M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - September 29th, 2010
CHILLAX Mashup Comp Is Red Hot!
(New Sound-Unsound Mashup Album)
By DJ Useo
Mashers love mashing,
they mash night & day.
Especially when new
s
tyles are coming their way.
2 discs of chill mashups,
beautiful & mellow.
Enough to tame even
the nastiest fellow.
With artists like Boston,
Springsteen & T-Rex,
the mashups had dancers
bobbing their necks.
With Spider & QUBIC
& The Reborn Identity,
you know the quality
was vast & plentity.
If you fancy a mash
that makes you sigh & blink,
Get ready to splash
& click on this link!
( markyboymashed.blogspot.com/2010/09/chillax-come-down.html )
or
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/09/sound-unsounds-chillax-come-downfull.html )
Mix Of The Week
Look for my DJ Useo-Fast Versions vol.1 here -
( www.bmbx.org/2010/09/fast-versions-vol-1/ )
It's over an hour of popular tracks played as fast as hearing comfort allows.
Latest Useo Track
Here is the brilliance of The KLF's 'Build A Fire' set against the relentless Kissing The Pink's
'Big Man Restless'.
Write & let me know what you think.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/09/big-man-fire-klf-vs-kissing-pink.html )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Video)
It Gets Worse PSA.
FRANK RICH: Could She Reach the Top in 2012? You Betcha (The New York Times)
"THE perception I had, anyway, was that we were on top of the world," Sarah Palin said at the climax of last Sunday's premiere of her new television series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." At that point our fearless heroine had just completed a perilous rock climb, and if she looked as if she'd just stepped out of a spa instead, don't expect her fans to question the reality. For them, Palin's perception is the only reality that counts.
Libby Segal: We Are Indeed "Waiting for Superman" (irascibleprofessor.com)
One of the key points that I garnered from 'Waiting for Superman' is that it is possible for students who find themselves in even the worst of circumstances to succeed if they have teachers who are both knowledgeable and caring. Our task is to create schools that will attract such teachers.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Teaching for America (The New York Times)
Nation-building in the classroom: Arne Duncan's push to find the next generation of teachers.
Theodore Dalrymple: It's All Your Fault
(New English Review)
As a man, of course, I do not gossip: but, now retired, I do sometimes discuss my erstwhile colleagues with others of my erstwhile colleagues, out of purely scientific interest.
Michael Agger: Spying on Yourself (Slate)
Tools that mine your inbox, bank accounts, and Google searches.
Scott Burns: Would You Miss the Mortgage Interest Deduction? (assetbuilder.com)
How much do you like your deduction for home mortgage interest? If it goes away, would you miss it?
Chuck Norris: Pillar No. 4: 'Stir the Waters' (Creators Syndicate)
Q: Chuck, I'm tired of trying to exercise and constantly failing. Any advice? - Amy M., Middletown, Pa. A: Comedian Joan Rivers once said: "I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor." That's funny. Unfortunately, exercise has become one of those negative words in society like taxes or politics. But I'm hoping to help you see it in a completely different light.
George Varga: New Tour Ushers in Usher's Big Test (Creators Syndicate)
While both albums have done well on the charts and yielded hit singles - including "OMG's" heavily Auto-Tuned title track - Usher's star power has been eclipsed by his 16-year-old protege, Justin Bieber, whose career Usher played a major role in launching.
David Medsker: A Chat with Bill Burr, Comedian (Bullz-eye.com)
With ten years of stealing everyone's music, look where it's gotten us. Steven Tyler is on 'American Idol,' judging people singing, 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' or whatever the fuck they're doing on that show.
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."
The Weekly Poll
New Question
And now, in keeping with the Holiday Season theme, I submit fer yer approval...
The 'Scope or Grope' Edition
"Resistance is Futile"
If you don't want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this holiday season. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport. That person will have to remain on the premises to be questioned by the TSA and possibly by local law enforcement. Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest... $11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
If you were (or are) planning to travel this Holiday Season, what's it gonna be?
1.) Scope
2.) Grope
3.) Car, train, bus...
4.) I'm stayin' home, Dagnabbit!
Send your response to
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cold and rainy.
Donates $1 Million To Save Tigers
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday donated $1 million toward efforts to save tigers from extinction as he arrived in Moscow to take part in an international "tiger summit."
The star of movies "Titanic" and "Inception" made the $1 million commitment to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with whom he has been working this year on the Save Tigers Now campaign.
DiCaprio, 36, is a committed environmentalist and a WWF board member who recently visited Nepal and Bhutan and toured a tiger habitat by elephant with an anti-poaching staff.
According to wildlife experts just 3,200 tigers now live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago. Russia is hosting a 13-nation meeting in St Petersburg this week to try and double the world's wild tiger population by 2022.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Britain Wins 5
International Emmys
Bob Hoskins and Helena Bonham Carter captured the top acting awards as British TV productions won five International Emmys on Monday, including two for the BBC drama, "The Street."
A highlight of the 38th International Emmy Awards Gala at the Hilton New York Hotel came when News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate) made a surprise unannounced appearance to present the honorary International Emmy Directorate Award to Simon Cowell.
Murdoch noted that Cowell is responsible for three of the highest-rated programs in Britain and the U.S., with his "Got Talent" and "X Factor" franchises now reaching viewers in more than 70 countries.
"I think that we would all agree that no one has done more to shape popular culture in the past decade than Simon Cowell," said Murdoch.
International Emmys
YouTube Audition
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster has made an audition tape to convince "SNL" that he can host the show. "Sesame Street" posted the video Wednesday on YouTube and Facebook.
Introducing the tape, Cookie Monster says he wants to "branch out beyond me cookie-eating career." The four-minute video follows with Cookie Monster doing a run-through of an episode of "Saturday Night Live."
He performs a brief opening monologue, a "MacGruber"-like sketch dubbed "Macarooner," a few "Weekend Update" jokes and a musical guest appearance as "Monster Gaga."
Cookie Monster likely wants to follow Betty White's lead. The 88-year-old White hosted an episode of "SNL" earlier this year after a Facebook campaign urged such casting.
Cookie Monster
Ratings Plummet
"Sarah Palin's Alaska"
After setting a ratings record last week on U.S. cable network TLC, Sarah Palin's reality show plummeted for its second episode.
"Sarah Palin's Alaska" fell 40% on Sunday night to 3 million viewers.
Not many were in the key adult demo either. Only 885,000 viewers were ages 18-49, dropping 44% from last week.
TLC expected a ratings drop coming off the high-flying premiere; executives realized some of their numbers were driven by sheer curiosity rather than eagerness to see an Alaska-based travelogue reality show. Competition from "Sunday Night Football" and the "American Music Awards" may have impacted the numbers as well.
"Sarah Palin's Alaska"
"I'm Only Sleeping" Lyrics To Auction
John Lennon
John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping" will go on sale next month, Bonhams auctioneers said on Tuesday.
The lyrics, appearing on the back of a letter chasing payment for a radiophone bill, are expected to fetch 250-350,000 pounds ($400-560,000) when they go under the hammer at an entertainment memorabilia auction on December 15.
Also on offer are two Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and composing, with the prize for "She Loves You," awarded to the Beatles in 1964, expected to sell for 40-50,000 pounds.
The other prize is the 1968 best song award for "She's Leaving Home" which Bonhams estimates to be worth 15-20,000 pounds.
John Lennon
Rare Copy To Auction
'Star-Spangled Banner'
An 1814 first edition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is heading for the auction block in New York City. It's estimated to go for $200,000 to $300,000 at the sale early next month.
Christie's auction house says it's the only known copy in private hands and one of only 11 first-edition copies known to exist. The others are in institutions or university libraries. The auction is scheduled for Dec. 3.
Francis Scott Key wrote a first draft of the poem in September 1814 after witnessing the British bombard Baltimore's Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
The poem was then set to music and publisher Thomas Carr rushed the song to print, resulting in typos and Key's name being omitted. The first edition also called it "A Patriotic Song." The song wasn't officially recognized as the national anthem until 1931.
'Star-Spangled Banner'
Sells For $210,000
Apple I Computer
Its processor works 1,000 times slower than the Apple iPad, but the first ever Apple computer has sold for 425 times the price.
The Apple I, one of only 200 such models ever made, was sold Tuesday afternoon at Christie's auction house in central London for 133,250 pounds (about $210,000.) It came with its original packaging and a signed sales letter from Steve Jobs, one of Apple Computer's co-founders and the current CEO of Apple Inc.
When the Apple I was introduced in 1976, it was the only personal computer to come with a fully assembled motherboard, making it ready to use straight from the box - provided the user supplied a keyboard, power supply, and display, Christie's said.
It sold for $666.66 and was available until it was discontinued in 1977.
Apple I Computer
Republican-Friendly Shows
TV
TV viewers who vote Republican and identify themselves as conservative are more likely than Democrats to love the biggest hits on TV.
Of the top 10 broadcast shows on TV in the spring, nine were ranked more favorably by viewers who identify themselves as Republican, according to data compiled by media-research company Experian Simmons. These include "NCIS," "The Big Bang Theory," "American Idol," and "Modern Family" -- that one with the gay couple.
Liberals appreciate many of the same shows, mind you. But their devotion typically is not quite as strong as right-wingers, and Dems are more likely to prefer modestly rated titles. Like "Mad Men."
The Emmy favorite has struggled to get a broad audience on AMC. It scores through the roof with Democrats (does anyone in Santa Monica or on Manhattan's Upper West Side not watch it?), but it has one of the weakest scores among Republicans. The same is true for FX's "Damages," Showtime's "Dexter," HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Breaking Bad."
And it's not as if Republicans have something against cable shows: The GOP has plenty of love for "White Collar," "Pawn Stars" and "American Chopper."
TV
Crew Ends Strike
"Biggest Loser"
Production employees on "The Biggest Loser" are set to return to work, two weeks after walking out in a bid to get union representation and benefits.
Under a tentative deal announced Monday between the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and show's producer, Reveille, the 50-member crew unanimously approved a package that includes health benefits. Other terms of the agreement were not released.
"This agreement is a positive step forward for the crew of The Biggest Loser, especially in the area of health benefits. We are pleased to see them go back to work," said Mike Miller, a vp at the IATSE.
"Biggest Loser"
Actor Over-Reacts
Michael Brea
An actor who once had a small part on "Ugly Betty" was charged Tuesday with stabbing his mother to death with a 3-foot sword in her home after a fight, police said.
Officers responding to a call of a family dispute found 55-year-old Yannick Brea kneeling in the bathroom of her Brooklyn apartment at about 2:20 a.m. She had cuts to her head and was pronounced dead at the scene, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
Her son, Michael Brea, 31, was arrested on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Kings County Hospital, and police didn't know if he had an attorney. No phone number was listed at the address provided by police.
Police also said a Bible was found in the apartment, but Kelly wasn't sure where.
Michael Brea
Sues Activision
Axl Rose
Axl Rose really doesn't want to be associated with ex-bandmate Slash.
The Guns N' Roses frontman has just filed a $20 million lawsuit against "Guitar Hero" maker Activision claiming its use of the GNR song "Welcome to the Jungle" violated a deal not to include any imagery of ex-guitarist Saul Hudson (aka Slash) in the popular game.
In an amusing lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, Rose and his Black Frog Music claim Activision Blizzard fraudulently induced Rose into authorizing "Jungle" for use in "Guitar Hero III" by telling him during negotiations that it wouldn't feature any reference to the former GNR member or his subsequent band Velvet Revolver.
When Rose found out that a Slash-like character and Velvet Revolver songs would be included in "GHII," he said he immediately rescinded the authorization for "Jungle," but Activision allegedly lied and told him the inclusion was just for the purposes of a trade show.
Then "GHIII" came out and its box cover featured "an animated depiction of Slash, with his signature black top hat, long dark curly hair, dark sunglasses and nose-piercing," according to the complaint. In shot, the former GNR guitarist was all over "GH III," enraging Rose.
Axl Rose
Judge Blocks Use Of Image
Adrien Brody
A federal judge has blocked the makers of a thriller film starring Adrien Brody from using the Oscar-winning actor's likeness until he is fully paid for his role.
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer issued a ruling Monday blocking the makers of "Giallo" from continuing to distribute, market or sell "Giallo" in the United States.
Brody sued last month before the film went on sale in the states, claiming he was owed $640,000 and its DVD release could cost him $2 million. In a sworn declaration, he said the film's producers lied to him about financing and vastly overstated how much the film's Italian distribution rights were worth.
The actor tried unsuccessfully to block the film's sale, but Fischer's ruling states Brody is likely to win the case and his likeness can no longer be used in the film or to promote it.
Adrien Brody
Australia Won't Charge
Paul Hogan
Australian detectives said Tuesday they have dropped a five-year-old criminal investigation into "Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan's tax dealings.
Australian Crime Commission Chief Executive John Lawler said in a statement that they were not pursuing the probe for a range of reasons including "insufficient prospects of securing convictions."
Australian tax and crime investigators had fought Hogan in a five-year legal battle in Australian and U.S. courts to investigate suspicions that he used offshore bank accounts to conceal earnings after his low-budget "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy became an international hit in 1986.
However, the 70-year-old is still being pursued separately by the Australian Taxation Office over a disputed multimillion-dollar tax bill.
Paul Hogan
Oh, Canada
Quaids
Award-winning actor Randy Quaid says Canada's refugee system has saved his life.
Quaid and his wife Evi are seeking refuge in Hollywood North, but while most refugee hearings are conducted behind closed doors to protect the identity and history of claimants, the Quaids' appearances continue to be marked by paparazzi frenzy and conspiracy theories.
Starring into the cameras as he buttoned his two-piece suit, Quaid sighed, and said: "I feel good. If it wasn't for Canada's refugee laws my wife and I would be dead."
Quaid is hoping to convince the board that he and his wife are targeted by Hollywood killers - the Quaids have called them "star whackers" - and thereby accomplish what no other American has ever done in Canada: Gain refugee status.
Quaids
In Memory
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and dodged Communist police to become one of Britain's best-known horror stars, died Tuesday, her daughter said. She was 73.
Steffanie Pitt said her mother collapsed while on her way to a birthday dinner due to be held in her honor over the weekend. The cause of death wasn't known, although Steffanie Pitt said her mother had recently been in poor health.
Known in Britain principally as the buxom bloodsucker in "The Vampire Lovers" and "Countess Dracula," Ingrid Pitt's acting career very nearly wasn't.
Born to a mother of Jewish descent, Pitt was interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of five. She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. In a twist which easily surpassed the drama of the camp horror films in which she starred, she was rescued by American soldier who would go on to become her husband.
Her movie career was jump-started by her role in the 1968 action-adventure movie, "Where Eagles Dare." The World War II drama would eventually lead to her being taken on by Britain's Hammer Films - home to Christopher Lee's "Dracula." She would play alongside the horror legend in 1971's "The House That Dripped Blood" and 1973's "The Wicker Man."
Steffanie Pitt told The Associated Press that her mother was a determined woman and that "acting was in her blood from the word 'go.'" It seems her mother would have agreed, writing in her autobiography, "Life's a Scream," that she had a "strong sense of the dramatic even before I was born."
Indeed, Ingrid's birth interrupted her parents' attempts to flee Nazi Germany via Poland in 1937, delaying their attempt to escape to Britain.
Snared by the Germans, Pitt and her mother were interned at the Stutthof concentration camp. She survived the war and joined the Berliner Ensemble, where she worked under actress Helene Weigel, the widow of German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
She left Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, diving into (and nearly drowning in) the Spree, which runs through the German capital. Pitt was rescued by a handsome U.S. lieutenant, whom she would later marry.
Pitt moved to America, and - following the breakup of her marriage - to Spain, where she starred in her first movies despite a limited command of the language. Discovered while watching a bullfight, a career in Hollywood and British horror would follow.
Although Pitt had a series of other roles in film and on television, it was her 1970s vampire films which drew a cult following, with fans crowning her "England's first lady of horror." Pitt embraced it, writing occasional columns for websites such as "Den of Geek" and making frequent visits to conventions and festivals.
"It's great meeting the fans," Pitt was quoted as saying on her fansite, "Pitt of Horror." "They tell me that I am more beautiful now than when I was making films a quarter of a century ago. All lies, of course, but sweet."
Pitt is survived by her second husband, her daughter Steffanie, and a granddaughter. Funeral arrangements were still being worked out Tuesday.
Ingrid Pitt
In Memory
Albert "Little Smokey" Smothers
Veteran Chicago blues guitarist and vocalist Albert "Little Smokey" Smothers has died, his record producer said Tuesday. He was 71.
The versatile sideman and influential teacher of younger bluesmen.died Saturday at Little Company of Mary Hospital of complications from diabetes, said Dick Shurman, his producer and a blues scholar.
A native of Tchula, Miss., Smothers moved to Chicago as a teenager. Following the lead of his older brother, the late Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers, he learned guitar and was soon performing with such artists as Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter.
Smothers was known as a mentor to aspiring musicians, particularly guitarist Elvin Bishop and the late Paul Butterfield, founders of the influential crossover group, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Both men were students at the University of Chicago when they met Smothers and fell under his influence.
Bishop said Smothers began teaching him blues guitar techniques after meeting him at a South Side music club. Smothers recruited Butterfield after hearing the younger man play harmonica on the sidewalk in the Hyde Park neighborhood of South Side Chicago.
Shurman said Smothers partially retired from music in the early 1970s to support his family by working as a heavy equipment operator and chef, but he returned to the blues in 1978. He continued performing until several years ago, when his health went into a serious decline. Shurman said Smothers lost both legs to diabetes in recent years
Smothers was featured as a sideman or band leader on at least six albums, beginning with George "Mojo" Buford's "Chicago Blues Summit" in 1981. His last released album, 2009's "Chicago Blues Buddies," was a compilation of his musical collaborations with Bishop.
Smothers was also a featured artist in Martin Scorsese's 1993 public television series, "The Blues."
He is survived by his wife, Shirley, two brothers, two sisters, three children and nine grandchildren.
Albert "Little Smokey" Smothers
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