M Is FOR MASHUP - July 11th, 2012
What It's Like To Be DJ Useo
By DJ Useo
I'm still releasing one new mashup album a month for the whole of 2012. When I say that, I literally mean ME. The SUMMER BOOTY & SoundUnsound albums are me & lots of other music bootleggers. My new album 'WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DJ USEO' is all my mixing. Now that I'm writing this I do recall one exception. The last track, 'Ramble On All Summer Long' (Led Zeppelin vs Kid Rock vs asst) has an instrumental from
Chicago-area deejay Rhythm Scholar
( www.rhythmscholar.com/ ) with acapella work provided by me.Talk about a killer album closer. I've already heard from a few listeners via email about how they love that cut.
Originally my plan was to release a sequel to my Sparks tribute album 'SPARKS FOR SPARKS SAKE'. Sadly, during the private premiere it was noticed that 2 of the tracks had problems. I decided to put the new Sparks tribute on the back burner for adjustments & instead went with 'WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DJ USEO' . Both collections have been in the works for quite a long time, as have the rest of the releases I've been posting. This means I had my choice of several, mostly-finished albums, each themed along a band or style. 'WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DJ USEO' is a variety-style assortment full of genre-clash mashups.
It starts with Iggy Pop singing punk rock over a splendid country tune from 80's Texas band the Reivers. Along the way through there's Hip Hop vocals from the Streets over power pop from 70's band 10cc, pop singing from the Go-Gos over reggae from Third World, & even glam rock vocals from T.Rex atop techno from Gary Numan. Here's the full playlist as I avoid putting that info on my blog.
DJ Useo-What Its Like To Be
Playlist
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01 - She Digs Search & Destroy
(Iggy Pop & The Stooges vs The Reivers)
02 - Quicksand State
(Blackbird vs Porter Robinson vs Skism)
03 - Gewitter Swan
(Screaming Orphans vs Klaus Schulze)
04 - I Cant Dance Undisclosed Desires
(Genesis vs Muse)
05 - Let The Verblendet Rhythm Pump
(Doug Lazy vs Monkey Zoo feat Tina)
06 - 21st Century Digital Boy Not There
(Social Distortion vs The Zombies)(2012 Remix)
07 - Rubber Bullets Dont Mug Yourself
(The Streets vs 10cc)
08 - Blot Ditt Eige Lam The Phuncky Feel One
(Cypress Hill vs Of Norway vs Frisvold & Lindbaek)
09 - We Got The Sette Messagana Beat
(The Go-Gos vs Third World vs Genesis)
10 - Chinese Rock Lobster Bones
(The B-52s vs Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)
11 - Monolith Machine
(T.Rex vs Gary Numan)
12 - Just A Miserlou Girl
(No Doubt vs The Beach Boys)
13 - Captain Dies West
(The Maple Trail vs Stelios)
14 - All You Need Is Dreams
(Fleetwood Mac vs Duran Duran)
15 - Pop Muzik Serenity
(M vs Popof vs Lutzenkirchen)
16 - Give and Take Sad Vacation
(The Dandy Warhols vs Netsky)
17 - Antheridium Tardis
(The Timelords vs Exoplanet)
18 - Sick Days Nothing Song
(Beat Junkies vs Chicane)
19 - Ramble On All Summer Long
(Led Zeppelin vs Kid Rock vs Asst)(w/ Rhythm Scholar)
Of course, I thoroughly enjoyed my earlier albums of 2012 like 'Frikkenfrack 5:Useos Strangest Boots', 'U Z O (variety mashups), & 'How To Dance To Mashups' (dance mashups), but this time I went for tracks with appeal, but generally suited along my particular tastes. Nearly all of the tracks have been completed for quite a while, but not posted as I mostly reserve tracks for forum posting that have the widest appeal. On this new collection I went for a combination effect of appeal & bizarreness. I'm the first to admit after all that there's plenty of mashups out there for fans of mainstream music, & most are really fine mixes. For me, however, I require something out of the ordinary, striving instead for tracks others would never make.
With a few exceptions, I'm confident you'll agree that I've achieved that 'different-ness'. Be brave & give 'WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE DJ USEO' a try. The first track with Iggy Pop vs The Reivers is available for streaming so you can assess if you want more.
Give it a listen here
( official.fm/tracks/370995 )
If you like it, the
full zip file is here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-its-like-to-be-dj-useo.html )
Mashup Tip : Save all the parts of the mashup you've made until well after posting. You never know if you'll have to adjust it for something you didn't notice.
Latest Useo Thing
You can't hear it yet, but I'm putting together 'IT IS TO LAFF 3' (The Funny Mashup Album). If you've mixed up a funny mashup, send it to me at useo8@yahoo.com & you have a good chance of being featured on the album. My instructions are that it doesn't have to be mixed well, but it has to be FUNNY!
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Atlanta-area deejay MC Shut Yer Mouth will implode tomorrow when he tries to mash Bomb The Bass with Nathan Explosion from Dethklok.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Paul Krugman: Mitt's Grey Areas (New York Times)
… Mr. Romney didn't get rich by producing things people wanted to buy; he made his fortune through financial engineering that seems in many cases to have left workers worse off, and in some cases driven companies into bankruptcy. And there's another contrast: George Romney [Mitt's father] was open and forthcoming about what he did with his wealth, but Mitt Romney has largely kept his finances secret.
Matthew Yglesias: "The People Who Are the Engine of the Economy" (Slate)
… what's really galling is the absurd level of self-regard among the winners in the modern American meritocracy. It's completely true that many wealthy individuals garnered their wealth by developing useful products or devising useful approaches to management. But take a guy like Anthony Scarmucci, one of Mitt Romney's national finance co-chairs. His stock in trade is ripping off successful-but-not-mega-rich professionals with a "fund of funds" business model in which management fees eat away all your investment gains.
Matthew Yglesias: Male Employment Never Recovers From Recessions (Slate)
Here's the broadest labor market indicator around-the ratio of employed people to total people-broken down by gender over the past fifty years. One striking thing that pops out is that the labor market for men never recovers from recessions. Each trough is followed by a new peak, but the new peak is lower than the previous peak.
Mark Shields: Most Important Unknown 'Person' in 2012 Campaign (Creators Syndicate)
For almost everybody in American politics - except those shadowy individuals and companies, with their own unrevealed agendas, that make six-figure undisclosed contributions to influence the 2012 campaign - any lingering "passion for anonymity" has been totally overcome.
Scott Burns: How Much will the Oldster Tax Cost You? (AssetBuilder)
Low interest rates are a two-edged sword. It's great if you are a young borrower. A low interest rate mortgage means you can buy a bigger house. A low interest rate car loan means you can buy a more expensive car. The hope at the Federal Reserve is that young borrowers will splurge and stimulate the economy with their borrowing.
Maria Popova: Italo Calvino's 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic (Brain Pickings)
"The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: 'I'm rereading…', never 'I'm reading….'"
Author R. L. Mathewson On Some of the Secrets to Her Success (Smashwords)
A few months later on a whim I checked my accounts and I saw that I made my first sale on Christmas Eve at Amazon.com. By that point I'd sold a grand total of maybe five books, but I didn't care. I was so excited. I remember getting my children out of bed, because I just had to share the news with the two most important people in my life. They were so excited. We danced around singing "We sold books, baby!" for probably a good hour or two before I managed to get them calmed down enough to go back to bed. It was a really great night for us.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Acting (Athens News)
Songwriter Steve Earle also occasionally acts. To prepare for a role as a recovering junkie in the HBO TV series "The Wire," he allowed his hair to grow long and he didn't shave. The preparation worked well. Although he was staying at a swanky hotel in London when Stephen Dalton of the "London Times" interviewed him in August of 2007, he looked very much like a homeless person. In fact, he says, "The other day I noticed the homeless guys that pick up the tin cans on my street, before the recycling people come, they started protecting their cans as I walked past. They thought I was competition."
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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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'
Day 2
Gulf Fritillary
Came across some of Gulf Fritillary larva
on the back fence, so it looks like we'll have a third year of raising butterflies. : )
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
No marine layer, lots of sun.
Asteroid Named For Gay Rights Pioneer
Frank Kameny
A Canadian amateur astronomer has named an asteroid he discovered after U.S. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny, who died last year in Washington.
Kameny, who earned a doctorate in astronomy at Harvard University, was an astronomer with the U.S. Army Map Service in the 1950s but was fired from his job for being gay. He contested the firing all the way to the Supreme Court and later organized the first gay rights protests outside the White House, the Pentagon and in Philadelphia in the 1960s.
Kameny died last year at age 86.
When astronomer Gary Billings read Kameny's obituary, he consulted with others in the astronomy world. They decided to submit a citation to the Paris-based International Astronomical Union and the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., seeking to designate Minor Planet 40463 as Frankkameny.
It's located in the asteroid belt, orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. The Kameny asteroid is visible through a telescope and was first discovered in 1999 using long-exposure photography.
Frank Kameny
Retires With 'Dry-Eyed Farewell'
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole is retiring from show business, saying he no longer has the heart for it and that it's time to "chuck in the sponge."
O'Toole, who turns 80 on Aug. 2, said in a statement Tuesday that his career on stage and screen fulfilled him emotionally and financially, bringing "me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits."
"However, it's my belief that one should decide for oneself when it is time to end one's stay," he said. "So I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell."
An eight-time Academy Award nominee who never won Hollywood's top acting honor, O'Toole shot to screen stardom 50 years ago in the title role of "Lawrence of Arabia," which earned seven Oscars, including best picture and director for David Lean.
Peter O'Toole
Announces Reunion
Run-DMC
They haven't performed together in over a decade, but the surviving members of Run-DMC are set to reunite this fall at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.
Joseph Simmons, now known as Rev. Run, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels retired the group after their DJ, Jam Master Jay, was killed in 2002. But it was announced Tuesday that the band will be among the performers for the Nov. 2-4 event. Festival organizers say they plan to donate some of the proceeds to the JMJ Foundation for Music, which works to give youth access to the arts.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group is best known for hits like "Walk This Way," ''It's Like That" and "My Adidas."
Run-DMC
Foundation Refutes Dementia Claim
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The head of a foundation created by Colombian Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez refuted claims from the author's brother that he is suffering from dementia.
"I will not argue or comment on interpretations of Gabo's private affairs and health, but I assert there is no medical diagnosis of senile dementia," the director of the New Journalism Foundation, Jaime Abello, wrote on Twitter.
"Please, enough messages of solidarity: Gabo is not insane. He's just an elderly person who has lost a bit of memory. I still have the pleasure of being his friend," he added.
The 85-year-old author's brother Jaime Garcia Marquez told Mexican newspaper El Universal in an interview published online last week that the 1982 Nobel winner is suffering from "senile dementia".
"What he has are some memory issues; in our family, we all end up with senile dementia. I am starting to get some of the onset complications and he already is in the throes of it," said Jaime Garcia Marquez.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Closes Russian Site
Wikipedia
The Russian version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia closed its site on Tuesday in a one-day protest against what it said were plans by President Vladimir Putin to create his own version of the "Great Chinese Firewall" to block dissent on the Internet.
Supporters of amendments to Russia's information law, which were proposed by the ruling United Russia party and will be discussed in parliament on Wednesday, say changes are needed to protect children from harmful sites.
But leaders of anti-Putin protests say the new law could shut down websites in Russia such as Facebook and Twitter without a court order and is meant to stop their opposition movement, which is organized via social networking sites.
The changes to the information law would give government officials power to request the closure of Internet pages without a court order simply by blacklisting them. China has some of the most effective methods of blocking dissent on the Internet, tightly controlling what can and cannot be viewed.
Under the changes proposed in Russia, if a website owner does not remove the content that is deemed inappropriate, access to the entire website in Russia can be blocked.
Wikipedia
The Virginia Cuckold
Tareq Salahi
A Virginia judge has dismissed White House party crasher Tareq Salahi's $50 million lawsuit against the rock musician who ran off with Salahi's wife.
Salahi accused Journey guitarist Neal Schon and two affiliated entertainment companies of scheming to break up his marriage and capitalize on the split for business purposes.
The Northern Virginia Daily reports that Warren County Circuit Judge Dennis Hupp ruled Monday that Salahi's claims would be more appropriately addressed in divorce proceedings.
Salahi said he intends to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court.
Tareq Salahi
More Tombs Destroyed
Timbuktu
Islamist militants destroyed two tombs on Tuesday at the famous 14th century Djingareyber mosque inTimbuktu, classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site, residents said.
About a dozen militants arrived in an armored four-wheel drive truck, armed with pickaxes and hoes. They fired in the air to intimidate people and started smashing the tombs, said Ibrahim Cisse, who witnessed the scene.
The new destruction comes after attacks last week on other historic and religious landmarks in Timbuktu that UNESCO called "wanton destruction".
Islamists of the Ansar Dine group say the centuries-old shrines of the local Sufi version of Islam are idolatrous.
They have destroyed at least eight of 16 listed mausoleums in the city, together with a number of tombs and a sacred door at Sidi Yahya mosque, in their campaign to erase traces of what they regard as un-Islamic idolatry.
Timbuktu
Unauthorized Disney Display
NKorea
The U.S. is urging North Korea to respect intellectual property rights after an unauthorized stage performance of Disney characters at a concert for the reclusive country's new young leader.
But State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Tuesday that since Washington does not have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang it could not raise the issue as it would in other countries.
North Korean state TV this week showed performers dressed as Minnie Mouse, Tigger and other characters dancing against a backdrop of footage from Disney movies, an unusual departure for the isolated nation. New leader Kim Jong Un has sought to project an image of youth and modernity.
The Walt Disney Co. says it did not authorize the performance.
NKorea
Guilty Plea In Theater Vandalism
'Late Show'
An aspiring actor who went on a destructive bender has admitted vandalizing the New York City theater where David Letterman tapes his television show.
James Whittemore pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor criminal-mischief charge. He has paid roughly $7,000 in restitution and gotten alcohol-abuse treatment. He won't have to do jail time or probation.
Whittemore told police he'd had at least a dozen beers and several shots and didn't remember much about what happened. He says he'd had a rough day.
Whittemore is now a Massachusetts disc jockey.
'Late Show'
Comcast Sells Stake
A&E
Comcast's NBCUniversal is selling its stake in A&E Television Networks to Disney and Hearst for $3.03 billion in cash.
The company said in May that it had exercised an option requiring Disney and Hearst to buy back a significant portion of their ownership in A&E.
A&E channels include the History Channel, Lifetime, Biography as well as its namesake network.
Hearst is one of the largest media companies in the U.S., owning newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle and magazines including Good Housekeeping and O, The Oprah Magazine. The company also operates 29 TV stations and holds a 20 percent stake in sports network ESPN.
Disney owns the rest of ESPN, along with a movie studio, more TV properties and theme parks.
A&E
3,000-Year-Old 'Frankenstein' Mummies
Scotland
Researchers say that a pair of 3,000-year-old mummified corpses that were recently discovered in Scotland are actually composed of body parts originating from six different people.
The mummified corpses were discovered in Cladh Hallan, an archaeological site on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is the only location in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been discovered.
National Geographic reports that isotopic dating and DNA experiments revealed the unusual pairing of body parts. The tests also revealed that the body parts were assembled and buried together more than 600 years after death, meaning that the assemblage was almost certainly deliberate.
However, it remains unclear exactly why the Frankenstein-like pieces were put together. The merging of mummies and Frankenstein sounds like something out of an unproduced 1930s Universal horror film. But lead researcher and University of Manchester professor Terry Brown says the answer could be simple and somewhat morbid: The original body parts may have simply been plugged in as a convenience to replace missing pieces.
"Maybe the head dropped off and they got another head to stick on," he said.
Scotland
Ring Auctioned
Jane Austen
A turquoise ring once belonging to British classics author Jane Austen sold at auction for 152,450 pounds ($236,557) this week, more than five times its pre-sale estimate, Sotheby's said on Tuesday.
The gold ring, featuring an oval turquoise gemstone, generated a battle between eight bidders and was eventually bought by an anonymous private collector over the phone, the auction house said.
Last year, the earliest surviving Austen manuscript, a hand-written draft of a book that was never published, sold for $1.6 million at a Sotheby's auction.
Other items in the auctioneer's English literature, history, children's books and illustrations sale included early editions of works by William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte and Geoffrey Chaucer, water colors by Beatrix Potter and letters from Jonathan Swift.
Jane Austen
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for July 2-8. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Monday), NBC, 10.4 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.32 million.
3. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), CBS, 9.05 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 8.32 million.
5. "NCIS," CBS, 8.17 million.
6. "Person of Interest," CBS, 8.121 million.
7. "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks," NBC, 8.116 million.
8. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 7.5 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.49 million.
10. "U.S. Olympic Trials" (Monday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 7.41 million.
11. "The Mentalist," CBS, 6.88 million.
12. "48 Hours Mystery" (Tuesday), CBS, 5.96 million.
13. "20/20," ABC, 5.958 million.
14. "Dateline NBC," NBC, 5.89 million.
15. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.832 million.
16. "Hell's Kitchen" (Monday), Fox, 5.831 million.
17. "Secret Millionaire, ABC, 5.66 million.
18. "60 Minutes" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 5.6 million.
19. "Wipeout (Thursday), ABC, 5.58 million.
20. "Master Chef" (Monday), Fox, 5.53 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Rodolfo "Dolphy" Vera Quizon Sr.
The Philippines' "King of Comedy," the performer fondly called Dolphy by generations of Filipinos, has died.
Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. was 83. He died late Monday at Makati Medical Center of multiple organ failure and complications from pneumonia, according to an email from the hospital where he had been treated. He also suffered from kidney failure.
Philippine government officials, fellow movie and TV celebrities and common folk heaped praise on Quizon, who shot to fame for portraying gay roles and odd characters.
One of the late actor's sons, Eric Quizon, read a family statement before a huddle of TV cameras and journalists, thanking millions of Filipinos for supporting his father and asking for prayers.
The elder Quizon started performing on stage in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and made his final comedy flick, where he played a priest, two years ago.
One of Quizon's biggest comedy hits was 'Facifica Falayfay," where he played a gay man. He also starred in a popular, longtime television comedy, "John en Marsha," where he played a man perpetually at odds with his mother-in-law.
Quizon starred in more than 200 films in his 66-year career, according to the state-run Philippine News Agency.
Quizon had never been married but bore children with a number of women. Some of his children also entered the movies, with a few following in his footsteps as a comedian.
As a young boy, he worked as a laborer, watching comedy stage shows before he himself became immensely popular. Philippine presidential candidates had sought his backing during elections to endear themselves to his massive following.
Rodolfo "Dolphy" Vera Quizon Sr.
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