Mark Wolper, whose father, David, made the 1977 "Roots" miniseries, to acquire the rights to remake it. The project is in development, meaning there's a possibility it won't be made, but the commitment makes it likely the new series will appear some time in 2015.
The first "Roots" series was a television sensation, gripping the country with its story of generations of a slave family.
History has been particularly successful with miniseries lately, including "The Bible" and "Hatfields & McCoys."
'Roots'
Marvel Comics
Ms Marvel
Marvel Comics is bringing Ms. Marvel back as a 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey City named Kamala Khan.
The character - among the first to be a series protagonist who is both female and Muslim - is part of Marvel Entertainment's efforts to reflect a growing diversity among its readers while keeping ahold of the contemporary relevance that have underlined its foundation since the creation of Spider-Man and the X-Men in the early 1960s.
Writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona, working with editor Sana Amanat, say the series reflects Khan's vibrant but kinetic world, learning to deal with superpowers, family expectations and adolescence.
This Ms. Marvel can grow and shrink her limbs and her body and, Wilson said, ultimately, she'll be able to shape shift into other forms.
Ms Marvel
Copy Of Will Up For Auction
Napoleon
The frail Napoleon knew he was near his end as he penned his will and asked that his ashes be scattered along the Seine among the French people he loved.
This rare flash of emotion from the once-mighty French emperor is revealed in the only known copy of the historic document being auctioned in Paris' Drouot Auction house Wednesday. It gives an unusual insight into Napoleon's final moments.
Napoleon wrote the letter on April 16, 1821, some 19 days before his death. As the ailing 51-year-old was putting ink to paper, he said to a friend, "My son, it's time I go, I feel it," according to the auction notes.
The original letter, penned in Napoleon's own illegible hand, is in France's national archives and unavailable for purchase. The only copy, written by a close adviser, is expected to fetch 120,000 euros ($162,000).
Napoleon
Old Bailey
Rupert
The News of the World told police it had hacked the phone of missing British schoolgirl Milly Dowler and wrote a story based on her voicemail messages which incorporated a comment from the police, a court heard on Tuesday.
Former managing editor Stuart Kuttner explained how the tabloid had accessed the 13-year-old's voicemail messages in 2002 and offered police the information as a possible lead, prosecutors said.
Milly was later found murdered, and the revelation that her phone was among hundreds hacked by the News of the World prompted owner Rupert Murdoch to shut down the Sunday tabloid amid a huge outcry in July 2011.
Kuttner, 73, is on trial for phone hacking at the Old Bailey court alongside former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. They all deny the charges.
Rupert
Russian Police Harassed Norwegian Journalists
Sochi
Russian police harassed and detained two Norwegian journalists on their way to Sochi, venue of the 2014 winter Olympics, a rights group and their television station said on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch said in a statement the International Olympic Committee (IOC) must demand an explanation from authorities and insist that no further incidents of this kind occurred.
HRW said police accused one of the journalists from Norway's TV2, the country's official games broadcaster, of taking drugs and both had their luggage searched.
A TV2 representative confirmed its crew was in Russia last week to report on Olympic preparations, but was not allowed to do their job by police.
"There is no doubt is that their main purpose was to obstruct our work," news director Jan Ove Aarsaether told Reuters. "Of course they haven't been drunk or on drugs, they had been working very professionally."
Sochi
"Improper Vetting"
Rand Paul
The plagiarism accusations are piling up against Sen. Rand Paul (R-Legacy) of Kentucky.
Over the past week, Senator Paul, widely viewed as a presidential contender in 2016, fended off charges that he lifted passages from Wikipedia for some of his speeches.
Now, an op-ed on mandatory minimum sentencing that Paul wrote in September for the Washington Moonie Times seems to contain several paragraphs lifted almost verbatim from an article by an editor of The Week.
The new example, first reported by Buzzfeed, comes after multiple instances were exposed in the past few days of Paul using language in speeches and his book that is identical to passages from various news articles.
Paul responded angrily to such charges over the weekend, telling ABC's "This Week" that he was being "unfairly targeted by a bunch of hacks and haters, and I'm just not going to put up with people casting aspersions on my character." He accused MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who had uncovered some of the plagiarism, of "spreading hate" about him.
But on Tuesday morning, Paul's office acknowledged in a statement that some of the material he used hadn't been property vetted, and promised to implement going forward a new system of footnotes and attribution.
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Council Demands Name Change
DC
Pressure grew on the Washington Redskins to abandon their racially charged nickname Tuesday when the US capital's city council formally called for the National Football League team to rebrand itself.
In a resolution directed at Redskins owner Dan Snyder, it called the name "an ongoing insult to America's First Nations" that has had "the foreseeable effect of insulting people of American Indian descent."
Snyder and the NFL should find another name "that is not derogatory, demeaning or dishonoring," the council resolution said, suggesting as an alternative the Redtails -- a nod to black US fighter pilots in World War II.
The resolution passed by a vote of 10-0, with one abstention and two absentees, local television station WJLA reported.
On the eve of Tuesday's vote, the team sent an e-mail to fans urging them to contact city council members to argue that the Redskins name is a crucial part of its heritage.
DC
Coastal Arrival
Alaska
Scientists at the University of Alaska are concerned about radiation leaking from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, and the lack of a monitoring plan.
Some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along the west coast. That's raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife. More may be heading toward coastal communities like Haines and Skagway.
John Kelley, a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says he's not sure contamination will reach dangerous levels for humans but says without better data, who will know?
"The data they will need is not only past data but current data, and if no one is sampling anything then we won't really know it, will we?
He says much of the monitoring is being done pro bono by universities, NGOs and state organizations.
Alaska
Tries Diversity
Barilla
Italian pasta maker Barilla has called in experts to help overhaul its image and promote diversity in its ads after its CEO sparked outrage by saying he would never use gay couples in commercials.
American gay rights activist David Mixner and Italian Paralympics cyclist and ex-Formula One driver Alex Zanardi are among the high-profile international figures called in to advise the embarrassed company, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The company has also appointed a head diversity officer and will sign up to the Human Rights Campaign's corporate equality index, which rates companies on how open they are to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
The Barilla spokesman said the initiatives had "been in the works for over a year" and were not an attempt to clean up the company's image after the backlash over the CEO's anti-gay remarks.
Pasta maker tries diversity after anti-gay scandal - Yahoo News
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 28-Nov. 3. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 19.3 million.
2. World Series Game 6: St. Louis at Boston, Fox, 19.18 million.
3. NFL Football: Indianapolis at Houston, NBC, 17.04 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.81 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.9 million.
6. World Series Game 5: Boston at St. Louis, Fox, 14.45 million.
7. "Walking Dead," AMC, 13.31 million.
8. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.28 million.
9. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 13.22 million.
10. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12 million.
11. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 11.8 million.
12. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 11.7 million.
13. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.62 million.
14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.01 million.
15. NFL Football Seattle vs. St. Louis, ESPN, 10.76 million.
16. "Castle," ABC, 10.69 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.64 million.
18. "The Blacklist," NBC, 10.51 million.
19. "The Good Wife," CBS, 10.22 million.
20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 9.71 million.
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