M Is FOR MASHUP - December 2nd, 2008
PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS MASHUP ALBUMS
By DJ Useo
Here are three bootleg mix albums by three of the best currently releasing.
Do not miss these if you like mashup albums.
Turn yourself and your friends on to mashups with these great mashup albums.
There have been many wonderful mashup albums this last year like Phil Retrospectors, ToToms, & DJ Zebras (and my own I must add).
These are the cappers for the 2009 time zone.
All newly posted with the best tracks you can imagine.
Purchase for the price of a right-click.
Mashup album one -
Who - Qubic (w/kraftwerk, ric astley, ministry, many more)
What - 'Continuum 08: the Music & the Mixes' a collection of remastered mashup singles and mixes contains 3-d covers,fantastic mashup productions, video versions of all tracks.
Why - talent compulsion
When - current
How - mixing programs inventive mind
Where - qubicmx.blogspot.com/
Mashup album two -
Who - Marc Johnce (w/Rihanna, Killers, Garbage, many more)
What -' Volume One'a best of 2009 mixes
Why - Uncontainable ability
When - today
How - pure technique
Where - marcjohnce.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/volume-one/
Mashup album three -
Who - RIAA (w/Pussycat Dolls, Run-DMC, Pixies, many more)
What - 'Reality Is An Accident' all new release with creative mashups in a new direction
Why - Expression of genius
When - this minute now
How - software, soda pop and soul
Where - mrfab-riaa.blogspot.com/2009/11/riaa-reality-is-accident.html
I consider these records all worthy of financing, marketing, & reaping cash benefits.
Perhaps I should start USEO RECORDS.
Take some cartoon characters and pit them all in the same frame.
CONTEST TIME
It's as simple as that.
Send your entries to me useo8@yahoo.com or Marty here at BARTCOP E.
I'll post all entries here and best entry wins a hand-drawn pic of their choice drawn by me.
This contest will run all December with winner announced December 30th.
Mix Of The Week
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Green Cheese has a finestkind new edition of his long-running GREEN CHEESE series of mixes available. VA - Green Cheese Compilation Vol 37 is a full disc-length of multi-mixing genre-spanning fun. Try and follow along with the posted playlist, I dare you. lol
greencheesemix.blogspot.com/
Mashup Tip : If you're having trouble thinking up a new mix, rub a squirrel for mashup inspiration.
DJ Useo's Podcast
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: The Jobs Imperative (nytimes.com)
Washington's assumption that the economic recovery will trickle down to workers is wrong and unacceptable. It's time for an emergency jobs program.
Jacob Weisberg: Obama's Brilliant First Year (slate.com)
By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.
BOB HERBERT: Stacking the Deck Against Kids (nytimes.com)
The U.S. should be a paradise for young people. We need big changes in this country, approaches that are constructive, creative and fundamentally new, if we're going to give those smiling kids I saw on Thanksgiving Day the kind of society they deserve.
Scott Burns: The Investor's Manifesto (assetbuilder.com)
"The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell." -William J. Bernstein.
MAUREEN DOWD: The Wizards' Wizard (nytimes.com)
I've seen some people who were fierce in the face of mortification and death. But none as fierce as Abe Pollin, Washington's great sports impresario and philanthropist.
Fred Goldring: The Main Point: Musicians, Arts Education And The E Street Shuffle (huffingtonpost.com)
I remember seeing the bands and songwriters of the day perform at Main Point. Luckily, the place didn't have a liquor license, so I was able to get in starting when I was about 13. What an education that turned out to be.
Chris Catania: "The World Is All There Is: An Interview with Fool's Gold" (popmatters.com)
Rising Afropop titans Fool's Gold are bringing a unique cultural heritage to rock music: singing in Hebrew, changing their lineup with virtually every performance, and having one hell of a time shattering conventions ...
Wendy Ide: "Sasha Grey: from porn star to leading star" (timesonline.co.uk)
Sasha Gray, the youngest person to win the Adult Video News Awards' Female Performer of the Year award, goes mainstream.
Ari Karpel: From Stage to Screen (advocate.com)
After decades of working steadily in the theater, two-time Tony winner Cherry Jones was passed up for the film version of 'Doubt' -- and went on to win an Emmy for playing the President of the United States on '24' instead.
James Wolcott: On Reality Television (Vanityfair.com)
I was recently in a Duane Reade drugstore, having a Hamlet fit of temporizing over which moisturizer to choose, when the normal tedium pervading the aisles was suddenly rent by the ranting distress of a young woman in her early 20s, pacing around and fuming into her cell phone.
David Bruce: Wise Up! (athensnews.com)
At the 2004 football game between Harvard and Yale, pranksters gave colored pieces of paper to selected Harvard fans and told them that when they all held up the pieces of paper at the same time, the pieces of paper would spell "GO HARVARD." In fact, when held up at the same time, the pieces of paper spelled "WE SUCK."
David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing a Proposal for a Long Project" (lulu.com)
Download: FREE. This free pdf file explains and gives examples of a composition project that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University. In this composition project, students write a Proposal to write a Long Project such as an Employee Manual.
Liza Donnelly: Cartoon (womensenews.org)
Nicole Hollander: Cartoon (womensenews.org)
Hubert's Poetry Corner
Tale of Tiger Tail?
If he reaches for his wood, then she reaches for her iron?
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' Edition
The two people without invitations that crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, polo-playing socialites from northern Virginia, are now offering to talk to broadcast networks about it - providing they're well paid. The Virginia couple was looking for a payment in the mid-six figures range - about half a million dollars...
Are you interested enough in what they have to say about their exploit to watch an interview of them?
Meanwhile, two senators, Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and Jon Kyl (R- Arizona), have called for criminal charges be brought against the couple...
Do you feel that the party crashing couple should be prosecuted?
Send your response to
answered:
From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Reader Suggestions
Michelle in AZ
Reader Suggestion
Manhwa vs. Manga
Hi
Thought you might be interested in this article about the recent rise in popularity of Korean manhwa which some would argue has replaced Japanese manga as the Asian comic of choice. With over 10 million readers in Korea alone and a new museum which documents manhwa's history, it looks like this comic style is here to stay.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny and warmer than seasonal.
New Facebook Group
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp's 14-year-old son has started a social networking campaign on Facebook that he hopes will get his rocker dad to quit smoking.
The 58-year-old Mellencamp has said many times since his 1994 heart attack that he's failed in trying to kick his decades-old habit. Mellencamp's youngest son, Speck, says his dad has promised to quit if he gets 1 million people to join the Facebook group. More than 7,000 people had joined the group as of Tuesday afternoon.
Mellencamp publicist Bob Merlis told The Associated Press that the challenge is legitimate.
The Facebook group is called: "1,000,000 to join, my dad john mellencamp will quit smoking."
John Mellencamp
Nominees Announced
Annie Awards
The nominees for the 37th Annie Awards, announced Tuesday by the Los Angeles chapter of the International Animated Film Society, reflect a full range of animation, from traditional to stop-motion to 3-D CG.
ASIFA-Hollywood's nominees for best animated feature are the 3-D movies "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" from Sony Animation and "Up," from Pixar/Disney; stop-motion films "Coraline" from Laika/Focus and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" from 20th Century Fox; and the traditionally animated "The Secret of Kells" from Cartoon Saloon and "The Princess and the Frog" from Disney.
Nominated for feature animation directing are Wes Anderson for "Fox," Pete Docter for "Up," Christopher Miller and Phil Lord for "Meatballs," Hayao Miyazaki for "Ponyo" and Henry Selick for "Coraline."
The nonprofit group's Windsor Kay Award recipients for 2009 are Tim Burton, Bruce Timm and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Annie Awards
Africa Contest
Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys says her first visit to Africa was so emotional and inspiring that she is ready to take others there to experience something similar.
The Grammy-winning singer is launching a contest through her charity, Keep a Child Alive, that will give five people an opportunity to visit the continent with her. She says her initial trip to Africa "totally changed my life."
Keys was to announce the contest Tuesday, which is World AIDS Day, when she performs at the Nokia Theatre in New York's Time Square. The concert will air live on YouTube (8 p.m. EST).
Fans will be able to enter the contest online at the foundation's Web site, or by sending a text. The fee for the text is $5, but it will be donated to Keep a Child Alive.
Alicia Keys
13 Inductees
California Hall of Fame
Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and feisty football commentator John Madden are among those entering the California Hall of Fame.
Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver will induct 13 people into the hall after a red carpet walk Tuesday night.
Among those attending the event are Lucas and Madden, actress Carol Burnett, author Danielle Steel, bodybuilding pioneer Joe Weider and Air Force test pilot Gen. Chuck Yeager.
Their profiles will be displayed for the next year at The California Museum in Sacramento, along with memorabilia of their achievements.
California Hall of Fame
Lifetime Honor From Directors Guild
Norman Jewison
Filmmaker Norman Jewison is receiving a lifetime-achievement award from his peers at the Directors Guild of America.
The director, whose films include "In the Heat of the Night," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Moonstruck," will receive the honor at the guild's annual awards Jan. 30.
Directors Guild President Taylor Hackford says Jewison is a rare filmmaker able to move easily among such genres as musicals, romantic comedy and political thrillers.
The 83-year-old Jewison has been nominated three times for guild honors and received three directing nominations at the Academy Awards.
Norman Jewison
Gowns Hit Auction Blocks
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn fans got a sneak peek Tuesday of dozens of garments and personal effects once belonging to the movie star that will hit the auction blocks next week.
A Givenchy black lace dress that Hepburn wore in "How to Steal a Million" and a demure ivory wedding gown that never made it down the aisle are among the items.
The fans, fashionistas and those looking to score a slice of film history were given the preview of the collection in Paris before the Dec. 8 sale in London.
Star lots include an Yves Saint Laurent empire waisted gown in white cotton that she wore to her son Luca's 1970 christening, estimated at 1,500-2,500 pounds ($2,485-$4,141), and an abbreviated, long-sleeve Valentino Haute Couture dress in ivory silk and lace that's identical to the one worn by Jacqueline Kennedy at her 1968 wedding to Aristotle Onassis.
Audrey Hepburn
TNT Cancels
"Raising the Bar"
TNT has canceled Steven Bochco's legal drama "Raising the Bar." The move had been expected.
In a statement, the network said: "Everyone at TNT had a great experience working on 'Raising the Bar' with Steven Bochco and the rest of the show's terrific cast and crew. We're proud of the series and appreciate the efforts of all of the creative people who were involved. Unfortunately, ratings for 'Raising the Bar's' second season did not reach the levels required for TNT to renew the series."
"Raising the Bar"
CBS Pulls
"Three Rivers"
The new CBS medical drama "Three Rivers" on Monday joined the list of TV shows either shelved or unlikely to return to U.S. network television.
The Sunday night program was pulled from schedules, effective immediately, but CBS said it would complete production of its initial 13 episodes.
A network spokesman said the show was officially "on hiatus" but could not say when it might return. "Three Rivers" had been drawing an average 8.4 million viewers since September but audiences have been declining.
CBS said the program would be replaced on Sunday evenings by repeats of crime dramas "Cold Case", "Criminal Minds" and its new hit, "NCIS: Los Angeles."
"Three Rivers"
Hospital News
Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin had successful hip replacement surgery Tuesday, and plans to return to his syndicated daytime talk show early next month.
An e-mail from "Live! With Regis and Kelly" says: "Word from the hospital is that everything went perfectly this morning during Regis' hip replacement surgery, and his doctor said that Regis couldn't be in better shape."
The show says the typical recovery period is four to six weeks, and the 78-year-old Philbin expects to return soon after the first of the year,
Regis Philbin
Prosecutors Want To Add Charges
Joseph Brooks
Prosecutors want to boost sexual assault charges against the Academy Award-winning songwriter behind "You Light Up My Life," who already is accused of 11 casting-couch rapes.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal said Tuesday prosecutors would ask a grand jury to add to the charges against Joseph Brooks, in part because of "additional victims." Meanwhile, a judge said the current charges alone would require three separate trials.
Brooks has pleaded not guilty to rape, sexual abuse and other charges. He's accused of luring most of the women to his Manhattan apartment through an online ad offering auditions for a movie role, then sexually assaulting them after making them drink apparently drugged wine as part of an "acting exercise."
Brooks - who won the Academy Award for best original song for the 1977 Debby Boone ballad "You Light Up My Life" and directed a related movie - would wow the women with his Hollywood credentials, making a point of showing them his Oscar, prosecutors say.
Joseph Brooks
Settles Lawsuit
James Woods
Oscar-nominated actor James Woods settled a lawsuit against a hospital in Rhode Island where his younger brother Michael died in 2006.
Woods claimed Kent Hospital was negligent in the death of his 49-year-old brother, who had a heart attack and died in its emergency room after going there with a sore throat and vomiting.
The hospital's chief executive, Sandra Coletta, acknowledged at a news conference with Woods outside the courthouse that mistakes were made.
She said the hospital is creating an institute in Michael Woods' honor and investing $1.25 million over next five years to study redesigning health care and reducing errors.
James Woods
Hecklers Upstage
Joe Arpaio
Hecklers in the audience broke into a loudly sung version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and forced a high-profile Arizona sheriff to abandon a First Amendment forum sponsored by Arizona State University's journalism school.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was asked by a panel of journalists Monday night to explain his relationship with the media, his various law enforcement policies and whether his office conducts racial profiling.
Arpaio told the panel that his office is an "equal opportunity law enforcement agency" that will arrest anyone who violates the law.
Later in the interview at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, protesters began singing a version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and chanting as Arpaio was asked about a federal investigation and his policies on illegal immigration.
The sheriff told the panel the outburst was "ridiculous" and he left the stage.
Joe Arpaio
Friday - Maybe
Roman Polanski
Swiss authorities will not release film director Roman Polanski into house arrest at his luxury Alpine chalet before Friday, the government said on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Justice Department said Polanski's release from jail would not happen before Friday as he first needs to deposit bail of $4.5 million and electronic monitoring has to be set up at his chalet in the holiday resort of Gstaad.
The 76-year-old Oscar-winning director, who holds dual French and Polish citizenship, was arrested at the request of the United States when he flew into Switzerland on September 26 to receive a lifetime achievement prize at a film festival.
The Swiss Justice Department is expected to decide on Polanski's possible extradition within weeks but he could appeal, potentially dragging out the dispute for months. He faces up to two years in a U.S. prison if he is extradited.
Roman Polanski
Judge Keeps Ban On Video
Jennifer Lopez
A judge is keeping a ban in place to prevent the release of home videos featuring Jennifer Lopez that her ex-husband and his manager have sought to distribute.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant said he will issue a preliminary injunction Tuesday against Lopez's ex-husband Ojani Noa and manager Ed Meyer.
Lopez sued the pair for $10 million last month, claiming Noa was trying to violate the terms of the couple's divorce and a confidentiality agreement by releasing 11 hours of footage.
Chalfant previously issued a temporary restraining order. The injunction to be issued Tuesday will remain in effect until the case is resolved.
Jennifer Lopez
Closing Las Vegas Hotel
Binion's
A Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel spokeswoman says the downtown Las Vegas property that used to host the World Series of Poker will mothball its 365 hotel rooms in a cost-cutting move.
TLC Casino Enterprises spokeswoman Lisa Robinson said Monday that Binion's casino will remain open, along with the poker room, sports book and well-known Binion's Ranch Steakhouse.
Robinson says about 100 of Binion's 800 workers have been notified they'll be laid off when the Binion's hotel and former Mint tower close Dec. 14.
The Binion's Original Coffee Shop will also shut down, and keno operations will cease.
Binion's
Sets Auction Record
"Vivid Pink" Diamond
A rare, 5-carat pink diamond was auctioned off for a record $10.8 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, putting some shine back into the world's rare and large stones market which was badly hit by the financial crisis.
The stone, of a "vivid pink" hue and considered near perfect, but not quite flawless, triggered brisk bidding in Christie's autumn sales of Asian and Chinese art in Hong Kong.
The price smashed the previous record, set 15 years ago in Geneva for a 19.66-carat stone that sold for $7.4 million. The pink gem's per-carat price of $2.2 million was also the highest ever paid for any diamond at auction, Christie's said.
"No stone has ever been sold for $2 million a carat, we were used to ... a million dollars a carat for colored diamonds but never 2 million," said Francois Curiel, Christie's Europe chairman. "This is an absolute record that is not going to be broken for a while I believe."
"Vivid Pink" Diamond
In Memory
Bess Hawes
Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday.
Hawes, who moved to Portland, Ore., from Los Angeles two years ago, died there Friday of natural causes, according to her daughter, Corey Denos of Bellingham, Wash.
Hawes, who was the daughter of legendary folk musicologist John Lomax, grew up helping her father collect and transcribe field recordings of folk musicians for the Library of Congress in the 1920s and '30s.
In the 1940s, she had joined Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, her husband, Butch Hawes, and others in a popular, if loose-knit, folk group called the Almanac Singers that Seeger has since joked never bothered to rehearse until it got onstage. Her brother, musicologist Alan Lomax, had made some of Guthrie's earliest recordings.
In the Almanac Singers, Hawes and the others collaborated on numerous songs, never crediting them to any one writer.
"As a group, they wrote a lot of songs, usually in support of union movements," Denos said.
In the late 1940s, Hawes and Jacqueline Steiner co-wrote "M.T.A.," a whimsical, banjo-driven tale of a harried commuter named Charlie who gets on a Boston subway, learns he doesn't have the proper fare and is never allowed to get off. Often called "Charlie and the M.T.A.," it became a hit for the Kingston Trio a decade later.
Hawes, meanwhile, moved to Los Angeles with her husband in the 1950s, settling into what was then a bohemian community in Topanga Canyon.
She later joined the faculty at California State University, Northridge, which honored her with a Phenomenal Woman Award in 2004. In the 1960s and '70s, as a professor in the anthropology department, she made several documentary films exploring American music and folklore.
She also taught banjo, guitar and mandolin.
She moved to Washington in the mid-1970s, where she was director of the National Endowment of the Arts' folk arts program until retiring in 1992. Then-President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1993.
Besides her daughter, Hawes is survived by two other children, daughter Naomi Bishop and son Nicholas Hawes, both of Portland, Ore., and six grandchildren.
Bess Hawes
In Memory
Bob Keane
Del-Fi Records founder Bob Keane, who discovered rocker Ritchie Valens, has died in Los Angeles at age 87.
Keane's son, Tom, tells the Los Angeles Times that his father died of renal failure Saturday at an assisted-living home in Hollywood.
Bob Keane founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi in the 1950s.
In 1958, he discovered the 17-year-old Valens at a small concert and invited him to record in his home studio.
Their brief association led to Valens' hits "Come On, Let's Go," "Donna" and "La Bamba."
Bob Keane
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