M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - November 21st, 2012 (The Year of the Mashup Album)
A Feast Of New Mashups
By DJ Useo
It's very easy this time of year to gorge yourself on too many mashups. Nowadays there's such an extensive banquet, you can fill up on new mixes practically as long as you can stand to refill your mp3 player. Normally, I urge moderation, but in the spirit of gluttony, I'm giving you ten new mashups by ten fantastic deejays.
01 - DRA'man- 'Somethings Wrong In The Air' (Phil Collins vs Pretty Lights)
( official.fm/tracks/MTOc )
( soundcloud.com/draman/somethings-wrong-in-the-air )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2kS5Sqr_o&feature=youtube_gdata )
02 - DJ Morgoth-'We Made it Still Swinging' (Busta Rhymes vs Papa Roach)
( www.djmorgoth.blogspot.com/2012/11/dj-morgoth-we-made-it-still-swingin.html )
( soundcloud.com/darkmorgoth/dj-morgoth-we-made-it-still-swingin )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMenkNG3D3g&feature=player_embedded )
03 - G4Gorilla-'Heaven's Exotic That Way' (The Cure vs Backstreet Boys)
( www.g4gorilla.blogspot.com/2012/11/heavens-exotic-that-way.html )
04 - Luke DB- 'Vivaldi & Dada' (Marco Fratty & Juan Serrano vs Dada Life)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWihDNKL2M )
( official.fm/tracks/6Vax )
05 - Lizzart-'25 Miles All Right' (Barry Manilow vs Edwin Starr)
( soundcloud.com/lizzart/25milesallright-barrymanilow )
06 - Luca Rubino-'Don't Wake Platinum Blonde' (No Doubt vs Chris Brown)
( soundcloud.com/idjrub/no-doubt-vs-chris-brown-dont )
07 - Mashy & Scratchy- 'Tick Boom Style' (Psy vs The Hives)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3NIVuPta94 )
( official.fm/tracks/5Bei )
08 - Colatron-'Nightsoul' (Kavinsky vs UNKLE vs Taste Tester)
( soundcloud.com/colatron22/nightsoul )
09 - MichMash-'Close To Fall' (Queen vs Donny Hathaway)
( official.fm/tracks/wABg )
10 - Fissunix-'Sing Perfect' (Pink vs My Chemical Romance)
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgWH9t18FOA&feature=g-upl )
( www.themashupradio.com/2012/10/01/mash-of-the-titans-compiled-by-panos-t/ )
I'm sure your ears are stuffed to the gills now.
Allow me to be giving you thanks for reading & listening.
Podcast Of The Week
I took a ton of the most recent excellent mashups that my SOUNDCLOUD contacts had posted & hosted them into a fantastic new hour and twenty minutes show called 'DJ USEO NOVEMBER MASHUP PODCAST 2012' . So far the response has been over the top. Grab a copy for your personal enjoyment here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/11/dj-useo-november-mashup-podcast-2012.html )
Mashup Tip
You can tell when your mashup is done because the little plastic doohickey pops up.
Latest Useo Thing
I cut & looped a favorite 80's song by the Plastics called 'Good'. Adding vocals from Queen & Groucho Marx resulted in a wildly quirky mix I titled 'Calling All Good Girls' (Queen vs The Plastics vs Groucho Marx). Listen or download here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/11/queen-vs-plastics-vs-groucho.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
At least 14 mashup dj's will make new tracks for Thanksgiving about 'TURDUCKY'.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPedoSSE_Yw )
Recommended Reading
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Paul Krugman: Paranoia Strikes Derp (NY Times)
… in certain circles, the big thing has been the right-wing belief that operation Jade Helm 15, a military training exercise in Texas, is a cover for Obama to seize control of the state and force its citizens to accept universal health care at gunpoint. No, really - and this is being taken seriously both by Ted Cruz and by the governor, who has ordered the National Guard to keep a watch on the feds and their possibly nefarious activities.
David Weigel: Ted Cruz Says He Has Asked the Pentagon for Answers on Jade Helm 15 (NY Times)
The senator has heard the conspiracy theories about a military exercise.
Neil Irwin: How Some Men Fake an 80-Hour Workweek, and Why It Matters (NY Times)
Imagine an elite professional services firm with a high-performing, workaholic culture. Everyone is expected to turn on a dime to serve a client, travel at a moment's notice, and be available pretty much every evening and weekend. … Except for one dirty little secret: Some of the people ostensibly turning in those 80- or 90-hour workweeks, particularly men, may just be faking it.
Chris Fox: 5 Horrific Old-Time Realities Your History Book Left Out (Cracked)
#5. Pooping Was A Never-Ending Horror Show
Robert Evans, Kier Harris, Vijay Welch-Young: "Major Surgery With No Painkillers: 5 Things I Learned" (Cracked)
If you've ever watched a hospital drama, a graphic surgery documentary, or the movie Starship Troopers, you've probably wondered what it would feel like to have your torso unzipped like a suitcase. The intensity of having your guts and bones exposed to the air is so extreme that we just sort of assume that anyone who isn't unconscious and on painkillers for the duration of the experience would just die instantly. Well, that's actually not true.
Michele Hanson: Here's to a right royal hypocrisy (Guardian)
Our royal family brings pleasure to millions, which appalls the snobby minority. But who would say no to a quick toast to cheer the arrival of the baby princess?
Terry Teachout: Love Songs, RIP (Commentary)
Most pop songs are about love. So are most classical art songs. So are most folk songs. What is more, most of us take all this for granted, though a moment's consideration suggests that we ought instead to be surprised by it. Since the range of possibilities for human action extends far beyond the compass of love, sex, and marriage, why should the representation of these three activities have preoccupied songwriters of all kinds?
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from Marc Perkel
BartCop
Hello Bartcop fans,
As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by
him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years
left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are
scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other
things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and
provide email lists and groups for those who might put something
together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from
this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to
active@bartcop.com.
Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is
overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received.
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Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Mostly overcast and cool.
Best Overnight Score Since 2012
Letterman
Fox's "Gotham" wrapped its first season with improved ratings on Monday, a night that saw NBC remain on top despite a season low from "The Voice" while CBS got a boost from its David Letterman special. And in latenight, a visit from President Obama lifted Letterman's "Late Show" to its top overnight score since 2012 .
In Nielsen's metered-market overnights, "The Late Show with David Letterman" did a 3.5 household rating/9 share - up nearly 50% from last Monday's 2.4 household rating - to finish ahead of NBC's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (2.5/6) and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (2.2/6). This was the top overnight for "Late Show" since September 2012. "Tonight Show" still led comfortably in adults 18-49, averaging a 1.1 rating to a 0.7 for both "Late Show" and "Kimmel," according to Nielsen's 25 markets with Local People Meters.
Looking at primetime, according to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen, "Gotham" averaged a 1.7 rating/6 share in adults 18-49 and 4.9 million viewers overall - up 13% (0.2) from last week for the show's best score since it did a 2.0 on the final Monday before the start of Daylight Saving Time in early March. It ranked third for its hour in 18-49 and first in all key male demos. Though the Batman prequel cooled since its hot start last fall, it will finish the season as the net's second biggest new series behind only "Empire" and figures to again anchor Fox's Monday lineup next season.
Letterman
'Family Friend'
Willie Nelson
Days after a brief jail stint in the Bahamas for marijuana possession, Willie Nelson was invited to the White House by Jimmy Carter who thanked the country superstar for his campaign support.
Following a dinner in which the president spoke of his days as a peanut farmer and the singer talked of raising pigs, Nelson says that a "White House insider" invited him to the roof to look at Washington at night -- and brought out a joint.
"Getting stoned on the roof of the White House, you can't help but turn inward," Nelson recalls of the 1977 episode in his memoir, "It's A Long Story," which was published Tuesday.
"Certain philosophical questions come to mind, like... how the fuck did I get here?"
But in large part, Nelson's book is about marijuana, for which the singer has long expressed -- in a relaxed, stoner way -- a passion.
Willie Nelson
Fans Push To Preserve Childhood Home
Jim Morrison
Fans of Jim Morrison, the late singer for The Doors, are in a push to preserve his childhood home in New Mexico.
A group of fans want his northeast Albuquerque home designated a historical site and placed in a list of tourist attractions in the city, KOAT-TV reports.
The 1960s singer of hits such as "Light My Fire" and "Riders on the Storm" lived in Albuquerque from age 12 to 14 while his father, George S. Morrison, worked at Kirtland Air Force Base.
The elder Morrison commanded U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin during the clash that helped escalate the Vietnam War.
Jim Morrison
Painting Sells For $66 Million
Vincent van Gogh
A painting Vincent van Gogh created while briefly working side by side with his friend Paul Gauguin in the south of France brought in $66.3 million at auction Tuesday.
"The Allee of Alyscamps" was offered at Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale. The autumnal scene was painted in 1888 during a two-month period when van Gogh and Gauguin worked together in Arles, France.
The painting, which had a presale estimate of more than $40 million, was sold to an Asian private collector, Sotheby's said. The auction record for a van Gogh, who died in 1890, is $82.5 million.
The sale also featured six paintings spanning four decades of Claude Monet's career. The highlight was "Water Lilies," a 1905 version of his beloved pond and gardens at his home in Giverny, France. It fetched $54 million, topping its high presale estimate of $45 million.
"Woman With a Chignon in an Armchair," a portrait of Pablo Picasso's lover Francoise Gilot, sold for $29.9 million, almost doubling its high presale estimate of $18 million. It depicts her in an embroidered jacket Picasso bought for her in Poland while she was pregnant with their child.
Vincent van Gogh
WTF - Pay Cut For Teachers
Chicago
Three years after a public school strike, Chicago teacher contract talks are off to a rocky start, with the debt-burdened district demanding a 7 percent pay cut, union officials said on Tuesday.
The Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement it was "highly insulted" by the district's demands, which include increases in health insurance premiums. The current contract expires on June 30.
The nation's third-largest school district, which serves 400,000 students, faces a prospective $1.1 billion deficit. Getting to a new contract, without another strike, will be the first major test of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's second term.
The process has been complicated by legal problems. Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett, appointed by Emanuel, took a leave of absence in April pending the outcome of a federal probe into a contract awarded to a company that had employed her.
Chicago
Right-Wing Cartoon Event
Texass
Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam crusader behind a cartoon contest of the Prophet Mohammed that was attacked by two gunmen in Texas, says her controversial show was meant to demonstrate freedom of expression.
The 56-year-old New Yorker has told media that her event, held in the Dallas suburb of Garland, was put on with the goal of asserting free speech.
Born to a Jewish family and raised on Long Island near New York, Geller is the president of two anti-Muslim groups: the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA).
It was the former organization that put on the cartoon contest, which came under attack Sunday by two men with assault rifles. They were shot and killed by a Garland, Texas policeman providing security for the event.
Texass
Drug Lord In US Court
Sentenced In Secret
A Guatemalan drug trafficker known as "the Queen of the South" was sentenced in a US federal court on Tuesday but the judge put her case and its outcome under seal for five years, her lawyer said.
Marllory Chacon Rossell, 42, entered the court smiling, her hands cuffed and wearing a beige prison jumpsuit, before US District Judge Jose Martinez closed the sentencing hearing to the public.
Prosecutors had agreed in December to recommend that Chacon serve in the low range of a 10 years-to-life prison sentence in return for her plea of guilty to conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
Chacon's lawyer, Bonnie Klapper, told reporters that the judge had agreed to keep the case under seal for a five year period, because of its sensitivity.
Sentenced In Secret
Every Sperm Is Sacred
Paraguay
Paraguay's decision to deny a pregnant 10-year-old girl an abortion after she was allegedly raped by her stepfather has sparked a national debate over the country's strict abortion law.
Paraguay's health minister recently refused a request from the girl's mother to terminate the pregnancy, but rights groups say the decision could put the girl's health at risk and is "tantamount to torture".
In Paraguay, abortion is only allowed when the mother's life is in danger. In all other cases the procedure is a crime.
The girl's mother has been imprisoned, charged with breaching her duty of care.
The girl's mother reported last year that her husband was sexually abusing her daughter but the authorities took no action, according to local media reports.
Paraguay
SCOTUS Lets Stand Ban
'Gay Conversion Therapies'
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's ban on therapy intended to change the sexual orientation of gay youths under the age of 18.
The justices declined to hear the case, King v. Christie, without comment.
In so doing, they left in place a New Jersey appeals court's decision to uphold a ban on so-called "gay conversion therapies."
The ban was initially was signed into law by New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and challenged by therapists and Christian groups that championed the counseling.
'Gay Conversion Therapies'
Astronomers Find Baby Blue Galaxy
EGS-zs8-1
Astronomers have discovered a baby blue galaxy that is farther away in distance and time than any galaxy ever seen. It's among the universe's first generation of galaxies, from 13.1 billion years ago.
Yale and University of California Santa Cruz scientists used three different telescopes to spot and then calculate the age of the blurry infant galaxy. By measuring how the light has shifted, they determined the galaxy, called EGS-zs8-1, is from about 670 million years after the Big Bang.
Because when astronomers look farther away from Earth, they are looking back further in time, this is both the most distant galaxy and the furthest back in time. It's 13.1 billion light-years away, in the constellation Bootes. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.
This beats the old record by about 30 million years, which isn't much, but was difficult to achieve, said astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California Santa Cruz, who co-authored the paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters announcing the discovery.
EGS-zs8-1
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for April 27-May 3. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS,"CBS, 14.9 million.
2. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 14.6 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 13.9 million.
4. "Dancing with the Stars," ABC, 13.2 million.
5. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.3 million.
6. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 10.5 million.
7. "Dancing With the Stars: 10th Anniversary Show," ABC, 10.1 million.
8. "Madam Secretary," CBS, 9.7 million.
9. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.5 million.
10. "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 9.3 million.
11. "Survivor," CBS, 9.3 million.
12. "The Odd Couple," CBS, 9.2 million.
13. "Mom," CBS, 8.8 million.
14. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 8.74 million.
15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 8.72 million.
16. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.68 million.
17. "Hawaii Five-O," CBS, 8.60 million.
18. "Person of Interest," CBS, 8.5 million.
19. "The Good Wife," CBS, 8.4 million.
20. "Castle," ABC, 8.3 million.
Ratings
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