M Is FOR MASHUP - November 9th, 2011
Mashups From Two Worlds
By DJ Useo
Gree-tings everyone. It's time to interrupt your normal reading again to discuss & listen to mashups. Today I have two completely new mashup albums for you. One is by me & the other is by me, lol. Here's the rub, though. One album is appealing normal mashups with music & singing you're most likely familiar with. Then there's the second album with much more aggressive music for the most part & singing that a tad more 'out there'. So you can enjoy the safe pleasure of your musical comfort zone with mashups like 'Golden Wild Life Years' (David Bowie vs Talking Heads) & 'You Got Another American Idiot Coming' (Judas Priest vs Green Day) or you can challenge your sense with wild ass tunes like 'Sedated Roundabout' (The Ramones vs Yes) & 'Carry On My Wayward Spirit In The Sky' (Kansas vs Norman Greenbaum).
Yes, it's one album for everyone & another album for the more adventurous listeners. The former is '
MASHUPS FOR COOL CATS'
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/09/mashups-for-cool-cats-all-new-album.html )
> and the latter is 'INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 6'
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/intense-psychedelia-6-all-new-mashups.html ) . It may seem like 6 is a lot of psychedelic mashup albums for just one guy to make, but '
MASHUPS FOR COOL CATS' is actually my 7th general music theme original mashup album. I'm not counting tribute albums, unusual mashup collections, or holiday-themed records. You'll never see me stop posting normal mashup albums, but I never expected to still be releasing intense psychedelic mashup albums. I'd make them just for myself, I'm sure, but it was sheer encouragement from online peeps that got me motivated to post another. It's a great feeling to have y'all ask for more trippy tracks, as well as the regular-type mixes I always give.
One thing I notice about releasing mashups is comments seem to become more & more scarce, while downloads & streamed listen numbers maintain or thrive. I must'a got 7 or 8 comments for the
Loreena McKennitt mashup 9
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuUacuXyDDg ) I did, so imagine my surprise when I saw the mirrored links for the mp3 had gone over 8000. Imagine 8000 accompanying comments! Hell, imagine 8000 accompanying dollars! Pardon me a moment while I ponder that.Ahhhhh! J It's funny also, how much the two records I've done have in common. For instance, artists used on both like the Beatles, David Bowie, Yes & T.Rex. Yet, the 2 albums are not the same in the ways that count. I know plenty will love a track from the cool cats album like 'Free Jokerin' (Steve Miller Band vs Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), but I also realize not so many will go for the heavily psychedelic 'I Want To Touch Mirror People' (Love and Rockets vs Catherine Wheel) from the IP6 record. A durn shame,actually, but a phenomena to be expected. I love The Bevis Frond, a great band, but sadly, they're far outsold by, say, Coldplay, who are a very good band.
I had a wonderful time with the covers for each record, too. The cool cats one I actually drew myself with the added joy of colours provided by DJ Petrushka & some prismacolor art pencils. Thanks, Petrushka! Then I had literally hours of fun searching online for suitably trippy animated gifs to be a cover for the intense album. Once I had the final selections I was inordinately fortunate to have the generous assistance of French bootlegger
Chocomang
( chocomang.org/ ). He agreed to add the appropriate cover lettering, & man, did he ever succeed! Thanks,
Chocomang. Here's the
animated front cover
( i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/useo8/DJ%20Useo%20Covers%202/djuseo_ip6gif.gif ) and here's
the animated back cover
( i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/useo8/DJ%20Useo%20Covers%202/djuseo-ip6-back.gif ) .
As if that wasn't cool enough, he did a selection of variants (just like the comic books do) that are even more far out than the main one I chose (I went for one of the tamer ones because I've had complaints before when they're too hard on the eyes, lol). Here's
my actual favorite
( i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/useo8/DJ%20Useo%20Covers%202/djuseo_ip6-6gif.gif ).
I hope you lend an ear to one or both collections, & find favor with them. There's links for just listening, solo track download links, links for the entire album files & even links for just the cover files ( & all are free). If you like any of it, don't send money (unless you want to, lol) - just tell your friends. More great new mashups next Wednesday, here at the home of modern entertainment, Bartcop Entertainment.
Mix Of The Week
wvlfpvp has a swell mashup mix out called 'Princess Spreads A Memetic Virus'.
wvlfpvp says of the mix "It's a new Princess mix, and that means dance-y mashup goodness! I went a bit darker/heavier this time; this is honestly because the heavier dance stuff is what I've really tuned into since the last mix. Enjoy, and shake your ass!"
Listen or download here
( www.bmbx.org/2011/10/princess-spreads-a-memetic-virus/ )
Mashup Tip : Spend top dollar for mixing software & you can extract all the parts of just about any song. It works for surgery & your body, as well. lol.
Latest Useo Thing
'Letter Good Time Roll' (Cars vs Pixies) has the Cars' 'let the good times roll' acapella, the Pixies' 'letter to memphis' instrumental, & Negativland samples for added spice. As usual, it's a mashup for demonstration purposes only.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
On December 3rd 2011, popular San Francisco deejay Nicholas Nockalaus will take offense at the apathy toward his latest mashup, & drop rotten eggs over the entire city from his custom-built Nockalous-copter. What a stinker!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (Athens News)
Some lessons need to be learned at exactly the right time. For example, Ralph Nader's mother used to teach her children about health when they were ill. She told Ralph, "When you were sick, I gave you your lessons on health. There was no more receptive time than when you were in the middle of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and measles." Of course, the lessons she taught were about such things as eating the right foods and getting enough exercise and sleep.
Diana Adams: "Altoid Mint Tin Carvings: Tiny Inspiring Dioramas" (Bit Rebels)
Jim creates little dioramas out of Altoid tins and they are spectacular. He is a self-taught artist who not only makes these little scenes out of Altoid tins; he does it in all kinds of tiny little tins. You can learn more about him at Jim Doran. On his website he writes, "I put ideas inside of other objects." I like it. I like it a lot.
"A Plan Fit For a Billionaire (Or Two)" (ThinkProgress)
This afternoon, Mitt Romney delivered a fiscal policy speech at a "Defending the American Dream" conference sponsored by the Koch Brothers' front group, Americans for Prosperity. See below and you'll understand why David Koch himself was in the front clapping for millionaire Mitt Romney.
Emily Nussbaum: The Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto (nymag.com)
Come for the Lady Gaga, stay for the empowerment.
Anthony Grafton: "Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?" (New York Review of Books)
American universities crowd the tops of many world rankings, and though these ratings are basically entertainment for university administrators and alumni, they do reflect certain facts.
Eddie Deezen: The Guy Who Died on a TV Talk Show
In the 'New York Times Magazine,' 72-year-old fitness guru Jerome I. Rodale had declared proudly sand defiantly: "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I get run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver."
Sam Adams: Kevin Smith's Army (Slate)
How his loyal fans prop up a stunningly mediocre career.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Lights in the Dusk" (3 ˝ stars)
More and more I am learning to love the films of Aki Kaurismaki, that Finnish master of the stories of sad and lonely losers. Like very few directors (like Tati, Fassbinder, Keaton, Fellini), he has created a world all his own, and you can recognize it from almost every shot. His characters are dour, speak little, expect the worst, smoke too much, are ill-treated by life, are passive in the face of tragedy. Yes, and they are funny.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
wrote:
took the day off.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly sunny, but on the cool side.
Obama Takes Stance
Net Neutrality
President Obama will not be neutral when it comes to net neutrality.
The White House on Tuesday pledged to veto any Congressional resolution seeking to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Open Internet regulations, set to go into effect November 20.
The presidential shot across the bow comes prior to an expected Thursday Senate vote on Republican-sponsored "resolution of disapproval" opposing the regulations.
Unveiled last September, the rules are designed to prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against competitors or consumers by blocking content or altering speeds.
The regulations allow the FCC to impose fines and bring injunctions against companies that slow down Internet service for customers who are streaming movies or downloading music.
Net Neutrality
Resigns As Academy Awards Producer
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner resigned Tuesday as producer of next year's Academy Awards, one day after apologizing for using a gay slur at a screening of his latest film.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed Ratner's departure. President Tom Sherak said in a statement that the 42-year-old filmmaker "did the right thing for the academy and for himself."
Ratner used a pejorative term for gay men during a question-and-answer session at a screening of his film "Tower Heist." He also discussed his sexual exploits on a recent episode of "The Howard Stern Show."
Ratner thanked the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "for engaging me in a dialogue about what we can do together to increase awareness of the important and troubling issues this episode has raised."
Brett Ratner
AIDS Envoy
Ellen DeGeneres
The Obama administration has announced $60 million in additional funding to fight AIDS transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, and a new special envoy to raise global awareness about the deadly disease: Ellen DeGeneres.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the actress will "bring her sharp wit and big heart, and her impressive TV audience and 8 million followers on Twitter" to support U.S. efforts to save the lives of those suffering from HIV/AIDS.
Clinton says the money will help scale up and assess new prevention strategies.
She said Tuesday that more effective prevention methods were driving infections down, making it possible to treat more people. She said that is allowing health campaigners for the first time to "get ahead of the pandemic," and make progress toward establishing an AIDS-free generation.
Ellen DeGeneres
Teams With UN
Linkin Park
The rock band Linkin Park is teaming up with the U.N. to bring clean energy to Haitian families.
Band members joined Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a Tuesday news conference announcing their involvement in an initiative to replace dirty energy sources like kerosene, charcoal and wood with solar and other clean, sustainable power.
Rapper and co-frontman Mike Shinoda says the band began funding disaster relief efforts worldwide after the devastating 2004 tsunami in Asia.
Linkin Park's albums include Hybrid Theory and Meteora. It has sold more 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy awards.
Linkin Park
Paper Loses Privacy Case
Rupert
A French court ruled on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct British tabloid the News of the World violated the privacy of the former head of Formula One in publishing photographs of him with five prostitutes in 2008.
Max Mosley, 71, had sued in France -- where the newspaper had been distributed and where privacy laws are strict -- after earlier winning damages in a British court from the News Corp-owned tabloid, which was shuttered during a phone-hacking scandal earlier this year.
The Paris court fined News Corp 10,000 euros ($13,750) and granted Mosley damages of 7,000 euros, with an additional 15,000 euros for procedural fees.
The court did not penalize the reporter who wrote the story, Neville Thurlbeck. Mosley had sought 100,000 euros each in damages from both the paper and Thurlbeck.
The front page article, accompanied by photos and video footage, suggested that Mosley had organized what it dubbed a "sick Nazi orgy." Mosley -- who was not in court on Tuesday -- has denied the party was Nazi-themed.
Rupert
Sues 'Spider-Man' Producers
Julie Taymor
Director Julie Taymor filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," alleging they violated her creative rights and haven't compensated her for the work she put into Broadway's most expensive musical.
Charles Spada, an attorney who filed the suit on behalf of the Tony Award-winning director, said Tuesday in a statement that "the producers' actions have left her no choice but to resort to legal recourse to protect her rights."
Rick Miramontez, the show's spokesman, was not immediately aware of the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York. Taymor was not available to comment.
Taymor who had been the "Spider-Man" director and co-book writer, was fired from the $75 million musical that features music by U2's Bono and The Edge in March after years of delays, accidents and critical backlash.
Philip William McKinley, who directed the Hugh Jackman musical "The Boy From Oz," in 2003, was hired to steer the ship. He was billed as creative consultant when the musical opened in June.
Julie Taymor
Boots Developer
Apple
Companies like Google and Facebook reward hackers with monetary incentives for finding bugs and security holes in their software. Apple has taken the opposite approach. TG Daily reports that security researcher Charlie Miller was ousted from the iOS developer program after revealing a security flaw in iPhones and iPads. He discovered, and made public, that it's possible to create an app for the App Store that passes all of Apple's security sweeps but still downloads malware onto the device and does bad things. His app, called InstaStock and masked as a stock trading app, was able to access photos and contacts as well as make the device vibrate or play sounds, all of which are typically restricted on iOS.
"The user doesn't know anything's going on, it just looks like a normal app," he says. "I can grab any file I want - here is, for example, the address book."
Unfortunately, though it was necessary for his research, Apple did not take kindly to Miller uploading malware to the App Store. He was booted from the developer program despite the fact that he publicly stated that his app was for research and warned Apple of the hole in their system.
"OMG, Apple just kicked me out of the iOS Developer program. That's so rude!" said Miller on Twitter. "First they give researchers access to developer programs (although I paid for mine), then they kick them out…for doing research. I thought they'd just remove the app and we'd still be friends."
Apple
Wants Trial
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox wants a jury trial in a Cleveland civil lawsuit claiming the former star of TV's "Lost" punched the driver of a chartered party bus.
Online court records show Fox made the demand in a counterclaim filed Thursday.
In her lawsuit, driver Heather Bormann of Cleveland alleges that Fox punched her in the breast, groin, arm and legs after she blocked him from boarding the bus on Aug. 28. Fox was in Cleveland for a movie shoot.
Bormann's suit says she needed medical treatment for injuries that led to a loss of income. She's seeking at least $75,000 in damages.
Cleveland prosecutors reviewed the case and declined to file charges against the actor.
Matthew Fox
Every Sperm is Sacred
'20 Kids and Counting?'
TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting" may soon need a new name.
Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar appeared with their burgeoning clan on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday and announced they are expecting their 20th child in April.
Forty-five-year-old Michelle Duggar said she's in good physical shape and that she's not worried, despite complications during her last pregnancy that led to the premature birth of their youngest child two years ago. She says she's made it through her first trimester safely.
The couple has said they don't use birth control. Michelle Duggar says she didn't necessarily expect to get pregnant again and that she and her husband are excited to welcome the new addition to the family.
20 Kids and Counting?'
The Backlash
Kardashiana
An over-the-top wedding followed by a whipsaw divorce is leading to what can only be called Kardashian backlash.
The family that captivated reality television and built the house of E! is coping with a vertiginous reversal of fortune.
"She thought she was Teflon and she's being proved wrong," publicist Richard Laermer of RLMpr told TheWrap. "She's the new Kate Gosselin."
From opinion pieces penned by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni to tweets from "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie, everyone is lining up to take pot shots at Kardashian.
More than a week after word that Kardashian was filing for divorce, it seems like the family has finally received the message and gone into full on-crisis mode.
Kardashiana
Teenage Manuscript To Auction
Charlotte Bronte
Sotheby's says an unpublished work by the teenage Charlotte Bronte could sell for 300,000 pounds ($482,000) at an auction next month
The auction house says "The Young Men's Magazine, Number 2" is dated August 1830, when the writer was 14.
The mini-magazine, measuring 1.4 inches by 2.4 inches (35mm by 61mm), contains a tale of murder and madness set in the imaginary world of Glass Town.
The manuscript will be sold Dec. 15 in London.
Charlotte Bronte
Painting Gets $43M
Roy Lichtenstein
A painting by the late pop artist Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction in New York City for more than $43 million, a world auction record for him.
The 1961 painting is titled "I Can See the Whole Room! ... and There's Nobody in It!" It depicts a man's face peering through a peephole. It sold Tuesday night at a Christie's auction house postwar and contemporary art sale.
Lichtenstein's 1964 painting "Ohhh ... Alright ..." sold for his previous auction record of more than $42 million last November. It's a comic book image of a distressed woman speaking into a telephone.
Lichtenstein was famous for his cartoon-inspired style and along with artists including Andy Warhol and Jasper John helped launch the pop art movement. He died in 1997.
Roy Lichtenstein
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 31-Nov. 6. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. Sunday Night Football: Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, NBC, 22.12 million.
2. College Football: LSU vs. Alabama, CBS, 20.01 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 19.71 million.
4. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 17.61 million.
5. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 16.29 million.
6. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.98 million.
7. "The OT," Fox, 15.67 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.52 million.
9. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.45 million.
10. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.9 million.
11. "The Mentalist," CBS, 13.67 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.39 million.
13. "Modern Family," ABC, 13.37 million.
14. "Football Night in America," NBC, 13.09 million.
15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.94 million.
16. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 12.73 million.
17. "Castle," ABC, 12.58 million.
18. "Survivor: South Pacific," CBS, 11.95 million.
19. "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 11.81 million.
20. "The X Factor" (Wednesday), Fox, 11.77 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Hal Kanter
Hal Kanter, an Emmy-winning comedy master who wrote for Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, directed Elvis Presley in "Loving You" and created Diahann Carroll's ground-breaking TV sitcom, has died. He was 92.
Kanter died Sunday, according to the Writers Guild of America, where he had been a member since 1950 and served on the union's board of directors. Daughter Donna Kanter told the Los Angeles Times he died from pneumonia complications at Encino Hospital.
His three Emmys included back-to-back wins for 1991-92 as a writer for the Academy Awards, a ceremony on which he contributed material on 32 separate shows over the decades.
Kanter also won an Emmy in 1955 for "The George Gobel Show," and he received four other nominations, including one as executive producer of "All in the Family" in 1976 and another for outstanding comedy series for Carroll's "Julia" in 1969.
Kanter also wrote the 1952 Hope and Crosby adventure "Road to Bali," and his 1950s big-screen work also included Hope's comedies "My Favorite Spy" and "Casanova's Big Night." In 1976, Hope hired Kanter as his head writer.
Born Dec. 18, 1918, in Savannah, Ga., Kanter broke into show business as a gag writer, contributing material to Crosby's radio show, "The Danny Kaye Show" and other radio programs before moving into television as a writer on "The Ed Wynn Show" in 1949.
Kanter wrote for another big-screen comedy team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, on 1953's "Money from Home" and 1955's "Artists and Models." He ventured into drama with the 1954 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo."
As he moved into directing in the late 1950s, Kanter initially was reluctant to take on one of the era's biggest stars.
Kanter wound up directing and co-writing 1957's "Loving You," which featured the title track and Presley's hit "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear." He later wrote another Presley musical romance, 1961's "Blue Hawaii."
Among Kanter's other credits were Marilyn Monroe's "Let's Make Love" (1960), Bette Davis' "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961) and Doris Day and James Garner's "Move Over, Darling" (1963).
In 1999, Kanter published an autobiography, "So Far, So Funny: My Life in Show Business."
Kanter is survived by his wife of 70 years, writer Doris Kanter; his daughters Donna Kanter, Lisa Kanter Shafer, and Abigail Kanter Jaye; his sister, Saralea Emerson; and a granddaughter.
Hal Kanter
In Memory
Dwight Arrington Myers ("Heavy D")
Heavy D, the self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip-hop who became one of rap's top hit-makers with wit, humor and a positive vibe, has died. He was 44. Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills police said Heavy D died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday after collapsing outside his home.
Rosen said Beverly Hills police officers were dispatched to Heavy D's condominium building Tuesday morning after receiving a report of an unconscious person laying on the walkway of a building. They found Heavy D was conscious and communicative but had difficulty breathing and was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he later died.
Rosen said Beverly Hills detectives found no signs of foul play and believe his death is medically related. He said Heavy D "was returning home from shopping. He experienced difficulty breathing while walking into his condominium building. He was being assisted up to his apartment by building personnel when he collapsed in an exterior hallway."
Dwight Arrington Myers, the rapper known as Heavy D of Heavy D and the Boyz, and his crew released their debut album "Living Large" in 1987. Their hits included "Now That We Found Love," ''Who's the Man" and "Somebody For Me."
The New York-born rapper was one of the genre's most integral stars in the last 1980s and early 1990s, as it relied on new voices and star power to fuel its phenomenal growth in the mainstream.
The deep-voiced rapper's earliest hit, "The Overweight Lover's in the House," played up his hefty frame. But while that nickname would stick, his weight did not become part of his shtick, like the Fat Boys. What drew people to his music was his singular style, which celebrated an easygoing, party vibe - sometimes humorous, sometimes inspiring and almost always positive.
In the mid-1990s, Heavy D became president of Uptown Records, the label that released most of his albums and was also the home to acts like Mary J. Blige and Jodeci. He also created the theme songs for sketch comedy shows "In Living Color" and "MADtv" and acted on such TV shows as "Boston Public," ''The Tracy Morgan Show" and "Law & Order: SVU," as well as in the films like "Life" and "Step Up."
Combined with the fusion of the "New Jack Swing" musical style, Heavy D was a constant presence on the charts, and also a go-to figure for several performers. He collaborated with such artists as Michael Jackson on the 1991 single "Jam" and the 1997 duet "Keep It Coming" with B.B. King.
Heavy D wasn't as successful with his later Boyz-free albums. He attempted a reggae-fueled comeback in 2008 with the album "Vibes," which didn't contain any rapping. He returned to his lyrical roots on his latest album, "Love Opus," which was released in September, and he performed a medley of his past hits at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards last month.
He most recently had a cameo appearance in the new movie "Tower Heist," starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
Dwight Arrington Myers ("Heavy D")
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