M Is FOR MASHUP - December 9th, 2008
If DJ's Looked Like Their Names
By DJ Useo
For a change of pace in this week's column, let's pretend the DJ's who make the mashups look like their names. Included are the three mashups posted by each DJ.
01 - DJ Spider ( www.djspider.com/ )
a. Too Close to Christmas (Blue vs. Christina Aguilera)
b. I Got a Feeling My Sex is on Fire (Black Eyed Peas vs. Kings of Leon)
c. Free Lola (Shapeshifter vs. Agnes)
02 - Colatron ( www.colatron.com/ )
a. The Science of Telephony (Mike Lennon vs Blondie vs Ella Fitzgerald)
b. Sleeping In Space (Morcheeba vs David Bowie vs John Foxx)
c. God In The Mirror (Michael Jackson vs Eric Clapton)
03 - World Famous Audio Hacker ( www.audiohacker.com/ )
a. Chemical Brothers-Setting Sun (Hacker's Hardcore Dub)
b. Say It Right (The Joker) (Nelly Furtado vs JJ Jones)
c. DO Ya Want Sexyback? (Rod Stewart vs Justin Timberlake)
04 - ToTom ( www.boototom.info/ )
a. Like An Ace Of Spades (Madonna vs Motorhead)
b. Sergeant Pepper à Rio (Beatles vs Sacha Distel)
c. Lucid Dreams (Pink Floyd vs Franz Ferdinand)
05 - DJ Le CLown ( djleclown.free.fr/index.html )
a. Billy Bootie Lazer (Michael Jackson vs Major Lazer)
b. Rocknrolla (Black Strobe vs The Prodigy vs Public Enemy)
c. Fire Can't Go Wrong (South Central vs Arthur Brown)
06 - DJ BC ( www.djbc.net/ )
a. Bossa Confusion (New Order vs Elis Regina)
b. David Bowie-Suffragette City (dj BC's Sufferin' Remix)
c. (Here Comes The) Champ In Black (The Mohawks vs Ini Kamoze vs AC/DC)
07 - The Homogenic Chaos ( thehomogenicchaos.blogspot.com/ )
a. Standing In The Ambulance Of Fire (Simian Mobile Disco vs Kings Of Leon vs The Gossip vs Chemical Brothers vs Santogold)
b. One More Time On The Dub Harlem Van (Ladyhawk vs Bimbo Jones vs Beats International vs. Bloc Party)
c. Boy! You Know The Love On My Mind (Freemasons vs Alanis Morrisette vs Beyonce vs David Guetta vs Everlast)
08 - Chocomang ( chocomang.org/mashup/index_en.htm )
a. Bizkit Bop (Limp Bizkit vs Ramones)
b. Last Night A Starlight Saved My Life (Muse vs Indeep)
c. Jamaica Undone (Greyhound vs Korn)
There you go. Summat to look at, summat to listen to, & nawt to read. Well, very little.
Take some cartoon characters and pit them all in the same frame.
CONTEST TIME - Part 2
It's as simple as that.
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This contest will run all December with winner announced December 30th.
Here's an entry from Ittiga2435.
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Remember to enter. If you wish to NOT enter, please send money or possessions worth over $200, & do not pass go.
So, you see, it's much easier to merely enter.
Mashup Tip : Always check the mashup wrapper for allergy information. Some tracks are processed with nuts.
DJ Useo's Podcast
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
MAUREEN DOWD: The Lady and the Tiger (nytimes.com)
They were both elegant and entitled swans, insulated in guarded enclaves, obsessed with protecting and promoting the Brand. Then trouble trespassed into their privileged worlds and both responded the same foolish way.
BOB HERBERT: In Search of Education Leaders (nytimes.com)
To help address the crisis in education, Harvard is creating a new, tuition-free doctoral degree to be focused on leadership in education.
Scott Burns: The High Cost of a Guaranteed Income (assetbuilder.com)
Unfortunately, living benefits aren't as good as they seem. The basic problem is simple: high costs. While the sales force hints at higher income in your future, it is more likely that your account value will slowly disappear and your guaranteed monthly income will remain fixed until you die.
Will Harris: A Chat with Jim Parsons of "Big Bang Theory" (bullz-eye.com)
"(Wil Wheaton) was so fun to have on the set, and he was such a good guy, just in general. He seemed to be completely okay with the fact that his entire name became a mantra of vengeful hate. That didn't seem to bother him."
Frank Lovece: Anna Kendrick goes from 'Twilight' to 'Up in the Air' (Newsday)
Most child actors either burn out or fade away. At 12, Anna Kendrick earned a Tony Award nomination for Broadway's "High Society" in 1998, becoming the third-youngest nominee ...
June Thomas: Shirt-Buttoning Styles of the Weird and "Special" (slate.com)
Why Forrest Gump, Adrian Monk, and Steve Urkel button the top button.
Roger Moore: British actor reincarnates a legend in 'Me and Orson Welles' (The Orlando Sentinel)
Christian McKay didn't like the comparison the first time he heard it. The words "You look a bit like Orson Welles" could send any young actor screaming back to his personal trainer.
Steven Rea: Perfect for the role, except ... she was six months pregnant (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Cool, complicated and impossibly sexy, Alex, the business traveler played by Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air," is a role to die for.
Neal Justin: From cops to comedy: Andre Braugher plays against type in new series (Star Tribune)
Andre Braugher's portrayal of icy, intimidating detective Frank Pembleton in "Homicide: Life on the Street" earned him an Emmy and assured him a rich career of playing no-nonsense authority figures.
It also nearly cost him his latest role.
Lucy Mangan: There's old folk and there's Old Folk (guardian.co.uk)
Folk legend John Tams and a pint of Old Toejam - come on, Dad, live a little.
Joe Weider: Snack Facts (creators.com)
Tip of the Week: Don't give yourself the chance not to go to the gym
Mikhaela Reid: Cartoon
World Clock
"Lots of buttons to click for different ways to see the rise in debt, population, bicycle production, poultry slaughter, diabetes, forest loss, desert gain, oil pumped - and on and on. (It's also a way to see what time it is anywhere in the world - New Zealand, say.) "--Andrew Tobias
The Weekly Poll
Results Delayed
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?
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Will Support Ukrainian Boy
Elton John
Elton John's partner says the musician was devastated that he wasn't allowed to adopt an HIV-positive Ukrainian toddler, but plans to support the boy anyway.
The 62-year-old pop star met 14-month-old Lev at a home for HIV-positive children in September. But he was refused permission to adopt the boy because he was too old and not married.
John's partner David Furnish said Tuesday the couple was "massively gutted" by the rejection.
Furnish told BBC radio they were working to ensure Lev and his brother "have the best health care, education and family options available to them."
Elton John
Dress Auction
Audrey Hepburn
The black cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in "How to Steal a Million" has sold for nearly $100,000 at auction.
Kerry Taylor Auctions says the Chantilly lace dress sold to an anonymous bidder for 60,000 pounds (about $97,700).
It was one of 40 items from Hepburn's wardrobe sold off by her friend Tanja Star-Busmann.
The auctioneer said Tuesday's sale made a total of 268,320 pounds. It says half of the net proceeds will go to The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
Audrey Hepburn
Finale Sets Cable Ratings Record
"Monk"
"Monk" ended its eight-season run with a bang, becoming the most-watched hourlong series on basic cable.
The Friday series finale of the USA Network comedy-drama drew about 9.4 million viewers, 3.2 million of them in the adults 18-49 demographic.
That represents the largest audience and demo turnout to date, not only for the show and for a USA scripted series but also for a drama series on basic cable, eclipsing the 9.2 million mark for TNT's "The Closer."
The second part of "Monk's" two-part closer, which saw Tony Shalhoub's OCD-plagued detective solve the biggest case of his career -- his wife's murder -- beat the series' previous high in total viewers by 37 percent.
"Monk"
End Of The Road
"Bonnie Hunt Show"
Struggling sophomore talker "The Bonnie Hunt Show" will stop production at the end of this season.
Season to date (through November 22), the Warner Bros.-produced talk show ranks 12th out of 13 syndicated talk shows in households, with a 0.8 rating (and no change from the comparable year-ago period), according to Nielsen Media Research data.
The ranking among key women 25-54 is also 12th, with a 0.3 in the demographic group.
A potential replacement is "MomLogic," also from Warner Bros., which is a "View"-like hour of talk based on the website of that name and co-hosted by the Food Network's Paula Deen, Rene Syler of CBS' "The Early Show," author Lee Woodruff, comedian Judy Gold, and reality star and mother of eight Kate Gosselin.
"Bonnie Hunt Show"
CBS Cancels
"As the World Turns"
CBS canceled "As the World Turns" on Tuesday, putting the company that coined the phrase "soap operas" out of the business of making daytime dramas for the first time in 76 years.
"As the World Turns" has been on the air since 1956 and televised its 13,661st episode Tuesday. Its last episode will be next September, the network said.
It's the second daytime drama CBS has canceled in a year, after "Guiding Light." Both shows were produced by a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, the company for which the term "soap operas" was created because it used the shows to hawk products like Ivory soap and Duz laundry detergent.
The cancellation will leave CBS with only two daytime dramas: "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and Beautiful."
"As the World Turns"
Fetches Record Price
Rembrandt
A Rembrandt painting unseen in public for nearly 40 years sold for a record 20.2 million pounds ($33.2 million) at auction in London on Tuesday, the highest ever paid at auction for the 17th century artist.
Christie's said that "Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo", painted in 1658, fetched the 4th highest-price paid at auction for any old masters painting.
It was bought by an anonymous client bidding via telephone, Christie's said.
The record for a Rembrandt previously stood at 19.8 million pounds (then $29 million) in December 2000 for "Portrait of a lady aged 62."
Rembrandt
Photo Auctioned
Roman Polanski
A topless photo of filmmaker Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate, taken just months before her murder has sold at a New York City auction for just over $11,000.
The black and white portrait by British photographer David Bailey shows the couple embracing. Christie's says it was sold Monday to an unidentified private buyer. The presale estimate was $8,000 to $12,000.
Tate was killed in 1969 by followers of Charles Manson.
Roman Polanski
Extortion Attempt
John Stamos
Prosecutors have charged two people with threatening to sell photos of actor John Stamos unless he paid them $680,000. The actor's spokesman said Tuesday that the pictures were benign.
Allison Coss and Scott Sippola were arrested Dec. 3 on an extortion charge at an airport near Marquette, 450 miles north of Detroit. An undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of Stamos had arranged to meet them there.
Stamos' spokesman Matt Polk said there was nothing embarrassing about the images.
Stamos had received an e-mail from someone identified as "Brian L" threatening to release photos to the news media unless the actor paid $680,000, agent Leslie Hahn said in an affidavit filed in federal court in Marquette.
John Stamos
Settles Suit
Travis Barker
An attorney says Travis Barker has settled his lawsuit against several companies over a fatal plane crash in South Carolina last year.
Lawyer William L. Robinson, who represents some of the companies sued, says the terms of the settlement are confidential.
He says the settlement involves all defendants, including Learjet, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the plane's owners and contractors.
Barker sued last November claiming the companies improperly operated and maintained the Learjet that overshot the runway and burst into flames.
Travis Barker
Arrested After Assault
Brian Bonsall
Police say a former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" has been arrested for investigation of assault in Colorado.
Police said Monday that 28-year-old Brian Bonsall got into a fight at an apartment on Saturday and hit a friend with part of a broken wooden stool.
Bonsall allegedly told officers he had been drinking and didn't remember what happened.
Bonsall played Michael J. Fox's little brother Andy Keaton on the sitcom.
Brian Bonsall
British Researchers
Tamiflu
British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.
Researchers at the Cochrane Review, an international nonprofit that reviews health information, looked at previously published papers on Tamiflu as used for seasonal flu. They found insufficient data to prove whether the antiviral reduces complications like pneumonia in otherwise healthy people but concluded the drug shortens flu symptoms by about a day. The papers were published online Tuesday in the British journal, BMJ.
The researchers said the benefits of Tamiflu were small and that authorities should consider its side effects before using the drug in healthy people. While the reviewed studies only looked at Tamiflu use for seasonal flu, the experts said their conclusions raised questions about the widespread use of the drug in people with any flu-like illness, including swine flu.
Tamiflu
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Nov. 30-Dec. 6. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Minnesota at Arizona," NBC, 20.89 million.
2. "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.86 million.
3. "NCIS" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 14.28 million.
4. "The OT," Fox, 13.73 million.
5. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 13.65 million.
6. "House," Fox, 13.25 million.
7. "Survivor: Samoa," CBS, 12.82 million.
8. College Football: Texas vs. Nebraska, ABC, 12.69 million.
9. "Amazing Race 15," CBS, 12.3 million;
10. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.05 million.
11. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.38.
12. "Brothers & Sisters," ABC, 10.81 million.
13. "The Mentalist," CBS, 10.73 million.
14. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS, 10.59 million.
15. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 10.35 million.
16. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.09 million
17. "Biggest Loser 8," NBC, 9.99 million.
18. "Bones," Fox, 9.92 million.
19. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.9 million.
20. "Cold Case," CBS, 9.64 million.
Ratings
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