M Is FOR MASHUP - November 20th, 2013
Osymyso's Mashup Masterpiece
By DJ Useo
The mixing God Osymyso made this incredible mix. 'Intro-Inspection'. It flows through different tunes every few seconds, over twelve minutes. You'll enjoy it forever after.
( www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQo6fGe9idc )
Podcast Of The Week
BorisB's 'The Extra Hour - November Show 2013' is essential mashups selected and hosted by a real talent.
Full playlist, and link for stream and download here
( theextrahour.webs.com/ )
Mashup Tip
Practice. Practice. Practice.
Latest Useo Thing
Adam Berry-'Monsters vs Aliens TV Theme' ( DJ Useo Beware! remix ) Here's a good bit of monster vs alien audio fun. Now I wonder what else Adam Berry has written.
Stream or d/l from here
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2013/11/monsters-vs-aliens-dj-useo-remix.html )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
Useo will write a longer column next week.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Hadley Freeman: The political brilliance of Rob Ford (Guardian)
The Toronto mayor took hard drugs and admitted it - and still the voters are fond of him. His 'typical guy' act has revealed Canada's renegade side.
Paul Krugman: The Geezers are Not Alright (NY Times)
Maybe you don't believe that the failure of defined-contribution plans is a reason to expand the one major defined-benefit plan we have, aka Social Security. But don't make that argument by claiming that all is well with America's seniors. The geezers are not alright.
Aditya Chakrabortty: Police are cracking down on students - but what threat to law and order is an over-articulate history graduate? (Guardian)
For most of my life student politics has been little more than a joke. Suddenly it's become both serious and admirable.
Annmarie Chiarini: I was a victim of revenge porn. I don't want anyone else to face this (Guardian)
My ex tried to sell nude photos of me on eBay and put them on a porn site. But I fought back and am pushing to make this illegal.
L.V. Anderson, "Why Adjunct Professors Don't Just Find Another Job" (Slate)
One question that comes up a lot in discussions about higher education's overreliance on adjunct professors is why adjuncts don't just find another job. As I wrote in my profile of Margaret Mary Vojtko, adjuncts typically make a couple thousand dollars per course, receive no retirement or health benefits, and can lose their job at the end of any semester for any reason. With working conditions that bad, why does anyone stick around?
What sells art? (Guardian)
The greater the painting, the higher the price, right? Wrong. As a Bacon goes for £89m, auctioneer Philip Hook reveals what really sells in the world of fine art.
James C. Scott: Review of The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond (London Review of Books)
It's a good bet a culture is in trouble when its best-known intellectuals start ransacking the cultural inventory of its ancestors and its contemporary inferiors for tips on how to live.
Luke T. Harrington: 6 Filthy Jokes You Won't Believe Are from the Bible (Cracked)
In reality, the Bible is full of unbelievably dirty stories and one-liners about dongs, butts, and so, so much poop, many of which were censored out of the English version. That's right -- people couldn't resist toning things down even when translating the freaking Bible. But when you go back to the original text, you find things like ...
Gene McCarthy: 6 Dirty Jokes You Didn't Notice in Shakespeare (Cracked)
Let's face it: The percentage of our audience who will just sit down and read a bunch of Shakespeare without being forced to by a professor is pretty damned small. And that's too bad, because what most non-English majors don't realize is that under Shakespeare's flowery language and incomprehensible old-timey wordplay is a whole lot of sly references to boners, anal sex, masturbation, and much worse.
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Last Night
Sunny early, cloudy afternoon.
Out Earns Lady Gaga
Madonna
Madonna easily surpassed singer Lady Gaga and veteran rockers Bon Jovi as the highest-paid musician in 2013,Forbes said on Tuesday.
Madonna earned $125 million (77.5 million pounds), most of which was from her hugely successful MDNA tour, which grossed $305 million, as well as merchandise sold at concerts and a clothing line and fragrance.
Second-place Lady Gaga, 27, earned $80 million and Bon Jovi, came in third with $79 million.
Forbes compiled the list of the 25 highest-paid musicians by estimating income for the 12 months between June 2012 and June 2013 using data from the trade publication Pollstar, trade organization RIAA, and information and sales tracking system Nielsen SoundScan. The magazine also consulted with industry lawyers, managers and some of the musicians.
Country music star Toby Keith was No. 4 on the list with $65 million, and British rock group Coldplay slipped into the top five with $64 million.
Madonna
'I Will Never Be Silent Again'
Rev. Frank Schaefer
The Pennyslvania Methodist minister convicted by a jury of his ecclesiastical peers of breaking church law for presiding over his son's wedding to a man is refusing to repent.
"I did not want to make this a protest about the doctrine of the church. I wasn't trying to be an advocate," The Rev. Frank Schaefer, a father of four, testified Tuesday in a hearing to determine his punishment. "I just wanted this to be a beautiful family affair, and it was that."
Rev. Schaefer took a visible and increasingly clear stand over the course of Tuesday's proceedings, wearing a rainbow-colored stole on the witness stand. He declined the church prosecution's offer to "repent of and renounce his disobedience to the (Methodist Book of) Discipline," the Associated Press reported, and refused to promise that he wouldn't officiate at more same-sex unions.
Later in the day, his tone became more defiant. The church "needs to stop judging people based on their sexual orientation. We have to stop the hate speech. We have to stop treating them as second-class Christians," he said. "I will never be silent again."
Rev. Frank Schaefer
War on 'Greatest Generation'
Voter ID
Genevieve Winslow of Milwaukee belongs is a member of the Greatest Generation. In 1948, at age 20, she married Alex Winslow, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Beginning a year later, at 21, she's voted in nearly every election since. Now, she worries she might get turned away at the polls in the future.
It is a common concern among older Americans living in states that have enacted photo ID requirements for voting. Passed by Republican state legislatures as a hedge against voter fraud, the laws have been assailed by critics who say they discriminate against the elderly and minorities.
The problem Ms. Winslow faces is common among her generation: The name on her birth certificate doesn't match her other identification. Winslow's birth certificate misspelled her last name as Kujansky, when it was actually Kujawski. In addition, the first name on her birth certificate, Genava, was Anglicized to Genevieve in elementary school.
Thousands of elderly voters who lack current driver's licenses have been turned down for state-issued photo IDs for not producing proper birth certificates, says Julie Ebenstein, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is fighting against some state's laws. Sometimes, the birth certificate is missing or destroyed. For people born at home instead of a hospital, one might never have been issued. Back then, it wasn't uncommon for birth certificates to leave the first name blank - making them useless now for photo IDs. And for a generation of children of immigrants, ethnic names caused frequent errors.
Still, Sen. Al Franken (D) of Minnesota blasted voter ID in a speech last year, saying, "I've met, at these senior centers, our Greatest Generation, people who landed at Omaha Beach and fought their way across France and across Germany to take down Hitler and they're now in their late 80s and early 90s. I met a man who's worried about being able to vote. He doesn't have his birth certificate. Are you telling me this guy ... shouldn't be allowed to vote?"
Voter ID
Judge Rejects Conservatorship
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem is receiving good medical care and a conservatorship is unnecessary for the ailing radio personality, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Superior Court Judge Lesley Green urged lawyers to reach an agreement that would allow three of Kasem's adult children to visit their father, who is suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease.
Kasem's children have said they are being blocked from seeing their father by his wife of more than 30 years, Jean. But her lawyer Marshall Grossman said the children have rejected a proposal to allow them to visit their father each month and on major holidays.
Green acknowledged there is "bad blood" in the family, but noted a doctor who has evaluated Kasem reported he wants to see his children.
The judge told lawyers to try to work out an agreement for visitation by Kasem's children and set another court hearing for Dec. 20.
Casey Kasem
Intellectual Property Rights Sold
Elvis Presley
The money-making enterprise called Elvis Presley has been sold.
Authentic Brands Group said Tuesday it has bought Elvis Presley's intellectual property from CORE Media Group and is partnering with the founder of another company to operate the Graceland tourist attraction.
The purchase gives Authentic Brands control of Elvis Presley Enterprises, which manages the licensing and merchandising rights to Presley's image, name and likeness, in addition to a massive collection of music, photos, movies, television appearances and performance specials featuring the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
As part of the deal, National Entertainment Collectibles Association founder Joel Weinshanker acquires Graceland's operating rights, according to a statement announcing the sale. Weinshanker, Authentic Brands and the Presley family will partner in operating Graceland, it added.
A purchase price wasn't disclosed. Also known as ABG, Authentic Brands Group is a New York-based intellectual property corporation that manages brands including Marilyn Monroe and Muhammad Ali.
Elvis Presley
Paid In Beer
Amsterdam
At nine o'clock in the morning in a garden shed behind a house in Amsterdam, a handful of alcoholics are getting ready to clean the surrounding streets, beer and cigarette in hand.
For a day's work, the men receive 10 euros (around $13), a half-packet of rolling tobacco and, most importantly, five cans of beer: two to start the day, two at lunch and one for after work.
The alcoholics are split into two groups of around 10 people, with each group working three days a week.
The imaginative approach to the problem of anti-social behaviour demonstrates typical Dutch pragmatism which could be found shocking in other countries, but not here.
Amsterdam
Fail To Sell At NY Auction
'Dueling Dinos'
Two fossilized dinosaur skeletons, dubbed the "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs" because they appear forever locked in mortal combat, failed to sell Tuesday at a New York City auction.
A pre-sale estimate had predicted that the skeletons, offered as a single lot, could fetch between $7 million and $9 million - a price out of the reach of most museums. There were hopes that a wealthy buyer would donate the skeletons to a public institution but the price failed to meet the reserve at the Bonhams auction; the highest offer was $5.5 million.
The dueling dinos' discovery began with a pelvis protruding through rock at a Montana ranch. Three more months of chiseling and digging revealed a remarkable discovery: two nearly complete, fossilized dinosaur skeletons of a carnivore and herbivore, their tails touching.
A pushed-in skull and teeth of one dinosaur embedded in the other suggested a deadly confrontation between them. Clayton Phipps, a fossil hunter who made the discovery on his neighbor's land in 2006 in the fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation, gave the fossils their name.
'Dueling Dinos'
No Landmark Status For LA Building
Tower Records
Los Angeles music fans are singing the blues after the West Hollywood City Council voted to deny landmark status for the Sunset Strip building that formerly housed the flagship Tower Records store.
The unanimous vote Monday let a decision by the historic preservation commission stand, not allowing the building to be deemed a cultural resource, KNX Radio reported.
Mayor Abbe Land said that even though many people had fond memories of Tower, once one of the largest retail record chains, "it didn't meet the criteria" for preservation. The brick-and-mortar chain collapsed amid competition from online music shop iTunes.
Opponents of the landmark status argued the mid-century building itself is nondescript without Tower's signature coat of yellow paint and would best be honored with a plaque, or a music-themed square. The building, which most recently housed a clothing store, is now boarded up.
The mayor said the city will consider other ways to commemorate the store, which was a Sunset Strip fixture for about 40 years.
Tower Records
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Kansas City at Denver, NBC, 26.95 million.
2. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 19.92 million.
3. "NCIS," 19.37 million.
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.3 million.
5. "The OT," Fox, 14.99 million.
6. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 14.89 million.
7. "Football Night in America," NBC, 14.02 million.
8. "Person of Interest," CBS, 12.6 million.
9. "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 12.57 million.
10. "The Walking Dead," AMC, 12 million.
11. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.99 million.
12. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.86 million.
13. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 11.79 million.
14. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.64 million.
15. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 11.63 million.
16. "The Millers," CBS, 11.08 million.
17. NFL Football: Miami at Tampa Bay, ESPN, 10.96 million.
18. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.75 million.
19. "The Blacklist," NBC, 10.69 million.
20. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 10.47 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Diane Disney Miller
Diane Disney Miller, Walt Disney's daughter and one of his inspirations for building the Disneyland theme park, has died at her Northern California home. She was 79.
Her death Tuesday in Napa was confirmed by The Walt Disney Co. The cause was complications from a fall, said Andi Wang, spokeswoman for the Walt Disney Family Museum.
Miller, the eldest elder daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, was born Dec. 18, 1933. In later life, she remembered her father as a man who was caring and patient with his children.
"He'd take me and my sister Sharon to the merry-go-round at Griffith Park and stand there all day waiting until we were ready to go," Miller told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1998. "As he stood there, he kept thinking there should be more for parents and children to do together, and the idea for Disneyland was born."
Miller founded the Walt Disney Family Museum, which opened in 2009 in San Francisco's Presidio, as a tribute to her family's legacy. One of her major concerns was that her father's name had become associated more with a corporate identity than with the man himself.
She also played a key role in the completion of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, a project started with a $50 million gift from her mother.
In 1997, she bucked project leaders like Richard Riordan, the mayor at the time, and billionaire Eli Broad, who said Gehry's firm lacked the experience to execute the plans for the building's unusual curved polished steel design. At a crucial point, Miller threatened to withhold the roughly $20 million remaining of her mother's gift if Gehry was not kept on.
"I wanted something that would bear my father's name, that would come from his wealth but not be commercial," Miller told the Los Angeles Times in September. "I think we achieved that."
Miller's younger sister, Sharon, died of cancer in 1993. She is survived by her husband, Ronald, who owns the Silverado Vineyards Winery in Napa Valley, as well as seven children and 13 grandchildren.
Diane Disney Miller
In Memory
Syd Field
The author of the screenplay manual that inspired James Cameron and Judd Apatow to make movies has died.
A spokesman for Syd Field says the author died Sunday of a blood disorder at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 77.
Derek Christopher said Tuesday that Field was surrounded by friends and family, including his brother, Dr. Morton Field, and wife, Aviva Field.
Syd Field's book "Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting" has been required reading in Hollywood since it was published in 1979. It has been translated into 23 languages and used in universities around the world.
A Hollywood-born graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Field wrote eight books on screenwriting and lectured across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Before his death, he was preparing to release video and audio recordings of his most recent lectures, given earlier this year. Christopher said he hopes the materials will be available in 2014.
Syd Field
In Memory
Alexander Serebrov
Alexander Serebrov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who once held the Guinness World Record for the most spacewalks and who was the first to test drive a "space motorcycle," has died at 69, according to Russia's federal space agency.
Serebrov's death at his Moscow apartment
A veteran of four spaceflights, Serebrov was selected as a cosmonaut in 1978 with the fourth group of engineering candidates. Between 1982 and 1994, he flew to two space stations - twice to Salyut 7 and twice to Mir - logging a career total of 373 days in orbit.
Serebrov made his first launch into space in August 1982 on the week-long Soyuz T-7 mission. Flying together with Leonid Popov and Svetlana Savitskaya to deliver science experiments and mail for the residents aboard Salyut 7, it was the first spaceflight to include men and women on the same crew.
Serebrov's final mission to space, Soyuz TM-17, also had him perform five spacewalks, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most outer space outings made by any cosmonaut or astronaut, a record he held for four years.
Serebrov's 196-day stay on orbit almost ended in tragedy when he and his commander, Vasili Tsibliyev, lost control of the Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft after undocking, colliding with Mir twice. Fortunately, the Soyuz and space station escaped serious damage - the Mir crew did not even feel the impact - and Serebrov and Tsibiyev returned to Earth the same day on Jan. 14, 1994.
Serebrov retired from the Russian space program in May 1995 to work as an advisor to then President Boris Yeltsin on issues relating to spaceflight.
Alexander Aleksandrovich Serebrov, born Feb. 15, 1944, attended the Moscow Physics Technological Institute. He earned his post-graduate technical sciences degree from the same school in 1970.
In 1976, Serebrov joined the design bureau NPO Energia (today, the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation, or RSC, Energia), where he was when he was recruited for the cosmonaut corps.
Serebrov was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" for his contributions to the nation's space program, as well as the Order of Friendship and twice Orders of Lenin.
Alexander Serebrov
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