M Is FOR MASHUP - April 10th, 2013
Spurious Mashup Facts
By DJ Useo & the Useoettes
Tomorrow I have something to do that is completely occupying my mind. I'm sure you've experienced that yourself at one time or another. It's got me in a state where I am unable to write about mashups. The good news, though, is I'm on chat with some pals and we're all contributing some unconfirmed mashup 'facts' in a last minute bid to amuse you. We're lol'-ing anyway.
01-The first mashup was cowboy yodelling over some Apache drums. The cowboy performing was tied by his feet to 2 galloping horses and was never seen again.
02- Any mix using David Guetta is a mashup because David Guetta actually is a living human mashup to begin with.
03-DJ Leonarpo was famous for his glitch effects, yet he lived in fear people would discover they were all caused by mice eating through his wiring.
04-UK DJ 'Scum On The Thames' is the only mashup producer in the world to have been beheaded yet continued to make new mixes.
05-Popular masher MixMartyr is actually 15 women from Connecticut who switched over from knitting to bootlegging when they got their hands on a large group of Motown acapellas.
06-The dairy industry regularly commissions mashups that portray dairy products in a favorable light. A good example is DJ Nowheresville's 'Milk, Milk, Who's Got The Milk?' (Sesame Street vs Kings Of Leon).
07-Discarded mashups inevitably end up in large landfills in China where they keep up the locals all night long.
08-Prince mashups are very hard to google search for as 'prince' is such a commonly-employed word. Only the 80's band THE THE has a harder time of it on search engines.
09-Self-proclaimed king of mashups Hizz Majesty has knighted 24 other mashup dj's since 2004. Each was chosen for knighthood after they made an especially good Britney Spears mashup.
10-The Mad Mixer Of Biggleswade has taken credit for others mashups more than any other deejay. There he is now! Get HIM!!!!
Thanks plenty to the Useoettes for writing the bulk of these.
Gracias to DJ Spellczecher for proofreading.
þakka þér to you for reading my drivel.
Next week-More new mashup albums.
Mix Of The Week
'DJ Useo - Songs Of The Toons (1:14:31)' Here you are. The long-promised (threatened?) long mix of 'music' culled entirely from animated programming. I 'tampered' with much of it, so don't expect them to be as you know them. Please forgive me. Lol.
You got'ta see the playlist at least.
( www.bmbx.org/2013/04/songs-of-the-toons/ )
Mashup Tip
Create your own music instrumentals by cutting and looping your favorite musical sounds. It really frees you up regarding what you can mix.
Latest Useo Thing
'Get It On Pinball Wizard' (The Who vs T.Rex) is great Who rock vocals over Bolan's bopping glam music.
This would make me a bundle if I could sell them.
( official.fm/tracks/P1dT )
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-who-vs-trex.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Spam for lunch! Yum!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Glenn Greenwald: Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette (Guardian)
The dictate that one 'not speak ill of the dead' is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures.
Froma Harrop: The Moderation of Margaret Thatcher (Creators Syndicate)
In honoring Margaret Thatcher, some of her greatest fans complain, "They don't make conservatives like that any more." But they do. Problem is, the Republican right wing now running the party primaries would chew a Thatcher-type politician into unelectable shards.
George Dvorsky: How Bayes' Rule Can Make You A Better Thinker (io9)
Having a strong opinion about an issue can make it hard to take in new information about it, or to consider other options when they're presented. Thankfully, there's an old rule that can help us avoid this problem - and even help us make good decisions when we're uncertain. Here's how Bayesian Reasoning works, and why it can make you a better thinker.
Frazier Moore: Girl next door Annette Funicello dies at 70 (AP)
She was the first crush for a generation of boys, the perfect playmate for a generation of girls.
Michael Carlson: Joe Weider obituary (Guardian)
Bodybuilding guru who built up a fitness empire and helped Arnold Schwarzenegger break into show business.
Jon Stewart interviews George Carlin (YouTube)
Great video of a young Jon Stewart interviewing George Carlin. Both comedy legends! IMHO.
Stephanie Kaloi: An AT-AT walker designed for a four-year-old
Back story: my four-year-old son had a scheduled surgery on both his legs last Tuesday, and was sent home with a walker and knee immobilizers - neither of which he enjoys. He especially associates the walker with pain, since while in the hospital they asked him to stand and walk with it and it hurt (a lot) post-op.
The Senn Way of Asking Someone to Prom (YouTube)
If this isn't the "Best Yes" ever, what is life.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (Athens News)
While Joseph Harris was in graduate school, he wrote a paper in which he concentrated on rebutting as forcibly as possible the views of a certain scholar. His professor read the paper and then asked him, "Why are you spending so much time discussing the work of someone you seem to think isn't very bright?" Since then, he has tried to resist the temptation to write essays that merely show that someone else is wrong.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Apple iBookstore
David Bruce has approximately 50 Kindle books on Amazon.com.
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, windy and dry.
Arts Funding
Yo-Yo Ma
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers Tuesday to increase funding for the arts in a year of deep federal budget cuts.
The rocker and classical musician played a jam session briefly together for a gathering of legislators and arts advocates from across the country who planned to visit congressional offices. They performed with bagpiper Cristina Pato and dancing star Lil Buck.
Sorum said his mother was a music teacher and that his high school classes in orchestra, jazz and marching band were critical in launching his career in music and in business. More recently he has started a charity to support arts education in Los Angeles.
The group Americans for the Arts is pushing for funding to be restored to $155 million for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last year both agencies received about $146 million and lost about $7 million of that due to Congress' automatic budget cuts.
House Republican budget leaders have called for eliminating the two agencies altogether.
Yo-Yo Ma
Lures Bill Clinton To Twitter
Stephen Colbert
Bill Clinton is now on Twitter, albeit without a very presidential name.
Stephen Colbert lured the former president to the social networking site on "The Colbert Report" on Monday, signing him up with the handle PrezBillyJeff. Clinton dictated his first message to Colbert, who typed: "Just spent an amazing time with Colbert! Is he sane? He is cool!"
Whether Clinton would continue to use the account is uncertain. Colbert's hand is clearly in the account's bio, too. It reads: "Stephen Colbert is my BFF."
By Tuesday morning, the account had amassed nearly 50,000 followers and was climbing fast.
Stephen Colbert
Letter May Fetch $2 Million
Francis Crick
"Jim Watson and I have probably made a most important discovery."
That's the humble start to the seven-page handwritten letter - signed "lots of love, Daddy" - written by British scientist Francis Crick to his 12-year-old son on March 19, 1953, explaining that he and James Watson had unraveled the double-helix structure of DNA that contains the instructions for life.
Those pages and, separately, the Nobel medal Crick was awarded for the discovery almost a decade later, are among the Crick-related mementos up for auction this week in New York. The items are set to fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, much of which will go toward science.
Written in blue ink on pale blue stationary, the note contains diagrams that outline the scientists' theory of how "des-oxy-ribose-nucleic-acid (read it carefully)" replicated, with the double helix and its base-pair rungs splitting to create templates for new strands.
Francis Crick
Letters Donated To NYC Museum
J.D. Salinger
Letters written by J.D. Salinger to a spiritual mentor have been donated to a New York City museum.
The Morgan Library & Museum, based in Manhattan, announced Tuesday that it will receive 28 letters by the author of "The Catcher in the Rye." The letters were written to Swami Vivekananda, founder of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, which donated the correspondence. Salinger, who died in 2010 at age 91, was strongly influenced by Eastern religion and philosophy and even mentioned Swami Vivekananda in the story "Hapworth 16, 1924."
Materials given to the Morgan also include letters the center wrote to Salinger and exchanges between the center and Salinger's widow, Colleen O'Neill. The Morgan will exhibit two of the donated letters April 12-19. The museum already had 24 Salinger letters.
J.D. Salinger
Stars Ask Obama For Change
Drug Policy
Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform.
They're among more than 100 entertainers calling on President Barack Obama to focus on changing drug laws. Rap mogul Russell Simmons helped assemble the coalition of celebrities and civil rights leaders that presented a letter to the president on Tuesday.
The group praises the president's efforts toward drug incarceration reform but insists "the time is right" to move toward replacing jail sentences with intervention and rehabilitation for non-violent offenders. The starry group, which also includes Jennifer Hudson, Nicki Minaj, Susan Sarandon and Will Smith, also asks Obama to form a panel to handle clemency requests and to support a measure that allows judges to waive mandatory minimum sentences.
"It is critical that we change both the way we think about drug laws in this country and how we generate positive solutions that leave a lasting impact on rebuilding our communities," Simmons said, citing Department of Justice data that shows that the United States jails more of its citizens than any other country in the world.
Drug offenders comprise nearly half the federal prison population in the U.S.
Drug Policy
How Networks Keep Boosting Their Adversaries
Fox vs. Aereo
On Monday, Fox executive Chase Carey threatened to turn the network into a pay-TV operation because of the threat posed by Aereo. In the process, he gave his little-known adversary a huge publicity boost.
What's Aereo, people wondered, and why does Fox find it so threatening?
A person familiar with Aereo's position tells TheWrap that Carey's comments "definitely created a lot of positive noise" for the company, giving it a major uptick in media coverage and social media attention. (Among the headlines was" Aereo could bring down broadcast TV," courtesy of Fortune.)
It's too early to tell if the press attention will lead to more Aereo subscribers - which would be the last thing Carey wants.
Networks are in a nasty Catch 22: The more they mention new rivals like Aereo, the more publicity they get. And if that publicity translates to more customers, the rivals will become greater threats than before.
Fox vs. Aereo
Pleads Guilty
Parker Bagley
A former actor on ABC's "Pretty Little Liars" has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor larceny for lifting $7,000 in electronics and jewelry from a friend's Manhattan apartment.
Parker Bagley took the plea on Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
As part of the plea, the 23-year-old agreed to pay half of the $7,000 on Monday. The remainder is due in June.
Bagley quipped outside court: "I'm just glad they didn't find the bodies. That would have been bad."
Parker Bagley
Sets Home-Video Sales Record
History's 'The Bible'
As it turns out people are flocking to the History miniseries "The Bible" in home-video format too.
The miniseries, produced by "Survivor" boss Mark Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey, did big business in its first week of home-video sales, setting a five-year record for DVD sales in the TV category and becoming the top-selling TV miniseries of all time in Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD.
All told, "The Bible" sold 525,000 units in its first week of release, topping digital stores such as iTunes, Amazon, VUDU, Xbox, PlayStation, CinemaNow, and GooglePlay.
"The Bible" drew semi-miraculous numbers with its premiere episode on History in March, racking up 13.1 million total viewers - a little shy of the 14.3 million that the finale of the network's "Hatfields & McCoys" drew last year. Subsequent episodes saw the ratings cool slightly but the finale of "The Bible" on Easter Sunday still pulled in an impressive 11.7 million total viewers.
History's 'The Bible'
Truth Revealed in Ancient Inks
Gospel of Judas
A long-lost gospel that casts Judas as a co-conspirator of Jesus, rather than a betrayer, was ruled most likely authentic in 2006. Now, scientists reveal they couldn't have made the call without a series of far more mundane documents, including Ancient Egyptian marriage licenses and property contracts.
The Gospel of Judas is a fragmented Coptic (Egyptian)-language text that portrays Judas in a far more sympathetic light than did the gospels that made it into the Bible. In this version of the story, Judas turns Jesus over to the authorities for execution upon Jesus' request, as part of a plan to release his spirit from his body. In the accepted biblical version of the tale, Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
As part of a 2006 National Geographic Society (the Society) investigation of the document, microscopist Joseph Barabe of McCrone Associates in Illinois and a team of researchers analyzed the ink on the tattered gospel to find out if it was real or forged. Some of the chemicals in the ink raised red flags - until Barabe and his colleagues found, at the Louvre Museum, a study of Egyptian documents from the third century A.D., the same time period of the Gospal of Judas.
Barabe and his colleagues specialize in thorough investigations of old - or supposedly old - documents and artwork. The chemical composition of inks used can reveal the difference between something authentically ancient and a forgery. In 2009, Barabe helped expose a gospel called the "Archaic Mark," which some claimed was a 14th-century manuscript, as a modern forgery. He's also worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to detect forged paintings.
The Society wanted to find out if the Gospel of Judas, discovered in the 1970s, really dated back to early days of Christianity or whether it was, like Archaic Mark, a fake. Barabe brought together a team of scientists with a variety of specialties, and they ran the Gospel through an intensive analysis of microscopy and spectroscopy.
Gospel of Judas
$1B Cubist Collection
Met Museum
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a billion-dollar Cubist collection it says will "transform" it.
The museum announced Tuesday cosmetics executive and philanthropist Leonard Lauder has pledged his renowned collection of Cubist works.
The collection of 78 works includes pieces from Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger and is considered one of the most pre-eminent Cubism collections in the world. It's valued at more than $1 billion.
The Lauder collection is expected to be presented in an exhibition opening in the fall of 2014.
Met Museum
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 1-7. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 17.24 million.
2. NCAA Final Four: Syracuse vs Michigan, CBS, 17.1 million.
3. Academy of Country Music Awards," CBS, 15.51 million.
4. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.57 million.
5. "NCAA Basketball Bridge Show," CBS, 14.33 million.
6. "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 13.98 million.
7. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 13.93 million.
8. "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 13.91 million.
9. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.71 million.
10. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 13.31 million.
11. "Castle," ABC, 11.79 million.
12. "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 11.76 million.
13. "American Idol" (Thursday), Fox, 11.72 million.
14. "NCIS," CBS, 11.15 million.
15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 10.99 million.
16. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.88 million.
17. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 10.79 million.
18. "Elementary," CBS, 10.48 million.
19. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 10.16 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 9.89 million.
Ratings
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