M Is FOR MASHUP - Jan , 2009
Whoa Yeah, It's The Who Boys!
By DJ Useo
Riding the peak of the bootleg scene is the magical crew the Who
Boys. With a past trail stretching out behind them of mashup
singles, albums, & the beloved 'SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE WHO BOYS'
podcast, the multiple members of the team continue to stretch their
musical muscles with a new album release guaranteed to satisfy. 'NOW
THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE WHO BOYS!!!' is exactly that..'what I call
prime Who Boys material'. If you have any past experience with their
creativity you'll know that they routinely craft music that
straddles the gap between bootlegs & original sounds, resulting in a
combined style that heightens both.
'NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE WHO BOYS!!!' grants us a total of 23 tracks; certainly a sufficient total to stun a quantity of oxen. The album
features so many fantastic, memorable tracks you'll plotz! I am of
the opinion that the specific track 'MAGPIE' is the best bootleg of
the past year, with it's evocation of DJ Shadow, the Spencer Davis
Group & many new elements directly from the hands & mouths of the
WHO BOYS themselves. Honestly, I've heard the track more than any
other mashup of the past 12 months.
I won't go into every cut on the record, but I have massive faves
a'plenty on this sucker. 'IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES' (Enduser vs Jona
Lewie), SGT.JAVA (The Beatles vs the Ink Spots), & 'I FEEL ACE' (Donna
Summer vs Motorhead) all benefit mightily from the added sung
vocals of the WHO BOYS & occasionally the bonus backing vocals of
the Crackettes (Mrs. Crackburn & Mrs. Whoboy). I must also single
out the incredible 'TONY CRACKBURN' track (a splendid ditty
regaling the existence of the popular masher named Tony
Crackburn. The 'TC' cut contains one of the most catchy melodic
lines of my recent experience. You'll be dancing to the song as well
as reveling in the delightful lyrics which reveal much concerning
Mr.Crackburn. Another plus is the TONY CRACKBURN ORCHESTRA make
guest-appearances on several tracks. No complaints expected for that turn of events.
Followers of the regularly-released SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE WHO BOYS
podcast will recognize many of the songs from sneak-peeks provided
during the last few months' shows. The singles were already the
'bomb', but when heard in toto, the combined response is
overwhelmingly favourable. From the pounding of 'BEAT CAROLINE'
(Status Quo vs Shaggy) to the stuttering of 'THE REVENGE OF DUB
AUCTIONEER' (Stroszek vs Enduser) to the absurdity of
'AudioCline' (Patsy Cline vs Audioslave), the satisfaction never lets up.
Mashups were already great fun, but when the WHO BOYS graft on
original singing, beats, & much more it results in a new format I
call 'MASHUP/MASHUPS'.
Don't delay in obtaining your copy of 'NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL THE WHO
BOYS!!!', you deserve the pleasure inherent in every moment of the
record. While you're at their site, I advise bookmarking it so you
can achieve WHO BOYS audiogasms regularly. As well as sign up for
the totally-ingratiating 'SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE WHO BOYS' where
the lads play cuts, cut up humorously, & any & everything else
imaginable from a team of creative, productive performer/producers. &
all for the minimal service charge of NAWT!
Get your WHO BOYS releases
here - www.zen8003.zen.co.uk/twic/index.html
Mix Of The Week - Sorry, al. I left the 'mix of the week' on the kitchen table & the goats ate it. No worries, tho', there's fine long mixes a'plenty at www.mixeeba.com including 3 from me, DJ Useo. All unmolested by the teeth of farm animals. Sample away & tell them DJ Useo sent you.
Mashup Tip : Feel free to ask DJ's on MSN or Yahoo chat for direct tips on tweaking your tracks. That's what we're there for.
The Weekly Poll
Break Time
I'm gonna take a break for a week or two to catch up from the holidays and focus on some personal affairs (mainly relocation closer to my immediate family).
I'll be back soon, I assure you!... Meanwhile, don't let the bastards get ya down!
BadToTheBoneBob ( BCEpoll 'at' aol.com )
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Poor Elijah (Peter Berger): Predicting the Past (irascibleprofessor.com)
Given that a share of General Motors is selling for less than a cup of Starbucks coffee, it's likely our new President will be busy putting chickens in pots and Americans in jobs. That's good news for public education. The last thing American schools need is another educator-in-chief with enough time on his hands to foist misguided education policy on the nation.
James Fallows: "Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money" (theatlantic.com)
In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing, the man who oversees $200 billion of China's $2 trillion in dollar holdings, explains why he's betting against the dollar, praises American pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wall Street paychecks. And he has a friendly piece of advice...
The 11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating (nytimes.com)
Sardines: Dr. Bowden calls them "health food in a can." They are high in omega-3's, contain virtually no mercury and are loaded with calcium. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper and manganese as well as a full complement of B vitamins.
Marshall Bowden: "JOHNNY RAMONE: A COOL GUY DOING HIS JOB" (popmatters.com; from 2004)
I awoke this morning to the news that guitarist Johnny Ramone had passed away, ending a five-year battle with prostate cancer. This leaves Tommy Ramone, drummer, as the last remaining living member of the original Ramones lineup. I think that the news is doubly shocking because the other members of the group, vocalist Joey and bassist Dee Dee died in such a sort space of time. Not long after receiving entry to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the group is gone, not just from concert venues and recording projects, but from this life.
Norma Coates: "(Your Name Here) Is a Punk Rocker: A Tribute to Joey Ramone" (popmatters.com; from 2001)
I've listened to a lot of Joey's music again over the last few days and I'm struck by how artful and totally honest it is. It's the work of not-terribly-talented kids who lived and breathed music and then decided to make some. To me, that's the crux of the Ramones, and punk's, DIY spirit.
Roger Ebert: All by ourselves alone
In Venice there is a small bridge leading over a side canal. Halfway up the steps crossing this bridge there is a landing, and a little cafe has found its perch there.
GARY INDIANA: "Factory Workers Warholites Remember: Mary WORONOV" (interviewmagazine.com)
GARY INDIANA: This little book that you did, "Eyewitness to Warhol," is so interesting.
MARY WORONOV: It started as questions about Warhol that I was sick to death of answering. I figured, I'll just write down the answers to these questions, I'll publish it, and that will be the end of it. Then I ended up recounting the screen test and Chelsea Girls.
"An Interview with John WATERS" By GARY INDIANA (interviewmagazine.com)
JOHN WATERS: I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally.
Roger Moore: 'Defiance' director Edward Zwick wants to be the Ken Burns of the multiplex (The Orlando Sentinel)
Things didn't have to work out this way for Edward Zwick. The "thirtysomething" and "My So Called Life" co-creator broke into the movies with "About Last Night" and could have managed a perfectly lucrative career with lighter fare, "relationshippy" movies.
Roger Moore: Marisa Tomei tries to find the naked truth in 'The Wrestler' (The Orlando Sentinel)
There's a phrase that the sportscaster Tony Kornheiser likes to use describing woman of a certain age who retain every bit of their sexual allure - the Susan Sarandons, Helen Mirrens and Tina Turners of this world. "Still getting it done," he says in admiration.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Free Speech (athensnews.com)
"M*A*S*H" featured physicians who operate on wounded soldiers, so yes, the operating scenes did feature blood (but no open wounds). Occasionally, the TV network censors would ask the show not to spend so much time on scenes in the operating room. One censor even pointed out that he had see the movie in the theater, and two women had walked out when an operating scene was shown. Gene Reynolds, producer of the TV sitcom, replied, "Fourteen million of them stayed!"
David Bruce: "Composition Project: Writing an Autobiographical Essay: (Download: FREE)
This free pdf download describes a composition assignment that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University. Other teachers are welcome to download and read this pdf file and decide whether this assignment will work in their classes. ts.
Charlie replied:
Joe S ("There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
~ Will Rogers) answered:
responded:
Reader Comment
My Neighborhood
Hey Marty!
Pervert Sexual Abuse Lottery Winner Gets Another Prize
Happened two blocks from my place.
Oh, Sorry about the cold weather we sent down to the lower 48!
Vic in AK
Thanks, Vic!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny with summertime temperatures.
Obama's Choice Praised
FCC
Consumer and public interest groups heaped praise on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, and they predicted smooth confirmation by the Senate.
Obama has selected Julius Genachowski, a technology executive and former classmate from Harvard Law School, to lead the FCC, a Democratic source said late on Monday.
Genachowski was chief counsel for Reed Hundt, an FCC chairman under former President Bill Clinton. He also held various positions at Internet search and media company IAC/InterActiveCorp and several firms investing in technology, including Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital.
Among the FCC's mandates are regulation of telephone and cable companies, oversight of concentration of ownership of radio and television outlets, and auctioning public airwaves.
FCC
Donates Recordings
Ruben Blades
Salsa superstar and actor Ruben Blades has agreed to give his personal papers as well as rare recordings of rehearsals and concerts to Harvard University.
The university's Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library will receive a complete collection of all the 60-year-old musician's LPs, CDs and liner notes. The archive will eventually grow to include material devoted to his political career, with posters from his failed run for the Panamanian presidency in 1994.
The seven-time Grammy winner holds a masters degree in international law from Harvard. He recently announced he was leaving his post as Panama's tourism minister to return to recording music.
Ruben Blades
TS Eliot Prize
Jen Hadfield
Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield has won the T.S. Eliot prize and joins the likes of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney as winner of the prestigious poetry award.
The relative newcomer, who was seen as a surprise winner, collected the prize and 15,000 pounds ($22,000) for her second collection of poems, "Nigh-No-Place."
English-born Hadfield wrote "Nigh-No-Place" in Shetland, off the north coast of Scotland, and in Canada.
The T.S. Eliot award was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the 40th birthday of the Poetry Book Society, which was founded by Eliot, who wrote "The Waste Land" and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
Jen Hadfield
U.S. Shows
Leonard Cohen
Veteran folk singer Leonard Cohen, forced back on the road after his business manager lost his retirement savings, will play his first U.S. concert in more than 15 years next month, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
The 74-year-old Canadian icon will perform at the Beacon Theater in New York City on February 19. Tickets for the show at the 2,800-seat venue will go on sale on Friday.
Cohen has been on tour since May, playing shows across Canada and Europe. He is about to begin a trek through New Zealand and Australia. After his previous tour in the early 1990s, he retreated to a mountain near Los Angeles to become a Buddhist monk.
He resurfaced in 2005, claiming that his former manager and lover Kelley Lynch misappropriated more than $5 million, reducing his retirement account to $150,000. A Los Angeles court awarded him a $9 million civil judgment, but he has reportedly not been able to collect from Lynch.
Leonard Cohen
Jimmy Stewart Museum Honors
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara will be honored with the 2009 Harvey Award by the museum dedicated to Jimmy Stewart.
The 78-year-old actor will receive the award from the James M. Stewart Museum Foundation on April 25. The museum is in Stewart's hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania, about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Gazzara co-starred with Stewart in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder." He also starred in the '60s TV series "Run for Your Life."
Ben Gazzara
Teams Up With Google Earth
Prado
Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works - even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye.
The initiative, announced Tuesday, is the first of its kind involving an art museum. It involves 14 of the Prado's choicest paintings, including Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas," Francisco de Goya's "Third of May" and Peter Paul Rubens' "The Three Graces."
Google Spain director Javier Rodriguez Zapatero said the images now available on the Internet were 1,400 times clearer than what would be rendered with a 10-megapixel camera.
The images can be seen by going to Google, downloading the Google Earth software, then typing in Prado Museum in the search engine. Once the museum zooms into focus, click on the square with the name of the museum.
Prado
Baby Named
Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck's have named their newborn daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck.
Affleck's spokesman, Shawn Sachs, confirmed the moniker on Tuesday. Garner gave birth to her second daughter last week.
Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck
Not US Bound
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski has no plans ever to return to the United States, according to a new legal filing in his campaign to have a long-ago rape case dismissed.
His lawyer says in the document filed Tuesday in Los Angeles that Polanski's court battle has a different motivation.
He says the fugitive director wants to provide a legacy for the justice system by showing that judicial misconduct cannot go unpunished.
The legal brief also argues that Polanski does not need to be present for the court to rule on his motion to dismiss a three-decade-old rape charge.
Roman Polanski
Recovered In Italy
Stolen Masterpieces
Italian police have recovered 10 masterpieces, including a painting attributed to an artist who worked on the Sistine Chapel, that were stolen in 2004 from an ancient religious complex in Rome, officials said Tuesday.
Officers located the paintings in December. The works were wrapped in newspapers and hidden in the trailer of a suspected art smuggler, police said.
Investigators believe the man was about to take the works abroad to sell them, Carabinieri paramilitary police art squad chief Gen. Giovanni Nistri said. The suspect is under investigation for receiving stolen goods, but is not believed to be behind the theft.
The recovered paintings are in good condition, considering they were already awaiting restoration when they were stolen from the halls of Santo Spirito in Sassia, a religious complex near the Vatican used as medieval hostel and hospital.
Stolen Masterpieces
Wrapping After 4 Seasons
`Prison Break'
It's inescapable: Fox TV is bringing "Prison Break" to an end after four seasons.
The network said Tuesday that the drama starring Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell will begin airing its final episodes this spring. The series took a break after its December season debut and will conclude with about a half-dozen episodes starting April 17.
Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly told a meeting of the Television Critics Association that the decision allows the series to end on a high creative note.
`Prison Break'
Removing Cats Backfires
Macquarie Island
It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.
But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers said Tuesday.
Removing the cats from Macquarie "caused environmental devastation" that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars ($16.2 million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology.
The unintended consequences of the cat-removal project show the dangers of meddling with an ecosystem - even with the best of intentions - without thinking long and hard, the study said.
Macquarie Island
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Jan. 5-11. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) College Football: Oklahoma vs. Florida, Fox, 26.77 million viewers.
2. (X) NFL Football: Arizona vs. Carolina, Fox, 23.78 million viewers.
3. (X) "AFC Division Playoff Post-Game" (Sunday), CBS, 21.35 million viewers.
4. (6) "The Mentalist," CBS, 19.62 million viewers.
5. (3) "NCIS," CBS, 19.1 million viewers.
6. (X) College Football: Texas vs. Ohio State, Fox, 17.06 million viewers.
7. (8) "60 Minutes," CBS, 15.03 million viewers.
8. (X) "Golden Globe Awards," NBC, 14.86 million viewers.
9. (10) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 13.87 million viewers.
10. (7) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 13.79 million viewers.
11. (16) "Without a Trace," CBS, 13.13 million viewers.
12. (15) "24," Fox, 12.61 million viewers.
13. (X) "Barbara Walters Special," ABC, 12.55 million viewers.
14. (18) "Cold Case," CBS, 12.3 million viewers.
15. (16) "Biggest Loser 7," NBC, 11.92 million viewers.
16. (11) "Two And a Half Men," CBS, 11.56 million viewers.
17. (2) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11 million viewers.
18. (31) "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 10.82 million viewers.
19. (25) "Ghost Whisperer," CBS, 10.64 million viewers.
20. (13) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 10.4 million viewers.
Ratings
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