M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN from February 27th, 2013
Less Words Mashup Article
By DJ Useo
Mashup Album Of The Week
Rappy and BigSammy are two of my favorite people around the net. They have just released '
Mashed Direction', a splendid 3-disc mashup tribute to the musical act ONE DIRECTION. This collection is incredibly well done with vast pop bootleg appeal. Tons of great mashup producers on this gem.
( www.mashstix.com/MashedDirection.php )
Mix Of The Week
'DJ Useo-Deliberato' is one weird long mix. If you think you'd like to ear
something strange and different, this is for you.
( www.bmbx.org/2013/02/deliberato/ )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/02/dj-useo-deliberato-weird-long-mix.html )
Mashup Tip
Don't mash and drive.
Latest Useo Thing
'Trip To Heaven' ( Depeche Mode vs Minicut ) is my take on the new Depeche Mode single.
( official.fm/tracks/uxPa )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/02/depeche-mode-vs-minicut.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Reading less words about mashups will give you more time to build that ship in a bottle.
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Last Night
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Ex-Wife Visits Haiti
Sean Penn
Madonna is in Haiti to visit humanitarian projects that ex-husband Sean Penn has been overseeing since the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake in 2010, the actor said Monday.
Penn said in a brief phone call to The Associated Press that he had invited Madonna, with whom he has "maintained a great friendship over the years," to visit several times and that she had come with her son Rocco. He said they arrived a "couple of days" ago, and he wasn't sure when she would leave.
"She's here, she's seeing, she's made the effort to come here, and I'm thrilled by that," Penn said, adding that he hoped Haiti might inspire her to seek out a cause in the country. "She has a unique platform, and wherever she chooses to bring that to, it's very well."
Madonna's been busy posting photos on Instagram. One shows her posing with others at a new hospital built by public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer in the central part of the country. The caption: "Revolution of Love in Haiti." Another picture shows a view of the mountains at dusk. The caption: "Sunset in Haiti. This is Heaven!"
Sean Penn
Vegas Memorabilia Exhibit
Liberace
For years, Las Vegas tourists have had no place to pay their respects to one of the glitzy town's founding fathers.
The once wildly popular Liberace museum, 2 miles from Sin City's main tourist corridor, closed in 2010 after years of declining patronage, and the famously flamboyant entertainer's shimmering artifacts have since languished in storage.
This week, a Strip casino is bringing some of Liberace's most decadent possessions back into the public eye.
Visitors to the six-week exhibition at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas will be able to gaze upon Liberace's glittering piano, trademark European candelabras, and so-called Rhinestone Roadster, an old-time car decked out in faux gemstones.
Also on display are the custom-made cowboy boots, sequined jumpsuits and jewel-and-ermine capes that powered Liberace's catchphrase, "My clothes may look funny but they're making me the money."
Liberace
'Good Without God' Billboards
Sacramento
As the Christmas season approaches in the United States, a group of non-believers in the California capital are planning to erect billboards explaining why they are atheists in hopes of bringing broader visibility to their lack of religious faith.
The 55 billboards that will soon dot the Sacramento landscape will feature pictures of local residents and slogans such as "Good without God," and follow similar campaigns in other major U.S. cities in recent years.
"Those of us who are free from religion, who work to keep dogma out of government, science, medicine and education, have a lot to offer society," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, which sponsored the ads.
The billboards set to go up in Sacramento on the day after Thanksgiving are part of the increasingly loud arguments between many deeply religious Christians whose faith has informed U.S. conservative politics for a generation, and a vocal cohort of secular, often younger voters who want to keep religion out of public life.
Sacramento
Fetches Record $14.2M At Auction
Bay Psalm Book
A tiny book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in what's now the United States, sold for just under $14.2 million on Tuesday, setting an auction record for a printed book.
The Bay Psalm Book, which was auctioned at Sotheby's in Manhattan, had a pre-sale estimate of $15 million to $30 million. A copy of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" was the previous record-holder, selling for $11.5 million at Sotheby's in 2010.
Only 11 copies of the Bay Psalm Book survive in varying degrees of completeness. The book sold at Sotheby's was one of two owned by Boston's Old South Church, which voted to sell it to increase its grants and ministries. Samuel Adams was a member and Benjamin Franklin was baptized at the church, which was established in 1669.
The book was published in Cambridge, Mass., by the Puritan leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony just 20 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Bay Psalm Book
Still Has A Job
Lara Logan
CBS ordered "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling of the show's October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report on a supposed witness whose story can't be verified.
The review, by CBS News executive Al Ortiz and obtained by The Associated Press, said the "60 Minutes" team should have done a better job vetting the story that featured a security contractor who said he was at the U.S. mission in Libya the night it was attacked last year.
Questions were quickly raised about whether the man was lying - something "60 Minutes" should have better checked out before airing the story, the report said.
The report also said Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making a speech in Chicago a year ago claiming that it was a lie that America's military had tamed al-Qaida.
Lara Logan
Out Of A Job
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin has his Friday nights back. He and MSNBC said Tuesday they were ending his weekly talk show after the actor had been suspended for two weeks for using an anti-gay slur in a New York City street encounter.
MSNBC said it was a "mutual parting and we wish Alec all the best."
"Up Late with Alec Baldwin" had aired only five episodes. The first three attracted a little more than a half million viewers, but the last two dipped under 400,000 viewers.
The Emmy-winning former star of "30 Rock" had lost his cool in the New York City street encounter. He later tweeted that he did not realize the profane phrase he used was offensive to gays, but then apologized.
On the same day Baldwin was suspended, another MSNBC personality, Martin Bashir, made a graphic suggestion for how Sarah Palin should be punished for comments on slavery. Bashir apologized and MSNBC said it is handling the problems internally.
Alec Baldwin
Hollywood Producer Confirms He Was Israeli Spy
Arnon Milchan
Stories about Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan's alleged double life have been circulating for years.
Now, the Israeli businessman behind hits like "Pretty Woman," ''Fight Club" and "L.A. Confidential" has finally come forth with a stunning admission - for years he served as an Israeli spy, buying arms on its behalf and boosting its alleged nuclear program.
In a far-reaching interview aired Monday with Israel's Channel 2 TV's flagship investigative program "Uvda," Milchan detailed a series of clandestine affairs in which he was involved and particularly how he helped purchase technologies Israel allegedly needed to operate nuclear bombs.
"I did it for my country and I'm proud of it," said Milchan, who ran a successful fertilizer company in Israel before making it big in Hollywood.
According to an unauthorized biography published two years ago, Milchan worked for Israel's now-defunct Bureau of Scientific Relations, known as Lekem, which worked to obtain information for secret defence programs. The bureau was disbanded in 1987 after it was implicated in the spying affair for which Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, was sentenced to life in prison.
Arnon Milchan
Toy Company Sues
Beastie Boys
A Northern California toy company is fighting for its right to parody a popular Beastie Boys song.
Oakland-based GoldieBlox filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking permission to continue using a spoof of the rap song "Girls."
The song was on the trio's first album, "Licensed to Ill," released in 1986. It sings of the desire for girls to "do the dishes ... to do the laundry ... to clean up my room."
The company's marketing video spoofing the song depicts young girls singing about building spaceships and coding software. The video has gone viral in recent weeks, and some 8 million people have viewed it on YouTube. The spoof is attempting to sell the company's GoldieBlox engineering toys aimed at girls.
The company said it filed the lawsuit last week after the Beastie Boys threatened their own legal action for copyright infringement.
Beastie Boys
Romanian Court Sentences
Art Thieves
A Romanian court on Tuesday handed down sentences of six years and eight months to the ringleaders of a gang who stole paintings by Matisse, Monet and Picasso from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid.
A Bucharest district court sentenced Radu Dogaru and Eugen Darie for the theft of seven paintings from Rotterdam's Kunsthal in Oct. 2012.
Dogaru and Darie told the court that they believed they were stealing fakes. They also said that security at the museum was very lax.
The works have never been found. Dogaru's mother added a twist to the case by telling prosecutors that she burned the paintings - then retracted her statement.
The trial will continue for Dogaru's mother, Olga, who is charged with destroying the works. Three others are also on trial, and their court case will resume on Dec. 3. One of them has already pleaded guilty, but his trial continues.
Art Thieves
'Easy' To Hack Phones
Rupert
Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group, told Eimear Cook, the ex-wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie, it was "easy" to listen to other people's voicemails, Cook told a London court on Monday.
Brooks, who is on trial alongside seven other defendants, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to phone-hacking at the News of the World tabloid when she was editor, illegal payments to officials for stories and impeding police inquiries.
The prosecution told the jury earlier in the trial that the comments made by Brooks to Cook over lunch in 2005 about intercepting voicemails showed the editor had known that phone-hacking was going on under her watch. Brooks denies this.
Brooks, known as Rebekah Wade prior to her second marriage in 2009, was editor of the now-defunct Sunday tabloid News of the World, then of its sister daily paper the Sun, before rising to be chief executive of News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's News Corp empire.
Cook also said that while discussing this topic, Brooks had recounted "in parenthesis" a story about Paul McCartney and his then-fiancée Heather Mills having a row in a hotel that had resulted in an engagement ring being thrown out of the window.
Rupert
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 18-24. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Denver at New England, NBC, 26.48 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 19.66 million.
3. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 19.61 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.94 million.
5. "The OT," Fox, 16.02 million.
6. NFL Football: New England at Carolina, ESPN, 15.77 million.
7. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.99 million.
8. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 13.8 million.
9. "Football Night in America," NBC, 13.71 million.
10. "American Music Awards, ABC, 13.14 million.
11. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.4 million.
12. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.28 million.
13. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.9 million.
14. "The Millers," CBS, 11.78 million.
15. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.65 million.
16. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.31 million.
17. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 11.29 million.
18. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.2 million.
19. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.94 million.
20. "Castle," ABC, 10.93 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Florence Sando Manson
Florence Sando Manson, a pioneering newscaster in radio and the early years of television journalism, has died at age 95.
Manson died Monday from complications related to dementia at her home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, family members said.
Manson was a popular on-air personality in Pittsburgh from 1941 to 1959, when the industry was dominated by men. She broke out of the usual confines of gossip, homemaking and fashion coverage to deliver world news to a market that blanketed much of the East Coast.
She interviewed well-known public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Louis Armstrong, and some of those programs are available at the Museum of Broadcasting in New York.
Longtime viewers of Pittsburgh TV stations remembered her for KDKA-TV's "The Florence Manson Show," which featured her as a host-interviewer. Earlier, she produced "Women's Angle," a 15-minute morning TV broadcast that emphasized hard news.
Manson discussed her work with author and former broadcaster Lynn Boyd Hinds in "Broadcasting the Local News - the Early Years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV."
Manson also had a career on stage, appearing at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and in summer theater productions of the White Barn Theater in Irwin, Pa.
She is survived by her husband, a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
Florence Sando Manson
In Memory
Chico Hamilton
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, an influential jazz drummer and bandleader who was an architect of the West Coast cool jazz style and was known for discovering young talent, has died. He was 92.
His publicist, April Thibeault, said Hamilton died Monday night of natural causes at his home in New York.
A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master who was saluted as a Living Jazz Legend by the Kennedy Center, Hamilton recorded more than 60 albums as a bandleader, beginning in the 1950s, and also appeared in and scored films.
He continued playing into his 90s and recorded an album "Inquiring Minds" last month with his Euphoria ensemble scheduled for release in early 2014.
Born in 1921 in Los Angeles, Hamilton performed in a high school jazz band that included saxophonist Dexter Gordon, bassist Charles Mingus and other classmates destined to become jazz greats. He told jazz writer Marc Myers that he believes he acquired the name Chico because "I was always a small dude."
He worked as a sideman in the 1940s with Slim Gaillard, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and others. He toured with singer Lena Horne from 1948-55, and between tours did studio work and played with bands in Los Angeles.
That's where he hooked up with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan in 1952. Hamilton's subtle, creative drum playing was a key component of Mulligan's groundbreaking piano-less quartet featuring trumpeter Chet Baker that was pivotal in the creation of the mellower, more lyrical West Coast cool jazz sound. Hamilton's understated, seductive approach to the drums contrasted with the driving, hard-bop style typified by East Coast drummer Art Blakey.
In 1955, Hamilton began his career as a bandleader. He recorded his first album as a leader for the Pacific Jazz label in a trio with bassist George Duvivier and guitarist Howard Roberts that was noteworthy because all three musicians played as soloists rather than strictly as rhythm section players.
Later that year, he formed an unusually instrumented chamber jazz quintet - which included cellist Fred Katz, flutist Buddy Collette and guitarist Hall - that became one of the most influential West Coast jazzbands and gained national prominence.
The group - with flutist Paul Horn and guitarist John Pisano - made a cameo appearance in the 1957 Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film, "Sweet Smell of Success." Hamilton's band - with Dolphy on flute - gave a memorable performance in the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival documentary "Jazz on a Summer's Day." He later revamped the band's sound, replacing the cellist with a trombonist, to give it a bluesier, more hard-edged sound, recording albums for the Impulse, Columbia and Soul Jazz labels.
In the mid-1960s, Hamilton formed a company to score films and commercials. He wrote the music for the 1967 movie "Repulsion," director Roman Polanski's first English-language film, and also composed the theme for the TV cartoon series "The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show."
In 1987, Hamilton was a founding member of the jazz faculty at the New School University, where his students included John Popper of Blues Traveler and Eric Schenkman of The Spin Doctors. That same year he formed a new band called Euphoria that toured and recorded extensively for the independent Joyous Shout! label, including releasing four new albums to celebrate his 85th birthday in 2006.
Hamilton is survived by his daughter, Denise; his brother Don; one granddaughter and two great-granddaughters. His wife, Helen, and his brother, Bernie, an actor who played the police captain in the TV series "Starsky and Hutch," both died in 2008.
Chico Hamilton
In Memory
John Graham (Araucaria)
John Graham, who has died aged 92, was better known to Guardian crossword solvers as Araucaria. In the summer of 1958, on the strength of his success in winning the Observer's crossword setting competition two years running, he was taken on by the then Manchester Guardian as one of its small band of crossword setters.
The first clue in his first puzzle for the Manchester Guardian set the standard for what was to follow: "Establishment cut to the bone? (8,5)" for SKELETON STAFF. Until 1970, setters were anonymous but were then given noms de plume. Araucaria is the botanical name for the monkey puzzle tree. ("Monkey" was a term of endearment in the Graham family and echoed Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape.)
Graham was born in Oxford, the eldest of six children. His father, Eric, was dean of Oriel College, Oxford, later principal of Cuddesdon Theological College and then bishop of Brechin. His mother, Phyllis, who lived to be more than 100, was the daughter of a major-general. From the age of nine, Graham would share the Times crossword puzzle with his parents, three brothers and two sisters, and together they would engage in cryptic word play and in setting simple puzzles.
After St Edward's school, Oxford, Graham went to King's College, Cambridge, in 1939 with a scholarship and passed part one of the classical tripos. Joining the RAF in 1942, he was sent for aircrew training to Rhodesia and failed his pilot's course, but passed out as an observer. He flew as a navigator/bomb aimer in some 30 sorties in Baltimores and Bostons in Italy, being mentioned in dispatches after baling out behind enemy lines and successfully hiding with an Italian family until rescued by the Americans.
He returned to King's in 1946 to read theology, went on to Ely Theological College and was ordained in the Church of England in 1948. After serving in East Dulwich as a curate and St Chad's College, Durham, in 1952 he married Ermesta and moved to Aldershot as senior curate and then, in succession, to Beaconsfield, Reading University and St Peter's, Eaton Square, in London. His final living was as rector of Houghton and Wyton in Cambridgeshire.
At this point his marriage broke down and in 1983 he married his second wife, Margaret. This then meant that he could no longer work as a priest (and was only able to resume the ministry when his first wife died). Until this point, setting crossword puzzles had been for him an agreeable pastime. Of necessity he now set about making them his main source of income, writing "piteous letters to John Perkin [the crossword editor] asking him to find me more crossword work". Soon he was producing eight cryptic puzzles a month for the Guardian (including three bank holiday "specials" a year), and later also contributing six a month to the Financial Times, where he was Cinephile (an anagram of Chile pine, another name for the monkey puzzle tree), as well as puzzles to the Church Times, Homes and Antiques and other magazines, and to 1 Across, the monthly subscription magazine that he founded in 1984.
For all his repute as the most admired and renowned crossword setter in the English language, Graham was an essentially shy and humble man. He derived huge happiness from his second marriage but, after Margaret died of a heart attack in 1993, had the strength to continue to pursue a full and active life, living alone but being very much part of the social and church activity of the village of Somersham in Cambridgeshire. He did many anonymous acts of kindness, stealthily giving away much of his not very large income.
His strongly held, but mildly expressed, political views were definitely of the left ("the Guardian is my paper, though I find it a bit conservative"). As an adult his paper was the old liberal News Chronicle before it was the Manchester Guardian. On principle he would never have set puzzles for a Murdoch paper. He expected little or nothing from Tony Blair's New Labour and even less from the present coalition, and was therefore not disappointed.
Typically, he decided to announce the fact that he was suffering from non-operable cancer in a puzzle set for the December 2012 issue of 1 Across, which was reprinted in the Guardian on 11 January 2013. The puzzle's rubric, once the puzzle was solved, read: "Araucaria has cancer of the oesophagus, which is being treated with palliative care."
He gave great entertainment to a great many readers for more than half a century and inspired a younger generation of crossword setters. Graham was made MBE in 2005 for his services to crosswords.
He is survived by his brothers Stephen and Martin, his sister Mary and stepdaughters Jane and Judith.
John Graham (Araucaria)
In Memory
Jay Leggett
American comedian and film producer Jay Leggett has died at the age of 50 after collapsing following a deer hunt.
The actor passed away from natural causes at the end of the first day of deer season in his native Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on Saturday (23Nov13).
Ironically, Leggett died doing what he loved - he produced a documentary about the joys of deer hunting in 2011, titled, To the Hunt: Deer Season in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
Lincoln County sheriff's spokesman Mike Caylor states: "The victim had returned to the cabin from his deer stand on an ATV (all-terrain vehicle). When he got off the machine he collapsed and was found unresponsive by family members who immediately started Cpr (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)."
Leggett started his career as a stand-up comic and went on to land a part on U.S. sketch show In Living Color in 1993.
He soon added screenwriter to his resume and wrote, produced and acted in Matt Dillon and Christina Applegate's 2004 comedy Employee of the Month.
Jay Leggett
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