M Is FOR MASHUP - November 23rd, 2011
MULTI-ARTIST MASHUP
By DJ Useo
Polish bootlegger NMyron has released a great 21 artist track that will make you feel like you just heard 21 great songs.
In the song called 'The Surprise Can't Handle Me (21 in 1 Pop Mashup)' you'll hear
B.o.B, ft. Hayley Williams of Paramore,
Black Eyed Peas,
Cheryl Cole, David Guetta & Chris Willis, ft. Fergie & LMFAO,
Eminem, ft. Rihanna,
Far East Movement, ft. The Cataracs,
Flo Rida, ft. David Guetta,
Jason Derulo,
Jennifer Lopez, ft. Pitbull,
Katy Perry,
Ke$ha,
Lady Gaga,
Mike Posner,
OneRepublic,
Taio Cruz,
Three 6 Mafia, ft. Tiësto,
Tiësto vs. Diplo, ft. Busta Rhymes,
& Usher.
It all plays wonderfully without sounding too busy, & will appeal so vastly, you'll be singing it in your sleep shortly.
Watch the video here
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjin_kAB_PY&feature=player_embedded )
to find out more about NMyron, but it's as if he never existed before.
Hopefully, we'll hear more of his works shortly.
Mix Of The Week
JaySkinner is about the top provider of torrented long mixes, & certainly among the best. Don't miss his new house set 'Evolution Of The Beat'. It's got the Chemical Brothers, 2 Bad Mice, Mad One The Criminal Minds & more you will love. Available for no-charge
streaming or download here
( soundcloud.com/jayskinner70/evolution-of-the-beat )
Mashup Tip : It can't hurt to run your mashup by someone before posting it. They may spot something hours of mixing inurred you to.
Latest Useo Thing
'Wrong Bird Can Sing' (Beatles vs Social Distortion) continues my love of the Beatles song 'And Your Bird Can Sing' that I started recently with
my Snoop Dogg/Beatles mix ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/and-your-snoop-can-sing-snoop-dogg-vs.html ) .
This time it sounds completely different as it's the Beatles a capella singing over hard rocking Social Distortion. Personal feedback has been enormously positive. I've actually witnessed peeps singing along during the initial listen. Sweet!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/wrong-bird-can-sing-beatles-vs-social.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Every mashup you hear from now on will be about SEX even if the lyrics obscure that.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
We balanced the budget. We put America on a path to zero debt by the year 2009 ... It seemed so far away then. We left President Bush a record surplus and he left President Obama a record national debt. You know how that happened: the Republicans happened. They held the White House, the House and the Senate for six long years. … They took everything they inherited: the jobs, the surplus, the stature of our country around the world -- and they squandered it.
Nora Roberts: The woman who rewrote the rules of romantic fiction (Guardian)
Nora Roberts is one of the world's bestselling authors, yet she still lives in the same house she moved to as a newly wed teenager. Carole Cadwalladr travels to Maryland to meet her.
How do you write crime fiction in the wake of a massacre? (Guardian)
The mass slaughter on Utøya in July shook Norway to its core. Now the country's crime writers must come to terms with what happened, writes Andrew Anthony.
Still Waters (Slate)
Director John Waters discusses staying in Baltimore, becoming a capitalist, and 'The Wire.'
Will Harris, "A Chat with Carla Gugino ('The Mighty Macs')" (Bullz-eye)
I came out of the movie certainly much more knowledgeable about basketball, because for me, I wanted to understand every play I was drawing out, I wanted to understand the game in a way that I would as a coach.
Roger Ebert: Heteronormative vampires
You read the word and without skipping a beat you know what it means. I am so clueless that I became aware of it for the first time in the past few days, in reviews of "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1."
Laura Barton: The vibrant joy of Robert Crumb's album covers (Journal)
The cult cartoonist's artwork for various artists has a vividness and oomph that is almost like music in itself.
Seth Colter Wall: Radiohead Silence (Slate)
Why is no one talking about Jonny Greenwood's excellent new recording?
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Fox News Viewers Uninformed
University Poll
A poll by Farleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey showed that of all the news channels out there, Fox News viewers are the least informed.
People were asked questions about news habits and current events in a statewide poll of 600 New Jersey residents recently. Results showed that viewers of Sunday morning news shows were the most informed about current events, while Fox News viewers were the least informed. In fact, FDU poll results showed they were even less informed than those who don't watch any news at all.
Readers of The New York Times, USA Today and listeners to National Public Radio were better informed about international events than other media outlets.
In one major example, New Jersey poll participants were questioned about the outcome of the so-called Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa earlier in the year. A total of 53% of respondents know that Egyptians were successful in overthrowing dictator Hosni Mubarak. Also, 48% know that the Syrian uprising has thus far been unsuccessful in Assad. But on balance, Fox News viewers were 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watched no news at all. Fox News viewers were also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news at all, suggesting a daily dose of soundbytes from CNN at the gym, and headlines from Google News were enough to surpass what average Fox viewers polled knew about current events.
University Poll
Roots Welcome Mrs. Bachmann
Questlove
Jimmy Fallon's house band the Roots didn't have a warm welcome for Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann (R-Lyin' Ass Bitch) when she appeared on the NBC show early Tuesday.
As Bachmann strode on to the stage at Fallon's "Late Night," the show's band played a snippet of a 1985 Fishbone song called "Lyin' Ass B----."
The song begins with a distinctive "la la la la la la la la la" refrain - the only words audible before Bachmann, smiling and waving to the audience, sat down.
The song itself, about a relationship gone wrong, isn't political. Among its cleanest lyrics: "She always says she needs you, but you know she really don't care."
Roots' bandleader Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson said later Tuesday that the song was a "tongue-in-cheek and spur of the moment decision.
Questlove
Full-Season Order
"Grimm"
NBC's new hit fairy-tale drama "Grimm" has been granted a full-season order, and will receive a special Thursday-night airing next month, the network has announced.
In what might be an experiment to test the waters for the series in a new time slot, NBC will air an original episode of the show Thursday, December 8 at 10 p.m., followed by another original episode the next night in its regular time slot, Friday at 9 p.m.
Despite its less-than-desirable Friday night time slot, "Grimm" has performed well for the network, delivering a 2.1 rating/6 share in the adults 18-49 demographic for its October 28 series premiere, a 62 percent improvement over the network's average in the time slot last season. Growing from there, "Grimm" has averaged a 2.3/7 and 6.9 million total viewers, improving the network's performance in the demographic by 50 percent over the equivalent period last season.
NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said that Grimm is "turning the traditional procedural drama on its head and is attracting a loyal following for us on Friday nights. We love where it's going creatively and we're excited to deliver more episodes to our audience."
"Grimm"
Comes To Salzburg
Sound of Music
Move over Mozart. Toes in Salzburg are tapping to a new beat as residents finally embrace the Hollywood musical that put them on the map nearly half a century ago.
Playing for the first time in this haughty town of opera lovers, "The Sound of Music," has been met with surprisingly positive reactions in what is commonly considered a last bulwark of resistance to the iconic show.
Fans around the world may know every word of every song performed by Julie Andrews as the governess of seven children who charms - then weds - their widowed father Baron von Trapp, before the singing family flees the Nazis.
But this city resonates to another sound of music - the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms.
And it has a different concept of culture.
While residents earn millions each year from the tourists who come for sing-along tours of sites featured in the film, they traditionally view the visitors with benign disdain - and occasionally as pests.
Sound of Music
Media Intimidating Witnesses
UK Inquiry
A lawyer at the British inquiry into media ethics says the media is intimidating witnesseses.
David Sherborne spoke the day after actor Hugh Grant gave highly critical testimony to the investigation, describing mysterious break-ins, leaked medical details and hacked voice mails.
Grant blamed the entire tabloid press, not just the now-shuttered News of the World. In particular, he accused the Mail on Sunday tabloid of spying on his conversations.
Victims' lawyer Sherborne said many witnesses were worried about "the sort of intimidatory tactics that we've seen in the press this morning."
UK Inquiry
Pleads Guilty
Griffin O'Neal
Griffin O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal, has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of drugs stemming from a head-on crash that injured another motorist.
The San Diego Union-Tribune says O'Neal pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving under the influence and possession of a firearm by a felon, both felonies. He also acknowledged he has a 1992 conviction for shooting into an unoccupied vehicle.
Prosecutors say O'Neal was on drugs Aug. 2 when he veered into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle in San Diego County.
Defense attorney Heather Boxeth said at a previous hearing that her client had been trying to help his half-brother Redmond O'Neal, who had been arrested on suspicion of heroin possession the same day.
Griffin O'Neal
Hacking Cost Adviser's Job
Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson fired her business adviser for leaking secrets when journalists were actually getting juicy details about the supermodel by hacking into her phone, the former aide told a British inquiry into media ethics Tuesday.
In testimony that illuminated the human costs of the illegal practice, Mary-Ellen Field described how she lost both her job for Macpherson and one at an advisory firm because of the unfounded suspicions - a double-blow that was all the more serious because she was in poor health.
Field was one of several victims of press intrusion testifying Tuesday at Britain's Royal Courts of Justice. The inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Brian Leveson, was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron after the scandal over phone hacking and other underhanded tactics used at the News of the World, which was closed by media mogul Rupert Murdoch in July amid allegations of widespread criminality.
Field, with a friendly and open demeanor that showed no traces of bitterness toward the press or her former boss, said her relationship with Macpherson was once close, but it fell apart after the model's intimate secrets began appearing in the press in 2005. Macpherson became convinced that Field, a fellow Australian, was an alcoholic and ordered her to go to an American rehabilitation clinic.
Field said she was shocked by the allegations she was a drunk who'd been blabbing about her employer, but went along with Macpherson's recommendation because she needed her job.
Elle Macpherson
Museum Employee Jailed
Mark Twain
A woman has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the Mark Twain House and Museum, a crime that added to the financial woes of the Hartford landmark that had been struggling to pay its bills.
Donna Gregor, a 54-year-old former museum employee, apologized for stealing the money at the sentencing hearing Monday in federal court in Bridgeport. Gregor faced up to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty in August to wire fraud and filing a false tax return.
The officials who run the gingerbread Gothic home said it has recovered financially and they are happy to put the case behind them.
The author and humorist built the house in 1874 and wrote many of his best known works during the 17 years that he lived there, including "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Struggling with debt, Twain had to sell the home in 1903. The building was rescued from demolition in 1927 and is now a prime tourist attraction in Connecticut's capital city.
In addition to her jail sentence, Gregor was ordered to pay restitution to the Mark Twain House for the money she stole between 2002 and 2010. After serving her prison sentence she also faces three years of supervised release.
Mark Twain
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 14-20. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, NBC, 20.31 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 20 million.
3. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.95 million.
4. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 15.21 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.15 million.
6. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.1 million.
7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.06 million.
8. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.77 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 14.47 million.
10. "Modern Family," ABC, 12.91 million.
11. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.72 million.
12. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 12.41 million.
13. "20/20" (Monday), ABC, 12.4 million.
14. "The Mentalist," CBS, 12.21 million.
15. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 12.18 million.
16. "American Music Awards," ABC, 12.07 million.
17. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.77 million.
18. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 11.71 million.
19. "Person of Interest," CBS, 11.65 million.
20. "Survivor: South Pacific," CBS, 11.6 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Jack Elinson
Jack Elinson, a veteran TV comedy writer and producer, died Thursday of natural causes at his Santa Monica home, the Writers Guild of America, West announced. He was 89.
Elinson, who cut his teeth writing jokes for Walter Winchell's newspaper column, rose to prominence in the 1950s working on such Golden Age fare as "The Jimmy Durante Show," "The Johnny Carson Show" and "The Colgate Comedy Hour." The following decade saw him writing for series including "The Danny Thomas Show," "The Andy Griffith Show," "Hogan's Heroes," "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." and "That Girl," the latter two of which he also produced.
Elinson's other credits include "Good Times" and "One Day at a Time" and "The Facts of Life." Nominated for an Emmy in the Comedy Series category in 1961, he won a WGA award for co-writing the 1962 "Manhunt" episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
He is survived by his four children, his second wife Estelle and her three children, and 12 grandchildren.
Jack Elinson
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