• In 1921, a Metropolitan Opera production of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov featured Feodor Chaliapin singing the title role in Russian, while everyone else sang in Italian. This production was a great success.
• Jean Francaix set some bitter satires by Juvenal to music, but his friend Nadia Boulanger joked that the singers ought not to pronounce the words correctly to avoid scandalizing the audience.
Letters
• Many people hope to discover geniuses, but geniuses are rare. When cellist Pablo Casals wanted to go to Paris (for a second time) in 1899 to become a famous musician, he asked for a letter of introduction from Count Guillermo de Morphy to famed French conductor Charles Lamoureux. Mr. Lamoureux read the letter, and then he groaned, "Everyone thinks to discover genius." However, he allowed Mr. Casals to audition for him the following day. After Mr. Casals played, Mr. Lamoureux, with tears in his eyes, told him, "You are one of the elect."
• Adam Green, who became famous when the Moldy Peaches' "Anyone Else But You" was featured in the hit movie Juno (which also made the other half of the Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, famous), has something that he is really proud of. He has received a number of fan letters, including one from a French boy who gave him thanks because he wrote "such impersonal music," but he is really proud of a letter that made its way to him although it was addressed in this way: "ADAM GREEN, U.S.A."
Media
• Late in 2008, Amanda Palmer's record company informed her that her latest music video needed to be edited. Why? Because her belly wasn't flat enough. This shocked Ms. Palmer, who says, "I'm quite sensitive about my 'fat' little belly, so if I was overweight, I would have known about it, and I was excited because it looked so hot in the video. I was just amazed. I couldn't see what in h*ll's name they were talking about." She wrote about the incident in her blog, and fans started sending in photographs of their own bellies to protest a culture that overvalues flat bellies. The fans even wrote such slogans as "Love thy belly" on their bellies before taking and sending in the photographs. These acts of activism became known as the Rebellyon.
• Humphrey Doulens, the publicity manager of coloratura soprano Lily Pons, once had what he thought was a great idea for a story. He told a newspaper in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Ms. Pons was singing, that she was a great fan of baseball and would be watching the World Series on TV. At first, the newspaper interview went well, with Ms. Pons telling the reporter how greatly she loved baseball. Unfortunately, during a lull in the interview, Ms. Pons asked the reporter about the World Series, "By the way, who is playing?" Nevertheless, Ms. Pons got a favorable front-page story.
• In 1981, the Rolling Stones started a world tour. Usually, band members are willing to grant lots of interviews to media representatives in return for lots of publicity. On September 21, 1981, in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, Stones lead singer Mick Jaggar gave his only face-to-face interview of the worldwide tour. He allowed two girls, 12 and 13 years old, to interview him for their school newspaper.
• A reporter once interviewed Sergei Rachmaninoff, then filed a story that the famed pianist/composer was retiring. The next morning, after reading the story in the newspaper, Mr. Rachmaninoff cleared up the misunderstanding: "I merely said that I was going to bed."
Born Donald Herbert Kemske, he used the name Donald Jeffry Herbert professionally, but he is best known by a name taken from the title of the children's educational TV series that he created. What name did the kids on his show call him?
Written by P. F. Sloan, the best-known version of this protest song was by Barry McGuire, scoring a #1 hit single on the US Billboard Hot 100 in September 1965. What is the title of this song that drew flak from conservatives?
"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964. Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire.
The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights movement, turmoil in the Middle East, and the American space program.
The American media helped popularize the song by using it as an example of everything that was wrong with the youth of that time. Due to its controversial lyrics, some American radio stations, "claiming it was an aid to the enemy in Vietnam", banned the song. The song also drew flak from conservatives. It was also banned by some British radio stations.
McGuire recalled in later years that "Eve of Destruction" had been recorded in one take on a Thursday morning, reading lyrics scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper. The following Monday morning he got a phone call from the record company at 7:00 am, telling him to turn on the radio - his song was playing. McGuire's single hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1965.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Eve of Destruction.
Randall wrote:
Eve of Destruction
Alan J answered:
Eve of Destruction.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
"Eve of Destruction" which followed "Adam of Creation" and "Lilith of Lust", but we know have "tAnus of crime, greed, etc" with "Help! from the goP, bArr, eVilgelicals, etc".
mj replied:
Fifty-five years latern
We still seem to be on the Eve of Destruction.
Mac Mac responded:
Eve of Destruction
Stephen F said:
Eve Of Destruction
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The Eve Of Destruction. Four simple words. Clear in meaning.
zorch answered:
Eve of Destruction.
Dave responded:
Eve of Destruction.
Micki replied:
Eve of Destruction.
Roy, the Retired Enemy of the People, in Tyler, TX wrote:
That was "Eve of Destruction." Isn't it strange how so little has changed over the years?
The eastern world it is explodin' violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin'
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Eve of Destruction
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
That's got to be "Eve of Destruction." I remember it very well, but I was so young as to not understand the meaning of the lyrics. Ah, innocence!
Fired a past client today for his hoax and conspiracy theories that he insisted we needed to discuss before we talked business (he wanted to buy an income property at bottom dollar, at the top of the market, so I was already swimming upstream). I reminded him of my policy of no religion, no politics, and he went on as though I had encouraged him. Still not willing to end our heretofore positive relationship, I went on about how COVID-19 has affected the industry, and the safety measures we'd have to abide by. He was having none of it, so I thanked him for his time and suggested that we were no longer a good fit. No amount of money is worth that fight. No regrets, just no f*cks to give there. And then I went to listing appointment, also with past clients (I only work by referral now and it's the best), and will be putting their house on the market this week.
Thanks, Universe!
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Flashback Trivia...
September 1965... I'm right back there to being a 12 y/o 7th Grader and it's playing on the jukebox at the 'Tiger Shack' during lunchtime break across the street from our combined senior/junior high school. Tigers being the school mascot, just for context. The place is packed and all the kids are eating hotdogs and french fries and making a racket while it plays... and then suddenly 6 years later I'm an Army medic.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is "Eve of Destruction."
Rosemary in Columbus answered:
Eve of Destruction
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Many folks seemed concerned about the tearing down and defacing of statues and monuments. Defacing and statue removal has been going on since antiquity, most recently by the Taliban & ISIS, and now the pious folks in the street.
"As it turns out, Christians and even some pharaohs actually had a habit of vandalizing artwork due to an entrenched culture of iconoclasm. The deliberate destruction of artworks was a way of counteracting the cultural and political power of the image." (ArtNews)
It seems many commentators have become alarmed at this ancient custom now their awareness is heightened about it, done by folks they aren't politically aligned with, and even happening in "yoze neighborhoods."
My little girl Honey loved q-tips too--new or used. If I used a q-tip, I found no trash can could contain it from Honey's investigation. It had to go in the outside trash bin.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'The Unicorn', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Broke', then a RERUN'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Ibram X. Kendi and Patton Oswalt.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Russell Crowe, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, and Charlie Puth.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Council Of Dads', followed by a FRESH'Blindspot', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Shaquille O'Neal, John Lithgow, and Ozuna.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Rachel McAdams and John Early.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 2/10/20) is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Holey Moley', followed by a FRESH'Don't', then a FRESH'To Tell The Truth'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 6/9/20) is Josh Gad.
The CW offers a FRESH'Burden Of Truth', followed by a FRESH'In The Dark'.
Faux has a FRESH'Celebrity Watch Party', followed by a FRESH'Labor Of Love'.
MY fills the night with Rupert's social disinformercials.
AMC offers the movie 'National Lampoon's Vacation', followed by the movie 'Vegas Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Imaginary Friend
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - I, Borg
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Next Phase
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Inner Light
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Time's Arrow
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Time's Arrow, Part II
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Realm of Fear
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Man of the People
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Relics
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Schisms
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - True Q
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Rascals
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - A Fistful of Datas
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Quality of Life
[8:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[10:00PM] BACK TO SCHOOL
[12:02AM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[2:01AM] SUMMER RENTAL
[4:01AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Imaginary Friend
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - I, Borg (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Secret Service', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'.
History has 'Mountain Men', another 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Alone'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Mummy's Dummies
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - You Natzy Spy!
[6:45A] Halloween II
[9:00A] Annabelle
[11:15A] Piranha 3D
[1:15P] Lake Placid
[3:00P] That '70s Show
[3:30P] That '70s Show
[4:00P] That '70s Show
[4:30P] That '70s Show
[5:00P] That '70s Show
[5:30P] That '70s Show
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] That '70s Show
[1:30A] That '70s Show
[2:00A] That '70s Show
[2:30A] That '70s Show
[3:00A] That '70s Show
[3:30A] Looper (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] thinner
[10:30am] along came a spider
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] thinner
[4:00am] the andy griffith show
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Mummy Returns', followed by the movie 'John Wick'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 4/23/20) is Kaley Cuoco.
NASA announced Wednesday that it is naming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary W. Jackson. Jackson became the agency's first American American female engineer in 1958, opening up opportunities for countless women of color in STEM who followed in her footsteps.
"Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA succeed in getting American astronauts into space. Mary never accepted the status quo, she helped break barriers and open opportunities for African Americans and women in the field of engineering and technology," Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. "Today, we proudly announce the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building."
Jackson's career - along with those of other pioneering black NASA scientists - became widely recognized after the publication of Margot Lee Shetterly's 2016 book, "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race." In the subsequent film "Hidden Figures," Jackson was played by award-winning musician and actress Janelle Monáe.
Jackson was recruited in 1951 to work for NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in the segregated West Area Computing Unit in Hampton, Virginia, NASA said. She worked under fellow "Hidden Figure" Dorothy Vaughan and became known as one of the research center's human computers.
Panic at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie shredded the Trump campaign late Tuesday after the president walked out to the band's song "High Hopes" at his rally in Phoenix.
"Dear Trump campaign," the singer wrote on Twitter. "F- you. You're not invited. Stop playing my song. No thanks, Brendon Urie, Panic! At The Disco & company."
In a follow-up tweet, Urie wrote that Trump "represents nothing we stand for."
"The highest hope we have is voting this monster out in November. Please do your part," he added, including a link to HeadCount, a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to use "the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy."
Urie has made no bones about his low opinion of the president, telling Kerrang two years ago that Trump is "a f-ing asshole" who is "encroaching on people's rights."
On CNN's Cuomo Prime Time Tuesday night documentarian Ken Burns, who made his name in 1990 with The Civil War, told the show's host that, in his informed opinion, Confederate monuments across the country "have to go."
This comes on the same day that President Donald Trump (R-Failure) said he will issue an executive order threatening up to 10 years in jail for "anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property."
Trump also boasted about defending the Washington D.C. statue of President Andrew Jackson from a "sneak attack" by activists who wanted to tear it down.
But Burns had a different take, pointing out that "more than a quarter of the United States presidents owned other human beings," including Jackson.
"I think we're in the middle of an enormous reckoning right now in which the anxieties and the pains and the torments of injustice are bubbling up to the surface," Burns said. "It's very important for people like me, of my complexion, to it be as quiet as possible and to listen. What I know from my reading of history is that the confederate monuments have to go."
The estate of Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is suing Netflix, Legendary and the author, writer and director behind the upcoming film Enola Homes over copyright and trademark issues.
The movie stars Millie Bobby Brown as the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, who proves to be a highly capable detective in her own right. The pic is based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries book series by Nancy Springer, who also is a defendant. Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter, Sam Claflin, Fiona Shaw and Adeel Akhtar also star in the film that is set to stream on Netflix.
In a 19-page complaint filed Wednesday in New Mexico federal court (read it here), the estate claims the "copyright infringement arises from defendants unauthorized copying of original creative expression by [Conan Doyle] in copyrighted Sherlock Holmes stories."
The suit claims that, despite most of the original pre-1923 Sherlock Holmes tales have been judged to be in the public domain, the author's last 10 stories about the character - published between 1923 and 1927 - are not. And the Doyle estate is claiming that the Enola Holmes books and movie incorporate something those only later stories included: the famously stoic detective's emotions.
The suit states that after Conan Doyle lost his eldest son in World War I, the author returned to writing Holmes stories but "it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be human. The character needed to develop human connection and empathy."
A Virginia judge dismissed a lawsuit from Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Laughingstock) of California against Twitter on Wednesday, ruling that the social media network cannot be held liable for unflattering tweets made by its users.
In March 2019, Nunes filed a lawsuit against Twitter and other parties seeking $250 million in damages. In the lawsuit, Nunes alleged that Twitter was an "information content provider," and said that the social media site was responsible for the creation of content disseminated through its service. It also accused Twitter of "explicit censorship of viewpoints with which it disagrees" and for "shadow-banning conservatives."
The suit also called out three "defamers" - two anonymous parody accounts known as Devin Nunes' Cow and Devin Nunes' Mom, and a real account for Republican strategist Liz Mair - for ruining his reputation and for contributing to him winning a 2018 election by a "much narrower margin" than in previous years. It accused Twitter of "negligence" for allowing the accounts to continue tweeting without penalty.
According to the Fresno Bee, Judicial circuit Judge John Marshall said in a letter to Nunes' attorneys on Friday that Twitter was immune from Nunes' defamation claims, citing a federal law titled Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The act, passed in 1996, protects internet publishers from being held liable for content published by third parties.
According to the Fresno Bee, Marshall's ruling removes Twitter as a defendant in the case, though the case remains pending against the accounts for Devin Nunes' Cow, Devin Nunes' Mom, and Liz Mair.
Olympus, once one of the world's biggest camera brands, is selling off that part of its business after 84 years.
The firm said that despite its best efforts, the "extremely severe digital camera market" was no longer profitable.
The arrival of smartphones, which had shrunk the market for separate cameras, was one major factor, it said. It had recorded losses for the last three years.
The Japanese company made its first camera in 1936 after years of microscope manufacture. The Semi-Olympus I featured an accordion-like fold-out camera bellows, and cost more than a month's wages in Japan.
The market for standalone cameras has fallen dramatically - by one estimate, it dropped by 84% between 2010 and 2018.
The state of Rhode Island is moving to change its official name - "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" - due to its connection to slavery. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday to change what appears on government documents, and the state's legislature is moving forward with a bill to alter the name entirely.
"Many of the State's residents find it painful that a word so closely associated with slavery should appear in the official name of the State," Raimondo wrote. "The pain that this association causes to some of our residents should be of concern to all Rhode Islanders and we should do everything in our power to ensure that all communities can take pride in our State."
The order will shorten the name to "Rhode Island" in official communications from the governor's office, including executive orders and citations, and will also change the state's website. It will also remove the word "plantations" from all state agency websites and official correspondence, effective "as soon as practicable."
This isn't the first time the state has attempted to change its name: When the state tried in 2010, 78% of voters opposed the removal of "Providence Plantations." But Metts said he has renewed hope.
Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps; that's because almost 95% of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Zealandia - or Te Riu-a-Maui, as it's referred to in the indigenous Maori language - is a 2 million-square-mile (5 million square kilometers) continent east of Australia, beneath modern-day New Zealand. Scientists discovered the sprawling underwater mass in the 1990s, then gave it formal continent status in 2017. Still, the "lost continent" remains largely unknown and poorly studied due to its Atlantean geography.
Now, GNS Science - a geohazards research and consultancy organization owned by the government of New Zealand - hopes to raise Zealandia (in public awareness, at least) with a suite of new maps and interactive tools that capture the lost continent in unprecedented detail.
The new maps reveal Zealandia's bathymetry (the shape of the ocean floor) as well as its tectonic history, showing how volcanism and tectonic motion have shaped the continent over millions of years. Data for the bathymetric map was provided by the Seabed2030 project - a global effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. (The project is about 20% complete.)
The team also released interactive versions of both maps on a new Zealandia webpage. Spend a few minutes clicking around the hyper-detailed images - and, when someone asks what you're doing, simply tell them you're "discovering Earth's lost continent."
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