The ASCAP Mafia, Silver Linings

OK Baseball fans - this graphic was shown on TV . How many errors can you spot?  Answers near the end.

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 We watched Silver Linings Playbook yesterday and feel THAT is the movie that should have won the OSCAR. ARGO was a fun movie and a good story and Zero Dark Thirty was fascinating in a documentarly way but Linings should have won.   Excellent adult date movie dealing with real people with real problems in a funny eye opener way.

Then we watched about 15 minutes of  Behind the Candelabra staring Micheal Douglass and Matt Damon and it was just freaking creepy and horrible.  It was like watching a bad porno creepy movie and we didn't even get the the sex part.

All we could see was Michael Douglas with a wig acting creepy and Matt Damon with a wig.  Add Rob Lowe wearing a wig and Scott Bakula wearing a wig and it was just uncomforting.

The thing was I remember Liberace being all happy and smiley and kind. Not like someones old creepy leering grandfather.

Did I mention that we were both creeped out?
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ENERPAC - well well well. I'm a big ENERPAC proponent but I didn't know they were going to do THAT.  

All day long it's dump truck after dump truck with a Caterpillar shoving dirt and so forth.  You literally can not hear yourself talk when outside.   Not that I'm complaining but who knew!!  LOL  They are filling up the huge crevice (full of frogs and waterlife).

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The ASCAP Mafia.

I was in Hydro Street dropping of four images that were purchased for some lawyer office in the glass bank in Madison and a black suit and black suit-ess walk in looking around.  They talk to Aaron and Aaron calls Sandye and they move off.

I figure they are salesmen but the meeting ends in like 3 minutes with Sandye stalking off.  The black suit and black suit-ess then proceed to take notes and look at all the advertisements for upcoming live bands.  I FEEL Sandye had words somewhere on the order of "Go f*ck yourself" you know in her kind way  LOL (I love that woman  LOL - not LOVE LOVE, I admire her for her balls!) .

OK - I'm creeping myself out  

SEEMS they are with ASCAP and are demanding Hydro pay them for the privileged for having live bands.   WHAT???

ASCAP collects licensing fees from users of music created by ASCAP members, then distributes them back to its members as royalties.  In effect, the arrangement is the product of a compromise: when a song is played, the user does not have to pay the copyright holder directly, nor does the music creator have to bill a radio station for use of a song.

Well, almost.

The whacky thing is that the only bands that actually receive payment are the top 200 grossing US tours of the year.  Stiff Kitties had 3 million plays on radio stations - didn't get one dime.  In fact ASCAP does not HAVE to give ANYBODY money.  They are allowed to spend 100s million in court costs to collect money and are under no obligation to fork any money out to artists.

Seems rather slimy.

You and me pay ASCAP in a way.  Ring tones on our phones are charged.   In 1996 the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were sued for singing songs at camps that were  ASCAP's copyrighted s and they did not pay licensing fees.

Every time someone sings HAPPY BIRTHDAY, they own ASCAP!

What ASCAP does is lawyer up and enter with guns drawn forcing places like Hydro to pay up or suffer huge lawyer fees!  Then BMI will come and then SESCAP.

I'm not against paying artists but this seems rather scammy.
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  Baseball

• That Bryce Hunter of the Detroit Tigers sure has similar numbers to the Bryce Harper that plays for the Washington Nationals, doesn't he? Even looks exactly like him, come to think of it.

• Well, it's nice to see Matt Jones has found another career since bouncing his way out of the NFL. Oh, that's not the former Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver, you say? It's actually a picture of Matt Harvey, who pitches for the New York Mets and not the Baltimore Orioles?

• I'm sure the Chicago White Sox would love to have Manny Machado. He'd come a lot cheaper than Jeff Keppinger, at least. (It really is a wonder, though, that they nailed Machado's name while bungling the much-simpler Harper and Harvey.)

• Oh c'mon. Mike Trout is at least a few years from signing with the New York Yankees.

And, as Larry Brown Sports points out, the entire premise begins with a question that ends with a preposition.  I caught that one right away  :-)
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Geocaching - I'll talk about that at some point.