M Is FOR MASHUP - December 35th, 2010
No Longer Available Mashup Albums
By DJ Useo
2010 has been an incredible year for mashup collections. Feel free to browse through past editions of 'M IS FOR MASHUPS' wednesdays
here
( www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Archives.index.html ) & you'll see what I mean. Just to mention one fantastic collection out of the many released, check out
The KLEPTONES comedy of duality - "Uptime / Downtime"
( www.kleptones.com/ ) It was released right after New Years Day a year ago & as I predicted is still far & away the best mashup album of 2010. Sometimes, though, a tragedy happens & a mashup album is removed from the net for a mysterious phenomena called 'copyright infringement'. I don't understand it completely, but the result is the masher must remove all download links & sometimes is required to perform community service by assisting with pat downs at airports. Lets take a quick look at some of the albums released but then removed for 'copyright infringement'.
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MASHUPS THE FAMILY GUY SCREWS TO' was surely the most popular mashup album for all of 31 minutes before 'the man' came down on it & came down on it hard. All the offending bootleggers were rounded up & forced to work at the RIAA's cafeteria doing dishes. I'd list the names of the contributors but I don't want to end up scraping stains off forks. Still, if you have a copy, check out the amazing third track 'Somewhere In My Guts' (Guns 'n Roses vs Liberace vs Animal from the Muppets). It can be played backwards whereupon you actually hear Lois & Peter Griffin performing obscene acts to the accompaniment of Slash's guitar. This record has no working link that I could find.
DJ Schlommo did a wonderful new mashup album called 'Almost Mashups', but it was removed from the net quickly when it was discovered DJ Schlommo once lived next door to Wikileak's Julian Assange. Not a great mashup album, but not a bad one, 'Almost Mashups' lived somewhere in the realm between Dangermouse, DJ Spooky & Mister Greenjeans from the old Captain Kangaroo childrens show. The standout track was clearly 'Undy Fudge' (Red Peters vs Bar-B-Q Monkey vs Whoevers Reading This) through its memorable cross of synth riff & crap vocal looping. There's a rumour that a link still exists on a MySpace blog, but I wouldn't go there on a dare.
When it was first confirmed that 'MASHUPS BY CHILDREN' was not a hoax, the record quickly found a huge audience with the older kids at Mars Elementary in Poughkeepsie, Pa. The mixing might've been substandard, but the price was right, so the album soon came to the attention of the Labels who actually owned the song rights. Now,even the mixers of Mrs.Lidd's 5th grade class who actually created the record can't get a copy without being drawn immediately into court & forced to stand in the corner till lunch.
There are certainly better mashup albums but it had a naive charm. Hopefully some of the kiddie dj's involved will mix more in future; especially nice would be tracks from Minnie-me2001, DJ Booger & Lil' Kidd.
DJ newbie MC CMMMVII came out of nowhere to be a one week wonder, before some killjoys realized he was paying tribute to their signed artists & got the record removed from the entire net. Even the government can't get a copy anymore as a complete label clampdown took effect.MC CMMMVII actually started to fade from existence until he was revived by a recent DJ Food video mix. His record 'ONE CONTINUOUS MASHUP LOOP' is not to be located except I found it is playing in a Las Vegas casino bathroom as a deterrent to vagrants. Life sure is funny, eh?
I'm sure you remember when DJ Ben Stabbed's 'BUGS vs Big Boi' was all the rage for about a day & a half last June? It actually was a full 14 tracks of popular hip hop artist Big Boi rapping alongside Bugs Bunny samples & music lifted right from old Warner Brothers cartoons. I actually think WB would've left the record alone except there was one track 'Play Me To My Desk' where you could clearly hear an edited sample of Bugs slamming the corporate structure of WB. OOPS! Maybe we'll hear more from DJ Stabbed, but I hope he avoids cartoon samples entirely. The word on the street is it will be a Valentines day project using porn samples.
DJ Snood mixed a new mashup album called 'Giblets' that was removed after complaints from the Turkey Council. This is a rarity for a mashup record to be removed for something besides copyright infringement. The music was actually very nice, being mostly R 'n' B vs Hip Hop tracks. The record was also notable for the actual cover photo of DJ Snood, a rarely-seen figure in DJ history due to his horrifying disfigurement of a large flap of extra skin over half his face. I recently spoke to him on facebook chat & he sez he's very happy with his upcoming mashup album of songs about being bald, & delicious.
Let me know if you hear of any more no longer available mashup albums.
Mix Of The Week
mARKYbOY has released his annual New Years Eve set 'The Night Before/The Morning After 2010'. The traditional release from mARKYbOY follows the previous pattern of a lively first set intended for New Years Eve, and a chilled set perfectly suited for waking up the next day. Find the two works
here
( www.markyboymashed.blogspot.com/ )
Latest Useo
Thing-Wider Bottoms Up (Trey Songz f_ Nicki Minaj vs Infected Mushroom) I got huge encouragement to make & then post this mashup. Thanks, Useoettes!!
( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/12/wider-bottoms-up-trey-songz-f-nicki.html )
Mashup Tip : Go to Big Bear Lake for relaxing inspiration for new mashup ideas.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
David Bruce: Wise Up! Animals (Athens News)
Creative sentencing is not new. Judge Roy Bean, the Law West of the Pecos, once was faced with sentencing a wife beater. Judge Bean ordered the wife beater to be chained close to Bruno, the judge's pet bear. The bear wasn't close enough to do any actual life-threatening damage, but he was plenty close enough to scare the wife beater.
TWO YEARS OF PROGRESS (my.democrats.org)
"Watch the video! (And it doesn't even mention the food safety bill! Or the 9/11 first responders bill! Or our regained status among the community of nations! Or the new line of embryonic stem cells that might one day save your child's life!)" - Andrew Tobias
CLICKABLE PROGRESS (progress.barackobama.com)
This site provides numbers - nationally, by state, or for your specific Congressional district.
Henry Rollins: LA WEEKLY COLUMN #19
This is why I like Barack Obama. He's dealing with men and women who are furious that he is trying to even the playing field just a little. You would figure he would get some points for sticking around in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay but no, they hate him day and night. All the while, the man keeps working away as best he can.
Irene Lacher: "The Sunday Conversation: Deepak Chopra" (Los Angeles Times)
We built an economy based on speculation; we built a psychology that said spend money that you have not earned to buy things you do not need to impress people you do not like. So the economy falls apart. It's based on a false premise, that you can get something for nothing. The society is built on instant gratification. We want everything in the short term. We elect a leader, we expect him to change things quickly, in less than two years, and then the rest of the two years the poor guy has to worry about getting reelected, so when does he get to do his job?
Scott Burns: How to Save in the No-Yield Economy (assetbuilder.com)
Should we change how we use our money?
Christine Carter: How Exercise Can Boost Kids' Brainpower... And Yours, Too (Huffington Post)
Whenever I need some additional motivation to get off the couch and into a pair of sweatpants (and then out the door once I'm in those cozy sweatpants), I think about the research behind the benefits of exercise -- for our health, for our happiness and, yes, for our children.
Charlyn Fargo: Forget the Weight-Loss Resolutions (Creators Syndicate)
This year, consider a new strategy for weight loss. Don't make your typical January resolution to lose 10 pounds. Instead, focus on a plan for healthy eating and a daily workout.
MAUREEN DOWD: Because the Night Belongs to Her (New York Times)
A punk-rock poet tells a story with operatic grandeur.
The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction (New York Times)
What's behind the dystopian trend in novels for teenagers, and why is there so much demand for it?
Jim Fusilli: Music: Return of the Album (Wall Street Journal)
It's said the long-playing album is no longer a viable medium for contemporary music. But that was wrong in 2010.
George Varga: Kingston Trio to get Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award (Creators Syndicate)
The Kingston Trio, the pioneering folk music group that rose to fame in the 1950s and featured two San Diego-bred musicians, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in February. Best known for such hits as 1958's chart-topping "Tom Dooley," 1959's "Tijuana Jail," 1962's "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" and 1963's "Greenback Dollar," the trio scored 14 Top 10 and five No. 1 albums in its heyday.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
The Weekly Poll
New Question
The '2010 Good, Bad, and Butt-Ugly' Edition...
Well, then, Poll-Fans... Let's do our own '2010 Year in Review' thing, eh?
Be-damn'd to all those other corporate media lists, I'm sayin'... I'm thinkin' we can do it better, Dagnabbit! (Or, at least have us some more fun at it and all...)
Everything and everybody is fair game... People, events, TV shows, Movies, Books, Music, Weather, inanimate objects... you get the idea, right?
Have at it, then, would ya now?...
A.) The 'Good'...
B.) The 'Bad'...
C.) And the downright dad-blamed 'Butt-Ugly'...
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25 New Entries
National Film Registry
Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, Tony Manero preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist speaking in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.
The 25 films selected this year include "The Empire Strikes Back," the 1980 sequel to "Star Wars" that many critics and fans consider the best of George Lucas' six "Star Wars" films. "Empire" shocked moviegoers with the revelation that masked villain Darth Vader was the father of hero Skywalker.
The Library of Congress announced the selections early Tuesday. The goal of the registry, which began in 1989, isn't to identify the best movies ever made but to preserve films with artistic, cultural or historical significance.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has chosen each of the films in the registry, culling them from suggestions by the National Film Preservation Board and by the public. More than 2,100 films were nominated by the public in 2010.
Original copies of films picked for the registry are kept safe and available for viewing by future generations. The library acquires its own copies to preserve in its cold-storage vaults among millions of other recordings at the Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center near Culpeper, Va.
National Film Registry
Satellite Sentinel Project
George Clooney
A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month.
Clooney's Not On Our Watch is funding the start-up phase Satellite Sentinel Project that will collect real-time satellite imagery and combine it with field analysis from the Enough Project and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, organizers said.
The data will point out movements of troops, civilians and other signs of impending conflict. The U.N. Operational Satellite Applications Program and Google will then publish the findings online.
"We want to let potential perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes know that we're watching, the world is watching," Clooney said in a statement. "War criminals thrive in the dark. It's a lot harder to commit mass atrocities in the glare of the media spotlight."
George Clooney
Top Concert Draws
2010
Bon Jovi may have recently been snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the veteran band still ended the year as the world's top concert attraction, according to a trade publication.
The group sold $201.1 million worth of tickets, split almost evenly between North America and the rest of the world, said Pollstar magazine. Its success was noteworthy given that it was promoting a 2009 album that did not sell strongly.
Bon Jovi also shone even as overall sales slid in a tough economy. Pollstar said sales for the top 50 tours worldwide fell 12 percent to $2.93 billion. In North America, the top 50 tours dropped 15 percent to $1.69 billion.
Hard rockers AC/DC came in at No. 2 and Irish foursome U2 at No. 3 after making all their money overseas. AC/DC grossed $177 million, and U2 $160.9 million. U2 was the top worldwide act in 2009 with $311 million, followed by AC/DC with $227 million.
In a field dominated by rock acts, flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga was No. 4 this year with $133.6 million. The "Poker Face" singer worked harder than any other musician in the top 10, playing 138 shows, two-thirds of which were overseas.
2010
Leading Actress Quits Show
"Spider-Man"
In the latest disappointment for the ambitious Broadway production of "Spider-Man," one of the lead actresses who suffered a concussion during its first preview performance is quitting the show.
Natalie Mendoza, who plays the villainess Arachne and is the second lead female role after Spider-Man's girlfriend, has been working out an exit agreement for the past several days, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. A spokesman for the production did not return an e-mail seeking comment.
Mendoza was one of four actors who was so far been injured in the $65 million production that features hi-tech stunts and flying sequences. The actress, who is a major presence in several of the show's songs, written by U2's Bono and The Edge, was struck on the head by a rope offstage during its November 28 preview.
She returned for a performance but then took several weeks off. Then, last week, she posted a Twitter message when a leading stuntman on the show was injured after he plunged from a high platform, saying "a light in my heart went dim tonight."
"Spider-Man"
Down A Bit
Annual Box Office
Domestic box-office revenues for 2010 won't quite hit last year's record-setting haul, but they'll be awfully close.
Total movie-ticket sales will reach $10.556 billion, the tracking agency Hollywood.com said Tuesday. That's a slight decrease from the $10.6 billion total from 2009, but it's also only the second time that the annual box office has crossed the $10 billion mark.
At the same time, total attendance was down 5.36 percent from last year. That's the biggest percentage drop year over year since 2005. This will also be the second-lowest attended year of the decade.
It looked as if 2010 might have set a new record at the beginning of the year, when 2009's "Avatar" was still going strong well into February and March, said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. James Cameron's 3-D sci-fi epic boasts the biggest box-office take in history, collecting $2.7 billion worldwide, nearly $750 million of which came domestically.
Annual Box Office
Space Flight & Civil War Saluted
New Stamps
Two of America's favorite spacemen - the cool-headed Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and the animated Buzz Lightyear of "Toy Story" fame - join movie stars, musicians and artists being honored in 2011 with stamps from the U.S. Postal Service.
Ronald Reagan, an actor who had a more lasting impact as the 40th president, will be honored in February with a stamp on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Also getting a stamp for a 100th birthday: the Indianapolis 500. The Postal Service announced its 2011 lineup on Tuesday.
Other events being commemorated with stamps include the 150th anniversaries of the beginning of the Civil War and of Kansas statehood and the 50th anniversary of U.S. manned spaceflight. In addition to a stamp featuring Shepard, the first American in space, is one noting the Mercury orbit of the spacecraft Messenger, expected to take place in March.
New Stamps
Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for Dec. 20-26. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "NCIS," CBS, 12.25 million.
2. "The OT," Fox, 11.86 million.
3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.53 million.
4. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 11.28 million.
5. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 9.22 million.
6. "The Sing Off," NBC, 8.61 million.
7. "Undercover Boss," CBS, 8.38 million.
8. "The Mentalist," CBS, 7.96 million.
9. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.93 million.
10. "Hawaii Five-O," CBS, 7.67 million.
11. "Football Night in America," NBC, 7.39 million.
12. "Mike & Molly," CBS, 7.35 million.
13. "The Mentalist" (Sunday), CBS, 7.30 million.
14. "Minute to Win It" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.04 million.
15. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 6.99 million.
16. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 6.89 million.
17. "CSI: Miami" (Sunday), CBS, 6.79 million.
18. "The Good Wife," CBS, 6.72 million.
19. "Soy Tu Duena" (Monday), Univision, 6.69 million.
20. "Soy Tu Duena" (Wednesday), Univision, 6.65 million.
Ratings
In Memory
John Warhola
John Warhola, the older brother who helped raise pop art icon Andy Warhol and later helped establish the Andy Warhol Museum in their native Pittsburgh, has died. He was 85.
Warhola died on Christmas Eve after battling pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to his son, Donald Warhola. The hospital is just a few blocks from the museum. Warhola lived in nearby New Sewickley.
He was one of three founding members of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and was its vice president for 20 years. The foundation established the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 1994, seven years after the artist - whose given name was Andy Warhola - died at age 58 from complications following gall bladder surgery.
After their father Andrij Warhola died in 1942, John Warhola was tasked with raising his younger brother, Andy, and making sure he attended college. Their father had purchased enough savings bonds to pay for Andy's first two years of college, but told John the rest was up to him.
Andy went on to attend the School of Fine Arts at what was then Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University). Warhol was a successful commercial artist before becoming known for his pop art, ranging from silk screened images of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe to detailed renderings of Campbell's Soup cans, and other avant-garde fare.
Warhola's funeral will be Wednesday at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's North Side. He will be buried in the family plot at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in suburban Bethel Park.
John Warhola
In Memory
Lorenzo Pimentel
Lorenzo Pimentel, whose handmade guitars are played by professionals around the world, has died at age 82.
Pimentel, who moved to Albuquerque in 1963 with a few hand tools, founded Pimentel & Sons Guitar Makers Inc.
Pimentel's handmade classical guitars gained an international reputation after the music magazine Frets featured his work in 1965 and guitarist and music publisher Mel Bay published photos of Pimentel's work on the covers of his guitar method books.
His reputation for quality endured because he resisted mass-producing guitars, said son Rick Pimentel, president of Pimentel & Sons. Today, the company builds just 40 instruments a month ranging from $1,200 student models to concert instruments costing up to $15,000.
Lorenzo Pimentel, born in Durango, Mexico, made his first guitar at age 15 in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, workshop under the guidance of two brothers.
He told the Albuquerque Journal in a 1992 interview he also learned to be a baker because guitar-making alone wouldn't support him.
His fortunes improved with the soaring popularity of guitars and folk music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lorenzo Pimentel is survived by his wife, Josefina Pimentel Garnica; sons Carlos, Hector, Agustin, Rick, Robert, Victor, Lawrence and Gustavo Pimentel; daughters Zoyla Munoz, Maricela Pimentel and Aida Pimentel; a brother, Agustin Pimentel; 22 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
Lorenzo Pimentel
In Memory
Denis Dutton
Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton has died in New Zealand, his family said Wednesday. He was 66.
Dutton had prostate cancer but continued working as professor of philosophy at New Zealand's Canterbury University until his health deteriorated rapidly a week ago, the family said. He died Tuesday.
Dutton was widely known for Arts & Letters Daily, a groundbreaking early Internet aggregator featuring links to commentary on arts, literature and events.
He established the site in 1998, and London's Guardian newspaper described it the next year as "the best website in the world." He continued on as editor after selling it to the U.S.-based Chronicle of Higher Education in 2002.
Born in California on Feb. 9, 1944, Dutton was educated at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His recent work focused on Darwinian applications in aesthetics, explored in his best-selling book "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution," in 2009, which he described as a study of art as a product of evolution.
While at University of Michigan in 1976, he founded the academic journal, "Philosophy and Literature," later taken over by Johns Hopkins University Press.
He became professor of philosophy at New Zealand's Canterbury University in 1984. It was from there that he launched Arts & Letters Daily.
He is survived by his wife, Margit, and two children, Sonia and Ben.
Denis Dutton
In Memory
Bernie Wilson
Bernie Wilson, a baritone member of the rhythm and blues group that produced the 1972 hit "If You Don't Know Me by Now," has died.
Wilson, 64, died early Sunday at Kresson View Center in Voorhees, N.J., following a stroke and a heart attack, his cousin, Faith Peace-Mazzccua, said Monday.
Philadelphia International Records, the former record company for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, said Wilson's death leaves Lloyd Parks as the sole surviving member of the group's lineup at the time. The lineup also featured Teddy Pendergrass and Lawrence Brown.
The group produced a string of R&B hits in the '70s and helped define the Sound of Philadelphia.
"If You Don't Know Me by Now" topped the R&B charts and made the top five on the pop charts. The hits that followed included "I Miss You," "Bad Luck," "Wake up Everybody," and the dance track "The Love I Lost," which has been credited as one of the first disco records, according to an All Music Guide biography on the Billboard website.
"Bernard was a very funny person. He should have been a comedian," Peace-Mazzccua said. "He didn't take no stuff and he loved people."
Bernie Wilson
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