I'lll Be Seeing You - 1930s Song - How Grim Is It?

 I'm in my early 60s and all my life I've heard the Bing Crosby-era song, "I'll Be Seeing You."

I'll be seeing you

In all the old familiar places

...the small cafe, the park across the way.

I heard it this weekend on the FM while driving on a jazz station in LA, KJAZZ, KKJZ, and I suddenly heard it differently.   After "the cafe" and "the park across the way" we start hearing that the singer will see the missing person in the moon, and, in the morning sunrise, etc.   

Suddenly, the only explanation was that the person being sung to, was dead.   

I've read about the song (biggest article here), and during WW2 it was supposed to trigger the idea that the wife was at home, the soldier in Europe, but they were both looking at the same moon overhead, for example.   

But once the idea got in my head, the only way the lyrics made sense as a whole seemed to be if the singer was talking about a dead person who sort of haunts the sunset, the moon, a flower in the garden, and so on.  

Eeeek.

Add the tidbit, the songwriter himself died shortly after writing it.

https://thisislowermerion.com/ill-be-seeing-you-a-hugely-popular-wwii-era-song-about-distance-love-couldnt-be-more-timely-today/

Email on Jamal Greene Interview at Ezra Klein Podcast (SCOTUS ways of thinking)

In February 2022, the Ezra Klein podcast (via NYT) had a great interview with Columbia Law professor Jamal Greene.   Overview here.   Transcript here.

Greene feels the SCOTUS focuses on obscure concepts, nit-picks originalism, and overestimates the meaning of "rights" in ways that are avoided by high courts in comparable nations.   He and Klein are (I think) quickly dismissive of the SCOTUS decision halting OSHA's implementation of mandatory workplace vaccinations [or self-paid masking and testing].  They think this pivoted on cryptic "major questions doctrine" rather than a full balancing of the factual and contextual pro's and con's.

I enjoyed the podcast a lot, and on this point, I think they misread the SCOTUS decision.   I submitted the comment email below.   The conservative justices were in fact weighing the fact that federal authorities are those not delegated upward in the 1780s by states, notably "making treaties" or "adjudicating border disputes among the states."   They note well over 100 years of history that leave the issue of mandatory vaccinations at the state, not federal level, which is considering context and social facts.  And like it or not (I don't like it) there are way over 100 years of history of a proportion of the population not liking vaccination at all, which is a social context and fact.    In short, I see a range of ways that the OSHA  SCOTUS decision actually fits many of the concepts that Greene is talking about.  _____

[February 6 by email]

I enjoyed the current podcast with Jamal Greene.

Though a liberal, I think the SCOTUS OSHA Vaccination case can be dismissed too quickly as "bad court."

Although one can surely disagree, I think one key point was, by analogy, you can't call an elephant a house pet, to fit into city rules for house pets.  We may find it hard to define house pet (see a law about "cats, dogs, and similar house pets") but it's not an elephant.  This drawing of lines happens all the time.  We have a right to get a passport.  It's judged fair for this to cost $100 and require 8 weeks.   It wouldn't be fair to cost $1 million and require 100 years.  But we don't have constitutional point for the maximum dollar of reasonable cost, or a day that triggers an illegitimately-long delay for a passport.    

I think SCOTUS was saying, this mostly looks like a 100M or  150M person public health vaccination program - that's the government's intent (to use language from Greene).  You can't suddenly stuff that government plan into what COULD be (as an OHSA regulation published one morning in the Federal Register) merely any mid-level policymaker's decision, inside an agency designed for hard hats and putting guards on electric saws.   They'd say, and did, they're not sure where to draw the line for OSHA, but it's not that sudden and far.   

Conservatives noted also, setting a sociopolitical context, that mandatory vaccination has been a state's issue since 1904, and this isn't the way to make it a federal issue (instead do that by law).  And here in the US, as in Europe, and other continents, mandatory vaccination is a hot issue for generations.  (OK, I also know it wasn't purely a mandatory vax law).  So, surprisingly, SCOTUS seemed to be using a few of the Jamal Greene, or the German, principles in their own verbalization in the OSHA case.

Again, I'm just saying the "other side" here in OSHA weren't complete idiots or hacks but had a several-theme framework that made sense to them and I can kind of see the shape of what they were thinking.

Bruce Quinn MD PhD

Los Angeles

How to Find the Lawrence Welk Gravesite in Culver City

My Memories

When I was a kid in the midwest in the 1960s, my parents and grandparents watched the weekly Lawrence Welk show, and my grandparents remembered Welk touring tiny towns in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, early in his career in the 20's and 30's.  He even played in the small town where I grew up, Lake View, Iowa.

By 2022, I've lived 8 miles from his gravesite for twenty years, but never dropped by.  OK, I've now checked that trip off my bucket list.  I'll show the gravesite trip first, and then some more about Welk further down.

Here is my two minute video version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at4qlQdy2JU

Part One

How to Actually Find the Welk Grave - Details ("Idiot's Guide")

For me, the map and GPS at Find a Grave was about 100 feet off, which is a lot when you're looking for one headstone in acres of them.   Here's how to find it.

First, if you live around LA, you may be most familiar with Hillside Cemetery right on the 405, just north of the airport.  That's not it.  Holy Cross Cemetery is larger, but it is a few blocks inland, accessible only from Slauson Boulevard.  5835 West Slauson, Culver City.  (That's the easy part).

Entering the main gate on Slauson, you'll continue to drive ahead but the roads are a little confusing.   If you go to Find a Grave, there's a button for "map" and it gets you very close to the grave site, but for me, its target is about 100 feet off.  Here:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1547/lawrence-welk

https://www.google.com/maps?q=33.9941139,-118.3816605&spn=0.004205,0.005249

You'll see the large main buildings of the cemetery to your left (mausoleums, church, offices).  Every block of the cemetery has a name and a letter, so the Welk block is "Y" and "St Francis."   Every intersection has the block names written prominently down at the curbside.  

Here are two ways to get to the Welk grave, based on the map below.

(1)  Park at the main mausoleum.  Cross into the St Francis Block.  See the St. Francis Statue.  Walk from the St Francis Statue straight across the "St Francis Block."  9 rows from the next street, you'll be at the Welk grave.  

(2)  Park either at the junction of "St Francis" and "St Joseph" (top of picture) using the curb signage or near the St Patrick Curb Sign (see middle of picture).  Walk along the street and look in the first row for a RIORDAN gravesite (arrow).   Now just walk 8 or 9 rows in, straight toward the St Francis statue, and about the 9th row will be Welk.  

click to enlarge

Part Two

More About Lawrence Welk (from Wikipedia)

In round numbers, he lived from about 1900 to 1990 (specifically, 1903-1992).   

He was born in Strasburg, SD (population today, 409, in south-central South Dakota).  It was named for Germanic area of Strassburg, Ukraine, not modern Strasbourg, France (280,000).   The South Dakota area was German-speaking and Welk spoke German as his first language and main language until his teens.  Welk initially had a fourth-grade education.  

He earned money to buy an accordion, joined local bands, and formed his own band.  He had a daily radio show as early as the 1930s.  In the 1940s, his band settled in Chicago and also played in New York.  In the mid 1950s, his local Los Angeles TV show was picked up by ABC, and stayed in production at ABC through the 1960s until 1971, and made new episodes by syndication until 1982.  It survived even longer in re-runs.  He was married 61 years at his death in 1992 and his wife survived him by ten years.

He was involved in real estate including Santa Monica office buildings at 100 Wilshire and at 1299 Ocean, and also an apartment tower at 1221 Ocean.  (Stan Laurel retired nearby at 849 Ocean).

Besides Wikipedia, a one-hour Biography is on YouTube here.

Remarkable to realize the last part of his career overlapped with the Beatles and television like Sonny and Cher, let alone Vietnam and urban fires and social unrest.

Strassburg, Kutschurgan, Ukraine

Here.  Settled in 1808 by Germans from multiple areas of Germany (including Alsace and Prussia).  in 1912, population 2,200.   Settlers of Strassburg, South Dakota, must have first migrated hundreds of miles from Germany to the Ukraine, and after a few generations, picked up the tent and moved thousands of miles to South Dakota.  See the Welk family home museum page here.

Geospatial Footnote.

At the detailed map above, if you look closely, you'll notice a small, circular white arrow.  For me, that's where the Find A Grave GPS indicated the grave marker was.  I think it's 100 feet off (see yellow star instead).  Easier to find "RIORDAN" at the street, and walk 9 rows straight in.

GPS (red teardrop), Actual (blue star). 100 feet.

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See a story from Welk's biography that reads like something clipped right out of an AA meeting, https://tinyurl.com/welkaa

Books and Films CY2021

For my business strategy blog, Discoveries in Health Policy, click here.

PDF of 2021 here.  For earlier book lists, see 2015 here, 2016 here, 2017 here, 2018 here, 2019 here, 2020 here.  

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Conflicted (Ian Leslie)

HISTORY - POLITICS

The Lost Cafe Schindler (Meriel Schindler); Republican Rescue (Chris Christie).

BIOGRAPHY

A Reason for the Darkness of the Night (on Edgar Allan Poe; John Tresch), 

and In and Of Itself (book & film; Derek DelGaudio)

ESSAYS

Everything in its Place (Oliver Sacks); Joan Didion

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A History of the Index (Dennis Duncan), and A Place for Everything (Judith Flanders).

And related to these, works by or about Eugene Garfield (see below).

FILM AND TELEVISION  

# # BUSINESS STRATEGY

Conflicted, by Ian Leslie.  This is a very well written guide to difficult conversations and how people set and change their minds.   It could be filed under business strategy, under "running successful meetings," under "negotiations," and is relevant to managing up, managing laterally, and managing down.  There are shelf-fulls of books with titles like "Difficult Conversations," the value of Conflicted is its broad view, fact- and example-based style, and good writing.   There are also some surprises (a discussion of negotiations at Waco/Branch Davidians, for example, is fascinating and likely to be unknown to almost all readers).  

# # HISTORY / POLITICS

It took me several years to catch up to 2012's non-fiction bestseller, "In the Garden of the Beasts," by Erik Larson, about life in the US Ambassador's house in Berlin in the mid 1930s.   

This year one of my favorites was a sister book, "The Lost Cafe' Schindler," by Meriel Schindler.  Schindler is a modern-day, middle-aged attorney in London whose grandfather was a prominent Jewish-Austrian restauranteur and self-made man who was forced to flee Austria and the Nazis in the late 1930s.  A missing link was Meriel's father, who spoke unreliably about the family's history, in grandiose and poorly cohesive fragments.  She reconstructs her family's history of several decades and brings alive the context of the 1920s and 1930s.  Full of interesting characters.  

On a different note for politics and history, I enjoyed the audiobook of Chris Christie's "Republican Rescue." Narrating himself, Christie uses the first half to tell the tales of his often weird encounters with the Trump administration.  In the second half, he gives us a fly-by of his national policy views, in case he runs for President.  

# # BIOGRAPHY

I have liked Edgar Allan Poe since high school and once dragged my daughters to his cottage (now a museum) in the Bronx.   Here's a new biography, "A Reason for the Darkness of the Night," by John Tresch.  It serves as a full biography of Poe's life, but focuses especially on his interests in technology and engineering, where his skills and training were significant.   

I recall in med school running across Poe's essay on an early form of copying (anastatic printing), which I shared with Eugene Garfield, the remarkable entrepreneur and information scientist, and got a nice letter back.   (More on Garfield below).

A wild and memorable autobiography is told in magician Derek DelGaudio's story of life on the stage and life on the dark side, "Amoralman," retold on film as "In and Of Itself."  This remarkable stage show and memorable film ranked as one of my my favorite movies of the year.   

ESSAYS

As the December holidays came, I ran across a library copy of the audiobook of "Everything in its Place," the last collected essays of Oliver Sacks (2019).  It's quite enjoyable, in the audio format comprising 8 hours of diverse essays, a sampling of his topics to include libraries, kuru, Spalding Gray, and the elephant's gait (hint: Muybridge appears).  See also the fine 2019 film, "Oliver Sacks, His Own Life," and his 2015 autobiography, On the Move.  

Cannot write about books in December 2021 and not mention Joan Didion.   The Los Angeles Times is awash in articles about her this week (here), and there were displays of flowers at her family's house on Franklin Street (1966-1971), near Runyon Canyon, by the Hollywood Hills.  I point people to her 1969 essays about the sixties - "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" - and her 1970's essays, "The White Album."  Less famous but enjoyable reading for me are her husband's books, John Gregory Dunne, which are available in ebooks (though none in audiobooks). See e.g. The Studio, about his year behind the gates at Fox Studios.   See also the excellent film about Didion The Center Will Not Hold (Netflix, 2017).

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A History of the Index (Dennis Duncan), and A Place for Everything (Judith Flanders).  And related to these, works by or about Eugene Garfield.

Some years ago I read "Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age," by Ann Blair (2010).   Blair shows that people 400 years ago had basically the same complaints that I have, and we have, today.  (This damn pile of paper!  Where is that PDF?   Who wrote that - that report I need?  I can't believe I don't see the notes and to'dos from that meeting last month...)   

Returning to Ann Blair's general territory of "too much to know," this year I read a double-header of different but related books, "A History of the Index" (literally, a history of indexes(!), but told in a sporty and fast moving way), and the broader "A Place for Everything," which nominally is built around the history of alphabetization, but in fact covers a wide horizon of managing and arranging information back more than a millenium.     

Like all sorts of good non fiction (including, above, Lost Cafe Schindler), a lot of the enjoyment is in the asides and context and color that each author brings to their topic.   Flanders is a lively writer: she also produced a recreation of Victorian London's life (Victorian City), and in a burst of enthusiasm, I downloaded two books she mentions in Place for Everything, "Paper Machines," the history of card-based information systems, and "Paper Knowledge," subtitled as "a history of documents" from papyrus to PDF.  

A little more context.  When I was in medical school. doing an MD-PhD, starting in 1982, I was fascinating by a little newsprint magazine every two weeks, "Current Contents," which I recall our lab got in both the biological and medical versions.  Each issue consisted of nothing but xeroxed tables of contents from new journals.  And downstairs in the medical library, we had shelf after shelf of Science Citation Index, in 8-point font, compiling and cross-referencing journal articles by the hundreds of thousands.  The people making Science Citation Index were the same people creating  Current Contents, and those people were headed by Eugene Garfield, a genius and eccentric who had an eclectic editorial in each issue of Current Contents.   Anyway, he was the pioneer of modern academic informatics. See  The Web of Knowledge : A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield.   (I've gotten, but not yet read, a book about Garfield and related pioneers, "The Citation Culture," by Paul Wouters, and Geoffrey Bowker's "Memory Practices in the Sciences.")

So when we easily and instantly use resources today like PubMed, or Google Biomed Explorer and Google Scholar, we're implicitly standing on the shoulders of some of these figures from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.  (For a modern incarnation, see the literal torrent of information- and task-organizing apps, diligently documented on Francesco D'Alessio's "Keep Productive" YouTube channel.)  

FAVORITE FILMS AND TELEVISION 2021

The Donut King.   Biography of a wild entrepreneur who arrived penniless from Cambodia and built a massive donut chain.  Many twists and turns.  Hulu; also AppleTV.  

In and of Itself.  Incredible magic stage show tied to remarkable autobiographical stories of Derek DelGaudio.  Hulu.

Hillbilly.  Not new, but new to me, a film-maker returns to her rural mountain towns and tells a rich cultural story. Directed by Sally Ruben and Ashley York.  Streams on Hulu;  rent on Amazon, Google, Apple.  

Billion Dollar Code.   A rolicking four-part, four-hour dramatization of the history of the internet that brings Berlin hackers in the early 90s into collision with Google  Netflix.  

DopeSick.  Ten-part, ten-hour dramatization of the Oxycontin and addiction crisis, told from several parallel sets of characters, including one story line inside of the family board rooms of Purdue Pharma.  Would love to see Michael Stuhlbarg get an award for his portrayal of Richard Sackler.  Hulu.

Also good:  really enjoyed The White Lotus - a wacky dram-com set in a luxury hotel, and Only Murders in the Building (Hulu).  

Film Biographies.  I won't dig up every source, but we've seen a lot of impressive and interesting biographies this year, one after another, mostly on PBS as American Masters or American Experience.  Subjects like Mae West/Dirty Blonde, William Randolph Hearst Citizen Hearst), Sandra Day O'Connor, Sammy Davis Jr, Helen Keller (unexpectedly rich and interesting), Mayor Pete (Buttigieg). and Truman Capote (as Capote Tapes).   Also biographical, after a couple years in video limbo, Errol Morris's film on Steve Bannon - American Dharma - was fascinating and hit the major streaming services in 2021.  (Which is the second documentary about Bannon, see also The Brink, also dateline 2019).  Also on PBS or BBC for the first time our family tapped into the library of BBC history pieces by Lucy Worsley for the first time (try filmography here).

Other Mentions

Patient H.M., by Luke Dittrich.  His grandfather was the neurosurgeon  whose epilepsy surgery led to Patient H.M., studied for decades due to his profound memory loss by Brenda Millner, Suzanne Corkin, and others; a staple of Psych 101 textbooks.   Brings out many unexpected sides to the story.   Interestingly, the denouement is a long interview with the over-90-year-old Karl Pribram, one of my most influential college professors back in the 1970s. (And a dotted line, of course, connects a book about H.M. to the works of neurologist Oliver Sacks above).

Related to the modern books "Garden of the Beasts" and "Lost Cafe Schindler," I really enjoyed Last Train from Berlin, by Howard K. Smith, published 1942, and available for a few dollars from Amazon.    A kid from a poor family in New Orleans who worked his way through Tulane in the Depression and knew German, Smith was a very young journalist posted in Berlin in 1938, just after college.  He went on to have a stellar career - with the honor of being fired once or twice along the way for being too outspoken on racism and civil rights.  He anchored the ABC news in the 1970s when I was in junior high and high school back in rural Iowa, alongside his co-anchor Harry Reasoner, who grew up not far from where I was raised.

 

 

The LA TImes on Joan Didion (December 2021)

Main Obituary

By Elaine Woo / "During a reporting trip to San Francisco..."

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-dead

A Joan Didion Reading List

By Matt Brennan, Boris Kachka / "Joan Didion produced decades of memorable work across genres..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-best-books-essays-screenplays-reading-guide

Joan Didion and California

By Gustavo Arellano / "The assignment I give my Orange Coast College literary journalism students..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-california-legacy-column

Joan Didion and Sacramento

By Anita Chabria, Stuart Leavenworth / "The tennis shoes, dirty and worn..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-23/joan-didions-strained-ties-with-sacramento-her-hometown-shaped-her-view-of-california

A Look Back at her Writing, Interviews, and More

By Amy Wong / "Here's a collection of past coverage..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/remembering-joan-didion-a-look-back-at-her-writing-interviews-and-more

Goodbye To All That - Seeing Yourself Clearly

By Matt Pearce / "Anyone who's completed..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/joan-didion-goodbye

"I have to look to flat horizons..."

By Barbara Isenberg / "I had known Joan Didion..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/i-have-to-look-at-flat-horizons-joan-didion-on-her-apocalyptic-california-optimism

California's Soul Captured

By George Skelton / "Gov. Newsom believes..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-27/skelton-didion-sacramento-remembrance

Writer's Reactions / Often Imitated Rarely Match

By Dorothy Pineda, Julia Wick / "When Mattew Spector decided..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-24/often-imitated-but-rarely-matched-writers-reflect-on-joan-didions-impact

Joan Didion Didn't Have a Plan

By David L. Ulin / "Joan Didion was a working writer..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-27/appreciation-like-the-rest-of-us-joan-didion-didnt-have-a-plan-why-that-made-her-great

Joan Didion / Potato Masher

By Carolina A. Miranda / "Can a single object contain..."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-27/joan-didion-california-narrative-of-manifest-destiny-and-a-potato-masher

Didion's Lakewood Not the Only Story 

By D.J. Waldie / "I met Joan Didion in 1993..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-28/joan-didion-california-suburbs-lakewood

My People Aren't Joan Didion's True Californians...

By Susan Straight / "It could have been coincidence..."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-28/joan-didion-california-some-dreamers-golden-dream

LAT Briefs / Celebrity Reactions (Christi Carras) and Recommendations, Tributes (Links to these LAT articles)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/joan-didion-death-celebrity-reactions-twitter

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-12-23/a-guide-to-joan-didion-reading-recommendations-tributes-and-more

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NYTimes Five Joan Didion Movies - Streaming

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/movies/joan-didion-movies.html?referringSource=articleShare

New Yorker on Joan Didion (Opposite of Magical Thinking)

By Zodie Smith

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/joan-didion-and-the-opposite-of-magical-thinking

NYT / Jay Caspian Kang on Joan Didion

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/opinion/joan-didion-influence-writers.html

NYT / Prophetic Eye on America / Michiko Kaktani

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/opinion/joan-didion-books.html

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My "Essay One," LaGaurdia Shuttle, March 2020

https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/joan-didion-essay-one-joshua-wolf-shenk.html

My "Essay Two," Bishop Pike, March 2020

https://bqwebpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/joan-didion-essay-2-from-bishop-pike-to.html

How to Make Videos: Places for Downloadable Music - Creative Commons

There are platforms where you can license music for a fee, including MANY platforms where you pay a monthly subscription fee for variably numbered or unlimited downloads from their music library (without further royalties).

There are also some legitimate places to get interesting music with neither a subscription nor a royalty.

Here are a few.

RIGHT WITHIN YOUR VIDEO EDITOR!

I use the Filmora video editor (which is around $80).  Click on the tab AUDIO for downloadable music tracks.   While Filmora  tucks a few paid add-on options inside its software, so far, the music files I've liked have been entirely free.   Pretty wide selection.

YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY

This is so huge it almost dwarfs mentioning anything else.  As of late 2021, it shows about 2000 screens of 100 each, or 200,000 tracks.  When you are skimming, you can star things as favorites.

https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCQFeWyTpzYGJbYc1vXg7GZQ/music

PIXABAY / MUSIC

Pixabay has a wide range of royalty-free video clips, images, and - Music!   "Joining" is free - email registration - and soundtracks offer a chance to make a donation to the creator and request you include a credit for the source.  

There are many thousands of tracks in diverse genres.  There are several dozen genres ("smooth jazz," "cartoons.")  (Be careful not to accidentally click on more than one genre at once, you may hit a null combination).  Each soundtrack shows a volume profile.

https://pixabay.com/music/

Pixabay has it all: Video, photo images, and music.  For video & stills, see also Unsplash and Pexels.  (For the giant library of pay-for-use footage, see Shutterstock.)  

Specialty Sources

INCOMPETECH / Kevin MacLeod

I like Andrew Bossom and his Rewboss YouTube channel, and he likes Kevin MacLeod music tracks.  These are free to use; BUT acknowledgement required in your show notes.  MacLeod has a Wikipedia page here.

https://incompetech.com/

AUDIONAUTIX / Jason Shaw

Similar to Kevin MacLeod's model.  A wide variety of music, free to use, acknowledgement required, at the link below. Jason's music also shows up on some sites that use a monthly license model.  

https://audionautix.com/

Creative Commons / List of Sites

Creative Commons has a webpage for music licenses, and notes that Creative Commons licenses may vary (some may require "no derivative works," for example.  They provide a list and links to a dozen websites that offer music under the Creative Commons paradigm.  The sites they link to may have a variety of licensing and usage rules, so read the fine print.

https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/arts-culture-resources/legalmusicforvideos/

See for example:

https://freepd.com/

Read any music website carefully for it rules; don't get caught with issues like "Content ID" warnings (here).

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Although it's off topic, let me mention here that two ways to get inexpensive freelance design help (for example, for animated YouTube brand intro's) are FIVERR and UPWORK and FREELANCER.   I think FIVERR is mostly offshore; UPWORK seems to be U.S.  See some video intro's for my brand on YouTube, from Fiverr, here.

Interesting Journalism Lives, at LA Times

I'm often pleasantly surprised by the high quality journalism coming from the LA Times.

Here are some examples from today:

Deep dive history journalism - the story of mid-19th century black activist Ellen Clark, by Jeanette Marantos.

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-07-30/how-civil-rights-activist-ellen-clark-was-found-in-an-unmarked-grave-in-altadena

Clip with video here:

https://www.latimes.com/california/0000017a-c5d4-d6d2-a77b-f5ff8c940000-123

Backstory for the story

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-07-30/how-we-got-the-story-of-ellen-garrison-jackson-clark-and-her-courageous-unsung-life

Night Market Lincoln Heights and Victim of Success, by Steve Lopez

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-03/lopez-column-lincoln-heights-night-market-becomes-nightmare-for-residents

(See also: "LACC market shuts down after 2 decades." * )

(  https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-02/l-a-city-college-swap-meet-shuts-down-after-more-than-two-decades  )

Strong journalism about dying cattle and drought in Arizona, by Jaweed Kaleem.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-08-03/arizona-water-drought-farmers-cattle

Kicking off August with a fine list of museums and galleries in LA County and Orange County - by Matt Cooper.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-08-02/things-to-do-in-la-orange-county-museums-august

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To my eye, 90% of the "LACC" market is on the surrounding sidewalks, not literally within the LACC official parket lot.  Maybe the 90% on the sidewalks will continue?