M Is FOR MASHUP - December 19th, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
Mashup Bells
By DJ Useo DJ Petrushka
Mashup Bells
by DJ Petrushka
(After Jingle Bells)
Mashing through the snow
On his virtual DJ,
DJ BC let's it go,
Every Christmas day
Santastic mashups ring
Making Christmas bright
DJ BC Does this every year
the seventh is tonight!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to hear
Santastic mashups play.
DJ Flack, Voicedude,
Mojochronic too,
If that 'aint instamatic's track
I'll eat my own left shoe
Jingle bells, Christmas sells,
but this albums' for free,
Thanks to all the mashers,
and of course, DJ BC.
SANTASTIC 7 :17 New Christmas Mashups
( www.djbc.net/santastic7/ )
Mix Of The Week
Boryana - 'Christmas Mix 2012' Minimal techno mixed well.
Perfect for caroling over with your friends and family.
( soundcloud.com/boryanadj/boryana-christmas-mix-2012 )
Mashup Tip
Add a bit more rum to the eggnog, would you? Hey, you're standing under the mistletoe. ;)
Latest Useo Thing
'Jingle Bells Scatta' (Manhattan Transfer vs Skrillex)
Merry Christmas to you all.
This is the Manhattan Transfer singing
jingle bells over Skrillex music.
Mix for demonstration purposes only.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-mashup-manhattan-transfer-vs.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
That Lily Allen mashup you've been playing for days is actually her album version.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943; YouTube)
A Tex Avery Classic Cartoon.
Erika W. Smith: I Was Street Harassed By The NYPD (BUST Magazine)
Last weekend, I experienced a new, unexpected form of street harassment. After a Friday night out, I was walking home from the neighborhood bar with my roommate when a car full of men pulled up next to us. It was the NYPD.
Paul Krugman: that Terrible Trillion (New York Times)
Anyway, we do indeed have a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR deficit, or at least we did; in fiscal 2012, which ended in September, the deficit was actually $1.089 trillion. (It will be lower this year.) The question is what lesson we should take from that figure.
Andrew Tobias: Uber
I love Uber. No sign-up fee, no monthly minimum - and even a little "green" in the sense that the 2,000 or so cars it has on call in New York (for example) are cars that used to spend a lot of their time empty, idling their motors, in between jobs. Now, the vehicles - and their drivers - have a much higher ratio of productive time, when they're taking people where they want to go.
Joshua Kopstein: Street artist behind satirical NYPD 'Drone' posters arrested (The Verge)
It's not the first time the NYPD has overreacted to unsanctioned public art. Earlier this year, the department arrested 50-year-old Takeshi Miyakawa after he illuminated the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn with harmless LED lanterns made from plastic "I Heart NY" shopping bags. The crackdown in Attia's case, however, seems to have more to do with the public embarrassment faced by the department as a result of the mock ads.
Katie Roiphe: Ten Reasons To Worship Rebecca West (Slate)
The great overlooked writer and feminist.
Note that Clears Up Missing Gaps from Alcohol-Fueled Night
"Frank got drunk, took a taxi home but accidentally entered the wrong townhouse (next door) where it all went downhill ... Here's the note the neighbour slipped under his door explaining a few gaps in his night..."-Ana Samways
Alexander Safonov Captures Breathtaking Underwater Scenes off the Coast of South Africa (This is Colossal)
… his favorite destination is the annual sardine run off the coast of South Africa where most of the photos you see were captured over the last few years.
Eleanor Goldberg: Kmart Shoplifter Sends Apology Note, $1,000 Money Order 30 Years After Stealing From Cincinnati Store (Huffington Post)
Thirty years after stealing from a Kmart in Ohio, a shoplifter has found a way to ask for forgiveness and help some families in need, too.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
David Bruce has approximately 50 Kindle books on Amazon.com.
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Reader Suggestion
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Hey! Wanna buy a boat?
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Thanks, B2tbBob!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cold, clear and windy.
Billboard's Top-Grossing Tour
Madonna
While this year's pop charts have been dominated by young singers, it is veteran music stars, led by Madonna, who are commanding big money in tour ticket sales, according to a new Billboard list released on Tuesday.
Madonna, 54, topped Billboard's list of highest-grossing live tours, earning an estimated $228.4 million in ticket sales from her sold-out ninth worldwide tour in support of her 12th studio album "MDNA." The singer will wrap her tour in South America this weekend, after performing more than 80 shows across the world starting in Israel in May.
Madonna came ahead of pop star Lady Gaga, who landed at No. 6, with ticket sales of $124.9 million from her worldwide "Born This Way Ball" tour. Gaga, 26, is currently midway through her tour, which kicked off in South Korea in April, and will wrap in Oklahoma in March 2013.
The top five highest-grossing tour acts of 2012 included Bruce Springsteen, 63, and the E Street band at No. 2 with $199 million from 72 shows and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, 69, at No. 3 with $186 million.
Cirque Du Soleil's homage to late singer Michael Jackson in "The Immortal World Tour" ranked No. 4 with $147.3 million over 183 shows, and British rock band Coldplay was fifth with $147.2 million over 67 shows.
Madonna
e-Books
Arthur C. Clarke
The science fiction of Arthur C. Clarke has finally reached the next dimension in the U.S. - e-books.
The late author's estate has an agreement with the digital publisher RosettaBooks to release "2001: A Space Odyssey" and 34 other works. Clarke's books already have been available electronically in his native Britain. Rosetta announced Tuesday that other Clarke works coming out as e-books in the U.S. for the first time include his "Rama" and "Vanamonde" series and the novels "Childhood's End" and "The Sands of Mars." Clarke died in 2008 at age 90.
Rosetta is an independent publisher which also handles the e-editions of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five."
Arthur C. Clarke
Sells Work On eBay
Celia Gimenez
A painting by the 80-year-old Spanish artist who became famous for her botched restoration of a Christ fresco in a small-town church has fetched €1,080 ($1,421) on eBay.
The closing price Tuesday for Celia Gimenez's oil painting "Las Bodegas de Borja" ("Borja's Wine Cellar") more than tripled its starting price after 52 bids.
Gimenez said the proceeds will to the Catholic charity organization Caritas.
Gimenez became a sensation in August when pictures spread on the Internet of an "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man") mural in the town of Borja that she disfigured while trying to restore it. Twitter users redubbed it "Ecce Mono" ("Behold the Monkey").
Celia Gimenez
Becomes Kansas Pastor
Frankie Valens
Pop star of the 60s and 70s, Frankie Valens, has a new gig - as a preacher at a small church in western Kansas.
The Garden City Telegram reports that the singer, who had hits with "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," became the pastor of First Christian Church in Syracuse about a month ago.
Valens' father pastored the same church in 1978 and 1979.
After his recording career ended, Valens and his wife, Phyllis, toured the country performing gospel songs and skits at various functions.
Frankie Valens
Defamed T-rump's Pageant, Owes $5M
Beauty Queen
A beauty queen who claimed this year's Miss USA contest was fixed has been ordered to pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.
In a decision signed last week, an arbitrator found that the comments from Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin were false, harmful and malicious. Monnin had alleged that the five finalists had been selected in advance of the pageant's live telecast.
The biased arbitrator, Theodore Katz, said Monnin had two motives: "She was a disgruntled contestant who failed to make it past the preliminary competition" and she objected to the pageant's decision to allow transgender contestants. He wrote that the way the contest is judged "precludes any reasonable possibility that the judging was rigged."
Monnin, of Cranberry, Pa., resigned her state title after the pageant. Her allegations on Facebook and NBC's "Today" show cost the pageant a $5 million fee from a potential 2013 sponsor, Katz said.
Katz said Monnin agreed to arbitrate any disputes when she became a Miss USA contestant, but he wrote in his decision that she and her lawyer didn't participate in the process and claimed they were not required to do so.
Beauty Queen
Court Sides With Newspaper In Labor Fight
Santa Barbara News-Press
A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with the publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press in a long-running labor dispute between the newspaper and reporters who were fired after they complained about its editorial practices.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the newspaper's publisher was protected by the First Amendment when it dismissed eight reporters and disciplined others who claimed the owner was interfering with news coverage.
The reporters claimed they were illegally fired for union activity and legitimate complaints about their terms of employment. But the court found the dispute was all about editorial control.
"The First Amendment affords a publisher - not a reporter - absolute authority to shape a newspaper's content," Judge Stephen Williams wrote for a three-judge panel.
The ruling stems from a dispute between Ampersand Publishing LLC and employees that began in 2006. Nearly every top editor at the paper quit in protest over what they said was owner Wendy McCaw's meddling in news coverage.
Santa Barbara News-Press
Police Arrest Juvenile
"Swatting"
Police have arrested a juvenile they say is responsible for making prank calls that reported violence at the homes of Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher and led officers to respond in force to the stars' homes.
The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday refused to provide any details about the suspect, who was arrested Dec. 10 and is no longer in custody. Prosecutors were reviewing a possible case against the person, who police say may be responsible for multiple hoax calls intended to provoke large police responses.
The practice has been dubbed "swatting" because the calls are intended to get multiple officers, including specialized SWAT teams, sent to a home.
Police said the person reported multiple people had been shot at Kutcher's home on Oct.3 and reported shots fired at Bieber's home a week later. The celebrities were not home at the time, and officers determined that no one was injured.
"Swatting"
NY Appeals Court Takes Up Case
Cameron Douglas
The Douglas name - first with patriarch Kirk and later with son Michael - has always meant gold for Hollywood. But drama for the third generation of the Douglas family has occurred mostly off-screen, where Cameron Douglas has battled drug addiction and legal troubles.
In papers submitted for appeals court arguments Wednesday, prosecutors and a lawyer for Cameron Douglas have retold in greater detail than before how a man who seemed to have so many advantages in life could land in prison for a decade on a drug conviction.
The dispute is over Manhattan Judge Richard M. Berman's decision to double Douglas' five-year prison term after he committed several new drug infractions, including convincing a lawyer-turned-love interest to sneak drugs into prison for him in her bra on three or four occasions.
Douglas, 34, was originally accused of distributing and conspiring to distribute more than 4.5 kilograms of methamphetamine and 20 kilograms of cocaine from August 2006 until his July 28, 2009, arrest at a Manhattan hotel. At the time, he was so visibly high on heroin that he was taken first to a hospital before he was brought to court, and it was later learned he had been shooting heroin five to six times a day for five years, Shechtman noted.
He was released from custody on the condition that he remain under "house arrest" with a private security guard at his mother's apartment, Shechtman said. Within days, he persuaded his girlfriend, Kelly Sott, to smuggle heroin to him, hidden in an electric toothbrush. Once discovered, his bail was revoked and he was incarcerated. Sott pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in a plea deal and was sentenced to the seven months she had already served.
Cameron Douglas
Paramount Alters Marketing Campaign
"Jack Reacher"
Paramount has altered the marketing for its upcoming Tom Cruise film "Jack Reacher" to minimize the gunfire and violence, an individual with knowledge of the studio's plans told TheWrap.
While the studio declines to give specifics, its move was made because of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Paramount postponed last week's Pittsburgh premiere of the film, which opens in theaters on Friday.
"Jack Reacher" stars Cruise as a drifter and former military cop tracking down a sniper guilty of killing five. He becomes convinced the sniper is innocent and works to prove it.
It has made no changes to the film and plans to release it as scheduled.
"Jack Reacher"
Throat Was Slit
King Ramses III
The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III, whose death has puzzled historians for centuries, had his throat slit in a succession plot concocted by his wife and son, a new analysis suggests.
New CT scans have revealed a deep and wide cut that was hidden by the bandages covering the throat of the mummified king, which could not be removed in the interests of preservation, researchers said on Tuesday.
During the study at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo researchers also discovered a small amulet that was inserted into the king's wound - which Zink said was probably placed there by embalmers hoping it would heal the cut in the afterlife.
Ramses III, often referred to as the last great pharaoh, reigned over Egypt from roughly 1186 to 1155 BC. The exact cause of his death has been fiercely debated by historians.
Papyrus documents at the Egyptian Museum in Turin describe a conspiracy by Tiye, one of his wives, to kill the pharaoh so that her son Pentawere could succeed to the throne. They suggest the conspiracy failed and all the people involved were punished.
King Ramses III
Police Make Arrests
Maple Syrup
There have been arrests in the case of a massive maple syrup heist.
Three people were detained today in connection with the theft of a large quantity of the national condiment from a warehouse in Quebec.
Officers from the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement assisted the Quebec provincial police in the investigation - which featured interviews with 300 people in the maple syrup industry in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and the northern U.S.
Police never disclosed the exact amount of maple syrup reported stolen in August. But it's known the loot came from a warehouse containing Quebec's maple syrup reserves, which was supposed to hold 4.5 million kilos valued at $30 million.
The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check at the warehouse belonging to the Quebec Federation of Maple Syrup Producers in St-Louis-de-Blandford, Que.
Maple Syrup
Thought Extinct
Pygmy Right Whale
The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.
The findings, published today (Dec. 18) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.
"The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil," said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "It's the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around."
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 21 feet (6.5 meters) long, lives out in the open ocean. The elusive marine mammals inhabit the Southern Hemisphere and have only been spotted at sea a few dozen times. As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
Pygmy Right Whale
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 10-16. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: San Francisco at New England, NBC, 23.23 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 19.63 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 17.65 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.74 million.
5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.12 million.
6. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.62 million.
7. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.08 million.
8. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.34 million.
9. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 12.33 million.
10. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.01 million.
11. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.52 million.
12. "Survivor: Philippines" (Sunday), CBS, 11.46 million.
13. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.04 million.
14. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.94 million.
15. "2 Broke Girls" (Monday, 9:30 p.m.), CBS, 10.78 million.
16. "Football Night in America," NBC, 10.47 million.
17. "Elementary," CBS, 10.46 million.
18. "Survivor: Philippines," CBS, 10.37 million.
19. "Vegas," CBS, 10.33 million.
20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 9.84 million.
Ratings
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