M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - from August 11th, 2010
By DJ Useo
Howdy y'all. I hope you're enjoying all the fine mashups coming down the pike. It's a veritable tidal wave of new tracks this summer. The flood of swell mashups has become a torrent with many more mashups posted than one person can keep up with. There's even some new forums & blogs appearing as a reflection of the amount of mixes released. To help sort out the cream of the crop, I've picked the 5 best new tracks I could find. These are all bootlegs that'll have you re-playing them LOUD!
01 - One of the exciting moments of Mashup Summer 2010 is the dramatic return of the most popular Beatles masher, CCC. There was a thread at the Beatles Remixers forum asking for his return, & darned effen he didn't show up soon after. Now with his past works re-posted & 3 great new pieces posted, CCC rules again over the other not-untalented fab four home producers. His latest, just-posted track is 'Clavinet Together' (The Beatles vs Stevie Wonder) & gives wide pleasure through it's ingenius combo of 'Superstition' & 'Come Together'.
( www.mashups.blogspot.com/ )
02 - Party Ben is already one of the top mashers on earth. He's doing so well he eschews the forums & simply posts to his own site. Proof of his ongoing talent has manifested in his new post, 'This Tightrope's Made for Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra vs Janelle Monáe). This is just the kind of mash that makes you say 'Why didn't somebody think of this pairing before now?' .After you hear it, you'll no longer need to play it again, as it'll be stuck firmly in your cerebral cortex, forever in replay. Find it & many more
here
( partyben.com/ )
03 - Mashup-Germany's new multi-track mashup 'I Love The Way You Mix (Lie)' is still tearing up the airwaves with it's splendidly-mixed combo of more artists than you would believe. Honestly, this single track has sections of 15 different songs in it. You'll actually hear Eminem, Glashaus, Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, The Lion King, Chiddy Bang, David Guetta, Major Lazer, Elvis Presley, Bobby Valentino, Sean Kingston, Hard-Fi,& Disturbed in one seamless mix. Under the accomplished hand of Mashup-Germany these seemingly unrelated tracks reveal amazing similarities that make for an unforgettable bootleg song.
( www.mashup-germany.com/2010/mashup-germany-i-love-the-way-you-mix-lie/ )
04 - Michmash has come up with a track that really inspires not only listening, but comments. A rarer thing than you would expect with presumably every listener possessing a keyboard. 'Sultans On The Moon' brings together Dire Straits' 'Sultans Of Swing', The Police's 'Walking On The Moon' & Blondie's 'Call Me' into a vastly appealing number sure to put a smile on your face. Many more fine Michmash mashups
here
(
michmash.over-blog.com/article-sultans-on-the-moon-54446843.html )
05 - mARKYbOY has been on a killer run of new mashups for longer than I can recall, & now he cranks it up to 11 with 'Walking for 25 Miles'(Smashmouth vs Edwin Starr). mARKYbOY is well-known for his gift of placing tracks together in such a manner that you hear them in an entirely new & appealing way. He's done it again with this new track as displayed by the HUGE response in downloads & comments. At this rate, he'll have us camped out on his porch awaiting his future tracks!
( markyboymashed.blogspot.com/2010/07/walking-for-25-miles.html )
I could easily go on with this article as there're so many excellent new tracks. I'll spare your eyes for now though & simply bid you adieu till next week.
Mix Of The Week
My own 'DJ Useo-Old Skool Rock 2 - Mashup Mix' contains altered rock like Rush, AC/DC & Lynyrd Skynyrd by mashers like DJ Z-Trip, Fettdog & Go Home Productions all brought together by yours truly. Don't miss the cover. I drawed it myself.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-skool-rock-2-mashup-mix.html )
Mashup Tip : Don't insult a mashup mixer unless you've done better yourself. :)
Newest Useo Thing
'Walrus In The U.S.A.' (The Beatles vs John Mellencamp vs Pimprock) is going gangbusters in it's initial week of release. It even has a
damn funny video by LEENAVEN (
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2tO6yXyn4 ) to display it just right.
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/08/walrus-in-usa-beatles-vs-john.html )
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MARC ANDREESSEN: Why Software Is Eating The World (Wall Street Journal)
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Robert J. Samuelson: Don't kill America's databook (Washington Post)
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T. L. Stanley: J.K. Simmons can do it all (LA Weekly)
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Dennis Lim: "Second Look: 'The Complete Jean Vigo' coming Aug. 30" (LA Weekly)
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Returning To Weekly TV
Bill Moyers
Journalist Bill Moyers retired from weekly TV a year ago but now says he plans to return.
He said Monday he'll be back in January with an hourlong interview show called "Moyers & Company."
He says the new weekly show will not be carried by PBS, the home for much of his past programming. It will be distributed to public TV stations by American Public Television.
The 77-year-old Moyers said his upcoming show will feature interviews with diverse voices and the goal of contributing "to the conversation of democracy."
Bill Moyers
"A Little To The Left, But We're Right"
Stephen King
Stephen King is offering an antidote to what he sees as the biases of right-wing radio talk shows by hiring a former Green Party vice presidential candidate to co-host a morning talk show on two stations he owns.
In a rare public appearance, the horror writer held a news conference Tuesday in Bangor, Maine, at the headquarters of his three-station Zone Radio network.
"The Pulse Morning Show" will be co-hosted by 50-year-old Pat LaMarche and 43-year-old Don Cookson, a former television reporter. LaMarche ran for vice president as a member of the Green Party in 2004.
During the news conference King said, "We're a little to the left, but we're right."
Stephen King
Replacing Cenk
Al Sharpton
After weeks of speculation, MSNBC has made it official -- Al Sharpton will be its new host at 6 p.m.
The well-known civil rights activist and minister has been filling in at the time slot for much of the summer, leading most pundits to assume he would become the full-time host. The rumors have finally been verified, as MSNBC Phil Griffin made the announcement that Sharpton will host "Politics Nation" starting August 29.
The show, which will lead-in to MSNBC shows like "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and "The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell," will feature a discussion of the major headlines. Sharpton's longstanding relationship with Griffin and the network was a factor in the decision.
The 6 p.m. spot was last held by radio host Cenk Uygur, who left after a contract-related disagreement. Uygur later claimed that the MSNBC brass also asked him to mute his opinions. Griffin and MSNBC denied all such rumors.
Al Sharpton
British Comedy Award
Ben Stiller
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles has named Ben Stiller recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy, BAFTA Los Angeles announced on Tuesday.
In the spirit of Stiller's film "Zoolander," it would be appropriate if BAFTA Los Angeles crossed up Stiller and gave the award to Owen Wilson at its awards dinner on November 30th -- but since the organization hardly seems inclined to that kind of tomfoolery, Stiller will join previously announced Britannia recipients Helena Bonham Carter, John Lasseter and David Yates at the ceremony, which will be hosted by actor Alan Cumming.
Stiller's next film is the action comedy "Tower Heist," directed by Brett Ratner and co-starring Eddie Murphy. His other films include "Tropic Thunder," "Greenberg" and "There's Something About Mary." The movies he's written, directed, produced and/or acted in have grossed more than $5 billion worldwide.
BAFTA Los Angeles, which has been presenting the Britannia Awards since 1989, hands out a variety of Britannia Awards each fall. The Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy was presented for the first time in 2010, to Betty White.
Ben Stiller
Fall Premiere Dates
USA Network
USA Network announced Tuesday that "Covert Affairs" and "Burn Notice" will return with new episodes in November.
"Covert Affairs," a sophomore series starring Piper Perabo as a young CIA operative, will debut the second half of its current season on November 1 at 10 p.m. ET, and run for six weeks.
"Burn Notice" will return on November 3 to finish out its fifth season with six more episodes. The series, about a CIA operative banished to Miami, provides a weekly showcase for supporting star Bruce Campbell's considerable talents.
Additionally, the channel reminded us that "Psych" will return for its sixth season on October 12.
USA Network
Returns In November
TNT
TNT announced Tuesday that its hugely popular series "The Closer" and "Rizzoli & Isles" will return with new episodes on November 28.
"The Closer," the Kyra Sedgwick procedural in the middle of its seventh and final season, will push out five more episodes in its fall/winter run, and wrap up with six episodes in summer 2012. It has been pulling down 8.6 million viewers per week so far this season.
"Rizzoli & Isles," the Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander show about a Boston crime-solving tandem, will continue its second season with five winter episodes. The sophomore drama has been averaging an eye-popping 8.8 million viewers each week.
TNT also said that "Leverage" will return with a run of eight new episodes starting Sunday, November 27. The network will also premiere a ten-episode fourth season of its L.A. crime drama "Southland" on January 17, 2012.
TNT
Sets Dates For Ffall Shows
Syfy
Syfy announced Tuesday that its hugely popular drama "Warehouse 13" will be given a two-hour season finale on Monday, October 3.
The network also set important dates for other fall offerings, including the season finales of "Alphas" (September 26) and "Haven" (September 30).
Syfy will air the two-part movie event "Neverland," an original prequel to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," in which Keira Knightley provides the voice of Tinker Bell, on December 4th and 5th. Rhys Ifans will play Captain Hook and Bob Hoskins plays the seafaring toady Smee, a role he portrayed in the Steven Spielberg's 1991 film "Hook."
"Eureka" will wrap up the first half of its fourth season on September 19th at 8 p.m.
"Sanctuary" returns Friday, October 7th, at 10 p.m., with a 13-episode fourth season that will "change everything," according to a boast by the network.
Syfy
Author's Letter Is Focal Point
'The Help'
A handwritten letter from author Kathryn Stockett has become the focal point of a lawsuit over her bestselling novel "The Help," which has been made into a box office hit.
A housekeeper who works for Stockett's brother claims her likeness was used in the book without permission. "The Help" is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who worked for them in the 1960s. The movie adaptation of "The Help" took the No. 1 spot in theaters this past weekend with $20.5 million.
Hinds County, Miss., Circuit Court Judge Tomie Green dismissed Ablene Cooper's lawsuit last week. Green said the statute of limitations elapsed between the time that Stockett gave Cooper a copy of the book in January 2009 and the lawsuit's filing in February of this year.
Cooper's lawyer, Edward Sanders, filed a motion last week to have the lawsuit reinstated. The motion argues that the clock should not have started ticking on the statute of limitations until Cooper read the book in the summer of 2010. Sanders argued that Cooper didn't read it sooner because Stockett said in the letter that, despite the similarity in names, the character wasn't based on Cooper.
'The Help'
Threatening Letter
Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson managed to crack a few jokes on his talk show Tuesday after receiving an envelope packed with white powder that turned out to be harmless.
"Today someone sent an envelope packed with white powder to the show. I offered to test it, but they said 'no,'" Ferguson quipped during a studio taping of "The Late Late Show."
The taping went on as scheduled after the show received a threatening letter sent to Ferguson. Police Det. Gus Villanueva declined to discuss the nature of the threat against the talk show host, saying only that it was sent from overseas.
Two people at CBS Television City, where the show is filmed, were temporarily held in isolation after being exposed to the powder around 3 p.m. They were released after a hazardous materials team screened the powder and found it to be benign.
Craig Ferguson
'Girls Gone Wild' Creator Charged
Joe Francis
Prosecutors have charged "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joseph Francis with assault, false imprisonment and other misdemeanor crimes for allegedly attacking a woman he met at a Hollywood club, but the businessman said he has witnesses and evidence that will exonerate him.
The charges filed against Francis and his bodyguard stem from an alleged January altercation that began when three women got into his limousine outside a popular nightspot. Prosecutors claim the women thought they were being driven to their car but were taken to Francis' gated home, where a struggle ensued and he allegedly slammed one woman's head on a tile floor.
He faces to five years in jail if convicted, but Francis said in a phone interview Tuesday that he is innocent.
He claimed that police and the district attorney's office rejected filing charges against him, but that City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is pursuing the case for political reasons.
District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said county prosecutors declined to file felony charges against Francis in late July, but referred the case to Trutanich's office for possible misdemeanor charges.
Joe Francis
Imagine...
New Jersey
A freshman Republican lawmaker resigned because his wife sent "an offensive and racist" email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a GOP official acknowledged Monday.
Pat Delany stepped down from the state Assembly this month and said he wouldn't seek a full term in November because of his wife's missive to Lewis' campaign, Burlington County Republican Chairman Bill Layton said. Delany originally cited an unspecified family issue as the reason for his abrupt resignation.
Delany and his wife, Jennifer Delany, are white. Lewis, a political novice who's among the greatest athletes of all time, is black.
Jennifer Delany's email to Lewis' campaign said, in part, "Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equaled knowing something about politics."
New Jersey
Charged With Pointing Laser At Helicopter
Clark James Gable
The grandson of the late actor Clark Gable was charged in Los Angeles on Tuesday with pointing a laser at a police helicopter and momentarily blinding two officers on board, prosecutors said.
Clark James Gable, 22, was set to be arraigned on Friday on three counts of discharging a laser at an aircraft.
The late actor's namesake aimed the green laser at a Los Angeles police helicopter flying above a nighttime event in Hollywood on July 28, according to the local District Attorney's Office.
The laser was flashed twice more at the helicopter, and the officers determined the beam came from a small red car, prosecutors said. Officers on the ground stopped the vehicle, and arrested Gable, who was riding as a passenger.
Clark James Gable
Too Busy To Run For Yayor
Levi Johnston
Levi Johnston won't be mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, anytime soon.
Johnston, who toyed with running as part of a reality show, isn't an official candidate for the Oct. 4 election. His attorney, Rex Butler, says Johnston is too busy to run. Butler declined to give specifics but says Johnston has a book coming out next month and plans a tour.
Johnston was thrust into the national spotlight in 2008, when Sarah Palin was running for vice president. Johnston was the boyfriend of Palin's daughter Bristol, who was pregnant at the time with the couple's child.
Johnston went on to pose partially nude for Playgirl, and has said his book will set the record straight about the Palin family, with whom he's had a rocky relationship.
Levi Johnston
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Aug. 15-21. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Preseason: San Diego at Dallas, NBC, 10.68 million.
2. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.40 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 9.74 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 8.70 million.
5. NFL Preseason: Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, Fox, 8.59 million.
6. "Big Brother 13" (Sunday), CBS, 8.37 million.
7. "Big Brother 13" (Wednesday), CBS, 8.14 million.
8. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.90 million.
9. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.80 million.
10. "Big Brother 13" (Thursday), CBS, 7.74 million.
11. NFL Preseason Prekick, NBC, 7.62 million.
12. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.15 million.
13. "Master Chef" (Tuesday), Fox, 7.12 million.
14. "Hell's Kitchen" (Monday), Fox, 6.99 million.
15. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 6.80 million.
16. NFL Preseason Pregame, Fox, 6.66 million.
17. "Wipeout" (Thursday), ABC, 6.47 million.
18. "Bachelor Pad," ABC, 6.41 million.
19. "Master Chef" (Special), Fox, 6.29 million.
20. "Dateline NBC" (Sunday), NBC, 6.11 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Vicco von Buelow ("Loriot")
German humorist Vicco von Buelow, often cited by Germans as proof of their sense of humor and known to the nation simply by his nom de plume, "Loriot," has died. He was 87.
Von Buelow died of old age in his hometown of Ammerland in Bavaria on Monday night, his publisher, Zurich-based Diogenes Verlag AG, said Tuesday.
He was lauded by the nation's Die Zeit weekly as a German cultural figure on a par with classical writers Friedrich Schiller or Wolfgang Goethe.
Born into an aristocratic German family north of Berlin in 1923, von Buelow started out drawing cartoons in the 1950s for the national magazine Stern.
Two decades later, he adopted the name "Loriot," French for oriole, from the bird pictured on his family's coat of arms. He created a cartoon dog called "Wum," whose popularity sparked a career that went on to include several TV cartoon series, songs and more than 50 books.
Von Buelow's drawings were known for their satirical view of daily life, depicted by potato-nosed caricatures of middle-class Germans.
Von Buelow's enormous popularity is reflected in a number of colloquial phrases that have seeped into everyday speech, including the expression of surprise or confusion "Ach, was!" or "yodel diploma," to describe a worthless educational degree.
Von Buelow was decorated with several of Germany's most important literary awards and in 1998 received the German "Great Cross of Merit with Star," one of the country's highest decorations.
Vicco von Buelow ("Loriot")
In Memory
Ross Barbour
Ross Barbour, who was the last original member of the influential 1950s harmonizing group the Four Freshmen, has died in Southern California at 82.
The current group's manager, Dina Roth, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/nUhR3D ) that Barbour had lung cancer and died Saturday at his Ventura County home in Simi Valley.
Barbour's death comes three months after the death of another founding member, his cousin, Bob Flanigan. The two other founding members were Barbour's brother, Don Barbour, and Hal Kratzsch.
The Grammy-winning Four Freshmen's hits include "Graduation Day," ''It's a Blue World," ''Mood Indigo," ''Day by Day," ''It Happened Once Before" and "How Can I Tell Her?"
The group underwent many personnel changes over the years, with Ross Barbour retiring from it in 1977.
Ross Barbour
In Memory
Frank "Uncle Frank" Potenza
Frank Potenza, a former New York City police officer who turned to comedy as "Uncle Frank" on his nephew Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show, died early Tuesday. He was 77.
The show is on hiatus until Sept. 6, and ABC did not have any immediate information about an on-air tribute to Potenza.
The silver-haired Potenza had served as a police officer for two decades and as a private security guard before Kimmel asked him to join his fledgling show as a guard and cast member in 2003.
On "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" the uniformed Potenza was paired in comedy bits with Guillermo Rodriguez, a real-life parking lot security guard for the show. The two men also joined with Veatrice Rice, another show security guard, in a clueless discussion about news events. Rice died in 2009.
Potenza and his former wife, Conchetta "Chippy" Potenza, were sent by Kimmel on comic "adventures" such as working on a dairy farm and learning self-defense.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a Korean War veteran, Potenza served as a police officer for 20 years before working as a guard in Las Vegas and at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. Then Kimmel asked him to move to Los Angeles to work with him.
Potenza is survived by his three daughters and a newborn granddaughter, according to the show's statement. Funeral plans were not released.
Frank "Uncle Frank" Potenza
In Memory
John Howard Davies
John Howard Davies, who grew from cherubic child actor to influential British television producer, has died at 72.
He is remembered by film-lovers for playing the titular orphan boy in David Lean's 1948 film of "Oliver Twist."
He later became a producer and director on enduring comedies including "Monty Python's Flying Circus," ''Fawlty Towers" and "Mr. Bean."
Born in 1939, the son of writers Jack and Dorothy Davies, the young actor followed "Oliver Twist" with major roles in "The Rocking Horse Winner" (1949), "Tom Brown's Schooldays" (1951) and "The Magic Box" (1951).
As an adult he moved behind the camera as a producer and director, mainly at the BBC, where his work included British comedy classics of the 1970s and 80s - "The Good Life," ''To the Manor Born," 'Not the Nine O'Clock News'" and "The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin."
As head of comedy at BBC television between 1977 and 1982, Davies commissioned shows including "Only Fools and Horses" - one of the most popular British sitcoms of all time - and "Yes, Minister," a classic of political satire.
Davies is survived by his wife, son and daughter. A private funeral will be held next week.
John Howard Davies
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