M Is FOR MASHUP - Rerun - Feb 13th, 2008
Intense Psychedelia 4 U
By DJ Useo
This week I've got a full album of trippy mashups direct from my software to you in the form of my new INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA album. It's unlike any collection of bootlegs I've ever heard, & that was my intention. From the soaring guitars of "A Day In The Sunshine" (The Beatles vs The Posies) to the goa synth of "Puttin' On The Panic Kontrol" (Ella Fitzgerald vs Psykosonic), this assortment will turn your head around & dilate your pupils.LOL!
Perhaps a bit too daring, but I couldn't resist going there, anyway. Psychedelic music started waaay before I was aware, yet, when I discovered it I knew I'd found kindred spirits. If memory serves, the first music of this kind I heard was The Amboy Dukes '"Journey To The Center Of The Mind". The distorted soundscape of the track, with it's driving beat, & evocative lyrics caught my imagination, compelling me to investigate further.
I soon was smack dab in an otherwordly realm of sounds & sensations similar to the land of TOP 40, but loosed from the shackles of conventionality. To my joy, I soon found that there was a fantastic revival of psychedelia during the 80's. Bands like the Vipers, & the Hoodoo Gurus were defying New Wave & Punk attitudes by bringing back the psychedelic stance, this time with better production. I couldn't resist mixing up some of my faves & giving them an update into the bootleg Era.
INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA contains bits, & bobs from such varied acts as Flowerhead, Plasticland, & Pink Floyd, but all given twists with the addition of non-psychedelic artists like YELLo, Mahjong Connection, Tag Team & Van Halen. My secret to success on this release was to mix up many more tracks than I needed, & pare away the lesser cuts, leaving only the cream of the crop. So, as much as I liked "Lynn-Marie Prophet Song #2" (Queen vs Ultra Vivid Scene), or "Natural High In America" (Trees vs Eberhard Schoener), they had to make way for their betters. "The Bass (Blame It On The Fishline)" (Coco vs Yes vs Norman Cook f/MC Wildski) & "Eden Butterfly" (Peter Gabriel vs Iron Butterfly) are songs that give me a kick like no horse can!
It's too early in the release stage for me to have recieved much feedback. One pal I let have an early preview was too incoherent afterward to tell me much. I gave him some orange juice, & he's sleeping still. I found the grin on his snoozing face an encouraging sign. If you think this kind of record might appeal to you, dim the lights, spark up some incense, & head over to
groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2008/02/intense-psychedelia-full-mashup-album_11.html for a wild aural ride you'll cherish. The password for the file with the entire album is FLOWER. More mirror links will be added as necessary. Tell your pals!
Mix Of The Week-Alpha1999, a mainstay mixer of the Multiply community & elsewhere does a startler of a mix with his "Made In The 80's (80 80's hits in 28 minutes)". It's a splendid journey through a large assortment of goodies from that long-gone decade, the Eighties. From Culture Club to Falco to Hall & Oates, it touches on many, many pop faves that ruled the charts once. You will savor this one. Grab yours at
alpha1999-music.blogspot.com/2008/01/made-in-80s-80-80s-hits-in-28-minutes.html
Mashup Tip: Leave your pellas under your pillow a few nights to bring out the best arrangement.
DJ Useo's Podcast
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS: John Hope Franklin's Moral and Intellectual Poise (chronicle.com)
In "A Life of Learning," an address to the American Council of Learned Societies 20 years ago, John Hope Franklin recalled the 100th-birthday wisdom of the ragtime composer Eubie Blake, who said that had he known he would live so long, "I'd have taken better care of myself." John Hope Franklin not only took good care of himself until his death last month at 94, but he also took great care of the memory and self-concept of the American people.
Scott Burns: "Lock n' Load: We're on Foreclosure Safari!" (assetbuilder.com)
LAS VEGAS. If you'd like to learn about adapting to change, spend an afternoon with Jennifer Martin, Realtor. You might also buy a condo or house while you're at it. Priced to insane levels at the top of the bubble, lots of Las Vegas real estate is now available, cheap. If Las Vegas is where you'd like to be, someone else's disaster may be your bargain.
Tanya Gold: I've had it with posh hotels. The people who work in them hate their guests. With good reason (guardian.co.uk)
Luxury holidays are not only morally indefensible and psychologically sick, they are boring. It isn't travel. It's narcissism with towels.
"The Believers: A Novel" by Zoe Heller: A review by Cathleen Schine
"What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel" was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. In "The Believers," Heller's new novel, instead of hurtling through Barbara's impeccably lonesome tunnel vision, we find ourselves in the midst of a kind of domestic traffic jam that is deliriously crowded with sisters and brothers and mothers and fathers. The Believers is a darkly buoyant book, full of life and irritation and humor and aching disappointment. It is, in other words, a book about a family, and a terrific one.
Jake Meaney : Review of "Killer at Large" (popmatters.com)
We are faced with the rather withering possibility that the current generation of children will be the first to have a lower life expectancy than their parents.
Frank Lovece: Fast chat with 'Rescue Me' star Denis Leary (Newsday)
OK, so some things about producer-comedian-actor Denis Leary are controversial - his misguided crack about autism in his 2008 book, "Why We Suck"; the byline "Dr. Denis Leary" on that book, although he has only an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Emerson College in Boston; and his much-cited swiping of material from comedians Louis CK and the late Bill Hicks.
20 QUESTIONS: Lynn Freed (popmatters.com)
Award-winner writer Lynn Freed's delicious replies to PopMatters' 20 Questions may have you wishing, like us, that she could be your dinner guest. Her new novel, "The Servants' Quarters," publishes this month.
Mike Farley: A Chat with Adam Richman, Host of "Man vs. Food"
There's so many different things that it's kind of like a job that has no routine, no tedium, constant variety, constant gratification and travel. And it pays better than regional theaters.
Alexia Skinitis: "Significant others: James Franco" (timesonline.co.uk)
The actor on friends, family and going back to school
DAVID BRUCE: "WISE UP: FANS" (athensnews.com)
John Lennon had many, many fans, including some in positions of authority. Kim Polson was a long-time fan of Mr. Lennon and the Beatles, and she lived only a block from the Dakota apartment building where Mark David Chapman murdered him on Dec. 8, 1980. Four months before he died, Ms. Polson saw him in a coffee shop, so she stuck around to hear him talk to a companion. Doing this meant that she arrived two hours late for her job. Her boss was understandably irate, so she said, "Ask me why I'm late." He did, she explained that she had been listening to Mr. Lennon talk to a colleague, and her boss was no longer irate.
Hema
Go to the site and do nothing. Wait, then watch.
ATC (A Touch of Class): Notte D'Amore Con Te (youtube.com)
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The 'Ban the Bomb' Edition
Barack Obama yesterday announced a radical drive aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, as the focus of his European visit switched from financial to geopolitical security. "In Prague, I will lay out an agenda to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said yesterday... "The spread of nuclear weapons or the theft of nuclear material could lead to the extermination of any city on the planet," he warned, adding that suspected rogue nuclear states, such as North Korea or Iran, may only be persuaded to abandon their quests if the big nuclear powers set an example...
Barack Obama's New Offensive Against Nuclear Weapons | CommonDreams.org
How successful do you think Obama will be in this endeavor?
A. Total nuclear disarmament and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (Hoo Ha!)...
B. Significant arms reduction by the current nuclear powers, rigorous enforcement of the non-proliferation treaty re: Iran and North Korea etal and the Doomsday Clock rolls back a couple of hours (whew!)...
C. Are you kidding? Humanity is gonna, sooner or later, blow itself to smithereens, dagnabbit!
Send your response, and a (short) reason why, to
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Reader Comment
ewww...
Ye Gods, woman, I nearly screamed when I saw the pic at the bottom of the page (yester)day (normally reserved for cute animals deserving of attention).
W is as physically graceless as he is mentally deranged, and is deserving of nothing more than a war crimes subpoena.
Adam
Thanks, Adam!
Some days, it's a real bitch finding pictures.
And some days, I'm a real bitch.
Guess yesterday the 2 came together. ; )
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Punxsutawney Phil
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny most of the day.
Shit Canned For Illegal Download
Roger Friedman
Fox News columnist Roger Friedman is out after posting a review of a leaked full-length work print of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." Fox News said Monday that the company's representatives and Friedman "mutually agreed to part ways immediately."
Friedman had been an entertainment writer who has contributed to FoxNews.com for 10 years. He wrote in his Fox 411 column Thursday that downloading the 20th Century Fox superhero prequel was "so much easier than going out in the rain" and that the movie "exceeds expectations at every turn."
The early review of the film, which 20th Century Fox described as a "stolen, incomplete and early version," was later removed from the Web site Friday. Fox News and 20th Century Fox are both units of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The movie, which focuses on the beginnings of Hugh Jackman's clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine, is not scheduled for release until May 1, but the leaked version began appearing online last week. 20th Century Fox promised that the source of the film would be prosecuted and said the FBI and Motion Picture Association of America are investigating the leak.
Roger Friedman
Joins White House Team
Kal Penn
The White House has hired actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and Asian constituents. White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Tuesday that the actor who had a recurring role on Fox's TV show "House" and has starred in several movies would join the staff as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison.
His role will be to connect Obama with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, as well as arts groups.
For the past two seasons, Penn played Dr. Lawrence Kuttner on Fox's medical-mystery drama "House." His character exited the show in a violent fashion on Monday's episode by committing suicide for no apparent reason.
The White House did not reveal what Penn would be paid. Aides with similar titles earned between $41,000 and $91,000 last year.
Kal Penn
Reads Fan Mail
Lenny Kravitz
Rock star Lenny Kravitz has received fan mail from the "bling bling" president himself -- France's Nicolas Sarkozy, dubbed thus for his fondness for fashion and the high life.
Kravitz, in Paris to promote the 20th anniversary of his debut album "Let Love Rule," said Sarkozy had sent him a note which impressed him by singling out specific songs.
He added that he and Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, were long-time acquaintances.
But when pressed on how he knew the ex-model and socialite, Kravitz only smiled and repeated: "I know Carla from back in the day."
Lenny Kravitz
German DJ Breaks World Endurance Record
Dominik Schollmayer
A German DJ broke the world record for the longest continuous radio show Monday when he finished his "morning" programme over a week after beginning it, his station said. Skip related content
By presenting his show for a consecutive 169 hours, 26-year-old Dominik Schollmayer from Hit Radio Antenne in Hanover, central Germany, beat the previous record -- held by an Indian DJ -- by one hour.
The rules stated he was allowed to play two consecutive records of up to six minutes but had to broadcast something after that.
He was allowed a five-minute break ever hour but saved these up to give himself a 15-minute break every three hours.
Dominik Schollmayer
Digitally Remastered
Beatles Catalog
Beatles fans will have a chance to add substantially to their collections when a digitally remastered version of the band's catalog becomes available in September.
Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music announced Tuesday that they will be releasing the new discs worldwide on Sept. 9, the same day as the release of a video game, "The Beatles: Rock Band."
The release continues a recent trend of repackaging and tweaking The Beatles' output, which fans may have thought ended in 1970 with "Let It Be."
Each of the dozen CDs will include the original U.K. album art and new, expanded liner notes, according to an announcement on The Beatles Web site. For a limited time, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album.
Beatles Catalog
'First - Do No Harm'
Red Cross
Health workers violated medical ethics when they helped interrogate terrorism suspects who were tortured at secret CIA prisons overseas, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
The medical workers, thought to be doctors and psychologists, monitored prisoners while they were mistreated at CIA prisons and advised interrogators whether to continue, adjust or halt the abuse, the ICRC said in a report based on interviews with 14 prisoners in 2007.
The report alleges collars were placed around some prisoners' necks and used to slam their heads against the walls, and that they were forced to stand with their arms shackled above them for two or three days and left to urinate or defecate on themselves.
The prisoners told the ICRC they were beaten and kicked, left naked for long periods, subjected to sleep deprivation, loud music, cold temperatures, rape threats and forced shaving. Some said they were denied solid food unless they cooperated with interrogators and one said he was confined in a crouching position in a box too short to stand in.
Red Cross
Sentence Reduced For Iraqi Shoe Thrower
Muntadhar al-Zeidi
Iraq's highest court on Tuesday reduced the prison sentence for an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former resident George W. Bush from three years to one, a court spokesman said.
Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, the spokesman, said the decision was taken because the journalist had no prior criminal history.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi was sentenced to three years in March after pleading not guilty to a charge of assaulting a foreign leader. He described his action as a "natural response to the occupation."
The journalist's act during Bush's last visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, where the former U.S. resident is reviled for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi
Charged With Felony
Redmond O'Neal
The son of actors Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett has been charged with a felony count of bringing drugs to a Los Angeles-area jail facility.
Authorities suspect the 24-year-old was carrying heroin when he was arrested Sunday at a jail in Castaic while giving a ride to a friend. O'Neal remains in custody.
Prosecutors amended their complaint Tuesday morning to note that O'Neal was already on bail for a drug arrest last year in a case involving his father. Prosecutors also raised their bail recommendation to $75,000.
Redmond O'Neal and his father were arrested last year at the actor's Malibu home after deputies said they found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia during a search. Redmond O'Neal was on probation for a previous drug conviction and has pleaded not guilty in that case.
Redmond O'Neal
The Other White Meat
Megamouth Shark
Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday.
The 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) 13-foot (4-meter) megamouth died while struggling in the fishermen's net on March 30 off Burias island in the central Philippines. It was taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was butchered and eaten, said Gregg Yan, spokesman for WWF-Philippines.
The first megamouth was discovered in Hawaii in 1976, prompting scientists to create an entirely new family and genus of sharks. The megamouths are docile filter-feeders with wide, blubbery mouths. Yan said the Burias megamouth's stomach revealed it was feeding on shrimp larvae.
Yan said the fish was tagged "Megamouth 41" - the 41st megamouth recorded in the world - by the Florida Museum of Natural History. It was the eighth reported encountered in Philippine seas.
Megamouth Shark
Despite Bankruptcy An Upbeat Tune
Muzak
About the only quiet places in the headquarters of Muzak Holdings LLC are, believe it or not, the building's elevators.
The omission is intentional. Muzak management wants visitors to know that the company has abandoned those milquetoast renditions of pop songs that got toes involuntarily tapping in elevators everywhere.
But while Muzak Holdings spent years reinventing itself by selling restaurants and retail stores custom "playlists" - of real songs, not elevator-music versions of them - the company sank deep into debt and lost money. Now Muzak is restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
It doesn't appear to be the day the Muzak died. The company plans to emerge from bankruptcy fairly quickly as it restructures its US$436 million debt. Muzak's filing cited assets of $324 million.
Meanwhile, Muzak has been cleared to keep operating its library of more than 2.6 million songs.
Muzak
Tape Evidence
David Martz
A judge says a commercial helicopter pilot videotaped in a sex act while flying over San Diego committed gross negligence and cannot have his license back.
National Transportation Safety Board administrative law Judge William R. Mullins upheld a Federal Aviation Administration order revoking the license of David Martz after a hearing Tuesday.
A passenger was videotaping when Martz let an adult film actress perform a sex act on him during the 2005 flight, and an edited version eventually became public.
The judge watched the unedited tape in chambers and took testimony before his decision.
David Martz
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for March 30-April 5. 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. (2) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.41 million viewers.
2. (1) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 24.34 million viewers.
3. (3) "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 20.48 million viewers.
4. (5) "NCIS," CBS, 17.23 million viewers.
5. (8) "The Mentalist," CBS, 16.96 million viewers.
6. (42) "ER," NBC, 16.38 million viewers.
7. (X) Academy of Country Music Awards, CBS, 14.78 million viewers.
8. (4) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 14.63 million viewers.
9. (11) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.56 million viewers.
10. (X) CBS NCAA Basketball Semifinal: Villanova vs. North Carolina, CBS, 14.45 million viewers.
11. (7) "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 13.51 million viewers.
12. (13) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.46 million viewers.
13. (X) CBS NCAA Basketball Between Games Show, CBS, 12.95 million viewers.
14. (18) "Without a Trace," CBS, 12.53 million viewers.
15. (18) "House," Fox, 12.51 million viewers.
16. (9) "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.27 million viewers.
17. (16) "Survivor: Tocantins," CBS, 11.27 million viewers.
18. (20) "24," Fox, 11.26 million viewers.
19. (27) "Rules of Engagement," CBS, 11.02 million viewers.
20. (X) "ER Retrospective," NBC, 10.63 million viewers.
Ratings
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