M Is FOR MASHUP - June 15th, 2011
Britney Gets Mashed
By DJ Useo
The home mashup producer Jarod Ripley recently heard Britney (Spears) song 'Femme Fatale' & that was all it took for him to become motivated to do an entire project of her tracks. It may sound simple, but there just aren't that many people in the world who can take an idea like that & carry it to completion. I myself have seen many a project fail long before it's finished. Some concepts, like an X-rated Christmas mashup album, assuredly deserved to fail, but others you might not expect to be good were! I am not a big Britney booster myself, since I have a strong penchant for hard rock, but I think she's one fine artist anyway. Normally hearing her mashed makes her even better for me. Jarod got that right because this is one splendid collection.
'MASH FATAL' ( www.mashstix.com/mashfatal.php ) contains 2 discs, 34 tracks & 25 mashup producers. From the first listen with Jarod's 'Rolling Till The World Ends' (Britney vs Adele) to the last track 'Against The Floor' (Britney vs Jennifer Lopez f/ Pitbull), this collection sizzles with the solidity of Britney set against the creativity of bootleggers du jour. In addition to the tunes, it must also be said that masher Fissunix's artwork for the project is finestkind.(Slightly disturbing, too. Hehe.) Jarod also managed to get the release some good mentions on European radio, something I don't recall happening to a mashup comp before. The entire collection is available at the MASHSTIX mashup forum in one large file,or as individual tracks. I daresay even peeps who ain't into Britney will find some great tracks among these many gems.
Please consult the entire playlist & see how much more than I've mentioned is involved. More mashup comps soon!
Mix Of The Week
For a HU*GE change of pace,allow me to present my own new mix, Noveltyland Ahoy!'. This is over an hour set that goes through some techno simpsons, some glitched 'n' sampled Andy Griffith Show, & more oddball tunes than you can shake a stick at! Man was I surprised no one complained about the Odd Couple dueting on 'You're So Vain' or Jim Nabors yowling 'The Battle Hymn Of The Republic'. I had lots of fun here with the tracks, so be prepared for surprises. Listen or download
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/06/noveltyland-ahoy-long-mix.html )
(BTW-I did receive 3 entries from readers who took me up on last weeks' offer to post your own mix, but, sadly all three were not listenable. Thanks to Dee, Mark,& Saba, anyway)
Mashup Tip : Mashup Tip : Virtual DJ, the incredible mixing program now has a FREE version for home use! Check it out here
( www.virtualdj.com/ )
Latest Useo Thing
I took a track I made ages ago with 80's band the Brains vs Depeche Mode & added lots more Mode.
Here it is
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/06/depeche-mode-vs-brains-2011-version.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
The banks will use all the bailout money they stole to buy one giant mashup encrusted with diamonds, rubies & the planets Venus & Jupiter.
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David Bruce: Wise Up! Fathers (Athens News)
When Casey Stengel was a young man, he smashed an inside-the-park home run, but his shoelace came untied as he ran around the bases. The loose shoe made him run awkwardly, and he ended up staggering across home base. In the stands sat his fiancée, Edna Lawson, and her father. Proud of the home run, Ms. Lawson asked her father, "What do you think of my hero now, Pa?" Unimpressed with Casey's base running, her father replied, "I just hope he lives till the wedding."
Henry Chu: British fear 'American-style' healthcare system (Los Angeles Times)
Ask a Briton to describe 'American-style' healthcare, and you'll hear a catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich. For a people accustomed to free healthcare for all, regardless of income, the fact that millions of their cousins across the Atlantic have no insurance and can't afford decent treatment is a farce as well as a tragedy.
Paul Krugman's Blog: Ideologies That Fail Upwards (New York Times)
CBPP reminds us that the Bush tax cuts totally failed to deliver, even before the financial collapse: …
Paul Krugman's Blog: It's the Health Care Costs, Stupid (New York Times)
If Medicare costs had risen as fast as private insurance premiums, it would cost around 40 percent more than it does. If private insurers had done as well as Medicare at controlling costs, insurance would be a lot cheaper. It's a mystery why anyone claims that shifting more people into private insurance is a good idea. Actually, no, it isn't a mystery; it's an outrage.
Connie Schultz: The Thievery of Alzheimer's (Creators Syndicate)
It's been 54 years, but Joan still remembers the first time Ralph kissed her. "Took him forever to work up the nerve," she said. "He wasn't like any other boy I dated." She grinned. "And I dated a lot."
Charlie Brooker: If the 'Daily Mail' is so worried about the sexualisation of children, all they have to do is hit 'delete' (Guardian)
Starlets and sex, sex and starlets - all of it on plain view on the 'Daily Mail' website which, to the best of my knowledge, has no age restrictions in place.
Jonah Lehrer: Boot Camp for Boosting IQ (Wall Street Journal)
Can we make ourselves smarter? In recent decades, scientists have accumulated increasing evidence that our intelligence, at least as measured by the IQ test, is sharply constrained by genetics. Although estimates vary, most studies place the heritability of intelligence at somewhere between 50% and 80%. It's an uncomfortable fact, but not all brains are created equal.
Scott Burns: The Fat Fund Report: If you pay more, do you get more? (assetbuilder.com)
Today's quiz: What is the single greatest myth in investing? Answer: You get what you pay for.
This Is Dallas's Moment, Not Cleveland's (Wall Street Journal)
LeBron James was not the story of the 2011 NBA Finals. Nor was the inelegant demise of his Super Team. The real story was the Dallas Mavericks, a glitz-deprived outfit that captured their first NBA title in team history.
Stephen Moss: "Tamara Rojo: 'Ballet dancers don't enjoy the pain. We're not masochists'" (Guardian)
The principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet talks about how she is as much an actor as a dancer, why she hates seeing videos of her performances and why 'Black Swan' was an insult.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
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World Premiere Of Lost Opera
Vivaldi
A Prague festival will host the world premiere of Antonio Vivaldi's opera L'Unione della Pace, e di Marte, following its reconstruction by a Czech expert 284 years after its only performance.
"It's a specific genre of Baroque opera, shorter, which is called 'la serenata' and which was composed for a specific occasion at that time," conductor, composer and harpsichord player Ondrej Macek told AFP.
Vivaldi (1678-1741) composed the serenata L'Union della Pace, e di Marte (Union of Peace with Mars) for the birth of French King Louis XV's first children, twin sisters Louise Elisabeth and Anne Henriette.
"Ordered by the French ambassador to Venice, the work was performed only once, in mid-September 1727, in the open air, in a garden adjacent to the church of Madonna dell'Orto in Venice," said Macek.
Vivaldi
Clemons' Stroke 'Serious'
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen says band mate Clarence Clemons' stroke was serious and he's going to need a lot of help to get back to his former self.
The Boss commented Tuesday on his longtime friend and E Street Band member on his website, Twitter and Facebook. It's the first time he's spoken since it was revealed Sunday that Clemons had suffered a stroke.
Springsteen says Clemons is surrounded by wife Victoria, other family and friends, and thanked fans for their prayers and good thoughts.
Clemons' family also thanked fans on Springsteen's site and urged fans to email their well wishes to notestoclarence@clarenceclemons.com.
Bruce Springsteen
Hosting ExoticAnimal TV Show
Henry Rollins
Nat Geo Wild has recruited diversified punk rocker Henry Rollins to host one of the four new series in development at the nascent cable network.
Rollins will host "Animal Underworld," which features people who own exotic animals as well as those who eat them. He visits Arizona's Road Kill Cafe, where the menu features not-so-exotic fare. And he meets people who consume things you would not find on the menu even at the Road Kill, like frog smoothies and tarantulas -- the former because it supposedly increases virility and the latter for medicinal purposes.
If "Animal Underworld" sounds a little edgy for the august National Geographic brand -- which has a standards and practices department that vets everything for accuracy -- senior vp Geoff Daniels assures it is in keeping with Nat Geo's mission of exploration and investigation.
"It's really an investigation into our relationship with animals," he says. "It's covering the full range from the off-beat and quirky to the potentially illicit. And our approach to (the latter) is to make sure that we're obviously not encouraging that behavior."
Henry Rollins
Upstaged By Family Soap Opera
Zsa Zsa
Zsa Zsa Gabor's celebrity was always more about winning attention than winning film roles. But now, the ailing 94-year-old diva's final fade is being upstaged by a real-life Hollywood soap opera featuring a family fractured by fame, fortune, deceit and just plain weirdness.
As the former socialite and actress lies motionless - unable to eat, barely able to communicate, hardly knowing where she is - tensions seethe between the two people closest to Gabor: Her husband of 25 years, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, and her only daughter, Francesca Hilton.
Von Anhalt and Hilton are at odds on almost everything regarding Gabor. They fight over her will, each rewriting it without telling the other. They fight over her house: Von Anhalt sued Hilton in 2005 for refinancing the property, which she says she did to protect her mother's investments. Now, Hilton is disputing von Anhalt's right to sell the place.
They argue over her image: Hilton detests von Anhalt for publishing photos of Gabor in her hospital gown; he says it allows her fans to see that she's happy and not "half dead." They argue over visiting Gabor: Von Anhalt says that because Hilton is "crazy," she can only come when accompanied by a doctor. Hilton says she hasn't been allowed to see her mother in more than two months.
Zsa Zsa
Returning To Nashville
Tracy Morgan
Comedian Tracy Morgan plans to return to Nashville next week to apologize to audience members who were offended by an anti-gay rant during a stand-up show on June 3.
During the performance, the "30 Rock" actor told the audience that if his son were gay, he would "pull out a knife and stab" him. Morgan already has issued a public apology, saying he went too far, even for a comedy show.
On Tuesday, Morgan publicist Nicole Chabot confirmed that Morgan agreed to the Nashville meeting at the request of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios.
Morgan also agreed to meet with gay and lesbian youth in New York City this week. And he will participate in a GLAAD public service campaign to combat anti-gay bullying.
Tracy Morgan
Dumped
Hugh Hefner
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said on Tuesday his wedding this weekend has been canceled because his girlfriend, a Playmate from his magazine, changed her mind.
Hefner, 85, and Crystal Harris, 25, were due to tie the knot in front of more than 300 guests at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on Saturday. It would have been Hefner's third marriage.
"The wedding is off. Crystal has had a change of heart," Hefner wrote on Twitter.
News of the split was first reported by TMZ, which said the couple had "a nasty argument" on the phone over the weekend and Harris moved out of the mansion. Hefner's publicist was not immediately available for comment.
Hugh Hefner
Day In Court
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage starred in a courthouse drama Tuesday that included negotiating sessions with a judge and ended with the actor settling a multimillion dollar lawsuit with an ex-girlfriend.
The Oscar-winning actor spent more than six hours at a downtown courthouse, repeatedly meeting with the judge who brokered an end to the case filed over payments and a house that Cage's ex-girlfriend claimed she was promised.
Dressed in black suit and tie, Cage faced off with his ex, Christina Fulton, throughout the day. Flanked by deputies he hurriedly walked past her in a hallway when he arrived Tuesday morning and both were apparently present for a final meeting with Superior Court Judge Teresa Sanchez-Gordon that solidified the deal.
Fulton sued Cage in December 2009, claiming he owed her $13 million, had ruined her finances and broke a promise to give her a house in the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park. The payments, Fulton claimed, were in exchange for raising for the couple's son, who is now 20 years old.
Nicolas Cage
Rupert's Little Racist
Eric Bolling
A Fox Business host is apologizing for what detractors have called racist insults directed at President Barack Obama.
In a brief mea culpa, conservative host Eric Bolling said on his Monday broadcast that he "got a little fast and loose with the language." He says he's sorry his remarks were interpreted as disrespectful.
On Friday, Bolling criticized Obama's recent meeting with Ali Bongo, president of the African nation of Gabon, who is viewed by some as a corrupt leader.
Bolling went on to say it's not the first time Obama has had "a hoodlum in the hizzouse."
Eric Bolling
Worried About Rising Poverty, Not Netflix
Cable
For all the talk about competitive threats from the likes of Netflix Inc or Apple Inc, it is rising poverty among households that TV executives say is their biggest source of concern.
Executives from News Corp, Comcast Corp and Time Warner Inc, speaking at the annual Cable Show industry event, made clear the industry needed a stronger housing market and better jobs picture to win new customers and keep existing ones.
Investors and analysts, with a few exceptions, can often be heard worrying more about how the cable industry will cope with cheaper entertainment packages from rivals such as Netflix, Amazon.com Inc or Google Inc.
Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt, however, was one of the executives focusing on the hazards of a bad economy.
"There clearly is a growing underclass of people who clearly can't afford it," he said. "It would serve us well to worry about that group."
Cable
Partners With Calif Pot Dispensary
Montel Williams
Talk show host Montel Williams is partnering with Sacramento medical marijuana providers to open a high-end pot dispensary.
Williams on Monday led a tour of the facility, which The Sacramento Bee reports does not display marijuana anywhere until after patients discuss their medical needs with a counselor.
The longtime host of "The Montel Williams Show" has been an outspoken medical marijuana advocate since he began using the drug to relieve pain caused by multiple sclerosis.
Williams said he wanted the Albatin Wellness Cooperative to be a place patients could feel comfortable bringing their parents. His parents were guests during Monday's unveiling.
Montel Williams
Bans Flavored Milk
LA School District
The Los Angeles Unified School District has become the nation's largest school district to ban flavored milk in a move to combat child obesity.
The school board voted Tuesday to eliminate chocolate and strawberry-flavored milk from schools as of July 1.
Board member Tamar Galatzan (tah-MAHR' gah-LAHT'-sun) was the only board member to object to the milk ban, saying the district was being short-sighted about the nutritional benefits outweighing the added sugar in flavored milk.
Superintendent John Deasy (DAY'-zee) proposed eliminating flavored milk after television chef Jamie Oliver brought the issue to the district attention's during recent TV shows.
LA School District
May Disappear For Years
Sunspots
Scientists are predicting that the sun is heading into an unusual and extended super quiet mode. Around 2020, sunspots may disappear for years, maybe decades.
But scientists say it is nothing to worry about. The effects from a calmer sun are mostly good. There'd be fewer disruptions of satellites and power systems. And it might mean a little less increase in global warming.
It's happened before, but not for a couple centuries.
Scientists at a solar physics conference in New Mexico unveiled their prediction based on sunspot activity, magnetic field strength and a disappearing solar jet stream.
Sunspots
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for June 6-12. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NBA Finals: Dallas vs. Miami, Game 6, ABC, 23.88 million.
2. "NBA Trophy Presentation," ABC, 21.85 million.
3. NBA Finals: Miami vs. Dallas, Game 5, ABC, 18.32 million.
4. NBA Finals: Miami vs. Dallas, Game 4, ABC, 16.13 million.
5. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.93 million.
6. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 12.64 million.
7. "The Voice," NBC, 12.31 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.33 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 9.06 million.
10. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 8.9 million.
11. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 8.13 million.
12. "The Mentalist," CBS, 7.75 million.
13. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.46 million.
14. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.32 million.
15. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 7.28 million.
16. "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 7.13 million.
17. "Tony Awards," CBS, 6.95 million.
18. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.7 million.
19. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 6.61 million.
20. "CSI: NY," CBS, 6.54 million.
Ratings
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