{"id":1042,"date":"2016-01-18T00:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2016-01-18T00:45:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:45:42","slug":"jeneral-finds-of-the-week-2016-01-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2016-01-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women and unpaid emotional labour, the Genius of Music breaks down pop music, and the mash up of Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes you didn&#8217;t know you needed. Also, 2016 gets off to a sad start with the loss to cancer of two big forces in arts and culture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/jan\/15\/david-bowies-last-days-an-18-month-burst-of-creativity\">David Bowie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/12099543\/Alan-rickman-dead-at-69-latest.html\">Alan Rickman<\/a>. The Jeneral finds this week: 2016-01-17<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leah McLaren asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/relationships\/leah-mclaren-should-women-be-paid-for-emotional-labour\/article28048091\/\">Should women be paid for emotional labour?<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s the unspoken\u00a0glue that keeps communities together, isn&#8217;t it? And I another realm of unacknowledged tasks that many women perform on top of all they do at work and in their direct families. Examples: making phone calls to circle of friends just to check in, remembering to get birthday cards and\/or presents for children&#8217;s classmates, organizing baby showers for work colleagues, keeping track of friends and acquaintances&#8217; goings-on so you are aware when things aren&#8217;t well and help is needed&#8230;and then offering the help, etc. No wonder it seems women often seem to have a\u00a0harder time to balance life and work, their buckets of work in the &#8220;life&#8221; column, beyond home maintenance and family duties, are larger than men&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>Why are some pop songs just so catchy and infectious? Chilly Gonzales is a self-proclaimed Genius of Music, but he earns the title honestly. He is a pianist, producer, songwriter, \u00a0and more, working with the likes of Feist, Daft Punk, and Drake. He has a done a series of videos deconstructing\u00a0popular songs that are fascinating. In this video, Gonzales\u00a0breaks down The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;I can&#8217;t feel my face&#8221;\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z5bScPbB5oM&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;]<\/li>\n<li>Of course, the last month&#8217;s entertainment hype has been all about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And as a lovely response to this, Disney Animation Story Artist Brian Kesinger did\u00a0a series of wonderful mashups of Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes together. (these are just two of them, peruse some earlier posts in his twitter feed to see them all)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you for the amazing response to this series, I hope you had as much fun looking at them as I did drawing them <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/01rD6xqdIN\">pic.twitter.com\/01rD6xqdIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 brian kesinger (@briankesinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briankesinger\/status\/685484288326774784\">January 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nMore from the intrepid spaceman Finn! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/calvinandhobbes?src=hash\">#calvinandhobbes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/starwars?src=hash\">#starwars<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/finn?src=hash\">#finn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/spacemanspiff?src=hash\">#spacemanspiff<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rathtar?src=hash\">#rathtar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TySXQ7FFYE\">pic.twitter.com\/TySXQ7FFYE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 brian kesinger (@briankesinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briankesinger\/status\/686233260133724160\">January 10, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and unpaid emotional labour, the Genius of Music breaks down pop music, and the mash up of Star Wars and Calvin and Hobbes you didn&#8217;t know you needed. Also, 2016 gets off to a sad start with the loss to cancer of two big forces in arts and culture, David Bowie and Alan Rickman. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=1042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeneral finds of the week: 2016-01-17<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[65,75,105,126,222,331,394],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-calvin-and-hobbes","tag-chilly-gonzales","tag-deconstructing-pop-music","tag-emotional-labour","tag-mashup","tag-star-wars","tag-working-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clothespins-e1474432379380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}