M Is FOR MASHUP - December 4th, 2013
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By DJ Useo
As the holiday 'season' arrives, you can observe many bootleggers taking some well-deserved time off. Still, the hosting opportunities of late are most favorable for mashups. The combination of effects thus yields an even finer assortment of mixes than normal. Allow me to direct you towards five new pieces that display mixers taking advantage of the wider audience potentialities.
01-Crew '92-'No Beef No Revolution #Pants Down' ( R3hab &The Partysquad vs Nervo vs Afrojack ) Is a marvelous blend with club combos that will have you on your feet and gyrating happily.
( soundcloud.com/crew-92/r3hab-nervo-afrojack-the )
02-DJ Russell -'Pullover Marshup'. No idea who he mashed with but it has a great North African vs House flavor that is top notch.
( www.hulkshare.com/russell_samuel/pullover-marshup-dj-russell )
03-DJ Qwer-Ty has been posting some of his fave mixes by others and a few hours ago he posted Voicedudes' classic '
More Than A 70's Feeling' ( Jim Croce vs Don McClean vs Boston vs Bob Seger vs Elton John ) This is the kind of track that inspires so many others to mix their own.
( http://hearthis.at/djqwerty/voicedude-more-than-a-70s-feeling/ )
04-DJ Flashard-'Here's To Never Passing The Dutchie' ( Avril Lavigne vs Musical Youth ) This plays so well that Musical Youth liked it!
( soundcloud.com/flash11flash/avril-lavigne-vs-musical-youth )
05-DJ Y Alias JY's great new track isn't available, but you can read why here
( djyaliasjy.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/official-fm-you-suck-officially-big-time/ )
Now that was one splendid batch of bastard pop, eh? Next, get ready for the anticipated crop of Christmas mashups..
Mix Of The Week
DJ Useo - 'Bad Weather Mix' (1:19:53) Imagine you're visiting me, and the weather turns bad, so we just hang out and I spin you a live set. I think it would sound like this
( www.bmbx.org/2013/12/bad-weather-mix/ )
Mashup Tip
Always check that your presets are all turned off when you begin mixing, or you might end up with unpleasant bass, midrange, and treble surprises.
Latest Useo Thing
'We Are Not Just Like Heaven' (The Cure vs Frank Zappa) is a response to the many requests I got for more Zappa mashups. My recent Zappa vs Three Doors Down ( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/06/3-doors-down-vs-frank-zappa.html ) went over like sliced bread, so I finished this newer one. Both source tracks are from the 80's so it's a very different flavor. Listen here
( www.hulkshare.com/q7e2hopqwkjk )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-are-not-just-like-heaven-cure-vs.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
The mashups you play for friends and family this Christmas season will make you the hit of the party. Drop my name for an extra thrill!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Scott Klinger: CEOs want you -- to fix the debt (LA Times)
Secure in their own wealth and retirement income, some of the nation's chief executive officers are now calling for cuts in Social Security.
Gary Younge: Spike Lee on Oldboy, America's violent history and the fine art of mouthing off (Guardian)
The director has never been short of opinions - so why has he become evasive when we catch up with him in Brooklyn?
Dana Stevens: Spike Lee's Oldboy, a remake of Park Chan-wook's original, reviewed (Slate)
People who saw and loved the original Oldboy-which, sick as it was, had a propelling, antic energy and a genuine love story at its core-will likely be annoyed by this garish but schematic remake, with its draggy pace and chemistry-free central couple. Viewers who are coming to it cold will, most likely, leave feeling enervated, confused, and queasy.
Interviews by Anna Tims: How we made Mary Poppins (Guardian)
'I was shocked when I saw Julie Andrews smoking on set in full garb - Mary Poppins having a fag!'
Daniel Fink: The season of excess begins (LA Times)
Today's ever-expanding holiday sales season has become like a potlatch, in which status is gained through giving.
Oliver Burkeman: "Shoppers beware: a materialist ethos is more misery-inducing than we thought" (Guardian)
Seeking happiness through material acquisition is associated with loneliness and worse responses to traumatic events.
John Farrier: "Wolfe Creek Crater: A Natural Garden inside a Meteorite Crater" (Neatorama)
Water collects in the basin of the crater, so the center of this hole in the desert is filled with green plants.
Seanbaby, "5 Things Critics Love About 'GTA V' (That Actually Suck)" (Cracked)
Since its release, Grand Theft Auto V has become one of the biggest critical and commercial successes in any media. It made more than a half-billion dollars in its first week, and its Metacritic rating of 97 means we agree as a people that it's perfect. ... The whole point of the Internet is to destroy what you love, which is what I'm about to do, here. Here are the five best but also worst parts of GTA 5.
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Started out nice and sunny, but by late afternoon it was gray and windy and cold (for these parts).
Hate Monger?
Bob Dylan
French authorities have filed preliminary charges against Bob Dylan over a 2012 interview in which he is quoted comparing Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
The charges of "public insult and inciting hate" were filed against the musician in mid-November, Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said Tuesday.
They stem from a lawsuit by a Croatian community group in France over remarks in an interview in Rolling Stone magazine in September 2012.
Speaking about race relations in the United States, Dylan was quoted as saying: "If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."
The charges were filed two days before Dylan received a French government honour at the Culture Ministry Nov. 13 but were not publicly confirmed until this week.
Bob Dylan
Bad Sex in Fiction Prize
Manil Suri
An out-of-this-world sex scene invoking stars, supernovas and statisticians has won U.S.-based writer Manil Suri the uncoveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Suri, a novelist and mathematician, won the annual British prize for a passage in his novel "The City of Devi," in which the characters "streak like superheroes past suns and solar systems, we dive through shoals of quarks and atomic nuclei."
The passage climaxes: "In celebration of our breakthrough fourth star, statisticians the world over rejoice."
Suri, a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, was not on hand Tuesday to accept his award in person. A representative of his publisher, Bloomsbury, accepted the prize from former "Dynasty" star Joan Collins at a ceremony in London.
Manil Suri
Blaster For Sale
Han Solo
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. " - Han Solo "Star Wars: A New Hope"
Especially when they're worth more than $200,000.
Sure, Han Solo is used to having a price on his head. But now, instead of being pursued by the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunters, he's the target of geeks hoping to get their hands on his famed blaster.
The resin-based blaster may appear crude and clumsy when compared to that more famous, elegant weapon from a more civilized age. But the prop gun used by Harrison Ford in the original "Star Wars" trilogy films "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," has been put up for auction- and the minimum asking price is $200,000.
Han Solo
Gown Fetches $167,000 At Auction
Princess Diana
A lavish white and gold ballet-inspired ball gown worn by Princess Diana has fetched 102,000 pounds ($167,000) at a London auction.
Kerry Taylor Auction said the strapless gown, which features gold sequins, rhinestones and pearl beads, was not designed for Diana - but the royal chose it herself from a collection by her favourite designers, the Emanuels.
The auction house said Diana wore the dress, which came with a matching headband and optional sleeves, on various occasions.
It said the dress' auction price exceeded initial estimates and went to an unidentified museum abroad.
Princess Diana
Dancer Found Guilty
Bolshoi
A Bolshoi star dancer and two other men on Tuesday were convicted for their parts in an acid attack on the ballet's director which exposed vicious backstage bickering and intrigue at the renowned theater.
Judge Yelena Maximova pronounced Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko guilty in the Jan. 17 attack on Sergei Filin. She said that Dmitrichenko and two other men had made plans to hurt Filin a few months before the attack.
Prosecutors asked for a nine-year sentence for Dmitrichenko, 10 years for ex-convict Yuri Zarutsky, suspected of carrying out the attack, and six years for their driver, Andrei Lipatov.
During the trial, Dmitrichenko said that Zarutsky had approached him with an offer to beat up Filin, and the dancer agreed. He said he was shocked when he heard about the acid attack in the news and told Zarutsky they should surrender to the police.
The judge accepted that Dmitrichenko was unaware of the plan to use acid, which may set stage for a softer sentence. Zarutsky had testified that Dmitrichenko was unaware of the intention to use acid.
Bolshoi
Every Sperm Is Sacred
U.S. Catholic Bishops
A Michigan woman has sued the U.S. Catholic bishops, arguing that a Catholic hospital in Michigan denied her adequate treatment during a painful miscarriage because of a policy banning even the discussion of abortion as an option.
Tamesha Means said she went to a Catholic hospital in Muskegon, Michigan, the only hospital within 30 minutes of her home, when her water broke in December 2010 after only 18 weeks of pregnancy, according to the lawsuit filed Friday in Detroit federal court.
Despite her being in excruciating pain and with virtually no chance her pregnancy could survive, Mercy Health Partners told Means there was nothing it could do and did not tell Means that terminating her pregnancy was an option and the safest course for her condition, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit accuses the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops of creating health care directives "that cause pregnant women who are suffering from a miscarriage to be denied appropriate medical care, including information about their condition and treatment options."
About 15 percent of the 800,000 beds in the U.S. are in a Catholic hospital, according to the Catholic Health Association. In those hospitals, medical professionals must comply with the bishops' directives, which prohibit suggesting or performing abortions.
U.S. Catholic Bishops
Fresh Lawsuit On Sale Of Masks
Hopi
The Native American Hopi tribe took a Paris auction house to court Tuesday to try to block the upcoming sale of 32 sacred tribal masks, arguing they are "bitterly opposed" to the use as merchandise of sacred objects that represent their ancestral spirits.
The Katsinam masks are scheduled for sale at the Drouot auction house on Dec. 9 and 11, alongside an altar from the Zuni tribe that used to belong to late Hollywood star Vincent Price, and other Native American frescoes and dolls.
Advocates for the Hopis argue that selling the sacred Katsinam masks as commercial art is illegal because the masks are like tombs and represent their ancestors' spirits. The tribe nurtures and feed the masks as if they are the living dead. The objects are surreal faces made from wood, leather, horse hair and feathers and painted in vivid pigments of red, blue, yellow and orange.
In April, a Paris court ruled that such sales are legal in France, and Drouot sold off around 70 Hopi masks despite vocal protests and criticism from actor Robert Redford and the U.S. government. The U.S., unlike France, possesses laws which robustly protect indigenous peoples.
The Hopis' French lawyer, Pierre Servan-Schreiber, remains optimistic that this time the judge will rule in their favor. His argument highlights an existing French law which prevents the sale of tombs, and gives these objects a special, protected status.
Hopi
New York Lawsuit Seeks 'Legal Personhood'
Chimpanzees
A U.S. animal rights group on Monday filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the "legal personhood" of chimpanzees.
The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy "a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned."
The lawsuit seeks a declaration that Tommy's "detention" in a "small, dank, cement cage in a cavernous dark shed" in central New York is unlawful and demands his immediate release to a primate sanctuary.
The lawsuit on Tommy's behalf is among three the group is filing this week on behalf of four chimps across New York. The other chimps are Kiko, a 26-year-old chimp living on a private property in Niagara Falls, and Hercules and Leo, two young male chimps used in research at Stony Brook University on Long Island, the group said.
Chimpanzees
WWar II Era Japanese Submarine Found
The I-400
Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a World War Two era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal before being scuttled by U.S. forces.
The 400-foot (122-meter) "Sen-Toku" class vessel - among the largest pre-nuclear submarines ever built - was found in August off the southwest coast of Oahu and had been missing since 1946, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said.
The I-400 and its sister ship, the I-401, which was found off Oahu in 2005, were able to travel one and a half times around the world without refueling and could hold up to three folding-wing bombers that could be launched minutes after resurfacing, the scientists said.
The accidental discovery of the 1-400, an aircraft-toting I-400 mega sub, on the rock- and debris-littered ocean floor, some 2,300 feet beneath the surface, has solved the mystery surrounding a ship long thought to be further afield.
The I-400
Asian Nations Dominate
International Test
American students once again lag behind many of their Asian and European peers on a global exam, a continuing trend that often is blamed on child poverty and a diverse population in U.S. schools.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan called the results a "picture of educational stagnation" as U.S. students showed little improvement over three years, failing to score in the top 20 on math, reading or science.
Students in Shanghai, China's largest city, had the top scores in all subjects, and Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong students weren't far behind. Even Vietnam, which had its students participate for the first time, had a higher average score in math and science than the United States.
About half a million students in 65 nations and educational systems took part in the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which is coordinated by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD.
International Test
Guam
Operation Dead-Mouse Drop
A group of 2,000 dead mice equipped with cardboard parachutes have been airdropped over a United States Air Force base in Guam in order to poison brown tree snakes.
It may sound like the plot to an animated movie starring the vocal talents of Gilbert Godfried, but we assure you this is actually happening.
NBC News reports that the dead mice were pumped full of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The hope is that the snakes, which are invasive to the area and cause harm to exotic native birds and the island's power grid, will be drawn to the toxic rodents, eat them, and then croak. Other animals face minimal risk, reports the Air Force Times.
Dan Vice, the Agriculture Department's assistant supervisory wildlife biologist for Guam, told KUAM that the mice are dropped in a time sequence from low-flying helicopters. Each rodent is strung up to a tiny parachute made of cardboard and tissue paper.
The mission is part of an $8 million program from the Interior and Defense departments, Phys.org reports. If the mission is successful, experts may expand it to other parts of Guam. In other words, maybe a sequel is forthcoming.
Operation Dead-Mouse Drop
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