M Is FOR MASHUP - August 22nd, 2012
Mashups To Be Too Hot To
By DJ Useo
So like, it's the hottest Summer in like 50 years. I watched one guy standing in direct sunlight & his sneakers liquefied. It was so hot at the ice cream parlour, you could actually inhale tutti frutti vapour. I was over at the duck pond & the ducks were melting. The best way to beat the heat is find super cool mashups & arrange them around your neck like an icepack. Here're some mashups that fit the bill.
01 - rillenrudi rocks tha house with 'Super Sandman' (Metallica vs Supergrass). Of course, we never thought these disparate acts would pair up so wonderfully, but check it out, they do.
( rillenrudi.blogspot.com/2012/07/super-sandman.html )
02 - Amoraboy drops the bomb with 'Spirit in a Bottle' (Police vs Nirvana) . Upon hearing this mix, one must ponder "would these two bands like each others' music?".
( official.fm/tracks/RPIo )
03 - Addictive TV dispels the bummers with 'You da 2' (Blur vs Rihanna). I can play this mix for anyone & they love it. One of the best mashups ever.
( soundcloud.com/addictivetv/bluranna-ft-skrillex-you-da-2 )
04 - Chocomang has just about every mash fan listening to his 'Where is My Good Ring' (Owl City vs Anita Ward vs Rihanna). I had 4 people ask me to hear it in one day.
( soundcloud.com/chocomang/chocomang-where-is-my-good )
( official.fm/tracks/KWcQ )
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoePGm5w70 - Video link )
05 - G3rst does the impossible with vast gusto on his blend 'Gimme Pussy' (Abba vs Rammstein) . Now you can play Abba for just about anyone. No way did I ever suspect a pairing like this could sound so good! Kudos to G3rst. (also, G3rst, say hello to your clone, G4rst. )
( soundcloud.com/info47/g3rst-gimme-pussy )
Now that's a proper batch of cool mashups. They should do nicely to help you beat the heat until next weeks' 'M IS FOR MASHUP'.
Mix Of The Week
Xam has another great new long mix called '
Summer Hard Style Mix 2012'. It's a full hour of only the best & latest hard style club tunes. I may seem to be overly enthusiastic about the long mixes each week, but I'm confident these are the best of many I hear every week. Xam is a regular fave of mine. Find out why
here
( www.lostdimension.nl/mixes.htm )
Mashup Tip : Playing your tracks live is way more fun than sharing them over the net. Learn your decks.
Latest Useo Thing
Well. Recently I gifted y'all a yodelling dubstep mix that is currently my most-listened-to mix. If you like that one, try an earful of this novelty fidget blend, '
Mr Apollo Swagga' (The Bonzo Dog Band vs Excision & Datsik) .
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/08/bonzos-vs-excision-datsik.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You'll phone your long-forgotten 2nd grade teacher only to find out she's now a popular mashup dj in Las Vegas.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Killian Fox: Ariel Pink - 'I wouldn't call this a break-up album…' (Guardian)
With his ninth album, the celebrated LA art rocker explains why being immature is the key to his success - though possibly not for much longer.
PETER BERKOWITZ: Remembering the life, art and inspiration of Jason Noble (LEO Weekly)
Christina Lueken shares this story: Noble had been a regular at Third Avenue Café, near his home, often dining there with his mother. Lueken - a server there - and her coworkers appreciated and remarked on the fact that he was more concerned with spending quality time with family than with being cool. "One day, he brought a girl in with him. She had long, auburn hair and a gentle demeanor, very much like his. We were thrilled, frankly, to see him on a date with a girl other than his (awesomely sweet) mom."
Terry Savage: When Stock Market Defies Logic, Think Long-Term (Creators Syndicate)
Let me make my point clear. Gold could double from the current $1,600 an ounce if Congress doesn't get its act together.
Lucy Mangan: we will hide the internet from our child (Guardian)
'By the time our son is old enough to use the computer, we won't be able to help him.'
Daniel O'Brien: 4 Things I Wish I'd Known as an Awkward High Schooler (Cracked)
#4. You're Not Going to Be Cool.
Tim Parks: Does Copyright Matter? (New York Review of Books)
Do I, as an author, have the right to prevent people copying my books for free? Should I have it? Does it matter?
Larry McMurtry: The Last Book Sale (New York Review of Books)
… I threw a book sale. Upward of 300,000 books went on sale in Archer City at public auction, which was conducted by the cracker-jack team of Addison and Sarova out of Macon, Georgia, where I gather the heat is wet rather than dry.
David Bruce's Amazon Author Page
David Bruce's Lulu Storefront
David Bruce's Smashwords Page
David Bruce's Blog
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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New World Record
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, hot & humid.
Afterlife Issues
Holograms
When Tupac Shakur rose from the stage in the California desert earlier this year, it was not only a jaw-dropping resurrection, but also the beginning of a new form of live entertainment.
"Come with me," the digital Shakur called out, not just to tens of thousands of screaming fans but seemingly to other artists.
Follow, they will. Elvis Presley's estate announced it has authorized holograms of the King of Rock, Marilyn Monroe's estate has expressed interest and there's no shortage of other beloved stars whose fans would die to see them perform again.
Advances in digital artistry make it all possible, presenting celebrity estates with new commercial and creative opportunities, but also some ethical quandaries.
Reaction to the Shakur hologram was huge, with the performance garnering 15 million YouTube hits within 48 hours and winning a top award at the creative marketing gathering Cannes Lions.
Holograms
Time Shift
Jimmy Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" is moving into the thick of the late-night fight against Jay Leno and David Letterman, ABC said Tuesday, bumping "Nightline" from its longtime perch.
Starting in January, Kimmel's talk show will shift from 12:05 a.m. Eastern to the 11:35 p.m. Eastern time period long held by the newsmagazine, taking advantage of Kimmel's ratings growth and the potential for greater ad revenue, the network said.
"Nightline" will move to 12:35 a.m. Eastern. ABC softened the blow for its news division by giving the half-hour show a weekly prime-time hour starting in March, and also will find a home for the ABC News series "What Would You Do?"
The network is rolling the dice, taking ratings winner "Nightline" out of a competitive time slot and putting in yet another talk show. Besides network rivals Leno and Letterman, the hour is home to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central, Conan O'Brien on TBS and Chelsea Handler on E! Entertainment.
Jimmy Kimmel
SAG Life Achievement Award
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke will receive the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor: The Life Achievement Award.
Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television and Radio Artists co-president Ken Howard made the announcement Tuesday. He called Van Dyke "an enormously talented performer whose work has crossed nearly every major category of entertainment."
The 86-year-old entertainer will receive the honor at the annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony in January. He has already won a Tony, a Grammy and five Emmy awards.
The 19th annual SAG Awards will be presented Jan. 27.
Dick Van Dyke
Unheard Audio Found
Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960."
He wasn't sure what he had until he borrowed a friend's reel-to-reel player and listened to the recording of his father interviewing Martin Luther King Jr. for a book project that never came to fruition. In clear audio, King discusses the importance of the civil rights movement, his definition of nonviolence and how a recent trip of his to Africa informed his views. Tull said the recording had been in the attic for years, and he wasn't sure who other than his father may have heard it.
"No words can describe. I couldn't believe it," he told The Associated Press this week in a phone interview from his home in Chattanooga. "I found ... a lost part of history."
Tull said his father, an insurance salesman, had planned to write a book about the racism he encountered growing up in Chattanooga and later as an adult. He said his dad interviewed King when he visited the city, but never completed the book and just stored the recording with some other interviews he had done. Tull's father is now in his early 80s and under hospice care.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Defends Todd Akin
Kirk Cameron
Kirk Cameron is no stranger to media firestorms and now he's chiming in on Missouri Representative Todd Akin's comments about rape.
On Tuesday, the former "Growing Pains" star, who created his own stir earlier this year by calling homosexuality "unnatural," came to the defense of Representative Akin.
"I watched through the whole thing last night and he clearly is a pro-life advocate and for that I respect him," Kirk told CNN on Tuesday, referring to Akin's TV interview with St. Louis' KTVI where, while commenting on rape and abortion, the politician said, "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down."
"He said that he misspoke and that he mis-phrased something and he apologized and I'm the kind of person that believes that, I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for, so he's in a tough spot," Cameron said.
Kirk Cameron
Authorities Amend Death Certificate
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood's death certificate has been changed to reflect some of the uncertainties and lingering questions surrounding the actress' drowning more than 30 years ago in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California.
The document was amended earlier this month and shifts Wood's death from an accidental drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors," according to a copy of the certificate obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
The amended document also now states that the circumstances of how Wood ended up in the waters off Catalina Island in November 1981 are "not clearly established."
The changes occurred nine months after sheriff's homicide investigators renewed their inquiry into Wood's death shortly before its 30th anniversary.
Natalie Wood
Court Site Hacked
Russia
Russian hackers on Tuesday attacked the website of the Moscow court where three members of the Pussy Riot punk band were tried and sentenced to two years in prison for an irreverent protest.
The Russian offshoot of the loose-knit movement known as Anonymous tweeted that it had taken down the website of the Khamovniki district court.
According to search engines' cached pages, the hackers posted Pussy Riot's latest song ridiculing President Vladimir Putin on the website, along with calls to release the band members. One headline read: "Putin's thieving gang is robbing our country! Wake up, comrades!"
The website - hamovnichesky.msk.sudrf.ru - was not available later Tuesday.
Russia
Production Moratorium
Los Angeles
A porn industry trade group has announced a U.S. moratorium on production of adult sex films after at least one Los Angeles actor tested positive for syphilis, adding to the pressure on porn producers to require the use of condoms on sets.
The actors can return to work in 10 days after taking antibiotics and doctors have recommended treating all adult film actors as a precaution, the Los Angeles-based Free Speech Coalition said in a statement on its website late on Monday. It added that filming had been halted since the weekend.
It was unclear exactly how many porn actors have tested positive for syphilis. The Free Speech Coalition said on its website that a single performer had tested positive for the disease.
But Peter Kerndt, the director of the county's sexually transmitted disease programs, told the Los Angeles Times in an article posted on its website on Friday that his agency had received reports of at least five possible cases.
Los Angeles
Resigns From Board At Yale
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria, the Time magazine editor-at-large and CNN host who recently admitted toplagiarism, resigned from his position on Yale University's board to reevaluate his professional life, a Yale spokesman told TheWrap.
In a letter to Yale President Richard Levin, Zakaria - a Yale alumnus - said he planned to focus on his work in the wake of a plagiarism inquiry that raised questions about the veracity of the prominent reporter's large oeuvre of journalism.
"I am reexamining my professional life and I have recognized that, in order to focus on the core of my work, I will have to shed some of my other responsibilities," Zakaria wrote in the letter, obtained by TheWrap. "My service at Yale is the single largest commitment of time, energy and attention outside of my writing and television work."
Time and CNN briefly suspended Zakaria this month for lifting paragraphs from a New Yorker essay about gun control and re-purposing them, almost verbatim, in his Time column.
But last week, both news outlets said they found no other instances of plagiarism, termed the matter an "isolated incident" and reinstated Zakaria.
Fareed Zakaria
Ex-Owner Wants Eatery Back
Tony Packo's
A former owner of a hot dog eatery made famous on the TV series "M-A-S-H" is serving up another attempt at regaining control of Tony Packo's.
One of two cousins who have fought for more than a year over the ownership of the Toledo restaurant chain has asked a state appeals court to nullify the $5.5 million sale completed this year.
Robin Horvath wants the sale to representatives of a private restaurant group overturned until the court rules on several appeals he has filed in the case. He also wants the company's assets returned to a court-appointed third party.
The future of Tony Packo's had been in doubt since the spring of 2011 after a bank foreclosed on its loans and a third party was put in charge of daily operations. A judge last December approved the sale to a private group aligned with Tony Packo Jr. and his son.
Tony Packo's became a household name in the 1970s when actor Jamie Farr portrayed a homesick U.S. soldier in the Korean War who longed for Packo's hot dogs.
Tony Packo's
Strip-Club King
Tampa
More than sunshine, cigars or the rollercoasters at Busch Gardens, Tampa is known for its naked ladies. Tampa and strip clubs are often mentioned together, like New York City and the Statue of Liberty. Or San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. Or St. Louis and the Arch.
And the man in the thick of this spectacle is Joe Redner, who almost single-handedly made Tampa's adult entertainment world famous. He's a wiry 72-year-old with an amused smile and skeptical brown eyes who owns what is arguably the most notorious of Tampa's all-nude clubs: Mons Venus.
The club - located less than six miles from where the Republicans will gather to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate - isn't much to look at. The blue-and-purple building sits on a busy stretch of road next to a Taco Bell and near where the NFL's Buccaneers play home games. There's a sign outside that says "Home of the Most Beautiful Women in the World," and another: "Live NUDE Shows."
"I don't expect the RNC to be as busy as Super Bowl," Redner said, with a dismissive wave of his hand. "I don't think those people are coming to party."
Redner doesn't talk much about the actual Republicans coming to town; he considers himself a very liberal progressive. He doesn't like the Republicans' politics, but is hopeful that will bring money into the community. His club's business is down by 50 percent since its heyday in the late 90s, he said. Tampa is in a recession.
Tampa
Brazilian Artist
Fernando de la Rocque
A Brazilian painter is making an art out of smoking pot.
At his studio in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, Fernando de la Rocque took a deep drag on a marijuana joint and blew onto a stencil overlaying paper. After several puffs an image began to appear - a golden-hued version of "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" by Italian sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo.
Smoking marijuana is illegal in Brazil, but some of Rocque's pot-stained prints are selling for $2,500 each. A show featuring the work opened last week at an alternative gallery in Rio's stylish Ipanema neighborhood.
The 32-year-old Rocque says he stumbled on his toking technique in 2009.
It takes him a week to do a single print - blowing about five joints of smoke onto a paper daily.
Fernando de la Rocque
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 13-19. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.97 million.
2. NFL Exhibition Football: Indianapolis vs. Pittsburgh, NBC, 9.51 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 8.48 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 8.03 million.
5. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.92 million.
6. "NCIS," CBS, 7.29 million.
7. "Two and a Half Men" (Thursday), CBS, 6.65 million.
8. "Hell's Kitchen" (Monday), Fox, 6.58 million.
9. "Big Brother 14" (Sunday), CBS, 6.57 million.
10. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.4 million.
11. "Big Brother 14" (Thursday), CBS, 6.13 million.
12. "The Mentalist" (Tuesday), CBS, 5.97 million.
13. "Big Brother 14" (Wednesday), CBS, 5.96 million.
14. "Master Chef" (Tuesday), Fox, 5.73 million.
15. "Grimm," NBC, 5.64 million.
16. "America's Got Talent," (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), 5.5 million.
17. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 5.44 million.
18. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 5.3 million.
19. "Stars Earn Stripes," NBC, 5.24 million.
20. "Wipeout" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), ABC, 5.22 million.
Ratings
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